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In his rookie OHL season, the Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, native appeared in 60 regular-season games, recording 10 goals and 14 assists for 24 points, and added eight playoff appearances. Internationally, Chitaroni represented Team Canada White at the 2025 U17 World Challenge, appearing in five games, tallying three goals and three assists for six points.\u00a0Prior to joining the 67\u2019s, he starred with the Barrie Colts U16 AAA program, where he tallied 29 goals and 30 assists in 31 games.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s National Men\u2019s Summer Under-18 Team training camp will run from July 27 to Aug. 1 at NAIT Arena and Rogers Place in Edmonton. The camp will feature daily practices and exhibition games against Sweden on July 30 and Czechia on Aug. 1, before the final roster is selected for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Hlinka Gretzky Cup begins on Aug. 3, with Canada opening the tournament against Switzerland at 5:00 p.m. MT. Canada will also face Slovakia on Aug. 4 and Sweden on Aug. 5 in preliminary-round action before the tournament concludes with the medal games on Aug. 8.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>OTTAWA &#8211;<\/strong> Hockey Canada a annonc\u00e9 aujourd\u2019hui que l\u2019attaquant des 67 d\u2019Ottawa, Brock Chitaroni, avait \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 pour participer au stage de pr\u00e9paration de l\u2019\u00e9quipe nationale masculine canadienne des moins de 18 ans en vue de la Coupe Hlinka-Gretzky 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Chitaroni, \u00e2g\u00e9 de 17 ans, a \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 troisi\u00e8me au total par les 67\u2019s d\u2019Ottawa lors du rep\u00eachage prioritaire de la LHO de 2025. Pour sa premi\u00e8re saison, le natif de Sault-Sainte-Marie, en Ontario, a disput\u00e9 60 matchs de saison r\u00e9guli\u00e8re, inscrivant 10 buts et 14 passes d\u00e9cisives pour un total de 24 points, et a ajout\u00e9 huit matchs de s\u00e9ries \u00e9liminatoires \u00e0 son palmar\u00e8s. Sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale, Chitaroni a repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 l&#8217;\u00e9quipe Canada White lors du World Challenge U17 de 2025, disputant cinq matchs au cours desquels il a inscrit trois buts et d\u00e9livr\u00e9 trois passes d\u00e9cisives, pour un total de six points.\u00a0Avant de rejoindre les 67\u2019s, il s\u2019est illustr\u00e9 au sein du programme AAA des moins de 16 ans des Colts de Barrie, o\u00f9 il a inscrit 29 buts et 30 passes d\u00e9cisives en 31 matchs.<\/p>\n<p>Le stage de pr\u00e9paration de l\u2019\u00e9quipe nationale masculine canadienne des moins de 18 ans d\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9 se d\u00e9roulera du 27 juillet au 1er ao\u00fbt \u00e0 la NAIT Arena et \u00e0 Rogers Place, \u00e0 Edmonton. Au programme : des entra\u00eenements quotidiens et des matchs amicaux contre la Su\u00e8de le 30 juillet et contre la R\u00e9publique tch\u00e8que le 1er ao\u00fbt, avant la s\u00e9lection de l\u2019effectif d\u00e9finitif pour le tournoi.<\/p>\n<p>La Coupe Hlinka-Gretzky 2026 d\u00e9butera le 3 ao\u00fbt ; le Canada ouvrira le tournoi face \u00e0 la Suisse \u00e0 17 h (heure des Rocheuses). Le Canada affrontera \u00e9galement la Slovaquie le 4 ao\u00fbt et la Su\u00e8de le 5 ao\u00fbt lors de la phase pr\u00e9liminaire, avant que le tournoi ne s\u2019ach\u00e8ve par les matchs pour les m\u00e9dailles le 8 ao\u00fbt.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]OTTAWA\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Hockey Canada announced today that Ottawa 67\u2019s forward Brock Chitaroni has been selected to attend Canada\u2019s National Men\u2019s Summer Under-18 Team training camp ahead of the 2026 Hlinka Gretzky Cup. Chitaroni, 17, was selected third overall by the Ottawa 67\u2019s in the 2025 OHL Priority Selection. In his rookie OHL season, the Sault Ste.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":590,"featured_media":60183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1150],"tags":[{"term_id":1431,"name":"National Men's Summer Under-18 Team Camp","slug":"national-mens-summer-under-18-team-camp","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1431,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1"},{"term_id":1202,"name":"Brock Chitaroni","slug":"brock-chitaroni","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1202,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw","term_order":"232"},{"term_id":920,"name":"Hlinka Gretzky Cup","slug":"hlinka-gretzky-cup","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":920,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","term_order":"559"},{"term_id":7,"name":"ohl","slug":"ohl","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":7,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":678,"filter":"raw","term_order":"834"},{"term_id":8,"name":"Ottawa 67`s","slug":"ottawa-67s","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":8,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1274,"filter":"raw","term_order":"907"}],"class_list":["post-60182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-national-mens-summer-under-18-team-camp","tag-brock-chitaroni","tag-hlinka-gretzky-cup","tag-ohl","tag-ottawa-67s","category-1150","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/media.chl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/07\/22121536\/wide.jpg",1920,1080,false],"hide_from_app_feed":false,"video":false,"gallery":null,"ht_game_id":0,"target_video":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60184,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60182\/revisions\/60184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":60170,"date":"2026-07-16T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/?p=60170"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:26:22","slug":"goaltender-noah-la-gambina-commits-to-the-ottawa-67s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/article\/goaltender-noah-la-gambina-commits-to-the-ottawa-67s","title":{"rendered":"Goaltender Noah La Gambina Commits to the Ottawa 67\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>OTTAWA\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0The Ottawa 67\u2019s announced today that goaltender Noah La Gambina has signed an Ontario Hockey League Scholarship and Development Agreement with the club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Noah is an athletic and highly competitive goaltender,&#8221; said Ottawa 67\u2019s General Manager Jan Egert. &#8220;He was a key member of the Don Mills Flyers&#8217; 2024\u201325 GTHL Championship team before continuing his journey at St. Andrew&#8217;s College. Through both organizations, Noah has continued to grow under the tutelage of each program. We&#8217;re excited he has chosen to take the next step in his development path with the 67&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Richmond Hill, Ontario native was selected by Ottawa in the fifth round (98th overall) of the 2025 OHL Priority Selection. La Gambina made his first OHL appearance during the 2025-26 season, dressing as Jaeden Nelson&#8217;s backup against the Oshawa Generals. At St. Andrew&#8217;s College U18 AAA last season, the 16-year-old appeared in 24 games, posting a 17-7-0 record, a 2.44 goals-against average, a .908 save percentage and two shutouts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HEIGHT:<\/strong>\u00a05\u201911\u00a0 | <strong>WEIGHT: <\/strong>192\u00a0lbs \u00a0| <strong>DOB: <\/strong>2009-07-18\u00a0| <strong>HOMETOWN: <\/strong>Richmond Hill, ON | <strong>PREVIOUS TEAM:<\/strong> St. Andrew&#8217;s College\u00a0| <strong>CATCHES:<\/strong> L<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>OTTAWA &#8211;<\/strong> Les 67 d\u2019Ottawa ont annonc\u00e9 aujourd\u2019hui que le gardien Noah La Gambina avait sign\u00e9 avec le club un contrat de bourse d\u2019\u00e9tudes et de d\u00e9veloppement de la Ligue de hockey de l\u2019Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab Noah est un gardien athl\u00e9tique et tr\u00e8s comp\u00e9titif \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Jan Egert, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des 67 d\u2019Ottawa. \u00ab Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 un membre cl\u00e9 de l\u2019\u00e9quipe des Flyers de Don Mills, qui a remport\u00e9 le championnat de la GTHL en 2024-2025, avant de poursuivre son parcours au St. Andrew\u2019s College. Au sein de ces deux organisations, Noah n\u2019a cess\u00e9 de progresser sous la houlette de chacun des programmes. Nous sommes ravis qu\u2019il ait choisi de franchir une nouvelle \u00e9tape de son parcours de d\u00e9veloppement avec les 67\u2019s. