Greyhounds on a good path
Methinks they are right about where they should be.
It is just past the one-quarter mark of the 2014-2015 Ontario Hockey League season and the Soo Greyhounds have a tidy record of 13-5, which translates into a .722 winning percentage. …[read more]
Monday musings
Soo Thunderbirds and Kirkland Lake Gold Miners are waging war for first place in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League…Make that two players who have left the Blind River Beavers of the NOJHL for the new Canadian International Hockey League…The CIHL is in the midst of major change and the Batchewana Attack just keeps on winning…And the MC Monarchs of the Midwest Jr. Hockey League boast an ultimate trio of skaters. …[read more]
Big games for Pilon, Marshall et al
Four games were played in the new Canadian International Hockey League on the weekend and there was a first. …[read more]
Sunday afternoon Attack
Batchewana Attack will be out to extend its season-opening, nine-game winning streak today when it plays host to the Espanola Rivermen in a 2 p.m. match at Rankin Arena. …[read more]
A first for the Colborne Hawks
Colborne Hawks rallied for their first win of the season, a 4-3 victory over the Toronto Jr. Hockey Academy in Canadian International Hockey League action on Saturday.
Alex Bidwell scored the winner in the shootout to improve Colborne’s record to 1-8 and out of last place past the Sudbury Royals. …[read more]
Soo teams win
Soo Greyhounds and Soo Eagles both scored home-ice victories on Friday while Soo Thunderbirds won on the road. …[read more]
Friday’s finest
A rookie skater has left the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League for the Canadian International Hockey League…Here and there and around the junior hockey rinks… …[read more]
OHL trade rumours
It’s early November and trade winds are blowing through the Ontario Hockey League.
A main subject of relocation is Saginaw Spirit overage goalie Jake Paterson, who is a National Hockey League prospect of the Detroit Red Wings. …[read more]
Batchewana to Des Moines
Another member of the Batchewana Attack of the new Canadian International Hockey League has been called up to the Tier 1 junior, United States Hockey League. …[read more]
Bummer in Blind River
They have seen better days.
All is not well with the Blind River Beavers and one has to wonder about the future of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League’s smallest-market team. …[read more]
Message from the CIHL president
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a message from Tim Clayden of the Canadian International Hockey League.
CIHL Hockey has been in operation for a month now and has experienced its fair share of trials and tribulations. We have had many gains and successes and are fully prepared to deal with the stumbles ahead which could be considered common in the beginnings of a new junior hockey league. We will persevere even when others continually criticize and try to tear apart what we know is a hockey program that will be second to none at this level in providing options and dreams to world-wide student-athletes. …[read more]
Burks backstops Monarchs to victory
Rookie goalie Joseph Burks made 26 saves and the MC Monarchs edged the visiting Berkley Bruins 2-1 in Midwest Jr. Hockey League action from Tuesday.
Young Burks, who has a 1999 birth date, got the offensive support he needed from MWJHL scoring leaders Adam Jonak and Trevor Pode, who tallied goals for the Monarchs. …[read more]
Soo Eagles home for three this week
Soo Eagles take a record of 10-8, good for 20 points, into a three-game home set with the visiting Springfield Jr. Blues this week.
Games are slated for Thursday (7:00), Friday (7:30) and Saturday (7:00) evenings at Pullar Stadium in the Michigan Soo. …[read more]
Monday musings
Good and bad of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League…A night of firsts for the Lake Superior State University Lakers…Here and there and around the rinks… …[read more]
Four-goal game for Ken Winter
Detroit Fighting Irish shrugged off a three-goal deficit to upend the Alpena Flyers 6-5 in Midwest Jr. Hockey League action from Sunday afternoon.
Playing at Alpena, 1994 birth-year forward Ken Winter scored four goals and added an assist to pace Detroit to the road triumph. …[read more]
Big weekend for three CIHL teams
with files from CIHL Staff
Batchewana Attack, Espanola Rivermen and St. Charles Spirit all had four-point weekends with two victories apiece in Canadian International Hockey League action. …[read more]
Best of the NOJHL West
They are perched atop the four-team West Division and have the best record in the nine-member Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League.
That notation aside, Soo Thunderbirds are not alone as elite members of the NOJHL. …[read more]
Irish, Monarchs and Hounds
Just call it a Saturday night invasion.
