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January 2011
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League Play Ends
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Travel League Play Begins
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Make-up Days
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Initial House Alignments Posted
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Travel Alignment Meetings
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Post Playoff Pools and Schedules
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House Alignment Appeals
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Start of League Playoffs First Round Robin
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House Scheduling Begins
February 2011
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Face-Off Meeting at Motor City Casino & Conference Center
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Playoff Quarters and Semis
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House League Play Begins
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Over 500 coaches and team managers attended the 2010 LCAHL Face-Off Meeting on September 26 at the Motor City Casino Hotel in Detroit.
Also thank you to Detroit Red Wings head coach Mike Babcock (with from left Communications Director Lisa Zarzycki and League Secretary Carrie Camrat) who took time out from his busy schedule to be the event’s guest speaker.
Thank you to all the LCAHL Directors and Volunteers who helped make everything run smoothly, the vendors who attended and the Breakout Session presenters’ Brian Secord, Laura Ramus and Bob Mancini. Travel Director Laurie Golden Birchler (left) watches as Jeff Anderson fills out a raffle ticket.
Table of Contents November 1, 2010, Volume 21 : Issue 7 AMATEUR HOCKEY REPORT
Two Novi Ice Cats teams go Pink!
SPEAKING OF HOCKEY
What do you want most for Christmas?
GET BETTER
Playing with speed
STATE OF THE GAME By Lyle Phair
Recognizing Good Coaching
TRAINING TABLE
Brandon Naurato launches Hockeytrainingfromthepros.com
YOUTH LEAGUE STANDINGS
LCAHL House Divisions Tier I Elite Hockey League
HOMETOWN HERO
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REEBOK TOURNAMENT CALENDAR
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TOP COLLEGE PROSPECTS JUNIOR HOCKEY
NAHL Report: Chicago’s Albrecht playing well in hometown Whalers’ Robbie Czarnik back in Plymouth Saginaw’s depth helps them hit top of OHL
Top College Prospects Michigan players get ready to make the jump to campus
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Westland’s Mike Modano
Michigan players prepare for campus Ann Arbor-based NTDP continues to produce top players
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RED WINGS AND NHL INSIDERS
Dave Waddell: Dan Cleary happy to be healthy again Kevin Allen: Changes could be coming to overtime and shootouts
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BOYS HIGH SCHOOL PREVIEW
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20th Anniversary Season MH celebrates 20 years with a look at 1990
Holiday Gift Guide For your player, coach and fan
Red Wings Insider Dan Cleary is healthy again
Our annual Boys High School Preview will take an early look at prep teams across the state. The issue will also include a feature the growth of ACHA club collegiate hockey around the state, Hometown Hero David Legwand and a look back at 1991 to celebrate our 20th season of Michigan Hockey. Look for it on arena stands, on michiganhockeyonline.com and in your e-mail In Box on November 19. Advertising copy for the next issue of MH is due on November 10. Contact Lucia Zuzga at (248) 479-1134 or lucia@ michiganhockeyonline.com or Philip Colvin at (248) 479-1136 or phil@michiganhockeyonline.com for more information.
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In the fall of 1990, George H.W. Bush was in the middle of his only term as U.S. President, the Edmonton Oilers where the reigning Stanley Cup champions and the first issue of Michigan Hockey Magazine hit the stands. Since that first 20-page black and white issue, we’ve changed sizes and shortened our name, developed a statewide free distribution network, switched to an all-color format and introduced a digital version available via e-mail and our website: michiganhockeyonline.com. And now 488 issues later we’re celebrating our 20th anniversary with a year-by-year look back at the people, milestones and top stories of the last 20 years of Michigan Hockey, starting in this issue with the year 1990 (pages 20-21). Also in this issue is the first installment of LCAHL House Division (page 14) and Tier I Elite Hockey League (page 16) standings. Standings for LCAHL Travel Divisions and the Adray Community Hockey League will be in our next issue. Our Holiday Gift Guide, which has some ideas to help you shop for your player, coach or fan on your list is on page 22. Our annual Top College Prospects list (page 30) is again chocked-full of talented players from the state who are getting ready to make the jump to campus. And we also take a look at the prospects on the Ann Arbor-based NTDP Under-18 Team (page 31), most of which have made college commitments and will be drafted by NHL teams next summer. In addition, a feature on where some of our past Top College Prospects are playing is in our “Only on the Web” section at michiganhockeyonline.com. If you have any ideas for stories for our 20th Anniversary series, or want to share a favorite hockey memory from the past 20 years, please send me an e-mail (phil@ michiganhockeyonline.com) or give me call (248-479-1136).
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Thanks and see you at the rink,
CSHL Showcase at Ice Mountain a big success
Cover: Washington’s Austin Czarnik courtesy of Green Bay Gamblers. Photos at left: (from top, L to R): Plymouth’s Cason Hohmann of the USHL’s Cedar Rapids Rough Riders; Chicago’s Jonathan Towes in EA Sports NHL 11 and Red Wings Dan Cleary by Scott Smith/Michigan Hockey.
