Clarke clicks for Walleye
Kam River Fighting Walleye general manager Kevin McCallum hooked a big fish at this year’s trade deadline when he reeled in Dayton Clarke in an inter-league trade with the Elliot Lake Red Wings.
…[read more]Monday night playoffs
Multiple series are on the line tonight when best-of-seven playoff action continues in both the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and the Superior International Jr. Hockey League.
…[read more]Indigenous identity in Dryden
Quite clearly and with no doubt, the Dryden Ice Dogs of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League are leaders relative to an Indigenous and First Nations spirit and presence within their program that includes no less than seven players and an assistant coach.
…[read more]Along the playoff path
Three games were played in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and another in the Superior International Jr. Hockey League as playoffs in both loops progressed on Friday.
…[read more]Ice Dogs and Thunderchief
Hard-toiling forward Nakoda Thunderchief — who was busted out of the Fort Frances cellar in a trade deadline deal with the Lakers — paid a two-goal dividend to help the visiting Dryden Ice Dogs steal the opener of their semi-final playoff series with the Red Lake Miners.
…[read more]Walleye in a whitewash
Austin Madge made 37 saves and 800 frenzied fans watched from inside the Norwest Arena fish tank as the Kam River Fighting Walleye began its best-of-seven semi-final set on Thursday with a 9-0 blanking of the cross-town Thunder Bay North Stars.
…[read more]SIJHL final four forecast
Fanatical. Feisty. Fierce. Fiery. Frantic. Frenzied. The two semi-final sets in the Superior International Jr. Hockey League have the makings of being about any or all of the aforementioned synonyms.
…[read more]Three Dog Night for Dryden
Placing third in the regular season standings of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League with a .622 winning percentage from a record of 26-15-4, the Dryden Ice Dogs subsequently swept the opening round of the best of five playoffs against the sixth slotted Fort Frances Lakers.
…[read more]Cole in goal in a winning role
Up next for the Dryden Ice Dogs is the daunting task of facing the high octane Red Lake Miners in the second round of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League playoffs. Backed by the nifty net-minding of Cole Johnston and a run and gun offensive display, Dryden swept the Fort Frances Lakers in three straight games in the opening round of the playoffs.
…[read more]Ice Dogs take Lakers to the limit
Two down, one to go on the first round victory lap. Dryden Ice Dogs have drawn up a two games to none edge on the Fort Frances Lakers in their best-of-five Superior International Jr. Hockey League playoff procession.
…[read more]Strength of the Ice Dogs
Dryden Ice Dogs were good — but not overwhelming — during the 2021-2022 regular season. The Ice Dogs finished in third place in the Superior International Jr. Hockey League within range of the first place Kam River Fighting Walleye and second place Red Lake Miners. And having added multiple players prior to the January 10 trade deadline, the Ice Dogs could be set up for a playoff run.
…[read more]Salvatore is one smart kid
Wisconsin Lumberjacks forward Salvatore Poggiali has been named the Superior International Jr. Hockey League’s scholastic player of the year, Hockey News North has confirmed.
…[read more]SIJHL playoffs are underway
It had been almost three years since there was playoff activity in the Superior International Jr. Hockey League before four teams took to the ice in opening around action on Tuesday.
…[read more]Kudos to Kam River; SI playoffs begin
The newest active team in the Superior International Jr. Hockey League will go into the playoffs as the no. 1 seed. In its first full season of existence, the Kam River Fighting Walleye splashed a record of 35-7-2 and a winning percentage of .818 to finish atop the SIJHL’s regular season standings.
…[read more]Lein is keen on his Lumberjacks
Through a number of losing streaks, one-sided losses and inconsistent play, Wisconsin Lumberjacks owner, general manager and coach Doug Lein sent out positive vibes when it came to discussing his Superior International Jr. Hockey League team.
…[read more]Kam River to Oregon … again
A third soon to be graduating member of the Kam River Fighting Walleye of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League is heading to the University of Oregon and its Division 1, American Collegiate Hockey Association program effective the 2022-2023 season.
…[read more]Lowden of the Lumberjacks
He has an even record on a team that is seven games below the .500 mark. To that end, 19-year old goalie Kyler Lowden has been a net gain for the Wisconsin Lumberjacks of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League.
…[read more]SIJHL gearing towards playoffs
Finish the regular season on high with the playoffs looming. That would be a logical and obvious focus for the six teams of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League.