Detroit Fighting Irish, MC Monarchs and Traverse City Hounds all skated into enemy arenas and left with Midwest Jr. Hockey League victories on Saturday. …[read more]
Wolves hit with modest fine
The Ontario Hockey League has fined the Sudbury Wolves $7,500 as the result of what it calls the “most unprofessional and inappropriate comments” made by coach Paul Fixter. …[read more]
Hawks and Hounds get the W
Soo Firehawks made a triumphant return to action while the Traverse City Hounds remained unbeaten following Midwest Jr. Hockey League activity from Friday night. …[read more]
Twin Soo action
There is junior hockey action aplenty on both sides of the International Bridge at Sault Ste. Marie this weekend. …[read more]
Kalkaska on the road
Coach Krzysztof Oliwa is taking his Kalkaska Rhinos on the road for four games in four days against teams from the Minnesota Jr. Hockey League.
The road trip begins tonight and concludes on Monday afternoon. …[read more]
Self-serving agendas
They proclaim to be in it “for the kids” and the “love of the game.”
And while that may be true of some, there are those involved at the grassroots and junior hockey levels who have self-serving agendas. …[read more]
Laker goalie leads the nation
Lake Superior State University Lakers are winless in eight games to start the 2014-2015 season but freshman goalie Gordon Defiel leads the nation in three categories. …[read more]
Jonak, Pode pace MC to victory
The high-scoring duo of Adam Jonak and Trevor Pode combined for six points on Wednesday as the MC Monarchs outlasted the visiting Detroit Fighting Irish 6-4.
Jonak and Pode — who are the top two scorers in the Midwest Jr. Hockey League — both tallied twice and added an assist as the expansion Monarchs improved their record to an impressive 8-3 on the season. …[read more]
My guest tonight
He has played the game at the Ontario Hockey League and Atlantic University levels.
He has been an assistant coach in the OHL and a head coach in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League, both while maintaining a full-time job in the criminal justice system.
He is 55-years old and he still coaches — for the love at the game — at the pee wee level. …[read more]
Adam Jonak is a two-timer
Another week, another award for Adam Jonak.
The Midwest Jr. Hockey League has announced its most-recent players-of-the-week and the high-scoring Jonak was again recognized.
The awards are voted on by league coaches, general managers and league staff. …[read more]
Firehawks utilize Canadian talent
It’s back to the ice for the Soo Firehawks this weekend after an idle stretch of almost two weeks.
The Firehawks, who play out of Big Bear Arena in the Michigan Soo, have a record of 2-3-1 through the early going of the 2014-2015 Midwest Jr. Hockey League season. …[read more]
Monday musings
On the Ontario Hockey League hot seat…High and low in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League…Here and there and around the rinks… …[read more]
Kendall Huckins on the Attack
He’s liking his home away from home.
Kendall Huckins may be from Chicago but he is feeling at home in Sault Ste. Marie.
Huckins, a 1996 birth-year forward, is taking to living away from home and playing for the Batchewana Attack of the new Canadian International Hockey League. …[read more]
Here’s to Captain Kovacs
Sault Ste. Marie native Bronson Kovacs has been named one of three senior captains for the Hobart College Statesmen of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference for the upcoming season.
Kovacs, a hard-hitting, puck-moving defenceman who played with the Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League before going to Hobart, had 6 goals, 8 assists, 14 points in 24 games with the Statesmen in 2013-2014. …[read more]
Batchewana 3, Espanola 2
A goal by Chris Skinner with less than three minutes to play in the third period lifted the visiting Batchewana Attack to a 3-2 win over the Espanola Rivermen in Canadian International Hockey League on action Friday.
The win improved Batchewana’s record to 6-0 on the season. …[read more]
TC and MC get the W
Traverse City Hounds and MC Monarchs both registered victories in Midwest Jr. Hockey League action on Friday night.
TC now has a record of 8-0 for the season and MC is 7-3. …[read more]
Otters an Erie foe for Greyhounds
The team that eliminated the Soo Greyhounds in the second round of the 2013-2014 playoffs looms as a formidable foe again in 2014-2015.
A high-powered, hard-skating, well-coached outfit in 2013-2014, the Erie Otters have more of the same in 2014-2015. …[read more]
Eagles v. Warriors for pair
I-75 highway rivals, the Michigan Warriors and Soo Eagles will meet for a pair of key North American Hockey League games tonight and Saturday.
The Warriors will play host to the Eagles in 7 p.m. games both nights at Perani Arena and Event Centre in Flint. …[read more]
Statement from David Beauchamp
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a prepared statement from David Beauchamp, who was advised by the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League earlier today that he has been removed as owner of the Mattawa Blackhawks: …[read more]
Hostile takeover in Mattawa?
