T-Birds can take title tonight
Soo Thunderbirds are in position to win the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League championship without leaving home. …[read more]
Chad Catt commits to U-M
Soo Eagles goalie Chad Catt has committed to play for the University of Michigan Wolverines effective the 2015-2016 season, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed. …[read more]
Catt carries Eagles to series sweep
The cool Catt flexed his claws once again.
Backed by the scintillating goaltending of Chad Catt, the Soo Eagles upended the visiting Keystone Ice Miners 3-1 on Friday to sweep the first-round, best-of-five, North American Hockey League, North Division playoff series. …[read more]
Eagles can put Keystone on ice
Soo Eagles can move on to the second round of the North American Hockey League playoffs with a win at home tonight. …[read more]
T-Birds take charge in Cochrane
Soo Thunderbirds have regained home-ice advantage from the Cochrane Crunch in the best-of-seven, Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League championship series. …[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]
Cochrane can take command
Playing at home, Cochrane Crunch is in position to seize control of its Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League championship series with the Soo Thunderbirds. …[read more]
Soo-Erie series starts next week
Soo Greyhounds and Erie Otters are both on spring break. …[read more]
NOJHL circle of change
A storied franchise that had a presence within the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League from 1962 until 2005 will be revived for the 2015-2016 season, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed. …[read more]
Here ‘n there
As the sun melts the snow and the grass starts to show, hockey is still a go. …[read more]
Best laid plans of the NOJHL
There is a lot happening on and away from the rinks of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League as we approach mid April.
On ice, Soo Thunderbirds and Cochrane Crunch are playing for the NOJHL championship. Off ice, there’s more action than working the Saturday night desk at a seedy northern Ontario hotel. …[read more]
When the game is not decided on ice
Hockey may be played on ice but much of what makes — or breaks — the game happens away from it. …[read more]
Classic Rock
Timmins will make its return to the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League in 2015-2016 after an absence of more than 15 years — and the team will be known as the Rock. …[read more]
Crunch v. Thunderbirds
Soo Thunderbirds will play host to the Cochrane Crunch tonight and Sunday evening in Games 1 and 2 of the best-of-seven, Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League championship series. …[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]
Back in Iroquois Falls
It was so much older then, it is younger than that now.
The franchise, that is. …[read more]
State of the NOJHL
Fans and supporters who live in the north country — good girls and bad boys alike — may have even more junior A hockey to watch in 2015-2016. …[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]
Joe Drago has plenty to say
(ED. NOTE: The following interview with Hockey Canada chairman Joe Drago was conducted by TH Sports Media on behalf of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League.) …[read more]
Soo Eagles v. Keystone Ice Miners
They finished a single point apart during the 2014-2015 North American Hockey League regular season.
And now, the Keystone Ice Miners and Soo Eagles will face off in a first-round, best-of-five, NAHL North Division playoff series. …[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]
Crunch time for Thunderbirds
It’s a sure sign of spring.
Soo Thunderbirds are off to the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League championship series for the fourth successive season. …[read more]
Lower the boom in Blind River
What is next for the Blind River Beavers?
Will they remain a part of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League? …[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]
Cain is T-Birds cool hand
He is the main man behind the scenes.
He is the guy who manages the roster and uses his many contacts in the game to keep his team a contender.
He is polite but he can be gruff. He has a cool hand but an iron fist. …[read more]
NOJHL teams on the verge
Barring an improbable comeback or two, the Soo Thunderbirds and Cochrane Crunch will face off for the 2014-2015 Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League championship. …[read more]
Motor City re-brand
Motor City Monarchs, formerly of the erstwhile Midwest Jr. Hockey League, now of the U.S. Premier Hockey League, have reached an affiliate agreement with the Michigan Ice Hawks youth association. …[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]
T-Birds in familiar territory
Soo Thunderbirds are one win away from advancing to the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League championship series for the fourth successive season. …[read more]
More growth for NOJHL?
During the last off-season, the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League added a team to go from eight in 2013-2014 to nine in 2014-2015.
And once the 2015-2016 season begins, the NOJHL could be at 10 teams, maybe more. …[read more]
Triple crown champions
They are the atom minor hockey champions of Sault Ste. Marie — times three. …[read more]
Fighting Irish adds to program
Detroit Fighting Irish, formerly of the Midwest Jr. Hockey League, now of the U.S. Premier Hockey League, is establishing an under-18, midget AA team for the 2015-2016 season. …[read more]
Mantha shows coaching mettle
A wild weekend ended the 2014-2015 North American Hockey League regular season in stunning fashion.
Desperately needing to sweep two road games from the Soo Eagles and just as desperately needing the Johnstown Tomahawks to lose a home-and-home series with the Keystone Ice Miners to make the playoffs, the Michigan Warriors got all of that. …[read more]
T-Birds go two up on Elliot Lake
Four first-period goals lifted the visiting Soo Thunderbirds to a 5-2 win over the Elliot Lake Wildcats on Saturday in Game 2 of their Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League semi-final series. …[read more]
Here ‘n there in the rinks
Soo Greyhounds and North Bay Battalion both scored easy wins in their Ontario Hockey League playoff openers on Friday…Second place is still at stake in the North Division of the North American Hockey League…Soo Thunderbirds and Elliot Lake Wildcats resume their Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series tonight. …[read more]
Thunderbirds thump Wildcats
Game 1 was for the Birds. But Game 2 will be in the Wildcats den. …[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]
Thunderbirds v. Wildcats
Top-seeded Soo Thunderbirds will play host to the Elliot Lake Wildcats in Game 1 of a best-of-seven, Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League semi-final playoff. …[read more]
A big Eagle and his two little chums
Rookie forward Jacob Hernandez guested on the most-recent edition of the Soo Eagles Hockey Show, which airs on Tuesdays from 5-6 p.m. on ESPN 1400 Radio.
Later, Hernandez got to meet two young hockey players from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario — brothers Nick and Sam Caruso — who were on hand for the Eagles show, which is broadcast live from the Service Grill on Korah Rd. …[read more]
CIHL award winners
The fledgling Canadian International Hockey League has announced award winners from its first season of play. …[read more]
NOJHL poised to stay in the Falls
The first hurdle towards keeping a Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League team in Iroquois Falls has been cleared. …[read more]
Tyler Marble stacks up
He is 23-years old and has drawn favourable comparisons to another high-end goalie who left school early to sign a pro contract. …[read more]
Fastest game on ice?
It’s similar to hockey but it is not quite the same.
Those who play it — with all due respect to hockey — call it the “fastest game on ice.” …[read more]
NOJHL final four is set
Seventh-place finishers in a nine-team Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League during the regular season, the expansion Powassan Voodoos have reached the final four of the playoff round. …[read more]
MC v. TC for Midwest crown
It will be the expansion Motor City Monarchs facing off against the defending champion Traverse City Hounds for the 2014-2015 Midwest Jr. Hockey League crown. …[read more]