Ex-Hound fired up in Flint
Alex Kostov is clicking at the most productive rate of his Ontario Hockey League career. The fourth year forward, who has a 2006 birth date, recently scored no less than seven goals in two games to power the Flint Firebirds to successive wins over the North Bay Battalion and Guelph Storm.
The 6 foot 4, 210 pound Kostov is in his second full season in Flint after being obtained by the Firebirds in a major trade deadline transaction with the Soo Greyhounds during the ’23-24 OHL campaign. Through 16 games that he has played in thus far into the ’25-26 OHL season, Kostov leads Flint in goals with 14 and points with 23.
Kostov has been a work in progress since the Greyhounds took the big forward in the third round of the 2022 OHL priority selections draft. He netted four goals in 52 games with the Greyhounds as an OHL rookie in ’22-23 and followed that up by scoring 12 times in 66 outings in a ’23-24 season that was split between the Hounds and Flint. Kostov then came through with 16 goals in 68 games for Flint in his first full season with the Firebirds in ’24-25.
And now, in his fourth OHL season, Kostov has become an impact player for Flint, which has won seven of its past 10 games and takes a record of 11-6-1 into play this week as one of six contending teams within the hotly contested Western Conference of the OHL.
photo of Alex Kostov by Natalie Shaver