Lakers rebound to take two
It was a much-needed weekend sweep on home ice for the Laker Superior State Lakers of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. …[read more]
Soo midgets get 2nd OHL crack
Some develop later than others. And some players from the Soo Greyhounds of the Great North Midget Hockey League are among a stream of undrafted prospects from around the province who are eligible for the first-ever, under-18, Ontario Hockey League draft. …[read more]
A first for Owen Headrick
As far as a debut goes it was good on a team and personal level for Garden River First Nation product Owen Headrick. …[read more]
State of CCHL, junior hockey
It is a 12-team junior loop located in the Ottawa region and the Central Canada Hockey League has forged a good reputation for developing and advancing its players. In all, CCHL teams combine to advance more than 100 players annually. Kevin Abrams is the 56-year old commissioner of the CCHL and via this transcript, he and HockeyNewsNorth.com discuss the state of the league — and junior hockey in general. …[read more]
Headrick has that Erie feeling
A mere eight days after rejecting another overture from the Erie Otters, 1997 birth-year defenseman Owen Headrick has decided to join the Ontario Hockey League team from the Lake Superior State Lakers of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. …[read more]
OHL introduces under-18 draft
There is good news for the many AAA midget players who have been bypassed at the annual under-16, Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft. …[read more]
Fired-up Firebirds steal win
Refusing to give up, they continued to press relentlessly even when trailing by three goals with less than nine minutes to play in the third period. And just like that, hard work and second effort paid off for the Flint Firebirds in a stunning 5-4 shootout victory over the Soo Greyhounds on Wednesday night. …[read more]
NHL scouts like four 67’s
Ottawa 67’s are one of the youngest teams in the Ontario Hockey League and four of their draft-eligible players have caught the eyes of the National Hockey League’s Central Scouting department. …[read more]
Stencill’s departure from EL
It can be stated without hesitation — or exaggeration — that the Elliot Lake Wildcats of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League lost the face of the franchise when the affable Todd Stencill recently resigned as general manager. …[read more]
Mid-week match: Flint v. Soo
It will be no ordinary eighth-place team that the top-seeded Soo Greyhounds will be facing when they play host to the Flint Firebirds tonight in a 7:07 match at the Essar Centre. …[read more]
Great North tight at the top
As the clock ticks on the waning weekends of the Great North Midget Hockey League regular-season schedule the top four places are still up for grabs. …[read more]
1,000-game coach club
Coaching a thousand games in any high-level league is obviously an accomplishment. And among Ontario Hockey League coaches, Dale Hunter of the London Knights is now in select company. …[read more]
A first for the Flint Firebirds
Kole Sherwood has become the first member of the second-year Flint Firebirds to be named Canadian Hockey League player-of-the-week. …[read more]
Muddle in middle of NO West
Soo Thunderbirds have first place to themselves in the West Division of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League while three teams are jockeying for second, third and fourth spots. …[read more]
Hound midgets sweep Wolves
Second-seeded Soo Greyhounds solidified their standing in the Great North Midget Hockey League with a weekend-series sweep of the Sudbury Wolves. …[read more]
67’s show up on Sportsnet
After losing their first two games of what will be six road tilts in succession the Ottawa 67’s rebounded with a big victory under the bright television lights of Rogers Sportsnet. …[read more]
Eagles end Voodoos spell
Soo Eagles used the home ice of Pullar Stadium on Friday to halt the remarkable 26-game unbeaten streak of the Powassan Voodoos. …[read more]
OHL trade aftermath
Trading was brisk, furious and reactive as contenders and prospectors were part of the flurry of activity up to and including deadline day in the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Erie chased Lake State d-man
As the Erie Otters added world-class forward Anthony Cirelli in an Ontario Hockey League trade with the Oshawa Generals earlier this week, they once again tried to talk 1997 birth-year defenseman Owen Headrick into leaving the Lake Superior State Lakers of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. …[read more]
Lambert leaves Tech for Texas
Eight months after taking a job with The Tech 1921 Ltd. — first-year owners of the Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League — Denny Lambert has resigned his position as director of hockey operations. …[read more]
Hound midgets home for three
Soo Greyhounds of the Great North Midget Hockey League will close the 2016-2017 regular season with six games on home ice beginning with three this weekend. …[read more]
Milestone win for Firebirds
Flint Firebirds have matched their win total from the entire 2015-2016 season and they did so in convincing fashion on Tuesday night. …[read more]
Wolves add net insurance
Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League have signed former Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League goalie Mackenzie Savard to a standard player agreement. …[read more]
Zack Dorval to Ottawa 67’s
1998 birth-year forward Zack Dorval, who starred at the minor midget hockey level in Sault Ste. Marie, has been traded by the Kingston Frontenacs to the Ottawa 67’s for a fourth-round draft pick in 2017. …[read more]
1st-place Powassan adds on
