The Borderland Thunder hit their own version of the Super 7 jackpot yesterday. Dryden Ice Dogs head coach Jason Tatarnic named seven Borderland Thunder players to the 20-man roster of “Team West,” which he will guide at the SIJHL’s all-star game against “Team East” this Wednesday (Jan. 28) in Dryden. […]
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The Fort Frances Canadians Midget ‘AA’ hockey squad was rolling sevens in Manitoba last weekend, but these days it’s hardly a crapshoot when they take to the ice. If the second half of the regular season, and subsequent grouping of the Canadians with the best teams in the Eastman Midget […]
The home crowd will be on the Borderland Thunder’s side this weekend but history will not, at least not so far this season when it comes to the Fort William First Nation North Stars. The third-place Thunder (13-13-2-2) are coming off a stretch of four road games that saw them […]
For a team that had been together for only a week, the Fort Frances Predators more than held their own. Thrown together at a moment’s notice for a chance to play in the Fort Frances K of C Knights PeeWee ‘AA’ hockey tournament here last weekend, the Predators (made up […]
The Arctic climate didn’t seem quite appropriate for a Mexican stand-off. Nevertheless, the visiting Muskie boys’ hockey team and the host Red Lake Rams each took a victory by identical scores in NorWOSSA action there last Friday and Saturday. The black-and-gold (12-2-2 in league play) fired the first salvo Friday […]
The men were off the mark so it was up to the ladies to uphold local pride at the Sunset Country Open roll-offs at Plaza Lanes here last weekend. Three of the four ladies representing Plaza Lanes secured berths at the provincial showdown in Sudbury in March. But none of […]
It was goals, goals, and more goals for the Muskie girls’ hockey team, who bombed Red Lake 10-0 on Friday night in Ear Falls and then 7-1 on Saturday afternoon in Cochenour. Goal scorers in both games were unavailable by press time. But it also was more bad luck for […]
Everything they’ve touched has turned to gold, but the Fort Frances K of C Knights PeeWee ‘AA’ hockey team will treasure this victory more than most. Matt DePiero’s empty-net goal with 50 seconds to play Sunday afternoon at the Ice for Kids Arena went from being an afterthought to a […]
Youth was served at the annual “Freeze Yer Gizzard Blizzard Run” during “Icebox Days” in International Falls on Saturday morning. Emo’s Andrew Friesen and fellow 13-year-old Timo Brielmann from Pinewood posted the best results of any local runners with their showings in the five-km event. Friesen covered the distances in […]
Lorne Jackson was banking on his team rebounding from a trying season to make it to back to the provincial playdowns. But by the time he threw his final stone at the northwesterns last week in Thunder Bay, it was abundantly clear he wasn’t even going to be around to […]
Curtis Boivin was beset by some mechanical bugs, but still made a statement that he belongs up there with some of the best young snowmobile racers in the world. The 11-year-old Fort Frances rider zoomed his way to a pair of fifth-place finishes at the world snowmobile championships in Eagle […]
Lorne Jackson set a personal precedent at the Northwestern Ontario playdowns in Thunder Bay last week—one the Fort Frances skip could have done without. Jackson and his team of third Don DeBenedet, second Derek Jackson, and lead Wayne Beacham failed to reach the double-knockout portion of the playdowns for the […]
