It’s a match Windsor native Frank Evola cannot lose. 

It’s a match Windsor native Frank Evola cannot lose.

Evola spent nine years with the Windsor Spitfires and his fingerprints are all over a Windsor roster that boasts the best record in the Ontario Hockey League.

He left the club in June to become general manager of the Niagara IceDogs, who have undergone a major reconstruction in just a few months. He makes his first trip back to the WFCU Centre on Thursday with a Niagara squad that sats in first place in the Central Division.

The road to the top

The 52-year-old Evola got his start in the OHL as a scout with the Oshawa Generals in 2007 and eventually moved on to become the team’s director of scouting.

Former Spitfires’ general manager Warren Rychel brought him on board as the team’s director of scouting in 2016 and he eventually added