Lucas Punkari If the Muskie boys’ hockey team is successful in its quest to make another appearance at the all-Ontarios come season’s end, one of the key building blocks in that story may have taken place this past week. After dropping a 5-4 shootout decision to the host Kenora Broncos […]
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Lucas Punkari The Muskie girls’ hockey team is becoming quite familiar with the Kenora Broncos in the early stages of the 2011-12 NorWOSSA season. Having played each other twice in the Muskie girls’ tournament back in October, then doing battle in a league showdown in Kenora last Tuesday night, the […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers hit the road for a pair of SIJHL contests over the weekend and came away with two different results. After dropping a 4-2 decision to the Thunder Bay North Stars on Friday night, the Lakers bounced back Saturday night with a 5-2 triumph over the […]
Staff The NorWOSSA girls’ hockey league has dropped to five teams for the 2011/12 campaign after the Sioux Lookout Warriors were forced to pull out due to low numbers. That’s thrown the schedule into disarray, including the cancellation of tonight’s game between the Muskies and Warriors, which had been set […]
Lucas Punkari Heading into the third period here Tuesday night, it looked as is the Fort Frances Lakers’ recent slide would continue as they trailed the Duluth Clydesdales 3-1. Instead, the Lakers came out firing on all cylinders over the final 20 minutes of play, scoring three unanswered goals to […]
Staff The first NorWOSSA regular-season meetings for the Muskie boys’ and girls’ hockey teams against the Kenora Broncos most likely will go down as games they’d like to forget. The boys roared back from 4-1 deficit to force a shootout, but after seven rounds it was the home side that […]
Lucas Punkari It was a game that easily could have been classified as a tribute to the free-wheeling Edmonton Oilers of the late 1980s, and one that saw as many twists and turns as an episode of “Coronation Street.” But when the final buzzer sounded at the ’52 Canadians Arena […]
Lucas Punkari Having just missed out on getting his provincial qualifying time in the 800m freestyle at meet here last month, Fort Frances Aquanaut swimmer Adam Stromberg was gunning to achieve that goal during the Kenora Fall Invitational this past weekend. With the added pressure of having to wait until […]
Lucas Punkari It was the proverbial mixed bag of results for the Muskie girls’ hockey team as it kicked off the NorWOSSA regular season here over the weekend. The black-and-gold opened with a 6-4 loss to the Dryden Eagles on Saturday night at the Ice For Kids Arena, but bounced […]
Lucas Punkari They finished the NorWOSSA regular season with identical 3-5 records. And when the last point was scored in the NorWOSSA finals last Thursday in Dryden, the Muskie junior and senior boys’ volleyball teams saw their seasons end with identical results. Both teams, who entered the playoffs as the […]
Lucas Punkari The perennial NorWOSSA boys’ hockey front-runners from Fort High began the 2011/12 campaign on the right foot. Coming off an exhibition tournament triumph in Dryden at the end of October, the Muskies opened their regular-season schedule with a 4-3 victory over the host Eagles on Saturday. “We came […]
Staff Local teams made their presence felt at hockey tournaments in Dryden this past weekend. The Fort Frances PeeWee ‘AA’ Canadians rebounded from a rough start Friday, when they lost both of their opening round-robin games, to go all the way to the final, where they defeated the host Dryden […]
