Joey Payeur Extra sessions should be extra fun for SIJHL fans this season. The league voted to adopt the 3-on-3 overtime format beginning this fall during its annual meeting in Dryden over the weekend. The concept has earned widespread praise after the NHL instituted it this past season in an […]
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Joey Payeur The “dragons” are ready to set fire to the waters of the upper Rainy River. Both professionals and amateurs will gather at the Sorting Gap Marina this Saturday (June 25) for the fifth-annual Boundary Waters Dragon Boat Festival. Eight teams will square off to see whose collection of […]
Joey Payeur The Muskie boys’ hockey team will have to make do defending its OFSAA ‘AA’ boys’ championship on home ice next spring without two—and possibly three—of its brightest young prospects from this past season. Forwards Cooper Witherspoon, Nick Hahkala, and Ethan Jourdain all successfully tried out for the Thunder […]
Staff Steve Arpin watched the lightning, then drove like it. The Fort Frances native captured his first-ever checkered flag on the Red Bull Global Rallycross auto racing circuit Saturday during a doubleheader weekend at Daytona International Speedway. Arpin, who now makes his home in Cornelius, N.C., tasted victory for the […]
Staff The Red Gut Babes are back in the win column. Alyssa Windego went the distance while the Babes found just enough offence to top the visiting Sabaskong Tebinaak 13-12 in the lone Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League game last night. It was the first of what will be […]
Staff Cassandra Moffitt is holding court quite well—even if she’s not currently playing on a court. The accomplished high school and college volleyball and basketball player continued her strong rookie season in the Borderland Soccer League’s women’s division with a pair of goals to pace Al’s Racquet Stringing to a […]
The Associated Press PITTSBURGH—The Pittsburgh Penguins turned around a once-disappointing season and fired a coach before winning a fourth Stanley Cup—adversity that seemed to make yesterday’s city-wide celebration that much sweeter. Fans lined the victory parade route more than 10 deep as the players, coaches, their families, and support staff […]
Staff The rest of the Borderland Soccer League finds themselves “aprés Vous” for the moment. The Bujold brothers teamed up to help the La Place Rendez-Vous U18 Voyageurs blank Manitou Forest Products 3-0 in men’s division action last night. Aaron Bujold was unbeatable in net while older sibling, Connor, notched […]
Staff Karma Andy—that’s with a ‘K,’ as in what many of the Couchiching Lady Raiders experienced yesterday evening. The Emo Renegades’ newest acquisition looked like her old self—mowing down the visiting Lady Raiders in an 8-4 win in Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League action. While most of the league […]
Staff Any concerns about the Fort Frances Lakers’ goaltending situation heading into next season just got alleviated. The Lakers announced today that goalie Brandon Bodnar will be back this fall—solidifying the position after the departure of starter Pierce Dushenko. Bodnar, 18, will enter his third year with the squad after […]
Joey Payeur The death of the man known as “Mr. Hockey” shook this puck-loving nation, and the hockey world in general, to its core. Nobody was affected more than the family of Gordie Howe, the Hall-of-Famer and long-time Detroit Red Wings’ superstar, with one of those relatives having an indirect […]
Joey Payeur If Cole Tymkin makes the cut this fall, he won’t be starting the next stage of his hockey career on the ground floor but rather in the penthouse suite. The 17-year-old Fort Frances resident signed an OHL Standard Players Agreement last Wednesday with the newly-crowned Memorial Cup champion […]
