OHL Power Rankings: Oct. 19, 2026

This week’s OHL Power Rankings presented by the United Car Dealers Association:

1. Guelph Storm (9-2-0-0)
2. Flint Firebirds (6-2-1-0) +1
3. Ottawa 67’s (7-1-2-0) +1
4. Brantford Bulldogs (9-2-0-1) +1
5. London Knights (7-1-0-1) +1
6. Sudbury Wolves (7-2-1-0) -4
7. Kingston Frontenacs (7-5-0-0)
8. Soo Greyhounds (8-2-1-0)
9. Saginaw Spirit (6-3-2-0)
10. Peterborough Petes (5-7-0-0) +1
11. Kitchener Rangers (6-5-1-1) +2
12. Sarnia Sting (5-6-1-0) -2
13. Erie Otters (5-5-1-0) -1
14. Niagara IceDogs (6-4-1-0) +2
15. North Bay Battalion (4-7-0-0) -1
16. Owen Sound Attack (3-8-0-0) -1

Who’s up:

Flint Firebirds – up one spot to #2 this week
Two games, points out of both, and the Firebirds climb. Flint pushed the top-ranked Guelph Storm to overtime on Friday before losing 3-2, with Josh Bonnyman and Charlie Murata scoring and Trenten Bennett stopping 26 of 29 in his season debut. Darian Anderson then scored twice in the third period to rally past Owen Sound 3-2, giving him seven on the season, while Jimmy Lombardi added a goal and an assist and Flint outshot the Attack 38-21. The point streak is at five. At 6-2-1-0 through nine games, the fewest in the league alongside London, the Firebirds have taken points in seven of nine.

Ottawa 67’s – up one spot to #3 this week
Four straight wins now, and the Barber Poles keep finding the extra gear late. Ottawa handled Brampton 6-2 in Cornwall on Friday, where Ondrej Ruml scored twice from the blue line and Noah LaGambina made 23 saves to win his first career OHL start in front of 2,705 at the Cornwall Civic Complex. Saturday at home to Oshawa took longer: Spencer Bowes tied it with 4:55 remaining and buried the winner 1:12 into overtime for his ninth of the season. Brock Chitaroni extended his point streak to nine games as the 67’s outshot the Generals 35-24. At 7-1-2-0 Ottawa has been beaten once in regulation all season.

Brantford Bulldogs – up one spot to #4 this week
The league’s best record, and a week built on goaltending. Vilmer Salen Forsberg made 25 saves for his first career OHL shutout in a 1-0 win over Barrie on Friday, Xavier Lieb scoring the only goal 13:32 into the first period to snap a three-game Bulldogs slide. Sunday was the louder statement: Brantford handled the eighth-ranked Soo Greyhounds 5-2 despite being outshot 44-34, with Salen Forsberg turning aside 42. Cullen McCrate scored twice from the back end, while Aiden Kelly and Jason Musa each finished with a goal and an assist. At 9-2-0-1 the Bulldogs lead the league in points and have won two in a row.

London Knights – up one spot to #5 this week
The best week in the league, and nobody else went 3-0. London snapped a two-game slide with a 4-3 shootout win in Kitchener on Tuesday, then handed the Sudbury Wolves their first regulation loss of the season 4-1 on Friday, with Marcus Nordmark and Jaxon Cover each collecting a goal and two assists. Saturday in Erie was a 7-1 rout in which Carson Harmer and Cover both scored twice, Ryan Brown put up four assists, and the Knights went 2-for-2 on the power play while outshooting the Otters 40-29. Aleksei Medvedev won twice and Brian Cooke stopped 28 of 29 in Erie to move to 3-0 on the season. At 7-1-0-1 through nine games, the Knights have been beaten once in regulation.

Peterborough Petes – up one spot to #10 this week
Two wins to close the week, and the second was the best night of Peterborough’s season. The Petes dropped the Thanksgiving Monday opener 3-1 in North Bay, then took the rematch 4-2 three nights later behind four different scorers. Saturday brought a 6-0 shutout of Barrie in which Adam Novotny recorded a hat trick and five points, Cooper Dennis added two goals and two assists, and Yanis Lutz collected three helpers. Matthew Koprowski stopped all 22 shots for his second career OHL shutout, and Braydon McCallum drew an assist in his 200th OHL game. At 5-7-0-0 the Petes have won three of five.

Kitchener Rangers – up two spots to #11 this week
The slide is over, and the defending Memorial Cup champions have won two in a row. Kitchener lost a fifth straight on Tuesday, 4-3 in a shootout to London, before Cameron Arquette scored twice to beat the 14th-ranked Niagara IceDogs 5-2 on Friday, where Jiří Gombár’s first career OHL goal stood as the winner. Sunday in Oshawa was a 2-1 win on goals from Jack LaBrash and Tanner Lam. Jason Schaubel won both, stopping 21 of 23 and then 21 of 22. At 6-5-1-1 through a league-high 13 games, the Rangers have taken points in eight of them.

Niagara IceDogs – up two spots to #14 this week
A week that ended with an impressive goaltending performance. Niagara forced overtime against the Soo on Thursday on third-period goals from Reyth Smith and Ivan Galiyanov before losing 5-4, then was beaten 5-2 in Kitchener, where Ryerson Edgar scored both goals on the power play. Sunday in North Bay the IceDogs were outshot 50-22 and won anyway, 5-4, with Connor Haffner taking first-star honours on 46 saves. Wil McFadden scored his first two goals as an IceDog, and Edgar and Smith each finished with a goal and an assist. At 6-4-1-0 the club picked 19th in the preseason poll has won three of its last five.

