Best Online Resources for OHL Fans
Whatever it is that draws you in—goals galore, the opportunity to watch the NHL’s future stars develop, the luxury of having a team right in your backyard—junior hockey fandom is…
Matt Wilson
What Does an OHL Contender Look Like?
Last month, I picked a fight with a couple Kitchener Rangers fans, who were bemoaning what they said was their team’s mediocre play over the past few seasons. “We haven’t…
OHL Should Crack Down on Two-Part Trades
Last month, the Windsor Spitfires finalized a trade that was big in more ways than one, shipping behemoth defenceman Logan Stanley to the Kitchener Rangers for a parcel of distant draft picks.…
OHL Team Anagrams (Part 2) – Amalgam Art Shone!
This is the second in a two-part series of articles in which I’ve attempted to devise an appropriate anagram—a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters in another,…
OHL Team Anagrams (Part 1) – Smart Homage, Alan!
With a trade freeze in place, the OHL Priority Selection and the CHL Import Draft complete, and the Memorial Cup a distant memory, there’s been little to talk about in…
Is the OHL Schedule Fair?
The 2017-18 OHL Schedule was revealed this week. Like the NHL, the OHL has an unbalanced schedule. Most teams play their division rivals six times, their cross-conference rivals four times, and…
OHL’s Western Conference Dominating Eastern Conference
When the Erie Otters dusted off the Mississauga Steelheads in five games to win their second OHL title, no one was surprised. In fact, some expressed surprise that the series…
How Much Did Sanctions Hurt the Spitfires?
It’s been a rough six years for the Windsor Spitfires. Since their back-to-back Memorial Cup Championships in 2009 and 2010 and another Conference Finals run in 2011, the Spitfires have…
Otters Keep Hitting on First-Round Picks
Much has been made of the importance of stockpiling second-round draft picks in the OHL Priority Selection. Because the OHL prohibits the trading of first-round picks, second rounders are the most…
OHL’s Conference Finals Will Deliver
After a thrilling Game 7 overtime win on Tuesday, the Erie Otters moved on to join the Peterborough Petes, Mississauga Steelheads and Owen Sound Attack in the OHL’s conference finals. Thanks…
Knights in Unusual, Unfriendly Territory as Underdogs
Fresh off their thrilling Game 7 win against the Windsor Spitfires on Tuesday, the London Knights are back in action already, facing down the top-seeded Erie Otters in their Ontario…
Fixing the OHL’s First Round
After a pair of tight Game 7 victories, the fourth-seeded Kingston Frontenacs and London Knights have advanced to the second round of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) playoffs. And because…