Fort William Hurricanes Hockey Club

The Fort William Hurricanes Hockey Club would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to our brand new web site.

The Fort William Hurricanes Hockey Club has been around the Thunder Bay area for seventy five years (incorporated in 1936). We have three clubs in our organization. From  Midget "AA",  Bantam "A" and Bantam "B". We would like to welcome all to our Webste, and hope you enjoy. We will updating information every day. The Fort William Hurricanes have been given their clubs with Thunder Bay Minor Hockey Assocation for the 2011-2012 upcoming hockey season they will include a Midget AA,  Bantam A. and Bantam B.  At this time we like to welcome all returning players and parents for the 2011-12 hockey season, good luck to all teams.

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In 1950, the Fort William Hurricane Rangers of the Thunder Bay Junior Hockey League changed their name to the Fort William Hurricanes. By the mid 1960's, they were being called the Westfort Hurricanes. In 1972, the team became the Thunder Bay-Westfort Hurricanes playing in the Cam-Am Junior Hockey League, the forerunner to today's USHL. They returned to the Thunder Bay League in 1974. In 1975, they became the Degagne Hurricanes.

Have a look at Herk History (tab on the left) and take a trip down memory lane, reading stories of the 1950-1951 Hurricanes season, see if you can remember the names of the past, enjoy. Please remember all the articles written were taken from the local newspapers at the time, hopefully no one will be offended by the excerts.

The Fort William Hurricanes lost the game, but clinched first in their division as they were defeated by the Blaine Ice Dogs 7-3, but due to goal diffence the Herks grabbed first spot with a 1-1-1 record and now will face and old foe in the Fort Francis Canadiens in the semi final.
 The Ice Dogs would take advantage of a Herk five minute major given to Amos Sharun and tally three times in the opening frame. Josh Marquart opened the scoring as he beat Canes starter Conor Carr at 15:01, and then 9:40 Mitchell Thurmer made 2-0 as he would score on the power play, and with 1:19 Zach Penn made 3-0 also with man advantage. The Herks were outshot by Blaine 12-4.
 Kenny Turner would give the Hurricanes some life scoring at the 15:31 mark making it 3-1 but that was all the Canes could do as the Ice Dogs would score three unanswered goals in a four minute span. Conlan Meade would start it at 7:05, followed by Joe Hegedus 5:53, and Meade would close out the scoring in the middle frame. Carr was under siege the whole period as he would face 17 more shots.
 Mitchell Zemanek would come out and start in goal giving Carr a much needed break, and he would be instrumental in helping the Herks secure the division. The Canes leading goal scorer Kevin Kurm  would score forty seconds into period three making it 6-2 but three minutes later Blaine would beat Zemanek on thier eigth shot. Amos Sharun's fifth of the year on the power play, with a minute and a half left in the game was crucial. With that goal and Zemanek's shutout in game two secured the division for the team from the Bay. Zemanek would face 17 shots in the period and made several huge saves. The Herks were down two forwards as Andrew Crupi was out with an upper body injury and Tommy Stadey suffered a lower body injury in period one and did not return to action.
 A long time fued has been growing between the Fort Francis Canadiens and the Hurricanes and should prove to be an entertaining contest, with the winner moving on to the Championship game, while the losing team will fight it out for third spot. 

