Major Juniors in Action

There may be a lockout in the NHL but that doesn't mean there is no hockey.

The junior league season kicked off over the weekend with the WHL, OHL and QMJHL all in action.

Tyler Biggs, a first-round pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2011, made an instant impact with the Oshawa Generals – getting his first fighting major 7:33 into the second period of his first OHL game.

Despite the OHL introducing suspensions for any players getting into 10 or more fights in a season, London Knights' Russian defenceman Nikita Zadorov wasted no time getting his first two out of the way tangling with Erie's Johnny McGuire and Guelph's Ryan Horvat.

In the WHL, Keegan Lowe, taken by Carolina Hurricanes in the third round in 2011, starting the season with a Gordie Howe hat-trick for Edmonton Oil Kings against Kootenay Ice, dropping the gloves with Jeff Hubic in the second.