Joey Payeur An alleged racial slur marred the Fort Frances Lakers’ 6-2 win over the visiting Minnesota Iron Rangers on Saturday night. With just over four minutes to go, Minnesota forward Alex Arnold was jousting verbally with downed Lakers’ blueliner Roshen Jaswal, who was about to receive a penalty for […]
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Staff It was an exhibition in high-calibre offence—two of them, in fact. The Muskie boys’ hockey team was firing on all cylinders as they beat two Minnesota teams in a pair of exhibition games over the weekend to complete their pre-Christmas schedule. Fort High fell behind just 28 seconds into […]
Staff It was a makeup night but Mary Kay was nowhere to be found. The Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League spent its last evening of action before its two-week holiday break getting caught up on games previously postponed. How I Set Your Mother continues to rule the roost with 69 […]
Staff Josh Mastin has some impressive net gains Tuesday night. He was a point-producing machine in leading Team Black (4-0) to a pair of wins in Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League action at J.W. Walker School. Mastin lit up Team White for a season-high 60 points in a 139-67 rout […]
Staff The Fort Frances Calder Legal Eagles couldn’t quite find an effective flight path. The local Atom ‘AA’ girls’ hockey team went 0-3-1 at a tournament in Thunder Bay over the weekend. The Eagles opened play with a 4-2 loss to the Thunder Bay Fury, with Eva Gerstner and Kassidy […]
Staff The basketball magic still was working but the volleyball illusionists ran out of tricks in NorWOSSA action Tuesday in Dryden. The Muskie boys’ basketball squads held up their end of the bargain, beginning with the junior boys’ 70-27 rout of the host Eagles. Aaron Bujold once again had a […]
Staff Not even Canada’s national on-ice passion could overcome the fury of the recently-reawakened Old Man Winter. The two-game NorWOSSA showdown here between the Muskie girls’ hockey team and the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints (Kenora), scheduled for last night and this afternoon, was postponed due to yesterday’s snowstorm. A make-up […]
Joey Payeur Many coaches would embrace a two-game sweep in which their team outscored its opponent 21-0. But Jamie Davis believes—and expects—his team can do better. The head coach of the Muskie boys’ hockey team wasn’t overly thrilled with the opening half of its two-game sweep of the Red Lake […]
Joey Payeur The Muskie girls’ hockey team suffered its first loss of the NorWOSSA season last week. Then they made the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints suffer their wrath. Annalise Hayes scored four goals as the Muskies cruised to a 7-0 win over the Saints last Wednesday in Kenora. Taylor Croswell, […]
Joey Payeur Cassandra Moffitt’s mood ranked somewhere between exhaustion and dissatisfaction. The former Muskie had to watch the end of the game from the bench after the freshman centre for the Rainy River Community College Voyageurs fouled out of the team’s 74-63 overtime home loss to the visiting Minnesota State-Fergus […]
Joey Payeur It’s not the ideal formula for success but the Fort Frances Lakers are getting away with it for now thanks to their goalies. Pierce Dushenko and Brandon Bodnar were the keys as the Lakers extended their winning streak to five games—even though they were outshot in all three […]
Staff This time, Pierce Dushenko will have to share the throne with another masked man. The Fort Frances Lakers’ goalie yesterday was named co-winner of the Amyotte’s Awards & Promotions Corp. player-of-the-week honours with Dryden GM Ice Dogs’ netminder Paul Laferriere. Dushenko, who won the award outright earlier this season, […]
