Little tykes at old Soo rink
It can be seen on the faces of the six-year old youngsters. The will. The determination. The exertion. The happy faces. …[read more]
Leaders of the Wolf pack
Leadership cannot be underestimated. Good leaders can go a long way towards the betterment of a team, in this case the Sudbury Wolves. …[read more]
Great North starts and stops
There is a form of parity within the Great North Midget Hockey League. For example, over the past week, the North Bay Trappers handed the Sudbury Nickel Capital Wolves their first loss of the season only to then be upset by the Soo Greyhounds. …[read more]
Carleton Place to Princeton
Goalie Jeremie Forget of the Carleton Place Canadians of the Central Canada Hockey League is headed to a prestigious Division 1, National Collegiate Athletic Association school effective the 2018-2019 season. …[read more]
Kovacs on four nations stage
Sault Ste. Marie’s Bronson Kovacs is a member of the Hungarian national team that will play host to the Four Nations Cup Hockey Tournament from November 10 to 12. …[read more]
NOJHL East is a beast
Parity is rather evident among the six divisional rivals. Indeed, just six points stand between the second place Kirkland Lake Gold Miners and the sixth place Timmins Rock in the East Division of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Cougars take tourney title
A first-year entry in the Division 3, American Collegiate Hockey Association, Sault College Cougars have come away as champions of a weekend tournament in Midland, Michigan. …[read more]
Wrong way in Elliot Lake
Widely viewed as a serious championship contender before the start of the 2017-2018 Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League season, Elliot Lake Wildcats have instead been a big disappointment to date. …[read more]
Eagles 4, Thunderbirds 3
Soo Eagles continued their winning ways of late while at the same time putting a halt to the seven-game unbeaten streak of the cross-river Soo Thunderbirds …[read more]
What a Knight for Raaymakers
It was a Knight to remember for former Soo Greyhounds goalie Joseph Raaymakers in his Ontario Hockey League debut with London. …[read more]
John Parco coaches, trains
He has a lot more to offer than just being the coach of the Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. A former star player at the major junior and European professional levels, John Parco is also a sports vision trainer and a world-class, kinesiology-educated, disciple of the game that he lives and loves. …[read more]
15 goals for Nick Smith
He has hands of silk and a nose for the net. Soo Thunderbirds second-year forward Nick Smith is evolving into a goal-scoring machine. …[read more]
4-0-2 start for Sault College
They are a first-year team in the Division 3, American Collegiate Hockey Association. And through six games — all of them on the road — Sault College Cougars have been rather impressive. …[read more]
Yet another OHL trade
Soo Greyhounds have cashed in on holdout goalie Joseph Raaymakers by dealing him to the London Knights for netminder Tyler Johnson and three draft picks. …[read more]
Flint to Kitchener
Kitchener Rangers have traded four draft picks to the Flint Firebirds for overage forward Kole Sherwood, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed. …[read more]
Overage transaction
Sudbury Wolves have acquired overage defenseman Doug Blaisdell from the Kitchener Rangers in exchange for a fourth-round pick at the 2020 Ontario Hockey League draft. …[read more]
Hot in the NOJHL West
Rayside-Balfour Canadians, Soo Eagles and Soo Thunderbirds are three teams from the West Division who are on a roll in the 12-member Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Flint flush with 5 overagers
As the general manager of the Flint Firebirds of the Ontario Hockey League, Barclay Branch finds himself in a good trade position. …[read more]
North Bay to Saginaw
1998 birth year left winger Daniil Vertiy is on the move from the North Bay Battalion to the Saginaw Spirit, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed. …[read more]
Old Hounds are all Dunn
My old high school shut its doors as an education facility about six or seven years ago. Venerable Sir James Dunn Collegiate was then used as a community center and a movie site before the building was demolished within the past year. …[read more]
Spirit seeks to snap skid
It is a young team, one of the youngest in the Ontario Hockey League. But Saginaw Spirit has lost three straight games and with a 1-4-1 record through six outings could use a return to the win column with a pair of home contests coming up. …[read more]
Team NOHA names coach
Former Ontario Hockey League forward Richard Rochefort has been named head coach of Team NOHA for the 2017-2018 season. …[read more]
Saginaw calls on Soo boy
Sault Ste. Marie product Camaryn Baber will join the Saginaw Spirit for a pair of Ontario Hockey League games this weekend, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed. …[read more]
So far, so good for Flint
It may only be a seven-game sample but the Flint Firebirds are showing a sharp side thus far this Ontario Hockey League season. …[read more]
Wolves deal defenseman
Sudbury Wolves have tidied up their back yard by moving defensemen Conor Ali to the Kingston Frontenacs for a fourth-round draft pick in 2020. …[read more]
OHL teams with net issues