…[read more]Stick handling through traffic
This marks the third season in succession that the Covid nemesis has affected junior A hockey, in this case two leagues that are based in the rugged regions of northeastern and northwestern Ontario. But both the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and Superior International Jr. Hockey League have faced off against the opponent and managed to stick handle through traffic.
…[read more]Ice Dogs, Lakers visit Kam River
Fans of the Kam River Fighting Walleye — of which there is a surging flow of frantic followers — will have the fortuity of watching their favourite Superior International Jr. Hockey League team take to the home ice of NorWest Arena three times in as many days this weekend.
…[read more]Three Dog Net
As they hit the road for three games against the top two teams in the Superior International Jr. Hockey League the third place Dryden Ice Dogs take a record of 22-11-3 into a weekend that looms as a tough test for the pack.
…[read more]Superior showcase sidebars
All six active teams of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League gathered in the northern Wisconsin town of Spooner for a recent showcase tournament. Each team played two games that counted in the regular season standings.
…[read more]Showcase shocker
What goes around really does come around. Less than two weeks ago — February 19 and 20 — the visiting Wisconsin Lumberjacks were soundly pounded by the Red Lake Miners by distressing scores of 13-1 and 17-4. But on the opening day of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League’s showcase tournament, the hosts from Wisconsin absolutely stunned Red Lake with a 5-1 victory.
…[read more]Six straight one-goal games
Playoff season in the Superior International Jr. Hockey League is still several weeks away. But having played six successive games that have been decided by one goal, the league leading Kam River Fighting Walleye is already in a playoff-like mode.
…[read more]Superior shores and roars
Kam River Fighting Walleye and Red Lake Miners have a thirst for first as the Superior International Jr. Hockey League has a slate of games on a plate that will click the gate on the final state of the 2021-2022 regular season standings. Meanwhile, the Dryden Ice Dogs are lurking and the Thunder Bay North Stars, Wisconsin Lumberjacks and Fort Frances Lakers are working at perking before the regular season finishes up at the end of March.
…[read more]Dogs ice Walleye win streak
A lengthy victory lap has been zapped. Derek Koivisto’s 12th goal of the season at the six minute mark of the third period lifted the visiting Dryden Ice Dogs to a 4-3 win over the Kam River Fighting Walleye in a Family Day matinee match.
…[read more]At play on Family Day
The cozy confines of NorWest Arena will be the site of a Family Day matinee match this afternoon when the Kam River Fighting Walleye plays host to the Dryden Ice Dogs in a 1:30 start at the Fish Tank.
…[read more]Riley rallies North Stars
It was a night of firsts. Sault College Cougars recruit Trennis Riley posted his first win in the Superior International Jr. Hockey League and the Thunder Bay North Stars scored their first victory of 2022.
…[read more]Blackburn and Lumberjacks
Wisconsin Lumberjacks forward Ryan Blackburn seems to be proving his coach right by having dealt for him at this year’s junior hockey trade deadline.
…[read more]Up North and along Superior
Here and there in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and the Superior International Jr. Hockey League:
…[read more]SIJHL on a forward path
Founded in 2001, the Superior International Jr. Hockey League has had a helter skelter existence of disorder and confusion via pop up teams in northwestern Ontario, Wisconsin and Minnesota that came and went without ever gaining validity. But the league’s newest entry, the Kam River Fighting Walleye, has swiftly become an ideal franchise. And the SIJHL is set to expand to Sioux Lookout next season.
…[read more]Dogs pound falling Stars
There is no longer a tie for third place in the Superior International Jr. Hockey League. Dryden Ice Dogs took care of that in ferocious fashion with a two game takedown of the Thunder Bay North Stars.
…[read more]Espanola via Thief River Falls
Espanola Express of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League has signed 2003 birth year goalie Matthew Loney. A free agent, Loney had been playing with the Thief River Falls Norskies of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League.
…[read more]Clarke clicks for Kam River
Forward Dayton Clarke gave a three goal glimpse of why he was a prize catch by Kam River Fighting Walleye general manager Kevin McCallum at the Canadian Jr. Hockey League trade deadline.
…[read more]Stars align for Ice Dogs
It has been two months since they last played a game. But having been inactive from game competition — first from the Christmas holiday break, then because of the Ontario government shutdown relative to the Omicron variant — Dryden Ice Dogs are slated to return to Superior International Jr. Hockey League action this weekend when they play host to the Thunder Bay North Stars in Friday-Saturday evening tilts.
