No surprise here. London Knights have signed 2009 birth year forward Kane Barch from the United States National Team Development Program via the Kitchener Rangers.
Pillar of the LaSalle Vipers
Local lad Connor Chartrand is into his fourth season with the LaSalle Vipers of the Greater Ontario Hockey League as a tried, tested and true forward.
Vipers in search of a victory
Home ice awaits the LaSalle Vipers when they play host to the Listowel Cyclones tonight at 7:00 at the Vollmer Centre. …[read more]
Vipers in middle of the pack
They have played eight games thus far into the ’26-27 Greater Ontario Hockey League schedule and the LaSalle Vipers are all even among the 12 teams of the Western Conference with a record of 4-4-0. …[read more]
Mount B unbeaten at 6-0-0
Six wins in succession to begin the ’26-27 season have the Mount Brydges Bulldogs atop the West Yeck Division of the Provincial Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Hayes to London Nationals
The youngest of the four hockey playing Hayes brothers from Metro Detroit has signed with the London Nationals of the Greater Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
First OHL goal for kid Cole
Put up another Ontario Hockey League first for Flint Firebirds rookie forward Cole Guizzetti. After getting an assist in his OHL debut at Windsor on September 25, the 5 foot 6, 155 pound speedster from Sault Ste. Marie potted his first OHL goal in just his fourth game on October 4 at London.
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Jake LaMontagne stands tall
LaSalle Vipers dropped a recent 6-3 decision to the visiting Komoka Kings but 2010 birth year defenseman Jake LaMontagne stood out as one of the youngest players in the Greater Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Brantford Bulldogs back on top
A rebuild has instead become a reload. With only one returning full time player — forward Jeremy Freeman — from a team that finished first overall in the Ontario Hockey League in ’25-26 with a record of 48-10-10, the Brantford Bulldogs are off to a resounding 5-0-0 start to the ’26-27 season. …[read more]
First for cool kid Cole Guizzetti
He looked like he belonged — and then some — in the Ontario Hockey League right from his first shift as a 2010 birth year rookie with the Flint Firebirds. Cole Guizzetti, a 5 foot 6, 155 pound forward with speed, skill and smarts, had a well earned assist in his OHL debut on Friday as Flint eked out a 4-2 road decision over the Windsor Spitfires. …[read more]
LaSalle Vipers are back at .500
A 5-3 road victory over the Sarnia Legionnaires has evened the LaSalle Vipers record at 2-2-0 through four games of the ’26-27 Greater Ontario Hockey League regular season. …[read more]
Stars set to visit Mount Brydges
It will be a showdown between two unbeaten teams when the Mount Brydges Bulldogs play host to the North Middlesex Stars this Saturday. …[read more]
Five OHL rookies I am watching
With a good number of established veterans having moved on to Division 1 programs within the National Collegiate Athletic Association, there appear to be more younger players in the Ontario Hockey League than usual. Having said that, following are five OHL rookies who are of particular intrigue to this time honoured scribe. …[read more]
Win and a loss for LaSalle Vipers
A road victory followed by a home opener setback have the LaSalle Vipers with a record of 1-1-0 through their first two outings of the ’26-27 Greater Ontario Hockey League regular season. …[read more]
Andy B is returning to Mount B
Impact defenseman Andy Bastin is headed back to the Mount Brydges Bulldogs of the Provincial Jr. Hockey League for another season, Hockey News Windsor has confirmed. …[read more]
Eli Dalal heads back to Mount B
A fan favourite is signed, sealed and delivered to the Mount Brydges Bulldogs of the Provincial Jr. Hockey League for another season. Hockey News Windsor has confirmed that London product Eli Dalal has decided that nearby Mount B is once again the place to be. …[read more]
Sudbury Cubs to LaSalle Vipers
Ty Dubreuil, a 6 foot, 170 pound forward and 2025 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft pick of the Windsor Spitfires, has signed with the LaSalle Vipers of the Greater Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
LaSalle Vipers via Echo Bay
Well-travelled goalie Cam Ingram — who hails from the Sault Ste. Marie area farming community of Echo Bay — has signed with the LaSalle Vipers of the Greater Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
LaSalle Vipers GM resigns
John Nelson, whose name has been synonymous with the LaSalle Vipers for almost 20 years, has stepped down as general manager of the Greater Ontario Hockey League team. …[read more]
