OJHL Toronto Patriots
Development Camp - May 5-7th Westwood Arena [Registration Open]
Date:02/19/2023 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
The Toronto Patriots are hosting a Development Camp at the Westwood Arena May 5th to 7th. Cost is $350 plus HST. Click Here to Register ...
Special Event Game - Saturday, October 19th, 2019
Date:10/11/2019 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
On Saturday, October 19th, 2019 the Toronto Patriots are set to play at home against the Trenton Golden Hawks. The Toronto Patriots would like to thank our friends at Allstate Insurance Company of Canada, especially Regan Coppel, who have sponsored the event and have put together giveaways, prizes, and games to be participated in throughout the night. Regan will be live a...
Pats Blue Liner Justin Nolet Signs With Sarnia
Date:10/11/2019 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
On October 4th, 2019, Patriots defenceman Justin Nolet, signed with the Sarnia Sting of the Ontario Hockey League. Nolet was selected during the 14th round of the 2017 OHL Priority Selection by the Sting, and also attended the team's training camp this past August. Nolet, 18, recorded 12 goals and 33 points during 58 games in just over a season with the Patriots. He was off to...
Pats feel on track to turning ship around
Date:10/22/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
The question of how to follow up last year’s brilliant success is not one Toronto Patriots head coach, and general manager Mark Joslin has worried about approaching so far this Ontario Junior Hockey League campaign. Toronto’s 7-9 record has yielded plenty of its own ups, like a three-win weekend between Oct. 5 and 8 with the club’s bench boss in hospital,...
Pats, Cougars pull off blockbuster deal
Date:10/18/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
TORONTO, Ont. - The Toronto Patriots and Burlington Cougars pulled off a blockbuster deal Thursday. In the deal, the Pats acquired forwards Zach Lawrence and Josiah DeGazon in return for forwards Evan Benwell and Michael Boushy. Lawrence, 20, is a native of Burlington, and scored 19 goals while adding 48 points through 60 contests for the Junior B St. Catherines Falcons a year ago. He ...
GOVERNORS’ SHOWCASE RETURNS TO BUFFALO NEXT WEEK
Date:09/17/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
September 17, 2018, Mississauga, ON – The Ontario Junior Hockey League’s Governors’ Showcase returns to Buffalo’s Harborcenter for the fourth straight year next week, showcasing the league’s players to the hockey world. All 22 OJHL teams will make their way to downtown Buffalo and compete in two games over the course of the event Monday, Sept. 24 through We...
STONERIDGE INSURANCE BROKERS NAMED PRESENTING SPONSOR OF OJHL FOUNDATION’S FIRST ASSIST PROGRAM
Date:09/17/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
September 14, 2018, Mississauga, ON – The Ontario Junior Hockey League and the OJHL Foundation are proud to introduce StoneRidge Insurance Brokers as the presenting sponsor of the Foundation’s FirstAssist Program, a life skills and mental wellbeing program. The program includes a comprehensive seminar designed to provide players with information about mental health they can apply to t...
Pats acquire Hodgson from Stars
Date:09/04/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
The Toronto Patriots have acquired goaltender Jesse Hodgson from the St. Thomas Stars of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League, in return for a player development fee. Hodgson, 19, hails from Newmarket, and played in 26 games as a rookie for his hometown Hurricanes in 2016-17. The late 1998-birth year split time last year between the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners of the Northern Ontario Junior Hoc...
Pats shuffle front office after Dean's depature
Date:08/27/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
The Toronto Patriots have elected to go with internal solutions for the vacancy of John Dean at the head coach and assistant general manager positions. Mark Joslin, who was the general manager of the team that won the Ontario Junior Hockey League’s regular season last campaign, has assumed the job of head coach of the club, while Mike Daley, who assisted Dean, has added the assistant genera...
Pats add Fleming, Stadig from GOJHL
Date:08/02/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
The Toronto Patriots have so far made two adds ahead of training camp for the 2018-19 Ontario Junior Hockey League campaign. Toronto, who committed no fewer than 10 players to post-secondary institutions last season, has acquired forward Peter Fleming and defender Dirk Stadig, both from the Junior ‘B’ loup known as the Greater Toronto Hockey League. Fleming, 17, scored 17 goals and 5...
