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Quick hits Team USA made a round of cuts at the 2012 USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp, and there are still eight Michigan connections on the roster. Longtime Detroit Red Wings PA announcer Budd Lynch celebrated his 95th birthday yesterday. Yesterday, Detroit announced the signing of 19-year-old prospect Tomas Jurco to a three-year entry-level contract. Jurco…

Quick hits Today, the 2012 USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp continues, where the first games against European competition kick off. USA Blue takes on FInland at 1 p.m., and USA White plays Sweden at 4:30 p.m. The WCHL’s Michigan Mustangs went 5-0 to make it to the 2012 North American PowerHockey Cup championship game…

MiHockey’s Stefan Kubus here with you to celebrate another Friday. Quick hits Four out of the famous “Russian Five” – Igor Larionov, Slava Fetisov, Sergei Fedorov, and Vladimir Konstantinov – have committed to playing in the Alumni Showdown during the SiriusXM Hockeytown Winter Festival at Comerica Park this coming December. Paging Slava Kozlov? A recent…

Ryan Zuke and Ben Fleck here with you on this Thursday morning. Quick hits The NCAA announced yesterday that hand passes will not be allowed anywhere on the ice, among other rule changes for all of college hockey. Six Michigan natives have been selected for the CCM/USA Hockey All-American Prospects Game, set to take place…

Stefan Kubus here with you to help kick off your August with the daily MiHockey dish. Quick hits The Detroit Red Wings have signed a two-year affiliation agreement with the Toledo Walleye of the ECHL. The CCHA announced the league’s schedule today. See it all right here. Red Wings netminder Jimmy Howard donated money to…

MiHockey’s Ryan Zuke here with you on this Tuesday morning to talk some hockey. Quick hits USA Hockey announced yesterday that the Orchard Lake United Hockey Association (OLUHA) will be the first USA Hockey Model Association Program in the entire United States. The Detroit News has reported that Jon Merrill will return to Ann Arbor…

MiHockey’s Stefan Kubus here to help alleviate the Monday blues with the daily hockey dish. Quick hits The University of Nebraska-Omaha has announced that assistant coach Brian Renfrew has accepted a scouting position with the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets. Renfrew spent the 2011-12 season with UNO, but had spent the previous eight seasons at Michigan State. The…

MiHockey’s Michael Caples here with you on a Friday afternoon. Quick hits The Red Wings hosted their youth hockey camp this week, and the young players got to skate with Muskegon native Justin Abdelkader for one of the days. Here is MiHockey’s feature article on the subject. Phoenix captain Shane Doan is looking for a…

  MiHockey’s Ben Fleck with you on this gloomy afternoon. Quick hits TSN is reporting that Russian forward Alex Semin is off the market; the former Capitals star has signed a one-year deal with the Carolina Hurricanes. Have you pressed the panic button yet, Red Wings fans? Tell us on our Facebook page…we actually posted…