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TORONTO –\u00a0<\/strong>The Ontario Hockey League (OHL) today announced finalists for the Jim Rutherford Trophy, presented annually to the OHL Goaltender of the Year as voted by the League’s General Managers.<\/p>\n

Team nominees were required to receive 20% of the vote from General Managers within their own conference to advance to the final ballot as award finalists.<\/p>\n

This year’s Jim Rutherford Trophy finalists include:<\/p>\n

Mason Vaccari (Flint Firebirds) – 36 W, 2.70 GAA, .907 SV%, 4 SO
\n<\/strong>An offseason addition by the Firebirds to address what, at the time, was an uncertain goaltending situation pending the fate of Nathan Day who turned pro with the Edmonton Oilers organization, Mason Vaccari<\/a> turned out to be one of the OHL’s best moves of the summer. A former OHL and CHL Humanitarian of the Year, Vaccari put up career numbers with a Firebirds record-setting 2.70 goals-against average, record-tying 36 wins and four shutouts. Vaccari made the most of his overage season, helping backstop the Birds to a club record 95 points in the standings.<\/p>\n

Ryder Fetterolf (Ottawa 67’s) – 29 W, 2.07 GAA, .923 SV%, 6 SO
\n<\/strong>Previously an unknown commodity, Ryder Fetterolf<\/a> burst onto the scene with the Ottawa 67’s, stacking up weekly and monthly recognition, being named the OHL’s top rookie in November while pulling in rookie and goaltender honours in March. He set a new 67’s goals-against average record with a league-best 2.07 as the 67’s surrendered a franchise-low 160 goals during the regular season. Fetterolf’s records spanned into the league record books as his six shutouts are the most ever by an OHL rookie goaltender. The NHL Draft eligible netminder competed in this year’s Connor McDavid OHL Top Prospects Game in Peterborough.<\/p>\n

Easton Rye (Peterborough Petes) – 38 W, 2.78 GAA, .915 SV%, 3 SO
\n<\/strong>Hometown product Easton Rye<\/a> was a workhorse for the Peterborough Petes, posting an impressive .915 save percentage while turning aside the second-most shots in the league with 1,687 saves. The 19-year-old Rye tied a Petes franchise record of 38 wins, originally set by Rick Laferriere all the way back in 1979-80. Busy most nights, 24 of Rye’s 38 wins required at least 30 saves. He played the second-most minutes in the league this season, seeing 3,372 in the Peterborough crease.<\/p>\n

Carter George (Soo Greyhounds) – 23 W, 2.73 GAA, .907 SV%, 4 SO
\n<\/strong>Los Angeles Kings prospect Carter George<\/a> split his season between Sault Ste. Marie and Owen Sound, posting three of the four shutouts he recorded following his move north in January. After representing Canada on the national stage at the World Juniors for a second straight year, George finished the season with a goal and two assists, becoming the first goaltender in Canadian Hockey League history to score twice when he hit the empty net on Jan. 21st vs. London.<\/p>\n

