Joey Payeur The venue has changed. So have the fashions and hairstyles of both the organizers and the guests. But what hasn’t changed about the Muskie boys’ hockey annual tea and bake sale is its mission: to bring the black-and-gold closer together with the local community. This year’s event is […]
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Joey Payeur Her voice was nearly shot but one still could feel the regret of an unsatisfying ending coming from the strained utterances of Kathie Jackson. The Fort Frances skip won’t repeat her magical run from last year after the defending Northern Ontario women’s champ in The Travelers (formerly Dominion) […]
Joey Payeur Not another soul stepped forward so Craig Armstrong answered the call to arms. Now he has a leg up on a possible provincial championship, with even greater glory awaiting him on Canada’s eastern seaboard. The Stratton skip and his rink of third Ted Heyens, second Kevin Nielson, and […]
Staff Paiten Kinnear decided it was time for her to get behind the wheel of the Emo Express and guide it to Victory Station. The defenceman netted a hat trick to snap a 2-2 tie and launch the Express to a 7-2 win over the Fort Frances Calder Legal Eagles […]
Joey Payeur Chris Walby gave his team an extended standing ovation from the bench. His players celebrated so exuberantly, one could be forgiven for looking around to see if the Bill Salonen Cup signifying SIJHL supremacy had just been awarded. And not one member of the Minnesota Iron Rangers was […]
Staff These were not the same old St. Thomas Aquinas Saints. The Kenora squad was outshot 68-12 but put a serious scare into the visiting Muskie girls’ hockey team last night before finally succumbing 5-3. A win is not always just a win, though, even if it did bump Fort […]
Staff In a win-or-go-home scenario, it was Mike Badiuk who had to pack to leave. The Devlin native, playing third for Thunder Bay’s Dylan Johnston, saw his dream of a provincial crown evaporate in a 7-6 extra-end loss to Sudbury’s Mike Jakubo in a tie-breaker Saturday in Timmins. Johnston lead […]
Staff Craig Armstrong is one title away from a Maritime getaway. The Stratton skip and his rink of third Ted Heyens, second Kevin Nielson, and lead Lawrence Armstrong went a perfect 4-0 to capture the Region 1 men’s crown in the Travelers (formerly The Dominion) Curling Club Championships in Atikokan […]
Staff A change of venue didn’t mean a change in fortune for the Muskie girls’ hockey team. Shilo Beck netted a hat trick as the black-and-gold upped their NorWOSSA record to a flawless 12-0 with an 11-0 rout of the host Sioux Lookout Warriors on Thursday night. Fort High, which […]
Staff It’s all over but the waiting. Fort Frances’ bid to make it to the next round of Kraft “Hockeyville” 2014 now lies in the hands of the contest’s selection committee after yesterday’s midnight deadline for communities to register for the competition passed. The local effort wound up getting 264 […]
Joey Payeur Sometimes even the best can slip up. Fort Frances Lakers’ centre Lucas DeBenedet, who is having a player-of-the-year type of season, lost his footing and his man—resulting in Jay Routheau shaking loose to score the game-winning goal at 3:33 of overtime to give the Minnesota Iron Rangers a […]
Staff Mike Badiuk is in the middle of a dogfight to see who will be Northern Ontario’s next king of curling. The Devlin native is playing third for Thunder Bay’s Dylan Johnston, who split his two games yesterday at the provincial men’s championship in Timmins to sit in a four-way […]
