<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
  xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
  xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
  xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
  xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
  xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
  xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
  >
  <channel>
    <title>North Bay Battalion - Feed</title>
    <atom:link href="https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
    <link>https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/</link>
    <description></description>
    <lastBuildDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:23:02 +0000</lastBuildDate>
    <language>en-CA</language>
    <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
    <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
    <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4</generator>
          <item>
                   <enclosure url="https://media.chl.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2026/11/04112247/EdwardsFacesForeurs-300x169.png" length="0" type="image/png"></enclosure>
                  <title>Battalion embraces road test</title>
        <link>https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-f-2</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
        <dc:creator>North Bay Battalion</dc:creator>
        <guid isPermaLink="false">https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-f-2</guid>
        <description><![CDATA[NORTH BAY, Ont. — The North Bay Battalion hits the road for two games this weekend looking for better results than it’s enjoyed recently at home.]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[NORTH BAY, Ont. — The North Bay Battalion hits the road for two games this weekend looking for better results than it’s enjoyed recently at home.

That’s hardly what a team that started the Ontario Hockey League season with four straight home wins and six consecutive road losses might have expected.

The Battalion lost 4-2 Sunday to the visiting Val-d’Or Foreurs of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League after a 5-4 overtime setback Thursday night to the touring London Knights. With home-ice defeats at the hands of the Sudbury Wolves on Oct. 22 and Niagara IceDogs on Oct. 18, the Troops are 0-3-1 at Boart Longyear Memorial Gardens since a 3-1 victory over the Peterborough Petes on Thanksgiving Day.

North Bay, which posted road wins against Sudbury on Oct. 23, the Barrie Colts on Oct. 24 and Niagara last Friday night, now is 3-6-0 off the bus.

But with visits to the Kitchener Rangers, reigning Memorial Cup champions, at 7 p.m. Friday and the Guelph Storm, loaded up to host the tournament this season, on Saturday, the schedule isn’t any easier.

With one-quarter of its schedule in the books, the Battalion has a won-lost-extended record of 7-9-1 for 15 points, third in the Central Division. Kitchener is 8-6-3 for 19 points, third in the Midwest Division, after a 3-2 home-ice loss Tuesday night to division- and Western Conference-leading Guelph before the Erie Otters’ visit Wednesday night to the Soo Greyhounds.

“We haven’t had success in the Kitchener building,” Battalion coach Ryan Oulahen acknowledged Wednesday. “That’s something that’s on our minds, and we’ve been talking about it, that we want to right that ship a little bit here and (have) an opportunity to do that first thing on Friday, and then we’ll see what happens turning the page to the game on Saturday.”

In 11 games at Kitchener since relocation from Brampton for the 2013-14 season, the Battalion is 2-7-2, the more recent win a 5-1 decision Feb. 27, 2015. Nick Paul scored two goals, including the first-period winner and a shorthanded empty-netter at 13:11 of the third period, and added two assists, while goaltender Jake Kment made 15 saves.

The next two seasons saw the Troops defeated via shootout, meaning the last seven trips to the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium have resulted in regulation losses. The 2020-21 season was cancelled because of covid, and the teams didn’t meet during the 2021-22 campaign’s non-traditional schedule.

The schedule’s recent demands have been daunting, with Val-d’Or, 14-1-1 for 29 points atop the QMJHL’s Western Conference and the league, just named No. 1 in the Canadian Hockey League Top 10 rankings.

But Oulahen took positives from his charges’ play.

“I would say that we’re pretty happy overall with the way we played last weekend. Three tough games, two top high-end opponents, and to come out of that .500 and had a chance to win all three games, so I think (we’re) looking pretty positively at the games that we’re building here.

“I think (there’s) the belief in our team that we’re building, and we’re just looking forward now to the challenge of getting on the road this weekend and trying to have two really good games.”

Oulahen pointed to quicker starts being key to improved road results.

“I think maybe, if there’s one thing in the games that we have had success, it’s us getting off to a better start. It’s not chasing the game. When you see the mistakes that happen or those blunders, it’s because we’re behind a little bit.”

Evgeny Dubrovtsev leads the Troops in scoring with a team-best 14 goals and four assists for 18 points in 17 games, but the hottest hands belong to Arseny Pronin, who has a 10-game points streak in which he’s generated nine goals and five assists for 14 points. After earning two assists in the first seven games, the Belarusian has amassed all his other points in the last 10 outings while scoring one goal in each of the last five.

“They’ve been huge,” Oulahen said of the two imports after the Val-d’Or game. “This is what you expect and you hope for from those guys. The pedigree that they had, last year they were both kind of getting situated, especially Geno, just being a 17-year-old really for the whole year. We asked a lot of them.

“Now this year they’re starting to realize what it’s like to become the guys, so to speak.”

The game at Kitchener can be seen live in North Bay on YourTV Channels 12 and 700.]]></content:encoded>
                      </item>
          <item>
                   <enclosure url="https://media.chl.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2026/11/01174800/WarrenTakesHisShot-300x169.png" length="0" type="image/png"></enclosure>
                  <title>Veilleux leads Val-d&#8217;Or win</title>
        <link>https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-d-2</link>
        <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 22:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
        <dc:creator>North Bay Battalion</dc:creator>
        <guid isPermaLink="false">https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-d-2</guid>
        <description><![CDATA[NORTH BAY, Ont. — Philippe Veilleux, the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League’s leading scorer, translated well to the Ontario Hockey League in his Val-d’Or Foreurs’ 4-2 victory Sunday over the North Bay Battalion.]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[NORTH BAY, Ont. — Philippe Veilleux, the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League’s leading scorer, translated well to the Ontario Hockey League in his Val-d’Or Foreurs’ 4-2 victory Sunday over the North Bay Battalion.

Veilleux scored two goals, including an empty-netter on a power play, and Nolann Heroux and Hemrick Carbonneau added a goal apiece for Val-d’Or before 2,626 at Boart Longyear Memorial Gardens who witnessed the Battalion’s first in-season interleague game.

