Frantic fortunes
OHL Notebook:
Some are here. Some are there. Some have been removed from the Ontario Hockey League playoff picture. …[read more]
NOJHL final four begins
Blind River Beavers and Powassan Voodoos have both used home ice to take opening games in their respective Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League division finals. …[read more]
New job for Mike McKenzie
Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League have opted to promote highly-regarded Mike McKenzie to general manager effective immediately. …[read more]
Flint Firebirds on the brink
Unable to take advantage of a pair of home games, Flint Firebirds are on the brink of elimination in their first round Ontario Hockey League playoff series with Soo Greyhounds. …[read more]
No love lost in this OHL set
Oshawa Generals rookie forward Danil Antropov may have said it best when asked for his thoughts heading into Game 5 of the first round, Ontario Hockey League Eastern Conference playoff series with Sudbury Wolves. …[read more]
Soo Eagles v. BR Beavers
Separated by two miles of International Bridge and about 90 miles of highway, a pair of upstart teams will face off for West Division bragging rights within the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Kap looking for new coach
Pat Millette has opted not to return to the Kapuskasing Flyers of the Great North Midget Hockey League as their head coach for the 2017-2018 season. …[read more]
Hockey night in Hamilton
The national television lights of Sportsnet will shine on Hamilton tonight when the Bulldogs play host to the Kingston Frontenacs in Game 4 of their Ontario Hockey League Eastern Conference playoff series. …[read more]
Kings of upcoming OHL draft
Nick Porco. Thomas Harley. Nathan Staois. Three players from the Vaughan Kings minor midgets who could well be selected in the first round of the 2017 Ontario Hockey League draft. …[read more]
Pezzetta predicts Wolves win
There is no one who believes in the Sudbury Wolves more than the guys on the team. Ask game-winning goal scorer Michael Pezzetta and he’ll tell you just that. …[read more]
Beavers to face Eagles
Blind River Beavers have won a playoff series for only the second time since joining the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League in 1999. …[read more]
Wolves must stay out of box
The devil is in the details. A simple statement, yet somehow it is so often forgotten. Sunday night in Oshawa would be the perfect example of what happens when you forget. …[read more]
Back in Wolves country
Being in Sudbury for a playoff matchup as head coach of the Oshawa Generals is a homecoming of sorts for Bobby Jones. …[read more]
The mouth runneth over
High-scoring forward Ryan Moore may have let an unfortunate slip of the tongue get in the way of a possible playoff upset for the Flint Firebirds. …[read more]
Home ice shifts to Flint
Flint Firebirds have seized home-ice advantage from Soo Greyhounds with the opportunity to take control of the first-round, Ontario Hockey League playoff series. …[read more]
One game, winner-take-all
A closely-contested Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series featuring four straight one-goal games is headed to a seventh-and-deciding match. …[read more]
Canadian Eagles fly high
At one time or another over the past few years, Nick Trecroce, Jake Palmerio and Carmen Scarfone all had aspirations of playing for their hometown, Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League team. …[read more]
Sunday success on the road
Hamilton Bulldogs and Ottawa 67’s both pulled off big Sunday afternoon road triumphs as playoffs continued in the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Fired-up Flint fires back
Seventh-seeded Flint Firebirds served summons to second-seeded Soo Greyhounds tonight that they won’t back down in their first-round, Ontario Hockey League Western Conference playoff. …[read more]
OHL rookie goalie success
There are those who have their doubts and reservations about rookies being starters as goalies in the Ontario Hockey League. But no less than three rookies were Game 1 starters in the first round of this year’s playoffs — and all three posted victories. …[read more]
1-on-1 with Wolves AC
EDITOR’S NOTE: By virtue of a 5-2 series-opening road win, Sudbury Wolves have a 1-0 lead in their first-round Ontario Hockey League playoff with Oshawa Generals. Before Sudbury boarded the bus for Oshawa prior to Game 1, Amanda Zurkowski caught up with Wolves assistant coach Darryl Moxam. …[read more]
How sweep it is!
