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By Richard Coffin North Bay’s Team Riley Winters is heading to the U18 national championship in Timmins (Feb 8-14). They will be representing Northern Ontario, after they won the U18 Northern Ontario provincials in Fort Frances on the weekend. The team went undefeated, at 4-0, and won the final

Nathan Aspinall and Kevin He each scored one goal and earned three assists to power the Flint Firebirds to a 6-3 comeback victory Sunday over the North Bay Battalion, ending the Troops’ season-high Ontario Hockey League winning streak at five games. Darels Uljanskis, Urban Podrekar, Jimmy Lombardi and Alex Kostov,

Firing on all cylinders early, the Powassan Voodoos pumped in four goals before the contest was eight and a half minutes old as they went on to easily dispatch the French River Rapids 12-0 Friday in a Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League blowout at Noelville Arena. Moving into a share

Producing the most combined goals in a single game this season at 16, the Powassan Voodoos went on to outscore the French River Rapids 11-5 Tuesday evening in an offensive barrage at both ends of ice in Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League play at the Powassan Sportsplex. The Voodoos began

The Powassan Voodoos made a pair of moves before the Canadian Junior Hockey League Trade Deadline, which was at 6 p.m. on January 10.    Their biggest move was re-acquiring forward Jax Pereira from the North Bay Battalion, the Voodoos' OHL affiliate team.   The 16-year-old Uxbridge product had 3

A Marcus Krats marker off an early rush, moments into overtime, lifted the Powassan Voodoos to a 3-2 win over the Espanola Paper Kings Friday in Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League play at the Powassan Sportsplex. The Voodoos took flight midway through the first period when Justin Rousseau worked his

Rolling out to an early lead, the Greater Sudbury Cubs did not look back from there as they went on to down the Powassan Voodoos 9-2 in Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League action Thursday at Gerry McCrory Countryside Sports Complex. The Cubs opened the scoring a couple of minutes into

Ryder Cali scored two third-period goals, the winner and an empty-netter, to lift the North Bay Battalion to a 4-2 Ontario Hockey League victory Thursday night over the Ottawa 67’s. Nick Wellenreiter provided one goal and two assists and Ethan Procyszyn had the other goal for the Battalion, while

By Richard Coffin A couple of local curling teams are back on the pebbled ice Wednesday morning at the North Bay Granite Club. Team Riley Winters and Team Jeff Brown both opened the men’s Northern Ontario provincial championship with losses on Tuesday. It’s a triple-knockout event. Defending champion

Powassan Voodoos defenceman Marcus Krats has committed to Concordia University Wisconsin NCAA D III hockey team, the club announced on Tuesday.   The 20-year-old Labrador City, NL product has netted 7 goals and 15 assists for 22 points in 26 games this season for the Voodoos.   “It’s extremely exciting, at