Joey Payeur Paul Cousineau was seconds away from leaving the Memorial Sports Centre on Monday when the Muskie boys’ hockey team trainer suddenly remembered he had one more pair of skates to sharpen. That extra cutting edge on Lauren Vold’s blades just might be one of the reasons the Muskie […]
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Joey Payeur Jason Cain could have given the famous “win one for the Gipper” speech, but he didn’t have to. The Muskie junior girls’ volleyball team wasn’t about to let down their coach—even if she was more than 1,000 km away. The squad captured its first league title since 2012 […]
Joey Payeur The Dryden Eagles’ net resembled The Alamo on Monday night, with the visitors in the role of the undermanned Texans and the Muskies serving as the Mexican army. Playing the part of Davy Crockett was a man not with a coonskin cap but a metallic mask. Brady Desserre […]
Joey Payeur David Pryde wasn’t content with just being along for the ride. Rather, he chose to get behind the wheel and drive the Fort Frances Lakers’ to home-ice advantage throughout the SIJHL playoffs. Making his junior debut, the former Muskie netted three goals to help the Lakers to an […]
Joey Payeur A simple social media connection led to the future visit of undoubtedly the most famous figure skater to ever grace the surface of the Ice For Kids Arena. Kaetlyn Osmond, who won silver for Canada in the inaugural team competition at last year’s Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, […]
Joey Payeur This is why the playoffs are called the second season. The Muskie boys’ hockey team—and its 14-1 record that captured the regular-season title—suddenly are a game away from being history after losing 3-1 to the second-place Dryden Eagles in Game 1 of their best-of-three NorWOSSA final last night […]
Joey Payeur The Fort Frances Lakers wrapped up their second-straight regular-season title Friday night with an 8-3 victory over the English River Miners in Ear Falls. But instead of having a letdown here Saturday, the Lakers (37-9-0-1) took it to the undermanned Thunder Bay North Stars in the form of […]
Staff Let’s get ready to rumble. The showdown that’s been brewing all season to decide NorWOSSA girls’ hockey supremacy is now set after the Muskies and Dryden Eagles made short work of their semi-final opponents. Kaily Greengrass scored twice, and Calie Clendenning made 18 saves to earn the shutout, as […]
Staff Last year’s season for the Muskie junior girls’ volleyball team was like a great novel with the last page missing. This time around, it was a storybook finish for the black-and-gold. Fort High closed out an undefeated campaign in style Friday in Dryden with an emphatic 3-0 victory (25-20, […]
The Associated Press LOS ANGELES—No matter how poorly the L.A. Lakers and Boston Celtics have played this season, they showed they still can produce a thriller no matter who is wearing the uniforms. Jeremy Lin had a season-high 25 points as the Lakers snapped a seven-game losing streak with a […]
Joey Payeur The Border Skating Club has pulled off a major coup in securing the appearance of one of Canada’s brightest young figure skaters for this year’s ice show. Club president Anne Renaud officially announced yesterday that 2014 Olympic silver-medalist Kaetlyn Osmond will take part in the two-day event in […]
Staff The Muskie boys’ hockey team is halfway to yet another NorWOSSA crown. Jarred Taylor and Max Williams each tallied twice to lift Fort High to a 5-2 victory over the host Kenora Broncos and a sweep of their best-of-three semi-final series. “Kenora came ready to play, which was nice […]