…[read more]New kids in T-Bay town
Thunder Bay North Stars are no longer the lone junior hockey act in town. Just a few miles away on the outskirts of T-Bay town, the Kam River Fighting Walleye is establishing itself as a Superior International Jr. Hockey League power house as the new kids on the block.
…[read more]Earning his Wings in EL debut
Defenseman Calum McGill achieved a goal in his debut with the Elliot Lake Red Wings as the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League returned to regular season action following an Ontario government mandated pause relative to the Omicron variant.
…[read more]13 straight for Kam River
It began 2022 the way it ended 2021. With another victory. Three goals in the third period lifted the Kam River Fighting Walleye to its 13th successive win as the Superior International Jr. Hockey League resumed regular season play on Friday.
…[read more]First Nations faction of SIJHL
When the Dryden Ice Dogs added three Indigenous players at the January 10 trade deadline it brought to seven the number of First Nations products who are on the active roster of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League team. Notably, as a circuit, the SIJHL became a trailblazer before the start of this season when it hired Trevor Iserhoff as its first ever director of diversity and inclusion.
…[read more]Ice Dogs hounding Walleye
Dryden Ice Dogs head into the 2022 segment of the season 12 points back of the first place Kam River Fighting Walleye. But high scoring Ice Dogs forward Brady Frattinger is of the notion that Dryden is just as good — if not better — than any team in the Superior International Jr. Hockey League.
…[read more]New to the Espanola net
Espanola Express of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League has signed free agent goalie Dylan Kosik, Hockey News North has confirmed.
…[read more]Thunderchief and Ice Dogs
Anticipation. It is something that many junior hockey players are feeling ahead of a return to play this week from pause related to the Omicron variant. One such player is 20-year old forward Nakoda Thunderchief of the Dryden Ice Dogs of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League.
…[read more]Thief River Falls shuts it down
They played their four most recent games — in mid January — with as few as a dozen skaters. Thus, they are shutting it down for the rest of the season.
…[read more]Four on tap for SIJHL resumption
It will be a four game weekend involving five of its seven teams when the Superior International Jr. Hockey League recommences with regular season play on February 4 and 5.
…[read more]SIJHL teams set for recommence
Kam River Fighting Walleye will be out to extend its 12 game winning streak when play resumes in the Superior International Jr. Hockey League after February 1. Meanwhile, fifth seed Wisconsin Lumberjacks will be building towards what their coach calls the “end game.”
…[read more]SIJHL shapes up for ’22 segment
Ice sheets will soon return to game use up in northwestern Ontario. The Superior International Jr. Hockey League will join other provincial alliances of similar stature in a recommence of the 2021-2022 regular season that was paused due to the Omicron variant.
…[read more]Cross border to Kam River
About half of the roster of the Kam River Fighting Walleye of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League is made up of local players from the Thunder Bay area. But Fighting Walleye general manager Kevin McCallum and his hockey operations staff have also gone across the Prairies and into British Columbia to recruit players to Kam River. And at the recent junior hockey trade deadline, McCallum and the Fighting Walleye added three American-born skaters.
…[read more]NOJHL, SIJHL top contestants
It is a pause relative to Omicron, not a postponement. As such, there is good reason to believe that junior A hockey activity in Ontario will resume from provincial government exile either later this month or by early February. Which — for those of us from the north — seems to suggest that play in both the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and Superior International Jr. Hockey League will recommence for the 2022 segment of the season sooner than later.
…[read more]Lumberjacks, Norskies split four
Their five Ontario members remain in provincial government pause relative to the Omicron variant. But the 2022 segment of the regular season schedule in the Superior International Jr. Hockey League began last week with four games between the SIJHL’s two American squads.
…[read more]Dryden sets up for ’22 segment
They won 10 of 11 games prior to a holiday break that has extended into a pause in the schedule relative to the Omicron variant. And when the Dryden Ice Dogs resume play in the Superior International Jr. Hockey League — the return from provincial government exile is being pegged at later this month or early next — it will be with several notable newcomers obtained at the January 10 trade deadline.
…[read more]Walleye star signs up for school
Standout forward Alex Enegren of the first place Kam River Fighting Walleye of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League has a school commitment for the 2022-2023 season.
…[read more]Noteworthy win for Norskies
Interim head coach Brenden Gust has his first win as bench boss of the Thief River Falls Norskies of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League. And it came at the expense of the Norskies’ American rivals, the Wisconsin Lumberjacks.
