April 19, 2024, Mississauga, ON – …. The Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL) will honour the recipients of the league’s annual awards tonight.
The on-ice ceremony will be held prior to Game 1 of the OJHL’s Nutrafarms Championship Series at Eddie Bush Memorial Arena in Collingwood, ON.
The best-of-seven series is being played between the Collingwood Blues and Trenton Golden Hawks.
Game time is 7 p.m.
OJHL Commissioner Marty Savoy and Marc Mercier, the chairman of the board of directors of the Ontario Hockey Association, will make the presentations.
A moment’s silence will be held in memory of former Georgetown Raider Craig Spence who died suddenly on Tuesday.
The list of award winners includes a pair of players who will receive two awards each:
- Trevor Hoskin (Cobourg Cougars), OJHL MVP and scoring champion
- Noah Pak (Collingwood Blues), Top Goalie and Goaltender of the Year
Three St. Michael’s Buzzers will be honoured:
- David Green, Top Defenceman
- Jonathan Morello, Hudl InStat Top Prospect for the NHL Draft
- David Elmy, Most Improved Player
The other winners are:
- Matthew Manza (Toronto Patriots), Rookie of the Year
- Patrick Saini (Haliburton County Huskies), Most Gentlemanly Player
- Parker Forlin (Niagara Falls Canucks), Scholastic Player of the Year
- Odaro Ewere (Stouffville Spirit), Humanitarian of the Year
- Mark Joslin (Brantford 99ers), Coach of the Year
- Justin Solcz (Leamington Flyers), General Manager of the Year
- Dave Steele (Collingwood Blues), Executive of the Year
- Cheryl Issell (Leamington Flyers), Volunteer of the Year
- Leah Toffelmire (Trenton Golden Hawks), Athletic Therapist of the Year
- Andrew Groombridge (Georgetown Raiders), Equipment Manager of the Year
Hoskin, Pak, Manza Green, Morello and Elmy all have made NCAA Division I scholarship commitments.
All OJHL regular season and playoff games can be streamed on FloHockey: https://www.flohockey.tv/leagues/10826657-ontario-junior-hockey-league-ojhl
File photo: OJHL Images
About the OJHL – “ League of Choice”
The Ontario Junior Hockey League is the largest Junior ‘A’ league operating under the auspices of the Canadian Junior Hockey League with 24 member clubs. A proud member of the CJHL and Ontario Hockey Association, the OJHL was originally named the Ontario Provincial Junior ‘A’ Hockey League and it was formed out of the Central Junior ‘B’ Hockey League in 1993-94. With a long and storied history of developing players for the next level, including U SPORTS, the NCAA, CHL, minor pro ranks and the NHL, the OJHL has had more than 45 NCAA Division I scholarship commitments already this season.