Dean departs for OHL's Greyhounds
Date:07/13/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
(ARTICLE COURTESY PETER RUICCI, THE SAULT STAR, PHOTO COURTESY OJHL IMAGES) John Dean met with members of the local media on Thursday wearing a light blue shirt, a purple tie and black slacks. But when the Soo Greyhounds general manager looked closely at Dean over the last few weeks, all Kyle Raftis saw was red and white. Though other job applicants had Ontario Hockey League head coaching...
Kalpousos, Fassl commit to USports programs
Date:05/18/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
Toronto, ONT - The Toronto Patriots have long been a program that has prioritized moving players on to the next level before anything else. That desire, and the success the club had this past Ontario Junior Hockey League season, continues to bear impressive fruit this summer. Nik Kalpouzos has become the latest of nine Pats that have committed, from this past campaign, to a post-secondary i...
Petrucci named OHA Player of the Year
Date:05/10/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
This week the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) is announcing the recipients of the 2017-18 OHA Awards and today we are proud to announce the OHA Players of the Year for 2017-18. The OHA Junior A Player of the Year is Andrew Petrucci, Toronto Patriots (OJHL). (Photo: OJHL Images) OHA JUNIOR A PLAYER OF THE YEAR – Andrew Petrucci, Toronto Patriots (OJHL) Andrew Petrucci (...
Pats' Petrucci named OJHL MVP
Date:04/12/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
Entering his final year of junior hockey eligibility, Andrew Petrucci (Photo by Andy Courneau / OJHL Images) challenged himself. So did the hockey staff of his Toronto Patriots club. “It was more or less now or never,” he said this week. “I wanted to play NCAA Division 1. I knew I had to train harder.” Petrucci hit the gym at his old Tor...
Pats eliminated by Raiders in seven in dramatic fashion
Date:04/12/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
TORONTO, ON -To look back on a loss like the one that the Georgetown Raiders dealt to the Toronto Patriots over the seven games of the Southwest Conference final, from a Toronto perspective, is to automatically go to what went wrong. Certainly, the loaded 2017-18 Pats, the No. 6 team in the nation, had to feel like the favourites going in. Even Georgetown’s decorated head coach and general ...
PREVIEW: Pats and Raiders set for Game 7
Date:04/09/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
Toronto, ONT. - So, it is another Game 7. This Southwest Conference Final series between the Toronto Patriots and Georgetown Raiders has had enough twists and turns to make one dizzy, so perhaps the fact that it is going the distance is fitting. Facing elimination last night in Georgetown, the Pats won 6-4 in a game that served as microcosm of the whole series so far. Toronto scored four...
Pats' Dean named Coach of the Year
Date:03/31/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
Toronto Patriots general manager Mark Joslin knew his new head coach, John Dean, was committed. He may not have known how committed. “It’s a 4:30 Tuesday practice and John’s at the rink at noon,” recalls Joslin. “He’s cleaning up, making sure things are clean and right for when our players arrive. He’s in the lounge, then the weight room, the pi...
Pats' Spagnuolo named OJHL's Most Improved
Date:03/29/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
Dante Spagnuolo (OJHL Images) has definitely learned how to adapt in the Ontario Junior Hockey League. Well enough this season to be voted the OJHL’s most improved player. The Newmarket resident totaled 89 points (third highest in the 22-team league) in his second season with the regular-season champion Toronto Patriots – up from 36 last year. His 66 assists were tied...
Pats eliminate Blades in seven; Raiders up next
Date:03/27/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
Bring on Georgetown. The Toronto Patriots will take on the defending Buckland Cup Champion Raiders after defeating a plucky, competitive Oakville Blades team in Game 7 on Sunday evening. Brett Bannister led the way with two goals and five points, and Tyler Fassl made 31 often-timely stops, on route to an 8-3 Toronto win in front of over 450 fans at a packed Westwood Arena. For Pats’ hea...
Pats grind to 2-1 lead in series vs. Oakville
Date:03/19/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
TORONTO, Ont. - As the Coldplay song goes: ‘nobody says it was easy’, and nobody said it was going to be easy. The Toronto Patriots head into Game 4 Monday on the road with a 2-1 lead in their Round 2 series with the Oakville Blades, but it has not been smooth. Both games (one and three) at Westwood Arena saw the Pats take one-goal leads early in the third period, only to see th...
