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Two GTA Rinks, Two Very Different OHL Seasons for Oshawa and Brampton

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50 minutes ago

November 2, 2026

Oshawa Generals forward Cody Costello celebrating a goal on home ice in front of the crowd.

Cody Costello celebrates a goal for the Oshawa Generals against Ottawa on November 1. Photo courtesy of the Oshawa Generals.

The GTA has two Ontario Hockey League home rinks this winter, the CAA Centre in Brampton and the Tribute Communities Centre in Oshawa. A month and a half into the 2026-27 season, the Steelheads and the Generals are living two very different stories.

Oshawa sits right in the fight. The Generals are 6-6-4-1 with 17 points through 17 games, fourth in the East Division, and their home games have been wild. On Sunday night they lost 7-6 in overtime to Ottawa after holding three different two goal leads. Even in defeat, it was a night of firsts: Cody Costello scored the first two goals of his OHL career, and Jackson Marthaler added his first career goal. Two nights earlier, Oshawa went into Brampton and won the first meeting between the two GTA clubs 5-2.

Brampton is in a deeper hole. The Steelheads are 2-12-1-1 with six points, last in the Central Division, and they have lost four in a row, including a 3-0 shutout loss to Windsor on home ice Sunday. It is a young group learning the hard way, and the bright spot has been forward Nathan Amidovski, who leads the club with 16 points. In junior hockey, a team this young can look completely different by February, and that climb is its own story.

What both buildings offer is volume. Brampton has 22 home dates and Oshawa has 21 home dates from November through the end of February, Sunday afternoons, Friday nights and rivalry games included. Oshawa hosts Brantford on November 8 and Peterborough on November 13. Brampton is home again on November 15 against Peterborough. The two GTA clubs meet again in Oshawa on February 7 and February 13. For hockey fans in the region, there is a game worth seeing almost every weekend, at prices and distances the big leagues cannot match.

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Toronto Sceptres Open at Home Against Hamilton in the First Battle of the QEW

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55 minutes ago

November 2, 2026

Leo Bodei

Toronto Sceptres captains Renata Fast and Laura Stacey with alternate captain Kristin O'Neill posing together at the rink.

Sceptres leaders Kristin O'Neill, Laura Stacey and Renata Fast. Photo courtesy of the Toronto Sceptres.

The Toronto Sceptres come home on Tuesday, December 8, when they host PWHL Hamilton at Coca-Cola Coliseum at 7 p.m. It is the home opener of the PWHL’s fourth season, the first meeting between Toronto and the league’s new Hamilton club, and the start of what the Sceptres are calling the Battle of the QEW.

The night carries extra weight because of how last season ended. Toronto finished fifth with 38 points and missed the Walter Cup playoffs for the first time in team history. It came down to the final day of the regular season in Ottawa, where a regulation win would have sent the Sceptres through. Instead they lost 3-0, and Montreal went on to lift the Walter Cup. A loud home crowd against a brand new rival is exactly the kind of night this group has been waiting to answer with.

The core of the team is locked in. Goaltender Raygan Kirk signed a three year extension after a season in which she posted a 1.87 goals against average and a .934 save percentage with three shutouts. The club named Renata Fast and Laura Stacey as captains, with Kristin O’Neill as alternate captain. First round draft pick Kirsten Simms, taken eighth overall in June, signed a three year contract, and forward Sara Hjalmarsson re-signed for two more seasons.

The work starts soon. Training camp opens November 18 at Ford Performance Centre with 29 players invited, and the Sceptres play preseason scrimmages against Hamilton on November 23 and Ottawa on November 24. The regular season opens December 6 in Ottawa before the team comes home. The league has grown to 12 teams, and Toronto plays a 30 game schedule in the Eastern Conference. December 8 is the first of nine confirmed home dates at Coca-Cola Coliseum, and it opens a rivalry that will run all winter, including a Boxing Day meeting in Hamilton on December 26.