OJHL Oakville Blades
Season Summary: The Future Is Bright
Date:03/13/2023 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo credits: Ray MacAloney / Charles Harrison / Spencer Smye / Kevin Raposo / Andy Corneau / OJHL Images Oakville Blades Season-In-Review As the Blades finished regulation play and our captain Jake Alcaraz left the ice in what was the final game of his junior career, it signalled the official end to our 2022-2023 OJHL season. To say that it was full of emotion would be an underst...
Blades Play Final Games of the Season
Date:03/08/2023 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo Credit: Cameron Ernst / OJHL Images Trenton Golden Hawks The Golden Hawks flew into town through a huge snowstorm to play their only meeting against your Oakville Blades of the 2022-2023 season. This game was also the 2nd last game the Blades would play this season, having been eliminated from playoff contention. It was also the Blades Billet Appreciation & Alumni Night, which ...
Playoff Hopes Gone But Lots To Be Proud Of
Date:03/02/2023 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Brantford 99ers The Blades secured a huge win against the 99ers on the 23rd of February by a score of 4-3. A solid double-comeback effort that saw the team register 50 shots in what was a very needed confidence booster for this squad. The most notable performance of the evening was a huge night from Andrew Brown as he registered 3 assists in his 99th OJHL game. Goaltender Gavin McCarthy ...
Blades Drop Two Close Ones
Date:02/23/2023 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Markham Royals The Blades are in a race for the 8th playoff spot in the North/West conference. One of the teams hovering around that last playoff spot in the conference is the Markham Royals. Hence, when the Blades arrived at the Markham Centennial Centre, on Friday, February 17th, they knew that a win in this contest would be a huge boost for the squad. This game in its entirety wa...
Blades Score Lots But Not Enough in Milton
Date:02/16/2023 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo Credit: Kevin Raposo / OJHL Images A very interesting game was played in Milton on Super Bowl Sunday. The matchup was a tale of two different games with the first 40 minutes being polar opposite of the last 20. Combine that with a lot of penalties (there probably should have been more penalties called too) and you have yourself quite a unique game of hockey. The penalties resul...
Blades Played a 'Crisp' Game and Looked 'Lach'ed In vs. The 99ers
Date:02/11/2023 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo Credit: Spencer Smye / OJHL Images The Blades travelled to Brantford on Thursday, February 9th to face the 99ers. This was an absolutely incredible game that featured an offensive clinic from the Blades matching their season-high in goals with 7 on the night! That wasn’t even the most impressive part of the evening. Jacob Crisp, our Assistant Captain who made the transition from defen...
Blades Score Lots in 3 Games
Date:02/08/2023 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo Credit: Spencer Smye / OJHL Images Georgetown Raiders The first of two opponents in back-to-back home games was the very strong Raiders team. A very defensively strong team that sits near the top of the league meant that it was going to be a challenging game for the Oakville Blades who are trying to get into a playoff spot. This game was extremely offense heavy with both teams reco...
The Young Blades Make Great Strides in 3-in-3 Weekend
Date:01/31/2023 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo Credit: Ray MacAloney / OJHL Images Pickering Panthers Although the Blades and Panthers had played multiple times already, it was the first time they were doing so in Pickering. The team dawned the blue jerseys for 60 minutes in a game that marked the return of defenceman Josh Vagenas. #74 was solid as usual between the pipes, turning away 25 of 27 shots including a huge stop on a ...
Blades Drop One to the Conference Leaders
Date:01/27/2023 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
The Oakville Blades squared off against the visiting Collingwood Blues in a game that was supposed to happen in December, but was rescheduled due to poor weather conditions. As a result, this game was played on a Tuesday (January 24th), with a rare 2:30 PM start, so we understand if you couldn’t make it out to this one. With the Blues being the powerhouse team they are, it would prove to be ...
Two Games; Four Points for Your Blades
Date:01/23/2023 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo Credit: Kevin Raposo / OJHL Images Stouffville Spirit In the final meeting of the 2022-2023 season between these two teams, the effort from the top to the bottom of the line-up was fantastic as the Blades clawed their way back from a 2 goal deficit to win in overtime. Stellar performances from multiple players including Taylor, Caringi, Brown, Wang and Crisp led to a highly enterta...