Flint signs a fast forward
Strong, speedy forward Cole Guizzetti has signed a standard Ontario Hockey League contract with the Flint Firebirds. …[read more]
Sting looks to bring it back
Sarnia Sting is on a losing skid in the Ontario Hockey League by having missed the playoffs in three successive seasons. But there are right signs of bright ahead of the ’26-27 season as Sting general manager Dylan Seca has been busy as a bee in trying to put the buzz back in Sarnia. …[read more]
Once a Knight is enough
Flint and Sarnia make a deal
Windsor product Landon Pickersgill is off to the Sarnia Sting following a major Ontario Hockey League trade with the Flint Firebirds. …[read more]
Carter Trudell to the NOJHL
From the Windsor Jr. Spitfires of the Under 16 level Minor Hockey Alliance of Ontario to the Espanola Paper Kings of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League is the development path that Carter Trudell will take for the ’26-27 season. …[read more]
Ex goalie is back in the OHL
Graduated goalie Jake Paterson has returned to the Ontario Hockey League — and the Kitchener Rangers — as a goalie coach. …[read more]
Windsor boy signs with Flint
Lanky defenseman Landon Pickersgill is poised to move up to the Ontario Hockey League with the Flint Firebirds this season. …[read more]
Changing times of the OHL
As the National Collegiate Athletic Association has changed its eligibility rules, the Ontario Hockey League over the past two years has started drafting a record number of American born players. …[read more]
Brantford bolsters back end
Add yet another defenseman with a USA Hockey background to the rebuilt blue line of the Brantford Bulldogs via the Ontario Hockey League trade route. …[read more]
Spencer Hyman strikes again
The trade master is at it again. Brantford Bulldogs president of hockey operations Spencer Hyman has swung a big deal with the Peterborough Petes in an Ontario Hockey League block buster. …[read more]
Spits forward on Team USA
Incoming Windsor Spitfires forward Ty Bergeron is one of five Ontario Hockey League players who are on the Team USA roster that will compete in the Hlinka Gretzky Cup that begins this week. …[read more]
HoneyBaked hockey factory
An example of how Detroit HoneyBaked has risen in the ranks of the Michigan Amateur Hockey Association came at the 2026 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft when no less than seven of its 2010 birth year players were among those who were plucked. …[read more]
‘ONE NIGHT IN WINDSOR’
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following passage is an excerpt from a chapter in the first book that I wrote, Tales Of An Old Hockey Writer. (Mature audiences only.) …[read more]
Bryce O’Hagan to Brantford
From veteran Ontario Hockey League goalie to rookie OHL goalie coach. Bryce O’Hagan, who stopped pucks in more than 100 career OHL games for both the Soo Greyhounds and Peterborough Petes, has been hired by the Brantford Bulldogs as their new goalie coach. …[read more]
No rest in the OHL West
A glance ahead to the looming ’26-27 Ontario Hockey League season suggests that parity might be an operative word when zooming in on the five teams of the West Division. …[read more]
An American side of the OHL
The development path has taken a right turn as the game embraces more of an international look. First came the Canadian Hockey League import draft. Then, almost simultaneously, the National Collegiate Athletic Association changed its eligibility rules and the Ontario Hockey League started drafting and signing a record number of American born players. …[read more]
This is how the OHL adapts
The game has unquestionably undergone major forms of change since I began covering the Ontario Hockey League back in 1975. I was just out of St. Clair College in Windsor — and still wet behind the ears — when I first sat in a press box, which was within inches of the rickety rafters of venerable Memorial Gardens up in Sault Ste. Marie. …[read more]
MAHA team has NOJHL link
Up north, this is poised to further establish a pipeline between the under 18 and junior levels of the game. That is, the Soo Eagles of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League are now officially overseeing the operations of the U18 Soo Indians of the Michigan Amateur Hockey Association’s Tier 1 Elite League. …[read more]
OHL drives the NHL Draft
There is this league. There is that league. There is this school. There is that school. Blah, blah, blah. But one league continues to lead the way when it comes to National Hockey League draft picks.