Goaltender Arseni Radkov, a Belarusian import, provided 28 saves as Val-d’Or moved its won-lost-extended record to 14-1-1 for 29 points atop the QMJHL’s Western Conference and the league. The Foreurs, coached by Maxime Desruisseaux, who’s also the general manager, have won 10 straight games, their last loss a 5-4 home-ice setback Oct. 4 to the Gatineau Olympiques.

Shamar Moses and Arseny Pronin scored for North Bay, while goaltender Cole Vreugdenhil allowed three goals on 29 shots in a strong showing.

The Battalion is 7-9-1 for 15 points, third in the Central Division, one point behind the Niagara IceDogs, who lost 4-3 in overtime to the visiting Peterborough Petes.

“It was almost like the first game of a playoff series, where you’re too ramped up, too emotional,” said Battalion coach Ryan Oulahen of the first 10 minutes. “We didn’t handle that properly. We were just trying to be a little bit reckless would be the right word to describe it, and it ultimately cost us.

“Now on the flip side, the last 50 minutes could be some of the best hockey that we’ve played. I give them credit. That’s one of the best teams in the (Canadian Hockey League) right now. They’ve lost only once in regulation, and they probably should have won that game, so I think our guys should build a lot of confidence in how we handled the last 50 minutes.”

Veilleux opened the scoring with the man advantage at 4:43 of the first period, one-timing the puck from the right circle and beating Vreugdenhil to the short side. Noah McKinnon and Nathan Brisson received assists.

Heroux struck 1:34 later, finding himself alone in front and spinning to fire the puck home for his eighth goal of the season. Charles-Antoine Theriault and Gabriel Provencher had assists on the rush.

Moses cut the deficit in half with his seventh goal at 8:15 of the middle period. He raced down the right wing past Nathan Roy, cut to the net and went from his backhand to forehand to flick the puck from between his legs over Radkov’s left shoulder.

Carbonneau connected for what proved to be the winning goal at 7:47 of the third period, putting a rebound through heavy traffic from the right circle. Mathias Bourque and Etienne Maheu assisted on defenceman Carbonneau’s first goal.

Pronin, scoring for a fifth straight game, pulled the Troops within 3-2 at 15:17. Ryder Carey fed the puck out front from the end boards for Pronin’s ninth goal.

Cam Warren and Pronin had subsequent chances before Val-d’Or went to the power play after Carter Kunopaski was called for holding at 18:28. Vreugdenhil left for a fifth skater with 1:03 to play, and Moses hit the post off a faceoff early in the final minute.

Veilleux took a pass from Brisson and carried the puck to the empty net at 19:37 for his QMJHL-leading 16th goal. He has 20 assists for a league-best 36 points.

The Battalion visits the Kitchener Rangers at 7 p.m. Friday. The game can be seen live in North Bay on YourTV Channels 12 and 700.

BATTALION BULLETS: On YMCA Fill the Bus Day, the 50-50 proceeds were donated to a program to send children to summer camp ... Pronin has a 10-game points streak in which he has nine goals and three assists for 12 points ... Warren saw the end of a nine-game points streak in which he had three goals and nine assists for 12 points ... The Battalion went 0-for-4 on the power play. Val-d’Or was 2-for-4 ... Opening lines featured Evgeny Dubrovtsev centring left winger Warren and right winger Parker Vaughan, Jax Pereira centring left winger Pronin and right winger Moses and Lincoln Edwards pivoting left winger George Lovell and right winger Carey. Nolan Laird centred left winger Rene Van Bommel and right winger Kam Hodgson ... Defence pairs had Aaron Enright with Hayden Barch, Jean-Samuel Daigneault with Kunopaski and Alexander Karmanov with Oskar Konobelj ... The Battalion scratched Kent Greer, Max Crete, Austin Brekelmans, Easton Poe and Nikolas Rossetto ... The Foreurs arrived in North Bay on Saturday night ... Val-d’Or selected Veilleux, who turned 19 on March 26, in the first round, 11th overall, of the 2023 QMJHL Draft from the College Charles-Lemoyne Riverains of Longueuil, Que. ... Foreurs goaltender Vincent Moreau played for the Riverains in 2023-24 and 2024-25 as a teammate of Daigneault ... Val-d’Or, which started play in 1993-94, won league titles in 1997-98, 2000-01 and 2013-14 ... Connor Mallon and Ian Rush were the referees.]]></content:encoded>
                      </item>
          <item>
                   <enclosure url="https://media.chl.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2026/10/30110404/PhilippeVeilleux-300x169.png" length="0" type="image/png"></enclosure>
                  <title>Troops, Foreurs set to tangle</title>
        <link>https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-e-2</link>
        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
        <dc:creator>North Bay Battalion</dc:creator>
        <guid isPermaLink="false">https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-e-2</guid>
        <description><![CDATA[NORTH BAY, Ont. — The Ontario Hockey League’s North Bay Battalion marches into uncharted territory when it plays host to the Val-d’Or Foreurs of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League at 2 p.m. Sunday.]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[NORTH BAY, Ont. — The Ontario Hockey League’s North Bay Battalion marches into uncharted territory when it plays host to the Val-d’Or Foreurs of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League at 2 p.m. Sunday.

The opener of a two-game season series, it will be the first time that the Battalion has faced off against a QMJHL team in a game that will count in the standings of both Canadian Hockey League circuits.

Other interleague pairings involve the Ottawa 67’s and Gatineau Oympiques, the Sudbury Wolves and Rouyn-Noranda Huskies and the Kingston Frontenacs and Blainville-Boisbriand Armada. To maintain a 68-game schedule, the Battalion plays two games against Kingston this season instead of the customary four.

Val-d’Or is a formidable foe, boasting a won-lost-extended record of 13-1-1 for 27 points atop the QMJHL’s eight-team Western Conference and the league. The Foreurs, winners of nine consecutive games since a 5-4 home-ice setback Oct. 4 to Gatineau, downed the visiting Shawinigan Cataractes 5-2 Friday night.

North Bay is 7-8-1 for 15 points, tied with the Niagara IceDogs for second place in the Central Division after a 7-3 win Friday night at St. Catharines.

“I like it,” Battalion coach Ryan Oulahen, whose charges visit Val-d’Or on Jan. 22, said this week of the out-of-league games.

