Flint Firebirds on the radio
Flint Firebirds of the Ontario Hockey League have reached an agreement with Cumulus Media to have all 68 of their regular-season games plus any playoff matches broadcast live on sports radio station 1330 WTRX. …[read more]
NOJHL coach also an OHL scout
Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League has hired veteran junior coach Moe Mantha as its northern Ontario scout. …[read more]
Wolves manage to Branch out
He is the son of the long-serving commissioner and he has moved into a position to try to reverse the fortunes of one of the Ontario Hockey League’s cornerstone franchises. …[read more]
Veteran defender joins Wolves
Sudbury Wolves have bolstered their blueline with the acquisition of overage defenceman Patrick Murphy from the Erie Otters. …[read more]
Mazzuca has changed with the game
During his Ontario Hockey League playing days as a high-scoring, menacing defenceman, Rob Mazzuca was known as a tough customer who put up points and carried his stick high. …[read more]
London to Flint via Thunder Bay
Flint Firebirds — formerly the Plymouth Whalers — have finalized an Ontario Hockey League trade with the London Knights. …[read more]
Get ready for the Flint Firebirds
First games to be played are about six weeks away for the new Flint Firebirds of the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Bannister returns to his OHL roots
Drew Bannister is back to where it all began for him in the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Berehowsky is back up north
Sudbury Wolves — who finished last in the 20-team Ontario Hockey League in 2014-2015 — have a new associate coach in place to work alongside headmaster David Matsos. …[read more]
Ken Appleby reprises Kevin Hodson
Ken Appleby, who backstopped the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League to the 2015 Memorial Cup championship only to again be bypassed at the recent National Hockey League draft, is in good company. …[read more]
Hounds continue to Rock
Soo Greyhounds will retain an on-air presence with their flagship radio station for at least another three years. …[read more]
Kitchener Rangers have a new look
Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League have completed a re-make of their coach-management team. …[read more]
Wolves get OHL rights to Pilon twins
Twin brothers Darian Pilon and Drake Pilon of Sault Ste. Marie have become the Ontario Hockey League property of the Sudbury Wolves, HockeyNewsNorth.com has learned. …[read more]
Who will coach the Greyhounds?
The search for the next head coach of the Ontario Hockey League’s Soo Greyhounds has brought in about 40 applications to date. …[read more]
Wolves stay with Matsos
An interim gig has turned into a full-time promotion for David Matsos. …[read more]
A deal with the Devils
He is a big, strong kid with northeastern Ontario roots who can skate and score and do so much more. …[read more]
Reunited with Flint Firebirds
Flint Firebirds — nee the Plymouth Whalers — of the Ontario Hockey League have hired a former National Hockey League journeyman defenceman as an assistant coach. …[read more]
Hounds can go on another run
The 2014-2015 season has been lost when really, it should have been won.
But there is 2015-2016 to look forward to and the Soo Greyhounds do have plenty of potential in place. …[read more]
No joy in Houndtown
There is an Erie silence in Houndtown.
For the second successive spring, the Erie Otters have sidelined the Soo Greyhounds from the Ontario Hockey League, Western Conference playoffs. …[read more]
Hustling Hounds hang on
There is joy in Houndtown.
Temporary relief, too. …[read more]
All eyes on Connor McDavid
Wayne Gretzky says Connor McDavid is the best 18-year old hockey player he has seen since Mario Lemieux was that age. …[read more]
Hounds 6, McDavid 3
The best junior hockey team in Canada met up with the best junior hockey player on the planet.
And if you happen to be an Ontario Hockey League fan of the Soo Greyhounds and an admirer of Erie Otters superstar Connor McDavid, it was a win-win night. …[read more]
Up in the OHL north country
Of the 20 teams that comprise the Ontario Hockey League, only three — Soo Greyhounds, North Bay Battalion and Sudbury Wolves — are based in the northern part of the province. …[read more]
Troops and Generals
Quite clear, no doubt, the Oshawa Generals are formidable favourites to fend off the North Bay Battalion in the Ontario Hockey League, Eastern Conference finals. …[read more]
Troops join Hounds in final four
Four teams remain in the quest for the 2014-2015 Ontario Hockey League championship — and two are from northern Ontario. …[read more]
Kujawinski connects for Battalion
A goal by Ryan Kujawinski early in the second overtime period lifted the North Bay Battalion to a 4-3 win over the Barrie Colts and a commanding 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven, Ontario Hockey League, Eastern Conference playoff series. …[read more]
Soo-Erie series starts next week
Soo Greyhounds and Erie Otters are both on spring break. …[read more]
Here ‘n there
As the sun melts the snow and the grass starts to show, hockey is still a go. …[read more]
Hounds pound all around
Might as well state the obvious here — Guelph Storm is no match for the Soo Greyhounds. …[read more]
Battalion of the north
Apropos, given its location, that the North Bay Battalion would feature a pair of high-end skaters from the north. …[read more]
OHL second-round matchups
Eight teams have been eliminated, eight teams remain.