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Originaire de Richmond Hill, en Ontario, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 par Ottawa au cinqui\u00e8me tour (98e au total) du rep\u00eachage prioritaire de l\u2019OHL de 2025. La Gambina a fait ses d\u00e9buts dans l\u2019OHL au cours de la saison 2025-2026, en tant que rempla\u00e7ant de Jaeden Nelson face aux Generals d\u2019Oshawa. Au sein de l\u2019\u00e9quipe U18 AAA du St. Andrew\u2019s College la saison derni\u00e8re, le jeune gardien de 16 ans a disput\u00e9 24 matchs, affichant un bilan de 17 victoires et sept d\u00e9faites, une moyenne de 2,44 buts allou\u00e9s, un pourcentage d\u2019arr\u00eats de 0,908 et deux blanchissages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TAILLE :<\/strong> 5&#8217;11\u00a0 | <strong>POIDS : <\/strong>192\u00a0lbs \u00a0| <strong>DATE DE NAISSANCE :<\/strong>\u00a018\/07\/2009 | <strong>VILLE D\u2019ORIGINE : <\/strong>Richmond Hill, ON\u00a0| <strong>ANCIENNE \u00c9QUIPE : <\/strong>St. Andrew&#8217;s College | <strong>ATTRAPE :<\/strong> G[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]OTTAWA\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The Ottawa 67\u2019s announced today that goaltender Noah La Gambina has signed an Ontario Hockey League Scholarship and Development Agreement with the club. &#8220;Noah is an athletic and highly competitive goaltender,&#8221; 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said Ottawa 67\u2019s Head Coach Dave Cameron. &#8220;Norm\u2019s experience and understanding of the game are invaluable. He\u2019s become one of the most respected coaches in the OHL and brings a wealth of knowledge to our group. Paul offers a fresh perspective, and his personable, detail-oriented approach has made a significant impact on our players\u2019 development. Together, they are outstanding members of our staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Milley<\/strong>, 46, is set to begin his ninth season with the Ottawa 67\u2019s, having joined the organization in 2017 as part of Andr\u00e9 Tourigny&#8217;s coaching staff. Since then, the Toronto native has helped lead the team to an OHL Championship Series appearance in 2019 and three Hamilton Spectator Trophy titles alongside Tourigny and current Head Coach Dave Cameron.<\/p>\n<p>Before turning to coaching, Milley had a distinguished playing career. As a standout with the Sudbury Wolves, he collected multiple CHL and OHL honours before being selected 37th overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1998 NHL Draft. Milley went on to play for Buffalo and the Tampa Bay Lightning and enjoyed a strong career in the American Hockey League. He concluded his playing days in Germany\u2019s DEL, earning several league honours, including leading the league in assists and points. On the international stage, Milley has represented Canada as both a player and a coach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stoykewych<\/strong>, 31, joined Cameron\u2019s coaching staff ahead of the 2023-24 season and is entering his fourth year with the organization. Previously, the Winnipeg native spent two seasons as an assistant coach with the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees men\u2019s hockey program. Before that, he served as a skills development coach and program coordinator at Manitoba\u2019s RINK Training Centre and as an assistant coach with the Western Mustangs during the 2019-20 season.<\/p>\n<p>As a player, Stoykewych played for the Western Michigan University Broncos from 2014 to 2018, tallying 23 points over 82 NCAA games. Prior to his collegiate career, he represented Canada West at the 2012 and 2013 World Junior A Challenge, as well as the 2012 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Milley and Stoykewych will return alongside reigning OHL Coach of the Year Dave Cameron as the 67\u2019s open their preseason schedule on August 30 against the Kingston Frontenacs at Slush Puppie Place. Ottawa begins the 2026-27 regular season in Kingston on September 20, before hosting the Sarnia Sting in their home opener at The Arena at TD Place on September 27 at 3:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can secure their seats for the upcoming season by purchasing a 2026-27 Ottawa 67\u2019s season ticket membership\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/join-us\/\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0or a 2026-27 Flex Pack\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/flex-packages\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The full 2026-27 regular season schedule is available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/67s-schedule\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>OTTAWA &#8211;<\/strong> Les 67 d\u2019Ottawa ont annonc\u00e9 aujourd\u2019hui que les entra\u00eeneurs adjoints Norm Milley et Paul Stoykewych avaient chacun prolong\u00e9 leur contrat de deux ans, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la saison 2027-2028 de la Ligue de hockey de l\u2019Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab Je suis tr\u00e8s heureux que Norm et Paul fassent \u00e0 nouveau partie de notre personnel d\u2019entra\u00eeneurs \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Dave Cameron, entra\u00eeneur-chef des 67 d\u2019Ottawa. \u00ab L\u2019exp\u00e9rience et la compr\u00e9hension du jeu de Norm sont inestimables. Il est devenu l\u2019un des entra\u00eeneurs les plus respect\u00e9s de la Ligue de hockey de l\u2019Ontario et apporte une mine de connaissances \u00e0 notre groupe. Paul offre un regard neuf et son approche conviviale et soucieuse du d\u00e9tail a eu un impact significatif sur le d\u00e9veloppement de nos joueurs. Ensemble, ils constituent des membres exceptionnels de notre \u00e9quipe d\u2019entra\u00eeneurs. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p><strong>Milley<\/strong>, 46 ans, s\u2019appr\u00eate \u00e0 entamer sa neuvi\u00e8me saison avec les 67 d\u2019Ottawa, apr\u00e8s avoir rejoint l\u2019organisation en 2017 au sein du staff technique d\u2019Andr\u00e9 Tourigny. Depuis lors, ce natif de Toronto a contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 mener l\u2019\u00e9quipe jusqu\u2019en finale du championnat de la LHO en 2019 et \u00e0 remporter trois fois le troph\u00e9e Hamilton Spectator aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s d\u2019Andr\u00e9 Tourigny et de l\u2019actuel entra\u00eeneur principal, Dave Cameron.<\/p>\n<p>Avant de se tourner vers le m\u00e9tier d\u2019entra\u00eeneur, Milley a men\u00e9 une brillante carri\u00e8re de joueur. Joueur vedette des Wolves de Sudbury, il a remport\u00e9 de nombreuses distinctions dans la LCH et la LHO avant d\u2019\u00eatre s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 en 37e position par les Sabres de Buffalo lors du rep\u00eachage de la LNH de 1998. Milley a ensuite jou\u00e9 pour Buffalo et le Lightning de Tampa Bay, et a connu une belle carri\u00e8re dans la Ligue am\u00e9ricaine de hockey (AHL). Il a mis un terme \u00e0 sa carri\u00e8re de joueur dans la DEL allemande, o\u00f9 il a remport\u00e9 plusieurs distinctions, notamment en terminant en t\u00eate du classement des passes d\u00e9cisives et des points de la ligue. Sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale, Milley a repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 le Canada \u00e0 la fois en tant que joueur et en tant qu\u2019entra\u00eeneur.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stoykewych<\/strong>, \u00e2g\u00e9 de 31 ans, a rejoint le staff technique de Cameron avant la saison 2023-2024 et entame sa quatri\u00e8me ann\u00e9e au sein de l\u2019organisation. Auparavant, ce natif de Winnipeg a pass\u00e9 deux saisons en tant qu\u2019entra\u00eeneur adjoint au sein du programme de hockey masculin des Gee-Gees de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Ottawa. Avant cela, il a occup\u00e9 les fonctions d\u2019entra\u00eeneur charg\u00e9 du d\u00e9veloppement des comp\u00e9tences et de coordinateur de programme au RINK Training Centre du Manitoba, ainsi que\u00a0d\u2019entra\u00eeneur adjoint des Mustangs de Western pendant la saison 2019-2020.<\/p>\n<p>En tant que joueur, Stoykewych a \u00e9volu\u00e9 au sein des Broncos de l\u2019universit\u00e9 Western Michigan de 2014 \u00e0 2018, totalisant 23 points en 82 matchs de la NCAA. Avant sa carri\u00e8re universitaire, il a repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 le Canada West lors du D\u00e9fi mondial junior A de 2012 et de 2013, ainsi qu\u2019au D\u00e9fi mondial de hockey des moins de 17 ans de 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Milley et Stoykewych feront leur retour aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de Dave Cameron, actuel entra\u00eeneur de l\u2019ann\u00e9e de la LHO, alors que les 67\u2019s entameront leur programme de pr\u00e9-saison le 30 ao\u00fbt contre les Frontenacs de Kingston au Slush Puppie Place. Ottawa d\u00e9butera la saison r\u00e9guli\u00e8re 2026-2027 \u00e0 Kingston le 20 septembre, avant d\u2019accueillir les Sting de Sarnia lors de son premier match \u00e0 domicile \u00e0 l\u2019Arena du TD Place le 27 septembre \u00e0 15 h.