“Sometimes, you know, that 68-game grind can be monotonous. You’re playing a lot of the same teams over and over and over. Not that we don’t enjoy that either, but all of a sudden you’ve got a fresh opponent. They don’t know you; we don’t know them. I think those are cool moments around the league, and it also just highlights the talent around the CHL.

“It just so happens that Val-d’Or is the No. 1 team over there right now, and we do know that they’re going to be a good hockey team and a good challenge.”

The Foreurs’ Philippe Veilleux, who leads the QMJHL in goals and points, boasts 14 goals and 20 assists for 34 points in 15 games.

Nathan Brisson has five goals and a league-high 16 assists for 21 points in 15 games. Nolann Heroux has scored seven goals and earned 11 assists for 18 points in 15 games, while Swiss import Maxime Sauthier has recorded 13 goals and four assists for 17 points in 12 games.

In nine games, goaltender Vincent Moreau is 8-1-0 with a 1.87 goals-against average, a .928 save percentage and one shutout. Belarusian import Arseni Radkov is 5-0-1 with a 2.41 GAA and a .913 save percentage.

The Battalion has played one preseason game against QMJHL competition, a 5-4 victory Sept. 1, 2018, over the Moncton Wildcats in a showcase tournament at Kitchener. Justin Brazeau scored two late goals, including the winner at 19:29 of the third period, and earned two assists, while goaltender Christian Propp made 25 saves.

The North Bay Centennials played two games against Val-d’Or in the 1999-00 season. The host Centennials won the first 5-1 on Jan. 16, 2000, when Scott Cameron scored the first two goals and goaltender Alex Auld provided 23 saves. The winners were 3-for-9 on the power play, while the Foreurs went 1-for-7.

Val-d’Or took the home-ice rematch 5-3 on Feb. 12.

The game features YMCA Fill the Bus Day, with YMCA and Century 21 tables set up to receive donations to send children to summer camp.]]></content:encoded>
                      </item>
          <item>
                   <enclosure url="https://media.chl.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2026/10/30220852/LairdScoresShorthanded-300x169.png" length="0" type="image/png"></enclosure>
                  <title>Niagara falls to Battalion</title>
        <link>https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-b-2</link>
        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 02:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
        <dc:creator>North Bay Battalion</dc:creator>
        <guid isPermaLink="false">https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-b-2</guid>
        <description><![CDATA[ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — Evgeny Dubrovtsev and Ryder Carey scored two goals apiece as the North Bay Battalion skated to a 7-3 victory over the Niagara IceDogs in an Ontario Hockey League game Friday night, giving the Troops a third straight road win.]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — Evgeny Dubrovtsev and Ryder Carey scored two goals apiece as the North Bay Battalion skated to a 7-3 victory over the Niagara IceDogs in an Ontario Hockey League game Friday night, giving the Troops a third straight road win.

Carter Kunopaski was credited with one goal and one assist, and Arseny Pronin and Nolan Laird also scored for North Bay. Goaltender Cole Vreugdenhil contributed 18 saves before a crowd of 2,322.

The Battalion improved its won-lost-extended record to 7-8-1 for 15 points, pulling into a tie for second place in the Central Division with the IceDogs, who hold two games in hand. The Troops, who lost 5-4 in overtime Thursday night to the visiting London Knights, are 3-6-0 away from home.

Reyth Smith, Layne Gallacher and Ivan Galiyanov scored for Niagara, while goaltender Vladislav Yermolenko allowed five goals on 29 shots, with Kunopaski and Dubrovtsev both recording empty-netters.

The IceDogs, 7-6-1 overall, suffered their first regulation-time loss on home ice and are 4-1-1 at the Meridian Centre.

Dubrovtsev broke a 2-2 tie at 5:04 of the third period on assists by Shamar Moses and Parker Vaughan, and captain Laird struck on a shorthanded breakaway at 8:09 for his third goal of the season and what proved to be the winner.

With Yermolenko gone for a sixth attacker, defenceman Kunopaski was credited with his first goal when Niagara’s Joey Banas sent the puck the length of the ice into his own net at 17:25.

Galiyanov connected at 18:13 to pull the hosts within 5-3, but Dubrovtsev put his league-leading 14th goal into the empty net at 18:55 before Carey got loose in front of Yermolenko and beat him with a backhander at 19:03 on assists by George Lovell and Oskar Konobelj.

Having trailed 1-0 at the first intermission, North Bay tied it when Pronin scored shorthanded at 7:59 of the middle period. Pronin stripped Wil McFadden of the puck at the Battalion blue line and raced off on a breakaway to beat Yermolenko low to the blocker side. It was Pronin’s eighth goal.

Gallacher connected at 12:14, scoring his fourth goal from the inner edge of the right circle off a rush. Banas and Max Lappan received assists.

Carey tied it at 17:00, taking a stretch pass from Jax Pereira at the blue line and, slipping around Callum Cheynowski, whipping the puck past Yermolenko. Cam Warren had the other assist.

Smith opened the scoring with his team-leading ninth goal on the power play at 13:32 of the first period, taking advantage of the first half of a double minor for high-sticking issued to Kam Hodgson. Smith jabbed the puck home from tight to the right side on assists by Ryerson Edgar and McFadden.

Penalty killer Vaughan had a breakaway as the power play continued, but Yermolenko denied a backhanded attempt.

The Battalion plays host to the Val-d’Or Foreurs of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League at 2 p.m. Sunday on YMCA Fill the Bus Day, a program seeking donations to send children to summer camp.

