Troops, Generals meet again

NORTH BAY, Ont. — In a tightly contested regular season, there was precious little to separate the top six teams in the Ontario Hockey League’s Eastern Conference. Nine points, to be precise. The playoffs have both put an end to that logjam and vindicated the season’s results, with the top two teams, the Oshawa Generals and North Bay Battalion, about to do battle in the best-of-seven conference Championship Series for the Bobby Orr Trophy, starting at Oshawa at 7:35 p.m. Friday. It’s the third playoff meeting between the Battalion and Oshawa, all conference finals. North Bay swept a 2014 series,...