<\/p>\n<p>Les partisans peuvent r\u00e9server leurs places pour la saison \u00e0 venir en achetant <a href=\"https:\/\/protect.checkpoint.com\/v2\/r03\/___https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/5HiGA_pduKL?e=d87800b009&amp;c2id=6b82e4def76281a5b4a306a201a5c4cd___.YzFjOmxhbnNkb3duZXN0YWRpdW0xOmM6bzo1NDgwNzNkYzM3ZGRlOTk3YmE2OWYyMGQ3NzQ5NDYzNzo3OjI4ZmU6ODE1ZWZiODlhNmM1NGRkZmVhMjBiNTc2NjZjNzIzZjJkZDZmY2FiM2ZiMzJjYzE5MjZhYTcxYTNjZDI3YjgzNTpoOlQ6Rg\">ICI<\/a> un abonnement saisonnier 2026-2027 des Ottawa 67\u2019s ou <a 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67\u2019s announced today that assistant coaches Norm Milley and Paul Stoykewych have each signed two-year contract extensions through the 2027-28 Ontario Hockey League season. &#8220;I am very happy to have both Norm and Paul back on our coaching staff,&#8221; said Ottawa 67\u2019s Head Coach Dave Cameron. &#8220;Norm\u2019s experience and understanding of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":590,"featured_media":60167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1150],"tags":[{"term_id":1428,"name":"Assistant Coaches","slug":"assistant-coaches","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1428,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"161"},{"term_id":1380,"name":"Coaching 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the Bench: Damien Sutherland Builds Strength In-and-Out Of The Weight Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While every season it\u2019s the goal of each Ontario Hockey League franchise to win a championship, the OHL is first and foremost a developmental league.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whether that\u2019s academically, as people, and of course on the ice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Outside of the 20 players who suit up in the Barber Pole jersey on a given night, the Ottawa 67\u2019s have an immense support staff in both front-facing and behind-the-scenes roles to get them ready every single day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of those people is Damien Sutherland, Lead Performance Coach with the Canadian Strength Institute, which has been partnered with the Ottawa 67\u2019s since 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While working in strength and conditioning naturally means plenty of resistance training, on game days Sutherland is also one of the team\u2019s heartbeats\u2014and as a strength coach, he knows the heart is a muscle, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s just one of the many unofficial responsibilities he\u2019s taken on around the team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDuring those game days, I\u2019m in the circle with them, getting them hyped up, getting \u2018em going.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of his other responsibilities is making the team\u2019s \u2018Liquid Legs\u2019 ready, CSI\u2019s electrolyte drink formula.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMaking sure their hydration is good, their spirits high, that way, regardless of their headspace, I always try to uplift them and make sure we&#8217;re in a mindset where we\u2019re ready to go in and win that game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sutherland took on the role this past season after joining the CSI and working around the team in a limited capacity three seasons ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI got into training pretty young; I always played sports growing up, and training was the part that I gravitated towards even at an early age,\u201d said Sutherland. \u201cComing out of high school, it wasn\u2019t necessarily the path I thought I was going to take, but a little bit later in life, I decided to go back to school and started to study in the field and got lucky enough to land an internship here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During that internship, he met Sean Young, the founder of Canadian Strength Institute, who had worked with the Redblacks and the Ottawa 67\u2019s through CSI as the former Head of Athlete Performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite having several cousins who played in junior and professional hockey, including Bryan Young and Michael Swift, both of whom represented Team Korea at the 2018 Olympics, Sean comes from a track-and-field background. However, he too had his own Olympic journey, trialling for the 800m in 2008 and 2012, serving as a guide runner for Paralympian Jason Dunkerley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young has since trained Team Canada at the World Championships and the 2026 Olympics and joined the Pittsburgh Penguins as a member of their strength and conditioning staff.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In that respect, both Young and Sutherland share a similar background.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s pretty funny, actually; hockey was never my main sport; I\u2019d actually say I\u2019m a pretty poor hockey player, myself,\u201d Sutherland jests. \u201cHockey has always been a part of my family.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMy father and my grandfather worked in hockey equipment sales for the better part of their lives,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s always been something that\u2019s been close to my family, but not my personal sport of preference.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In some respects, both Young and Sutherland share a parallel background, with hockey being present in the background before ultimately coming around to it through their work in strength and conditioning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSo getting into this industry, it was a little bit of re-learning the culture, getting accustomed to the way that guys talk and act with each other,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the end of the day, training is training; it was easy to integrate into.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe biggest thing I had to wrap my head around was that at the end of the day, the OHL is a developmental league,\u201d he said. \u201cSo you have a lot of guys coming in with not a huge base and not a lot of athletic experience when it comes to lifting weights.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For CSI, they\u2019ve found success with a &#8220;rip-the-bandage-off&#8221; approach to helping young athletes take that next step.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSean and I\u2019s approach is very much: go hard in the beginning, give them a rough time starting off,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you show a young athlete what training like a pro should be like, they\u2019re going to get a lot more accustomed to it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEspecially having a mentor like Sean to teach me how he\u2019s worked with some of the great hockey players who have come through this facility,\u201d he said. \u201cI was able to learn ways to not only maintain a player throughout a season but actually grow them going into their next years, so that they\u2019ll be better and stronger.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Part of that training involves adapting lifting routines to the player\u2019s seasons, a practice known as periodization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere\u2019s gonna be periods where you are going to be able to up the volume and push the guys a little harder, schedule dependent,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe off-season, funnily enough, feels like the on-season for a strength coach,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have all of our off-season training, some local guys that come in for that programming, but also checking in with guys to make sure they are on the right path to succeed when they get to training camp.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAlmost every week we&#8217;re doing a Zoom call with our team; all the coaches get together, and we talk about mental performance,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s really good to get everyone together and still feel like a team, even if everyone is in different parts of Ontario or even further out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIn the preseason, the guys are coming fresh; they\u2019ve done a full offseason; they are ready to go and continue to build.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAs you go through the season, you\u2019re looking at injury management: how do I make sure this player who is getting 25-minutes a night is able to play a three-game weekend and continue on?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Load management becomes even more important as the season wears on and the games get even more important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cComing into the playoffs, how do I make sure my team is still strong but has the energy to go through rounds and rounds and make that push?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Sutherland, getting to work with younger athletes and getting them closer to reaching their athletic potential has been the most fulfilling aspect of his time with CSI and around the 67\u2019s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWorking with younger athletes is super gratifying,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can see the work that\u2019s being put in, and as they begin to age into the league and new opportunities arrive, whether being drafted or moving onto a pro career, you can take a lot of pride in that you were a part of that stepping stone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cPersonally, I\u2019m just happy to be working with the 67\u2019s,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been an Ottawa native my entire life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAs a kid, I remember going to some of those school games growing up,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re there, and it looks so grandiose; you can\u2019t even fathom the idea of being in their position.