The Northern Ontario Hockey League AAA Showcase is expanding — and in as much as overall competitiveness is a positive, it’s clearly for the better. Article content Article content

There’s no denying that some of the top-end talent from the North are making their way south each and every year. But what’s left is now a circuit that featured 15 games contested at the Gerry McCrory Countryside Sports Complex this past weekend that were decided by two goals or less.

That — and the addition of a Thunder Bay Kings entry at age brackets from U13 up to U15 — meant that the event was going to have a slightly different look from years gone bye where highly lopsided affairs that benefitted neither team were all too often the norm. Article content

There was but one game that reached double digi

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