By Bruce Heidman, Sudbury Star Thursday, July 6, 2017 6:37:07 EDT PM SUDBURY – For the second time this off season, the NOJHL has lost a head coach to the Ontario Hockey League. Jordan Smith is leaving the Soo Thunderbirds to become an associate coach with the OHL’s Sudbury Wolves. He will be joining former Powassan Voodoos coach […]
The Powassan Voodoos reached to the Greater Toronto area and plucked a familiar face with heavy North Bay ties as Beau Moyer will return to the area to coach the Voodoos for the 2017-18 season. “It’s going to be a great challenge coaching the Voodoos,” said the 36-year-old North Bay native. “I have been looking […]
POWASSAN – After leading the Voodoos to an NOJHL championship and an appearance at the Dudley Hewitt Cup in 2016-17, Scott Wray is stepped down to become an assistant coach with the OHL’s North Bay Battalion. The move is a natural progression given the Voodoos are an affiliate of the Battalion and Wray will take over from […]
By Thomas Perry, The Daily Press (Timmins) Wednesday, May 31, 2017 2:25:26 EDT PM TIMMINS – Corey Beer helped lead the Cobourg Cougars to a Royal Bank Cup championship this season and the Timmins Rock are hoping he will guide the NOJHL club down a similar path in 2017-18. Ted Gooch, president of the Rock’s board of […]
By Thomas Perry, The Daily Press (Timmins) Tuesday, May 30, 2017 3:42:08 EDT PM TIMMINS – Former Timmins Rock captain Jordan Rendle will be playing hockey a little closer to home next season. The 20-year-old Surrey, B.C., native who led the Rock in scoring during the 2016-17 campaign and finished sixth in the NOJHL scoring race, has […]
By Thomas Perry, The Daily Press (Timmins) Tuesday, May 23, 2017 6:02:06 EDT PM TIMMINS – Three more Timmins Rock graduates have announced commitments to play university hockey in the United States. Rock starting goalie Albert Rogers, who was acquired from the French River Rapids in exchange for forward Tyler Planetta in a Nov. 17 NOJHL transaction, […]
Flyers captain is helping Hearst Lumberjacks get ready for first season NHL.com @NHL May 11th, 2017 A junior team in Claude Giroux‘s hometown is so thankful for his contribution to their organization, they made him their logo. The Hearst Lumberjacks, set to begin play in the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League in the fall, exist […]
Go Lumberjacks! by Travis Hughes@TravisSBN May 3, 2017, 5:15pm EDT BROAD STREET HOCKEY Claude Giroux is easily the most famous native of Hearst, Ontario, a small town of roughly 5,000 in the northern reaches of the Canadian province. The town has a new junior hockey team starting next season, the Hearst Lumberjacks. They’ll play in […]
Apr 27, 2017 5:31 AM by: Tommy Wong The Dudley Hewitt Cup is just around the corner. The Voodoos’ first game won’t be easy as they’re up against the defending cup champions, the Trenton Golden Hawks, a team who lost a heartbreaker in the Buckland Cup final as they were defeated 1-0 by the Georgetown […]
by Randy Pascal With just five wins to show for a total of 110 NOJHL (Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League) regular season games over the course of the past two years, the French River Rapids are fully aware of the mountain they have to climb, just to achieve respectability. Give owner Paul Frustaglia credit, however. […]