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cTo be around them every day of the week is something that is super fulfilling,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s always nice to feel like I am giving back to the city and contributing to something that means so much to so many people around here.\u201d<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]While every season it\u2019s the goal of each Ontario Hockey League franchise to win a championship, the OHL is first and foremost a developmental league.\u00a0 Whether that\u2019s academically, as people, and of course on the ice.\u00a0 Outside of the 20 players who suit up in the Barber Pole jersey on a given night, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":625,"featured_media":60162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1150],"tags":[{"term_id":1426,"name":"Damien Sutherland","slug":"damien-sutherland","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1426,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"358"},{"term_id":438,"name":"feature","slug":"feature","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":438,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":37,"filter":"raw","term_order":"439"},{"term_id":8,"name":"Ottawa 67`s","slug":"ottawa-67s","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":8,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1274,"filter":"raw","term_order":"907"}],"class_list":["post-60160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-damien-sutherland","tag-feature","tag-ottawa-67s","category-1150","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/media.chl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/07\/13122416\/20260117-%40-GAT-DG-2-006-scaled.jpg",2560,1440,false],"hide_from_app_feed":false,"video":false,"gallery":null,"ht_game_id":0,"target_video":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60163,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60160\/revisions\/60163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":60156,"date":"2026-07-07T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/?p=60156"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:38:08","slug":"ottawa-67s-reveal-2026-27-exhibition-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/article\/ottawa-67s-reveal-2026-27-exhibition-schedule","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa 67\u2019s Reveal 2026-27 Exhibition Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<b>OTTAWA\u00a0&#8211;<\/b>\u00a0The Ontario Hockey League has announced its 2026-27 exhibition schedule, with the Ottawa 67\u2019s set to play three preseason games ahead of the upcoming campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Barber Poles open their preseason on the road against the Kingston Frontenacs on\u00a0Sunday, August 30, with puck drop set for\u00a02:00 p.m.\u00a0They will face Kingston once again on\u00a0Friday, September 4, at\u00a07:00 p.m.\u00a0at the Ed Lumley Arena in the Cornwall Civic Complex before wrapping up exhibition play on\u00a0Saturday, September 5, when they host the Peterborough Petes at\u00a04:00 p.m.\u00a0at Bert Hall Arena in Arnprior.<\/p>\n<p>The 67\u2019s return a strong core from last season, highlighted by 2026 NHL Draft picks Spencer Bowes (New York Rangers) and Ondrej Ruml (Colorado Avalanche). Veterans Nic Whitehead and 2027 NHL Draft prospect Kohyn Eshkawkogan are also set to return, while Brock Chitaroni enters his second OHL season after being selected third overall in the 2025 OHL Priority Selection.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa will also feature a few new faces, including forward Jaiden Newton, who was acquired from the Barrie Colts earlier this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can secure their seats for the upcoming season by purchasing a 2026-27 Ottawa 67\u2019s season ticket membership <u><a title=\"https:\/\/protect.checkpoint.com\/v2\/r03\/___https:\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/join-us\/___.YzFjOmxhbnNkb3duZXN0YWRpdW0xOmM6bzo2NDQzOTdkMTlmOTU2MjY4MWM1ZjQwNmQ4ODY5ODk1YTo3OjRhMTE6MmIxMzU1NmU4OTExYzgzMjg4NWUxMGM5ODE2N2JhMmRhOTcxZWJhYmU5MWQ4ZTZiMmE2NjI3OTBlYzAxMjk3YzpoOlQ6Rg\" href=\"https:\/\/protect.checkpoint.com\/v2\/r03\/___https:\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/join-us\/___.YzFjOmxhbnNkb3duZXN0YWRpdW0xOmM6bzo2NDQzOTdkMTlmOTU2MjY4MWM1ZjQwNmQ4ODY5ODk1YTo3OjRhMTE6MmIxMzU1NmU4OTExYzgzMjg4NWUxMGM5ODE2N2JhMmRhOTcxZWJhYmU5MWQ4ZTZiMmE2NjI3OTBlYzAxMjk3YzpoOlQ6Rg\" data-outlook-id=\"69caeee5-ae1e-48d7-989c-59f8e285d34c\">HERE<\/a><\/u>\u00a0or a 2026-27 Flex Pack <a href=\"https:\/\/am.ticketmaster.com\/67s\/en\/buy\/67sFlexDeposit\"><u>HERE<\/u>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full 2026-27 regular season schedule is available <u><a title=\"https:\/\/protect.checkpoint.com\/v2\/r03\/___https:\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/67s-schedule\/___.YzFjOmxhbnNkb3duZXN0YWRpdW0xOmM6bzo2NDQzOTdkMTlmOTU2MjY4MWM1ZjQwNmQ4ODY5ODk1YTo3OjRlODc6ZDQ1NzY3NTM1OTQ5ZTc2ZTdjNTk5Njc3YWNhNDFmM2IyOGZiZGY1ZmY3NTUyYjZiZjQyMDU2ODQ1Zjk5MDNjYjpoOlQ6Rg\" href=\"https:\/\/protect.checkpoint.com\/v2\/r03\/___https:\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/67s-schedule\/___.YzFjOmxhbnNkb3duZXN0YWRpdW0xOmM6bzo2NDQzOTdkMTlmOTU2MjY4MWM1ZjQwNmQ4ODY5ODk1YTo3OjRlODc6ZDQ1NzY3NTM1OTQ5ZTc2ZTdjNTk5Njc3YWNhNDFmM2IyOGZiZGY1ZmY3NTUyYjZiZjQyMDU2ODQ1Zjk5MDNjYjpoOlQ6Rg\" data-outlook-id=\"bfcc3bf2-743b-47b2-aaee-a704665fac87\">HERE<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>OTTAWA &#8211;<\/b>\u00a0 La Ligue de hockey de l&#8217;Ontario a annonc\u00e9 son calendrier des matchs pr\u00e9paratoires pour la saison 2026-2027. Les 67 d&#8217;Ottawa disputeront trois rencontres de pr\u00e9saison avant le d\u00e9but de la nouvelle campagne.<\/p>\n<p>Les Barber Poles d\u00e9buteront leur pr\u00e9saison sur la route contre les Frontenacs de Kingston le dimanche 30 ao\u00fbt ; le coup d&#8217;envoi est pr\u00e9vu \u00e0 14 h. Ils affronteront \u00e0 nouveau Kingston le vendredi 4 septembre \u00e0 19 h \u00e0 l\u2019Ed Lumley Arena du Cornwall Civic Complex, avant de cl\u00f4turer leur s\u00e9rie de matchs amicaux le samedi 5 septembre en accueillant les Peterborough Petes \u00e0 16 h \u00e0 la Bert Hall Arena \u00e0 Arnprior.<\/p>\n<p>Les 67\u2019s conservent un noyau solide issu de la saison derni\u00e8re, avec notamment Spencer Bowes (New York Rangers) et Ondrej Ruml (Colorado Avalanche), tous deux s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9s lors du rep\u00eachage 2026 de la LNH. Les v\u00e9t\u00e9rans Nic Whitehead et Kohyn Eshkawkogan, espoir du rep\u00eachage 2027 de la LNH, sont \u00e9galement de retour, tandis que Brock Chitaroni entame sa deuxi\u00e8me saison dans la LHO apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 en troisi\u00e8me position lors du rep\u00eachage prioritaire 2025 de la LHO.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa comptera \u00e9galement quelques nouveaux venus, dont l\u2019attaquant Jaiden Newton, acquis aupr\u00e8s des Colts de Barrie au d\u00e9but de l\u2019intersaison.<\/p>\n<p>Les supporters peuvent r\u00e9server leurs places pour la saison \u00e0 venir en achetant <u><a title=\"https:\/\/protect.checkpoint.com\/v2\/r03\/___https:\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/join-us\/___.YzFjOmxhbnNkb3duZXN0YWRpdW0xOmM6bzo2NDQzOTdkMTlmOTU2MjY4MWM1ZjQwNmQ4ODY5ODk1YTo3OmMxMDc6ODMzYjJjOWZkZDBjZTQyZjJhNWY4MGRhZDE0MjVlYmNjZWE3YTU5ZDZmZWRmMTBkZjBkNWZhM2FkOTYzNzRmNjpoOlQ6Rg\" href=\"https:\/\/protect.checkpoint.com\/v2\/r03\/___https:\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/join-us\/___.YzFjOmxhbnNkb3duZXN0YWRpdW0xOmM6bzo2NDQzOTdkMTlmOTU2MjY4MWM1ZjQwNmQ4ODY5ODk1YTo3OmMxMDc6ODMzYjJjOWZkZDBjZTQyZjJhNWY4MGRhZDE0MjVlYmNjZWE3YTU5ZDZmZWRmMTBkZjBkNWZhM2FkOTYzNzRmNjpoOlQ6Rg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-outlook-id=\"fecfc488-0de0-4501-bbc0-c39221648b97\">ICI<\/a><\/u>\u00a0un abonnement saisonnier 2026-2027 des Ottawa 67\u2019s ou <u><a title=\"http:\/\/applenotes:note\/fa102f2a-2e5c-4ea6-915c-47494f6a70c8?ownerIdentifier=_5c4bf689b8d5081a3d86d247d6daa1ad\" href=\"https:\/\/am.ticketmaster.com\/67s\/en\/buy\/67sFlexDeposit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-outlook-id=\"3a11ea9d-0631-4de4-a8ad-7a7a5f1dbdb2\">ICI<\/a><\/u>\u00a0un Flex Pack 2026-2027.