North Bay Battalion News & Stories

The always-intriguing CHL Import Draft is in the book, and this one was particularly interesting with new rules and some twists.

CHL trade deadline is always exciting, but this year was particularly eventful. Mitch Brown looks at the buyers, rebuilders, and players on the move.

Mitch Brown highlights the biggest names on the move from the NCAA's ruling on CHL players, updated throughout the season.

Learn everything you need to know going into the 2024-25 OHL season with this comprehensive preview.

Noah Chadwick, Beckett Sennecke, and Easton Cowan highlight this year's list of players who improved the most in the 2023-24 CHL seasons.

Victor Nuño checks in on some red hot performers in the CHL playoffs and what those performances could mean to their long term potential.

There's a new CHL Power Rankings right in time for the WHL, OHL, and QMJHL playoffs.

Lauren Kelly takes you around the OHL with the most recent update of OHL Stock Watch.

Victor Nuño checks in on Seattle Kraken prospect, Ty Nelson and how his high-event style could or could not translate to the NHL.

Mitch Brown breaks down the moves from the 2024 CHL trade deadlines as teams start to eye a trip to Saginaw for the Memorial Cup.

The November OHL Stock Watch highlights the performances of Luke Misa, Hunter Brzustewicz, Anthony Romani, 2024 NHL Draft-eligible goalies, Easton Cowan, and Jack Van Volsen.

Elite Prospects lead scout David St-Louis breaks down the Edmonton Oilers prospect pool ahead of the 2023 NHL trade deadline.

Mitch Brown takes a look at a wild week in the CHL where picks and prospects were dealt at an alarming pace.

The 2022 Elite Prospects draft rankings are out. Mitch Brown explains the decisions behind the biggest risers and fallers on the board.

The Elite Prospects team has ranked 64 players for the 2022 NHL Entry Draft with their second board of the season.

J.D. Burke and his team of scouts have come together to produce their first draft ranking of the year for the 2022 NHL Entry Draft, a board that's 32 players long.

EP's OHL scout Lauren Kelly takes a look at five under-the-radar 2004-born players from the O after the first month of play.

The lottery winners don't always come out of the draft with the best haul. We saw that again this year when the San Jose Sharks received arguably the best player...

The 2020-21 OHL season was lost to the ongoing pandemic. Elite Prospects Ontario regional scout Lauren Kelly looks at 8 players with something to prove when the league gets going in the fall.

We've got ourselves a trade! A low-end hockey trade at that! One middling depth piece for another middling depth piece -- the Los Angeles Kings snagged Christian Wolanin from the Ottawa Senators for Michael Amadio.

Just when it seemed like the San Jose Sharks prospect pool was starting to run shallow, they went and out cleaned up at the 2020 NHL Draft. Yes, it’s still...

We’re exactly two weeks away from the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, so what better time for another draft ranking than now? While we position ourselves as a united front in...

The appetite for NHL Draft coverage expands with every year. Where the main course centred on the first round alone once sufficed, our audience now demands a seven-plate meal with...

With the conclusion of the 2020 CHL Import Draft today, at least one such event occurred on schedule without a hitch. In June, no less. It’s a complicated process, so...