Like everyone else, our social media timelines were littered with #BackToSchool photos. You know the ones – kids with their backpacks, either walking out the front door or waiting for the bus. We don’t have photos of Michigan’s best young hockey players wearing their velcro shoes. We do, however, have some from their youth hockey days, and we decided to pull a few for a ‘welcome back to school’ celebratory post.
All the photos from the MiHockey archives, and bear with us, we couldn’t ID every single person. If you see any players we missed, let us know – @MiHockeyNow or Facebook.com/MiHockeyNow.
Kyle Connor, Josh Jacobs and Dylan Larkin celebrating a state title
Torey Krug in the middle of his Belle Tire state-title winning squad
A Honeybaked squad featuring the likes of Tyler Motte (far right), Michael McCarron (top) and Trevor Hamilton (middle right)
Andrew Miller (far left) after he helped lead Cranbrook to a state title
Ryan Moore reading MiHockeyMag at our banquet (shameless self-promotion, we know)
Jacob Trouba, Patrick Sieloff (both on the right), Andrew Copp (middle left) and many other standouts from a young Compuware squad
Mackenzie MacEachern celebrating a high school state title with Brother Rice
Dakota Joshua (back right) at the MiHockey Banquet of Champions
Jake Chelios, Rocco Grimaldi and Vince Trocheck celebrating a state title (all along the right side)
Mike Ferrantino, Blake Pietila and Brady Vail, among others, during their Compuware days
A Honeybaked team featuring the likes of Mitch Eliot, Dylan St. Cyr, the Pastujov brothers and many others