The beat goes on. The best team in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League has added an all-star forward from the Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Scouting sets London success
Okay, so maybe the London Knights do have a cash war chest that exceeds what most Ontario Hockey League teams have. But it’s also the ability of the Knights to scout and sign free agents and later trade them for value that sets the perennial OHL contenders and defending Memorial Cup champions apart from the rest. …[read more]
Soo Eagles to Guelph Storm
1999 birth-year defenseman Nolan Makkonen is moving on from the Soo Eagles of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League to sign with the Guelph Storm of the Ontario Hockey League, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed. …[read more]
Flint deals from draft depth
Dealing from depth via excess draft picks from earlier trades, Flint Firebirds have given up previously-acquired, second-and-third-round selections for the 2018 Ontario Hockey League draft to obtain highly-touted, 1999 birth-year forward C.J. Clarke from the Peterborough Petes. …[read more]
North Bay trades Templeton
Three days after obtaining Stephen Templeton in an Ontario Hockey League trade with the Oshawa Generals, the North Bay Battalion has dealt the veteran defenseman to the Hamilton Bulldogs. …[read more]
RBC adds defender from Q
Rayside-Balfour Canadians of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League have acquired big defenseman Bryce O’Brien from the Quebec Remparts of the Quebec Major Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Eyes of Soo-based OHL scouts
Sault Ste. Marie-based scouts Jimmy Mancuso of the Guelph Storm and Mike Oliverio of the Flint Firebirds are no doubt doing their homework — and then some — on the top two prospects from the Great North Midget Hockey League for the 2017 Ontario Hockey League draft. …[read more]
Home side rules border battle
Soo Thunderbirds and Soo Eagles continue to utilize home ice in the ongoing border battle between the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League rivals. …[read more]
Colizza connection to McGill
When Chrissy Colizza heads to McGill University to play women’s hockey in the fall, she will follow a long line of immediate family members who performed athletically at the famed Montreal school of high learning. …[read more]
Hounds deal with Storm
Seeking a veteran defenseman prior to next week’s Ontario Hockey League trade deadline, Soo Greyhounds have done just that by obtaining 19-year old Noah Carroll from the Guelph Storm. …[read more]
Templeton to North Bay
The grandson of legendary Ontario Hockey League coach Bert Templeton is headed to the town where the late bench boss enhanced his storied reputation. …[read more]
Battalion to Firebirds
Flint Firebirds have obtained seasoned skater Maurizio Colella in an Ontario Hockey League exchange with the North Bay Battalion. …[read more]
U.S. EH!
It can be argued that winning a goal medal should not be gained by virtue of a shootout. It can be argued that the format of deciding victory by shootout should be abolished. But there is no doubt that the 2017 World Junior Hockey Championship gold medal game between Canada and the U.S.A. was one for the ages. …[read more]
Birds, Eagles home & home
Intense and indelible, the Twin Soo hockey rivalry will be revisited when the Soo Thunderbirds and Soo Eagles meet in a home-and-home set on Friday and Saturday. …[read more]
Can NB Trappers be beat?
North Bay Trappers have a four-point lead on the Soo Greyhounds as the top two teams in the Great North Midget Hockey League head into the final quarter of the 2016-2017 regular season. …[read more]
Flint has missed star scorer
Flint Firebirds have managed to retain their hold on the eighth-and-final playoff spot in the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League minus injured scoring star Luke Kirwan. …[read more]
Steal of a deal
Soo Greyhounds left winger Bobby MacIntyre represents the return on one of the more one-sided trades made in the Ontario Hockey League in quite some time. …[read more]
Hounds of the road
They are building on a good road record from 2015-2016 into an even-better showing away from home thus far this 2016-2017 Ontario Hockey League season. …[read more]
Wolves have overage strength
Dipping into a stock of reserve draft picks, general manager Barclay Branch has again increased the volume strength of the Sudbury Wolves. …[read more]
Second season scene in NOJHL
Some of what is seen, scene and heard as play sets to resume in the second half of the 2016-2017 Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League season: …[read more]
Top prospect from Great North
Hard-shooting, hard-skating, hard-nosed forward Camaryn Baber of the Soo Greyhounds is believed to be the top prospect from the Great North Midget Hockey League for the 2017 Ontario Hockey League draft. …[read more]
Flashback: Dukes of Hamilton
An oddly-named Ontario Hockey League team, the Dukes of Hamilton would prove to be an ill-fated successor to the storied Toronto Marlies franchise over a two-year operating period from 1989 to 1991. …[read more]
Hockey, Canada and Christmas
As an average Canadian who grew up in a hockey town, the game has been a part of me since childhood recollections of road shinny and black-and-white television on Saturday night. …[read more]
Team Canada’s six OHLers
No goalies and no defensemen. But six forwards from the Ontario Hockey League are among the 22 players who will represent Canada at the World Junior Hockey Championships that are slated to begin on Boxing Day with games in Toronto and Montreal. …[read more]
Scouting the NB Trappers
A consensus is that as many as seven players from the first-place North Bay Trappers of the Great North Midget Hockey League could become selections at the 2017 Ontario Hockey League draft. …[read more]