GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
PART 2 Pearson wants to finish Jr. career in Owen Sound
Date:05/15/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton OWEN SOUND - Kaleb Pearson would like to play his overage year in Owen Sound in 2020-21. The St. Marys native, who turns 20 next month, has played the last two Ontario Hockey League seasons with the Attack. “That's the plan; I would like to finish my (Junior) career there,” Pearson said in a recent interview with the Independent. “Joey Hishon got me t...
PART 1 Pearson shares team award after consistent season
Date:05/08/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton OWEN SOUND - Consistency! Kaleb Pearson became a consistent two-way player with Owen Sound Attack of the Ontario Hockey League this past season. When all Hockey Canada-sanctioned activities were suspended effective Friday, March 13, the 19-year-old St. Marys native was on pace to finish with twice as many points as he collected the previous year. Pearson had 28 goals and 5...
Playing with Flyers helped shape Crisp’s coaching career
Date:05/06/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton Terry Crisp was a member of the Broad Street Bullies. And playing for those notorious Philadelphia Flyers teams in the mid-1970s helped shape Crisp’s future coaching career. Crisp was a member of two Stanley Cup championship teams in Philadelphia (1973-74 and 1974-75), and he later coached Calgary Flames (1988-89) to the league title. He’s on a short list of ju...
Crisp reflects back to his Broad Street Bullies days
Date:04/30/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton The Broad Street Bullies. Nicknamed for their brawn and brash style on the ice, they were an NHL team that was loved at home and hated on the road, but that Philadelphia Flyers team is still remembered today--some 45 years later--for the way they played and competed. Philadelphia was big, tough and physical, but also well-coached and a talented group of hockey players. In a...
Driscoll’s road to NHL officiating began with Lincolns
Date:04/23/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton GUELPH - It appears that the 2019-20 season is going to be Scott Driscoll’s last hurrah in the National Hockey League. After 28 years as an NHL linesman, the former St. Marys Lincolns’ defenceman (1985-89) planned to retire at the end of the season. He was hoping to work three more regular-season games to reach 1,850, but the Coronavirus pandemic abruptly cut th...
Scott Driscoll retires after 28 seasons in the NHL
Date:04/16/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton GUELPH - It appears that Scott Driscoll is getting very close to hanging up his skates after 28 seasons as a National Hockey League linesman. The 52-year-old Seaforth native and former St. Marys Lincolns’ defenceman (1985-89) was planning to officially retire March 18 at Madison Square Gardens in New York, until the Coronavirus pandemic cut the 2019-20 NHL season shor...
Wildfong has fond memories of Lincolns, St. Marys
Date:04/09/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton It’s been 25 years since Dan Wildfong (1992-95) was a member of the St. Marys Lincolns. But he says it seems like it was yesterday. Playing for the Lincs and living in the Stonetown for parts of three years left a lasting impression on his life. Lincolns have had a lot of peaks and valleys in their long, storied history. When Wildfong played in St. Marys, Lincs were ...
Lincolns announce team award winners for 2019-20
Date:04/09/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton St. Marys Lincolns recently named their team award winners for the 2019-20 Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League (GOJHL) season. Winners of 11 team awards were announced. Centre Ryan Burke is the only double recipient. The 17-year-old London native will get his name on two trophies--the Jack Boyd Memorial Award for most dedicated player and the Earl Leslie Award for rookie-...
WESTERN CONFERENCE AWARDS
Date:03/17/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton A 30-win season and a third-place finish have brought individual awards to the St. Marys Lincolns. The Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League (GOJHL) recently announced its 2019-20 award winners for the Western Conference, and Lincs received three special honours. The biggest award involving the Lincolns went to head coach Trent McClement and assistants Tyler Duarte and Cole...
GOJHL cancels remainder of season, including the playoffs
Date:03/17/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton LEAMINGTON - Prior to Hockey Canada cancelling all of its sanctioned activities (effective Friday, March 13) due to the on-going health concerns related to the Covid-19 pandemic, St. Marys Lincolns and Leamington Flyers played the first game of a best-of-seven Western Conference semi-final playoff series here last Thursday night. Flyers won the game 4-1 in front of approxim...