BATTALION BULLETS: Trick-Or-Treat with the Troops affords fans the opportunity to get candy and autographs and photos with Battalion players on Saturday. The Hallowe’en event runs from 4 to 6 p.m. in the concourse of Boart Longyear Memorial Gardens by Gate 1 ... It was the second of six meetings between the Battalion and Niagara, after the visiting IceDogs won 5-4 on Oct. 18 in a game that saw the Troops score twice in the final minute. The next encounter is Nov. 22 at North Bay ... Vaughan led the Battalion with five shots on goal ... Warren has a nine-game points streak in which he has three goals and nine assists for 12 points ... Pronin has a nine-game points streak during which he has eight goals and three assists for 11 points ... The Battalion went 5-6-1 in October ... North Bay was 0-for-2 on the power play. Niagara went 1-for-7 ... Opening lines included Dubrovtsev centring left winger Warren and right winger Vaughan, Pereira pivoting left winger Pronin and right winger Moses and Hodgson centring left winger Lovell and right winger Carey. Laird centred left winger Rene Van Bommel and right winger Lincoln Edwards ... Defence pairs had Konobelj with Hayden Barch, Jean-Samuel Daigneault with Kunopaski and Alexander Karmanov with Easton Poe ... The Battalion was without Aaron Enright, Kent Greer, Max Crete, Austin Brekelmans and Nikolas Rossetto ... Enright was a late scratch with lower-body soreness ... Darcy Burchell and Ryan Harrison were the referees.]]></content:encoded>
                      </item>
          <item>
                   <enclosure url="https://media.chl.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2026/10/29230817/DubrovtsevForcesOvertime1-300x169.png" length="0" type="image/png"></enclosure>
                  <title>Knights survive Troops&#8217; rally</title>
        <link>https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-a</link>
        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 02:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
        <dc:creator>North Bay Battalion</dc:creator>
        <guid isPermaLink="false">https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-a</guid>
        <description><![CDATA[NORTH BAY, Ont. — Jaxon Cover’s second goal of the game 37 seconds into overtime lifted the London Knights to a 5-4 Ontario Hockey League victory Thursday night over the North Bay Battalion, allowing the Knights to overcome a last-ditch rally by the Troops.]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[NORTH BAY, Ont. — Jaxon Cover’s second goal of the game 37 seconds into overtime lifted the London Knights to a 5-4 Ontario Hockey League victory Thursday night over the North Bay Battalion, allowing the Knights to overcome a last-ditch rally by the Troops.

Caleb Mitchell and Marcus Nordmark had a goal and an assist apiece, and Kane Barch also scored for London. Goaltender Brian Cooke made 26 saves for the Knights, who dressed 13 forwards and five defencemen.

London, which defeated the Troops 4-1 at home Oct. 2 in the teams’ only other meeting, improved its won-lost-extended record to 9-3-1 for 19 points, second in the Midwest Division.

Cam Warren and Evgeny Dubrovtsev each scored one goal and added an assist for North Bay, while Oskar Konobelj and Arseny Pronin had the other goals. Goaltender Mike McIvor provided 25 saves before 2,214 at Boart Longyear Memorial Gardens.

The Battalion is 6-8-1 for 13 points, third in the Central Division. The Troops, who had won their previous two games on the road, wore green sweaters because London pays a Friday night visit to the Sudbury Wolves, who will don dark gear on Shoresy Night.

“For sure there was some good pushback,” said Battalion coach Ryan Oulahen.

“I do think we were probably pretty lucky to get a point. There were times where I didn’t love our compete. I thought we had an awesome eight-nine minutes, and then from there we just couldn’t sustain a lot of stuff. Fifty-fifty puck battles was the biggest thing I think we struggled with a little bit.”

Dubrovtsev forced overtime with his team-leading 12th goal of the season at 19:59 of the third period, whipping the puck, which appeared to glance off sliding defender Jacob Vandeven, through a scrum from the left wing. Shamar Moses and Ryder Carey assisted.

The Battalion, which fell behind 3-0 midway in the second period, trailed 3-2 after 40 minutes but tied it on Pronin’s seventh goal at 11:16 of the third frame. He snapped the puck from the top of the right circle on assists by Moses and Alexander Karmanov.

Cover put London back in front at 18:59, beating McIvor, who looked to be at least partially screened, to the far left post, before Dubrovtsev replied with his goal, which was upheld upon video review.

Mitchell opened the scoring at 14:53 of the first period, taking a cross-ice pass from Nordmark in the right circle and snapping the puck past a diving McIvor from the left circle. Thomas Zocco also assisted on defenceman Mitchell’s first goal.

Nordmark connected at 9:12 of the second period when he flicked the puck past McIvor’s catching glove on the short side from the left circle. Ryan Brown and Juho Piiparinen assisted on Nordmark’s fifth goal.

Barch scored on the power play at 12:24, taking advantage of the first half of a double minor for slew-footing to Konobelj. Barch, younger brother of North Bay’s Hayden Barch, netted a one-timer from the right circle for his second goal, assisted by Zocco and Mitchell.

Rookie defenceman Konobelj atoned for the penalties with his first OHL goal at 16:03 when he stepped in from the blue line and drilled the puck home. Lincoln Edwards and George Lovell, with his first OHL point, had the assists.

Warren pulled the Troops within one on the power play at 19:44, sweeping the puck into the net after the sprawling Cooke failed to cover it. Carey and Dubrovtsev assisted on Warren’s third goal.

The Battalion visits the Niagara IceDogs at 7 p.m. Friday. The game can be seen live in North Bay on YourTV Channels 12 and 700.

BATTALION BULLETS: Hallowe’en Night, presented by Rug-A-Roo, saw fans wear costumes and donate candy for a North Bay Fire and Emergency Services event. In addition, a marriage proposal was delivered — and accepted — on-ice in the first intermission ... Warren has an eight-game points streak in which he has three goals and eight assists for 11 points ... Pronin has an eight-game points streak during which he has seven goals and three assists for 10 points ... The Battalion went 1-for-4 on the power play. London was 1-for-3 ... Opening lines featured Dubrovtsev centring left winger Warren and right winger Parker Vaughan, Jax Pereira centring left winger Pronin and right winger Moses and Nolan Laird pivoting left winger Lovell and right winger Carey. Rene Van Bommel centred left winger Edwards and right winger Kam Hodgson ... Defence pairs were Aaron Enright with Barch, Jean-Samuel Daigneault with Carter Kunopaski and Karmanov with Konobelj ... The Battalion scratched Kent Greer, Max Crete, Austin Brekelmans, Easton Poe and Nikolas Rossetto ... London’s missing included Cody Wood, Brody Leet and Jonathan Kapageridis, all serving suspensions. Wood and Leet took part in a melee in a 5-1 road loss last Saturday night to the Owen Sound Attack. Kapageridis, whom the Troops dealt to London on Sept. 16, drew a slashing major and game misconduct in a 6-4 loss Oct. 21 to the host Sarnia Sting ... James Kraft and Derek Risebrough were the referees.]]></content:encoded>
                      </item>
          <item>
                   <enclosure url="https://media.chl.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2024/12/29175442/RyanOulahenStockShot2025-300x169.png" length="0" type="image/png"></enclosure>
                  <title>London calling on Battalion</title>
        <link>https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-10-2</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
        <dc:creator>North Bay Battalion</dc:creator>
        <guid isPermaLink="false">https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-10-2</guid>
        <description><![CDATA[NORTH BAY, Ont. — Coach Ryan Oulahen says the North Bay Battalion should have no trouble being motivated for an Ontario Hockey League visit by the London Knights at 7 p.m. Thursday.]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[NORTH BAY, Ont. — Coach Ryan Oulahen says the North Bay Battalion should have no trouble being motivated for an Ontario Hockey League visit by the London Knights at 7 p.m. Thursday.

