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Tweet Orval Tessier was a star as a player in the Ontario Hockey Association in the early 1950′s and returned to star behind the bench as a head coach in the 1980′s. Tessier was an oustanding minor pro hockey player and an outstanding head coach, taking three teams in three different leagues to playoff championships.…

Tweet Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Russian based KHL replaces one head coach with Ontario Hockey League ties with another with history in the OHL. Magnitogorsk had Paul Maurice behind the bench in 2012-13. The club has signed Mike Keenan to a two year deal through 2014-15. Mike Keenan Iron Mike coached just one year in…

Tweet Matej Machovsky will not travel north with the Battalion to North Bay as an overager for the 2013-14 Ontario Hockey League season. Instead, Machovsky will return to his home country, the Czech Republic and play for HC Plzen in the Czech Extraliga. Plzen is where Pilsner beer originated. After the Guelph Storm picked him…

Tweet Dornbirner EC in Austria’s Erste Bank Eishockey Liga (EBEL) recently wrapped up their first year in the league after being promoted from tier 2. Dornbirn, heavily laden with Ontario Hockey League grads, finished tenth in the ten team league and did not qualify for the post season. The club has already begun setting up the roster for…

Tweet Ontario Hockey League grad Rob Davison is a potential signing by Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg of Germany’s Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) for the 2013-14 season. Rumours abound in Germany but info won’t be released until the end of the 2013 IIHF World Championships. Davison played three years in the OHL from 1997-98 to 1999-00, all…

Tweet Switzerland is making waves at the 2013 IIHF World Hockey Championships by taking out Canada in game 2 of the round robin. On Team Switzerland, there are two Ontario Hockey League grads on the ice and one behind the bench as head coach. Ryan Gardner Gardner played three years in the OHL from 1995-96…

Tweet Continuing with the penalty theme we’ve been on lately, today we look at Germany’s Deutsche Eishockey Liga. After the 52 game DEL regular season was in the books, the four players with the highest number of penalty minutes were all Ontario Hockey League grads. 1. Peter Flache – Augsburger Panther Peter Flache, who we recently featured at…

Tweet The Ontario Hockey League was represented well in 2012-13 when it came to Penalty Minutes leaders in the American Hockey League. For OHL grads were among the top ten. 2. Nathan McIver – Bridgeport Sound Tigers McIver finished second with 287 PIM while playing 62 of 76 regular season games for the Bridgeport Sound…

Tweet Peter Flache Ontario Hockey League grad Peter Flache will remain in Germany for at least two more years but will be on a different club. After three years with Augsburger Panther, Flache has signed with the Straubing Tigers through 2014-15. He returns to the club he played for in 2009-10. Flache played four years in…

Tweet The Player In his first year with the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League, Nathan McIver added over 100 penalty minutes to his career high. McIver finished second in the AHL with 287 PIM over 62 games. Bobby Robins of the Providence Bruins finished first with 316. Buy the Nathan McIver hockey…