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]
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]
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]
Spits soaring into semis
It was a tiring road trip to Sault Ste. Marie on the final day of regular season — through two ports of entry as well as having to cross the menacing Mackinac Bridge — that ultimately gave the Windsor Spitfires home ice advantage for the second round of these Ontario Hockey League playoffs. …[read more]
Up 3-0 in OHL playoffs
Six teams — Kitchener Rangers, Windsor Spitfires, Flint Firebirds, Soo Greyhounds, Brantford Bulldogs and Ottawa 67’s — all have three games to none leads in the opening round of the Ontario Hockey League playoffs. …[read more]
Winning ways of Walters
He is a winner as a head coach at the Ontario Hockey League level. Through six full seasons as an OHL bench boss with three different teams, Greg Walters — now of the Windsor Spitfires — has never had a losing record. …[read more]
Spits & Firebirds up 2-0
They both hold home ice advantage in the first round of the Ontario Hockey League playoffs. And the no. 2 seed Windsor Spitfires and the no. 3 seed Flint Firebirds both have two games to none leads in their respective Western Conference sets via home ice dominance. …[read more]
OHL playoffs underway
Windsor Spitfires and Flint Firebirds both began the 2026 Ontario Hockey League playoffs with home ice victories on Thursday. …[read more]
Spitfires await the Storm
A pair of first round National Hockey League draft picks are among those who the Windsor Spitfires are counting on to continue their high performance play when the Ontario Hockey League playoffs begin. …[read more]
OHL playoff matchups
Now we know who will play who in the first round of the upcoming Ontario Hockey League playoffs, which are slated to begin this week. Following is our collection of quick hits as to what to possibly expect from the matchups. …[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]
Spits & Firebirds in a race
One point is all that separates the Windsor Spitfires and Flint Firebirds with both teams having two games left to play on the Ontario Hockey League regular season schedule. …[read more]
Spitfires light up Knights
Facing the London Knights minus injured forwards Ethan Belchetz, A.J. Spellacy, Nathan Villeneuve and Cole Davis did nothing to halt the Windsor Spitfires before a Sunday matinee match of more than 6,100 fans at the WFCU Centre. …[read more]
OHL Spits add a rookie D
Jesse Debruyn is joining the Spitfires from the Komoka Kings of the Greater Ontario Hockey League, Hockey News Windsor has confirmed. …[read more]
Down on the farm in LaSalle
A plentiful presence of plum prospects via the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League are in position to be prominent performers for the nearby LaSalle Vipers in their opening round, Greater Ontario Hockey League playoff series against the powerhouse Elmira Sugar Kings. …[read more]
This is Motor City Smitty
He played hard over 242 National Hockey League games as a fan favourite and fearsome forward who racked up 640 minutes in penalties while backing down from absolutely no one. Brad Smith has since been an NHL scout since 1991, first with the Edmonton Oilers and, for the past 30 plus years, with the Colorado Avalanche. …[read more]
Spits shoot down Rangers
A lengthy losing skid against the Kitchener Rangers — dating back to the second round of last spring’s playoffs — is finally over for the Windsor Spitfires. …[read more]
Belchetz breaks clavicle
A significant injury to star forward Ethan Belchetz looms as a major blow to the Ontario Hockey League championship aspirations of the Windsor Spitfires. …[read more]
Spitfires send a message
It was three games in three days against three teams well above the .500 mark. And who knew to expect from a Windsor Spitfires team that was coming off back to back losses to fellow contenders in the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League? …[read more]
Spits GM not panicking
The Spitfires have been sputtering of late and have surrendered their lead atop the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League. But despite the fact that Windsor has fallen behind the Kitchener Rangers and Flint Firebirds in the Western Conference standings, Spitfires’ general manager Billy Bowler (in photo above) isn’t pushing the alarm button. …[read more]
Spitfires are hitting stride
They are starting to blend as a team that added three veteran players at the Ontario Hockey League trade deadline in order to keep pace with the other Western Conference contenders. …[read more]
Spits finally win in Saginaw
The Spitfires remain in second place overall in the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League. A 4-2 road victory over the Saginaw Spirit on Saturday’s was Windsor’s first win at the Dow Event Center since February of 2023. …[read more]
Spits in a three team tussle