Joey Costanzo (Windsor Spitfires) – 32 W, 2.16 GAA, .908 SV%, 4 SO
\n<\/strong>Fifth-year veteran Joey Costanzo<\/a> saved the best for his final season, registering a new Windsor Spitfires franchise record 2.16 goals-against average, backstopping them to a second straight West Division title. Costanzo started the season with eight consecutive wins and went on to set a new Spitfires franchise mark for career victories with 102. He helped the Spits end the season with the OHL’s top penalty kill of 82.8 percent. He’ll graduate as one of just a handful of OHL netminders to earn more than 100 career wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The OHL has announced finalists for the Jim Rutherford Trophy, presented annually to the OHL Goaltender of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":297479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[{"term_id":3361,"name":"Ryder Fetterolf","slug":"ryder-fetterolf","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3361,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":35,"filter":"raw","term_order":"336"},{"term_id":899,"name":"Awards","slug":"awards","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":910,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":292,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1066"},{"term_id":2600,"name":"Carter George","slug":"carter-george","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2616,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":67,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1309"},{"term_id":2599,"name":"Easton Rye","slug":"easton-rye","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2615,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":31,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1715"},{"term_id":63,"name":"Flint Firebirds","slug":"flint-firebirds","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":63,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1328,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1799"},{"term_id":2281,"name":"Joey Costanzo","slug":"joey-costanzo","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2296,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":35,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2131"},{"term_id":2284,"name":"Mason Vaccari","slug":"mason-vaccari","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2299,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":32,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2549"},{"term_id":2673,"name":"OHL News","slug":"ohl-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2689,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3622,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2892"},{"term_id":90,"name":"Ottawa 67's","slug":"ottawa-67s","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":90,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1609,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2935"},{"term_id":77,"name":"Peterborough Petes","slug":"peterborough-petes","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":77,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1599,"filter":"raw","term_order":"3008"},{"term_id":102,"name":"Soo Greyhounds","slug":"soo-greyhounds","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":102,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1429,"filter":"raw","term_order":"3291"},{"term_id":62,"name":"Windsor Spitfires","slug":"windsor-spitfires","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":62,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1602,"filter":"raw","term_order":"3554"}],"class_list":["post-297476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-ryder-fetterolf","tag-awards","tag-carter-george","tag-easton-rye","tag-flint-firebirds","tag-joey-costanzo","tag-mason-vaccari","tag-ohl-news","tag-ottawa-67s","tag-peterborough-petes","tag-soo-greyhounds","tag-windsor-spitfires","category-186","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/media.chl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/13150552\/Rutherford-Finalists-Web.jpeg",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\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":297474,"date":"2026-04-13T15:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/?p=297474"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:30:24","slug":"bulldogs-adam-jiricek-named-cogeco-ohl-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/article\/bulldogs-adam-jiricek-named-cogeco-ohl-player-of-the-week","title":{"rendered":"Bulldogs’ Adam Jiricek named Cogeco OHL Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO –\u00a0<\/strong>The Ontario Hockey League (OHL) today announced that St. Louis Blues prospect Adam Jiricek<\/a> is the Cogeco OHL Player of the Week, producing two goals, five assists and seven points over three wins in their second round playoff series.<\/p>\n

Jiricek started the series with a bang, producing a goal and three assists in Wednesday’s 8-1 win over the North Bay Battalion. He added a goal and an assist in Game 2 as Brantford won by a score of 4-1. Jiricek chipped in with an assist in Sunday’s 3-2 double-overtime road win as the Bulldogs established a 3-0 series lead.<\/p>\n

A 19-year-old from Plzen, Czechia, Jiricek leads OHL blueliners with 12 points (4-8–12) over seven games in these playoffs. He finished his second OHL campaign with 59 points (19-40\u201359) over 55 games along with a plus\/minus rating of plus-31. The 6-foot-3, 185Ib. defender helped the Bulldogs put together the OHL\u2019s top-ranked power play, scoring nine of his 19 goals on the man advantage. Jiricek was selected by St. Louis in the first round (16th overall) of the 2024 NHL Draft, and was chosen by the Bulldogs with the 19th overall pick of the 2023 CHL Import Draft. Jiricek was a World Junior silver medalist with Czechia this past January after winning bronze medals in both 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n

2025-26 Cogeco OHL Player of the Week \u2013 Playoffs
\n<\/strong>Mar. 23-29: Jacob Battaglia (Flint Firebirds)
\nMar. 30-Apr. 5: Ben Wilmott (Barrie Colts)
\nApr. 6-12: Adam Jiricek (Brantford Bulldogs)<\/p>\n