Oulahen called London’s only regular-season appearance at Boart Longyear Memorial Gardens “definitely one of those games that I don’t think the guys will find hard to get up for.”

The Knights defeated North Bay 4-1 on Oct. 2 at London, a game in which the Battalion outshot the hosts 39-21 without benefit of a power-play chance.

“We’re going to take some stuff from that game for sure, some of the positives that we did,” Oulahen said Wednesday.

“I actually think it’s one of our better games. It’s right up there with some of the best we’ve played this year, but it was still a game where we made some mental errors and some bigtime blunders and mistakes. We’ve since cleaned some of that stuff up.

“They’re an opportunistic, offence-generating team. The best way to play those types of teams is to try to play them in their end, and we did a good job of that last game. We’re going to try to replicate some of that good stuff here tomorrow.”

North Bay has a won-lost-extended record of 6-8-0 for 12 points, third in the Central Division, while London is 8-3-1 for 17 points, tied with the Kitchener Rangers for second place in the Midwest Division.

It will be the second game against his former teammates for left winger Rene Van Bommel, acquired by the Battalion in an Aug. 4 trade.

Overager Van Bommel, from Strathroy, Ont., near London and a member of the Knights’ Memorial Cup-winning team in 2024-25, said it’s “just another game at the end of the day, but there’s sentimental value in it.”

“They wanted me to have a better opportunity to play, and I’m grateful for that. They gave me the chance to come here to North Bay and be able to prove myself and play the minutes that they knew I could play, and it just wasn’t working that way for me in the organization at the time. I had a great talk with (general manager) Mark (Hunter) on the phone over the summer, and he found me a spot here in North Bay, and I’m forever grateful for that.”

London will be without former Battalion rearguard Jonathan Kapageridis, who was traded to the Knights on Sept. 16. He’s serving a three-game suspension issued after he received a slashing major and game misconduct in a 6-4 road loss to the Sarnia Sting last Wednesday night.

The Battalion completes the week by visiting the Niagara IceDogs at 7 p.m. Friday and playing host to the Val-d’Or Foreurs of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League at 2 p.m. Sunday in a game that counts in the standings of both leagues.

Right winger Cohen Bidgood paces the London offence with a team-leading eight goals and seven assists for 15 points in 12 games, while centre Thomas Zocco has seven goals and as many assists for 14 points in 12 games. Centre Carson Harmer has scored five goals and added eight assists for 13 points in 12 games, and left winger Ryan Brown has two goals and a team-high 10 assists for 12 points in eight games.

Evgeny Dubrovtsev and Parker Vaughan lead the Battalion in points with 14 apiece, centre Dubrovtsev from a team-best 11 goals and three assists and right winger Vaughan from four goals and 10 assists. Centre Cam Warren has scored two goals and earned 10 assists, tied with Vaughan for the team lead, for 12 points in 13 games.

Meanwhile, three Battalion players, numbering Warren and defencemen Oskar Konobelj and Carter Kunopaski, were included on the ‘Players to Watch’ list issued this week by the National Hockey League’s central scouting department in advance of the 2027 NHL Draft. It’s essentially a finder’s list, without studied rankings of players.

North Bay again won the Hwy 17 Food Drive Challenge, conducted during a Rivalry Week home-and-home series with the Sudbury Wolves last Thursday and Friday nights. Battalion fans donated 1,585 pounds of non-perishable food, and Sudbury supporters contributed 882.

The London game features Hallowe’en Night, presented by Rug-A-Roo. Fans are encouraged to wear costumes to compete for Battalion prizes and to bring candy donations to support the Hallowe’en event of North Bay Fire and Emergency Services.]]></content:encoded>
                      </item>
          <item>
                   <enclosure url="https://media.chl.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2026/10/24231851/VaughanStrikes-300x169.png" length="0" type="image/png"></enclosure>
                  <title>Battalion downs Colts 7-4</title>
        <link>https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-9-2</link>
        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
        <dc:creator>North Bay Battalion</dc:creator>
        <guid isPermaLink="false">https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-9-2</guid>
        <description><![CDATA[BARRIE, Ont. — Evgeny Dubrovtsev scored two goals to lead the North Bay Battalion to a 7-4 victory Saturday night over the Barrie Colts, giving the Troops a second straight Ontario Hockey League road win.]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[BARRIE, Ont. — Evgeny Dubrovtsev scored two goals to lead the North Bay Battalion to a 7-4 victory Saturday night over the Barrie Colts, giving the Troops a second straight Ontario Hockey League road win.

Parker Vaughan had one goal and two assists and Arseny Pronin one goal and one assist for North Bay, which got its other goals from Ryder Carey, Jax Pereira and Shamar Moses, into an empty net. Cam Warren contributed three assists.

Goaltender Cole Vreugdenhil provided 36 saves before 3,456 at the Sadlon Arena who saw the Battalion, which played a third game in three nights, improve its won-lost-extended record to 6-8-0 for 12 points, third in the Central Division.

North Bay split a home-and-home series with the Sudbury Wolves, with each team winning on the other’s ice, the Wolves prevailing 4-3 Thursday night and the Battalion 5-3 Friday night. The Troops now are 2-6-0 away from home.

