Category: For Fans
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Players, owners sign memorandum of understanding; schedule released
By Michael Caples – The NHL officially released their 2013 regular-season schedule tonight, just shortly after both the league and the players association signed a memorandum of understanding to officially end the lockout and resume league activities. Below is the Red Wings’ schedule. Detroit will play 48 games, all against Western Conference opponents. Training camp…
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Wolverines swept by Alaska Nanooks
By Matt Slovin – ANN ARBOR – In Michigan and Alaska’s last game for the foreseeable future, the Nanooks won the special-teams battle and, with it, the game, 4-1. Alaska completed its first-ever sweep over the Wolverines in the process, after having beat Michigan 5-4 Friday night. Freshman Jacob Trouba scored the lone goal for the…
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Wolverines’ struggles continue as they lose to Alaska at Yost
By Michael Caples – ANN ARBOR – The frustration level continues to mount for the Wolverines. After a disappointing showing at the Great Lakes Invitational, losses to the National Team Development Program Under-18 team and Bowling Green, the Wolverines played their first Friday night CCHA contest since Dec. 14, only to lose the Alaska Nanooks…
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Spartans shut out by Notre Dame at Munn Ice Arena
By Stefan Kubus – EAST LANSING – Spectacular goaltending by Notre Dame’s junior netminder proved to be the difference Friday night in East Lansing as the Michigan State Spartans were shut out for their second straight game. Steven Summerhays made 30 saves in a winning effort and sophomore defenseman Robbie Russo scored to give the…
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Caples: My frustration with the phrase ‘hockey is back’
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By Michael Caples – Last Sunday was a good day for hockey fans. Everybody – including yours truly – woke up to discover that the top professional hockey league was back in business. The NHL and the NHLPA had finally stopped their petty arguing, and it was time to get the show back on the…
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Shaved Ice – Jan. 11
Friday is finally here. Central Collegiate Hockey Association games are back in full swing after the holiday break. Here’s the games to watch (spoiler alert: we’ll be at Yost and Munn tonight): Lake Superior at Western Michigan Notre Dame at Michigan State Ohio State at Ferris State Alaska at Michigan Miami at Northern Michigan The…
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Michi-gamer: Pride of the Mitten (Week of Jan. 7)
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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Shaved Ice – Jan. 10
Happy Thursday, everybody. Today started off with big news about Michigan’s two Ontario Hockey League teams. Saginaw Spirit captain Vincent Trocheck tweeted that he was going to be joining the Plymouth Whalers, and it was confirmed a few hours later that he was traded between the in-state rivals, in exchange for Zach Bratina and some…
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Special DElivery: X-Factors in a shortened NHL campaign
By Darren Eliot – What took so long to end now gives way to a jiffy start, rejiggered NHL season. How can something that dragged on interminably precede a hockey hastening and awakening of startling swiftness? I’m speaking of the L-word, of course, and how after enduring NHL game deprivation, we have sensory overload as…