Staff The Dryden GM Ice Dogs’ first loss on home ice this post-season just got more painful. The SIJHL announced yesterday that forward Zachary Kercz has been suspended for three games after receiving a major penalty and game misconduct for checking from behind at the final buzzer of the Ice […]
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Joey Payeur Hot on the heels of the appearance of one Canadian Olympic medal-winning figure skater in Fort Frances comes word another will be here this fall. The Border Skating Club agreed Wednesday to bring 1988 Olympic silver-medalist Elizabeth Manley to the Ice For Kids Arena to lead an instructional […]
Staff Springtime in Markham will suit Aaron Bujold just fine, thank you. The Grade 9 Muskie badminton player booked his ticket to OFSAA there from April 30-May 2 after finishing second in senior boys’ singles at the NWOSSAA finals yesterday in Thunder Bay. Bujold, needing a top-two finish to advance, […]
Staff Maybe it was good karma coming home to roost for the Muskie track-and-field team. Fort High bettered its season-opening medal count by four with a total of 13 top-three finishes at the Border State Bank Invitational meet in Baudette on Tuesday. The Muskies not only excelled in competition but […]
Staff Down by one game in the series, one goal in the third period, and one man on the ice, it would have been really easy for the Fort Frances Lakers to pack it in. Instead, they decided to make it a night to remember. Nolan Ross scored short-handed, then […]
Joey Payeur One skate up and one skate down, that is the way to London Town. The classic nursery rhyme, with some hockey-themed paraphrasing, applies to former Muskie Cole Tymkin after he was selected in the fifth round (91st overall) by the London Knights in Saturday’s OHL draft. Tymkin spent […]
Joey Payeur Brian Church has seen this movie before and anticipates another feel-good ending. The coach of the Muskie badminton team watched Grade 9 rookie Aaron Bujold mow down his older, more experienced opponents to finish in first place with a 5-0 record in senior boys’ singles play at the […]
Staff Ottawa Senators’ goalie Andrew Hammond is the talk of the netminding world right now. But Jenny Hammond is doing a great job creating some buzz herself. The captain of the Muskie track-and-field team seemingly has embraced her new role wholeheartedly, leading the black-and-gold with three individual medals (and four […]
Joey Payeur Mason Meyer may have been the least happy person ever to score a playoff hat trick. “It doesn’t mean much if you lose the game,” the Fort Frances Lakers’ forward said after his three-goal effort in a 5-4 loss to the Dryden GM Ice Dogs here Friday night […]
Staff Unless the event is brought back to life, Jenna Enge will be one of four people who will be defending national champions for the rest of their days. The Devlin native, playing second, helped Northern Ontario capture the 2015 Canadian Postal Employees Curling Classic in Winnipeg with a 9-4 […]
Joey Payeur The Fort Frances Lakers’ post-game tradition involves the players blasting music inside their dressing room. On Friday night, it was the players who were getting blasted. The displeasure of Lakers’ head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan was made crystal clear to his team via a high-decibel and […]
Staff Cole Tymkin is going from being a King to a Knight—and he couldn’t be more thrilled about it. The 16-year-old forward from Fort Frances was selected in the fifth round—91st overall—by the London Knights in Saturday’s OHL draft in Toronto. “It’s a hard feeling to explain,” admitted Tymkin, who […]
