The Board of Management of the Fort Frances Curling Club has decided that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our season will end effective March 15. There will be no further curling after today. Our manager (Rick Grenda) will be available at the club during the morning (9-10 a.m.) all week […]
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Press Release
CALGARY, Alta. –The Canadian Junior Hockey League, in conjunction with its 10 member leagues and Hockey Canada, have officially cancelled the remainder of the 2019-20 season, due to the ongoing global COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. As a result, all hockey-related activities, including respective League Playoffs, the CJHL’s four regional championship events […]
Press Release
Update from OFSAA regarding March championships: Given the Government of Ontario’s decision Thursday to close all publicly-funded schools for two weeks following the upcoming March Break, and given the widespread health measures imposed due to COVID-19, OFSAA is cancelling the boys’ and girls’ hockey and curling championships.The championships were scheduled […]
Press Release
CALGARY, Alta.–The Canadian Junior Hockey League announced Thursday that effective Friday, March 13, all games and hockey-related activity involving its member clubs have been cancelled, until further notice, due to the continued threat of the global COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Pandemic as well as potential exposure and contamination of its players, team […]
Jamie Mountain
Tuesday was a great night for Fort Frances hockey. While the Muskie boys’ hockey team was busy trying to secure their trip to the all-Ontarios on the other side of the Memorial Sports Centre against the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints (Kenora) in the third-and-deciding game of the NorWOSSA final, the […]
Jamie Mountain
It was a long road trip that was worth its weight in gold. NWOSSAA gold, that is. The Fort Frances-based rink of skip Ashley Payne, third Jillian Cousineau, second Daffni Chabot, lead Lauren Penney and fifth Anna Peters had their nearly week-long journey finally end on Tuesday afternoon with them […]
Jamie Mountain
Back-to-back years of heartbreak was plenty enough for the Muskie boys’ hockey team. For the first time in two years, the Muskies are headed back to the all-Ontarios after doubling the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints 6-3 in the third-and-deciding game of the NorWOSSA final last night at the ’52 Canadians […]
Press Release
THUNDER BAY, Ont.–The Kam River Fighting Walleye of the SIJHL announced yesterday that Matt Valley has been named the club’s first-ever head coach, leading into the club’s inaugural season, the 2020-21 campaign. Valley comes to the organization with a multitude of coaching and playing experience, including competing on in the […]
Jamie Mountain
They knew nothing was going to come easy and only hard work and sheer determination was going to get them to their goal. That’s how it all played out for the Muskie girls’ hockey team on Monday night as they scratched and clawed and bore down on their chances when […]
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Bob Huitikka
Bob Huitikka
As many young kids, we all played pond hockey and road hockey. I started playing hockey on a beaver pond 400 yards from our house. We did not have real hockey sticks. They were made with a hockey stick handle and a board nailed to it. Our hockey pucks we […]
Jamie Mountain
The Fort Frances Lakers’ first shutout of the season couldn’t have come at a better time. Alex Bugeja was stellar in turning aside all 41 shots he faced to earn his first career SIJHL shutout as the Lakers shut down the league-leading North Stars 2-0 on Saturday night here as […]
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Florida State Seminoles divers Molly Carlson and Joshua Davidson are heading to the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships after qualifying at the Zone ‘B’ Championships at the Gabrielsen Natatorium on Monday. Carlson began the day by finishing second in a tight 1-metre field with a total of 579.75 and Davidson […]
