Milton native now the interim coach for St Catharines OHL squad

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Published November 14, 2022 at 4:51 pm

Milton native Jeff Angelidis is the new interin head coach for the OHL's Niagara IceDogs. (Photo: OJHL Images)

A Milton native with extensive hockey experience is now the interim coach of the OHL’s Niagara IceDogs.

With the IceDogs, who play out of the Meridian Centre in St. Catharines, in dead-last in the OHL Eastern Conference, team owner and GM Darren DeDobbelaer has swapped out former coach Daniel Fitzgerald and has brought in Jeff Angelidis on an interim basis.

Angelidis, who coached his hometown Milton Icehawks in 2010-11, was on the coaching staff of DeDobbelaer’s Brantford 99ers in the OJHL when he got the nod for the IceDogs.

The Milton native spent three seasons in the OJHL as a player, joining the league as a 18-year old member of the Stouffville Spirit in 1995-96.

Angelidis played 24 games, registering 5 goals and 12 points for the last place club.  The following year he joined the Ajax Axemen, where he finished second in scoring on the club, notching 27 goals and 53 points in 48 regular season contests, but would be shutout during a first round sweep at the hands of Kingston.

Returning to Ajax for a final season of junior hockey in 1997-98, Angelidis went on a tear and was one of the league’s top scorers, notching 24 goals and 58 points in just 34 games with the Axemen, before he was traded to the Newmarket 87’s for their playoff drive.

He finished the year as the 87’s leading scorer with 91 points in 48 games played to also finish tied for ninth in overall league scoring, and would add 10 points in 9 post-season games as Newmarket fell to Trenton in the Eastern Conference Quarter-Final.

Following his junior career, Angelidis played two seasons for the NCAA Division III Elmira College Soaring Eagles before turning professional with the now-defunct Western Professional Hockey League’s Odessa Jackalopes in 2000-01.

After a brief professional career that took him throughout Europe, Angelidis returned home to coach the Milton Icehawks in 2010-11 before spending three seasons with the OJHL’s Toronto Jr. Canadiens.

He then joined the GOJHL’s Brampton Bombers Junior ‘B’ club this past season before going to the OJHL to coach in Brantford.

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