Who’s down:

Sudbury Wolves – down four spots to #6 this week
The unbeaten run is over, and it ended with a pair of road losses. Sudbury opened with a 6-2 win in Windsor in which Jean-Cristoph Lemieux buried a hat trick against his former team to reach nine goals and Bjorn Bronas made 29 saves in his season debut. Friday in London brought the Wolves’ first regulation loss of the season, 4-1, with Adam Nemec scoring the lone goal. Sunday in Guelph they led 2-0 before surrendering five unanswered, four of them in the third, in a 5-2 defeat. At 7-2-1-0 Sudbury remains firmly in the top tier, but a club that opened 7-0-1-0 has now lost two in a row to the teams directly around it in the power rankings.

Sarnia Sting – down two spots to #12 this week
A winless week, and the goals against piled up in a hurry. Sarnia lost 5-2 to Guelph on Wednesday, with Cole Emerton collecting a goal and an assist, then was beaten 9-2 and 7-4 by the ninth-ranked Saginaw Spirit on consecutive nights. The Sting were outshot 49-22 in the first of those and surrendered 16 goals across the two. Easton Walos reached double digits with his 10th of the season and Jonas Gulbrandsen scored his first career OHL goal in Saturday’s loss. At 5-6-1-0 Sarnia has dropped four straight, looking to turn things around against London during Rivalry Week.

Erie Otters – down one spot to #13 this week
Two home games, two losses. Erie was beaten 3-1 by the Soo on Friday despite 36 saves on 38 shots from David Egorov, the Hounds capping it with an empty-netter. Saturday was heavier, a 7-1 defeat to the fifth-ranked London Knights in which the Otters were outshot 40-29. Liam Beamish scored the only Erie goal. At 5-5-1-0 with a minus-12 goal differential, the Otters have given back the ground they picked up a week ago.

North Bay Battalion – down one spot to #15 this week
Three first-period goals on Thanksgiving Monday, and not a great deal after that. North Bay beat Peterborough 3-1 to open the week on markers from Cam Warren, Evgeny Dubrovtsev and Ryder Carey, with Mike McIvor stopping 26 of 27. The Petes took the rematch 4-2, though Dubrovtsev extended his point streak to a league-high nine games. Sunday was the cruel one: the Troops outshot Niagara 50-22 and lost 5-4, running into 46 saves from Connor Haffner. At 4-7-0-0 the shot totals keep saying one thing and the results another, which is becoming a frustrating trend for the Troops, who have only been outshot once.

Owen Sound Attack – down one spot to #16 this week
The Attack hold the final spot, and Sunday is the reason. Owen Sound was buried 11-3 in Windsor on Friday, surrendering double-digit goals for a second straight game, then lost 3-2 in Flint where Pierce Mbuyi scored both goals to reach eight on the season. Sunday in Saginaw salvaged the week: Ryerson Leenders stopped 33 of 34, Alexander Lisi’s first career OHL goal stood as the winner, and the Attack knocked off a Spirit club that had won five in a row. At 3-8-0-0 that Sunday result is what keeps Owen Sound on this list, with Windsor knocking on the door.

Holding steady:

Guelph Storm – holds at #1 this week
Nine in a row, and the top spot is not in question. Guelph won 5-2 in Sarnia on Wednesday with Ryan Roobroeck scoring 21 seconds in and Tyler Hopkins capping it at the final buzzer, then needed just 16 seconds of overtime to get past Flint on Owen Griffin’s winner. Sunday the Storm spotted the sixth-ranked Sudbury Wolves a 2-0 lead and answered with five unanswered goals, four of them in the third, while outshooting them 31-20. The winning streak is Guelph’s longest since a 10-game run in October and November of 2013.

Kingston Frontenacs – holds at #7 this week
A split that nets out to no movement. Kingston made it four straight on Friday against Oshawa, where Nolan Snyder scored twice including the winner 1:51 into overtime and added an assist, and Cole Zurawski tied it 4-4 with his first goal as a Frontenac. The streak ended the next night in Cornwall, a 5-2 loss that handed Brampton its first win of the season. At 7-5-0-0 through 12 games, the Fronts stay where they were.

Soo Greyhounds – holds at #8 this week
Two road wins, and then the first real setback in a month. Travis Hayes won it 51 seconds into overtime in Niagara on Thursday, and Colin Fitzgerald scored twice in that one before adding two assists the next night in Erie, where Trevor Daley Jr. and Brady Smith scored third-period goals in a 3-1 win. Sunday in Brantford ended an eight-game point streak, the Hounds falling 5-2 despite a 44-34 shot advantage. At 8-2-1-0 the two wins offset the finish and the Soo stay put.

Saginaw Spirit – holds at #9 this week
Three wins, 19 goals, and then the one that got away. Saginaw took a shootout in Windsor on Thanksgiving Monday before burying Sarnia 9-2 and 7-4 on consecutive nights, with Brody Pepoy recording a hat trick in the first of those and Levi Harper putting up two goals and two assists from the blue line in the second. Dima Zhilkin leads the OHL with 12 goals after scoring in all four games. Sunday was a 2-1 home loss to Owen Sound that ended a five-game winning streak, and it is the reason the Spirit hold rather than climb.