Category: Slideshow
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Update: Merrill suffered broken vertebra in last night’s exhibition game
By Michael Caples – University of Michigan coach Red Berenson announced today that defenseman Jon Merrill suffered a broken seventh vertebra during the Wolverines’ exhibition win over Windsor last night. Berenson was quoted by the Michigan Daily as saying that the bone was cracked, but not displaced, and that the Brighton native’s neck will need…
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Carrick experiences Plymouth Whalers’ annual hair-dying tradition for first time
By Michael Caples- CANTON – As a rookie in the Ontario Hockey League, Connor Carrick is adjusting to a new team, a new home building, and a new pace of play. Now he will also have to adjust to having pink hair. The 18-year-old defenseman and National Team Development Program alum experienced one of the…
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Spartans top Windsor 6-1 in exhibition opener
By Michael Caples – EAST LANSING – Coach Tom Anastos started off his post-game press conference sharing a text message from Torey Krug. “Coach, good job on audition,” Anastos read. “I watched online. Boys looked good. Your mustache looked good, uniforms looked good.” Then Anastos commented, “He would have looked good on the blue line.”…
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Grand Rapids Griffins come to Yost, win 4-2
By Michael Caples – ANN ARBOR – It was a bit unusual to look up from the Yost Ice Arena press box and see a team dressed in red and white on the home bench. The unfamiliarity didn’t seem to bother the players on the ice, however. The Grand Rapids Griffins concluded their preseason with…
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Wolverines kick season off with Blue/White game, fan skate
By Michael Caples – ANN ARBOR – In a final tune-up before their 2012-13 season, the Wolverines took on some of their own – both past and present. The Wolverines hosted their Blue/White Alumni Game Sunday afternoon, a game in which the current roster battled against each other, along with some help from Michigan alums…
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Mrazek ready for new challenge with Griffins
By Kyle Kujawa – Not many 19-year-old goaltenders have the chance to hear their name chanted by a crowd of 20,000 people. Even fewer get that chance while representing their country on one of hockey’s biggest stages. You can forgive Petr Mrazek if he seemed a little excited. “Everyone asks me about that,” said Mrazek.…
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Leadership group taking form for the Wolverines
By Matt Slovin – ANN ARBOR – If you ask Michigan coach Red Berenson, his three leaders this season — captain A.J. Treais and alternate captains Lee Moffie and Mac Bennett — fall in three different places on the leadership spectrum. And Berenson, beginning his 29th season at the helm, is quite alright with that.…
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Special DElivery: Is it time to reassess the structure of midget hockey?
By Darren Eliot – When I was growing up playing youth hockey, there was a category called “Juvenile”, which in and of itself brings to mind how hockey age groups ever got their names in the first place. I mean, when you think about it, Mite, Squirt, Peewee, Bantam and Midget (throw in Atom and…