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]
Junior hockey relocation, movement
As the junior hockey world turns, teams enter and exit through a revolving door that spins open and shut.
Even the self-proclaimed, best junior loop in the world — the Ontario Hockey League — is not exempt from movement. …[read more]
NOJHL to remain in Iroquois Falls?
It appears as though the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League will not be leaving Iroquois Falls — home of the Abitibi Eskimos — after all. …[read more]
Here’s to Winter in the Midwest
It’s Winter time.
Ken Winter of the Detroit Fighting Irish has been named Midwest Jr. Hockey League Forward of the Year. …[read more]
NOJHL playoff picture
Seriously now, did anyone on the outside looking in give the Powassan Voodoos much of a chance in their Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series with the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners? …[read more]
Best d-man in the Midwest
Jarrad Vroman of the Motor City Monarchs has been named the Midwest Jr. Hockey League’s Defenceman of the Year. …[read more]
Best goalie in the Midwest
David Krejcik of the Traverse City Hounds has been named Goaltender of the Year in the Midwest Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Matt Caruso lights up Blind River
Soo Thunderbirds completed a one-sided playoff sweep of the Blind River Beavers on Tuesday and rookie forward Matt Caruso continued to light the lamp. …[read more]
Top rookie in the Midwest
High-scoring forward Trevor Pode of the Motor City Monarchs has been named Midwest Jr. Hockey League Rookie of the Year. …[read more]
Soaring Eagles seek second
Soo Eagles are on a mission.
With five games to play in the 2014-2015 North American Hockey League regular season, the Eagles are in sole possession of second place in the six-team North Division. …[read more]
Best coach in the Midwest
Jason McCrimmon of the expansion Motor City Monarchs has been named Midwest Jr. Hockey League Coach of the Year. …[read more]
Elliot Lake on the rebound
Now that was more like it.
With the pressure on and in a virtual must-win setting, Elliot Lake Wildcats returned to the victory column in front of their home fans on Monday night. …[read more]
Barons have Wildcats on the run
It’s been a reversal of fortunes for the Elliot Lake Wildcats and Sudbury Nickel Barons thus far in their best-of-seven playoff series. …[read more]
T-Birds are Great North champs
Well done, Soo Thunderbirds.
Call it a triumphant return to the Great North Midget Hockey League for Sault Ste. Marie after a one-year hiatus. …[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]
T-Bird teams take two
Soo Thunderbirds of the Great North Midget Hockey League and Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League both scored playoff victories on Saturday. …[read more]
Midwest playoff sweeps
Pass the broom.
All three first-round playoff series in the Midwest Jr. Hockey League ended in two-game sweeps on Saturday. …[read more]
Nickel Barons in driver’s seat
Sudbury Nickel Barons have seized home-ice advantage — and then some — in their first-round, best-of-seven, Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series with the favoured Elliot Lake Wildcats. …[read more]
Massey seeks junior team
The Township of Sables-Spanish Rivers is looking at bringing junior hockey to Massey Arena for the 2015-2016 season. …[read more]
Great North midget finals resume
Soo Thunderbirds can win the Great North Midget Hockey League championship this weekend without leaving home. …[read more]
Eagles in race for second place
Two teams in a race for second place in the North Division of the North American Hockey League will face off tonight and Saturday evening at Pullar Stadium in the Michigan Soo. …[read more]
Thunderbirds 11, Beavers 0
Soo Thunderbirds built up a 10-0 lead after two periods and skated to an 11-0 shutout of the visiting Blind River Beavers in the opening game of the best-of-seven, Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series on Thursday. …[read more]
NOJHL mismatch
Soo Thunderbirds will play host to the Blind River Beavers at John Rhodes Community Centre tonight in Game 1 of a best-of-seven playoff series between the top and bottom teams in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Wicked winds of change
What a difference a few days can make.
The winds of change that blew through Espanola on Monday swept south of the border into Michigan on Tuesday and affected several junior hockey leagues in the process. …[read more]
Soo Eagles in school
Soo Eagles of the North American Hockey League are well-known within the area for their volunteer work within the community. …[read more]
MWJHL joins USPHL
The United States Premier Hockey League has confirmed expansion of its Midwest junior division for the 2015-2016 season.
The division will now include the membership of the entire Midwest Jr. Hockey League — Alpena Flyers, Decatur Blaze, Detroit Fighting Irish, Michigan Ice Dogs, Motor City Monarchs, Soo Firehawks and Traverse City Hounds. …[read more]
Town hall politics
Oh, to be a fly on the wall in the town hall of Espanola.
