Answers - Game 1

Here’s a quick look at the first game through the questions I asked about the team last night. The Red Wings obviously won 3-1.
5. How will Brad Stuart perform for the Wings?
Stuart had a strong game as the second defensive pairing looked great. He even got some time on the second power play […]

Billy Sauer backstops Wolverines to Frozen Four

Ask any Michigan hockey fan their biggest concern heading into this upcoming season and it was netminder Billy Sauer. The junior netminder really struggled during the 2006-07 campaign, allowing 3.03 goals per game and stopping only 89.6% of the shots he faced. There wasn’t anything in his body of work to that point […]

CCHA flexes muscles on opening night

Four games were played on the opening night of the college hockey tournament and all three CCHA teams that played won. Scratch that, as they didn’t just win - they dominated. They outscored their opponents 15-5. The Michigan Wolverines slowly wore down Niagara as they scored zero goals in the first, two […]

Michigan 2, Ohio 0

Hockey dominance against the Buckeye State

The battle between the states has been most visible and heavily covered in what is likely the greatest rivalry in sports: the University of Michigan and Ohio State matchup at the end of the Big Ten football season. The evil genius Jim Tressell has put a stranglehold on that […]

Thoughts on Michigan Hoops and Hockey

I don’t comment much on the Michigan Basketball or Hockey teams because I don’t get to catch their games very often. But with the basketball team doing this weird thing where they actually win Big Ten games late in the season I felt it was necessary to express my support for this newly-formed habit […]

Thoughts on U of M Hockey

I went to both games over the weekend and the Wolverines pulled out the sweep. I thought they looked more dominant against Wisconsin than they did against Minnesota, although the huge amount of specialty teams play due to a plethora of slashing penalties might have been the reason why the score was closer.
Michigan was […]

Random thoughts on the Detroit Sports scene

Lots of stuff going on so I decided to write one post to give my take on each topic.

University of Michigan Football

I found all of the sniping and griping following the Michigan-Michigan State game to be as profoundly boring as - well - Mike DeBord’s offense. It’s times like this that I’m glad I […]

Grigs off to slow start, Kopy looking good at Center

Red squared: Berenson rocks the Winged Wheel again
Photo: Detroit News

There are numerous reports that Igor Grigorenko has looked completely out of shape at training camp. He’ll get a long look given this is his make or break year as far as sticking with the team but right now he isn’t impressing the team at […]

US under-18 Sqaud playing in 4th straight Gold Medal game today

The United States under-18 hockey team plays Russia today for the opportunity to win their third straight Gold medal.
USA Hockey.com article

James vanRiemsdyk (Middletwon, N.J.) scored his second goal of the night and Josh Unice (Toledo, Ohio) stopped all three of Canada’s shootout attempts to lead the U.S. National Under-18 Team past Canada, 4-3, at the […]

TJ Hensick shut out of Hobey Baker Hat Trick

Today the Hobey Baker Foundation announced the three finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award. The big surprise was that TJ Hensick wasn’t included:

The Hobey Baker Foundation on Wednesday announced the three Hobey Hat Trick finalists for the 2007 Hobey Baker Memorial Award, honoring college hockey’s top player. Alphabetically, they are: David […]

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