OHL North Bay Battalion

It's a Date: October 7

Published on June 28, 2021 under Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
North Bay Battalion News Release


NORTH BAY, Ont. - The North Bay Battalion is to open the home portion of its 2021-22 regular-season schedule at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, against the Peterborough Petes, the Ontario Hockey League club announced Monday.

The OHL returns to play for the first time since the 2019-20 schedule was suspended March 12, 2020, because of the coronavirus pandemic. The rest of the season then was cancelled, as were the playoffs. The loss of the 2020-21 season followed.

The Battalion's most recent game was an 8-0 home-ice loss to the Ottawa 67's on March 8, 2020. The last OHL games were played three days later.

Until this year, the latest start to a season in Battalion history occurred Sept. 26, 2014, when North Bay lost 5-4 in overtime to the visiting Barrie Colts. The latest home opener was the Battalion's first at Memorial Gardens, a 2-1 loss to Peterborough on Oct. 11, 2013, after 15 seasons based in Brampton.

The Battalion home opener is one of three games scheduled that day, the others being the Niagara IceDogs at the Barrie Colts and the Sarnia Sting at the Windsor Spitfires, both at 7:30 p.m.

The full league schedule is to be released Tuesday.

The announcement came as the Battalion prepared for the Canadian Hockey League Import Draft, to be conducted via the internet starting at 11 a.m. Wednesday.

The Troops hold the 30th pick in the first round of the two-round process, as well as the 93rd overall choice. The OHL order of selection in the first round is the reverse of the lottery-generated opening-round order for the league's Priority Selection held June 4-5. For this year, the CHL Import Draft will follow a snake format, with the selection order reversed in the second round.

The Baie-Comeau Drakkar of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League has the No. 1 pick, followed by the Everett Silvertips of the Western Hockey League, which conducted a lottery to determine its order. The three member leagues of the CHL rotate the order of priority from year to year.

North Bay selected Russian right winger Matvey Petrov with the first overall pick last year.

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