Hounds forward has hairline fracture
As they chase 50 wins, 100 points and first place in the Ontario Hockey League, the Soo Greyhounds will be without injured winger Justin Bailey for at least the next couple of weeks.
Bailey, who was acquired by the Greyhounds from the Kitchener Rangers just prior to the OHL trade deadline in early January, has been diagnosed with two hairline fractures in his ankle. …[read more]
Six-point outing for Jaren Bellini
Jaren Bellini fired three goals and added three assists for good measure as the visiting Soo Thunderbirds routed the Blind River Beavers 10-0 in Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League action from Wednesday.
A second-year forward, Bellini now has 31 goals, 26 assists, 57 points for the league-leading Thunderbirds. …[read more]
Eagles have the Blues at home
Winners of four successive games, the hard-skating Soo Eagles will play host to the Springfield Jr. Blues this evening in the first of three games in as many nights between the North American Hockey League North Division foes.
Game times are 7 p.m. tonight, 7:30 p.m. on Friday and 7 p.m. on Saturday. …[read more]
Hounds eye 50 wins, 100 points
Soo Greyhounds super fan Chris Sierzputowski recently tweeted that I should be giving his favourite Ontario Hockey League team some love.
He’s right. …[read more]
Ryan Vendramin, player of the month
Sault Ste. Marie native Ryan Vendramin is the Greater Ontario Jr. Hockey League’s player-of-the-month for February. …[read more]
Here ‘n there
Soo Eagles play with an edge…Two expansion-team success stories…A star centre is back in the Ontario Hockey League… …[read more]
T-Birds up two on Trappers
Soo Thunderbirds have taken a two games to none lead on the North Bay Trappers in their second-round, best-of-five, Great North Midget Hockey League playoff series. …[read more]
Eagles win fourth straight
Soo Eagles have moved into a tie for second place in the North Division of the North American Hockey League.
Backed by a sharp, 36-save outing from goalie Chad Catt, the Eagles completed a weekend sweep of the visiting Michigan Warriors on Saturday with a 3-1 triumph before close to 700 fans at Pullar Stadium. …[read more]
Attack blanks the Rivermen
Batchewana Attack took a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven, Canadian International Hockey League finals on Saturday with a 7-0 shutout of the visiting Espanola Rivermen. …[read more]
T-Bird midgets draw first blood
Soo Thunderbirds used home ice this afternoon to defeat the North Bay Trappers in the opener of their Great North Midget Hockey League semi-final playoff series. …[read more]
NOJHL game in Blind River PPD
Tonight’s scheduled Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League game between the host Blind River Beavers and the visiting Sudbury Nickel Barons has been postponed. …[read more]
Efficient Eagles swoop to victory
From the first puck drop, Soo Eagles were in high flight on Friday night.
Playing with energy in front of effervescent goalie Chad Catt, the Eagles maintained third place in the torrid North Division of the North American Hockey League with an efficient 4-1 win over the visiting Michigan Warriors before close to 700 fans at Pullar Stadium. …[read more]
Irish goalie pitches shutout
Kory Dombrowski fashioned a 32-save whitewash to backstop the Detroit Fighting Irish past the first-place Traverse City Hounds 2-0 in Midwest Jr. Hockey League action from Friday.
TC has now lost three straight games since clinching the MWJHL regular-season title last weekend. …[read more]
Michigan Warriors v. Soo Eagles
As the playoff race continues in the North Division of the North American Hockey League, Soo Eagles will play host to the Michigan Warriors tonight (7:30) and Saturday evening (7:00) at Pullar Stadium. …[read more]
T-Bird midgets home to North Bay
Fresh from a first-round bye, Soo Thunderbirds will begin the second round of the Great North Midget Hockey League playoffs with a pair of home games this weekend.
The Thunderbirds will play host to the North Bay Trappers on Saturday afternoon at 1:30 and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Essar Centre to open the best-of-five series. …[read more]
Spotlight shines on Pode, Jonak
Trevor Pode and Adam Jonak shared the Midwest Jr. Hockey League scoring spotlight on Wednesday.
Pode potted four goals as the visiting Motor City Monarchs cuffed the Detroit Fighting Irish 7-2.
