My Team Canada includes Vincent Lecavalier.
After all, Team Canada has to have someone from the province of Quebec on the team, other than all three goalies.
Imagine the distraction Steve Yzerman and all of Team Canada would have to deal with if they’re heading into the Olympics with media making a story of not having adequate [...]

Timmins is the largest city in Ontario (population 43,000) without a junior hockey team.
Like some smaller towns around the North — Kirkland Lake, New Liskeard, Kapuskasing — the highest calibre of hockey in Timmins for the last 10 years has been midget hockey.
When the NOJHL’s Timmins Golden Bears folded under a pile of unpaid bills [...]

The Nipissing Lakers men’s hockey team is on the road for their first regular-season roadie and they’ll be in tough this weekend.
The Lakers meet the UQTR Patriotes in Trois-Rivieres, Friday night at 7 p.m. The Patriotes finished last season ranked No. 5 in the country after a 21-4-3 regular-season record. They were eliminated in the [...]

There is an unmistakable buzz back about hockey in North Bay.
People are interested to see about the new Nipissing Lakers hockey team.
And the Lakers winning a weekend tournament at York University sparked the buzz.
Everywhere I go in town, people are asking or talking about the Lakers and OUA hockey.
I’m not one who hangs out at [...]

Let it be noted that, as hockey season starts, the summer weather is absolutely amazing and hopefully stays through September.
And let it also be noted that, when hockey season ends — in mid-to-late February for the midget Trappers and the OUA Nipissing Lakers — there will still be six weeks of winter left, the ice [...]

I’m back . . . took a few months away from blogging to play pond hockey, hockey, ball hockey, hardball, fastball and coach kids baseball. Temporarily abandoned the blog and did some live blogging, which we’ll continue this year with some Nipissing Lakers OUA and NOJHL junior games.
But anyway . . .
When the ice [...]

The junior North Bay Skyhawks and the OUA Nipissing Lakers hockey club finalized a deal to co-exist at Memorial Gardens, but it’s unfortunate some at council used the platform to classify this as a “loss” for the city.
It’s been well-documented in the past, but a quick review. While arenas do generate some revenue, they don’t [...]

The North Bay Skyhawks took a big gamble at Saturday’s deadline by acquiring Jack Squat.
Jack Squat, as in, brother of Diddly Squat. Nothing.
(Actually, they got forward Alex Valenti for defenceman Andrew Glasser, but that deal was done a few days earlier).
When the puck drops in Garson Wednesday — and for the next month or more [...]

Whether Brad Clark wanted to be closer to home or simply was more comfortable at home, the fact is the Temiscaming Royals captain and leading scorer left the team for the Deseronto Storm of the Greater Metro Hockey League.
Clark, who led the NOJHL’s Royals in scoring with 29 points in 30 games, left the NOJHL [...]

As appeared in Saturday’s Nugget:
Five years from now, when Craig Rivet, Greg de Vries and Shean Donovan are perhaps retired from hockey, will the North Bay area have any NHL players?
North Bay–and the rest of Northern Ontario–is struggling to even produce players for the OHL. Last year’s lone OHL draftee, Mitchell Davis, is back [...]