For the debut episode of Beyond the Scoreboard brought to you by True North Sports Radio, Saultsports TV’s Tony Boniferro sits down with Soo Greyhounds General Manager Kyle Raftis for an in-depth conversation on how the 2025–2026 season is shaping up. Raftis provides insight into the team’s performance to this point, the challenges and positives of the current campaign, and what lies ahead as the OHL trade deadline approaches. The discussion also touches on potential roster moves and whether fans can expect any last-minute trades in the days leading up to the deadline, offering Greyhounds supporters a behind-the-scenes look at the decision-making process beyond the final score.
About True North Sports Radio
It’s taken plenty of work, but the pieces keep settling into place for our team at True North Sports Radio. This is a chance to start and run our own sports station.
Sports are supposed to be entertainment; they are games, even when played at the highest level, meant to be fun for everyone involved. In today’s sports media world, however, that fact is often forgotten; more and more, coverage of teams, games and players devolves into an overly serious, anger-filled debate.
At True North Sports Radio, the joy associated with athletics is incorporated into how the station covers the Northern Ontario sports scene. Our on-air hosts – while possessing more than 60 years of combined experience in youth, high school, and collegiate sports, not to mention over 75+ years as athletes – certainly know the game, able to talk X’s and O’s with anyone in the business, but they also understand that fans are tuning in for a break from reality; they’re paying attention because they want to have a good time and be entertained.
So every show on True North Sports Radio is designed with one goal in mind: Be the table at the bar, with one seat reserved for each listener, where everyone wants to be sitting. It’s the group having the most-spirited conversation, enjoying the most laughs and having the most fun; it’s the gathering that everyone wants to be a part of, every day and night.
