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Collingwood Blues netting new players for next season

The team announced several players who have signed letters of intent for the Blues' next season
Erika Engel
Erika Engel
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The Collingwood Colts gave a preview of their new look at a Blues tribute game in February. Erika Engel/CollingwoodToday

Collingwood’s junior ‘A’ hockey team is building its bench for the 2020/2021 season.

The Collingwood Blues have announced several new players who have signed letters of intent to play for the local hockey team next season.

Players committed to the Collingwood Blues roster for next season include Ikki Kogawa, Anthony Bax, Owen Sage, Mark McIntosh, Kaleb Tiessen, and Dylan Hudon.

Kogawa is from Chiba, Japan, and is 17. He’s coming off a season with the Mississauga Reps Midget AAA team where he put up 21 goals and 10 assists for 31 points in 32 games.

Blues General Manager Mike Tarantino said Kogawa is a “dangerously underestimated kid,” and predicted he would be filling a lot of nets for the Blues.

Bax, 16, is a defenceman from Parkhill, ON and played for the Oakville Rangers Midget AAA team.

Tarantino called Bax a “right shot defenceman that helps at both ends of the ice.”

Sage, 17, is from Oakville and also played for the Rangers Midget AAA team where he was assistant captain and the team’s leading scorer. Sage made an appearance on the South Central Triple-A (SCTA) all-star team.

Tarantino called Sage an elite skater whose compete level is “second-to-none.”

McIntosh, 16, is from Elora and played last year for the Guelph Jr. Gryphons Midget AAA team where he was assistant captain and put up 16 goals and 28 assists in 31 games.

Tarantino called McIntosh a “weapon up front Collingwood will not soon forget.”

Tiessen, 17, played for the Chatham Maroons of the GOJHL (Junior B), and stands out in a crowd at six-foot-four-inches tall. He’s from Windsor, ON.

Tarantino said Tiessen is a “workhorse on the backend.”

Hudon, 16, is also coming off a season with the Guelph Jr. Gryphons where he put up 15 goals and 16 assists in 30 games.

Tarantino said he’s “an exciting player to watch … he competes every shift night-in, night-out.”

The Blues have also changed the lineup behind the bench adding a new general manager in Tarantino as well as a new head coach, assistant coach and video coach.

You’ll find the latest Collingwood Blues update on their Twitter account here.