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Brandt Harper scored one goal and added an assist to power the North Bay Battalion to a 4-2 victory Thursday night over the Oshawa Generals in the first game on the Ontario Hockey League’s 2025-26 schedule. Jax Pereira, Ryder Carey and Jonathan Kapageridis, into an empty net, provided a

Rehearsals have ended, and the curtain is about to rise on the 2025-26 Ontario Hockey League season The North Bay Battalion opens at 7 p.m. Thursday when the Oshawa Generals visit Boart Longyear Memorial Gardens. It’s the first of two games on the OHL’s first night and

The Powassan Voodoos have acquired Cole Vreugdenhil from the Haliburton County Huskies of the OJHL for a development fee on the weekend.  Vreugdenhil, a fifth round pick of the North Bay Battalion in the 2025 OHL Priority Selection got his first win with the Voodoos in a 5-1 victory over

The Powassan Voodoos rode the strength of two power play tallies as well as a pair of shorthanded efforts to help power them to a 5-1 victory over the Soo Eagles in Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League play Saturday night at the Powassan Sportsplex. Taking the lead just over eight

Henry Doucet and Vladimir Provorov scored first-period goals to send the Sudbury Wolves to a 3-1 victory Friday night over the North Bay Battalion in Ontario Hockey League preseason action. Blake Clayton added an empty-net goal. Goaltender Finn Marshall started and finished, giving up one goal on 12 shots over

Capitalizing on several offensive zone chances, the Powassan Voodoos rode the strength of a five-goal second period to defeat the Soo Thunderbirds 6-3 Friday in a Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League encounter at the Powassan Sportsplex. The Voodoos generated a couple of chances in the first frame, thanks to a

The Voodoos have bolstered their new look blueline with the addition of Battalion prospect Devran Brown, the club announced Tuesday.   The 6’1”, 175 pound defender netted 4 goals and 14 assists for 18 points in 46 games with the Arnprior Packers of the EOJHL Junior ‘B’ league.   Brown, who

Spencer Bowes scored back-to-back second-period goals to spark the Ottawa 67’s to a 6-1 Ontario Hockey League preseason victory Saturday over a tired North Bay Battalion. Brock Chitaroni had two goals and one assist and Nolan Jackson and Jasper Kuhta each provided one goal and one assist. Goaltender Ryder

In a neutral site affair in New Liskeard, Powassan got goals from four different skaters to get past Kirkland Lake. Bradley Begley; Anthony Boyes; Frank Popkie and Justin Lefebvre put the Voodoos up by four after 40 minutes of play. The Gold Miners’ lone marker on the night came from

The Powassan Voodoos have added an experienced mobile defenceman, the club announced Thursday.   Ben Gisonni, a 2005 birth year defenceman from Florida spent time last season with the Yarmouth Mariners of the Maritime Hockey League and the Mercer Chiefs of the NCDC in the United States.   “Choosing the Voodoos was