Category: Western Michigan Broncos

Western Michigan and Michigan Tech squared off in the 2013 Great Lakes Invitational championship game. The Broncos prevailed 1-0 in overtime. (Photos by Tom Turrill/MiHockey)

By Stefan Kubus – DETROIT – Western Michigan will get an opportunity at redemption Saturday evening, as they will face Michigan Tech in the Great Lakes Invitational Championship for the second-straight year, hoping to avoid a repeat of last year’s 4-0 loss. The Broncos defeated the No. 3 Michigan Wolverines in their GLI semifinal Friday evening, a…

Michigan and Western Michigan played in the late game of a Friday doubleheader at Comerica Park in the first day of the Great Lakes Invitational. (First set of photos by Jen Hefner/MiHockey, second set of photos by Tom Turrill/MiHockey)

By Nick Barnowski –  DETROIT – Western Michigan practiced at Comerica Park on Thursday afternoon as a warmup to Friday night’s game against the University of Michigan. It will be the first outdoor game in WMU program history, and head coach Andy Murray said he and his players are more than looking forward to the…

MiHockey went inside Western Michigan’s Saturday night contest with North Dakota – check out the pictures from Lawson. (Photos by Amanda O’Toole/MiHockey)

By Sam O’Toole –  KALAMAZOO – After a high intensity battle Friday night that ended in a loss, the Western Michigan University Broncos looked to pick up two crucial points in National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) play. Yet Western Michigan (6-7-3) was unable to do so on Saturday at Lawson Ice Arena, as they fell…

By Sam O’Toole – KALAMAZOO – After a third-place finish at the Shillelagh Tournament in South Bend, Ind., last weekend, the Western Michigan Broncos fell to North Dakota 3-2 after giving up a two power play goals Friday night. Sophomores Nolan Laporte and Josh Pitt scored the two Bronco goals in the game.  Frank Slubowski…

The Western Michigan Broncos visited former their former CCHA rivals the Michigan State Spartans on Friday, Nov. 22 in East Lansing. Click here to read MiHockey’s recap from the game. (Photos by Michael Caples/MiHockey)

  By Alyssa Girardi – EAST LANSING — Former CCHA opponents Michigan State and Western Michigan took the ice against each other for the first time since the league’s disbandment at the end of the 2012-13 season. The teams played the first half of a home-and-home series Friday at Munn Ice Arena, in which Western…