Category: The Magazine
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Concussions: Knowing how to respond
By Michael Caples – The Little Caesars Amateur Hockey League held their annual Face-Off Meeting at Motor City Casino on Sept. 25 to prepare youth coaches for the upcoming season. The league directors brought in two big names from drastically different professions that had the same message for new and old hockey coaches alike. Longtime…
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Road trip to Grand Rapids
The Red Wings made a road trip to the west side of the Mitten to take part in a Red and White scrimmage at Van Andel Arena on September 27, 2011. Check out the slideshow below to see the warm welcome displayed by the folks at Hockeytown West.
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Wings Insider – Filppula adjusts to life on the left wing
By Dave Waddell – The pre-season is for tinkering, but one experiment that will survive into the regular season is the shifting of center Valtteri Filppula to left wing. Filppula has been flanking center Henrik Zetterberg on a line that also includes Johan Franzen and has responded with two goals and six points in four…
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Parents — check it out
With the youth hockey season underway, parents once again are filling rinks all over the state, complete with the too-loud hockey mom and the dad as coach using hand signals as he stands on the glass. Much of the lobby conversation has centered on the USA Hockey rule change that takes body checking out of…
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Lumberjacks ready to contend for USHL championship
By Matt Mackinder – How’s this for instant bonding? During a recent United States Hockey League preseason game, Muskegon Lumberjacks’ rookie Nick Seeler was checked from behind by a Youngstown Phantoms player. Fellow rookie Ryan Lomberg immediately came to Seeler’s defense and took care of the situation. According to Lomberg, situations like that one that…
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Spirit aim to soar to new heights
By Carl Chimenti – As the Saginaw Spirit prepare to celebrate their 10th anniversary, the team enters the 2011-12 season as serious title contenders in the Ontario Hockey League. The defending West Division champions will be raising their first championship banner during their opening weekend, and they are poised to go further than last year…
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NAHL Preview: The Michigan teams
By Matt Mackinder – The North Division underwent a revamp over the summer months, but the Michigan-heavy division should be one of the most competitive divisions in all of the North American Hockey League. Back are the Michigan Warriors, Port Huron Fighting Falcons and Traverse City North Stars, with the Motor City Metal Jackets moving…
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Stacked Plymouth squad not flying under radar
By Matt Mackinder – Before the season even started, so-called Ontario Hockey League experts pegged the Plymouth Whalers as the team to beat in the Western Conference. And with two NHL-drafted goalies, three forwards drafted in the first round by NHL clubs and every defensemen returning, how could anyone argue? Plymouth coach and GM Mike…
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7 great hockey habits
By Darren Eliot – Good Sticks (stick to the puck): All over the ice – Defensemen & Forwards Passing lanes – Defensemen & Forwards Defensive zone – lead with stick, flush, play up boards – Defensemen & Forwards Going to the net – Defensemen & Forwards 1st man on fore-check must make long pass difficult…
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A Captain, on and off the ice
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By Michael Caples – Chase Podsiad remembers where he was when he heard that the Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup this June. To any hockey player or fan, that’s like saying “yes, I remember what I just had for lunch”. But when Zdeno Chara lifted Lord Stanley’s Cup, Podsiad wasn’t sitting on his couch…