Tag: Toronto Maple Leafs
Who will ‘stand on guard for thee’ in goal for Canada at world junior hockey championship?
Carter George, Carson Bjarnason and Jack Ivankovic are vying to be Canada’s No. 1 netminder going into the tournament that starts on Boxing Day.
A shoplifted Snoop Dogg toy. A shaming online post. And then a surprise
After a Snoop Dogg figurine and other merchandise was stolen from a St. Thomas games store earlier this week, its owners scored when their Facebook post motivated two shoplifters to return the items a day later.
London Knights star’s ex-NHLer dad rips his world juniors critics: ‘Keyboard warriors’
Naturally, Radek Bonk felt bad for his son Oliver when Czechia eliminated Team Canada from last yearâs world junior hockey championships with 11.7 seconds left in the quarterfinal game.
Owen Sound Attack snap four-game skid with win over Soo Greyhounds
Just what the doctor ordered. With the Owen Sound Attack struggling to score and suppress shots — in comes the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds — who are struggling to score and get shots on net. The result was a much-needed 3-1 victory for the Bears in front of 2,806 who braved the snowy Scenic City […]
Colby Barlow returns to the Bayshore and helps the Oshawa Generals to a 4-3 win
Colby Barlow returned to the Bayshore Saturday night and left with his new team, the Oshawa Generals, and two points after a 4-3 win over the Owen Sound Attack. “It was weird,” Barlow said after the game. “It didn’t really feel real. But, it was good to come back to the place where I have […]
Chin brothers beat the odds as hockey stars in anti-Chinese era
An upcoming article highlights the Chin brothers’ extraordinary rise to hockey fame at the height of anti-Chinese discrimination in Canada. “We live in a different time,” writer Debbie Jiang commented on racism in sports. “The colour barrier wasn’t broken until Larry Kwong played for the New York Rangers in 1948.” Jiang said, although in present […]
Easton Cowan’s ‘insane’ 52-game point-scoring streak, in context
London Knights star Easton Cowan is on the verge of history, with his point-scoring streak now at 52 regular-season games â three shy of the OHL record of 55. He could break it next Thursday, in Peterborough, and LFP sportswriter Ryan Pyette has put the stunning streak in context alongside other legendary scoring runs. 52 […]
Carter George nets a goalie goal as the Owen Sound Attack pound the Petes
It’s not often an empty-net goal is the play of the game, but then again it’s not often a goalie scores. With the Owen Sound Attack leading the Peterborough Petes 3-1 inside the Peterborough Memorial Arena Thursday night, Los Angeles Kings prospect Carter George made history. With the Petes’ net empty and the extra attacker […]
Sam McCue tucks two as the Owen Sound Attack top the Kitchener Rangers in OT
Sam McCue’s knucklepuck snapped the Kitchener Rangers’ winning streak at 10 games and sent a shockwave through the nearly 3,000 fans inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre for Hockey Fights Cancer night. The Toronto Maple Leafs prospect didn’t get all of the one-timer, but he got enough to net his first career game-winning goal […]
London Knights outshoot Soo Greyhounds 43-13, win seventh straight
SAULT STE. MARIE â Easton Cowan scored two goals to pace the London Knights to a 5-1 win over the Soo Greyhounds at the GFL Memorial Gardens on Wednesday night. Cowan entered the third period with his consecutive regular-season games point streak in question, but the Toronto Maple Leafs draft choice scored twice to extend […]