OHL Awards include nominees from the North Bay Battalion

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Marcus McIvor is one of three players, and a coach, on the North Bay Battalion who have been nominated for an OHL Award.

The North Bay Battalion are front and centre for some of the OHL’s top honours.

Coach Stan Butler has been nominated as coach of the year, Captain Marcus McIvor as overage player of the year, Brenden Miller as defenseman of the year and Nick Paul as player of the year.

The awards ceremony goes June 9th at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, however award recipients will be announced periodically throughout the OHL Playoffs.

Earlier this week, the team reported a franchise record for the North Bay Battalion, in terms of attendance this past regular season.

The 34 home games here in North Bay saw the Battalion take to the ice at Memorial Gardens in front of a total of 117,195 fans.

That’s an increase of 2.4 percent over the Troops inaugural season in North Bay.

The average attendance per game was 3,447.

On March 8th, a sellout crowd of 4,241, which is a North Bay regular-season record, watched Connor McDavid and the Erie Otters win 5-3.

In a release, Battalion owner Scott Abbott says, “We’re thankful for the outstanding support displayed by fans in North Bay and the region for the Battalion,”

He goes on to say “Memorial Gardens has been established as a vibrant gathering place for the community and is recognized league-wide as a renewed jewel. We appreciate the standing that the club has in the city and our role in representing North Bay throughout Ontario and beyond.”