Hull of a pickup for Mount B
A defenseman with more than 200 games of experience in the Greater Ontario Hockey League has signed with the Mount Brydges Bulldogs of the Provincial Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Here ‘n there in the OHL
A summer breeze of major movement is blowing through the Ontario Hockey League. Among the June activity is a new head coach in Sault Ste. Marie as well as signings of key incoming players to the OHL from the rival United States Hockey League, including ones by the Brantford Bulldogs and Windsor Spitfires. …[read more]
Makaric has an Erie feeling
Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League have brought aboard the well prepared Kyle Makaric as a new assistant coach. A Windsor-Essex County product, the 37 year old Makaric has an extensive coaching background that includes the ’25-26 season as an assistant with the Saginaw Spirit of the OHL. …[read more]
Local lads are OHL picks
A profusion of players from Windsor-Essex County were among those chosen through 15 rounds of the 2026 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft. Leading the way was 6 foot 6 defenseman Declan McNally. …[read more]
Just some OHL draft notes
Results for the 2026 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft — which was held in Kingston — are officially in the books. A total of 301 players were taken by the 20 teams of the OHL as the league returned to an in person format for the first time since the year 2000. (For that, we say, better late than never.) At any rate, following is a small sample of one writer’s focal points from this year’s draft. …[read more]
HoneyBaked ‘D’ to Niagara
Big, strong, high scoring Detroit HoneyBaked defenseman Max Lappan has become a first round Ontario Hockey League draft pick. …[read more]
Building it up in Brantford
They are continuing to build in Brantford. But it is not a tear down rebuild. More accurately, it is ongoing maintenance and construction designed towards keeping a top notch Ontario Hockey League program in the game. …[read more]
Some OHL draft chit chat
The 2026 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft will be held on Friday and Saturday of this week in Kingston. And with so many player rankings out there and with so many factors in play, it is not easy to project who is going where, in which order, and in the first or second or even third round. …[read more]
Big, mean HoneyBaked ‘D’
How highly regarded are Detroit HoneyBaked defensemen Max Lappan, Ivan Belikov and Jake LaMontagne ahead of this week’s Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft? …[read more]
Brantford adds from Flint
Separate Ontario Hockey League trades with the Flint Firebirds have yielded a 2008 birth year defenseman and a 2009 birth year forward for the Brantford Bulldogs. …[read more]
Santos retums to Chatham
Windsor-Essex County native Richard Santos is headed back to the Chatham Maroons of the Greater Ontario Hockey League after a one-year hiatus. …[read more]
Brantford on the rebound
It is full steam ahead for general manager Spencer Hyman and the Brantford Bulldogs of the Ontario Hockey League. With the Bulldogs having lost to the Barrie Colts in Game 7 of this year’s Eastern Conference finals and with multiple impact players poised to graduate to the pro ranks for the ’26-27 season, Hyman has quickly moved to restore the roster and restock the Brantford draft cupboard with a series of signings and trades. …[read more]
Bulldogs go on the Attack
Brantford Bulldogs have acquired a young defenseman and a haul of draft picks from the Owen Sound Attack with the Ontario Hockey League trade window now open. …[read more]
Colin Kennedy bloodlines
He is projected to be an early first round pick at the upcoming June 12-13 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft. And Sault Ste. Marie product Colin Kennedy, who moved away from home to spend the past two seasons with the Detroit Little Caesars AAA program, has deep hockey bloodlines through his dad and both of his grand fathers. …[read more]
Big Bulldog Abe Barnett
Brantford Bulldogs general manager Spencer Hyman has added to his off season signing spree by inking yet another young American born plum prospect to the roster of the Ontario Hockey League team. …[read more]
Soo firm links to Windsor
Cain Hockey Management, an established Sault Ste. Marie based player agency, has expanded to Windsor with the addition of goalie coach Chris Viselli. Cain Hockey Management principal director and player agent Kevin Cain told Hockey News Windsor that Viselli will be in charge of recruiting and working with the firm’s goalie clients. …[read more]
Brantford flips the script
Call it a dogged pursuit. Brantford Bulldogs general manager Spencer Hyman has instigated an aggressive approach to the next Ontario Hockey League season. Hyman and the Bulldogs have now signed four younger — and American born — National Collegiate Athletic Association commits to play in the OHL come the ’26-27 season. …[read more]
GOHL tweaks its set up
The addition of the Woodstock Navy Vets as an expansion team has led to a conference realignment for the Greater Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
LaSalle Vipers top rookie
His hockey ascent continues. Homegrown defenseman Luke St. John, a 2025 Ontario Hockey League draft pick of the Windsor Spitfires, has been named rookie of the year by the LaSalle Vipers of the Greater Ontario Hockey League for the ’25-26 season. …[read more]