2025-26 Cogeco OHL Player of the Week \u2013 Regular Season
\n<\/strong>Sept. 18-21: Cole Davis (Windsor Spitfires)
\nSept. 22-28: Ethan Czata (Niagara IceDogs)
\nSept. 29-Oct. 5: Kashawn Aitcheson (Barrie Colts)
\nOct. 6-12: Jake O\u2019Brien (Brantford Bulldogs)
\nOct. 13-19: Adam Benak (Brantford Bulldogs)
\nOct. 20-26: Kieron Walton (Sudbury Wolves)
\nOct. 27-Nov. 2: Harry Nansi (Owen Sound Attack)
\nNov. 3-9: Alex Kostov (Flint Firebirds)
\nNov. 10-16: Nathan Aspinall (Flint Firebirds)
\nNov. 17-23: Marek Vanacker (Brantford Bulldogs)
\nNov. 24-30: Kieron Walton (Sudbury Wolves)
\nDec. 1-7: Alex McLean (Guelph Storm)
\nDec. 8-14: Christopher Brown (Soo Greyhounds)
\nDec. 15-21: Alex Pharand (Sudbury Wolves)
\nDec. 28-Jan. 4: Egor Barabanov (Saginaw Spirit)
\nJan. 5-11: Cole Beaudoin (Barrie Colts)
\nJan. 12-18: Nikita Klepov (Saginaw Spirit)
\nJan. 19-25: Jake O\u2019Brien (Brantford Bulldogs)
\nJan. 26-Feb. 1: Kevin He (Flint Firebirds)
\nFeb. 2-8: Ben Wilmott (Barrie Colts)
\nFeb. 9-15: Egor Barabanov (Saginaw Spirit)
\nFeb. 16-22: Quinn Beauchesne (Guelph Storm)
\nFeb. 23-Mar. 1: Liam Greentree (Windsor Spitfires)
\nMar. 2-8: Sam O\u2019Reilly (Kitchener Rangers)
\nMar. 9-15: Cooper Foster (Ottawa 67\u2019s)
\nMar. 16-22: Jake O\u2019Brien (Brantford Bulldogs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

St. Louis Blues prospect Adam Jiricek is the Cogeco OHL Player of the Week, producing two goals, five assists and seven points over three wins in their second round playoff series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":297478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[{"term_id":3184,"name":"Adam Jiricek","slug":"adam-jiricek","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3184,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":13,"filter":"raw","term_order":"508"},{"term_id":2724,"name":"Brantford Bulldogs","slug":"brantford-bulldogs","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2740,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":603,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1184"},{"term_id":2673,"name":"OHL News","slug":"ohl-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2689,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3622,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2892"},{"term_id":469,"name":"player of the week","slug":"player-of-the-week","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":475,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":357,"filter":"raw","term_order":"3027"}],"class_list":["post-297474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-adam-jiricek","tag-brantford-bulldogs","tag-ohl-news","tag-player-of-the-week","category-186","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/media.chl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/13132943\/16_9-PLAYER-OF-THE-WEEK-copy-2.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\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":297473,"date":"2026-04-13T15:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/?p=297473"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:20:43","slug":"bulldogs-ryerson-leenders-named-mary-browns-chicken-ohl-goaltender-of-the-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/article\/bulldogs-ryerson-leenders-named-mary-browns-chicken-ohl-goaltender-of-the-week-2","title":{"rendered":"Bulldogs’ Ryerson Leenders named Mary Brown’s Chicken OHL Goaltender of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO –\u00a0<\/strong>The Ontario Hockey League (OHL) today announced that Buffalo Sabres prospect Ryerson Leenders<\/a> of the Brantford Bulldogs is the Mary Brown’s Chicken OHL Goaltender of the Week, going 3-0 with a 1.12 goals-against average and .949 save percentage.<\/p>\n

Leenders was in the crease for all three Brantford wins in their second round series against North Bay, stopping 31-of-32 in Wednesday’s 8-1 triumph in Game 1. He turned aside 20 shots in Friday’s 4-1 victory and made 24 saves across 94 minutes of action in Sunday’s 3-2 double-overtime road win.<\/p>\n