This is setting up as a race for first place that could go right down to the wire. With about five weeks to go on the regular season slate, there is a three-way tie for top spot in the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League between the Spitfires, the Kitchener Rangers and the Flint Firebirds. …[read more]
Spits in Western world war
There is no question that among the eight teams that will make the playoffs in the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League, five of them are not just good — they are very good. Which means that looking ahead, at least one of the Kitchener Rangers, Windsor Spitfires, Flint Firebirds, Soo Greyhounds or London Knights will definitely be eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. …[read more]
Spitfires in a three team tie
There is three way log jam atop the standings of the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League featuring the Windsor Spitfires, Kitchener Rangers and Flint Firebirds. …[read more]
Not bad for a 10th round pick
As it stands now, the Spitfires will not be getting high scoring defenseman Carson Woodall back as an overage player next season. That is because Woodall — a 10th round pick by Windsor at the 2022 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft — has received a Division 1, National Collegiate Athletic Association commitment to play at prestigious Boston College effective the ’26-27 season. …[read more]
Greentree part of big NHL deal
Spitfires captain Liam Greentree has had his National Hockey League rights dealt from the Los Angeles Kings to the New York Rangers. …[read more]
The legend of Billy Bowler
Nowadays, he is employed by the Windsor Spitfires as their well respected, no nonsense, vice president and general manager. But it was back at the 1991 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft that the legend of Billy (The Kid) Bowler was born en route to the lad becoming the leading scorer in the history of the OHL Spitfires. …[read more]
Winning weekend wrap up
Windsor Spitfires are back atop the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League … Windsor Jr. Spitfires of the Under 16 Minor Hockey Alliance of Ontario rallied for a third period comeback conquest of the Elgin Middlesex Canucks … Over to the Provincial Jr. Hockey League, Mount Brydges Bulldogs took three of four points from the Thamesford Trojans to retain second place in the West Yeck Division. …[read more]
Wild Western Conference
It is like playoff time, seven weeks early. Every outing means that much more in the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League where the Kitchener Rangers, Windsor Spitfires, Flint Firebirds and Soo Greyhounds are locked in a lusty lap for the top four levels.
Spitfires, Flint split a set
Home ice did not favour the Windsor Spitfires or Flint Firebirds as the Ontario Hockey League foes scored road victories over one another on the weekend. …[read more]
Spitfires & Flint for a pair
Tied atop the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League with 64 points apiece, the Windsor Spitfires and Flint Firebirds will face off tonight and Saturday. …[read more]
Hall of Famer Mark Turner
He rose from the Junior B ranks with the Windsor Royals and Sarnia Bees to four years in the Ontario Hockey League as a productive forward with the Sudbury Wolves, Kingston Frontenacs, Windsor Spitfires and Soo Greyhounds before embarking on a lengthy minor pro journey that included stops with five different teams in the East Coast Hockey League. …[read more]
Spitfires, Flint in a seesaw
They have flip flopped between first and second place in the West Division of the Ontario Hockey League for much of this season. And the Windsor Spitfires and Flint Firebirds will go head to head twice this weekend. …[read more]
Son of an old Spitfire captain
He is poised to become a first or second round pick at this year’s 2026 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft. And while Colin Kennedy — a 2010 birth year forward who is in his second season as a productive two points per game skater with the famed Little Caesars program of Detroit — is a rising star in his own right, he also holds the bonus of having high end hockey bloodlines. …[read more]
Spitfires sweep the road
Windsor Spitfires have made it back to the top of the standings of the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League by virtue of successive road triumphs this weekend. …[read more]
Max Brocklehurst to LaSalle
He is well down on the Ontario Hockey League depth chart of the Windsor Spitfires behind a dozen forwards older than him. Thus, the Spitfires have assigned youngster Max Brocklehurst to the nearby LaSalle Vipers, who are Windsor’s Greater Ontario Hockey League affiliate team. …[read more]
Spits hit a bit of a tailspin
The week did not end as well as it started for the Windsor Spitfires. After erasing the Erie Otters 9-1, the Spitfires salvaged a point from a 3-2 overtime road loss to the Saginaw Spirit before returning home to be cuffed 7-3 by the Brantford Bulldogs. …[read more]