<\/p>\n<p>Le calendrier complet de la saison r\u00e9guli\u00e8re 2026-2027 est disponible <u><a title=\"https:\/\/protect.checkpoint.com\/v2\/r03\/___https:\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/67s-schedule\/___.YzFjOmxhbnNkb3duZXN0YWRpdW0xOmM6bzo2NDQzOTdkMTlmOTU2MjY4MWM1ZjQwNmQ4ODY5ODk1YTo3OjY4NzI6NTg1ZmZlNWYyZWU0NmQ0ZDNiYzEyNzMxMWI0ODA5MmFkNzgxMzlhNzgyMDI2NzE1ZTE0MmRkMGVhYWI3NTZlYTpoOlQ6Rg\" href=\"https:\/\/protect.checkpoint.com\/v2\/r03\/___https:\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/67s-schedule\/___.YzFjOmxhbnNkb3duZXN0YWRpdW0xOmM6bzo2NDQzOTdkMTlmOTU2MjY4MWM1ZjQwNmQ4ODY5ODk1YTo3OjY4NzI6NTg1ZmZlNWYyZWU0NmQ0ZDNiYzEyNzMxMWI0ODA5MmFkNzgxMzlhNzgyMDI2NzE1ZTE0MmRkMGVhYWI3NTZlYTpoOlQ6Rg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-outlook-id=\"e5cad931-e17f-439f-824a-d6a86af0daaa\">ICI<\/a><\/u>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]OTTAWA\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The Ontario Hockey League has announced its 2026-27 exhibition schedule, with the Ottawa 67\u2019s set to play three preseason games ahead of the upcoming campaign. The Barber Poles open their preseason on the road against the Kingston Frontenacs on\u00a0Sunday, August 30, with puck drop set for\u00a02:00 p.m.\u00a0They will face Kingston once again on\u00a0Friday, September&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":590,"featured_media":60157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1150],"tags":[{"term_id":1423,"name":"2026-27 Preseason","slug":"2026-27-preseason","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1423,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"60"},{"term_id":1383,"name":"2026-27 Season","slug":"2026-27-season","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1383,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":4,"filter":"raw","term_order":"62"},{"term_id":1422,"name":"Exhibition Games","slug":"exhibition-games","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1422,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"424"},{"term_id":328,"name":"kingston frontenacs","slug":"kingston-frontenacs","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":328,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":69,"filter":"raw","term_order":"667"},{"term_id":8,"name":"Ottawa 67`s","slug":"ottawa-67s","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":8,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1274,"filter":"raw","term_order":"907"},{"term_id":298,"name":"peterborough petes","slug":"peterborough-petes","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":298,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":73,"filter":"raw","term_order":"955"},{"term_id":1424,"name":"Preseason schedule","slug":"preseason-schedule","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1424,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1016"},{"term_id":1425,"name":"Release","slug":"release","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1425,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1053"}],"class_list":["post-60156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-2026-27-preseason","tag-2026-27-season","tag-exhibition-games","tag-kingston-frontenacs","tag-ottawa-67s","tag-peterborough-petes","tag-preseason-schedule","tag-release","category-1150","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/media.chl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/07\/07132113\/1920x1080ExhibitionGa.png",1920,1080,false],"hide_from_app_feed":false,"video":false,"gallery":null,"ht_game_id":0,"target_video":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60159,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60156\/revisions\/60159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":60149,"date":"2026-07-07T10:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/?p=60149"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:10:17","slug":"get-to-know-vilho-vanhatalo-the-newest-ottawa-67s-import-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/article\/get-to-know-vilho-vanhatalo-the-newest-ottawa-67s-import-pick","title":{"rendered":"Get to know Vilho Vanhatalo, the newest Ottawa 67&#8217;s import pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vilho Vanhatalo brings a lot to the table.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He\u2019s a big body, a former captain, has pro experience, is a two-time champion, an NHL draft pick, and now a member of the Ottawa 67\u2019s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 67\u2019s selected the Tampere, FIN, right winger with the 52nd overall pick in the 2026 CHL Import Draft. At 6-foot-4, he\u2019d be amongst the team\u2019s tallest players on last year\u2019s squad, only surpassed by Zach Houben and David Bedkowski, who both stand at 6-foot-6.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vanhatalo, 18, is coming off a 19-point season with Tappara\u2019s Under-20 system, where he scored 10 goals and nine assists over 38 regular-season games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The youngster would suit up for eight games and net an assist with the men\u2019s team, Tappara Tampere, which is partly owned by fellow Tampere-born hockey player Aleksander Barkov, the captain of the Florida Panthers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He\u2019d return to the Under-20 circuit for the playoffs, leading his team in points with 12 across 13 games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His strong play in the back half of the season would place him 79th in EliteProspects\u2019 2026 NHL Draft Guide. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has the ideal power forward frame combined with projectable quickness and footspeed, along with a powerful shot that uses from every distance.\u201d &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/nhl-draft-guide\/2026?player=vilho-vanhatalo\">EliteProspects Draft Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With pick No. 168, Vanhatalo would fall into the paws of the Panthers, joining Barkov.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the connection to Barkov, he said at the NHL draft that he models his game after Matthew Knies of the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHe is a power forward just like me. He has a good shot and a lot of scoring skills. He is a good role model for me,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.is.fi\/urheilu\/art-2000012106975.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">he said to Teemu Suvinen of Ilta-Sanomat<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The hockey connections are strong in the Vanhatalo family, with two older brothers active in the sport.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lassi, 28, is his biggest role model. The 6-foot-7 winger has been a longtime pro in Finland, with the 6-foot-7 winger suiting up in 260 games across nine seasons in Liiga, even serving as an assistant captain for Vaasan Sport in 2022-23.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miika, 30, has been much more hands-on with Vilho\u2019s development, having coached him at the Under-16 and Under-18 levels. He head-coached Tappara\u2019s Under-16 team, which Vilho would later captain, to a league title before both moved to the Under-18 squad, with Miika joining the championship-winning team as an assistant coach in 2024-25.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That season, Vilho led the Finnish Under-18 league in goals with 37 across just 41 games, while scoring 10 goals in 12 games in the playoffs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vanhatalo is set to join returners Ondrej Ruml (Colorado Avalanche) and Filip Ekberg (Carolina Hurricanes) as the team\u2019s three imports for the 2026-27 season.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Vilho Vanhatalo brings a lot to the table. He\u2019s a big body, a former captain, has pro experience, is a two-time champion, an NHL draft pick, and now a member of the Ottawa 67\u2019s.\u00a0 The 67\u2019s selected the Tampere, FIN, right winger with the 52nd overall pick in the 2026 CHL Import Draft. 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The Uppsala, Sweden native has suited up for Sweden on various occasions, including posting 10 goals and 18 points in seven games at the 2025 IIHF U18 World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The World Junior Summer Showcase consists of ten games \u2013 featuring World Junior hopefuls from Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United States. The non-tournament format is used by each federation as the first evaluation period ahead of the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden will kick off the World Junior Summer Showcase on Sunday, July 26 against, Team USA at the WFCU Centre in Windsor.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">L&#8217;attaquant des 67\u00a0d&#8217;Ottawa, Filip Ekberg, a \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 pour repr\u00e9senter la Su\u00e8de lors du World Junior Summer Showcase 2026, qui se d\u00e9roulera du 26 juillet au 1er ao\u00fbt \u00e0 Windsor, en Ontario.