Powassan swamps French River

POWASSAN, Ont. – The Powassan Voodoos picked up two goals apiece from Tyson Gilmour and Nicolas Case while Christian Cicigoi registered his first Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League shutout in a convincing 8-0 victory over the French River Rapids Wednesday evening at the Powassan Sportsplex. The Voodoos came out flying, taking quick control by skating […]

Calisti collects 2 as Rapids rally to defeat Crunch

FRENCH RIVER – Stephen Calisti scored the game’s opening goal, then proceeded to add the final one as the French River Rapids rallied for a 4-3 come from behind victory over the Cochrane Crunch Sunday in a Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League match-up Sunday at Noelville Arena. On the power play midway through the first […]

Start time for today’s Cochrane – French River game pushed back to 5:30 p.m.

SUDBURY, Ont. – The Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League announced Sunday that the start time of this afternoon’s contest between the Cochrane Crunch and French River Rapids has been pushed back to 5:30 p.m. instead of the originally scheduled 4 p.m. start. The reason for the time change was due to an unrelated earlier accident […]

Hearst handles French River

FRENCH RIVER – The Hearst Lumberjacks picked up two goals apiece from Samuel Bourdages, Zack Dorval and Nikko Morin to help lead them to an 8-3 triumph over the French River Rapids Saturday evening in a Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League match-up at Noelville Arena. The visiting Lumberjacks set the tone early by skating out […]

Big 2nd period sends Gold Miners over Rapids

FRENCH RIVER – The Kirkland Lake Gold Miners broke open a tie game by striking for five unanswered second period goals to send them on their way to an 8-3 victory over the French River Rapids Wednesday evening in a Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League match-up at Noelville Arena. Kirkland Lake also started strong grabbing […]

Pair of NOJHL games Sunday postponed due to inclement weather/highway closure

SUDBURY, Ont. – The Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League has announced that two scheduled games Sunday featuring the Soo Thunderbirds and French River Rapids as well as the Timmins Rock and Hearst Lumberjacks have both been postponed for tonight due to inclement weather and highway closures. Due to whiteout conditions and portions of Trans Canada […]

GALLERY: Hearst hot offensively in win over French River

HEARST, Ont. – The Hearst Lumberjacks reached double digits Saturday night to begin the 2018 portion of their Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League slate in convincing style as they trounced the French River Rapids 10-3 at Claude Larose Arena. Hearst came out flying in their first game since the holiday break as they scored four […]

Brisson strikes twice as Crunch get past Rapids

COCHRANE, Ont. – The Cochrane Crunch picked up a pair of goals from Alex Brisson to help lead them to a 5-3 victory over the French River Rapids in Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League play Friday at Tim Horton Event Centre. Brisson got Cochrane going offensively as he picked up his first of the night […]

Beavers best Rapids

BLIND RIVER, Ont. – The Blind River Beavers picked up a goal and an assist each from Caleb Serre, Jordan Kreller and Dylan McMahon to help propel them past the French River Rapids 5-2 Sunday afternoon in a Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League match-up at the Blind River Community Centre. Serre started Blind River off […]

GALLERY: Thunderbirds score 4 in 3rd to get past Rapids

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. – The Soo Thunderbirds broke open a third period tie by scoring four times in the frame to pull out a 7-4 triumph over the French River Rapids Saturday in Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League play at John Rhodes Community Centre. First period action saw each team score once with Adam […]