Injuries and Suspensions Lead To Canes Shutout By Dukes
While it may seem like an excuse, no team can suffer the loss of two players to suspension, another two to injury and a third go down early in the game, and be expected to take out strong opposition. Such was the case for the Hurricanes Thursday night as they put forth a determined effort [...]
2013 OJHL Fan Favoriate Award
OJHL LAUNCHES FAN FAVOURITE AWARD BALLOTING “OJHL Fans to Name Favourite Player for Second Consecutive Year” January 28, 2013, Mississauga, Ontario – The Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL) launched today the second annual Fan Favourite Award balloting. The Fan Favourite Award was presented for the first time following the 2011-12 season and has OJHL fans [...]
Canes Collapse In Third In Loss To Lindsay
In one of the more bizarre junior hockey games seen at the Twinney Complex in a long time, your Hurricanes went down to an 8-7 overtime defeat at the hands of the visiting Lindsay Muskies. The single point acquired in the extra-session loss moves the Canes (who have three games in hand) to within a [...]
Current Canes Coach Former World Champion!
While Justin Peca is in his first year as the Head Coach of your Newmarket Hurricanes, it wasn’t that long ago that “Pecks” was still an active player, and a successful one, at that. In 2005, Justin played for the Italian National Team in the Division 1, Group “B” World Hockey Championship. Not only did [...]
Shutout Streak Over Kingston Ends…Canes Still Win
While it was not Lucas Peressini in goal, and no, there was no shutout, but as far as the 2012-13 OJHL results between your Hurricanes and the Kingston Voyageurs are concerned, everything was as per usual. Newmarket edged Kingston 2-1 Sunday afternoon at the Invista Centre to snap a two-game losing slide and improved their [...]
Chiste Injured In Tough Loss To Cobourg
Thursday night’s home game against the Cobourg Cougars was memorable for all the wrong reasons for your Newmarket Hurricanes. Not only did the Hurricanes go down by a narrow 2-1 count to the Cougars (their 2nd consecutive defeat) but they lost Captain Chris Chiste to injury on a fluke play and are now in a [...]
Canes Flat in Friday Failing in Lindsay
The Hurricanes started strong Friday night in their OJHL match in Lindsay against the Muskies. Unfortunately, Brandon Francisco’s early tally was the only one the Canes could muster in a disappointing 5-1 loss. Lindsay evened the count only 12 seconds after Francisco’s marker (which came at 1:30 of the opening frame) to tie the score, [...]
Canes Lock Up Back-to-Back Whitby Wins in Shootout
Your Hurricanes took their second straight win over the Whitby Fury (over a five-day stretch) in a physical OJHL contest at the Twinney Complex Thursday night. Although paced by Brandon Francisco’s two goals, it took seven rounds of shootout before Newmarket’s Jordan Dunin scored the ONLY goal of the shootout session for a 4-3 Canes [...]
Francisco – OJHL North-East December Player of the Month!
The OJHL announced today that Newmarket Hurricanes forward Brandon Francisco has been named the Gongshow Gear North-East Conference Player-of-the-Month for December after leading the Conference with 18 points in 10 games played during the month. Playing in his first OJHL season, the 19-year old forward recorded eight goals and ten points throughout December, including [...]
Chiste’s Hat Trick Gets Canes Back in Win Column
Captain Chris Chiste led the way for the Hurricanes Sunday afternoon in their contest at the Iroquois Park Sports Arena against the Whitby Fury. Chiste scored three times to pace the Canes to a 5-3 decision over the Fury to snap their mini losing slump at two games. The Hurricanes came out flying in the [...]