Lincolns win first playoff series in eight seasons
Date:03/11/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton It’s been eight seasons since St. Marys Lincolns won a Western Conference playoff series. The 2019-20 Lincs accomplished that feat last Friday night, knocking off the Strathroy Rockets in five games in the quarter-finals. The last time Lincolns won a playoff series was the 2011-12 season. That spring, Lincs defeated St. Thomas Stars in seven games before losing in si...
Lincolns win 8-3 Friday, defuse Rockets in five
Date:03/11/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton St. Marys Lincolns brought in speedy forward Brock Trichilo at the Jan. 10 trade deadline to score goals. And the 20-year-old has done just that! Trichilo fired a hat trick last Friday night at the PRC, sparking Lincs to a wild 8-3 victory over Strathroy Rockets in front of about 700 spectators. The win gave Lincolns the best-of-seven Western Conference quarter-final playof...
JUNIOR HOCKEY NOTEBOOK
Date:03/04/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton It’s worth repeating. St. Marys Lincolns achieved a 30-win season in 2019-20, the 10th time in the team’s storied history that the Lincs have finished with 30 wins or more in the regular schedule. It’s also the first time in 10 full seasons that the Lincolns won 30 games in a season. After the team won 31 games back in the 2009-10 season, there were some l...
Curtin outstanding as Lincs take first two games
Date:03/04/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton STRATHROY - Fifty-eight saves and 120 shutout minutes. That’s what goalie Kyle Curtin gave St. Marys Lincolns in the first two games of their best-of-seven Western Conference quarter-final playoff series with Strathroy Rockets. Forty-one stops by Curtin here Saturday night at West Middlesex Memorial Arena sparked the Lincs to a 4-0 victory and a 2-0 series lead. &ld...
Coach expects tough quarter-final series with Rockets
Date:02/26/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton Coach Trent McClement is expecting a close, hard-fought playoff series between two teams who play similar defensive styles. McClement’s third-place St. Marys Lincolns (30-13-3-4) and the sixth-place Strathroy Rockets (19-26-3-2) open a best-of-seven Western Conference quarter-final this Friday at the PRC, starting at 7:30 p.m. It will be the first Jr. ‘B’ ...
Lincolns hit 30-win plateau with two victories
Date:02/26/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton CHATHAM - A 30-win season! That’s what St. Marys Lincolns achieved with a 6-2 victory over the home-town Maroons here at Chatham Memorial Arena Sunday night Lincs finished the 2019-20 regular schedule in third place with a 30-13-3-4 record, good for 67 points. They open a Western Conference quarter-final playoff series this Friday, hosting the sixth-place Strathroy R...
Lincolns move closer to clinching third place
Date:02/12/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton The magic number for St. Marys Lincolns now appears to be three points. After skating to a 3-1 victory over Sarnia Legionnaires last Friday night at the PRC, Lincs need just a couple more wins to clinch third place in the Western Conference. On the same night in St. Thomas, fourth-place LaSalle Vipers lost 2-1 to the last-place Stars. After weekend action, St. Marys (26-12...
JUNIOR HOCKEY NOTEBOOK
Date:02/12/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton OWEN SOUND - Kaleb Pearson has been red hot! The St. Marys native and 19-year-old right winger with the Owen Sound Attack fired five goals last weekend in a pair of Ontario Hockey League victories. Pearson picked up his first OHL career hat trick and was named the game’s first star in an 11-1 romp over the Niagara IceDogs, and then scored twice in a 4-3 victory over ...
Lincs need to use eight remaining games in February To prepare for upcoming Western Conference playoffs
Date:02/05/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton St. Marys Lincolns have to quickly forget January and start focusing on February. After going 3-5 last month, the third-place Lincs have to use their eight remaining regular-season games this month to prepare for the Western Conference playoffs. That’s the message from coach Trent McClement. Lincolns were 2-5 in their first seven games in January, allowing fourth-pla...
Lincolns get back on track with two big wins
Date:02/05/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton St. Marys Lincolns can clinch third place outright by winning six of their final eight regular-season games. However, after two big wins on back-to-back nights on home ice this past weekend, coach Trent McClement says it’s important for his team to not look too far ahead. McClement says the Lincs must focus on one game at a time as they head towards the Western Confer...
