Gold Miners gain revenge

IROQUOIS FALLS - Ryan Swain and Luc Soares each scored a pair of goals to lead the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners to a 6-1 win over the Abitibi Eskimos at the Jus Jordan Arena Saturday night. The victory avenged a 6-5 setback the Gold Miners suffered at the hands of the Eskimos in Kirkland Lake 24 hours […]

Eskimos edge Gold Miners

KIRKLAND LAKE - Jamey Lauzon’s power-play goal late in the third period lifted the Abitibi Eskimos to a 6-5 win over the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners in NOJHL exhibition action at the Joe Mavrinac Community Complex Friday night. “(Ryan) Kerr passed it to be on the point and I saw a lane and took a shot and […]

GALLERY: The puck stops here

TIMMINS - Will it be Alex Chandler and Braddock Baalerud, Chandler and Michael Tooker, Chandler and Todd Sherwood, or some combination of Baalerud, Tooker and Sherwood? The Eskimos goaltending picture for the 2014-15 Northern Ontario Junior ‘A’ Hockey League season should begin to come into focus this weekend with a pair of exhibition games against the Gold […]

GALLERY: Eskimos open main camp

TIMMINS - The boys are back in town and that should have Abitibi Eskimos fans encouraged about the NOJHL team’s prospects for the 2014-15 campaign. Forwards Brady Clouthier (50, 30-36-66, 58) and Ryan Tront (56, 16-37-53, 46) — two thirds of the Eskimos No. 1 line — were on the ice for Day 1 of the team’s […]

Eskimos trade Green, Hiley

IROQUOIS FALLS - The Abitibi Eskimos have traded a pair of forwards who played with the team during the 2013-14 NOJHL campaign in advance of the start of the team’s training camp at the Whitney Arena on Tuesday. Forward Andrew Green (49, 12-30-42, 31), 19, has been traded to the Drumheller Dragons, of the Alberta Junior ‘A’ […]

GALLERY: Eskimos bolster roster

TIMMINS - The Abitibi Eskimos will take a week off before opening their main training camp in preparation for the 2014-15 NOJHL season. Veterans and a select number of newcomers will be back on the ice at the Whitney Arena on Tuesday, Aug. 19, to get ready for the first of four exhibition games against the Kirkland […]

Preaching fundamentals at hockey camp

TIMMINS - Paul Gagne watched from the sidelines, chatting with some of the kids as Dan Dube and Bruno Colantonio led a scrimmage on the ice. There was clearly no shortage of Abitibi Eskimo connections at this annual week-long hockey camp for kids being held at the Whitney Arena. Gagne, a former NHLer, is the long-time coach […]

GALLERY: Eskis ramp up intensity

TIMMINS - The intensity ramped up during Day 3 of the Abitibi Eskimos four-day tryout camp at the Whitney Arena Thursday night, with two players almost coming to blows late in the second half of the scrimmage. Team Black defenceman Zach Joron caught Team White blue-liner Ryan Kerr with a hip check that sent the later crashing […]

Goalie picture clearing up

TIMMINS - The Abitibi Eskimos goaltending picture for the 2014-15 NOJHL season is beginning to take come into focus. Prior to the start of this week’s tryout camp at the Whitney Arena, the Eskimos signed 20-year-old puck stopper Alex Chandler, who saw limited action last season with the Espanola Rivermen, due to a knee injury. Chandler, now […]

Eskimos open tryout camp

TIMMINS - Earning a spot on the Abitibi Eskimos defence might be one of the toughest challenges heading into the 2014-15 NOJHL campaign, but Matt Wilson took a positive first step in that direction on the opening day of the team’s tryout camp at the Whitney Arena Tuesday night. Wilson, an 18-year-old Ottawa native, was one of […]