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Hope you survived your commute if you had to drive somewhere this morning. Quick hits If you manage to stay awake for it, the Wings are taking on the Coyotes in Phoenix tonight. Puck drops at 9:00 p.m. EST. With two points separating the Wings, the Blackhawks, and the Blues, every game is crucial for…

Good evening, hockey fans.  Seeing that this is the first time since taking over as editor that we’ve put out issues of the magazine in back-to-back weeks, Shaved Ice is a little late today – my apologies. Quick Hits Since the Red Wings hit the road last night, I was able to get off the…

Welcome back, everybody. Quick hits In the final stop of my weekend of hockey madness, I drove down to Joe Louis Arena last night to cover the latest chapter in the battle of the Miller brothers. Fortunately for the Red Wings (and unfortunately for Ryan Miller), it was a pretty one-sided affair. Detroit jumped all…

When the NHL announced realignment, all of us here in Detroit got excited.  Turns out not everyone shared our enthusiasm. Still, when the Board of Governors voted 26-4 in favor of the radical proposal, most believed it was a done deal – even with six divisions becoming four conferences, the east/west divide becoming unbalanced at…

Oh, what a weekend… Quick hits Well if you were keeping up with our website this weekend – or following us on Twitter – you would know that I covered a whole lotta hockey. Here’s a quick breakdown, because it also wraps up hockey in the state for the weekend: Friday – I traveled up…

My apologies on the lack of a blog post yesterday. As Darren Eliot pointed out, the title should be changed to ‘Shamed Ice’. Sometimes, as you’re driving to the National Team Development Program to work on feature articles for an upcoming issue of the magazine, you realize that there aren’t enough hours in the day,…

Welcome back, hockey fans. Quick hits Jack Johnson must have known that today would be one of those slow news mornings that wouldn’t give me much to fill the blog with, because he the made sure to give me something to write about. The former Michigan Wolverine beat Tomas Vokoun five-hole last night – for…

Good morning, everyone. Did you save me some coffee? Quick hits The Red Wings visited their old friends in Chicago yesterday, and they left with a 3-2 overtime victory. Pavel Datsyuk scored from an impossible angle by using Nick Leddy as a backboard to break the tie 3:08 into the extra period. Dan Cleary and…