TIMMINS - The Timmins franchise will be looking to Rock the NOJHL when Junior ‘A’ Hockey returns to the City with a Heart of Gold. The name, team colours (maroon, gold and white), logo and branding were announced during a press conference at the McIntyre Arena — the team’s new home — Friday afternoon. The franchise that […]
TIMMINS - This city’s NOJHL franchise will be known as … drum roll please … the Timmins ??? No announcement has been made yet, so out of respect for the artist formerly known, currently known or soon to be known as Prince we will simply refer to them for the time being as the team formerly known […]
An Abitibi Eskimo by any other name would be a …? Fans of Timmins’ new Junior ‘A’ hockey team are dying to learn the answer to that question. We likely won’t find out for sure until near the end of the month, but we do have a pretty good idea of three names that are […]
IROQUOIS FALLS - The Abitibi Eskimos are dead, long live the … Josh Racek’s empty-net goal, his second of the game, with 25 seconds remaining on the clock sealed the Cochrane Crunch’s 5-3 win over the Eskimos at the Jus Jordan Arena Saturday night and handed the visitors their best-of-seven NOJHL East Division semifinal series 4-2. It […]
COCHRANE - Disco may be dead, but he Abitibi Eskimos are not. In fact, if the Eskimos were cranking up the volume to the Bee Gees hit Stayin’ Alive during their bus ride back to Iroquois Falls following their 6-2 win over the Crunch at the Tim Horton Event Centre Friday night that genre of music might […]
IROQUOIS FALLS - The Cochrane Crunch pushed the Abitibi Eskimos to the brink of elimination Wednesday night at the Jus Jordan Arena. Daniel Stagg’s natural hat-trick and steady goaltending from Brett Young led the visitors to a 4-1 win over the Eskimos in Game 4 of their NOJHL East Division best-of-seven semifinal series. A win Friday night […]
COCHRANE - Chet Tooker make 46 saves to lead the Abitibi Eskimos to a 4-2 win over the Crunch in Game 3 of their NOJHL East Division semifinal series at the Tim Horton Event Centre Monday night. “My defence were clearing the lanes so I could see the puck,” he said. “If I can see every puck, […]
IROQUOIS FALLS - Dylan Sakatch’s third goal of the game, 2:03 into the first overtime period, lifted the Cochrane Crunch to a 5-4 win over the Abitibi Eskimos Saturday night at the Jus Jordan Arena. “Everybody thought Mav (Joey Mavrin) got it, but I tipped it in from the high slot,” he said. “It was a great […]
COCHRANE - The Abitibi Eskimos held the Crunch’s No. 1 line off the scoresheet during Game 1 of their best-of-seven NOJHL East Division semifinal series Thursday night. Unfortunately for the visitors, Cochrane’s No. 2 line of Dustin Cordeiro, Henry Berger and Aviv Milner lit up the Tim Horton Event Centre like a Christmas tree en route to […]
COCHRANE - The Abitibi Eskimos will be looking to continue their string of success at the Tim Horton Event Centre Thursday night, while the Crunch will be looking to put the “home” in home-ice advantage. “The key is going to be the boys feeding off the energy of the home crowd,” said Crunch coach and general manager […]
