Lisson named top goaltender
NORTH BAY, Ont. — Jack Lisson of the North Bay Battalion has been named the Goaltender of the Week for the period ended Sunday, the Ontario Hockey League announced Monday.
Lisson posted a 3-0 won-lost record during the week with a 1.39 goals-against average, a .963 save percentage and one shutout as the fifth-place Battalion won its best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarterfinal series against the fourth-place Peterborough Petes four games to two.
The clincher came Saturday night, when Lisson provided 52 saves at Boart Longyear Memorial Gardens in a 5-4 victory that was secured when Parker Vaughan scored his second goal of the game at 17:09 of the second overtime period.
On Tuesday night, Lisson registered his second shutout of the series, a 33-save performance in a 4-0 home-ice win as the Battalion evened the set 2-2. He stopped 44 shots at Peterborough on Thursday night in a 3-1 victory.
A second-year goaltender seeing his first OHL postseason action, Lisson played in all six games of the series, posting a 4-2 record, a 1.71 GAA and a .950 save percentage. Both losses came in overtime.
Lisson, who turned 20 last Tuesday, went 24-11-3 with a 2.59 GAA, a .913 save percentage and one shutout in 40 regular-season games.
Chosen in the 15th round, 301st overall, in the 2022 OHL Priority Selection from his hometown Oakville Rangers U16s, Lisson played for the Ridley College Tigers of St. Catharines in 2022-23 before joining the junior A Wellington Dukes the following season. In 2024-25 he played with Wellington and the British Columbia Hockey League’s West Kelowna Warriors before signing with the Battalion and seeing action in 12 games starting in January.
Lisson is committed to Canisius College of Buffalo, N.Y.
He’s the second Battalion goaltender to earn the OHL’s weekly award this season, with Mike McIvor having been recognized for the period ended March 22, the final week of the 2025-26 schedule.
The Battalion opens a best-of-seven conference semifinal against the first-place Brantford Bulldogs on the road at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The game can be seen live in North Bay on YourTV Channels 12 and 700.
