From the OHL
Toronto, Ont. – The Ontario Hockey League today announced the Top OHL Performers of the Month for regular season games played in November 2021, including North Bay Battalion and OJS alumni, forward as Player of the Month.
OHL Player of the Month – Kyle Jackson (North Bay Battalion):
North Bay Battalion forward Kyle Jackson is the OHL Player of the Month for November, recording 22 points including 11 goals and 11 assists over 11 games along with a plus/minus rating of plus-7. Jackson recorded points in 10 of his 11 outings to help the Battalion ascend to the top of the Eastern Conference standings with a record of 7-2-1-1 over the course of the month. The 6-foot-2, 191Ib. centreman scored his first career hat trick on Nov. 5th in Kingston, finishing with four points (3-1–4) in a 5-4 road win. He took centre stage with a first star performance on Nov. 18th against Ottawa, scoring a pair of goals to go with an assist in a 3-0 win over the 67’s. Jackson struck for the game winner and earned second star honours a night later in Oshawa as the Battalion doubled-up the Generals 4-2. He posted his third four-point performance of the season (2-2–4) on Nov. 26th in Kingston, garnering first star recognition as the Troops skated to a 5-2 win. Jackson is the Battalion’s first OHL Player of the Month recipient since Justin Brazeau earned the distinction in October 2018.
A 19-year-old from Ottawa, Ont., Jackson is enjoying a breakout season in his third tour of duty with the Battalion, sitting tied for second in OHL scoring with 35 points (14-21–35) across 22 games. Jackson’s 27.5 percent shooting percentage is currently second-best in the OHL among players with at least 50 shots on goal. He’s recorded 60 career points (24-36–60) over 96 career regular season games with North Bay since being the club’s third round (49th overall) pick in the 2018 OHL Priority Selection.
The 2018-2019 CCHL Rookie of the Year scored eight goals and earned 14 assists for 22 points in 62 games in 2019-20 before the rest of the OHL schedule and playoffs were scrapped. He had three points, including two goals, in 12 games the previous year. During his time with OJS, Jackson recorded 54 points in 51 games, playing big minutes as a 16-year old. Jackson rose to the occasion in the playoffs scoring 13 points in 14 games to help secure the Jr. Senators’ second straight Bogart Cup. Jackson’s biggest goal of the playoffs came in the series-clinching fifth game, where he tied the game at two early in the third period. At the Fred Page Cup tournament, he tallied four points in three games as OJS captured their second straight Eastern Canadian Championship. In the National Junior A Championships, Jackson also produced at a point-per-game pace, scoring five points in five games, as OJS fell in the semi-finals to the eventual champion Brooks Bandits.
