Staff The Fort Frances Novice Tim Hortons Bruins outgunned the Fort Frances Lions 5-3 in Fort Frances Girls’/Women’s Hockey Association action Sunday. Ophelia Lucas-Engberg, Davilyn Miller, Aelise Lucas-Engberg, Harmony Yerxa, and Addison Chown all scored for the Bruins. Jersey Rose (two) and Marissa Kenny replied for the Lions. Then on […]
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Staff For more than 59 minutes, the Fort Frances Lakers were outplaying significantly one of the best teams the NOJHL has to offer. In less than 20 seconds, it didn’t matter much. The Cochrane Crunch scored twice in 17 seconds late in the second period to earn a 2-0 win […]
Joey Payeur Raymond Roy doesn’t believe in pointing fingers at others. Rather, the Fort Frances skip was more than willing to shoulder the blame after a 7-1 loss in four ends Sunday to Gord Williams (Thunder Bay) in the final of the Masters (60-and-over) men’s provincial curling championship in Geraldton. […]
Joey Payeur Nolan Ross has got some superb breakaway skills. He’s not bad at deflections, either, be they pucks or praise. The Fort Frances native scored the only goal of the shootout to give the host Lakers a 3-2 victory over the Minnesota Iron Rangers on Saturday night at the […]
Joey Payeur The days of SIJHL opponents being in heavier rotation than a Madonna video on MTV in the 1980s may be starting to reach their end. Fort Frances Lakers’ head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan is encouraged with news Friday of a conditional franchise being granted by the […]
Joey Payeur Time can pass so slowly at times, but rarely when one is getting ready to stage an event of this magnitude. It’s still 14 months away but preparations already are underway for Fort Frances to host the 2017 OFSAA ‘A’/’AA’ boys’ hockey championship next March. This will mark […]
Staff They didn’t win the ultimate game but they did win their last one. The Muskie boys’ hockey team earned a third-place finish at the sixth-annual Boston Pizza Piper Classic Tournament of Champions in Winnipeg with a 4-3 win over the College Jeanne-Sauvé Olympiens in the bronze-medal game yesterday. Graeme […]
Staff Close but no cigar. The Minnesota Iron Rangers nearly pulled off their first win at the Ice For Kids Arena this season Saturday night. Instead, it was heartbreak for the visitors, who fell 3-2 in a shootout to the host Fort Frances Lakers as Nolan Ross scored the only […]
The Associated PressBarry Wilner CHARLOTTE, N.C—Superman is bringing his cape and his pen to Super Bowl 50. He’s leaving behind his camera. “Yeah, we are going to the Super Bowl. We are not going just to take pictures,” Cam Newton said yesterday after leading the Carolina Panthers into the big […]
Staff The SIJHL family appears to have added another member. The league announced Friday it has awarded a conditional expansion franchise to Thief River Falls, Mn. that, once confirmed, will join the SIJHL starting next season. The league’s board of governors voted unanimously to award the franchise—contingent on approval by […]
Staff Raymond Roy will hope to become more masterful by later today. The Fort Frances skip and his team of third Don DeBenedet, second Brent Taylor (Atikokan), and lead Ian McLennan fell 5-4 to Gord Williams (Thunder Bay) in their first game of the 2016 Masters men’s provincial curling championship […]
Staff Scared Hitless is getting serious. They were the only team to garner the maximum six points in Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League action last night. Scared Hitless is tied with league-leading How I Set Your Mother for the most points in the season’s second half with 17—and have 62 […]