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2g\u00e9 de 19 ans, Ekberg a marqu\u00e9 91 points en 112 matchs au cours de ses deux saisons avec les Barber Poles (2024-2026), dont 24 buts et 46 points en 59 matchs la saison derni\u00e8re. Originaire d\u2019Uppsala, en Su\u00e8de, il a port\u00e9 les couleurs de la Su\u00e8de \u00e0 plusieurs reprises, notamment en inscrivant 10 buts et 18 points en sept matchs lors des Championnats du monde U18 de l\u2019IIHF 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Le World Junior Summer Showcase se compose de dix matchs mettant en sc\u00e8ne les espoirs des championnats du monde juniors du Canada, de la Finlande, de la Su\u00e8de et des \u00c9tats-Unis. Ce format hors-comp\u00e9tition est utilis\u00e9 par chaque f\u00e9d\u00e9ration comme premi\u00e8re p\u00e9riode d\u2019\u00e9valuation en vue du Championnat du monde junior de hockey de l\u2019IIHF.<\/p>\n<p>La Su\u00e8de d\u00e9butera le World Junior Summer Showcase le dimanche 26 juillet contre l\u2019\u00e9quipe des \u00c9tats-Unis au WFCU Centre de Windsor.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]OTTAWA \u2013\u00a0Ottawa 67\u2019s forward Filip Ekberg has been selected to represent Sweden at the 2026 World Junior Summer Showcase, taking place from July 26-Aug. 1 in Windsor, ON. Ekberg, 19, has registered 91 points in 112 games over his two seasons with the Barber Poles (2024-26), including 24 goals and 46 points in 59 games&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":590,"featured_media":60145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1150],"tags":[{"term_id":1165,"name":"Filip Ekberg","slug":"filip-ekberg","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1165,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":9,"filter":"raw","term_order":"443"},{"term_id":781,"name":"World Junior Summer Showcase","slug":"world-junior-summer-showcase","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":781,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1380"}],"class_list":["post-60144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-filip-ekberg","tag-world-junior-summer-showcase","category-1150","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/media.chl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/07\/01105331\/1920x1080_Ekky-1.png",1920,1080,false],"hide_from_app_feed":false,"video":false,"gallery":null,"ht_game_id":0,"target_video":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60146,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60144\/revisions\/60146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":60140,"date":"2026-06-30T12:50:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/?p=60140"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:51:46","slug":"67s-select-finnish-forward-vanhatalo-in-the-2026-chl-import-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/article\/67s-select-finnish-forward-vanhatalo-in-the-2026-chl-import-draft","title":{"rendered":"67&#8217;s Select Finnish forward Vanhatalo\u00a0in the 2026 CHL Import Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The Ottawa 67&#8217;s selected Finnish forward Vilho Vanhatalo during the 2026 Canadian Hockey League Import Draft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Round 1, Pick 52:<br \/>\nForward Vilho Vanhatalo<\/p>\n<p>Vanhatalo was selected by the Florida Panthers in the sixth round, 168th overall, in last week&#8217;s 2026 NHL Draft. The Tampere, Finland native played eight games last season in Liiga with Tappara, registering one assist. He also suited up in 38 games with Tappara U20, posting 10 goals and 19 points last season. Vanhatalo also spent time with Finland\u2019s U18 club at the 2026 IIHF World U18 Championships, where he registered one goal in five contests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HEIGHT:<\/strong>\u00a06&#8217;4 |\u00a0<strong>WEIGHT:<\/strong>\u00a0195 lbs |\u00a0<strong>BIRTHDAY:<\/strong>\u00a001\/18\/2008<br \/>\n<strong>HOMETOWN:<\/strong>\u00a0Tampere, FIN |\u00a0<strong>PREVIOUS TEAM:\u00a0<\/strong>Tappara U20[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<br data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\" \/>1er tour, 52e au total :<br \/>\nAttaquant\u00a0\u00a0Vilho Vanhatalo<\/p>\n<p>Vanhatalo a \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 par les Panthers de la Floride au sixi\u00e8me tour, 168e choix au total, lors du rep\u00eachage 2026 de la LNH qui s\u2019est d\u00e9roul\u00e9 la semaine derni\u00e8re. Originaire de Tampere, en Finlande, il a disput\u00e9 huit matchs la saison derni\u00e8re en Liiga avec le Tappara, enregistrant une passe d\u00e9cisive. Il a \u00e9galement disput\u00e9 38 matchs avec l\u2019\u00e9quipe U20 du Tappara, inscrivant 10 buts et 19 points la saison derni\u00e8re. Vanhatalo a \u00e9galement fait partie de l&#8217;\u00e9quipe nationale finlandaise des moins de 18 ans lors des Championnats du monde U18 de l&#8217;IIHF 2026, o\u00f9 il a inscrit un but en cinq rencontres.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TAILLE :\u00a0<\/strong>6-4 |<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>P<\/strong><strong>OIDS :\u00a0<\/strong>195 |\u00a0<strong>DATE DE NAISSANCE :\u00a0<\/strong>01\/18\/2008<br \/>\n<strong>VILLE NATALE :\u00a0<\/strong>Tampere, FIN |\u00a0<strong>ANCIENNE \u00c9QUIPE\u00a0:<\/strong>\u00a0Tappara U20[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Ottawa 67&#8217;s selected Finnish forward Vilho Vanhatalo during the 2026 Canadian Hockey League Import Draft. Round 1, Pick 52: Forward Vilho Vanhatalo Vanhatalo was selected by the Florida Panthers in the sixth round, 168th overall, in last week&#8217;s 2026 NHL Draft. The Tampere, Finland native played eight games last season in Liiga with Tappara,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":590,"featured_media":60142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1150],"tags":[{"term_id":1421,"name":"2026 CHL Import Draft","slug":"2026-chl-import-draft","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1421,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","term_order":"51"},{"term_id":1420,"name":"Vilho Vanhatalo","slug":"vilho-vanhatalo","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1420,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1341"}],"class_list":["post-60140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-2026-chl-import-draft","tag-vilho-vanhatalo","category-1150","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/media.chl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/06\/30123454\/White_1920x1080_Vilho.png",1920,1080,false],"hide_from_app_feed":false,"video":false,"gallery":null,"ht_game_id":0,"target_video":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60143,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60140\/revisions\/60143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":60085,"date":"2026-06-29T14:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/?p=60085"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:30:30","slug":"meet-ottawa-67s-first-rounder-andrew-laurin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/article\/meet-ottawa-67s-first-rounder-andrew-laurin","title":{"rendered":"Meet Ottawa 67&#8217;s First Rounder Andrew Laurin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 2026 OHL Priority Selection on Friday night proved to be a special night, returning to an in-person setting for the first time since 2000. For Belleville-born, Kingston-raised Andrew Laurin, the night was even more special, getting the call by the Ottawa 67\u2019s as their 18th overall selection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true,\u201d said Laurin. \u201cEspecially to be done in my hometown, it means a lot to my family and I.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Laurin was joined by several family members, including his brother, his grandmother, and her friends.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI have to thank all my family, coaches, trainers, advisors; I wouldn\u2019t be here without all of them,\u201d said Laurin. \u201cI want to shout out my parents, but especially my younger brother Blake,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blake is following his older brother\u2019s path, as he\u2019s a goaltender within the Quinte Red Devils U13 AAA squad. \u201cHe\u2019s pushed me every day to get better.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI just want to thank them for all their sacrifices and help along the way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Throughout the draft process, it seemed like fate that the Ottawa 67\u2019s were going to land Andrew Laurin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCertain players jump out at you a bit earlier with their playing style and the DNA of what we look for; he was on our radar at the Toronto Titans Tournament sometime in September,\u201d said General Manager Jan Egert. \u201cAt that point, you have no idea what the draft looks like or where you\u2019re going to select, but Andrew became a player of priority for us very early.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI had an interview with Ottawa earlier in the year, and I thought it went really well, but it was my first one, so I didn\u2019t really know how to gauge it,\u201d he said. \u201cMy progression this season was one of the big things I talked with Mr. Egert about; that\u2019s what gave me that feeling.