Eamon Edgar and Luca Testa each had one goal and one assist for Barrie, and Sebastian Mogull and Ben Lombardi added a goal apiece. Starting goaltender Hagan Bach allowed four goals on 24 shots before being relieved by Matvei Nikonovich, who stopped nine of 11 shots.

Barrie, which defeated the visiting Owen Sound Attack 4-3 in overtime Thursday night in its previous game, is 2-10-1 for five points, fifth in the Central Division, one point behind the Brampton Steelheads, who downed the host Brantford Bulldogs 4-2.

North Bay trailed 2-1 after 20 minutes but erupted for three straight goals in the second period, sparked by Carey at 2:48. He took a long lead pass from Nolan Laird at the blue line and snapped the puck home off the resulting breakaway for his fifth goal of the season. Oskar Konobelj had the other assist.

Pereira’s second goal on a screened shot from the left circle followed at 5:14, assisted by Pronin and Alexander Karmanov, and Dubrovtsev chased Bach when he tucked a Vaughan pass inside the right post at 7:11 as both players worked behind the goal line. Warren also received an assist.

Lombardi replied at 15:09, but Vaughan gave the Troops a 5-3 lead with his fourth goal at 2:48 of the third period, cashing the rebound of a Carter Kunopaski shot from high on the left wing. Warren also assisted.

Dubrovtsev connected for his team-leading 11th goal from between the circles at 14:12 before Testa countered on the power play at 17:31 and Moses escorted the puck to the vacant net at 19:23 for his sixth goal.

Pronin was credited with the first goal, his sixth, at 11:44 of the opening period when he fired the puck into the Barrie zone and three Colts touched it before it went off the skate of defender Maxim Shirochenkov into the net.

Edgar tied it on the power play at 16:41, taking a cross-ice pass from William Schneid and netting his fourth goal from the inner edge of the left circle. Mogull struck 38 seconds later, driving up the slot to take a pass from Dylan Tsherna and beat Vreugdenhil from close range.

The Battalion plays host to the London Knights at 7 p.m. Thursday on Hallowe’en Night, presented by Rug-A-Roo.

BATTALION BULLETS: It was the teams’ second of six meetings, after the host Battalion defeated Barrie 2-1 in the season opener for both clubs Sept. 18. The teams next meet Jan. 16 at Barrie ... Rene Van Bommel tangled with Barrie’s Luc Gauvreau in the first period, with the combatants trading punches before each received a fighting major ... A second fight saw Konobelj and Carter Lowe scrap in the final frame, with Konobelj drawing an instigating minor and misconduct in addition to his share of the fighting majors ... Vaughan and Dubrovtsev led the Battalion with six shots on goal each. Edgar paced the Colts with seven ... Pronin has a seven-game points streak in which he has six goals and three assists for nine points ... Warren has a seven-game points streak during which he has two goals and seven assists for nine points ... The Battalion went 0-for-2 on the power play. Barrie was 2-for-6 ... Opening lines included Dubrovtsev centring left winger Warren and right winger Vaughan, Pereira pivoting left winger Pronin and right winger Moses and Laird centring left winger George Lovell and right winger Carey. Van Bommel centred left winger Lincoln Edwards and right winger Kam Hodgson ... Defence pairings had Aaron Enright with Hayden Barch, Jean-Samuel Daigneault with Kunopaski and Karmanov with Konobelj ... Mike McIvor backed up Vreugdenhil ... The Battalion was without Kent Greer, Max Crete, Austin Brekelmans, Easton Poe and Nikolas Rossetto.]]></content:encoded>
                      </item>
          <item>
                   <enclosure url="https://media.chl.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2026/10/23222125/WarrenScoresInFirst-300x169.png" length="0" type="image/png"></enclosure>
                  <title>Troops earn first road win</title>
        <link>https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-8-2</link>
        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 02:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
        <dc:creator>North Bay Battalion</dc:creator>
        <guid isPermaLink="false">https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-8-2</guid>
        <description><![CDATA[SUDBURY, Ont. — Parker Vaughan scored two goals, one on a penalty shot, and added an assist as the North Bay Battalion defeated the Sudbury Wolves 5-3 Friday night for a split of their home-and-home series, part of the Ontario Hockey League’s Rivalry Week.]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[SUDBURY, Ont. — Parker Vaughan scored two goals, one on a penalty shot, and added an assist as the North Bay Battalion defeated the Sudbury Wolves 5-3 Friday night for a split of their home-and-home series, part of the Ontario Hockey League’s Rivalry Week.

Arseny Pronin, Cam Warren and Jax Pereira also scored for North Bay, while goaltender Mike McIvor contributed 19 saves before a crowd recorded as 4,139.

The Battalion, which snapped a three-game losing skid, moved its won-lost-extended record to 5-8-0 for 10 points, third in the Central Division.

The Troops, who earned their first road win and are 1-6-0 off the bus, handed Sudbury its first loss at the Sudbury Community Arena, where the Wolves, 8-3-1 for 17 points atop the division, are 5-1-0.

North Bay, which had several forwards playing new positions on juggled lines in the rematch, lost 4-3 at home Thursday night. The Battalion had handed Sudbury its first loss of the season, a 4-3 overtime decision Oct. 8 at Boart Longyear Memorial Gardens.

“Just a good bounceback from our guys,” said Battalion coach Ryan Oulahen.

“It was nice tonight not to be chasing the game. That was the biggest thing, to get the two goals there in the first period set us up. I didn’t think we had our best in the second when they made that real big push, but we had that bit of a cushion, and for the most part a pretty solid third.”

Finn Kearns, Kash Kwajah and Parker Smith scored for the Wolves, and goaltender Bjorn Bronas made 18 saves.

Having led 2-0 through 40 minutes, the Battalion went three goals up when Pereira scored his first goal of the season on a breakaway at 1:08 of the third period, but defenceman Kearns replied 20 seconds later, netting his first OHL goal off a rush.

Vaughan made it 4-1 at 10:58, beating Bronas to the far side from the right circle on an assist by Aaron Enright. Again the Wolves responded quickly, rookie Kwajah connecting for his fifth goal 22 seconds later when he buried a rebound.