Jonak, meanwhile, drew an assist on Pode’s third goal of the game to set a new MWJHL single-season scoring record with 105 points. …[read more]
CIHL has Sudbury ice for 2015-16
Armed with a signed ice rental agreement and a signed dedicated space (dressing room) agreement, the fledgling Canadian International Hockey League plans to have a new franchise in Greater Sudbury for the 2015-2016 season.
The agreements are signed by the City of Greater Sudbury. …[read more]
Red Wings v. Flint oldtimers
Popular goalie Eddie Mio and forwards Mickey Redmond, Joey Kocur, John Ogrodnick and Darren McCarty head a list of Detroit Red Wings/National Hockey League alumni who will face off against a team of erstwhile Flint Generals and other minor pro oldtimers in a Friday night fundraiser game at Perani Arena.
The now 61-year old Mio grew up across the river from Detroit in Windsor, Ont. …[read more]
GMHL continues to grow
It wasn’t supposed to last.
Very few — myself included — took it seriously and many of us predicted its quick demise.
But the junior A level Greater Metro Hockey League, which was founded in 2006 and began play with seven teams, has stood the test of time while continuing to grow. …[read more]
Best of the border
Today’s tour takes us from one side of the International Bridge to the other as we check in on the Soo Eagles of the North American Hockey League and Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Attack fells Fighting Irish
How good is the Batchewana Attack of the Canadian International Hockey League?
Just ask the Detroit Fighting Irish of the Midwest Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Detroit impressed with Espanola
Friday night in Espanola was about hockey, hospitality and relationships.
On the ice, the Espanola Rivermen of the Canadian International Hockey League upended the Detroit Fighting Irish of the Midwest Jr. Hockey League 5-2 in an interlocking match played before more than 600 fans at the Recreation Complex. …[read more]
OHL playoff chase
In the Ontario Hockey League’s Eastern Conference, where only the Sudbury Wolves are eliminated from playoff contention, there is a dandy race going on.
Mere points are what separate the Niagara IceDogs, Belleville Bulls, Kingston Frontenacs, Mississauga Steelheads and Peterborough Petes as the five teams are in a frantic fight for the final two playoff spots in the Eastern block. …[read more]
Here comes the Fighting Irish
Detroit Fighting Irish of the Midwest Jr. Hockey League is headed north for a pair of interlocking matches with the Espanola Rivermen and Batchewana Attack of the Canadian International Hockey League. …[read more]
Dorval delivers for Frontenacs
Rookie centre Zack Dorval made the most of some extra playing time on Wednesday.
With the flu-riddled Kingston Frontenacs short of bodies, Dorval stepped up big with a goal and an assist in a clutch 3-2 win over the visiting Peterborough Petes. …[read more]
Big game for Brett Jeffries
He is not known as a big goal scorer.
But Brett Jeffries had a big game on Tuesday, scoring four goals to spark the Soo Thunderbirds to a 7-3 victory over the visiting Blind River Beavers in Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League action. …[read more]
MWJHL, CIHL in open dialogue
The commissioner of the third-year, seven-team Midwest Jr. Hockey League is of the notion that having an interlocking schedule with the fledgling Canadian International Hockey League in 2015-2016 will benefit the overall level of play. …[read more]
Detroit Fighting Irish to Soo Eagles
It’s official.
Soo Eagles of the Tier 2 North American Hockey League have signed 1995 birth-year forward Jacob Hernandez from the Tier 3 Detroit Fighting Irish of the Midwest Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Around the leagues
An alphabetical tour from the Canadian International Hockey League to the Great North Midget Hockey League to the Midwest Jr. Hockey League to the North American Hockey League to the North American 3 Hockey League to the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League to the Ontario Hockey League to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association: …[read more]
Too close to call in NAHL North
Soo Eagles, who are part of a frantic race for a North American Hockey League playoff spot, are on the road to Johnstown this weekend for two games with the Tomahawks.
