Players with the NOJHL’s Abitibi Eskimos are proving themselves to be very community-minded.  The entire team helped serve a delicious spaghetti supper prepared by the Ladies of the Legion for their September fundraiser.  Several players also volunteered to help out at the Legion Fish Fry. The players want to get to know the residents of […]

NORTH BAY - The Abitibi Eskimos won’t have too many fond memories of their first visit of the 2013-14 season to the West Ferris Arena. The North Bay Trappers crushed the Eskimos 9-3 in the second half of a home-and-home series that saw Abitibi skated off with a 3-1 victory Saturday night. The home side turned up […]

  VIDEO IROQUOIS FALLS - Brady Clouthier scored his team-leading eighth goal of the season early in the third period to snap a 1-1 tie and lift the Abitibi Eskimos to a 3-1 win over the North Bay Trappers Saturday night. The two teams had been locked in a tight struggle until that point, with Eskimos goalie […]

TIMMINS - The North Bay Trappers are riding a three-game losing streak heading into Saturday night’s game against the Abitibi Eskimos at the Jus Jordan Arena. Sounds like a team ripe for the pickings, but the Eskimos would do well to remember what happened the last time they faced a team on home ice that was struggling […]

SAULT STE. MARIE - Turkey is the traditional Thanksgiving fair, but the Abitibi Eskimos were thinking Meat Loaf after dropping a 5-1 decision to the Thunderbirds Sunday afternoon. “Two out of three ain’t bad,” Eskimos coach and general manager Paul Gagne said, summing up the four points his NOJHL squad was able to earn during its three-game road […]

BLIND RIVER - Ryan Wildman scored an even-strength goal, a power-play goal and a short-handed goal Saturday night. And his second of three goals proved to be the game winner, as the visiting Abitibi Eskimos skated to a 5-2 win over the Blind River Beavers. The Eskimos jumped on the Beavers early, with Wildman and Brady Clouthier […]

ESPANOLA - The Abitibi Eskimos kicked off a three-game road trip with a 5-3 win over the Espanola Rivermen Friday night. The Eskimos scored three second-period goals — including two 30 seconds apart — en route to ending a two-game losing streak. Jacob Kenney scored the lone goal of the first period to put the visitors in […]

The two dozen championship banners hanging from the west side rafters of the McIntyre Arena in Schumacher didn’t begin to tell the story of the refurbished grand old gal of hockey in northeastern Ontario. The banners dated as far back as the early 1940s when an all-black line of Herb Carnegie, Ossie Carnegie and Manny […]

KIRKLAND LAKE - The last two times the Abitibi Eskimos had played the Gold Miners the game was decided in double overtime. Sunday night there was no overtime, just the Gold Miners doubling the Eskimos 6-3 at the Joe Mavrinac Community Centre. Still, Eskimos coach and general manager Paul Gagne was a lot happier with his team’s […]

  VIDEO TIMMINS - The Sudbury Nickel Barons stunned the Abitibi Eskimos 5-3 in front of 570 fans at the McIntyre Arena Friday night. The Eskimos had picked up at least a point in four-straight games and had been razor sharp in practice all week. The Nickel Barons, on the other hand, had won only two games […]