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No news isn’t bad news, says Anthony LeBlanc.

Haley Irwin was destined for the Canadian Olympic team since she left home as a young teenager to pursue her hockey dream. But even she can’t believe it happened quite so quickly.

Just two days after claiming Olympic gold, Eric Staal was back on the ice with the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday night.

It’s definitely the biggest game Scott Morrison has ever coached. On Saturday the Lakehead Thunderwolves and Windsor Lancers will tangle in southern Ontario in a one-game, elimination playoff.

Like the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens in the 1980s, playoff meetings between the Lakehead Thunderwolves and Western Mustangs were automatic between 2002 and 2006. Joel Scherban, the player, was there for every one of them.

Matt Dias netted an overtime goal to complete a hat trick and win the series for the Lakehead Thunderwolves over the Guelph Gryphons Friday night.

Thunder Bay’s Jason Myskicki finished 44 th in Thursday’s 10-kilometre Nordic combined event. Myslicki, who trains in Alberta, had a poor ski jump to start the duel-sport competition, landing just 69.

Haley Irwin is bringing home the gold.

Chris Whitley’s star keeps on rising. Whitley, who spent five seasons between the pipes with the Lakehead Thunderwolves, has made the jump to the American Hockey League.

The OUA championship has been staring Tasia McKenna in the face all season long – literally. Lakehead’s star guard wrote the words on a board in the Thunderwolves dressing room before the season began.