March 18, 2024, Mississauga, ON – …. Trevor Hoskin of the Cobourg Cougars Is the recipient of the Ontario Junior Hockey League’s Leading Scorer award for 2023-24, the league announced today.
Hoskin finished the regular season with 100 points, three more than Ryan Forberg of the Markham Royals and five ahead of Andy Reist, Hoskin’s close friend and linemate in Cobourg.
Hoskin accumulated points at an astounding clip of 1.92 per game.
His 42 goals included nine game-winners, four while shorthanded and nine on the power play.
Hoskin missed four games while representing the OJHL at the World Junior A Hockey Challenge in Nova Scotia in December. He was named to the all-tournament team after leading Team Canada East to the silver medals.
An assistant captain in Cobourg this season, the third-year Cougar is committed to NCAA Division 1 Niagara University for next season after receiving multiple scholarship offers.
It hasn’t always been that way.
Hoskin was possibly the last player offered a spot on the Cobourg roster in the fall of 2021.
“Sept. 3,” Hoskin recalls with a laugh. “And I think the season was starting on Sept. 11.”
The Belleville resident, who played U16 AAA in Kingston the previous season, would likely have played U18 if he hadn’t made the Cougars.
A rookie season of 29 points was followed by 61 in 2022-23, only to be totally upstaged by this year’s century mark.
“When I first started in Cobourg, I had a really welcoming coaching staff (Head Coach Wes Wolfe and crew) come in and I had a lot of ice to start,” he said. “A lot of good things are happening for me. I’d recommend it to any kid, to play in Cobourg. It’s a pretty cool spot. Great town. Great people. Great billets. Three of the best years of my life.”
Hoskin committed verbally to Canisius College in Buffalo last summer but had not signed a letter of intent. He eventually signed with Niagara following his MVP performance at the OJHL’s Eastern Canada All-Star Challenge in Trenton in November.
He’ll join Reist at Niagara, the home of the Purple Eagles in Western New York.
“Keeping in mind one of my closest friends was already going there, it was a pretty easy decision … and get things rolling with them,” he said. “It’s pretty cool that I get the opportunity to go with someone I’m super close with and a teammate I’ve had for three years. It’s pretty special.”
The Cougars are justifiably proud of the top pointgetter in the OJHL.
“Trevor is a very important member to our team,” Cobourg Coach Connnor Armour told the OJHL. “Seeing him develop not only as a player but also a person has been fun to watch. He’s got a bright future in hockey.”
The Cougars, who defeated the Haliburton County Huskies in the opening round of the OJHL playoffs, will face Toronto’s St. Michael’s Buzzers in Round 2.
Trevor Hoskin will be honoured along with the other OJHL award recipients at a ceremony during the OJHL Nutrafarms Championship Series in late April.
The OJHL is announcing its 2023-24 award winners throughout the first three rounds of the playoffs.
TOMORROW: Top Goaltender
About the OJHL – “League of Choice”
The Ontario Junior Hockey League is the largest Junior ‘A’ league operating under the auspices of the Canadian Junior Hockey League with 24 member clubs. A proud member of the Canadian Junior Hockey League and Ontario Hockey Association, the OJHL was originally named the Ontario Provincial Junior ‘A’ Hockey League and it was formed out of the Central Junior ‘B’ Hockey League in 1993-94. With a long and storied history of developing players for the next level, including U SPORTS, the NCAA, CHL, minor pro ranks and the NHL, the OJHL has had more than 45 NCAA Division I scholarship commitments already this season.
For more information on the Ontario Junior Hockey League, follow us on Instagram (@OJHLOfficial), Twitter (@OJHLOfficial) and Facebook (OJHLOfficial) and visit www.ojhl.ca