Vaughan was awarded the penalty shot at 16:49 when he was fouled from behind by Vladimir Provorov on a solo break-in. Vaughan made no mistake, cashing his third goal, before Smith completed the scoring at 19:08.

The Battalion seized its initial two-goal lead in the first period, sparked by Pronin with his fifth goal at 5:00 off a faceoff to Bronas’s right. After Sudbury’s Jan Chovan won the draw cleanly, Pronin went deep into the circle to pursue the puck and wired it home from a sharp angle.

Warren scored at 8:40, racing to the net and knocking the puck behind Bronas. The Wolves had mild objections, but defender Artem Gonchar interfered with Warren, who jostled the goaltender as a result. Vaughan and Hayden Barch assisted on Warren’s second goal.

The middle period saw Sudbury apply pressure time and again, with North Bay having trouble clearing its zone, but the count of shots on goal was a meagre 5-4 for the Troops. McIvor came up big on several occasions, and the Wolves had problems handling the puck.

Mason Walker had perhaps Sudbury’s best scoring chance but missed a wide open net from the left side on a power play after Enright went off for tripping at 7:15.

The Battalion visits the Barrie Colts at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The game can be seen live in North Bay on YourTV Channels 12 and 700.

BATTALION BULLETS: As it did Thursday night, the Battalion wore themed warmup sweaters that are to be auctioned online via DASH, with proceeds going to the 2027 Special Olympics Provincial Winter Games scheduled Jan. 28-31 at North Bay ... The two games featured the Hwy 17 Food Drive Challenge, with fans bringing non-perishable food donations to the respective arenas. The city that collects more food by weight is the winner ... Pronin has a six-game points streak in which he has five goals and two assists for seven points ... Warren has a six-game points streak during which he has two goals and four assists for six points ... The Battalion went 0-for-2 on the power play. Sudbury was 0-for-3 ... Opening lines had Evgeny Dubrovtsev centring Warren on left wing and right winger Vaughan, Pereira centring left winger Pronin and right winger Shamar Moses and Nolan Laird pivoting left winger George Lovell and right winger Ryder Carey. Rene Van Bommel centred left winger Austin Brekelmans and right winger Kam Hodgson ... Defence pairs were Enright with Barch, Jean-Samuel Daigneault with Carter Kunopaski and Alexander Karmanov with Oskar Konobelj ... The Battalion was without Kent Greer, Max Crete, Easton Poe, Lincoln Edwards and Nikolas Rossetto ... Among the missing for Sudbury were Brayden Bennett, Liam Ladds and Hudson Chitaroni ... Wolves captain Blake Clayton turned 19 ... Lacey Senuk and Kyle Whiteman were the referees.]]></content:encoded>
                      </item>
          <item>
                   <enclosure url="https://media.chl.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2026/10/22223234/VanBommelAtNet-300x169.png" length="0" type="image/png"></enclosure>
                  <title>Wolves edge Battalion 4-3</title>
        <link>https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-7-2</link>
        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
        <dc:creator>North Bay Battalion</dc:creator>
        <guid isPermaLink="false">https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-7-2</guid>
        <description><![CDATA[NORTH BAY, Ont. — Adam Nemec scored one goal and added two assists to pace the Sudbury Wolves to a 4-3 Ontario Hockey League victory Thursday night over the North Bay Battalion in the opener of a home-and-home series.]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[NORTH BAY, Ont. — Adam Nemec scored one goal and added two assists to pace the Sudbury Wolves to a 4-3 Ontario Hockey League victory Thursday night over the North Bay Battalion in the opener of a home-and-home series.

Jan Chovan provided one goal and one assist, while Tanner Adams and Kash Kwajah also scored for Sudbury, which got 37 saves from goaltender Paolo Frasca.

Sudbury, which had lost its previous two games, moved its won-lost-extended record to 8-2-1 for 17 points atop the Central Division.

Rene Van Bommel, Shamar Moses and Evgeny Dubrovtsev scored for the Battalion, which wore its Centurion uniforms, as goaltender Mike McIvor made 24 saves before 2,703 at Boart Longyear Memorial Gardens for the Rivalry Week clash.

North Bay suffered a third straight loss and is 4-8-0 for eight points, third in the division. In the teams’ initial meeting, the host Battalion handed the Wolves their first loss, a 4-3 overtime verdict Oct. 8.

Making his OHL debut was free agent George Lovell, 19, whom the Battalion claimed Saturday on Canadian Hockey League waivers from the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League’s Moncton Wildcats. Signed to an education and development agreement Wednesday, he played last season with the Sioux City Musketeers and Omaha Lancers of the United States Hockey League, scoring three goals and adding two assists for five points in 33 games.

“We were just off on different reads and different sorting-outs,” said Battalion coach Ryan Oulahen. “We had energy and then we had a lot of momentum, and then a big blunder would happen, and I felt like we gave them a couple of freebies. That team, especially that top line, is super talented and skilled, and you just can’t give them those freebies.”

Sudbury, which led 3-2 at the second intermission, got what proved to be the winning goal from Kwajah at 9:01 of the final period when he snapped the puck past McIvor from the top of the left circle off a rush after some concerted pressure by the Troops. Mason Walker and Liam Ladds assisted on rookie Kwajah’s fourth goal of the season.

With McIvor gone for a sixth skater, Dubrovtsev struck for his team-leading ninth goal on a backdoor play deep in the left circle at 17:35 off a pass from Cam Warren, but the Troops couldn’t find the equalizer.

After the teams battled to a 1-1 tie through 20 minutes, Adams scored at 4:45 of the second period, tapping the puck home at the left post after two cross-ice passes. Nemec and Chovan assisted on rookie Adams’s third goal.

Moses replied on the power play at 6:32, drilling the puck home off a rush after Arseny Pronin carried it up the ice. It was the fifth goal for Moses, who has 30 goals and 70 assists for 100 points in 192 OHL games, including 75 points in 121 games with North Bay.

Nemec gave Sudbury its third lead at 10:19, racing off on a breakaway out of the penalty box with a stretch pass from Rowan Henderson to crash into the net with the puck. It was Nemec’s third goal.

