Category: Slideshow
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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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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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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…
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Trocheck tweets that he is off to Plymouth; Bratina to Spirit
By Michael Caples – Saginaw Spirit captain Vincent Trocheck posted on Twitter this morning that he is “starting fresh” with the Plymouth Whalers. The Pittsburgh native, who won gold with Team USA at the 2013 World Juniors just last weekend, did not play in the Spirit’s 6-5 win against the Whalers last night, and there…
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NHL Board of Governors approve CBA; Bettman apologizes
The NHL announced today that their Board of Governors have unanimously approved the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, confirming that the league will begin a season later this month. “On behalf of the National Hockey League’s Board of Governors, I am pleased to report that [Wednesday] we unanimously voted to ratify a new Collective Bargaining Agreement…
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Shaved Ice – Jan. 9
Press day can’t stop us from a Shaved Ice post. We’re hard at work on the next issue of MiHockeyMag. Spoiler alert – some Michigan natives who just got back from Russia are going to be on the cover. Speaking of just getting back from Russia, we had an exclusive interview with Jacob Trouba last…