March 20, 2026
(Photo by Nick Elder / OJHL Images)
March 20, 2026, Mississauga, ON – Maksim Corovic of the Ontario Junior Hockey League’s Collingwood Blues is the OJHL’s Top Goaltender for the 2025-26 season, the league announced today.
The award is presented to the OJHL goalie with the lowest goals-against average. Another OJHL award, Goaltender of the Year, is voted on by media representatives and OJHL general managers. It will be announced in April.
Corovic finished the season with a 1.66 GAA to go with a 0.942 save percentage, three shutouts and a record of 14-3-2-1.
The 17-year-old Stoney Creek native was ranked 24th among North American Goaltenders in mid-season rankings for this year’s NHL Draft.
The Brantford Bulldogs OHL prospect was named OJHL Goaltender of the Month for January after going 4-0-0-0 and posting a 1.58 goals-against average that was paired with a 0.947 save percentage.
Earlier this season, Corovic represented the OJHL and the Canadian Junior Hockey League (CJHL) as a member of Team Canada East at the Junior A World Challenge in Trois-Rivières, Que., and participated in the inaugural Zach Hyman OJHL Prospects Series.
The Blues finished in second place in the OJHL West and swept the first round of the playoffs. They will play the Leamington Flyers in the second round of the playoffs beginning tonight in Collingwood.
The OJHL is announcing its 2025-26 award winners throughout the first three playoff rounds.
NEXT WEEK: OJHL 1st & 2nd All-Prospect Teams and OJHL 1st & 2nd All-Star Teams
About the OJHL – “League of Choice”
The Ontario Junior Hockey League is the largest Junior ‘A’ league operating under the auspices of the Canadian Junior Hockey League, with 24 member clubs. A proud member of the CJHL and the Ontario Hockey Association, the OJHL was originally known as the Ontario Provincial Junior’ A’ Hockey League and was formed from the Central Junior ‘B’ Hockey League in 1993-94. With a long and storied history of developing players for the next level, including U SPORTS, the NCAA, CHL, minor pro ranks, and the NHL, the OJHL had more than 135 commitments in 2024-25, including 54 to NCAA Division 1 and 29 to the Ontario Hockey League. In addition, the OJHL had 39 OHL Affiliate Players who played 152 OHL games. Thirty OJHL alumni were on NHL rosters at the start of the 2025-26 season.
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