Chovan opened the scoring at 4:05 of the first period, slipping across the goalmouth with his back to the net and tipping a drive by Jean-Christoph Lemieux. Nemec also assisted on Chovan’s fourth goal.

Van Bommel tied it at 8:12, racing to corral a long dump-in by Aaron Enright off the end boards and darting across the crease to backhand the puck past Frasca. It was Van Bommel’s first goal since an Aug. 4 trade from the London Knights.

The Battalion visits Sudbury at 7:05 p.m. Friday. The game can be seen live in North Bay on YourTV Channels 12 and 700.

BATTALION BULLETS: On Rivalry Night presented by FCR, the Battalion wore warmup sweaters to be auctioned, with proceeds to the 2027 Special Olympics Provincial Winter Games set for Jan. 28-31 at North Bay ... Custom Battalion sweaters worn Sunday on Indigenous Youth Day resulted in $7,680.40 raised for Niijaansinaanik Child and Family Services ... Lovell, a five-foot-six, 141-pound resident of Hingham, Mass., was the last pick, 36th overall, in the QMJHL’s American Draft in 2023 by the Quebec Remparts. He made Moncton in training camp last year but joined Sioux City ... Pronin has a five-game points streak during which he has four goals and two assists for six points ... Warren has a five-game points streak in which he has one goal and four assists for five points ... Parker Vaughan saw the end of a five-game assists streak in which he had seven assists ... Each team went 1-for-3 on the power play ... Opening lines saw Warren centring left winger Pronin and right winger Moses, Dubrovtsev pivoting left winger Jax Pereira and right winger Vaughan and Nolan Laird centring left winger Van Bommel and right winger Ryder Carey. Lincoln Edwards centred left winger Lovell and right winger Kam Hodgson ... Defence pairs had Enright with Hayden Barch, Jean-Samuel Daigneault with Carter Kunopaski and Alexander Karmanov with Oskar Konobelj ... The Battalion scratched Kent Greer, Austin Brekelmans, Easton Poe, Nikolas Rossetto and Max Crete, who separated a shoulder in practice Wednesday.]]></content:encoded>
                      </item>
          <item>
                   <enclosure url="https://media.chl.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2026/10/01113022/RyanOulahen11-300x169.png" length="0" type="image/png"></enclosure>
                  <title>&#8216;Huge weekend&#8217; for rivalry</title>
        <link>https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-6-2</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
        <dc:creator>North Bay Battalion</dc:creator>
        <guid isPermaLink="false">https://chl.ca/ohl-battalion/article/story-6-2</guid>
        <description><![CDATA[NORTH BAY, Ont. — The North Bay Battalion embarks on three games in as many days when it plays host to the Sudbury Wolves at 7 p.m. Thursday to open a home-and-home set that’s part of the Ontario Hockey League’s Rivalry Week.]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[NORTH BAY, Ont. — The North Bay Battalion embarks on three games in as many days when it plays host to the Sudbury Wolves at 7 p.m. Thursday to open a home-and-home set that’s part of the Ontario Hockey League’s Rivalry Week.

Sudbury, which lost the final two games of a three-game western trip last weekend, has a won-lost-extended record of 7-2-1 for 15 points, first in the Central Division. North Bay, which also has lost its last two games, is 4-7-0 for eight points, third in the division.

“It’s a huge weekend here coming up, no doubt about it,” Battalion coach Ryan Oulahen said Wednesday. The Troops visit Sudbury at 7:05 p.m. Friday and the Barrie Colts at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Oulahen suggested that the Battalion’s record could be flipped if analytics carried the day, as the team has outshot its opponent in all but one game, a 4-2 road loss last Thursday night to the Peterborough Petes, who held a 27-25 shots advantage.

“We need to bear down on our chances,” allowed Oulahen. “That’s been the focus of this week.”

Among those who have had plenty of shots without many rewards has been Cam Warren, North Bay’s first-round pick in the 2025 OHL Priority Selection who starred for Canada, coached by Oulahen, in its gold-medal showing in the Hlinka Gretzky Cup tournament at Edmonton in August. Warren has one goal and six assists for seven points in 10 games.

“The chances that he’s developing, I’m going to stick with it,” said Oulahen. “Maybe there’s some ways to juggle some line combinations. I’m not going to tell you exactly, but we’ve got some thoughts that we can maybe get a little bit more offensive production from not just him but from other guys.

“Again, he’s just one of those guys that he’s got to feel good about getting some confidence with one going in, and then a bunch are going to pile up. So many chances are happening that I really believe in him.”

The Battalion and Sudbury have met once this season, with the Troops handing the Wolves their first loss, a 4-3 overtime decision Oct. 8 at Boart Longyear Memorial Gardens. Shamar Moses precipitated the extra session with a goal at 19:40 of the third period, and Arseny Pronin netted his second of the game at 4:45 of the fourth frame.

Jean-Christoph Lemieux paces the Sudbury offence with a team-leading nine goals and five assists for 14 points in eight games, while Adam Nemec has two goals and a team-high 10 assists for 12 points in six games. Kash Kwajah has scored three goals and added eight assists for 11 points in 10 games, and Jan Chovan has three goals and seven assists for 10 points in eight games.

Goaltender Paolo Frasca has played seven of the team’s 10 games, posting a 6-1-0 record with a 1.72 goals-against average, a .942 save percentage and one shutout. Bjorn Bronas has played two games and Owen Leonard one, the loss at North Bay.

Evgeny Dubrovtsev leads the Battalion with a team-best eight goals and three assists for 11 points in 11 games. Moses and Parker Vaughan follow with eight points apiece, Moses from four goals and four assists in 11 games and Vaughan from one goal and a team-high seven assists in eight games.

The two games with Sudbury will see competition in the Hwy 17 Food Drive Challenge, with fans asked to bring non-perishable food donations to the respective arenas. North Bay Food Bank personnel also will accept monetary donations via cash and debit and credit cards.

The city that collects more food by weight is the winner. In the inaugural event last year, North Bay won with 1,897 pounds, compared with 571 for Sudbury.

The Battalion is to wear its Centurion uniforms on Rivalry Night, presented by FCR.]]></content:encoded>
                      </item>
      </channel>
</rss>
