The 40+ tournament was a huge success over the weekend. 3 local teams and one from out of town played a marathons worth in back to back games. Each team played 6-7 games before a victor was crowned.

Deadly Aunties and Uncles came first going 7-0.

Near The Top placed 2nd

 We Still Got It placed 3rd

Koyz placed 4th.

While The OCN Blizzard may have had a rough weekend after a Trio of losses they still manage to impress.

Captain Riley Zimmerman leads the League with an early 6 goals and 4 asists early this season. Riley is the first player in th MJHL this year to hit 10 points.

Forward Ashton Paul isn't far behind either, placing third with 4 goals and 5 assists to total 9 points.

The team is getting ready for another 3 day road trip this weekend. They'll be heading down to Neepawa on friday to kick off the series at 7:30 against the titans.

The OCN Blizzard bested the previous Centennial Cup winner Dauphin Kings on Tuesday.

Captain Riley Zimmerman and Ashton Paul started the night with a goal each late into the third period. Zimmerman was on fire through the night, scoring his first hat trick of the season with 4 goals before the end of the third period. Combined with Ryan Monias. Matthew Langdon and Michael Hlady the OCN Blizzard bested the kings 8-4.

Currently the OCN Blizzard are on top of the MJHL Standings with a 3-0 record.

The Blizzard hit the road this weekend to face the Steinbach Pistons, Winkler Flyers and Winnipeg Blues in back to back games.

The OCN Blizzard had an eventful start to the season taking both the season and home opener games with victories over the Swan Valley Stampeders.

On Friday the team Opened the season in Swan River, playing strong the entire night.

After a scoreless first period for both teams the Blizzard would open fire on Swans net with 13 shots.

3 of those shots proving successful with goals by Drayden Kurbatoff, Ashton Paul and Keilan Holland to wrap up the period 3-0 for the Blizzard.

With 3 minutes to go in the third Swan`s Jakob Jones took advantage of a power play to score the Stampeders loan goal of the night. Ashton Paul later scored his second goal of the night with a lucky shot off the boards into an open net, wrapping up the game 4-1 for the Blizzard.

SATURDAY

On Saturday The Swan Valley Stampeders came to the Blizzard home opener game with vengeance in mind. However Chase Hamm and the defensive line kept them at bay, only letting in one goal out of 38 shots through the night.

Despite being down 12 shots on goal Kayden Sutherland, Ryan Monias and Riley Zimmerman Scored for the Blizzard to end the night 3-1 at home.

The Blizzard really did put on an impressive display of what's to come this season. With Chase Hamm stopping 67/69 shots on goal though both games and the whole team working together to get the puck in the net.

The OCN Blizzard have announced forward Riley Zimmerman as the teams new captain just ahead of the 2022-23 regular season.

Riley Has been with the team for four seasons beginning in 2019 and was asisstant captain last year.

His first year with the team he scored 5 goals and 10 assists but has since improved by more than double to 18 goals and 20 assists last season.

A promotion well deserved if you ask me. Congratulations Riley!

Erik Bignell is throwing one last Slo-Pitch tournament before the end of the year. A 40+ Coed tournament with the round robin and double knockout format.

Spots are limited to 6 teams with a $350 entry per team due September 22nd. Tournament takes place September 24th, to register your team contact Erik Bignell on messenger or call 204-620-8152.

It was a lot closer this time around in the battle of Northern Manitoba as the Bombers had to come from behind to beat the OCN Blizzard last night in a shoot out.

Flin Flon scored early on the power play when Jaeden Mercier grabbed a rebound off Chase Hamm's pad and flipped in a back hander to put the Bombers up 1 to 0 just 3:31 in to the game.

Chase Hamm kepth the net locked down most of the game, blocking an impressive 39/41 shots on net.

The Blizzard also seemed to look more confident and you could see that they are starting to implement some Doug Johnson systems.

The Blizzard would get rewarded with the next two goals with 4 year vet Riley Zimmerman tapping a puck through Laser Hume's legs to tie the game early in the second.

Laser Hume was traded by the Nipawin Hawks earlier in the day to give the Bombers a little more experience in goal.

The Blizzard would grab the lead when local product Laz Constant was able to get some room ,  streaked down the ice and fired a nice shot stick side to beat Laser Hume and put his team up 2 to 1 after 2.

The Bombers came out and continued to get lots of shots, eventually resulting in a tie late into the third period

The rest of regulation and 3 on 3 OT solved nothing so we had to go the shoot out where the Bombers outscored the Blizzard 2-0.

The Blizzard begin their regular season Friday against the Swan Valley Stampeders in Swan River.

The OCN Blizzard took their first win of the year when they hosted the Kam River Fighting Walleye in exhibition action last night.

It was a tight first 40 minutes of play as the OCN Blizzard trailed the Fighting Walleye 5-4 with goals from Brady Krentz and Kayden Sutherland in the first period, followed by Marlen Edwards and Sam Zagari in the second period.

During the third period Keilan Holland scored the first goal, Marlen Edwards scored his second and John Kremmer scored the final goal to wrap up the game 7-5 for the Blizzard.

They face The Flin Flon Bombers Tomorrow at 7:30 to wrap up the Battle of the North.

It was a tough start for the new OCN Blizzard last night as the team hosted the Flin Flon Bombers Last night.

The Flin Flon Bombers came to the Gordon Lathlin Memorial Centre prepped and having already played four pre season games against other teams while the Blizzard had just wrapped up their main camp on sunday.

This showed during the first period when the Flin Flon Bombers scored a staggering 6 goals in 9 shots during the first period.

After intermission it seems the team found their footing as new goalie Chase Hamm stopped all but one shot on net. Mitch and Michael Hlady scored the first OCN goal of the night followed by

Marlen Edwards.

The third period wrapped up with Miguel Bouvier and John Kremme scoring a goal each for the Blizzard. Final score was 10-4 for the Flin Flon Bombers.

The teams face eachother again Friday for the final battle of the north in Flin Flon at 7:30.

Summer may be coming to a close but the fun hasn't stopped yet! The Board Bash Bonanza Cable Wakeboard Competition takes place tomorrow at Tribe Cable Park.

Registration begins tomorrow at 11 am and is $20 per person. There will be cash prizes, a wakeboard giveaway, and product giveaways courtesy of FunkyThreadz followed by a social after the event.

For more information check out the Tribe Cable Park Facebook Page.