The Rockford IceHogs of the United Hockey League announced last week former Muskie Wayne Strachan has joined the team for the rest of this season. Strachan, 27, originally had signed with the IceHogs during the off-season as the team moved to Rockford from Thunder Bay. But he failed to report […]
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Although Emo Novice teams held their own, Fort Frances squads skated away with several victories in recent minor hockey action at the Emo Arena. In their first outing, the Emo Wings were handed a 4-0 loss by tagg’s (Fort Frances). Zach Johnston led the visitors with two goals while Garrett […]
A good racer combined with a good machine is usually a winning formula. And that’s exactly what happened last weekend at the WSA Pro Ice Circuit in Roseau, Mn., where Steve Arpin of Fort Frances stole the show by winning three separate divisions to go along with a second and […]
The numbers speak volumes–the Muskies are 7-0 in NorWOSSA play but just 2-5 against American teams this season, including five-straight losses. So the question remains–how good or how bad are the Muskies? Or better yet, just what is the talent level of NorWOSSA? As the black-and-gold get ready to face […]
Emo teams batted .500 in recent minor hockey action. The Beginners, facing Fort Frances for their first encounter this season, were sounded defeated 6-0. Ben Bruyere and Nick Nault led the visitors with two goals each while Joe Basaraba and Cam Badiuk added singles. Meanwhile, the Esso Atom Leafs had […]
Andrew George scored the eventual game-winning goal in the second period to stake the local KC “AA” PeeWees to a 6-5 victory over the Atikokan Flyers in exhibition hockey action here Sunday. The KCs jumped out to a 3-2 lead after the first period on goals by Marc Riordon, Scott […]
The Sioux Hawks “AAA” Bantam team, comprised of the area’s top players including some from Fort Frances, beat a Midget/Juvenile team from Ignace 11-2. Matt Miller paced the team with three goals. Colin Peet, Adam Parent, and Mark Morin each added a pair while Damian Thomas and Adam Clark netted […]
Fort Frances–and Rainy River District–welcomed its first baby of the new year, century, and millennium with the safe arrival of Garrett Austin to Darwin and Michelle Woods (nee Mauro) at La Verendrye hospital Jan. 2 . Ironically, the eight-pound baby boy, born at 3:45 a.m., was more than two weeks […]
Rainy River District was treated well in 1999–and municipal leaders are looking towards 2000 with a very optimistic attitude. Chapple Reeve Cecil Wilson said 1999 was a “spectacular” year for his township, with the municipality’s centennial celebrations at the forefront of activities. “I think that all our people in our […]
For Cpl. Christine Gellately and Bombadier Doug LeBlanc, travelling overseas has a different meaning than it would for most couples. Gellately, of Devlin, and LeBlanc, from Watten, will be heading to Yugoslavia and Bosnia respectively as part of a NATO peacekeeping tour. She heads to Shilo, Man. to complete her […]
The Rendezvous Trail 2000 Fishing and Vacation Guide will have more copies produced–and will go out to more places–in order to attract more tourists to the area. Some 42,500 copies of the free, four-colour brochure–which features maps of the area as well as Fort Frances, Rainy River, Atikokan, Nestor Falls […]
With several players already out of the lineup due to various injuries, the Muskies could have used those extra bodies as they were crushed 7-0 by Osseo High School (Minneapolis) last night in their opening action of the four-team Warroad X-mas tournament. But while last night’s defeat was a hard […]
