Gordon Anderson What a difference a day made for the Muskie boys’ hockey team. They looked tentative and nervous in a 6-1 loss to second-ranked Denis Morris yesterday afternoon, but they corrected themselves this morning in a gritty 4-4 tie against the No. 8 St. Mary’s Warriors (Woodstock) during Pool […]
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Staff Outside of the Fort Frances Lakers and Duncan Keith, former Fort Frances Jr. Sabres goalie Ryan Faragher is one of the few locally-connected players with a shot at hockey glory left standing at this juncture of the season. Faragher is helping to lead the charge for the North American […]
Dan Falloon It hasn’t been just the usual suspects lighting the lamp for the Fort Frances Lakers in their playoff run thus far. Actually, top-liners Tyler Stevenson and Justin Erhart were kept relatively in check for much of the Lakers’ first-round series with the K&A Wolverines. But the team’s role […]
by Gordon Anderson The number two-ranked team in the province made short work of the 11th ranked Muskies. The Denis Morris Redmen dominated physically and possessed enough slick playmakers to dispose of Fort Frances 6-1 in Group B action at the OFSAA AAA/AAAA hockey championship in St. Catharines on Tuesday […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers have the Dryden Ice Dogs wishing they had a do-over. On the same night the Fort William North Stars rolled over the Sioux Lookout Flyers 8-1 to sweep their semi-final series, the Lakers gutted out a 4-2 win here to even their best-of-seven showdown with […]
Dan Falloon For all the extra work the Fort Frances Lakers have been putting into their SIJHL semi-final series with the Dryden Ice Dogs, the 2-1 deficit is hard to take. Both Dryden wins have gone beyond regulation time, including Saturday night’s 4-3 double-overtime thriller here. The Lakers had evened […]
Staff A second-straight overtime game didn’t end up in quite the same elation for the Fort Frances Lakers. In their first game since eliminating the K&A Wolverines 3-2 in overtime in Game 7 of their first-round series on Sunday, the Lakers were on the losing end last night—falling 4-3 to […]
Staff Sunset Country brought home the banner from the provincial round of the Pins Over Average Classic, Executive, and High-Low Doubles tournament, which took place March 4-6 in North Bay. Jeannie Townson of Fort Frances was a member of the Sunset Country contingent, earning a sixth-place finish in the P.O.A. […]
Dan Falloon The Fort Frances Lakers found that being lousy visitors didn’t equate to being great hosts in their 4-3 first-round playoff series win over the K&A Wolverines. But after winning three road games to upset the fourth-place Wolverines in that best-of-seven showdown, Lakers’ head coach Wayne Strachan knows his […]
Dan Falloon The Fort Frances Lakers found that being lousy visitors didn’t equate to being great hosts in their 4-3 first-round playoff series win over the K&A Wolverines. But after winning three road games to upset the fourth-place Wolverines in that best-of-seven showdown, Lakers’ head coach Wayne Strachan knows his […]
Dan Falloon A paperwork mix-up left the Fort Frances Thunderhawks out of their quest for the Allan Cup, but the team is at odds with Hockey Northwestern Ontario as to which side is responsible for the mistake. The T’hawks were set to appear in the HNO final Sunday afternoon against […]
Dan Falloon Rainy River Community College Voyageurs head coach Evan Amdahl knew his team was in tough in its attempt to win a third-straight American Collegiate Hockey Association Div. II championship. Before enduring an 8-1 thumping at the hands of Boston’s Northeastern University, the Voyageurs had to endure a major […]