Not every Ontario Hockey League team has a Michael DiPietro or a Matthew Villalta or a Dylan Wells that they can go to as their no. 1 guy between the pipes. As a matter-of-fact, more than a third of teams in the OHL have starting goalies with save percentages that are well below the .900 watershed mark. …[read more]
Nine in a row for Nickel Caps
Sudbury Nickel Capital Wolves have a perfect record nine games into the 2017-2018 Great North Midget Hockey League regular season. But the North Bay Trappers are keeping pace with the Nickel Capital Wolves in the race between major midget powerhouses. …[read more]
Cubs clip winged Birds
Short on players due to injury and with just 12 skaters in the lineup, the minor midget Soo Thunderbirds gave it their all only to fall 4-2 to the major midget New Liskeard Cubs on Saturday night. …[read more]
NOJHL by the numbers
Call it a numbers game. As in a here and there, hodge podge of numbers as they pertain to the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Spirit of northern Ontario
Four northern Ontario products who are on the forward lines of the Saginaw Spirit have combined for eight points in four games thus far this 2017-2018 Ontario Hockey League season. …[read more]
First W for Sudbury Wolves
The fans can relax a bit now. So too can the players and maybe even the coaches. Sudbury Wolves have their first win of the 2017-2018 Ontario Hockey League season. …[read more]
Small goalie, big saves
Maybe, just maybe, there will be an Ontario Hockey League general manager or scout who will think outside the box when it comes to evaluating goalie Noah Zeppa of the minor midget Soo Thunderbirds. …[read more]
So far, so good in Hearst
On the ice, they are winning. At the gate, they are packing them in. So far, so good for the first-year Hearst Lumberjacks of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
NHL is high on Hayton et al
Soo Greyhounds centre Barrett Hayton is one of six Ontario Hockey League skaters who has an “A” rating on the initial list of players to watch for the 2018 National Hockey League draft. …[read more]
Roster moves in Rayside
Rayside-Balfour Canadians of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League have added a forward to compensate for the advancement of another. …[read more]
Players to watch have Spirit
Three members of the Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League are on the initial Central Scouting players-to-watch list for the 2018 National Hockey League draft. …[read more]
Up and down the Great North
Today’s Great North Midget Hockey League tour goes from Sault Ste. Marie to Sudbury to North Bay to Kapuskasing to Timmins. …[read more]
Points for Soo minor midgets
Through five games into their first season in the Great North Midget Hockey League the minor midget Soo Thunderbirds have yet to post a victory. …[read more]
Crunch in cruise control
Handing the reigning champion Powassan Voodoos their first home ice loss since February of last season — covering eight games, playoffs included — Cochrane Crunch is on a roll of its own. …[read more]
Birds sweep border battle
A shorthanded goal by rookie forward Camaryn Baber with less than five minutes to play in the third period lifted the Soo Thunderbirds to a 4-2 win over the Soo Eagles on Saturday and a sweep of the border battle weekend series between the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League rivals. …[read more]
A first for Nicholas Porco
It only took rookie forward Nicholas Porco four games to score his first Ontario Hockey League goal for the Saginaw Spirit. …[read more]
Home opener for Firebirds
Having started the 2017-2018 Ontario Hockey League regular season with a pair of road victories, Flint Firebirds take to the ice tonight for their home opener. …[read more]
OHL etches and sketches
As the bright lights of the Ontario Hockey League have begun to shine on the 2017-2018 season, news and views become common place throughout the major junior loop. …[read more]
Talking up the Soo Eagles
Seasoned scout Charly Murray had plenty good to say about the Soo Eagles of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League when guesting on the Hockey North Show, which airs on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. on Sault Ste. Marie radio station ESPN 1400. …[read more]
Back on board the Express
Espanola Express, winless through seven games thus far this Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League season, has added some much-needed scoring to its lineup. …[read more]
Lakers choose Wright captain
The good ship Laker will set sail with a new captain. Senior defensemen Aidan Wright will wear the captain’s jersey for the Lake Superior State Lakers this season. …[read more]
Up early in the NOJHL
A trio of small-market teams — French River Rapids, Blind River Beavers and Powassan Voodoos — have five wins apiece in the early going of the 2017-2018 Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League season. And let us not overlook the rebound that the Michigan Soo Eagles have managed. …[read more]
Great North notes, quotes
It was a hot, hazy, humid September weekend in northeastern Ontario. But as it was steamy and sticky outside, there was ice on the sheets inside as early-season play in the Great North Midget Hockey League continued. …[read more]
First-ever N.O. Cup
Soo Thunderbirds of the Great North Midget Hockey League will play host to the first-ever, minor midget, Northern Ontario Cup, which is slated to be staged next March 2-4, 2018 in Sault Ste. Marie. …[read more]