Heading into action this weekend, the Eagles have 43 points in 43 games from a record of 21-21-1. …[read more]
CIHL suspends Kalkaska coach
Following an investigation into alleged actions involving the Kalkaska Rhinos in road games against the Espanola Rivermen (January 30) and the Batchewana Attack (February 1), the Canadian International Hockey League has announced via press release that it has indefinitely suspended coach-general manager Krzysztof Oliwa. …[read more]
Eagles get Catt
Soo Eagles have acquired 1994 birth-year goalie Chad Catt from the Aberdeen Wings in a North American Hockey League deal that was finalized just before Friday’s midnight trade deadline. …[read more]
T-Birds blank Gold Miners
Brian Kment blocked 22 shots to backstop the visiting Soo Thunderbirds to a 4-0 blanking of the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners in Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League action from Friday. …[read more]
RR’s rumour mill
Today’s tour of the mill begins on the Ontario Hockey League coaching circuit and shifts to state-of-the-franchise talk within the North American Hockey League, Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and the Canadian International Hockey League. …[read more]
Eagles tender Tonkovich
Soo Eagles have signed a prime prospect from the Pittsburgh area to a North American Hockey League tender for the 2015-2016 season.
Eagles coach-general manager Bruno Bragagnolo has confirmed to HockeyNewsNorth.com that the Soo has tendered Austin Tonkovich, a strapping 6-foot-1, 185 pound, 1997 birth-year left winger. …[read more]
Aurora’s bring home a championship
Aurora’s pee wee major hockey team from Sault Ste. Marie recently returned from Detroit as champions of the Motown Cup Tournament. …[read more]
Irish climbs closer to second
Detroit Fighting Irish has moved to within three points of second place in the Midwest Jr. Hockey League with four games in hand on the second-ranked Motor City Monarchs. …[read more]
NAHL Central showdown
Two teams battling for the fourth-and-final playoff spot in the Central Division of the North American Hockey League will face off on Friday night. …[read more]
It’s not all fun and games
It is supposed to be all fun and games and for the kids but we all know it’s way more than that.
Junior A hockey isn’t the hundred million dollar business that the major junior game is but it’s still a business.
Take a look at the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
A night for Monarchs and Irish
The second-and-third-place teams in the Midwest Jr. Hockey League — Motor City Monarchs and Detroit Fighting Irish — both skated to Tuesday night triumphs. …[read more]
Tuneup Tuesday
It’s official. The Ontario Hockey League is moving Michigan towns from Flint to Plymouth…Here and then and around the rinks… …[read more]
The puck stops with Halverson
It’s the big question being asked around Houndtown.
Can second-year goalie Brandon Halverson backstop the star-studded Soo Greyhounds to an Ontario Hockey League championship this 2014-2015 season? …[read more]
Attack headed to Detroit
Batchewana Attack will cross the International and Mackinac bridges later this week and head south along Interstate highway 75 to the Detroit area for a showcase tournament.
The Denny Lambert-coached Attack, which leads the Canadian International Hockey League with a record of 28-0-1, will take part in the showcase event that is being hosted by the Detroit Fighting Irish of the Midwest Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
100 points for Adam Jonak
Just call him the 100-point kid.
Adam Jonak tallied two goals and added an assist as the Motor City Monarchs clipped the Alpena Flyers 5-2 in Midwest Jr. Hockey League action from Sunday. …[read more]
Net losses cost Eagles
Soo Eagles matched the top team in the 24-member North American Hockey League stride-for-stride this weekend only to drop back-to-back home games to the Janesville Jets.
Simply put, Janesville got better goaltending in upending the Eagles by 6-1 and 6-4 scores. …[read more]
Stack leads the Attack
Hard-working forward Brian Stack — known more for his shutdown style of play than his offense — scored late in the third period to lift the Batchewana Attack to a 1-0 win over the visiting Kalkaska Rhinos in a Canadian International Hockey League game played on Saturday at Rankin Arena. …[read more]
Rhinos v. Attack
Batchewana Attack puts its Canadian International Hockey League record of 27-0-1 on the line tonight when it plays host to the visiting Kalkaska Rhinos. …[read more]
29 saves, 2 assists
Detroit Fighting Irish goalie George Hill was stopping pucks and setting up goals on Friday.
Hill — who spent three days earlier in the week practising with the Soo Eagles of the North American Hockey League — made 29 saves and assisted on two Detroit goals as the Fighting Irish outlasted the visiting Motor City Monarchs 5-4 in one of three Midwest Jr. Hockey League games played. …[read more]
Eagles home to high-flying Jets
It’s back-to-back big tests for the Soo Eagles.
The Eagles, who are in pursuit of second place in the North Division of the North American Hockey League, are home to the top-seeded Janesville Jets tonight (7:30) and Saturday night (7:00) at Pullar Stadium. …[read more]