It lived up to its hype, the border battle did, with four close, evenly-matched contests. But the same team won all four games as Soo Eagles completed an improbable sweep of Soo Thunderbirds tonight. …[read more]
Friday night OHL lights
The clocks are ticking toward game time in five Ontario Hockey League playoff centers — Mississauga, Oshawa, Kingston, Owen Sound and London. …[read more]
NOJHL playoff update
Rayside-Balfour Canadians have tied their series with Blind River Beavers while Powassan Voodoos have advanced to the next round of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoffs. …[read more]
Hounds speed past Flint
There was little doubt as to which was the better team. Second-seed Soo Greyhounds were in control from the outset, showing skill and speed to sprint past seventh-seed Flint Firebirds 5-2 in Thursday’s opening game of the best-of-seven, Ontario Hockey League Western Conference playoff. …[read more]
OHL playoff predictions
One man’s view — also known as one man’s guess — as to which teams will win the eight first-round Ontario Hockey League playoff series. …[read more]
Eagles edge T-Birds again
Kade Phipps made 46 saves and Soo Eagles upended the two-time reigning champion Soo Thunderbirds 3-2 tonight to take a commanding 3-0 lead in the second round, best-of-seven Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series. …[read more]
OHL playoff schedule
Playoff pairings have been finalized and the schedules in all eight first-round Ontario Hockey League series have been set, including four games that will be televised on Sportsnet 360. …[read more]
Wolves, Generals from A-Z
We know how the story starts. Sudbury Wolves move into sixth place with a win over Mississauga Steelheads and will face the third-place Oshawa Generals. …[read more]
Border battle moves to Pullar
Soo Eagles and Soo Thunderbirds will resume their Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League cross-border playoff series tonight. …[read more]
989-word playoff preview
Make no mistake about it. Flint Firebirds stand out as one of the more-improved teams in the Ontario Hockey League from the 2015-2016 season to the 2016-2017 campaign. …[read more]
Wolves can set playoff tone
Today matters. It really matters. Win their regular-season finale and Sudbury Wolves will play Oshawa Generals in the first round of the Ontario Hockey League playoffs. Lose and they better have set the tone for what the Wolves will want to be a long series with the Mississauga Steelheads. …[read more]
Great North draft prospects
Led by Northern Ontario Hockey Association player-of-the-year Camaryn Baber, about a dozen 2001 birth-year players from the Great North Midget League could be selected at next month’s Ontario Hockey League draft. …[read more]
Hamilton’s playoff drought
It’s been said that good things come to those who wait. Well, after an absence of a mere 26 years, there will be an Ontario Hockey League playoff game in Hamilton next week. …[read more]
Express tryout camp
Espanola Express of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League has confirmed that its spring tryout camp will be held on Saturday April 22 at the Gerry McCrory Countryside Arena in Sudbury. …[read more]
Don’t count T-Birds out
Soo Thunderbirds may be trailing Soo Eagles two games to none in their best-of-seven Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series but it would be foolish to sell the two-time defending champions short. …[read more]
Eagles put press on T-Birds
Utilizing a basketball-style press — in this case an effective 1-1-3 fore check — Soo Eagles stole another road match to take a 2-0 lead on the favoured Soo Thunderbirds in their second-round Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series. …[read more]
Respect for the Troops
It’s do or die today for the North Bay Battalion. And do still doesn’t guarantee anything for the desperate Ontario Hockey League team. …[read more]
Baber, Porco among the best
A pair of Sault Ste. Marie products with 2001 birth dates who are top prospects for the 2017 Ontario Hockey League under-16 draft are among the recipients who have received minor midget player-of-the-year awards for the 2016-2017 season. …[read more]
NOJHL playoffs continue
Second-round playoff action in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League continues with three games slated for tonight. …[read more]
Hello playoffs! Wolves are in
The two-year drought is officially over. Yes folks, the Sudbury Wolves are headed back to the Ontario Hockey League playoffs. …[read more]
Hey Wolves: What was that?
If you watched Thursday night’s crucial Ontario Hockey League game between the ninth-place North Bay Battalion and the eighth-seeded Sudbury Wolves, you might be asking yourself the same question I am — what was that? …[read more]
Opening night, round two
Living up to its billed hype, the Twin Soo border battle was all that as the second round of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff show opened on Thursdsay night. …[read more]
Round two in the NOJHL
Preliminary round over, it’s on to the divisional semi-finals with eight teams in the quest for Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League glory. …[read more]
Wolves, Battalion on edge
There really hasn’t been a bigger series this season for North Bay Battalion and Sudbury Wolves than the one that will take place tonight and Friday — a home and home set between the Ontario Hockey League, Eastern Conference rivals. …[read more]
Birds, Eagles hit the Rhodes
The famed Twin Soo rivalry, aka the Border Battle, is set up for another installment with the Soo Thunderbirds and Soo Eagles facing off in the second round of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoffs. …[read more]
Roman numerals are back
Seasoned skater Roman Gaudet settled in to pot a pair of timely tallies to lift the Soo Eagles into the main round of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoffs. …[read more]
Only 2 from Soo at OHL Cup
The numbers tell the story. Of the nineteen 2001 birth-year players from the Great North Midget Hockey League who are representing Team NOHA at the OHL Cup Showcase Tournament, only two are from the Soo Greyhounds. …[read more]
Time to Pullar together
Soo Eagles and Elliot Lake Wildcats will decide their best-of-three, preliminary round, Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series tonight. …[read more]