Multiple sources have confirmed that the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League has forcibly removed David Beauchamp as owner of the Mattawa Blackhawks.
The same sources are saying that NOJHL commissioner Rob Mazzuca has new owners set to take over the first-year Mattawa franchise. …[read more]
Nurse gives Hounds a booster shot
From very good to very, very good.
Without defenceman Darnell Nurse, the Soo Greyhounds were a very good team.
Ergo, they should be even better now that the 19-year old defender has returned to the Soo from the Edmonton Oilers. …[read more]
Batchewana to Green Bay
Goalie Jack Hickey has joined the Green Bay Gamblers of the Tier 1 junior, United States Hockey League from the Batchewana Attack of the new Canadian International Hockey League.
Attack president-director of hockey operations David Maciuk confirmed to HockeyNewsNorth.com that Hickey has been promoted to Green Bay on a fill-in basis. …[read more]
Fighting Irish wear pink
Pink will be in the rink in the Detroit suburb of Brownstown this Saturday.
Detroit Fighting Irish of the Midwest Jr. Hockey League will play host to its annual breast cancer awareness benefit game on Saturday afternoon at the Ice Box Sports Center.
The visiting Alpena Flyers will provide the opposition. Game time is 3:10 p.m. at the Ice Box. …[read more]
Road-tested Lakers return home
There is no place quite like home, especially after a long road trip.
Lake Superior State University Lakers return to the friendly confines of Taffy Abel Arena for Friday-Saturday night games versus the Northern Michigan University Wildcats after a two-week road stretch that saw Sault Ste. Marie’s Western Collegiate Hockey Association team log more than 4,000 miles. …[read more]
Best of the week; week ahead
An unbeaten goalie from Traverse City heads the list of Midwest Jr. Hockey League players-of-the-week for the period ending Sunday, October 19.
The awards are voted on by MWJHL coaches, general managers and league staff.
And the latest winners are: …[read more]
Batchewana v. Kalkaska
The Michigan-based Kalkaska Rhinos, an independent junior hockey team that is coached by Krzysztof Oliwa, who won a Stanley Cup in 2000 as a fearsome left winger with the New Jersey Devils, will play their first-ever home games this weekend.
The Rhinos will play host to the unbeaten Batchewana Attack of the new Canadian International Hockey League on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Kaliseum Recreational Complex in Kalkaska. …[read more]
Up north in the O
Two of the three northern teams in the 20-member Ontario Hockey League — Soo Greyhounds and North Bay Battalion — are among the early contenders this 2014-2015 season.
Then there is the OHL’s other northern Ontario team, the Sudbury Wolves, who are in last place overall and may be looking at a coaching change. …[read more]
First points for Andrew Barbeau
Andrew Barbeau, a 1997 birth-year defenceman from the Canadian side of the International Bridge at Sault Ste. Marie, is adapting quite well to the level of play in the North American Hockey League.
For starters, Barbeau, a rookie with the NAHL’s Michigan Warriors and the youngest player — and only one with a 1997 birth date — on the team, is taking a regular turn on the blueline. …[read more]
Batchewana Attack improves to 5-0
Batchewana Attack remains undefeated in the early going of the 2014-2015 Canadian International Hockey League season.
Sunday afternoon in St. Charles, the Attack completed a weekend sweep of the Spirit with a 6-2 win over the home side.
The Attack began the weekend with a 3-0 home-ice blanking of the Spirit on Saturday night. …[read more]
TC Hounds sweep MC Monarchs
Make it a three-for-three weekend.
Patrick Rogowski rifled two goals and added an assist as the Traverse City Hounds completed a three-game weekend sweep of the visiting MC Monarchs with a 5-1 win on Sunday.
With the win, the Hounds remain undefeated on the 2014-2015 Midwest Jr. Hockey League season with a record of 6-0. …[read more]
Batchewana blanks St. Charles
Sergei Koroshun tallied twice and Jack Hickey made 33 saves as the Batchewana Attack improved its Canadian International Hockey League record to 4-0 with a 3-0 whitewash of the visiting St. Charles Spirit on Saturday night at Rankin Arena.
Darian Pilon also scored for Batchewana, which travels to St. Charles for a 2:30 p.m. game today. …[read more]
TC takes it to MC again
Patrick Rogowski’s hat trick propelled the Traverse City Hounds to a 5-2 win over the visiting MC Monarchs in Midwest Jr. Hockey League action on Saturday night.
It was the second win in as many nights for TC over MC. …[read more]