OHL trade deadline aftermath
It’s not about what you give up, it’s what you get in return.
Let’s begin with the Soo Greyhounds, who were one of the top three teams in the Ontario Hockey League before the dawn of last week’s trade deadline. …[read more]
Young Wolves in the den
They are in last place in the overall standings and the odds are against them moving up to make the playoffs this 2014-2015 Ontario Hockey League season.
But general manager Blaine Smith has made good on trade deadline moves that have positioned the Sudbury Wolves for better seasons ahead — in 2015-2016 and beyond. …[read more]
Soo Greyhounds to Sudbury Wolves
Soo Greyhounds have dealt 1996 birth-year forward Charley Graaskamp to the Sudbury Wolves in an Ontario Hockey League trade finalized this afternoon. …[read more]
Hounds trade for DeAngelo
Another day, another trade.
Soo Greyhounds have acquired high-scoring, 1995 birth-year defenceman Anthony DeAngelo from the Sarnia Sting. …[read more]
Hounds get Ritchie, Boland
A day after acquiring 19-year old forward Justin Bailey from the Kitchener Rangers, Soo Greyhounds have swung another major Ontario Hockey League trade. …[read more]
Anthony Stefano traded to Windsor
Peterborough Petes have dealt 1996 birth-year forward Anthony Stefano to the Windsor Spitfires.
Stefano, who is in his second Ontario Hockey League season, had requested to be traded from the Petes. …[read more]
Hounds pay ransom for Bailey
Soo Greyhounds have paid a heavy price to acquire the Kitchener Rangers leading scorer.
In an Ontario Hockey League trade finalized earlier today, the Greyhounds obtained 1995 birth-year forward Justin Bailey from the Rangers — and he did not come cheap. …[read more]
Cody Caron traded to Kingston
Kingston Frontenacs have acquired 1996 birth-year forward Cody Caron from the Niagara Ice Dogs for a sixth-round draft pick in 2015.
A Sault Ste. Marie native, Caron had 1 goal and 44 penalty minutes in 34 games for Niagara this season. …[read more]
Frontenacs deal with Battalion
Kingston Frontenacs general manager Doug Gilmour has confirmed finalization of an Ontario Hockey League trade with an Eastern Conference rival. …[read more]
Sudbury Wolves fire head coach
Paul Fixter has been fired as head coach of the Sudbury Wolves, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed.
Associate coach David Matsos takes over as interim head coach of the Wolves, who have the Ontario Hockey League’s worst record, a 7-25-2 mark. …[read more]
Six OHL teams to beware of
Let’s look past the Christmas break.
Here are six Ontario Hockey League teams — three from each of the Western Conference and Eastern Conference — to keep an eye on when play resumes in the second half of the 2014-2015 season. …[read more]
The puck stops with Peressini
Minus five of their top scorers either due to injury or the World Junior Hockey tryouts — Spencer Watson, Ryan Kujawinski, Lawson Crouse, Juho Lammikko and Sam Bennett are all missing from action — the Kingston Frontenacs have had difficulty putting the puck in the net as of late. …[read more]
John Goodwin is a good one
The former scoring champion now coaches in the league that he used to dominate.
To be sure, he’s a few pounds heavier these days but he still has the baby face and a full head of brown hair with a mere trace of grey.
He’s 53-years old, has been married to a Sault Ste. Marie girl for more than 31 years and he and his bride are grandparents.
He is John Goodwin, who was an Ontario Hockey League superstar with the Soo Greyhounds beginning in 1978. …[read more]
Dorval “getting better every day”
It’s a big step to have to take as a 16-year old.
To be sure, it’s a giant leap from minor midget hockey to the major junior level. …[read more]
Greyhounds on a good path
Methinks they are right about where they should be.
It is just past the one-quarter mark of the 2014-2015 Ontario Hockey League season and the Soo Greyhounds have a tidy record of 13-5, which translates into a .722 winning percentage. …[read more]
OHL trade rumours
It’s early November and trade winds are blowing through the Ontario Hockey League.
A main subject of relocation is Saginaw Spirit overage goalie Jake Paterson, who is a National Hockey League prospect of the Detroit Red Wings. …[read more]
Wolves hit with modest fine
The Ontario Hockey League has fined the Sudbury Wolves $7,500 as the result of what it calls the “most unprofessional and inappropriate comments” made by coach Paul Fixter. …[read more]
Otters an Erie foe for Greyhounds
The team that eliminated the Soo Greyhounds in the second round of the 2013-2014 playoffs looms as a formidable foe again in 2014-2015.