A 19-year-old from Nanticoke, ON, Leenders is 7-0 in these playoffs with a 1.84 goals-against average and .923 save percentage. He comes off a successful fourth OHL season, playing to a 27-5-4-2 record with a 2.69 goals-against average and .910 save percentage over 39 games, backstopping the Bulldogs to the Hamilton Spectator Trophy as regular season champions. The 6-foot-1, 179Ib. Leenders has split his OHL tenure between Brantford and Mississauga, playing to an overall mark of 94-51-14-2 with a 3.09 goals-against average and .904 save percentage with six shutouts. He was Buffalo’s seventh round (219th overall) pick in the 2024 NHL Draft. The Mississauga Steelheads drafted Leenders in the second round (32nd overall) of the 2022 OHL Priority Selection.<\/p>\n

2025-26 Mary Brown\u2019s Chicken OHL Goaltender of the Week \u2013 Playoffs
\n<\/strong>Mar. 23-30: Joey Costanzo (Windsor Spitfires)
\nMar. 31-Apr. 5: Jack Lisson (North Bay Battalion)
\nApr. 6-12: Ryerson Leenders (Brantford Bulldogs)<\/p>\n

2025-26 Mary Brown\u2019s Chicken OHL Goaltender of the Week \u2013 Regular Season
\n<\/strong>Sept. 18-21: Jason Schaubel (Kitchener Rangers)
\nSept. 22-28: Joey Costanzo (Windsor Spitfires)
\nSept. 29-Oct. 5: Gavin Betts (Kingston Frontenacs)
\nOct. 6-12: Mason Vaccari (Flint Firebirds)
\nOct. 13-19: Patrick Quinlan (Sarnia Sting)
\nOct. 20-26: Ryerson Leenders (Brantford Bulldogs)
\nOct. 27-Nov. 2: Aleksei Medvedev (London Knights)
\nNov. 3-9: Matthew Minchak (Kingston Frontenacs)
\nNov. 10-16: Ben Hrebik (Barrie Colts)
\nNov. 17-23: Easton Rye (Peterborough Petes)
\nNov. 24-30: Zach Bowen (Brampton Steelheads)
\nDec. 1-7: Vladislav Yermolenko (Niagara IceDogs)
\nDec. 8-14: Mason Vaccari (Flint Firebirds)
\nDec. 15-21: Ryder Fetterolf (Ottawa 67\u2019s)
\nDec. 28-Jan. 4: Easton Rye (Peterborough Petes)
\nJan. 5-11: Zachary Jovanovski (Guelph Storm)
\nJan. 12-18: Matthew Humphries (Oshawa Generals)
\nJan. 19-25: Carter George (Soo Greyhounds)
\nJan. 26-Feb. 1: Zach Bowen (Brampton Steelheads)
\nFeb. 2-8: Easton Rye (Peterborough Petes)
\nFeb. 9-15: Christian Kirsch (Kitchener Rangers)
\nFeb. 16-22: Gavin Betts (Kingston Frontenacs)
\nFeb. 23-Mar. 1: Ryder Fetterolf (Ottawa 67\u2019s)
\nMar. 2-8: Arvin Jaswal (Barrie Colts)
\nMar. 9-15: David Egorov (Brantford Bulldogs)
\nMar. 16-22: Mike McIvor (North Bay Battalion)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buffalo Sabres prospect Ryerson Leenders of the Brantford Bulldogs is the Mary Brown’s Chicken OHL Goaltender of the Week, going 3-0 with a 1.12 goals-against average and .949 save percentage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":297477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[{"term_id":2724,"name":"Brantford Bulldogs","slug":"brantford-bulldogs","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2740,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":603,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1184"},{"term_id":2419,"name":"Goaltender of the Week","slug":"goaltender-of-the-week","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2434,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":160,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1854"},{"term_id":2673,"name":"OHL News","slug":"ohl-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2689,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3622,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2892"},{"term_id":2527,"name":"Ryerson Leenders","slug":"ryerson-leenders","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2543,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":48,"filter":"raw","term_order":"3203"}],"class_list":["post-297473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-brantford-bulldogs","tag-goaltender-of-the-week","tag-ohl-news","tag-ryerson-leenders","category-186","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/media.chl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/13132024\/16_9-GOALIE-OF-THE-WEEK-2.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\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":297472,"date":"2026-04-13T14:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/?p=297472"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:01:47","slug":"bulldogs-caleb-malhotra-named-ohl-rookie-of-the-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/article\/bulldogs-caleb-malhotra-named-ohl-rookie-of-the-week-5","title":{"rendered":"Bulldogs’ Caleb Malhotra named OHL Rookie of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO –\u00a0<\/strong>The Ontario Hockey League (OHL) today announced that 2026 NHL Draft prospect Caleb Malhotra<\/a> of the Brantford Bulldogs is the OHL Rookie of the Week for the second time in these playoffs, producing three goals and an assist over three wins in their second round series.<\/p>\n

