April 21, 2025, Mississauga, ON – ….The Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL) will honour the recipients of the league’s annual awards tonight.
The on-ice ceremony will be held prior to Game 2 of the OJHL’s Championship Series at Milton Memorial Arena in Milton, ON. Game time is 7:30 p.m.
The best-of-seven series is being played between the Milton Menace and Trenton Golden Hawks. Trenton won Game 1 by a 3-0 score in Trenton on Saturday.
OJHL Commissioner Marty Savoy will make the presentations.
The list of award winners includes a pair of Leamington Flyers who will receive two awards each:
- Colton Smith, OJHL MVP and Top Scorer
- Marcus Vandenberg, Top Goalie and Goaltender of the Year
Other winners include:
- Jonathan Kapageridis (Cobourg Cougars), Hudl InStat Top Prospect for the NHL Draft
- Mason Kim (Mississauga Chargers), Rookie of the Year
- Riley Pope (Stouffville Spirit), Most Improved Player
- Cameron Eke (Collingwood Blues),Top Defenceman
- David Elmy (St. Michael’s Buzzers), Most Gentlemanly Player
- Gabriel Trozzo (Toronto Patriots), Scholastic Player of the Year
- David Paglia (Stouffville Spirit), Humanitarian of the Year
- TJ Hill (Stouffville Spirit), Coach of the Year
- Justin Solcz (Leamington Flyers), General Manager of the Year
- Kenny Burrows (Stouffville Spirit), Executive of the Year
- David Hearn (Collingwood Blues), Volunteer of the Year
- Leah Toffelmire (Trenton Golden Hawks), Athletic Therapist of the Year
- Mike Aloe (Burlington Cougars), Equipment Manager of the Year
Eke (Niagara), Kapageridis (Vermont), Smith (Clarkson) and Elmy (Canisius) have NCAA Division I scholarship commitments. Kapageridis is also committed to North Bay of the Ontario Hockey League.
Toffelmire and Solcz are repeat winners.
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 CJHL 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 100 commitments already this season.
