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The Kingston and District Sports Hall of Fame will finally be honouring the five local inductees for the class of 2020. The original induction ceremony, scheduled for May 1, 2020, was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally rescheduled for September of that year, the ceremony was again pushed to
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The NHL’s Seattle Kraken has signed Kingston native, Tye Kartye of the Sault Ste. Marie (Soo) Greyhounds, to a three-year entry-level contract. With Kraken Executive VP and General Manager, Greyhound alumnus and hometown hero, Ron Francis’ number 10 currently hanging in homage from the rafters at the Soo’s GFL Memorial
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Relm Sports will host their first annual Clash in YGK U16 & U18 AAA hockey tournament this weekend in Kingston, in partnership with the Greater Kingston Minor Hockey Association. The tournament will run from October 29 to 31, 2021. All games will take place at the INVISTA Centre located at
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The following is a message from the Kingston Frontenacs Hockey Club outlining exhibition game ticket availability, as well as COVID-19 policy and protocols: The Kingston Frontenacs are preparing to host a home game at the Leon’s Centre for the first time since February 21st, 2020. On Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021,
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Two weeks ago, on August 11, like any other morning, Marc Boucher, 47, said “I love you” on the way out the door to his daughters and wife to leave for a hockey game — he’d been waiting to resume playing as protocols loosened during the pandemic. No one had
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I will never be an athlete. Not unless sarcasm becomes an Olympic sport. I mean, I “did sports” as a child, mainly baseball and only because it was expected of me. And then I did a stint of hyper-violent lacrosse and rugby in high school to take out my adolescent
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In what can only be described as shocking, Kingston Frontenacs General Manager and Head Coach Paul McFarland has left the team to join Head Coach Dave Hakstol’s coaching staff with the NHL expansion franchise, the Seattle Kraken. McFarland joins Jay Leach as one of two Assistant Coaches with the new
Read more The Ontario Hockey League and the Kingston Frontenacs have released their 2021-22 regular season schedule. The season starts on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021, with three games: Peterborough at North Bay, Barrie at Niagara and Sarnia at Windsor. The Frontenacs open their season the following night as they host the Ottawa
Read moreFor Kingston-born Rich Peverley, hockey has always been a way of life. But on March 10, 2014, the life he knew changed forever. “(Tyler) Seguin was taking the faceoff, I was beside Jamie (Benn) in our zone on the right side of the goalie,” Rich Peverly reflected during a Zoom call
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The department of athletics at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) celebrated the most recent inductees into the Athletics Wall of Distinction (AWOD) with a virtual ceremony on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. The event streamed on the RMC Paladins Facebook and YouTube pages. The in-person ceremony was cancelled last
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Students in the Hockey Canada Skills Academy at Kingston’s École secondaire catholique Marie-Rivier were recognized and rewarded by Hockey Canada in a national competition in connection with the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, according to a release from Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est (CECCE). The national competition was open
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A new five year sponsor has been announced for an ice pad and adjacent meeting room at the INVISTA Centre. CUPE 109, a local chapter of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, will assume sponsorship of the current Kingston Transit Rink, as well as the adjacent meeting room and branding
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