Malhotra continued his strong postseason, scoring twice while adding an assist in an 8-1 win over North Bay in Game 1 on Wednesday. He lit the lamp again in Game 2 as the Bulldogs skated to a 4-1 victory. They now lead their Eastern Conference Semi-Final series against North Bay 3-0.<\/p>\n

A 17-year-old from Toronto, Malhotra leads rookies with 13 points (8-5–13) over seven games in the 2026 OHL Playoffs. The 6-foot-2, 182Ib. centre enjoyed a productive season with 84 points (29-55–84) over 67 games along with a plus\/minus rating of plus-33. Ranked fifth among North American skaters on NHL Central Scouting’s midterm rankings, Malhotra scored eight game-winning goals during the season, and was voted a finalist in the best stickhandler in the Eastern Conference portion of the OHL Coaches Poll. He was originally Kingston’s first round (8th overall) pick in the 2024 OHL Priority Selection. Malhotra is committed to Boston University (NCAA).<\/p>\n

2025-26 OHL Rookie of the Week \u2013 Playoffs<\/strong>
\nMar. 23-29: Caleb Malhotra (Brantford Bulldogs)
\nMar. 30-Apr. 5: John McLaughlin (Windsor Spitfires)
\nApr. 6-12: Caleb Malhotra (Brantford Bulldogs)<\/p>\n

2025-26 OHL Rookie of the Week \u2013 Regular Season
\n<\/strong>Sept. 18-21: Thomas Vandenberg (Ottawa 67\u2019s)
\nSept. 22-28: Caleb Malhotra (Brantford Bulldogs)
\nSept. 29-Oct. 5: Nikita Klepov (Saginaw Spirit)
\nOct. 6-12: Jaxon Cover (London Knights)
\nOct. 13-19: Ryder Cali (North Bay Battalion)
\nOct. 20-26: Jaakko Wycisk (Guelph Storm)
\nOct. 27-Nov. 2: Ryder Fetterolf (Ottawa 67\u2019s)
\nNov. 3-9: Easton Walos (Sarnia Sting)
\nNov. 10-16: Ryder Fetterolf (Ottawa 67\u2019s)
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EIGHT OHL PLAYERS NAMED TO CANADA\u2019S NATIONAL MEN\u2019S U18 TEAM PRELIMINARY ROSTER<\/b><\/span>:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Goaltenders:<\/b><\/p>\n

Gavin Betts (Kingston Frontenacs)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Defencemen:<\/b><\/p>\n

Lucas Ambrosio (Erie Otters)<\/p>\n

Carter Hicks (Brampton Steelheads)<\/span><\/p>\n

Caleb Mitchell (London Knights)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Forwards:<\/b><\/p>\n

Alessandro Di Iorio (Sarnia Sting)<\/span><\/p>\n

Jean-Cristoph Lemieux (Sudbury Wolves)<\/span><\/p>\n

Jaakko Wycisk (Guelph Storm)<\/span><\/p>\n

Dima Zhilkin (Saginaw Spirit)<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The 2026 IIHF U18 Men\u2019s World Championship kicks off on April 22, with Canada taking on Slovakia, Latvia, Norway and Finland in the preliminary round before the tournament concludes with the medal games on May 2. TSN and RDS, the official broadcast partners of Hockey Canada, will broadcast 16 tournament games, including all Team Canada preliminary-round games, as well as the quarterfinals, semifinals, and medal games.<\/span><\/p>\n

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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/span><\/p>\n

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