The Soo Thunderbirds have announced today that they have acquired free agent defenseman Joe Newhouse.
The 1997 birth year defenseman from Thunder Bay, Ontario, who stands 6’1 inches tall and 210 lbs, scored five times and set up twenty others through fifty six games with the SIJHL’s Thunder Bay North Stars last season along with a team leading seventy one penalty minutes
The former member of the Thunder Bay Kings Minor Midget AAA club, also played four games at the OHL Cup during 2012-2013, and recorded two assists and six penalty minutes through five games at the OGC-16 for Team HNO.