Fab four OHL contenders
Now that the Ontario Hockey League trade deadline has passed — it was a frenzied, frantic process — the 2026 segment of the regular season schedule is in resumption with rosters set for the stretch run. And from among a host of contenders for this year’s OHL championship there are four teams that stand out more than the others, at least to us. …[read more]
Spits solidify seasoned D
Windsor Spitfires have further bolstered their veteran back end with the acquisition of 2006 birth year defenseman Jakub Fibigr from the Brampton Steelheads. Fibigr, who is in his third season in the Ontario Hockey League, has been obtained from Brampton for 2008 birth year defender Carter Hicks and three draft picks. …[read more]
Spits get a Sam Bennett
Seattle Kraken scout Mike Dawson is of the notion that the Windsor Spitfires acquired a Sam Bennett type of sandpaper forward in nabbing Nathan Villeneuve from the Sudbury Wolves. …[read more]
Bowler takes a big swing
Spitfires general manager Billy Bowler pulled the pin on his first major trade of the ’25-26 Ontario Hockey League season today in a mighty exchange with the lowly Sudbury Wolves. …[read more]
Spitfires inch past Flint
Windsor is back in customary territory atop the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League. The Spitfires scored two more wins this weekend, giving them five successive victories and a share of first place with the Flint Firebirds while holding a game in hand. …[read more]
Highly ranked OHL GMs
There are reasons why — year in and year out — teams in the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League combine for much better win-loss records than those clubs that make up the Eastern Conference. …[read more]
Spitfires end 2025 on high
Windsor Spitfires will skate into the 2026 segment of this Ontario Hockey League regular season on a three game winning streak. …[read more]
Belchetz sparks Spitfires
The Spitfires came off the holiday break the same way they went into it. With a win. Ethan Belchetz banged in his 19th and 20th goals of the season and Windsor rang up a 4-1 road romp over the Flint Firebirds. …[read more]
Western ways of the OHL
Saddle up. It is setting up to be a wild ride in the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League in the 2026 portion of this season’s schedule. No less than five teams are vying for any one of the top four spots — which means home ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs. …[read more]
Spitfires break on a high
The Spitfires reached the 34 game mark — and halfway point of the ’25-26 regular season schedule in the Ontario Hockey League — with a decisive 6-2 home ice victory over the Soo Greyhounds tonight. …[read more]
Paul Gagne was a good one
He was playing juvenile hockey in his small, remote northeastern Ontario home town of Iroquois Falls when the head coach and general manager of the Windsor Spitfires happened to take note of his skills. And Wayne Maxner thought so much of Paul Gagne that the Spitfires coach and GM took the 5 foot 10, 180 pound forward with the ninth overall pick in the first round of the 1978 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft. …[read more]
Weekend wanderings
Tecumseh Eagles of the Under 15 rep level Bluewater Hockey League and Mount Brydges Bulldogs of the Provincial Jr. Hockey League both had a perfect weekend. Meanwhile, the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League wrapped up a three game road swing with a pair of narrow losses. …[read more]
Old days of Windsor Arena
To be sure, there will always be the “good old” Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League. Man, so many games and players watched at venerable Windsor Arena, the iconic old barn located at the corner of McDougall and Wyandotte streets in the downtown core.
What will the Spitfires do?
Will he or won’t he? Does Spitfires general manager Billy Bowler make a major move ahead of the looming January 10 Ontario Hockey League trade deadline or does he stay the course with what he has? …[read more]
First star … Ty Dubreuil
Spitfires draft pick Ty Dubreuil had a game winning outing for the Sudbury Cubs of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League on Saturday night. …[read more]
Spits take down Knights
A road victory in one of the toughest places to play in the Ontario Hockey League was the 20th of the ’25-26 season for the Spitfires. …[read more]
Weekend wanderings
A selection of recent game activity relative to various teams in the Ontario Hockey League, Greater Ontario Hockey League, Ontario Jr. Hockey League and Provincial Jr. Hockey League: …[read more]
Flashback: ’76-77 Spitfires
Fans of the Spitfires did not have to wait long for Windsor’s first playoff spot as fledgling members of the Ontario Hockey League. While, for example, it took the Soo Greyhounds four years after their ’72-73 OHL debut to make it to the playoffs, the Spitfires did it in just their second season.
