Category: For Fans
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Special DElivery: My CCHA regular-season ‘All-Eyeball’ Team
By Darren Eliot – My impressions of the final CCHA season were varied and wide ranging. Here’s what impressed me the most: Yost Ice Arena: I love when universities opt to spruce up older facilities instead of razing them. Yost is brighter, with natural daylight streaming in during the afternoon. The video board is spectacular…
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Shaved Ice – March 8
Let the games begin. We’ve got quite the weekend ahead of us. Tonight marks the beginning of the CCHA playoffs for the final time. Here are the match-ups we’ll be following this weekend: Northern Michigan at Michigan Michigan State at Alaska Bowling Green at Lake Superior Get ready for the tournament with our CCHA playoff…
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Michi-gamer: Pride of the Mitten (Week of March 4)
Welcome to another season of MiHockey’s Michi-gamer, now powered by Bauer Hockey. 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 night, we’ll keep an…
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Photo gallery: Red Wings 3, Oilers 0
The Red Wings shut out the Edmonton Oilers 3-0 Thursday night at Joe Louis Arena. Jimmy Howard stopped 22 shots to pick up his second shutout of the season, while Jakub Kindl, Cory Emmerton and Justin Abdelkader all scored for the Wings. Can’t see the images? Click here to view the gallery through our Flickr…
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Special DElivery: Red Wings tight-checking ways lead them past Edmonton
By Darren Eliot – The Red Wings kept their tight-checking ways in tact, stifling the young Oilers burgeoning attack for yet another win at Joe Louis Arena. Detroit picked up a 3-0 win Thursday night over Edmonton, improving to 5-1-1 in their last seven contests. The Wings’ defensive mindset meant that not much happened in…
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CCHA playoffs begin for the final time
By Michael Caples – “There’s always next year.” It’s a saying used season after season, sport after sport. It’s a reminder that even if your team disappoints, in a few short (or long) months, you can forget about it and start all over. But for the Central Collegiate Hockey Association and its member schools, that…
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Shaved Ice – March 7
Red Wings vs. Oilers tonight. The Wings welcome that team with all the young talented prospects to Joe Louis Arena tonight. The Oilers are currently in 13th place in the West (the Wings are in 6th), yet they’re also only three points out of a playoff spot. Talk about a wild-and-crazy NHL season…lose one game…
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Michigan connections dominate OHL Performers of the Month list
By Michael Caples – The Ontario Hockey League announced their top performers for the month of February this week, and Michigan connections took all three spots. Saginaw Spirit forward Eric Locke was named the OHL Player of the Month for February, while Red Wings prospect Ryan Sproul was selected as the top defenseman. Meanwhile, Plymouth…
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Shaved Ice – Mar. 6
Big win for the Red Wings. The Red Wings beat the Colorado Avalanche by a score of 2-1 last night. Johan Franzen and Niklas Kronwall (courtesy of quite the bounce off the end boards) scored for the Red Wings, while Jimmy Howard’s shutout was broken by Paul Stastny at the 18:30 mark of the third…