Category: Featured Stories

Video: Zander Veccia’s OHL Highlight Reel

Video: Zander Veccia’s OHL Highlight Reel

CKSN Staff- January 17, 2022

Zander Veccia is one of the most promising prospects from Chatham-Kent. He's having a solid rookie OHL campaign with the Mississauga Steelheads. Dylan Krill (@dylan_krill), ... Read More

Little NHL Cancelled For Third Straight Year

Little NHL Cancelled For Third Straight Year

CKSN Staff- January 16, 2022

The Walpole Island Hawks Atom team at the 2019 Little NHL tournament The Little NHL, Ontario's largest and longest running hockey tournament for Indigenous youth ... Read More

What A Catch: Before Fishing, The Izumi’s Were A Baseball Family

What A Catch: Before Fishing, The Izumi’s Were A Baseball Family

Ian Kennedy- January 14, 2022

Joe Izumi, Harry Izumi, and Mits Izumi stand posed with the Chemainus Nippons in 1939 The name Izumi is synonymous with fishing, but it wasn't ... Read More

Stonehouse, Brochu Listed By NHL Central Scouting

Stonehouse, Brochu Listed By NHL Central Scouting

CKSN Staff- January 13, 2022

Photo by OHL Images Blenheim's Brady Stonehouse and Tilbury's Brett Brochu were both listed on NHL Central Scouting's midterm ratings. Stonehouse was listed as the ... Read More

Former Maroon Power Headed To Junior A In Manitoba

Former Maroon Power Headed To Junior A In Manitoba

CKSN Staff- January 12, 2022

Former Chatham Maroons forward Zach Power, who has lived up to his name with the London Nationals this season, is headed West to Manitoba. Power ... Read More

Cheyne Matheson On The Move

Cheyne Matheson On The Move

CKSN Staff- January 11, 2022

After two seasons with EG Diez-Limburg in Germany, Wheatley's Cheyne Matheson is moving to a new German team. Matheson signed with Deggendorfer SC, but was ... Read More

Maddie Depencier Headed Iowa Western

Maddie Depencier Headed Iowa Western

CKSN Staff- January 10, 2022

Local softball player Maddie Depencier will play college softball next year for Iowa Western after committing to the school. Depencier felt Iowa was the best ... Read More

The Day World Champion Ned Hanlan Rowed Through Chatham

The Day World Champion Ned Hanlan Rowed Through Chatham

Ian Kennedy- January 7, 2022

His strokes were a thing of beauty travelling down the Thames River through Chatham to the cheers of adoring fans. In the summer of 1880, ... Read More

Hockey Legend Marian Coveny Passes Away

Hockey Legend Marian Coveny Passes Away

Ian Kennedy- January 6, 2022

Marian Coveny was a winner. In life, and in sport. The Canadian hockey legend, who hailed from Electric, just outside of Wallaceburg, passed away on ... Read More

Grayson Ladd Traded To North Bay

Grayson Ladd Traded To North Bay

CKSN Staff- January 6, 2022

Veteran defender Grayson Ladd will finish his OHL career wearing a different sweater after the Windsor Spitfires traded their assistant captain to the North Bay ... Read More

Nicholas Representing More Than Just Canada

Nicholas Representing More Than Just Canada

Ian Kennedy- January 5, 2022

Breanne Nicholas has been one of Chatham-Kent’s top athletes for a decade, a point which she solidified this past summer competing with Team Canada’s Rugby ... Read More

Locals Play In Shamrock All-Star Game

Locals Play In Shamrock All-Star Game

CKSN Staff- January 4, 2022

Several local hockey players competed in the Shamrock Hockey league U15 and U18 All-Star games Sunday in Mooretown. In the U18 game, which played to ... Read More

73s Dull Blades

73s Dull Blades

Wyatt Williams- January 4, 2022

By Wyatt Williams The Essex 73’s came to Blenheim Sunday night and handed the Blades a convincing 10-4 set back. Essex scored the first three ... Read More

Bruhlman Sets The Tone With A Decade Of Anthems

Bruhlman Sets The Tone With A Decade Of Anthems

CKSN Staff- January 3, 2022

In the moments prior to puck drop, a familiar electricity fills the arena. The starting lineup stands on their respective bluelines, and the anthem singer ... Read More