The Fort Erie Meteors appear to have a good head start on the 2020/21 Golden Horseshoe season. New head coach and general manager Nik Passero has eight returning skaters from...
Former Fort Erie Meteor Nik Passero is returning to coach the team this season. Photo by: MEG STOKES/FRANKLIN PIERCE ATHLETICS. A familiar name will be behind the bench for the...
Matteo Costantini’s hockey career has taken a detour. The 18-year-old St. Catharines native was seriously considering playing this season in the United States Hockey League after being selected in the...
Michael Craig is taking a leap of faith and heading halfway across the country to continue his hockey career. The 18-year-old St. Catharines native spent last season with the Buffalo...
Sam Williamson is a classic late bloomer. The 18-year-old forward was passed over in the Ontario Hockey League draft but never gave up hope of playing junior hockey. The son...
The Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League could be back on the ice this year. The GOJHL members have determined Wednesday, Dec. 2 as the opening night for the 2020-21 regular...
There will be a definite Caledonia Corvairs flavour to the Brock Badgers men’s hockey team this season. Three former members of the Corvairs — Aidan Hughes, Cole Tymkin and Tyler...
Dawson Lukey managed to turn a negative into a positive. The 16-year-old St. Catharines native was passed over in the 2020 Ontario Hockey League draft, but instead of feeling sorry...
Former Niagara Falls Canucks captain Ben Evans is recovering from two broken vertebrae in his neck he sustained while playing in the Ontario Junior Hockey League earlier this year. Photo...
For the second year in a row, a member of the Niagara Falls Canucks has been selected as the recipient of the Donald Sanderson Memorial Award. Forward Matthew Riva is...
The St. Catharines Falcons are busy building for next season, whenever that may be. Falcons general manager Frank Girhiny added several players last week for the 2020/21 Greater Ontario Junior...
Simon Black had a personal interest when the Canadian Hockey League recently settled a six-year battle with its players. Black, an assistant professor of labour studies at Brock University, played...
In the midst of something bad, Wes Wolfe recently got some good news. The 30-year-old Niagara Falls native was given a two-year extension to continue as an assistant coach with...
It seems like a lifetime ago when the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League halted play for the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It fact, it was March 13 when...
Matteo Costantini’s timing was perfect. The 17-year-old St. Catharines native put together a fabulous season with the Buffalo Junior Sabres in his draft year leading the team in scoring while...
Colby Ambrosio is set for the next chapter in his hockey career. The 17-year-old Welland native is slated to attend Boston College on a scholarship this fall where he will...
It’s not exactly business as usual due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but Brock Badgers men’s hockey coach Marty Williamson is managing to get some work done. Williamson has been hard...
Former Brock men’s hockey coach Murray Nystrom is out of a job after the University of Lethbridge shut down its men’s and women’s hockey teams citing three straight years of...
It’s turning out to be a unique off-season for Margot Page. The coach of the Brock Badgers women’s hockey team, like all coaches in all sports, is flying by the...
Being dealt to the Fort Erie Meteors was the best thing that could have happened to Jake Mooring. The 20-year-old Barrie native began last season with the Strathroy Rockets of...
It’s not how you start, but rather how you finish. The Southern Tier Admirals minor bantam AAA hockey team got off to a bit of a rocky beginning to their...
Scott Barnes is appreciative of being named Golden Horseshoe coach of the year, but the head coach of the Thorold Blackhawks feels he shouldn’t get all the credit. “It’s nice...
Wednesday brought an unexpected surprise for 16-year-old Fenwick native Ben Bonisteel. The 6-foot-3, 201-pound goalie was selected in the first round, ninth overall by the Barrie Colts in the Ontario...
Erie Otters draft pick Cam Lowe and his father, Jon Lowe. The Erie Otters feel they have a legitimate forward in Cameron Lowe. The Otters selected the 15-year-old Niagara Falls...
Trent Swick got to have his cake and eat it too. Not only did the 15-year-old, Grade 10 student at St. Francis fulfil his dream of being drafted to the...
Andrew and Jacob LeBlanc are pictured with their family after the OHL draft. From left to right are grandfather Attila Nagy, Andrew, mother Sheila, Jacob, sister Kiara and grandmother Susan...
Peterborough Petes' second-round draft pick Sam Alfano is pictured after the draft with his parents, Maureen and Steve Alfano. Sam Alfano’s nervous Saturday morning came to an end when he...
Nathan Duplessis wasn’t surprised this season when he was one of two players to make the leap to the Niagara North Stars minor midget AAA hockey team from the St....
Wyatt Gibson is a late bloomer. The 16-year-old Fonthill resident played AA last season and throughout much of his minor hockey career until finally breaking through this year. The E.L....
One scouting website was clearly high on the abilities of Niagara North Stars forward Keaton Zavitz. It stated there were 42 concrete reasons why Zavitz would be ranked higher than...
