The Powassan Voodoos reached to the Greater Toronto area and plucked a familiar face with heavy North Bay ties as Beau Moyer will return to the area to coach the Voodoos for the 2017-18 season.

 

“It’s going to be a great challenge coaching the Voodoos,” said the 36-year-old North Bay native.

 

“I have been looking for the opportunity to coach at junior level for past 3 years and coming home makes it that much more special. I’m hoping to add to a program that has a great foundation through all the hard work that Scott Wray and Chris Dawson have done the past three years. It is a challenge I am extremely excited about.”

 

Moyer joins the Voodoos after spending a decade coaching minor hockey, primarily in the highly competitive Greater Toronto Hockey League, guiding age groups from Peewee to Minor Midget.

 

Last season coached the minor midget AAA Vaughan Kings.

 

He also spent two seasons behind the bench with the North Bay Midget AAA Trappers from 2007 to 2009 and has been a scout with the Kingston Frontenacs since 2011.

Moyer is giving up his scouting job with the move to the North Bay Battalion NOJHL affiliate team.

Moyer also has a very good track record as a player. Drafted in the late rounds of the 1998 OHL Priority Selection, Moyer played in the Ontario Junior ‘A’ Hockey League with the Couchiching Terriers and then went on to win a NCAA Division III championship with the University of Wisconsin-Superior Yellow Jackets in 2002