Four games over two weekends is a small sample in a 68-game Ontario Hockey League schedule, rounding up to six per cent, so it’s ridiculously early to draw conclusions about the prospects of the Kingston Frontenacs. Article content
And really, you can attach asterisks to the first two games on the opening weekend of the season, Kingston was playing a bunch of young players in the place of veterans who were skating at National Hockey League training camps. Article content Article content
As coach Troy Mann noted after the Frontenacs’ 5-4 loss in an OT shootout to the Soo Greyhounds at Slush Puppie Place Friday night, the team with its roster cut down to a reasonable number and its best players back from the pros had just one practice together.
Mann thankfully didn’t feel the need to