Timmins Rock name three assistant coaches

TIMMINS - The Timmins Rock have added some Eagle-eyed assistants to their coaching staff for the 2015-16 NOJHL season. Rock coach and general manager Paul Gagne has announced that James Daschuk, Eric Paquette and Marc Bisson will serve as his assistants. All three were members of the coaching staff of the Timmins Eagles, of the Northern Ontario […]

Hockey Development Camp

TIMMINS - Registrations are now being accepted for the Paul Gagne Hockey Development Camp scheduled to run Aug. 4-7 at the McIntyre Arena. Gagne, the coach and general manager of the Timmins Rock, of the NOJHL, has been operating the hockey school for a number of years. “We will have a few Rock players on hand who […]

Timmins will Rock NOJHL

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 Big Ms anyone?

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 […]

Timmins Junior ‘A’ franchise will be known as …

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 […]

Crunch eliminate Eskimos in Game 6

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 […]

Eskimos triple Crunch to take Game 5

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 […]

Crunch push Eskimos to brink of elimination

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 […]

GALLERY: Game 3 – Eskis double Crunch

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, […]

GALLERY: Crunch top Eskis in OT

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 […]