It’s on to the second round of the best-of-seven, Ontario Hockey League playoffs. …[read more]
Where are they now?
He was a hard-toiling, hard-boiled left winger who worked the corners and became an old Memorial Gardens fan favourite following an Ontario Hockey League trade from the erstwhile Kingston Canadians to the Soo Greyhounds during the 1981-1982 season. …[read more]
Battalion fends off Frontenacs
I went with the upset in calling for the sixth-seeded Kingston Frontenacs to upend the third-place North Bay Battalion in the first round of the Ontario Hockey League’s Eastern Conference playoffs. …[read more]
Who is David Branch cheering for?
It’s playoff season in the Ontario Hockey League.
Which leads me to ask this question: Which team is OHL commissioner David Branch rooting for to win the championship this year? …[read more]
A pair of OHL playoff predictions
One is a no-brainer, even for an aging hockey hack.
The other, I am going with the underdog. …[read more]
Battalion v. Frontenacs
It is an Ontario Hockey League playoff series that we project as a lengthy set with overtime games and one-goal margins aplenty. …[read more]
Flint Firebirds hire GM, coach
Flint Firebirds — who will make their Ontario Hockey League debut in 2015-2016 from the erstwhile Plymouth Whalers franchise — have hired a general manager and a head coach. …[read more]
Hounds should pound Saginaw
Sixteen teams — eight from each of the Western and Eastern conferences — begin the annual quest for Ontario Hockey League supremacy this week with sights set on the 2015 Memorial Cup tournament that will be held in Quebec City, beginning on May 21. …[read more]
This is no Bull
Belleville Bulls played their final regular-season home game on Saturday night after 34 years in the Ontario Hockey League.
The Bulls bested the Sudbury Wolves 6-3 before a crowd of 3,722 at Yardmen Arena. …[read more]
Runaway Bulls
The reality is setting in.
An iconic, Ontario Hockey League mainstay since 1981, the Belleville Bulls will be no more following this 2014-2015 season. …[read more]
Frontenacs pink jersey auction
Jerseys worn by the Kingston Frontenacs during their “Pink in the Rink” Ontario Hockey League game from earlier this season are now up for auction. …[read more]
Sam is the man in Kingston
The surging Kingston Frontenacs have not only clinched one of eight playoff spots in the Eastern Conference of the Ontario Hockey League but they have moved into sole possession of sixth place. …[read more]
Hounds forward has hairline fracture
As they chase 50 wins, 100 points and first place in the Ontario Hockey League, the Soo Greyhounds will be without injured winger Justin Bailey for at least the next couple of weeks.
Bailey, who was acquired by the Greyhounds from the Kitchener Rangers just prior to the OHL trade deadline in early January, has been diagnosed with two hairline fractures in his ankle. …[read more]
Hounds eye 50 wins, 100 points
Soo Greyhounds super fan Chris Sierzputowski recently tweeted that I should be giving his favourite Ontario Hockey League team some love.
He’s right. …[read more]
OHL playoff chase
In the Ontario Hockey League’s Eastern Conference, where only the Sudbury Wolves are eliminated from playoff contention, there is a dandy race going on.
Mere points are what separate the Niagara IceDogs, Belleville Bulls, Kingston Frontenacs, Mississauga Steelheads and Peterborough Petes as the five teams are in a frantic fight for the final two playoff spots in the Eastern block. …[read more]
Dorval delivers for Frontenacs
Rookie centre Zack Dorval made the most of some extra playing time on Wednesday.
With the flu-riddled Kingston Frontenacs short of bodies, Dorval stepped up big with a goal and an assist in a clutch 3-2 win over the visiting Peterborough Petes. …[read more]
The puck stops with Halverson
It’s the big question being asked around Houndtown.
Can second-year goalie Brandon Halverson backstop the star-studded Soo Greyhounds to an Ontario Hockey League championship this 2014-2015 season? …[read more]
First impressions and a sleepy goalie
The newest members of the Soo Greyhounds made memorable first impressions playing as a fearsome foursome in front of the hometown Ontario Hockey League fans.
But was the Greyhounds goalie awake enough to witness the offensive explosion of his new teammates? …[read more]
Plymouth Whalers moving to Flint
Pending formal approval from the Ontario Hockey League, the Plymouth Whalers will be moving an hour north to Flint effective the 2015-2016 season, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed.
The announcement of the sale of the Michigan-based team from Peter Karmanos to IMS USA Inc. was made official this morning. …[read more]