The Future is Bright with our Top Prospects
Date:01/22/2023 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo Credits: Tim Bates / OJHL Images The OJHL All-Star Celebration took place last weekend, January 13 and 14 in beautiful Collingwood, Ontario. It featured 4 events, an OJHL Alumni game and the inaugural skills competition which included categories such as Hardest Shot, Accuracy Shooting, Fastest Skater and Top Goaltender all taking place on the 13th (Results below). January the 14th was the d...
Weekend of Some Success and Some Firsts
Date:01/17/2023 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Brantford 99ers Having won their last game on December 14th against Aurora, the Blades were ready to get back in the win column after only collecting 1 point in the last 4 games. They did exactly that this past Thursday, January the 12th against the Brantford 99ers. With a final score of 7-2, the team exploded offensively, resulting in 7 players with multi-point games and 13 players recor...
Rocky Start to 2023 for the Blades
Date:01/11/2023 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo Credit: Tim Bates / OJHL Images Mississauga Chargers 2023 is here, and the Blades are looking to trend upwards in the standings after a rocky first half of the season. They opened the year at home against the Chargers who are a team that falls below Oakville in the standings. Despite the Blades controlling play for the majority of the game, the score remained very close th...
McCarthy Stands Tall But Burlington Offence Too Much
Date:12/22/2022 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo Credit: Spencer Smye / OJHL Images For the 3rd time this year, Oakville made the short trip to the Central Arena in Burlington. This was the 4th meeting between the two teams, and marked the second last game of the year where we would get to see the Battle of Burloak (They'll visit us once more in Oakville later in the year). The Cougars and Blades had previously met 3 times and Burling...
Abakar Kazbekov of the London Knights, Tribute and GoFundMe
Date:12/20/2022 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
On Saturday the 17th of December, London Knights player and Moscow, Russia native Abakar Kazbekov passed away at the age of 18. Kazbekov has been a member of the London Knights family since the 2021-2022 season after being selected #1 in the OHL U18 Priority Selection. OHL commissioner David Branch released a statement: "Today I join the entire OHL community in m...
Holiday Cheer but a Blades Loss
Date:12/20/2022 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
The Holiday game on Saturday, December 17th was one full of holiday cheer! Santa visited us and our sponsors, Big Bone BBQ were also there with ribs, brisket, pulled pork, buns and corn bread! It was also of great challenge for the Blades as soon as they hit the ice for their matchup. The guests of the evening were the North Halton rival Georgetown Raiders who are currently sitting 3rd in the Nort...
Cool Heads For A Blades OT Victory
Date:12/15/2022 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo Credit: Devin Doucette / OJHL Images Fans on both sides came to the game tonight fully expecting part 2 of the game that had happened only 5 days prior. If you don’t know what happened, make sure to read Tempers Flair On The Road for that summary. Although the game was physical and some words were definitely exchanged by players of either side, there only ended up being 30 penalty min...
Tempers Flair On The Road
Date:12/13/2022 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Milton Menace The Blades visited the Milton faithful for the first of 2 games at the Milton Memorial Arena this season. Both teams fought hard in a game that ended up being heavily influenced by special teams with both teams scoring twice on the man advantage on a combined 49 minutes of penalties on the night. Oakville had two standout players in this contest, those two being Gavin McCarth...
On the Road to Start December
Date:12/09/2022 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo By: Spencer Smye / OJHL Images Burlington Cougars The Blades made the short trip to the Central Arena in Burlington this past Friday for the 3rd instalment of the Battle of Burloak this season. Burlington had taken the first two games between these two squads by a score of 5-1 and 4-3 but the Blades were looking more dangerous than they had in the past. On top of that, they were co...
A Two Win Weekend
Date:11/29/2022 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo By: Spencer Smye / OJHL Images Brantford 99ers A crowd of over 500 was in attendance last Friday when Brantford rolled into town to take on the Oakville Blades in the annual Teddy Bear Toss game to support the Oakville Firefighter’s 30th Annual Toy Drive. Our very own assistant coach, Dean De Fazio started this toy drive at his other job as a captain in the Oakville Fire Departm...
