Category: Blogs
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Shaved Ice – Oct. 28
Quick hits Last night I was in the press box at Yost Ice Arena. While I enjoyed the brats and the free hockey, I also decided to write about it, you know, for the whole job thing. Here’s the recap. The No. 4 Wolverines looked impressive in their home test against the No. 6 Bulldogs.…
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Shaved Ice – Oct. 27
Quick hits Last night was the first of a few battles between the two OHL teams lucky enough to call Michigan home. The Whalers prevailed 3-2 over rival Saginaw, led by some of their NHL-drafted stars. Stefan Noesen had the game-winner, in a game where the Whalers overcame one-goal deficits two different times. Rickard Rakell…
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Shaved Ice – Oct. 26
Quick hits Sorry I didn’t pound away on my keyboard yesterday. I shaved with a regular razor, not a hockey skate, because I had a whole lot of important meetings to attend to. The Wings came out flat in Columbus last night, falling to their division rivals 4-1. Ty Conklin was in net for the…
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Shaved Ice – Oct. 24
Quick hits Take a look at our Friday night recaps here, then we’ll get you caught up for the rest of the weekend. Saturday/Sunday notes: The Wings finally lost one. It wasn’t enjoyable, either (though what losses are, I guess). Mike Green led the Capitals’ in a 7-1 win with two goals and two assists.…
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Shaved Ice – Oct. 21
Quick hits Here’s our recap from last night’s game in East Lansing, where Drew Palmisano and the Spartans picked up their first CCHA win of the season. The Spartans topped the Buckeyes 3-0, and they will try for a two-game sweep tonight. Brandon Saad ate his Wheaties yesterday. The Blackhawks prospect had four goals and…
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The Last of the Great Lines?
In this era of individual identity — even in our game of hockey, the best team sport of them all — the notion of lines with catchy nicknames seems rather quaint. It isn’t Alex Ovechkin’s line or Sidney Crosby’s trio that gets a memorable moniker; it is the player himself, as in Sid the Kid…
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Shaved Ice – Oct. 20
Quick hits Starting to feel like the Red Wings are all of a sudden a college football team? Mike Babcock and his players are starting to get restless with so many long gaps between games, says Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press. The No. 2 ranked Wolverines open their CCHA regular season on…
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Shaved Ice – Oct. 19
Quick hits Not going to lie, I’m fighting a cold today. Add in the fact we have a paper going to print as soon as possible, and I’m one stressed out editor. But I fight forward, to give you, the hockey fans of Michigan and beyond, something to read while you power through your second,…
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Shaved Ice – Oct. 18
Today, I’m writing this live from the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association fall conference in Lansing. John Kalmar (our graphic designer) and I are here to try to find some high school kids hungry to write about sports. Know anybody who would want to write about youth or high school hockey? Email me at mcaples@mihockeynow.com, I’d…
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Shaved Ice – Oct. 17
Welcome to Shaved Ice, the new daily blog for MiHockeyNow.com. Every morning, we will share a comprehensive summary of what’s happening in hockey around the Mitten – in the hopes of starting your day off right. Because let’s face it, what’s better than a little hockey in the morning? Quick hits On Friday, I had…