The Fort William Hurricanes would score four power play goals and one shorthanded tally and Mitchell Zemanek would turn aside 17 shots as the Canes defeated Lakeville Lakers of Minn. 9-0. It was gamw two for Herks in the Duluth Junior A Gold Tournament.
 Kevin Kurm would lead the Herks with a pair of goals as well two assists in the game, Hayden Hickey had two goals and one assist and Samuel Frisby added three assists.
 The Herks would score two power play markers and two even strength goals as the rout began. Kurm would open the scoring at the 15:14 mark on the pp, two minutes later Johnny Parrott would make it 2-0, Hickey would make it 3-0 with his first of two also with the man advantage, before the end of the period Jacob McRury would make it 4-0 before the first period would come to a close.
 The scoring would pick up again in the second, as Amos Sharun would net one :30 seconds into the period, Matthew Hamlin's power play goal would make it 6 -0 at the 6:59 mark, Kyle Stone would score short handed and it was now 7-0 after two. The Herks have outshot Lakeville by a 29 to10 margin.
 The Hurricanes would tally twice more in the final stanza with Kurm netting his second of the game also getting his second of the contest was Hickey.
 Game three of the round robin will see the Cane's face a team from Blaine Minn.
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                                                            SCORING SUMMARY
1st; HERKS; Kurm 13 ( McRury, Frisby ) pp. 15:14. Parrott 3 ( Crupi, Frisby ) 12:39. Hickey 8 ( Kurm, McRury ) 7:32. McRury 8 ( Hickey, Miault ) pp 3:13. penalties; HERKS; Hamlin, cross check, 12:20. Stone, check from behind, 10 min. conduct, 12:02. Frisby, int. 1:37. Lakers; Elling, check from behind, 10 min.conduct.12:20. Steinhagen, int. 9:56
Molyneux, head contact, 8:34.
  2nd; Sharun 5 ( Miceli, Olynick ) 14:37. Hamlin 9 ( Sharun, McRury ) pp. 6:59. Stone ( unassisted ) sh. 1:20.  HERKS; Hamlin, slash, 2:00. Hamlin, rough, 2:00. Sharun, rough, 2:00. Sharun, tripping, 2:00. Sharun, xcheck, 2:00. Lakers; Ronneberg, 2:00. Stober, 9:50, check from behind, 5 minute misconduct, 9;50.
  3rd; HERKS; Kurm 14 ( Frisby, Parrott ) 6:23. Hickey ( Kurm, Hamlin ) 0:55. penalties; Herks; Miault, int. 13.21. Sharun, game misconduct, 13:21.
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                                                        SHOTS ON GOAL
                            1st        2nd       3rd          Final
HERKS               16          13          5             34
Lakers                 4             6          7             17 
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Kevin Kurm scored with eight seconds left in the game and the Fort William Hurricanes pulled out a 3-3 draw with the Minnetonka Warriors, as the Canes compete in the Duluth Junior Gold Classic Tournament.
 The Warriors would open the scoring early in the opening frame as Jordan Debol would slide one into the empty net at 15:14 mark, beating an outstreched Conor Carr. Two minutes later the Herks would tie the game at 1-1 as Kenny Turner would beat the Minnetonka goal keeper along the ice. Matt Mattiacci would give the Americans a 2-1 lead with just 1:16 left in period one. Carr would see a total of 13 Warrior shots, while the Canes would score once on five total shots.
 The middle period was scoreless, with the highlight being Carr's stop on a penalty shot keeping the contest close. The Hurricanes would have a better period offensively by out shooting Minnetonka 12-9.
  Minnetonka would increase their lead to 3-1 as Zach Johnson's point shot at the 11:11 mark would elude Carr and things looked bleak. But a minute later Matthew Hamlin would skate the length of the ice and make it 3-2. The Herks would press but could not beat the Warriors netminder and on the other end Carr again kept the game within reach, finally the Canes would get a faceoff deep in Minnetonka's end with seconds remaining, Carr was pulled for the extra attacker and it worked as the Hurricanes applied relentless pressure, Kurm would find a loose puck and the game was tied 3-3. Sitting out his fourth game was goalie Mitchell Zemanek
 The Herks will play two games on Saturday, the morning contest will see them faceoff against Lakeville, with the evenings challenge being Grand Rapids.
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                                                             SCORING SUMMARY
 1st; Warriors; Debol ( Brand, Kaye ) 15:14. HERKS; Turner 7 ( Crupi, Krzystofczyk ) 13:25. Warriors; Mattiacci ( Ameling, Philips ) 1:16. penalties; Herks; Sharun, int. 6:08. Crupi, trip, 2:54.
 2nd; no scoring; penalties; Herks; Stone, int. 9:58. Parrott, tripping, 8:18.Warriors; Karlovich, slash, 13:07. Mattiacci, tripping, 10:57. Gachne, slashing.
 3rd; Debol, ( Schwartz )pp. 11:11. HERKS; Hamlin 7 ( Sharun, Olynick ) 10:03. Kurm 13 ( Turner, Crupi ) 0:08. penalties; Herks; Hamlin, high stick, 14:09. Stone, slash, 5:13. Turner, hook, 3:27. Warriors; Brand, tripping, 14:38. Gachne, cross check, 5:13.
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                                               SHOTS ON GOAL
                                 1st        2nd        3rd        Final
HERKS                      5            12         8            25
Warriors                  13              9        10          32
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Brad Thrower's goal with six and a half minutes left in the game lifted the AAA Bantam Kings to a 3-2 victory over the Fort William Hurricanes Midget AA's ending the Herks winning streak at two game.