Good Effort to Build On in Tuesday Match
Date:11/25/2022 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo by Kevin Raposo / OJHL Images It's not every day that we as fans get treated to a special Tuesday night game. Although a rare occasion, the team had to be ready for a tough game. The Milton Menace are a very strong team and are coming in knowing that they won the last matchup they had against the Blades. Something else that can be considered a rare occasion is the amount of goal...
Huge Effort to Close Out the Weekend
Date:11/20/2022 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Aurora Tigers A busy week of hockey sees its first taste of weekend action when the visiting Tigers made the voyage from Aurora. The two teams had already met once at the Governor’s showcase in Cobourg where Aidan Taylor had scored the OT winner in a fantastic game. Likely due to this, Taylor made an appearance on the team’s top line to try and recreate some of the success he found la...
Johnny Stays Hot but Blades Drop Another
Date:11/16/2022 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo by Paul Mauceri / OJHL Images The team made the 30 minute trip north to Etobicoke to match up against the Toronto Patriots this past Tuesday. It was the only game the two teams will play each other in all year as it was an inter-conference matchup. Hockey is a team sport, and although the final score was close, it was really two players that stood out for the Blades and got them to ...
Remembrance Day Uniforms Bring Inspiration
Date:11/15/2022 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Stouffville Spirit After almost 2 weeks of not seeing our Blades play any OJHL hockey, fans were welcomed back to the Sixteen Mile Sports Complex as the team prepared to face the Stouffville Spirit on the Remembrance Day game, on November 11th, a special day for many. Even before the players skated onto the ice in their special Remembrance Day jerseys, the ceremonies began at the arena. A video t...
Back in the Win Column to End the Month
Date:11/01/2022 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo credit: Spencer Smye / OJHL Images Collingwood Blues The Blades suited up for back-to-back home games on this Halloween weekend. The first of the two came against the powerhouse Blues who came into this contest boasting a 13-1 record. Oakville, who’s loss streak was now extended to 10 games, tried their best in this matchup, but would ultimately end up losing 4-0. This ca...
3-in-3 Ends with Heads Held High
Date:10/27/2022 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo Credit: Andy Corneau / OJHL Images Stouffville Spirit The Blades began their first game of three in three nights up north in Stouffville. The Spirit welcomed not only the Oakville Blades that night, but also Stouffville resident and hockey television and radio host Jeff Marek. Marek even made his way onto the ice with his children and got all of them to participate in the ...
Pink in the Rink An Overall Success
Date:10/17/2022 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo Credit: Spencer Smye/ OJHL Images October 14th was Pink in the Rink night down at Sixteen Mile. The evening was filled with great activities to support the Wellspring Birmingham Gilgan House in Oakville, and was certainly successful. There was a bake sale, game-worn jerseys for silent auction, raffle prizes, and even a performance from the EDGE Novice Synchronized skating team ...
Thanksgiving Weekend ends on a Higher Note
Date:10/12/2022 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo by Michelle Malvaso / OJHL Images Cobourg Cougars Oakville kicked off back-to-back home games on the 7th of October against the visiting Cougars who made the long trip from Cobourg to play in this contest. It was a tight game for a long time and even with the shots ending up as 31-31, Cobourg still managed to pot 8 goals to Oakville’s 1. For the first 40 minutes, the Blades and the C...
Rough Weekend and Start to the Week
Date:10/04/2022 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo by Ray MacAloney / OJHL Images This weekend and the start to the week was tough for Oakville as every game they played teams that were 1st, 2nd and 4th in their respective conferences. On top of that, two of the teams, Milton and Jr. Canadiens, were ranked 8th and 10th respectively in the CJHL rankings. The Blades unfortunately couldn’t find what they were looking for and came...
Blades Dominate in Caledon
Date:09/26/2022 Source:OJHL Oakville Blades
Photo by Tim Bates / OJHL Images Oakville had an impressive night on the 24th of September putting up a season high in goals with 6, as they steamrolled over the Caledon Admirals in a 6-2 thumping at the Mayfield Recreation Complex. Everyone was having a good night as only 4 Blades skaters were kept off the scoresheet with the other 14 recording at least one point in the contest. Not only...
