Friday News

Slow news day as teams/leagues wind down for the holidays... NOJHL expansion 'No. 1 priority'; Commish looking at two-fight rule, SAT sponsor. The article mentions a return to Sault Ste. Marie, MI, plus potentially new teams in Escanaba, MI., near Traverse City, MI. (could be somewhere like Peotosky or Kalkaska), as well as Ville-Marie and Rouyn, Quebec... The week before Christmas in the NOJHL... Home ice - Dubuque to host CSHL tournament in March (and why not, they've averaging more fans a game than most NAHL teams)... Former Pats coach/GM Lorne Davis dies at age 77 (second story, penned by Davis' son)... Silvertips have looked both good and inept in the first half of the season... WHL teams are not able to ignore goalie Joey Rewucki any longer... Durham Fury are fighting the injury bug...