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The right winger registered 51 points across 34 games with the Quinte Red Devils U16 AAA in the Ontario Minor Hockey Association U16 AAA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Laurin familiarized himself with the 67\u2019s over the course of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI followed a lot of 67\u2019s games this season,\u201d he said. \u201cI came to the Slush Puppie Place for the playoffs this past year, watching those games and how they handled business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard of this,\u201d said Egert with a smile. \u201cI didn\u2019t ask which team he rooted for at that point, though I might put him on the spot later on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This was Egert\u2019s first year running the draft as the team\u2019s general manager, and while you\u2019d want to make the right pick every year, there\u2019s no doubt a bit more at stake in getting this one right. \u201cAs we worked through the process, we quite often came back to the name Andrew Laurin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Laurin would pick up the pace late-season, with five points in four games at the OHL Cup and 12 points over eight games in the OMHA U16 playoffs. Yet it was after meeting his family that he shifted from being a player of priority for the 67&#8217;s to the team\u2019s target.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI spent an hour with them, and I got a sense that the human values are aligned with us as well,\u201d said Egert. \u201cThe ambition, the passion, and the mentality of the young athlete made him a fit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, while there was a fit between the player and the personality, an underlying connection was discovered during the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMy parents used to live in Ottawa before they moved to Kingston, so I\u2019ve heard stories about the city,\u201d said Laurin, who grew up in Kingston. That connection would prove to be two-fold, as long before Egert was with the 67\u2019s, Egert spent some time growing up in Westport, Ontario, a small town around 45 minutes away from Kingston.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Laurin describes himself as a \u2018smart, physical player who can be relied upon in big moments\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI thrive under pressure,\u201d he added. \u201cOnce you get to know me, I hope you\u2019ll know I have character and play with passion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What Laurin thinks his x-factor is his physicality, \u201cthat\u2019s what brings my game to life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thus, it is no surprise that Laurin says he models his game after physical power forwards Tom Wilson and Josh Anderson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s their leadership on the ice, the way they carry themself each and every shift,\u201d he said. \u201cTwo guys who bring energy to the game by their physicality and size, and they also score in the big moments and live up to the hype and higher-pressure situations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As for playing in Ottawa, Laurin can\u2019t wait to get started.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe work starts now,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s super exciting to see what the team was last year, and what it\u2019s only going to become.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI know it\u2019s a first-class organization and an amazing city to be in,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve heard nothing but great things, and I am super excited to get there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m super honoured to be under (Dave Cameron)\u2019s wing,\u201d he said. \u201cI expect him to hold me accountable\u2026 whatever he thinks I need to work on, I\u2019ll do it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI think my skating could always use improvement,\u201d he said of the one area he thinks he could develop the most. \u201cI think specifically, my first three steps and stride could get quicker, and if they get quicker, I\u2019ll be able to use my skillset to create more opportunities in the offensive zone for my teammates and I.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For now, he\u2019s keeping his plan for the next step on his OHL journey simple and straightforward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cJust looking to put the puck in the back of the net, be reliable, and hopefully bring a couple of trophies home in the coming years.\u201d<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The 2026 OHL Priority Selection on Friday night proved to be a special night, returning to an in-person setting for the first time since 2000. For Belleville-born, Kingston-raised Andrew Laurin, the night was even more special, getting the call by the Ottawa 67\u2019s as their 18th overall selection. \u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true,\u201d said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":625,"featured_media":60137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1150],"tags":[{"term_id":1384,"name":"2026 OHL Priority Selection","slug":"2026-ohl-priority-selection","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1384,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":18,"filter":"raw","term_order":"56"},{"term_id":1394,"name":"Andrew Laurin","slug":"andrew-laurin","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1394,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","term_order":"140"},{"term_id":398,"name":"ohl draft","slug":"ohl-draft","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":398,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":26,"filter":"raw","term_order":"843"},{"term_id":1345,"name":"Player Stories","slug":"player-stories","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1345,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":4,"filter":"raw","term_order":"985"}],"class_list":["post-60085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-2026-ohl-priority-selection","tag-andrew-laurin","tag-ohl-draft","tag-player-stories","category-1150","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/media.chl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/06\/29143018\/IMG_7847-scaled.jpeg",2560,1708,false],"hide_from_app_feed":false,"video":false,"gallery":null,"ht_game_id":0,"target_video":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60138,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60085\/revisions\/60138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":60135,"date":"2026-06-28T13:06:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/?p=60135"},"modified":"2026-06-28T13:06:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:06:56","slug":"five-ottawa-players-selected-in-the-2026-nhl-entry-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-67s\/article\/five-ottawa-players-selected-in-the-2026-nhl-entry-draft","title":{"rendered":"Five Ottawa Players Selected in the 2026 NHL Entry Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>OTTAWA<\/strong><em>\u00a0\u2013<\/em>\u00a0The Ottawa 67\u2019s are proud to announce that five players from the 2025-26 roster have been selected in the 2026 NHL Entry Draft, marking the highest number of players selected since 1999. The Ottawa 67\u2019s also lead all OHL teams with five, tied for the most among all CHL teams with the Medicine Hat Tigers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spencer Bowes<\/strong><br \/>\nR4 #102 by the New York Rangers<\/p>\n<p>Bowes, 18, was selected 293rd overall in the 2024 OHL Priority Selection. The Carleton Place, Ontario\u00a0native appeared in 67 regular-season games, tallying 23 goals and 19 assists for 42 points. In the playoffs, he contributed four goals and three assists for seven points over nine games.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining the 67\u2019s, Bowes played with the Pembroke Lumber Kings, where he notched 12 goals and 21 assists for 33 points in 27 games. He also captured a CCHL Championship with the Rockland Nationals during their Centennial Cup run, adding four goals and seven assists for 11 points in 15 games. In the 2023-24 campaign, Bowes suited up in 44 games for the\u00a0Perth Blue Wings of the EOJHL, tallying 28\u00a0goals and 45\u00a0assists for 73 points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Vandenberg\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nR4 #103 by the LA Kings<\/p>\n<p>Vandenberg<strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>18, was selected 93rd overall by Ottawa in the 2024 Priority Selection. The Nepean, Ontario native made an immediate impact in his rookie OHL season, appearing in 59 games and tallying 25 goals and 25 assists for 50 points, finishing fifth among OHL rookies. In the playoffs, Vandenberg added four goals and three assists for seven points in nine games as the 67\u2019s advanced to the second round. He later joined Team Canada at the IIHF U18 World Championship in Slovakia, where he scored once.