Category: Slideshow
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Red Wings announce promotional schedule for 2014-15 season
By @MichaelCaples – The Detroit Red Wings announced their promotional schedule for the 2014-15 season today, and there are plenty of things to circle on your calendar if you’re planning on heading down to The Joe this year. Here’s a full breakdown: Oct. 9 vs. Boston – Opening Night & 2014-15 Magnet Schedule Giveaway…
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Motte sets up Larkin for game-winner in first WJEC international game
By @MichaelCaples – The top players USA Hockey has to offer for the upcoming World Junior championship are competing for roster spots in Lake Placid this week, and a few Michigan Wolverines wasted no time establishing themselves. With Team USA’s ‘Blue Team’ taking on Finland in the first day of international competition at the…
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Video: Michigan native has stick broken over her head in international girls tournament
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UPDATE (August 4, 1:30 p.m.): Congrats to the West Coast Selects Team, who captured gold in their international tournament. By @MichaelCaples – Video out of Budapest, Hungary from Michigan natives shows a terrible scene during a girls’ hockey game, and yet another reminder that dangerous outbursts on the ice shouldn’t be tolerated. The video below…
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New ownership turns abandoned Flint-area ice rink into new Crystal Fieldhouse
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By @MichaelCaples – It’s not going to be easy, but they’re going for it. Vince Brooks, former vice president of Perani’s Hockey World, is the general manager of the new Crystal Fieldhouse, an ice arena in Genesee County. Not familiar with the Crystal Fieldhouse name? It used to be the Ice Mountain Arena Complex, a…
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Talking Griffins, Red Wings and Korean hockey with Jim Paek
By Pat Evans – GRAND RAPIDS – When Jim Paek first went back to South Korea in 1982, there was hardly a national team. The team was second tier, nowhere close to competing with top national programs. Still, Paek, who was born in Seoul, South Korea but grew up in Toronto, kept tabs on…
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Hockey Jobs: How Keith Perera went from working at a Cali hockey shop to being brand manager for Warrior Hockey
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By @MichaelCaples – WARREN – Keith Perera might have been born in Montreal, but for the last six years he’s been living in Michigan and working for one of hockey’s fastest growing companies. It’s in that journey from Montreal to the Mitten, however, where Warrior’s brand manager for hockey built a playbook for on…
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MiHockey’s ‘The Shift’ with Zach Nagelvoort
Welcome to MiHockey’s new feature ‘The Shift’ – hockey questions for hockey players. In each ‘The Shift’ feature, we take you through the mindset of today’s hockey player through a question-and-answer session, profiling players from the NHL all the way down to youth travel hockey. MORE: See more ‘The Shift’ features here Our next featured player is…
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Red Wings announce two assistant coach hires in Jim Hiller and Andrew Brewer
By @MichaelCaples – The Red Wings have rounded out their assistant coaching positions, it appears. Detroit announced today the hirings of Jim Hiller and Andrew Brewer as the club’s new assistant coaches. The pair will be joining head coach Mike Babcock and recently hired assistant coach Tony Granato on the Wings’ staff list this fall.…
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Purple Heart Required: Michigan Warriors Hockey Program offers ice time for disabled veterans
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By @MichaelCaples – ROYAL OAK – Cory Snedden needed his right ankle put back together after he was hit by a mortar in Iraq. That didn’t stop him from lacing up skates and giving hockey a try for the first time on July 15. Snedden, 32, attended a Michigan Warriors practice that day, where he…
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Photos: CCM Skills Camp 2014 at Compuware Arena
CCM Hockey held their third annual CCM Skills Camp at Compuware Arena in Plymouth on July 26-27, inviting some of the top youngsters in Michigan and the surrounding areas to train like a pro for a day while getting to test out new products. (Photos by Michael Caples/MiHockey)