…[read more]Thief River Falls makes a point
It was their first game action since December 11, a month to the day. And despite that and having only 14 skaters in the lineup, the Thief River Falls Norskies took the fully manned Wisconsin Lumberjacks through three periods and overtime before losing in a shootout.
…[read more]Soo Eagles on steady pace
They have overachieved with a record of 17-6-1 and their 35 points has them in second place in the West Division of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. And as the other 11 members of the NOJHL are on pause relative to COVID-19 and Ontario government shutdown, the Michigan-based Eagles were able to play a pair of recent exhibition games against the Wisconsin Lumberjacks of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League.
…[read more]Wisconsin at Thief River Falls
Ontario may be in a temporary junior A hockey pause relative to the Omicron virus. But having two teams that are based in the United States will allow the Superior International Jr. Hockey League to return to regular season game action tonight.
…[read more]SIJHL teams out of their league
Junior A hockey trade winds were blowing from northeastern and northwestern Ontario across the Prairies. That is, two of the top teams in the Superior International Jr. Hockey League went elsewhere to add players ahead of the recent Canadian Jr. Hockey League trade deadline.
Espanola, Dryden make a deal
Espanola Express of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League has added a 20-year goalie from the Dryden Ice Dogs of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League.
…[read more]Big d-man heads to Dryden
Already the biggest team in the Superior International Jr. Hockey League, the Dryden Ice Dogs have added a 6-foot-4, 230 pound defenseman in a trade with the French River Rapids of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League.
…[read more]Walleye snags pair from Wolves
The first place team in the Superior International Jr. Hockey League has added two 19-year old forwards from the Saskatchewan Jr. Hockey League in a cash exchange.
…[read more]Eagles edge Wisconsin again
A buzzer beater goal by Jack Mortson with 10 seconds left in the third period — and overtime looming — lifted the Soo Eagles of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League to a stunning 4-3 triumph over the Wisconsin Lumberjacks of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League in an inter-league exhibition match today.
…[read more]NOJHL, SIJHL at a glance
Storylines figure to be flush and flowing in both the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and Superior International Jr. Hockey League when the 2021-2022 season recommences.
…[read more]Soo Eagles nip Wisconsin
A back-and-forth contest eventually favoured the Soo Eagles of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League in an exhibition match with the visiting Wisconsin Lumberjacks of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League on Friday night in the Michigan Soo.
…[read more]SIJHL returning to play
Having two teams that are based in the United States will allow the Superior International Jr. Hockey League to return to regular season game action next week.
…[read more]Wisconsin v. Soo Eagles
Soo Eagles of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League will play host to the Wisconsin Lumberjacks of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League in a pair of exhibition games this weekend.
…[read more]Kam River goalie has school deal
The goalie with the best numbers in the Superior International Jr. Hockey League has a school commitment for the 2022-2023 season.
…[read more]Good trades for all parties
In a perfect junior hockey world the best trades are the ones that benefit all who are involved. Case in point being recent swaps between teams from the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League, Superior International Jr. Hockey League and Ontario Jr. Hockey League.
…[read more]Big NOJHL-SIJHL trade
Elliot Lake Red Wings of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and Kam River Fighting Walleye of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League have completed a multi-player trade, Hockey News North has confirmed.
…[read more]Resch on a rush to Red Lake
Red Lake Miners of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League have added an offensive minded, puck moving defenseman via cash transaction with the Espanola Express of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League.
…[read more]Fighting Walleye on the PK
Kam River Fighting Walleye only has the fourth best power play in the Superior International Jr. Hockey League with a 17.5 per cent efficiency. But the Fighting Walleye penalty kill ranks as the best among the seven teams of the SIJHL.
…[read more]Superior on the power play
Red Lake Miners have the best power play success rate of the seven teams of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League. And, to be sure, there are multiple engine parts to the high octane Red Lake PP.
…[read more]Tall boys on tap in Dryden
Suffice to say that they like ’em big up in Dryden. For starters, no less than 17 players on the current 24-man roster of the Dryden Ice Dogs of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League are at least six feet tall.
…[read more]Bright lights of Superior
A writer’s pick of eye-catching and under-the-radar performers and performances from the first segment of the 2021-2022 Superior International Jr. Hockey League season:
…[read more]High, low levels of Superior
A form of disparity between the top four teams and the bottom three of the Superior International Jr. Hockey League is rather evident at the current stage of the 2021-2022 season.
…[read more]Kam River in command
This is the feel good story of the 2021-2022 Superior International Jr. Hockey League season. That is, the newest competing member of the seven team league is in first place at the Christmas holiday break.
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