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the Barber Poles, Vandenberg played for the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders in the USHL, where he recorded nine goals and nine assists for 18 points in 55 games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ryder Fetterolf<\/strong><br \/>\nR4 #125 by the Carolina Hurricanes<\/p>\n<p>Fetterolf<strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>18, joined the team as a free agent ahead of the 2025-26 season. He posted an outstanding 29-9-2-1 record, a 2.07 goals-against average, a .923 save percentage, and six shutouts in 41 games. In his rookie OHL campaign, the Sewickley, Pennsylvania native led the league in goals-against average and save percentage. His six shutouts set new OHL and franchise records for a rookie goaltender in a single season.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterolf was named OHL Goaltender of the Year, becoming only the second Ottawa 67\u2019s goaltender to earn the honour. He also became the first player in franchise history to be recognized as CHL Goaltender of the Year. Fetterolf was further distinguished by being selected to both the OHL and CHL First All-Star and All-Rookie Teams for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>Before coming to Ottawa, Fetterolf played for Gilmour Academy in the USHS-Prep league, appearing in 61 games with a .940 save percentage and a 1.64 goals-against average.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jasper Kuhta<\/strong><br \/>\nR7 #197 by the Dallas Stars<\/p>\n<p>Kuhta, 19, was selected 72nd overall by Ottawa in the 2025 CHL Import Draft. In 62 regular-season games, the Helsinki, Finland native notched 32 goals and 31 assists for 63 points. During the 2026 OHL Playoffs, he contributed two goals and five assists for seven points in nine games. Kuhta also represented Finland at the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship, tallying two goals and six assists over seven games.<\/p>\n<p>Kuhta spent the 2024-25 season with HIFK Helsinki\u2019s U20 team, recording 18 goals and 25 assists for 43 points in 38 games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ondrej Ruml<\/strong><br \/>\nR7 #214 by the Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n<p>Ruml, 18, joined the Ottawa 67\u2019s this season after a standout year with HC Dynamo Pardubice U17, where he registered nine goals and 31 assists for 40 points in 41 games.<\/p>\n<p>Selected eighth overall by Ottawa in the 2025 CHL Import Draft, the Valtice, Czechia native has tallied 10 goals and 18 assists for 28 points in 68 regular-season games. In the 2026 OHL Playoffs, he has picked up one assist in nine games. He represented Czechia at the 2026 IIHF World U18 Championship, where he registered six assists in seven games.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>OTTAWA \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Les 67 d\u2019Ottawa sont fiers d\u2019annoncer que cinq joueurs de leur effectif 2025-2026 ont \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9s lors du rep\u00eachage 2026 de la LNH, ce qui repr\u00e9sente le plus grand nombre de joueurs s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9s depuis 1999. Les 67 d\u2019Ottawa sont \u00e9galement en t\u00eate de toutes les \u00e9quipes de la LHO\u00a0avec cinq joueurs s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9s, \u00e0 \u00e9galit\u00e9 avec les Tigers de Medicine Hat pour le plus grand nombre parmi toutes les \u00e9quipes de la LCH.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spencer Bowes<\/strong><br \/>\n4e tour, 102e\u00a0par les Rangers de New York<\/p>\n<p>Bowes, \u00e2g\u00e9 de 18 ans, avait \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 en 293e position lors du rep\u00eachage prioritaire de la LHO de 2024. Originaire de Carleton Place, il a disput\u00e9 67 matchs de saison r\u00e9guli\u00e8re, inscrivant 23 buts et 19 passes d\u00e9cisives pour un total de 42 points. En s\u00e9ries \u00e9liminatoires, il a r\u00e9colt\u00e9 quatre buts et trois passes d\u00e9cisives, soit sept points, en neuf matchs.<\/p>\n<p>Avant de rejoindre les 67\u2019s, Bowes a jou\u00e9 avec les Lumber Kings de Pembroke, o\u00f9 il a inscrit 12 buts et 21 passes d\u00e9cisives pour un total de 33 points en 27 matchs. Il a \u00e9galement remport\u00e9 le titre de champion de la CCHL avec les Rockland Nationals lors de leur parcours vers la Centennial Cup, ajoutant quatre buts et sept passes d\u00e9cisives pour un total de 11 points en 15 matchs.\u00a0Au cours de la saison 2023-2024, Bowes a disput\u00e9 44 matchs sous les couleurs des Perth Blue Wings de l&#8217;EOJHL, inscrivant 28 buts et 45 passes d\u00e9cisives, pour un total de 73 points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Vandenberg\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n4e tour, 103e par les LA Kings<\/p>\n<p>Vandenberg, \u00e2g\u00e9 de 18 ans, a \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 en 93e position par Ottawa lors du rep\u00eachage prioritaire de 2024. Originaire de Nepean, en Ontario, il s\u2019est imm\u00e9diatement illustr\u00e9 lors de sa premi\u00e8re saison dans la LHO, disputant 59 matchs et totalisant 25 buts et 25 passes d\u00e9cisives pour un total de 50 points, ce qui lui a valu la cinqui\u00e8me place parmi les recrues de la LHO. En s\u00e9ries \u00e9liminatoires, Vandenberg a ajout\u00e9 quatre buts et trois passes d\u00e9cisives pour un total de sept points en neuf matchs, permettant aux 67\u2019s d\u2019acc\u00e9der au deuxi\u00e8me tour. Il a ensuite rejoint l\u2019\u00e9quipe du Canada lors du Championnat du monde U18 de l\u2019IIHF en Slovaquie, o\u00f9 il a marqu\u00e9 un but.<\/p>\n<p>Avant de rejoindre les Barber Poles, Vandenberg a jou\u00e9 pour les RoughRiders de Cedar Rapids dans l\u2019USHL, o\u00f9 il a inscrit neuf buts et neuf passes d\u00e9cisives pour un total de 18 points en 55 matchs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ryder Fetterolf<\/strong><br \/>\n4e tour, 125e\u00a0par les\u00a0Hurricanes de Carolina<\/p>\n<p>Fetterolf, \u00e2g\u00e9 de 18 ans, a rejoint l&#8217;\u00e9quipe en tant qu&#8217;agent libre avant la saison 2025-2026. Il a affich\u00e9 un bilan exceptionnel de 29 victoires, neuf\u00a0d\u00e9faites, deux\u00a0matchs nuls et une\u00a0prolongation, avec une moyenne de buts encaiss\u00e9s de 2,07, un pourcentage d&#8217;arr\u00eats de 0,923 et six\u00a0blanchissages en 41 matchs. Lors de sa premi\u00e8re saison dans la LHO, ce natif de Sewickley, en Pennsylvanie, a termin\u00e9 en t\u00eate de la ligue pour la moyenne de buts encaiss\u00e9s et le pourcentage d\u2019arr\u00eats. Ses six blanchissages ont \u00e9tabli de nouveaux records de la LHO\u00a0et de la franchise pour un gardien de but rookie en une seule saison.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterolf a \u00e9t\u00e9 nomm\u00e9 gardien de but de l\u2019ann\u00e9e de la LHO, devenant ainsi le deuxi\u00e8me gardien des 67 d\u2019Ottawa \u00e0 remporter cet honneur. Il est \u00e9galement devenu le premier joueur de l\u2019histoire de la franchise \u00e0 \u00eatre d\u00e9sign\u00e9 gardien de but de l\u2019ann\u00e9e de la LCH. Fetterolf s\u2019est en outre distingu\u00e9 en \u00e9tant s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 \u00e0 la fois dans la premi\u00e8re \u00e9quipe d\u2019\u00e9toiles et dans la premi\u00e8re \u00e9quipe des recrues de la LHO\u00a0et de la LCH pour la saison 2025-2026.<\/p>\n<p>Avant de rejoindre Ottawa, Fetterolf a jou\u00e9 pour la Gilmour Academy dans la ligue USHS-Prep, disputant 61 matchs avec un pourcentage d\u2019arr\u00eats de 0,940 et une moyenne de buts encaiss\u00e9s de 1,64.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jasper Kuhta<\/strong><br \/>\n7e tour, 197e par les Stars de Dallas<\/p>\n<p>Kuhta, \u00e2g\u00e9 de 19 ans, a \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 en 72e position par Ottawa lors du rep\u00eachage des joueurs import\u00e9s de la LCH 2025. En 62 matchs de saison r\u00e9guli\u00e8re, ce natif d\u2019Helsinki, en Finlande, a inscrit 32 buts et 31 passes d\u00e9cisives, pour un total de 63 points. Lors des s\u00e9ries \u00e9liminatoires de la LHO\u00a02026, il a r\u00e9colt\u00e9 deux buts et cinq passes d\u00e9cisives, soit sept points en neuf matchs. Kuhta a \u00e9galement repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 la Finlande au Championnat du monde junior de l\u2019IIHF 2026, o\u00f9 il a inscrit deux buts et a obtenu six passes d\u00e9cisives en sept matchs.<\/p>\n<p>Kuhta a pass\u00e9 la saison 2024-2025 au sein de l\u2019\u00e9quipe U20 du HIFK Helsinki, o\u00f9 il a inscrit 18 buts et 25 passes d\u00e9cisives, pour un total de 43 points en 38 matchs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ondrej Ruml<\/strong><br \/>\n7e tour, 214e par l\u2019Avalanche du Colorado<\/p>\n<p>Ruml, \u00e2g\u00e9 de 18 ans, a rejoint les 67 d\u2019Ottawa cette saison apr\u00e8s une ann\u00e9e exceptionnelle avec les U17 du HC Dynamo Pardubice, o\u00f9 il a inscrit neuf buts et 31 passes d\u00e9cisives, pour un total de 40 points en 41 matchs.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 en huiti\u00e8me position par Ottawa lors du rep\u00eachage des joueurs import\u00e9s de la :C\u00a02025, ce natif de Valtice, en Tch\u00e9quie, a inscrit 10 buts et 18 passes d\u00e9cisives pour un total de 28 points en 68 matchs de saison r\u00e9guli\u00e8re. 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