A high-powered, hard-skating, well-coached outfit in 2013-2014, the Erie Otters have more of the same in 2014-2015. …[read more]
Nurse gives Hounds a booster shot
From very good to very, very good.
Without defenceman Darnell Nurse, the Soo Greyhounds were a very good team.
Ergo, they should be even better now that the 19-year old defender has returned to the Soo from the Edmonton Oilers. …[read more]
Up north in the O
Two of the three northern teams in the 20-member Ontario Hockey League — Soo Greyhounds and North Bay Battalion — are among the early contenders this 2014-2015 season.
Then there is the OHL’s other northern Ontario team, the Sudbury Wolves, who are in last place overall and may be looking at a coaching change. …[read more]
Hot Dogs of the Soo are # 1
They have a perfect record of 7-0 thus far this season and have out-scored the opposition 36-14 in the process.
To be sure, the Soo Greyhounds are no. 1 in the Ontario Hockey League, albeit just ahead of the 6-0 Erie Otters. …[read more]
Hounds, Halverson are 2-0
Brandon Halverson is passing the first tests as the new starting goalie for the Soo Greyhounds.
The Greyhounds are off to a 2-0 start this 2014-2015 Ontario Hockey League season and Halverson — who was a rookie backup to the since-graduated Matt Murray in 2013-2014 — has stood tall. …[read more]
OHL prospects for 2015 NHL draft
No less than 41 players from the Ontario Hockey League are listed among the National Hockey League’s Central Scouting Players to Watch list for the 2015 draft. …[read more]
Scouting Speers
Blake Speers arrived in the Ontario Hockey League as a fresh-faced 16-year old rookie in 2013-2014 after being a first-round pick by the hometown Soo Greyhounds direct from the Soo Thunder minor midgets.
There were some concerns about his slight build but he started to fill out and he was able to handle the grind of the OHL and the big jump in levels from minor midget to major junior. …[read more]
Kingston, Soo are OHL teams to beat
Kingston Frontenacs and Soo Greyhounds are being tabbed as the teams to beat in the Ontario Hockey League this 2014-2015 season.
Pre-season rankings tabled by National Hockey League scouts on behalf of the Canadian Hockey League rate the Frontenacs and Greyhounds as the OHL’s top two teams. …[read more]
Kingston is top-ranked OHL team
Kingston Frontenacs are rated as the no. 1 team in the Ontario Hockey League in the Canadian Hockey League’s pre-season edition of its top-10 rankings for the 2014-2015 season.
The weekly rankings of the CHL’s top 10 teams are selected by a panel of National Hockey League scouts. …[read more]
Formidable Frontenacs
The youngest head coach in the Ontario Hockey League has a simple message for his players.
28-year old Paul McFarland, who is about to begin his rookie season as a head coach in the OHL, wants his Kingston Frontenacs to “play the right way.” …[read more]
Spitfires to Wolves
Sudbury Wolves have acquired 1995 birth-year forward Brody Milne from the Windsor Spitfires in an Ontario Hockey League traded finalized earlier today. …[read more]
Sandpaper Silk
He doesn’t turn 20-years old until the end of November but Brody Silk has already played four seasons in the Ontario Hockey League for the Sudbury Wolves. …[read more]
Fronts to Spits
Windsor Spitfires have added some versatility with the acquisition of Slater Doggett from Kingston Frontenacs in an Ontario Hockey League trade finalized earlier today. …[read more]
Dorval making good first impression
To be sure, the step up from minor midget hockey to the major junior level is a big one.
But thus far, 1998 birth-year centre Zack Dorval has been making a good impression as he climbs the ladder from the Soo Thunder midgets to the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Hound house in good shape
We’re a day away from the end of summer and two days away from the start of the school year.
But that is cause for little concern in the hockey hotbed that is Sault Ste. Marie.
What is cause for concern is this: …[read more]
New Kingston Frontenacs fan
Kingston Frontenacs have a number of new fans from the small northeastern Ontario town of Hearst.
That’s because the Frontenacs used their second-round pick from the 2014 Ontario Hockey League draft to take high-scoring, hard-nosed centre Zack Dorval from the Soo Thunder minor midgets. …[read more]
New crew in Kingston
Much is new in Kingston and that is good because what is getting old is that the Frontenacs have not won an Ontario Hockey League playoff series in 16 years. …[read more]
My first OHL love
It was 1974 — 40 years ago now — and I was a season away from making my debut as a paid, part-time member of the Sault Ste. Marie sports media with radio station CKCY.