Spitfires go on the Attack
The first place Spitfires put the toppings on $1 hot dog night before 5,000 plus fans at the WFCU Center this evening. …[read more]
Spits, Firebirds, Bulldogs
Driving in the fast lane with nine successive victories, the Flint Firebirds have moved to within two points of the pace setting Windsor Spitfires in the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League. Meanwhile, the Brantford Bulldogs of the Eastern Conference — with the best record among the 20 teams of the OHL — have added yet another impact player. …[read more]
Spitfires win their 16th
Slump? What slump? The Spitfires shrugged off a mini tailspin on Friday with a tidy 4-1 home ice win over the Saginaw Spirit. …[read more]
Wednesday wanderings
Here and there around the rinks of Windsor and Essex County with a slight detour over to the Strathroy-Caradoc community of Mount Brydges. …[read more]
St. John signs in LaSalle
From affiliate player to a full time spot on the roster. Homegrown defenseman Luke St. John, a 2025 Ontario Hockey League draft pick of the Windsor Spitfires, has officially signed with the LaSalle Vipers of the Greater Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
15 wins for OHL Spitfires
J.C. Lemieux hit for the hat trick, captain Liam Greentree tallied twice, Jack Nesbitt notched a goal and four assists and the Spitfires doubled up the visiting Brampton Steelheads 6-3 on Saturday. …[read more]
Third shutout for Costanzo
Windsor Spitfires elevated their record to 14-3-2 atop the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League on Thursday with a 3-0 whitewash of the visiting Kingston Frontenacs. …[read more]
Of Bulldogs and Spitfires
They are the best of the Ontario Hockey League as of now. Brantford Bulldogs and Windsor Spitfires are 1-2 in the overall standings of the 20-team OHL. …[read more]
St. John putting up points
Homegrown defenseman Luke St. John, a 2025 Ontario Hockey League draft pick of the Windsor Spitfires, has gone on the offensive for both the Under 18 Jr. Spitfires of the Minor Hockey Alliance of Ontario and the LaSalle Vipers of the Greater Ontario Hockey League thus far into the ’25-26 regular season. …[read more]
Davis delivers for Spitfires
Veteran forward Cole Davis scored late in the third period — his seventh of the season — to force overtime and then tallied the only goal in the shootout as the Spitfires rallied for a 4-3 overtime win over the visiting Owen Sound Attack on Friday.
Spitfires slam door on ’67’s
Homegrown defenseman Carson Woodall scored the only two goals of the game and rookie goalie Michael Newlove notched his first career Ontario Hockey League shutout as the Spitfires blanked the Ottawa 67’s 2-0 on Thursday before close to 4,600 fans at the WFCU Center. …[read more]
Outwater out of Windsor
The Spitfires have room for a third overage player, should they choose to add one. Hockey News Windsor has confirmed that overage forward Owen Outwater has cleared Ontario Hockey League waivers. …[read more]
Spitfires … Vipers … et al
Here and there in Windsor and Essex County with various teams in the Ontario Hockey League, Minor Hockey Alliance of Ontario, Bluewater Hockey League and the Greater Ontario Hockey League.
Seventeen for Canada U17
Seventeen players from the Ontario Hockey League are among the 44 from across the Canadian Hockey League who will represent two Team Canada squads at the upcoming 2025 Under 17 World Challenge. The event will take place in Truro, Nova Scotia from November 2-8.
Spits salvage single point
A loss is easier to accept when it at least results in something. As in a point. The Spitfires overcame a 3-1 third period deficit to score a pair of power play goals to force overtime before falling to the visiting Oshawa Generals 4-3 in the extra frame.
Spitfires on the defensive
It was a night for the Windsor defense up in Sault Ste. Marie. Ace defender Anthony Cristoforo tallied twice, Carter Hicks scored once and fellow blue liner Carson Woodall dished out two more assists as the Spitfires skated to a 4-1 Saturday night win over the Soo Greyhounds.
Spitfires survive the Storm
Ethan Belchetz scored in overtime to propel the Spitfires to a 3-2 overtime win over the Guelph Storm tonight before close to 5,600 fans at the WFCU Centre.
Welsh…Geleynse…Vaccari
Windsor Spitfires have promoted from within to hire their new video coach. The Spitfires have also added a new equipment manager. Meanwhile, a veteran goalie has his first Ontario Hockey League shutout in three years.