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 […]

TIMMINS - Brenden Locke is the Rodney Dangerfield of the Northern Ontario Junior ‘A’ Hockey League. Like the late comedian who passed away in 2004, the 17-year-old Iroquois Falls native who plays for the Abitibi Eskimos just doesn’t get any respect. Last season Locke lost out to Soo Thunderbirds talented defenceman Owen Headrick in rookie of the […]

IROQUOIS FALLS - Brenden Locke scored three goals to lead the Abitibi Eskimos to a 6-3 victory over the Mattawa Blackhawks in their final regular-season game at the Jus Jordan Arena Saturday night. Despite the victory, the Eskimos finish in third place in the East Division standings and they will open their best-of-seven semi-final series against the […]

TIMMINS - The battle for second place in the NOJHL’s East Division standings will go down to the final regular season game Saturday night. Ryan Attwood’s goal with point 6 seconds to play in the first overtime period lifted the Abitibi Eskimos to a 5-4 win over the Sudbury Nickel Barons at the Archie Dillon Sportsplex Friday […]

TIMMINS - Emotions should be running high this weekend for the Abitibi Eskimos, as they play their final two games of the NOJHL regular season. Friday night they will host the Sudbury Nickel Barons at the Archie Dillon Sportsplex, their first game in Timmins since it was announced that the franchise will be moving to the City […]

SUDBURY – The men’s conference of Ontario University Athletics has announced that three Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League alumni have been recognized with year-end awards. NOJHL alumnus Greg Dodds was selected an OUA West Division second team all-star while Erik Robichaud was named to the OUA East all-rookie team and Brennen Dubchak earned similar all-rookie […]

TIMMINS - The old saying suggests: “You can’t win them all.” In the case of the Blind River Beavers, we might have to amend that to read: “You can’t win any of them.” With just two games remaining in the regular season and the team sporting a record of 0-49-0-1 chances of the Beavers being able to […]

TIMMINS - The biggest news concerning the NOJHL this past week came out of city council chambers, not any of the league’s nine arenas. The Abitibi Eskimos announced on Tuesday, first at an Iroquois Falls town council meeting and then later at a Timmins city council meeting, that the franchise will be relocating to the City with […]

SUDBURY – The Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League announced Monday that Brennan Roy of the Abitibi Eskimos, Nicolas Sicoly of the Soo Thunderbirds and the Powassan Voodoos’ Steve Harland have been named the Eastlink TV 3 Stars of the week for the period ending Feb. 22. BRENNAN ROY, (F) – ABITIBI ESKIMOS – The defenceman, […]