Only two teams in the OHL have played six games this season heading into Friday night's action. One of those two teams is currently undefeated. That team? The Windsor Spitfires. But they’re not just undefeated. They’re dominating in a way that doesn’t even seem real. 

Their biggest test to date likely is in front of them in a Saturday afternoon showdown against the Brantford Bulldogs.

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The Spits have won all six games while outscoring opponents 29-4. That’s a plus-25 goal differential in SIX games. Even more remarkable is that the club was without key players for many of those six games as some of their most critical pieces – Liam Greentree, AJ Spellacy, Jack Nesbitt – were busy at NHL training camp. That trio of NHL prospects missed the first five games of the season. Now they’re all back.

That is a problem for the rest of the OHL.

So how is Windsor doing this? And is it about to get even worse for the rest of the league? We'll probably learn a lot more about Windsor in this big contest against Brantford Saturday, but the early evidence is strong.

The Spitfires opened the season with an eight-goal barrage against Sarnia. On Thursday night, they put up six while blanking Niagara. 

Meanwhile, the Spits scoring leaderboard is varied and it’s not all the familiar names you’d expect because Greentree was at camp, and while Washington Capitals prospect Ilya Protas is eligible to return to the OHL, it appears he could at least start the season in the AHL. That’s the team’s top two scorers, who now have only played one game combined as their team lays waste to the opposition.

Heading into Friday night, veteran defenseman Carson Woodall is the team’s top producer with nine points all off of assists. Right behind him is astonishing rookie and Kazakh import Beksultan Makysh who has six goals and eight points through his first six OHL games. He is a 2026 NHL Draft eligible. Meanwhile second-year OHLer and fellow NHL Draft-eligible J-C Lemieux has seven points after putting up 19 as a rookie last season. He’s even on points with 19-year-old veteran Cole Davis who can’t seem to stop scoring goals with five through the team’s six games including a coast-to-coast beauty against Niagara that made a lot of highlight reels.

Being able to weather the storm in the early weeks of the season can be a tricky thing for any OHL team to do when many veterans are away, but Windsor did it with ease. Then you add in the nuclear firepower that you’d expect from Greentree and Nesbitt, who were among the team’s top scorers last year. Throw in an improved and more experienced top-10 NHL Draft prospect in Ethan Belchetz who already has six points and you just wonder how anyone is going to slow this team down.

The Spits trotted out a top line of Belchetz, Nesbitt and Greentree. That’s two 6-foot-5 forwards and Greentree is the “little” guy on the line at 6-foot-3. That line is bigger than pretty much every line in the NHL. 

Miraculously, perhaps, they only accounted for one goal in the 6-0 win over the IceDogs. I wouldn’t expect them to be as quiet on the scoresheet going forward.

Beyond the scoring, the team has also gotten outstanding goaltending to start the season. Joseph Costanzo has two shutouts through four starts, boasting an absurd .974 save percentage. His tandem partner Michael Newlove has a .966 mark in two starts.

One should never read too much into the small sample of the early season. There is bound to be a few hiccups along the way, but when you see the numbers this team is putting up before it even had its best players at its disposal, it’s hard not to get excited. The best certainly looks like it is yet to come for an OHL side that looks as formidable as any in junior hockey. 

Saturday's game against Brantford is set for 4 p.m. ET

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