Category: For Fans
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Compuware Arena ice surface painted pink for breast cancer awareness game
By @MichaelCaples – When the Plymouth Whalers host the Kingston Frontenacs on Saturday night for their seventh annual ‘Pink Out! for Breast Cancer Awareness’ game, the ice at Compuware Arena is going to look at a little different. The OHL club has painted their ice surface pink in preparation for the game, which you can…
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Hockey leads all sports in NCAA graduation rate
By @MichaelCaples – The NCAA has announced their yearly report on graduation rates for all collegiate sports, and this time around, hockey leads the way. NCAA men’s hockey earned the best single-year graduation rate of all D1 men’s sports in the latest NCAA Graduation Success Rate date. Measuring student-athletes who enrolled in 2007, 92.1 percent…
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Dylan Larkin named Big Ten’s second star of the week
By @MichaelCaples – The Big Ten announced their stars of the week today, and Dylan Larkin was on the list. Larkin, a University of Michigan freshman forward and Detroit Red Wings’ first-round pick, recorded a goal and three assists in the Wolverines’ 8-4 win over No. 7 UMass Lowell Friday night. He followed that performance up…
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2014 Under-17 Four Nations Tournament coming to Ann Arbor this December
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By @MichaelCaples – Some of the best players in the world will be invading the Ann Arbor Ice Cube in December. The U.S. National Team Development Program will be playing host for the 2014 Under-17 Four Nations Tournament this December, as their U17 Team will take on squads from Russia, Slovakia and Switzerland. The…
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Power-play woes damper Red Wings’ start to 2014-15
By Dave Waddell – As the first month of the season nears an end, the Detroit Red Wings (4-2-2) aren’t what we thought they’d be. The question marks were supposed to swirl around their defense and whether goalie Jimmy Howard would return to all-star form. The given was supposed to be the Wings’ group…
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Jakub Kindl’s Halloween Instagram photo is awesome
By @MichaelCaples – Detroit Red Wings defenseman Jakub Kindl shared one fantastic Halloween photo on Instagram this afternoon. We can easily identify three of the four Wings members in the photo…anybody know who the third from the left is?
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Michi-gamer: Pride of the Mitten (Week of Oct. 27, 2014)
Welcome to another season of MiHockey’s Michi-gamer! We take great pride in our homegrown talent. Whether they grew up in the Mitten or we welcomed them here for college or juniors, they are our own. They represent the best place in the world for hockey. Every morning, we pick one Michi-gamer from the previous night’s slate of games…
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Michigan Tech shuts out Ferris State Friday night in Big Rapids
By Nick Barnowski – BIG RAPIDS – The Michigan Tech Huskies moved to 3-0 in WCHA play after defeating No. 8 Ferris State 1-0 Friday night at Ewigleben Ice Arena. Senior Blake Pietila’s goal 19 seconds into the third period broke a scoreless tie and earned the Huskies (3-0-0, 3-0-0 WCHA) a win on the road. “I…
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Wild third period leads to Red Wings’ overtime win over Penguins
By Stefan Kubus – DETROIT – Despite an abysmal start Thursday night, Detroit exemplified the phrase ‘playing until the buzzer sounds’ with its showing at Joe Louis Arena. Fueled by a two-goal, three-point game from defenseman Niklas Kronwall, a three-point game from captain Henrik Zetterberg and an overtime game-winner from Muskegon native Justin Abdelkader, the Red…
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PHOTOS: Red Wings vs. Penguins
The Detroit Red Wings scored twice in the final 2:39 of regulation to force a regulation tie with the Pittsburgh Penguins Thursday night at Joe Louis Arena, before Muskegon native Justin Abdelkader scored the game-winning goal in overtime for the home team. Here are the first batch of photos from the wild come-from-behind victory, which…