MARQUETTE, MI – The Northern Lakes Hockey League 2010-11 schedule is now available at northernlakeshockey.com.

This year’s schedule includes 12 home games and 12 road games for each team, a pair against each of the six other NLHL teams participating this year.
The games will begin on Sept. 18 with Capital Centre Pride traveling to Sault Ste. Marie to play the Soo Indians, and the West Michigan Hounds will make its NLHL debut in Houghton against the Ojibwa Eagles.

Both series will begin with a Saturday night tilt and finish Sunday morning with 10 a.m. battles.

Shattuck St. Mary’s will make its 2010 debut with a series against the Indians on Oct. 8 and 9 before making a stop in Houghton to play the Eagles Sunday morning of that weekend.

Marquette and Thunder Bay will play their first games that weekend as well, playing a Saturday/Sunday series in Marquette.

There are 11 dates with three games taking place in one day, but no weekend has more than six NLHL games scheduled.

The Thunder Bay Kings, Ojibwa Eagles and Shattuck St. Mary’s Sabres are slotted for four game weekends as they travel to the Lower Peninsula of Michigan to play in Lansing and Kalamazoo, while Shattuck has two three-game weekends scheduled across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

There are two weekday games this year, a tilt between Capital Centre Pride and West Michigan on Tuesday, Jan. 18 and the Eagles and Electricians battling on Thursday, Dec. 18.

The league playoffs are set for Feb. 18 to 20 in Thunder Bay.

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KALAMAZOO, MI – The Northern Lakes Hockey League is expanding again; this time welcoming the West Michigan Hounds, who will compete in the upcoming NLHL season.

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FRISCO, TEXAS – Two Capital Centre Pride players and one Shattuck St. Mary’s player were drafted Wednesday in the North American Hockey League drafted.

Jacob Mcdowell and John Rathjen of the Pride and SSM’s Cody Marooney were all selected by teams in the only USA Hockey-sanctioned Tier II Junior “A” league.

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CHICAGO – Five Northern Lakes Hockey League alumni were drafted by United States Hockey League teams this week, including four in the entry draft and one in the futures draft.

The USHL is the United States’ only Tier 1 Junior “A” hockey league, and features over 230 players that are already committed to NCAA Division 1 schools.

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THUNDER BAY, Ont. – The Northern Lakes Hockey League is proud to announce that four players that competed in the 2009-2010 season have already committed to playing at the next level during the 2010-2011 season.

Moving on from this season is the NLHL’s leading scorer and Most Valuable Player Todd Skirving, who is committed to play for the Vernon Vipers of the British Columbia Hockey League. Skirving led the Thunder Bay Kings to a third-place finish in the regular season with nine goals and 24 assists for an NLHL-best 33 points.

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FARIBAULT, Minn. – Todd Skirving had a point in 18 of the 20 games the Thunder Bay Kings played, including multiple points in eight of those games. Skirving’s nine goals and 33 points in those 18 games were good enough to lead the league, and also earn him MVP honors.

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FARIBAULT, Minn. – The action starts today as all six Northern Lakes Hockey League teams are on the beautiful campus of Shattuck St. Mary’s for the inaugural NLHL Tournament.

The game is set to start today with the regular season champs and tournament host Shattuck St. Mary’s Sabres meeting up with the Ojibwa Eagles at 5 p.m., in a game that will be webcast live and free at http://www.ssmsports.org/webcasts/venues/new-rink.

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FARIBAULT, Minn. – Nicholas Weberg finished the season with five points in two games against the Ojibwa Eagles to catapult Shattuck St. Mary’s to the Northern Lakes Hockey League regular season title, and earn himself NLHL Player of the Month for February.

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SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – Colby Spoonemore and the Soo Indians didn’t have the best results in January, earning a 1-4-1 record, but Spoonemore’s efforts yielded seven goals and 10 points, earning the Billings, Mont.-native Northern Lakes Hockey League Player of the Month honors.

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FARIBAULT, Minn. – The Shattuck St. Mary’s Sabres took care of business last weekend as they swept the visiting Ojibwa Eagles, 8-3 Saturday night and 7-2 Sunday morning. The two victories move Shattuck to 14-1-5 on the season, lifting them over the Capital Centre Pride, who finished with a mark of 15-4-1.

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