Staff Wayne Strachan now stands alone. Strachan was named the SIJHL’s coach-of-the-year for an unprecedented fifth time earlier today—breaking the tie the Fort Frances Lakers’ head coach and general manager held with former Fort William North Stars’ coach Todd Howarth. The other nominees were Kurt Walsten (Dryden GM Ice Dogs) […]
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Staff The Fort Frances Lakers got their wish. Alex Maticic scored two second-period goals as the host English River Miners rallied from a 4-1 deficit to beat the Minnesota Iron Rangers 6-4 in Game 4 of their first-round best-of-five series last night. It now comes down to a winner-take-all Game […]
Staff It was one of the easier choices of the Junior ‘A’ hockey awards season. Fort Frances Lakers’ blueliner Nick Minerva not surprisingly was selected as the SIJHL-Gongshow Gear best defenceman award winner earlier today. The 20-year-old from New Brunswick, N.J. wound up with 73 points in 52 games to […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers are 3-for-4 in the awards department, with more likely on the way. Fort captain Dylan Robertson was named the SIJHL’s top defensive forward for this season this past Tuesday, while fellow forward Andrew Willner was saluted as the league’s most sportsmanlike player. Robertson was picked […]
Joey Payeur Ben Kinne had recruitment on his mind. Dylan Robertson and Nick Minerva gave him plenty to consider. Minerva’s no-look pass to Robertson resulted in the game-winning goal at 2:05 of overtime as the Fort Frances Lakers ended the regular season by winning its eighth straight game with a […]
Staff The Chiefs exploded out of the gate, as expected. Then they imploded, which nobody expected. The Emo Misfits scored five unanswered goals, including a hat trick from Claire Sandelovich, to pave their way to a 5-1 victory in the championship game of the second-annual Chiefs Women’s Hockey Invitational Tournament […]
Joey Payeur If there’s any question about how superb a season the Fort Frances Lakers had as a group, take a look at the lengthy list of players who could bring home some SIJHL hardware in the coming weeks. Each of the eight categories for the league’s year-end awards features […]
Press Release Team Black continued its domination of the Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League last night. The league leaders rolled past Team Red 107-70 in their opener, then pulled out a 91-89 decision over Team White in the nightcap. The first game started out fairly even, with Team Red staying […]
Staff There was nothing weak about Nick Minerva’s week. The Fort Frances Lakers’ defenceman yesterday was chosen as the SIJHL’s final regular-season winner of the Amyotte’s Awards & Promotions player-of-the-week honour. Minerva, a 20-year-old from New Brunswick, N.J., is a repeat winner of the award after also being recognized back […]
Staff It’s all about team accomplishments, not individual awards. So goes the mantra of the Fort Frances Lakers. But the SIJHL clearly wasn’t listening. The league announced the finalists for each of its year-end awards, with a Laker being nominated in all seven categories. Forward Dylan Robertson, the SIJHL scoring […]
Joey Payeur The Fort Frances Lakers reached their goal by scoring plenty of goals. Dylan Robertson converted Nick Minerva’s between-the-legs feed for a power-play goal at 2:05 of overtime to cap a 5-4 victory over the visiting English River Miners as the Lakers wrapped their regular-season schedule yesterday afternoon. Coupled […]
Press Release The Borderland Judo Club recently hosted the first judo tournament in the Fort Frances area in decades. Competitors from as far west as Portage La Prairie, Man., and as far east as Marathon, showed up at the local Shiai to compete for a custom-made medal. Early in the […]
