Category: For Fans
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Red Wings announce dual-logo warm-ups pucks that will be available for purchase during games
By @MichaelCaples – For select games this season, fans at Joe Louis Arena will be able to purchase the pucks used for warm-ups before Red Wings games. The Red Wings logo will be on one side, and the opposing team will be featured on the other for the special warm-ups pucks, and when fans…
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Recruiting: Matt Barnaby commits to Lake Superior State
By @MichaelCaples – The Lake Superior State Lakers just secured a verbal commitment from a player with a very familiar name to hockey enthusiasts. Matt Barnaby, son of the former NHLer and hockey commentator Matthew Barnaby, announced today on Twitter that he has committed to LSSU. “The coaching staff and the facilities are awesome,” he…
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Red Wings fall to Lightning in season opener
By @MichaelCaples – The Red Wings’ biggest free-agent acquisitions delivered in their first game with their new club, but it wasn’t enough for Detroit. In their 2016-17 season opener on Thursday night, the Wings fell to rival Tampa Bay by a final score of 6-4. New forwards Thomas Vanek and Frans Nielsen scored Detroit’s…
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Zach Werenski writes about making the Jackets’ opening-night roster for Columbus’ website
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By @MichaelCaples – Zach Werenski left the University of Michigan early to start his professional hockey career, but he’s still writing papers for class. Well, not class – more like his employer’s official website. Werenski, a USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program and Wolverines alum, penned a piece about the week leading up to…
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ESPN announces regular-season NCAA hockey coverage to go along with Frozen Four
By @MichaelCaples – There’s a heavy Michigan flavor in the ESPN broadcast schedule this year, as the sports network has announced its slate of regular-season NCAA games to go along with its coverage of college hockey’s national regionals and Frozen Four action. Michigan alum Sean Ritchlin will be the color commentator for the regular-season…
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NTDP alum Auston Matthews becomes first-ever player to score four goals in NHL debut
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By @MichaelCaples – Certainly didn’t take long for Auston Matthews to make his presence felt in the NHL. Twenty-two minutes into his NHL debut, he already had a hat trick. After two periods, Matthews had four goals to his name. His first game isn’t even over yet, and we’re already posting about this, because…
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List of Michigan names on NHL opening night rosters
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With the NHL’s 2016-17 season set to begin, the MiHockey team combed through each team’s opening night roster to collect all the Michigan names who have made the line-up for their respective teams. Anaheim Ducks – Ryan Kesler (Livonia; USA Hockey’s NTDP alum), Rickard Rakell (Plymouth Whalers alum), Andrew Cogliano (University of Michigan alum),…
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Red Wings announce Chevrolet Season Premiere event for home opener
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By @MichaelCaples – The Red Wings announced today the plans for the first-ever Chevrolet Season Premiere to give fans the chance to cheer on Hockeytown’s players as they walk down a red carpet before their home opener on Oct. 17. The event will take place from 4:30 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. near the East…
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Michigan natives to watch in the NHL this season (with help from NHL 17)
To build a list of some Michigan natives to watch this season, we decided to use EA Sports player cards to highlight each player. Check out what some of Michigan’s top players look like inside NHL 17, but do note that we took some liberties, and created pages for a few guys who haven’t made…
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NHL announces new concussion protocols
By @MichaelCaples – Tonight, the NHL announced the implementation of new policies and procedures to expand upon the NHL/NHLPA Concussion Protocol. The release states that it’s still an individual NHL club’s policy to identify a player who requires removal from play and evaluation for a possible concussion, the NHL and the NHLPA have reached…