By Matt Stefano The Soo Thunderbirds have announced today they have dealt defenseman Matt Murray to the Blind River Beavers for PDF. Through 19 career games with the T-Birds, the Thessalon, Ontario native had 3 goals and 5 points along with 6 penalty minutes. “Matthew is a great young player who unfortunately got caught up […]
By Matt Stefano We are already nineteen games into the regular season and currently have an impressive record of 17-2. This week the Soo Thunderbirds got some big recognition as they moved up to second in Canada, but today marks a different day for some of our Canadian vets off the ice. As we are in […]
By Matt Stefano It was announced today that goaltender Mario Culina has been reassigned to the Soo Thunderbirds from his current Ontario Hockey League team, the Windsor Spitfires. “As an organization we are excited to welcome Mario back,” said T-Birds general manager Jamie Henderson. “Obviously our goal is to see players move on to the […]
By Matt Stefano Heading into Sunday evening’s action on a twelve game winning streak, the Soo Thunderbirds were looking to extend it to thirteen straight for the first time since the 2013-2014 season, but had to do it in their first visit to Chelmsford Arena as they took on the Rayside Balfour Canadians. It was […]
By Matt Stefano After picking up his second consecutive shutout Friday night making 18 saves in a 3-0 victory in Kirkland Lake, T-Birds goaltender Nathan Warren was named the game’s first star on Sarurday night making 37 stops in a 6-3 win over the Timmins Rock at McIntyre Arena. Joey Miller led the way offensively […]
By Matt Stefano We’re not talking penalty minutes in the sin bin, but the box that one member of the Soo Thunderbirds organization had was a different experience. On Friday night, November 6th, Soo Thunderbirds President Kevin Cain slept in a cardboard box outside of the Sault Ste. Marie Soup Kitchen to help raise money […]
By Matt Stefano As we know, the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners will be hosting the 2016 Dudley Hewitt Cup Tournament, but with the T-Birds heading into Friday on a ten game winning streak, the No. 3 ranked team in the nation visited the Joe Mavrinac Community Complex for the first time this season. In what […]
By Matt Stefano The Soo Thunderbirds Junior A hockey club has announced today that rookie forward Darian Pilon has been named the team’s Little Caesars player of the month for October. During the month of October, the 17 year old had 6 goals and 6 assists through 7 games. Pilon also recorded his first NOJHL […]
By Matt Stefano With the month of November officially started, the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League has announced it’s roster for the Eastern Canada All Star Challenge, which will be taking place from November 16th-18th, in Cornwall, Ontario. This year’s roster for Team NOJHL will feature seven members from the Soo Thunderbirds, including five players. […]
By Matt Stefano Saturday night marked a battle of the first and second place teams in the West Division, as the Soo Thunderbirds took on the Elliot Lake Wildcats, who were five points behind them in the standings. The Thunderbirds went on to their tenth straight victory as they blanked the Elliot Lake Wildcats 6-0 […]
