Five Kitchener Rangers Named to 2025-26 OHL All-Star Teams
TORONTO – The Ontario Hockey League today announced the first, second and third all-star team selections, in addition to the first and second all-rookie team designations for the 2025-26 season.
OHL all-star and all-rookie teams were selected by the League’s general managers, with voting conducted in two stages beginning with a conference ballot followed by a final ballot that integrated the top selections from both the Eastern and Western Conferences.
A total of 12 of the league’s 20 member teams are represented on this year’s all-star and all-rookie team selections, with the Barrie Colts, Brantford Bulldogs and Kitchener Rangers each fielding a league-leading five players and coaches. The Soo Greyhounds follow with four selections, while the Windsor Spitfires feature three.
2025-26 OHL All-Star Teams
Representatives with major positional awards in brackets are default first team members, all other designations are determined by votes cast by OHL General Managers
First All-Star Team
C – Sam O’Reilly (Kitchener Rangers) (Most Outstanding Player)
LW – Nathan Aspinall (Flint Firebirds)
RW – Nikita Klepov (Saginaw Spirit)
D – Kashawn Aitcheson (Barrie Colts) (Defenceman of the Year)
D – Chase Reid (Soo Greyhounds)
G – Ryder Fetterolf (Ottawa 67’s) (Goaltender of the Year)
Coach – Dave Cameron (Ottawa 67’s) (Coach of the Year)
Repeat honours: Kashawn Aitcheson was named to the Second All-Star Team in 2024-25. Chase Reid was named to the First All-Rookie Team in 2024-25. Dave Cameron earns All-Star Team coaching honours for the sixth time in his career, marking the second time he’s been named to the First Team after also doing so with Ottawa in 2022-23.
Second All-Star Team
C – Cole Beaudoin (Barrie Colts)
LW – Liam Greentree (Windsor Spitfires)
RW – Marco Mignosa (Soo Greyhounds)
D – Adam Jiricek (Brantford Bulldogs)
D – Cameron Reid (Kitchener Rangers)
G – Ben Hrebik (Barrie Colts)
Coach – Jussi Ahokas (Kitchener Rangers)
Repeat honours: Liam Greentree was named to the First All-Star Team in 2024-25 and the Third All-Star Team in 2023-24. Cameron Reid earned First All-Rookie Team recognition in 2023-24. Jussi Ahokas earned First Team All-Star coaching honours in 2024-25.
Third All-Star Team
C – Jake O’Brien (Brantford Bulldogs)
LW – Dylan Edwards (Kitchener Rangers)
RW – Jack Pridham (Kitchener Rangers)
D – Carson Woodall (Windsor Spitfires)
D – Ben Danford (Brantford Bulldogs)
G – Carter George (Soo Greyhounds)
Coach – Jay McKee (Brantford Bulldogs)
Repeat honours: Carter George was named to the Second All-Star Team in 2024-25 and the Third All-Star Team in 2023-24, and earned First All-Rookie Team recognition in 2023-24 — earning All-Star recognition in each of his three OHL seasons. Ben Danford was named to the Third All-Star Team in 2024-25. Jake O’Brien earned First All-Rookie Team recognition in 2023-24. Jay McKee was named Third Team All-Star coach in both 2024-25 and 2021-22.
2025-26 OHL All-Rookie Teams
First All-Rookie Team
C – Caleb Malhotra (Brantford Bulldogs)
LW – Jaxon Cover (London Knights)
RW – Nikita Klepov (Saginaw Spirit) (Rookie of the Year)
D – Levi Harper (Saginaw Spirit)
D – Cole Emerton (Barrie Colts)
G – Ryder Fetterolf (Ottawa 67’s)
Second All-Rookie Team
C – Ryerson Edgar (Niagara IceDogs)
LW – Noah Laus (Soo Greyhounds)
RW – Joe Salandra (Barrie Colts)
D – Matthew Perreault (Peterborough Petes)
D – Andrew Robinson (Windsor Spitfires)
G – Gavin Betts (Kingston Frontenacs)
Historical results of note:
- Ottawa 67’s supply both the First Team All-Star goaltender (Ryder Fetterolf) and coach (Dave Cameron) — the franchise’s first such pairing in 30 years. The 67’s last provided the First Team goaltender and coach in the same season in 1995-96, when Craig Hillier and Brian Kilrea did so. Fetterolf is also Ottawa’s first First-Team All-Star goaltender since Hillier in 1995-96. Additionally, he’s the first 67’s goaltender to be voted to a First All-Rookie Team since the advent of OHL All-Rookie Teams in 1991-92.
- Nikita Klepov named to both the First All-Star Team and the First All-Rookie Team. The last player to earn First-Team All-Star and First All-Rookie recognition in the same season was Mikhail Sergachev with Windsor in 2015-16.
- Nathan Aspinall becomes just the second Flint Firebirds player named to the First All-Star Team. Follows Brennan Othmann who was a First Team selection in 2021-22. Both made the achievement as left-wingers.
- Ryder Fetterolf named to both the First All-Star Team and First All-Rookie Team. Joins Carter George of the 2023-24 Owen Sound Attack in earning similar placement.
- Liam Greentree (Windsor) earns All-Star recognition for a fourth consecutive season — First All-Rookie Team in 2022-23, followed by Third (2023-24), First (2024-25) and Second (2025-26) All-Star Team honours, spanning all four of his OHL seasons. He becomes the first forward in OHL history to accomplish this feat.
- Carter George (Soo Greyhounds) lands an All-Star Team nod for a third straight season, following Third Team and First All-Rookie honours in 2023-24 and a Second Team selection in 2024-25 — the latter two with Owen Sound before this year’s move to the Soo. He joins a group that includes Alex Nedeljkovic (2014-16) and Thomas McCollum (2007-09) to be named to All-Star Teams in three consecutive seasons.
- Ben Hrebik becomes the first Barrie Colts goaltender to be named to an All-Star Team since 2015-16. Mackenzie Blackwood was a First Team All-Star that season.