Pat's Joslin named OJHL Exec of the Year
Date:03/16/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
(article courtesy OJHL Website) Mark Joslin was “overwhelmed” when he learned he had been named 2017-18 executive of the year in the Ontario Junior Hockey League. (Photo by Shawn Muir / OJHL Images) “It means a lot to me; I got emotional,” he said after receiving the congratulatory call from OJHL director of hockey operations Chris Vanstone this mornin...
PREVIEW: Pats ready for stiff Oakville test in Round 2
Date:03/14/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
And now it gets interesting. The Ontario Junior Hockey League’s No. 1 seed Toronto Patriots will host the Southwest Conference’s No. 4 seed the Oakville Blades in Game 1 of Round 2 tonight at Westwood Arena, and the series stacks up as a war. Toronto cruised past the Orangeville Flyers in Round 1, outscoring them by a combined score of 25-1 over the four-game sweep. The Blad...
Pats take down Flyers in sweep
Date:03/12/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
The Toronto Patriots are into the second round. A four-game sweep of the Orangeville Flyers was completed Friday night when a two-goal performance by assistant captain Colton Kalezic paced the No. 1 seeded Pats to a 4-0 win in Orangeville. Kyler Matthews and Max Routledge also had goals, as the former’s one-time finish from in tight at 7:38 of the second period on a feed from Evan Benwell ...
Pats' Petrucci to be honoured as OJHL scoring king
Date:03/09/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
March 8, 2018, Mississauga, ON – Andrew Petrucci is the 2017-18 scoring king of the Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL). The Toronto Patriots forward led the 22-team OJHL with 100 points – including a league-leading 52 goals. The Patriots captain scored two goals in a 3-2 win over Buffalo on Feb. 24, the final night of the OJHL regular season. That gave him the 10...
Pats cruise to 2-0 series lead vs. Orangeville
Date:03/05/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
Lee Lapid led the way with two goals and an assist as the Toronto Patriots cruised to a 2-0 series lead with a 6-0 win over the Orangeville Flyers Saturday in Orangeville. Veteran defender Graeme MacLean added a goal and two assists for his first career three-point playoff game, while Tyler Fassl made 35 stops for his first post-season shutout. Fassl has now allowed one goal on 66 shots over the...
Pats blast Flyers to take Game 1
Date:03/02/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
It was not a perfect Game 1 for the Toronto Patriots, but it was pretty close to it. The Ontario Junior Hockey League’s first and third-leading regular-season scorers Andrew Petrucci and Dante Spagnuolo, respectively, did not miss a beat with two goals apiece, while four other Pats had multi-assist nights as Toronto cruised past the Orangeville Flyers 7-1 in Game 1 of the post-sea...
PREVIEW: Pats not taking Flyers lightly ahead of Round 1
Date:02/26/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
If ever there was a team that could feel comfortable heading into a first-round series, it might be the 2017-18 Toronto Patriots. Their list of accolades this year is long. It includes a 40-win campaign, one that earned the team the first ever Brant Snow Trophy for the Ontario Junior Hockey League’s regular season champion. It features the league’s goals a...
Pats clinch regular season title with win over Oakville
Date:02/19/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
The Toronto Patriots are the regular season champions of the Ontario Junior Hockey League. The Pats (39-8-3-2) wrapped up home ice throughout the OJHL playoffs with a 5-3 win over the Oakville Blades Saturday night at their home rink, Westwood Arena in Rexdale. The Pats are the inaugural winners of the Brant Snow Memorial Trophy, awarded each year to the OJHL regular season winners. Mr. Snow, th...
Dean: "We are so blessed with our group of men"
Date:02/16/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
The Toronto Patriots have a team culture often sought after, but rarely found, in the history of hockey. To win when it matters most, a team must be passionate, even fanatical, in their focus on the process of getting better as a group on a regular basis. And while it is no secret that Toronto Patriots’ head coach John Dean is one of the most passionate bench bosses around the Ontario Juni...
Pats' Routledge to join teammate Matthews at SUNY Canton
Date:02/14/2018 Source:OJHL Toronto Patriots
TORONTO, Ont. - Toronto Patriots' forward Max Routledge has committed to play for the State University of New York at Canton in the Division III NCAA's SUNYAC Conference for next year, the club announced Monday. Routledge, 20, has six points in 10 games for the Pats at time of writing, since being acquired from the Mississauga Chargers at the trade deadline on Jan. ...