To be sure, there is more to the story that started with Monday’s press release issued by the Town of Espanola which stated that it was “exercising its right” to terminate its contract with the Espanola Rivermen of the Canadian International Hockey League. …[read more]
Town of Espanola, Rivermen at odds
The Town of Espanola says it is exercising its right to terminate its contract with the Espanola Rivermen of the Canadian International Hockey League.
But CIHL president Tim Clayden — who also owns the Rivermen — begs to differ. …[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]
Great North final tied at one
Soo Thunderbirds have taken home-ice advantage in their best-of-five, Great North Midget Hockey League championship series with the New Liskeard Cubs. …[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]
Masked Marble
Tyler Marble has a reputation as a big-game goalie from his time with the Soo Eagles when he was named the top netminder in the North American Hockey League for the 2012-2013 season. …[read more]
David Radke, Thunderbird all-star
Seasoned defenceman David Radke is the lone skater from the regular-season champion Soo Thunderbirds to be recognized as a Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League all-star for the 2014-2015 season. …[read more]
Junior hockey footprints
The landscape shifts from season to season.
The footprints vary from league to league.
Such is life in the junior hockey world where change is inevitable and uncertainty is a certainty. …[read more]
Lakers on verge of playoff spot
First-year coach Damon Whitten and his Lake Superior State University Lakers are in position to land a Western Collegiate Hockey Association playoff spot. …[read more]
Hail to the Batchewana Attack
A champion has been decided in the first-year Canadian International Hockey League.
Six goals in the third period was the difference as the Batchewana Attack put away the visiting Espanola Rivermen 9-2 on Wednesday to sweep the best-of-seven championship series in four straight games. …[read more]
T-Bird midgets take out Trappers
Whew, that was close.
Soo Thunderbirds ousted the visiting North Bay Trappers 3-2 in double overtime on Tuesday to win the second-round, best-of-five, Great North Midget Hockey League playoff series three games to two. …[read more]
Attack can capture CIHL crown
They are just one win away from winning it all.
To be sure, the Batchewana Attack is in position to become the first-ever champions of the Canadian International Hockey League. …[read more]
Mazzuca and me
There is a misconception out there that Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League commissioner Robert Mazzuca and I are not on speaking terms. …[read more]
Great North showdown tonight
It has all come down to one game to decide the second-round, best-of-five, Great North Midget Hockey League playoff series between the Soo Thunderbirds and North Bay Trappers. …[read more]
CIHL plans ahead to 2015-2016
CBC Radio Sudbury journalist Mathieu Gohier called me the other day, wanting to know my thoughts on the future of the fledgling Canadian International Hockey League.
Gohier and I talked at length about the CIHL, which experienced its share of struggles as a first-year junior league this 2014-2015 season. …[read more]
Batchewana on verge of CIHL title
Three down, one to go.
Batchewana Attack is on the verge of capturing the first-ever Canadian International Hockey League championship. …[read more]
Soo Eagles get away with one
Soo Eagles stole a win on Saturday night.
In front of 776 witnesses at Pullar Stadium, the Eagles pulled off a 4-1 theft of the Springfield Jr. Blues despite being out-shot 43-21 by the visitors. …[read more]
Thunderbirds claim first place
Soo Thunderbirds scored two late third-period goals to pull out a 5-4 victory over the visiting Sudbury Nickel Barons in Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League action from Saturday. …[read more]
Two goalies, 97 saves
It was a goaltenders duel at its finest on Saturday night.
To be sure, David Krejcik of the Traverse City Hounds and George Hill of the Detroit Fighting Irish put on a Midwest Jr. Hockey League goalie clinic. …[read more]
Birds, Eagles in home nests
Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and Soo Eagles of the North American Hockey League both have home games tonight. …[read more]
Michael Doan pitches first shutout
Sault Ste. Marie native Michael Doan registered the first shutout of his Division 1, Western Collegiate Hockey Association career on Saturday.
Doan, a 6-foot-5, 210 pound goalie who is in his junior season at Northern Michigan University, made 27 saves as the Wildcats blanked the visiting Lake Superior State University Lakers 5-0. …[read more]
Attack goes up two on Rivermen
Batchewana Attack has taken a two games to none lead on the Espanola Rivermen in the best-of-seven, Canadian International Hockey League championship series. …[read more]
Pung pings Eagles past Springfield
Soo Eagles have moved into sole possession of second spot in the North Division of the North American Hockey League, two points up on the Keystone Ice Miners. …[read more]