NOJHL renews partnership agreement with Gongshow Gear Inc.

SUDBURY – The Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League announced today that they have renewed their partnership agreement for the 2014-15 season with Gongshow Gear Inc., the official lifestyle hockey apparel provider of the NOJHL. As part of the renewed agreement between the two sides, Gongshow Gear will once again serve as the premier sponsor of […]

Gold Miners edge Eskimos

KIRKLAND LAKE - The Kirkland Lake Gold Miners edged the Abitibi Eskimos 4-3 at the Joe Mavrinac Community Complex Thursday night in the exhibition finale for both NOJHL squads. The loss leaves the Eskimos with an exhibition record of 1-3, while the defending NOJHL champion Gold Miners finish 3-1. “The way I explained it to the players, […]

Gold Miners triple Eskis

IROQUOIS FALLS - To say that the Abitibi Eskimos were shorthanded for their exhibition game against the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners might to be the understatement of the century. The Eskimos faced the defending NOJHL champions with only 12 skaters and a pair of goalies in the lineup at the Jus Jordan Arena Wednesday night. Given those […]

Eskimos host K.L. Wednesday

IROQUOIS FALLS - The Abitibi Eskimos have made a number of changes in preparation for Wednesday’s NOJHL exhibition game against the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners at the Jus Jordan Arena. Following the completion of the team’s first two exhibition games against the Gold Miners, the Eskimos released four players, although one of them is back in camp […]

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 […]