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DRAGONS ANNOUNCE MAIN TRAINING CAMP DATES
The Powassan Dragons will be hosting their main training camp at the Powassan Sportsplex from Monday August 30th to Friday September 3rd. The Dragons will also play a home and home exhibition series against the Sturgeon Falls Lumberjacks. Click here for dates and times.
Posted August 17th 2010
DRAGONS SET TO HOST LUMBERJACKS IN EXHIBITION ACTION
The Powassan Dragons will play their first exhibition game of the year on Sunday as they travel to Verner to take on the Sturgeon Falls Lumberjacks. The teams will play a second game in Powassan on Tuesday September 7th. Game time is 9pm at the Powassan Sportsplex. Come out and cheer on the Dragons to victory.
Posted August 30th 2010
GMHL EXPANDS TO U.S. FOR THE FIRST TIME
Jamestown Jets join the GMHL for the 2010-2011 season
The GMHL is pleased to announce the expansion of the league to the United States for the first time, welcoming the Jr. A Jets from Jamestown, N.Y.
 The Jets were recently purchased by Head Coach and Vice President of Hockey Operations Dennis Canfield from former majority owner, Barry Soskin. Mr. Canfield appreciates the experience in the Northern Junior Hockey League, and is thankful for the chance to work with Barry Soskin, but felt the GMHL provided some unique opportunities to raise the level of his team and their players, generate additional exposure, and provide their fans with a wider variety of opponents from north of the border.
Despite the late date, the Jets are an existing operation, a major reason GMHL owners felt that including the Jets this season was achievable and worth the effort to raise the profile of the league heading into our fifth anniversary season.
Jamestown is approximately a four hour drive from the Toronto area, and the Jets play out of a fantastic facility, the 2,100 seat Jamestown Savings Bank Arena.
Team colours are green, blue and white, and the Jets wear uniforms similar to the NHL's Vancouver Canucks.
As a result of this latest development, the GMHL is holding an emergency meeting on Friday, August 27 to revamp the entire 2010-11 schedule.
In the meantime, the GMHL and the Lumberjacks extend a warm welcome to our newest club, the Jamestown Jets, and new owner Dennis Canfield.
with files from gmhl.net
Posted August 29th 2010
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DRAGONS WILL HAVE POLISH FLAVOUR
The Powassan Dragons of the Greater Metro Jr. ‘A’ Hockey League will ice a heavy arsenal of Polish players this coming season, according to owner and head coach Lui Ricci.
He was in Poland recently for the World Under-18 Hockey Championships and held a training camp for players willing to make the move to Canada.
Ricci says he chose to scout Polish players because he’s come to an agreement with the owner of the DLB Academy in Powassan – who happens to be Polish – where he’ll go to Poland to recruit players to come to Powassan to stay at the Academy while they play for the Dragons, and learn English at the same time.
“That’s very, very important to a country like Poland,” Ricci said. “Because a lot of the boys don’t speak the language (English)…and of course that’s the number one language around the world.”
A many as 15 polish hockey players could potentially make the move to Powassan to play for the Dragons next fall, and to ease the language barrier, Ricci is in talks to bring over a coach from Poland - who speaks English - to be an assistant coach of the Dragons, and perhaps take over as head coaching duties one day.
“It’ll be great, because then he can come in the daytime and do the off-ice (training) with them,” Ricci said.
The Dragons won’t be the only European-heavy team this coming season, as there will be a team made up entirely of Russians called the “Russia Red Wings”.
“The league (GMHL) seems to be getting stronger and stronger every year because you’re talking about players coming from all over the world,” added Ricci.
Last season the Dragons lone European import was goaltender Martjin Oosterwijk who is from the Netherlands.
Posted May 3rd 2010
DRAGONS FALL IN ONE GAME PLAYOFF
The Powassan Dragons were cooled off 6-2 by the Algoma Avalanche in a one-game playoff, with the winner moving on to the Greater Metro Jr. A Hockey League quarter-finals.
Justin Huycke and Will Laporte scored in Sunday's loss.
Rene Balazs, Mike Brunnetta, Luke Gjos, Thomas Stewart,
Bo Boissonneault, and Mark Orazietti tickled the twine for the Avalanche.
Dragons Dutch goalkeeper Martjin Oosterwijk faced 57 in the loss.
The Dragons opted for a youth movement in their first season in Powassan, with former Widdifeld Wildcats forward and team captain Justin Huycke is the only player not eligible to return to the squad next season.
Posted February 27th 2010
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