  The Bantams took an early lead as Kristopher Hamlin skated out from behind net and stuffed one upstairs on Canes starter Conor Carr just a minute in. Tommy Stadey's point shot at the 7:43 mark, got by the AAA's netminder and the game was tied at 1-1. A minute later Kenny Turner would score his sixth of the season and the Herks enjoyed the lead if only for a brief moment at 2-1, 00.39 seconds later the Kings Daniel McKitrick tied the game at two apiece. Once again goaltender Carr was the focus of attention in the Herks cage as he would face 12 King's shots and the Canes had a grand total of four.
 Carr would own the second frame making several key stops and keeping his team in the game with the younger Bantams who put together a 16 shot barrage and couldn't find net. After all was said and done the period was scoreless and the game remained at a 2-2 deadlock.
 The Hurricanes came out skating in period three and started to fire some pucks at the Bantam goalie who with stood the pressure. The game turned into a defensive struggle and both teams did not want to make that fatal error that would turn the game around. The Kings would hem the Herks in their own end and put the pressure on, forcing Carr to make three stops before Thrower put the puck in for the win.
 The Herks have put together three decent games to get themselves back into playoff contention, but must stop making the small mental errors that always seem to comeback and haunt them. The Canes were playing without four regulars as Ryan Krzystofczyk, Myles Miceli, Samuel Frisby were all missing due to personal reasons, while goalie Mitchell Zemanek was serving game number three of a four game suspension.
 It is tournament play once again for the Midgets as they head out to Duluth this weekend to compete in the Duluth Junior Gold A Tournament. First game for the Herks will be Friday evening facing off against Minnetonka, Saturday will be two games with Lakeville providing the competion for the Canes, the final game of the round robin sees the Herks hitting the ice against Blaine Minnestoa, playoff rounds will be on Super Bowl Sunday. Next league action will be on Feb.8th, when the first place Westend Bruins take on the Hurricanes.
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                                                      SCORING SUMMARY
 1st; Kings; Hamlin ( Mandryk ) 14:03. HERKS: Stadey 3 ( Kurm, Hickey ) 7:43. HERKS; Turner 6 ( Siau, A.Crupi ) 6:44. Kings; McKitrick ( Behse ) 6:05. penalties; Herks; Wesley, slash, 9:59. Olynick, roughing, 5:13. McRury, hooking, 3:36.  Kings; Caruso, int. 10:05. Hamlin, high stick, 4:00.
  2nd; no scoring. penalties; Herks; Turner, rough, 13:52. Hamlin; slash, 6:37. Adamo, double minor head check, 7:53.
  3rd; Kings: Thrower ( Grzelewski, McKitrick ) 6:36. penalties; Herks; McRury, head check, 11:59. Kings; McKitrick, charging, 12:11.
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                                                              SHOTS ON GOAL
                   1st        2nd        3rd        Final
HERKS        4            9           11           24
Kings          12         16           10          38
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Conor Carr stopped 33 of 34 shots fired his way and helped lead the Fort William Hurricanes to a 3-1 win over arch rival Fort William Canadiens, with the win the Canes now have won two in a row, and pulled into a tie with the Current River Comets for the final playoff berth.
 Kevin Kurm would get things rolling for the Herks, three minutes in, as he would take a pass from Hayden Hickey and scoot down the left wing and go high on Habs tender Jordan MacDougal for his team leading 12th of the year. Five minutes later the Canadiens would tie the contest at 1-1, when Mitchell Daecy found net behind Carr. With just over three minutes left in the frame Matthew Hamlin would bang in a loose puck and the Canes had the lead back at 2-1, it was Hamlin's seventh. Carr would make some key saves and kept the game close.
 Period two was dominated offensively by the Canadiens but the Hurricane's defense with stood the pressure, Carr would face eleven more shots and would continue his stellar performance, the Herks managed a mere five shots.
 Both clubs continued a fast paced close checking third and once again the goalies were the story as MacDougal stoned the Canes on three occassions, not to be denied Carr was equal to the task as he would make twelve more saves perserving the win. Hickey would count his second point of the game as he would feed Kenny Turner who would deposit his fifth of the year into the empty Hab's cage.
 It was a hard fought game with the Herks coming out on top with a lot of hard work offensively and defensivley with solid goaltending from Carr. The Hurricanes were without team Captain Andrew Crupi who was injured, and goaltender Mitchell Zemanek who is serving his second game of a four game suspension. Next up for the Herks will be the Bantam AAA Kings.
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                                               SCORING SUMMARY
 1st; Herks; Kurm 12 ( Hickey, Krzstofczyk ) 12:01. Habs; Daecy ( Desjardins, St.Jean ) 7:28. Herks; Hamlin 7 ( Sharun, Olynick ) 3:13. penalties; HERKS; Hamlin, unsportsman, 3:13. Habs; Roberts, xcheck, 5:08.
 2nd; no scoring. penalties; HERKS; Sharun, unsportsmanlike, 4:16. Stone, slash,2:08.
Habs; Wolframe, hooking, 13:28.
 3rd; Herks; Turner 5 ( Hickey, Kurm ) en. 00:40. penalties; HERKS; Kurm, Kneeing, 12:17
Miceli, xcheck, 10:39. Stone, double minor head check, 6:25. Habs; Loisel, unsportsman. 10:39. Adduono, hook, 8:54. Adduono, double minor head check, 6:25. Wolframe, double minor head check, 3:13.
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                                              SHOTS ON GOAL
                     1st        2nd        3rd        Final
HERKS          7           5            8             20
Habs            11         11          12           34
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