New Bulldog in Brantford
Jason Musa, an American born, 2007 birth year forward has opted to sign with the Brantford Bulldogs of the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Viselli a busy goalie coach
There is a young goalie coach who has a lot going on in the Windsor and surrounding area. As part of being busy year round — including the summer months — as a private goalie instructor, Chris Viselli will be heavily involved with three different hockey programs come the ’26-27 season. …[read more]
World Jr. Showcase in Windsor
Hockey Canada — in partnership with the City of Windsor and the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League — has confirmed the schedule and ticket information for the 2026 World Junior Summer Showcase, to be held July 26 to Aug.1 at the WFCU Centre. …[read more]
Flint has building blocks
They took a shot and made a good run of it. While it is naturally disappointing when a championship goal is not achieved, the Flint Firebirds attained plenty over the course of the ’25-26 Ontario Hockey League season. And now, with so many key players having graduated, the Firebirds are in a retool stage ahead of the ’26-27 season. …[read more]
Brantford goes first class
They are the epitome of an organization with class that starts at the top with owner Zach Hyman and his general manager brother Spencer Hyman over to head coach Jay McKee — and carries on throughout. Winners on the ice and off of it, the Brantford Bulldogs are one of a number of Ontario Hockey League franchises who go first class all the way. …[read more]
OHL humanitarian Woodall
Spitfires defenseman Carson Woodall has been named this year’s winner of the Dan Snyder Memorial Trophy. The annual award goes to the Ontario Hockey League’s Humanitarian of the Year. …[read more]
Flint GM a big winner
The cast of prominent, high end general managers in the Ontario Hockey League who have been in their position for a good number of years includes — alphabetically — Billy Bowler of the Windsor Spitfires, Dave Drinkill of the Saginaw Spirit, Mark Hunter of the London Knights, Kyle Raftis of the Soo Greyhounds and Marty Williamson of the Barrie Colts. Which makes the selection of Dave McParlan of the Flint Firebirds as the winner of the OHL general manager of the year award for the ’25-26 season all that more impressive and meaningful. …[read more]
Brantford goes up 1-0
Caleb Malhotra and Jake O’Brien potted a pair of pucks apiece and Ryerson Leenders made 34 saves to boost the Brantford Bulldogs to a spine-tingling 4-3 win over the visiting Barrie Colts tonight in Game 1 of the Ontario Hockey League’s Eastern Conference finals. …[read more]
OHL: Rangers v. Spitfires
It will be the no. 1 seed Kitchener Rangers and the no. 2 seed Windsor Spitfires facing off in a best of seven series to determine the Western Conference playoff champion of the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Evola out as Niagara GM
Windsor native Frank Evola and the Niagara IceDogs of the Ontario Hockey League have mutually parted ways after just one season together. The 53 year old Evola was hired as Niagara’s general manager — and signed to a three year contact — ahead of the ’25-26 season. …[read more]
On the OHL playoff beat
Brantford Bulldogs, Kitchener Rangers and Windsor Spitfires are all up three games to none in their respective second round Ontario Hockey League playoff sets. …[read more]
Spitfires go up 2-0 on Flint
It was a seesaw match of shift and momentum. And in the end, with overtime looming, it took a goal by Conor Walton — a low scoring defenseman who has tallied a mere 11 times in 217 career Ontario Hockey League games — with a minute left in the third period to propel the Windsor Spitfires to a frantic 6-5 win over the Flint Firebirds in Game 2 of their Western Conference semi-final playoff series. …[read more]
Lakeshore ousts Mount B
Four rounds and 22 games later, the Lakeshore Canadiens will carry on in the exhausting Provincial Jr. Hockey League playoffs while the Mount Brydges Bulldogs will call it a season. …[read more]
Spitfires flip Firebirds
The Spitfires cooled off the high octane Flint Firebirds and a pair of late third period goals from Jack Nesbitt propelled Windsor to a 4-2 win over the visitors in the opening game of the Ontario Hockey League Western Conference semi-final series. …[read more]
Lakeshore up on Mount B
Mount Brydges Bulldogs will try to get into the win column tonight when they play host to the Lakeshore Canadiens in Game 3 of the Provincial Jr. Hockey League’s Western Conference playoffs finals. …[read more]
It is Spitfires v. Firebirds
Only two points separated the Windsor Spitfires and Flint Firebirds during the ’25-26 Ontario Hockey League regular season. And now the no. 2 seed Spitfires and the no. 3 seed Firebirds will face off in a best of seven Western Conference semi-final. …[read more]
Flint Firebirds in flight
It has been a season of ascension for the Flint Firebirds. After being ousted in the first round of the Ontario Hockey League playoffs in each of the past three seasons, Flint is in as a semi-final participant in the Western Conference. …[read more]
Game 7 ‘V’ for Mount B
The scored was tied 2-2 in the final minute of the third period. The restless hands of time were ticking. And then, on just their 17th shot of the game, the Mount Brydges Bulldogs avoided overtime and won a division playoff title all in one. …[read more]