Just before that, it was as a journalism student at Sault College in 1974-1975 that I managed to get a few articles published in the local weekly then known as Shopper News, which became Sault This Week. …[read more]
Overage trio leads Hounds
A trio of overage skaters are among the more than 35 would-be, could-be Soo Greyhounds who will hit the ice in a couple of days as training camp begins for the Ontario Hockey League team.
Forwards Jean Dupuy and Bryan Moore and defenceman Alex Gudbranson are the three 1994 birth-year skaters who are expected to at least begin the 2014-2015 OHL season in Houndtown. …[read more]
Wolves get another commitment
The new-look Sudbury Wolves have confirmed that 6-foot-2, 180 pound, 1998 birth-year defenceman Trenton Bourque has committed to play for the Ontario Hockey League team.
Bourque was the Wolves third-round selection, 51st overall, from the Hamilton Bulldogs minor midgets at the 2014 OHL draft.
…[read more]
Greyhounds hire new GM
Soo Greyhounds have hired 28-year old Kyle Raftis as their new general manager, multiple sources have confirmed to HockeyNewsNorth.com. …[read more]
Wolves welcome workhorse winger
Sudbury Wolves have signed hulking right winger Brady Pataki, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed.
The 6-foot-3, 220 pound right winger was selected in the fourth round, 65th overall, by the Wolves from the Chatham minor midgets at the 2014 Ontario Hockey League draft.
…[read more]
Sonny days in Plymouth
Score one for the Ontario Hockey League.
Sonny Milano, who was the Columbus Blue Jackets first-round pick at the 2014 National Hockey League entry draft, has opted to sign with the OHL’s Plymouth Whalers instead of going the National Collegiate Athletic Association route. …[read more]
Rights to Ryan Vendramin
Soo Thunderbirds have secured the Junior A rights to right winger Ryan Vendramin from the Sarnia Legionnaires, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed.
Vendramin, a 6-foot-3, 180 pound, 1995 birth year forward from Sault Ste. Marie, split the 2013-2014 season between the Legionnaires of the Greater Ontario Jr. Hockey League and the Sarnia Sting of the Ontario Hockey League.
…[read more]
Wolves deal overage centre
Sudbury Wolves have dealt overage centre Mathew Campagna to the Plymouth Whalers in an Ontario Hockey League trade finalized earlier today.
…[read more]
Halverson holds Hounds hopes
Hopes are high for the Soo Greyhounds to carry on from a 2013-2014 term that yielded 95 regular-season points and two rounds of playoffs that ended with an exit.
Afterall, potential overages not included, the Greyhounds will return considerable veteran talent for the 2014-2015 Ontario Hockey League season led by scoring leaders Sergey Tolchinsky, Jared McCann, Michael Bunting, Blake Speers and David Miller — and the 109 goals that they combined for in 2013-2014.
…[read more]
USHL to OHL
From one major junior league to another.
Defenceman Chad Duchesne is poised to leave the United States Hockey League for the Ontario Hockey League.
…[read more]
Hounds top pick commits
The message has been sent.
The message has been received.
…[read more]
K is for Kujawinski
As Kingston Frontenacs look to build on a 2013-2014 regular season in which their 84 points were second most in the Eastern Conference of the Ontario Hockey League, 1995 birth-year centre Ryan Kujawinski is eagerly awaiting the 2014-2015 campaign. …[read more]
Be-Leaf in Kyle Dubas
So, the boy wonder is leaving Houndtown for the Show and taking his new wife with him.
And it’s not just any seat in the Show.
At age 28 — and just three years after being named general manager of the Soo Greyhounds — Kyle Dubas is departing a small-market Ontario Hockey League team to become the assistant GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs on what is the National Hockey League’s biggest stage. …[read more]
OHL is staying in Mississauga
The Ontario Hockey League will retain its presence in Mississauga for at least another four years.
Mississauga Steelheads have confirmed that they have reached a new four-year lease agreement that will keep the OHL team at the Hershey Centre. …[read more]
Toronto Maple Leafs hire Kyle Dubas
The boy wonder is moving on and up.
Kyle Dubas is leaving the Soo Greyhounds for the Toronto Maple Leafs, HockeyNewsNorth.com confirmed this morning. …[read more]