Lincolns gain just one point in two losses
Date:01/31/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton St. Marys Lincolns have to get back to the drawing board as they head towards the Western Conference playoffs, says coach Trent McClement. McClement made the comment after Lincs lost a two-goal lead for the second consecutive night, and dropped a 5-4 decision to Chatham Maroons last Friday at the PRC. Approximately 650 fans watched the game on ‘School Night.” L...
JUNIOR HOCKEY NOTEBOOK
Date:01/31/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton St. Marys Lincolns’ Alumni group will hold a special night this Saturday, Feb. 1, honouring all surviving players and executive members from the inaugural year (1956-57) to the 1962-63 championship season. About 30 former players and executive from that era are expected to attend. After dinner in the End Zone room, they will sit in a reserved seating area for the St. Marys-St...
Burke named player-of-the-month for December
Date:01/22/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton Prior to last Friday night’s game at the PRC, St. Marys Lincolns honoured rookie forward Ryan Burke as their St. Marys Buick GMC player-of-the-month for December. The 16-year-old rookie from London collected two goals and eight assists for 10 points in seven GOJHL games last month. Burke received a congratulatory plaque from Lincs’ vice-president Bill Lowe. &nb...
Balanced scoring powers Lincolns past Kings, 8-1
Date:01/22/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton St. Marys Lincolns stopped Komoka’s five-game road winning streak with a convincing 8-1 victory over the Kings last Friday night at the PRC. About 600 fans watched the GOJHL game on ‘Snipers Night.’ With the win, Lincs (22-9-3-3) moved eight points up on the idle LaSalle Vipers (18-13-1-5), who currently sit in fourth place in the Western Conference standi...
Lincolns drop home-ice pair to Flyers, Nationals
Date:01/15/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton The goals may have slightly changed for St. Marys Lincolns. Now, they want to hang onto third place and use the final 14 regular-season games to prepare for the Western Conference playoffs. Any chance of gaining second place probably evaporated this past weekend when Lincs lost back-to-back home games to Leamington Flyers and London Nationals. A 4-3 loss to Leamington Satur...
Lincoln Great Vanderspank added to Wall of Fame
Date:01/15/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton with Photo Credit Prior to last Friday night’s St. Marys-London Jr. ‘B’ game, Lincolns’ Alumni group honoured Paul Vanderspank, a former team captain who played five seasons in St. Marys (1972-77). The big left winger was captain when the Barry Hearn-coached Lincs won the All-Ontario title in the spring of 1976 in Collingwood. For several year...
Paul Vanderspank Banner Night this Friday at PRC
Date:01/08/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton St. Marys Lincolns’ Alumni Group is honouring a five-year Lincoln this Friday, Jan. 10, just prior to the St. Marys-London game scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Paul Vanderspank played for the Lincolns for five seasons (1972-77) and served as their team captain from 1974-76. In his Lincs’ career, the talented left winger scored 101 goals and earned 145 assists for 246 re...
Lincs’ special teams shine in 6-3 win over Maroons
Date:01/08/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton St. Marys Lincolns’ second-place aspirations got a boost last Friday night with a 6-3 victory over the visiting Chatham Maroons. An estimated 600 spectators on ‘Girls Rock the Rink’ night watched Lincs (21-7-3-3) move to within five points of Leamington Flyers, who currently hold down second spot in the Western Conference standings. “Tonight’s...
JUNIOR HOCKEY NOTEBOOK
Date:01/07/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton Coach Trent McClement says a New Year’s goal for the St. Marys Lincolns is to try and finish in second place in the Western Conference standings. But even more important, McClement wants his team to “peak” and be playing its best hockey when playoffs start in late February. Going into the New Year, the third-place Lincs had 17 regular-season games remainin...
Jr Hockey Notebook
Date:01/01/2020 Source:GOJHL St. Mary's Lincolns
By Pat Payton St. Marys Lincolns’ regular schedule in the New Year consists of 17 games, including 11 on home ice. Lincs open their January schedule with four straight home games, starting this Friday, Jan. 3 against Chatham Maroons at 7:30 p.m. “It’s in our control if we want second place,” coach Trent McClement said as the Lincolns went into the Christmas break....
