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Local player Briir Long made his OHL debut Saturday with the 1st place Brantford Bulldogs as they took on the Windsor Spitfires in Brantford Saturday afternoon. The Bulldogs won going away 5-1 and now sit tied with the North Bay Battalion on top of the eastern conference with a game

Tyson Wilcox made 31 saves and Zach Turner scored a pair of goals as the Powassan Voodoos cruised to a 5-0 win over the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners at the Joe Mavrinac Community Centre on Saturday night.   After a scoreless opening frame, the Voodoos opened the scoring after killing off

Ethan Procyszyn scored at 3:55 of overtime to lift the North Bay Battalion to a 4-3 Ontario Hockey League victory Friday night over the Mississauga Steelheads and into first place in the Eastern Conference and Central Division. Dalyn Wakely had two goals and one assist and Anthony Romani also

The Powassan Voodoos scored three goals in the first period and Daniel Dirracolo was perfect in goal as the visitors cruised to a 5-0 win over the Espanola Paper Kings at the Espanola Regional Recreational Complex on Friday night.   Mathieu MacMillan led the Voodoos attack with a pair and veteran

The North Bay Battalion has signed goaltender Charlie Larocque to an education and development agreement, the Ontario Hockey League club announced Monday. Larocque, a six-foot-one, 161-pound resident of Kanata, Ont., who turns 17 on July 16, was a sixth-round pick in the 2023 OHL Priority Selection from the Carleton Place

The U15 AAA Tightline Contruction Trappers ran away with this one 11-1. The score was 3-0 after one, 8-0 after two periods and ended 11-1 at the final buzzer. The game was a back-and-forth affair but the Trappers capitalized on most of their chances and Grayden Joseph stood tall allowing

Sandis Vilmanis scored at 14:45 of the third period to break a tie and propel the North Bay Battalion to a 6-3 victory over the Soo Greyhounds in a momentum-swapping Ontario Hockey League game Saturday night. Anthony Romani had one goal and two assists and Andrew LeBlanc and Dalyn

The Powassan Voodoos got a couple of goals from Dylan McElhinny to help them defeat the French River Rapids 5-1 in Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League play Saturday at Noelville Arena. The two teams battled through a scoreless first period as they hit the intermission still in search of the

The Under 15 AAA Tightline Construction Trappers overcame a delayed travel start, a closed Highway 11N and sitting on a bus for 7 hours as they made their way on snow covered roads to Timmins to take on the Timmins Majors on Saturday. Nevertheless, the Trappers stormed out of the

Forwards Ethan Procyszyn and Anthony Romani of the North Bay Battalion are among a total of 53 Ontario Hockey League skaters and goaltenders in midseason rankings released Friday by the National Hockey League’s central scouting department. Centre Procyszyn is No. 59 on a list of 224 North American-based skaters