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Do everything with speed In his 13 years in the NHL, Vancouver Canucks assistant coach Newell Brown has seen how teams with lots of speed are dangerous to play against. “Speed can intimidate your opponent because it puts them back on their heels and forces the defensemen to give up space,” he said. To help develop that team speed, players have to practice handling the puck and making plays at top speed all the time. “A lot of players can skate fast without the puck but the moment the puck hits their stick, they lose speed,” he said. “Getting players to move quickly with and without the puck is very beneficial. “Players have to learn proper skating technique but finding a comfort zone and doing things at high speed with the puck is really important.” Coaches can incorporate skating and puckhandling into practice in many ways: crossovers, tight turns, pivots, passing and receiving the puck without breaking stride, receiving a pass coming out of a turn, receiving a pass after a quick start, shooting the puck in stride, making quick lateral shifts from right to left and left to right. The goal is to get players to move their feet as fast as they can at all times and become comfortable handling the puck. Work on doing tight turns around cones and crossovers around the circles. And pivoting forward to backward and crossing their feet over (two quick crosses to the left, two quick crosses to the right) are all things to incorporate into practice. Your players might fail by falling down but that’s part of the learning process. Acknowledge that they’re going to fall but that’s the fun of it and to get back up and keep going.
MAKE IT FUN Brown also believes it is also important to incorporate fun into the learning environment. A coach can incorporate competitive skating into practice by setting up races for loose pucks, especially where a shot on goal is the reward. Add cones and have players do tight turns around two cones and race toward the middle of the ice for the loose puck. Or have two players play one-on-one inside the circle, using the circle as a boundary. The drill is continuous one-on-one high speed maneuvering in tight spaces where they are using their feet, hands, and stick.
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Making plays with the puck at full speed takes practice and is an important skill at all levels.
The reward the players after a fifteen or twenty second burst is the player with the puck gets to try to score and the other player has to defend. With young players the resistance should be minimal on drills because they provide their own self-resistance when learning. “Young kids get a charge out of making a deke and getting a shot on goal,” said Brown. “That is big time success to them. It is important to reward them. Even if the reward is a shot on goal.” As players get older and more skilled, the resistance of their drills can be increased so that a player has to think on the ice. And older players should be carrying the puck in a “puck protection mode” when making tight turns. Their bodies should always be between the puck and the checker. Provide resistance so the player can’t telegraph his pass but instead has to read and react to the situation. “The best players are able to think and be creative on the ice,” said Brown. “When one of options is cut off, the best players have already thought of the next one.” In the end if a player’s skating skills are strong, then the rest of the game becomes much easier. And the more skilled your players are, the more fun they will have.
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November 1, 2010, Volume 21 : Issue 7
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Hometown: Commerce Township Level: Farmington Hills Fire ‘00 Years coaching: 3 Why do you coach?: I love being involved with the kids and see them develop. It’s a great game. Most memorable moment: Last spring we played a game with seven skaters and we had the kids play different positions and they really bought in. Coaching philosophy: Focus on player development, make the game fun and wins don’t matter. Coach you admire: He wasn’t a coach, but I always liked Steve Yzerman. He was all business on the ice and he did whatever he could to make the team better. One thing you would change: Maybe split the season into two halves. Play the first half and then restack everyone and play a second half. Already this season there are teams that have scored 40 goals and given up one in their division.
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RECOGNIZING GOOD COACHING The horserace that is the youth hockey season is just reaching the quarter pole. Some teams have jumped out into an early lead. Others have settled back into the pack. And some have stumbled out of the gate and fallen well back, which might be cause to wonder if they were entered in the right race to begin with. But at the quarter pole, there is still plenty of race left, plenty of time. A lot can happen between now and the finish line. Depending on the horses and, maybe more importantly, how the jockeys handle those horses. As the quarter pole is the first unit of measure, now is when coaches start to assess and analyze their teams. It is also a time when parents will begin to assess and analyze the coaches of those teams. And that can sometimes be a little dangerous and misguided depending on the approach. How exactly does a parent recognize what is good and what might not be so good about what the coaches are doing with a team? Are we that attentive at practices and games to watch what is happening on the ice and on the bench in terms of interaction between players and coaches? Are we even capable as parents of recognizing good coaching and what might not be good coaching based on our experience (or lack of) with the game? Or do we simply measure good coaching based on the win-loss record and the position in the standings? There are plenty of excellent youth hockey coaches on the ice and behind the bench at all levels of play. Some of them have very little experience playing hockey. But they might have an infectious personality and be great working with and communicating with kids to create a positive experience. Others might look like they could be great coaches and actually may have been or still are great players, wheeling around the ice in practice firing pucks off the glass and impressing the parents with their serious skills. But are they doing any coaching?
A RECIPE FOR SUCCESS As we know, perception can very easily be confused with reality. If you want to be perceived as a good coach, here is your recipe for success. Spend a lot of time recruiting all of the best players to your team so you have the best team in your age group. Or if you are coaching in a house league, make sure you do whatever you can to pick all of the best players to stack your team. In some cases at the travel level, you won’t even have to spend any time recruiting. Once you have a good team, the best players will come to you. Then all you will need to do is cut the players who have played for you previously because they aren’t as good as the new players.
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Once you have a stacked team, be sure to play your better players way more than the weaker players (even on a stacked team there will be players weaker than the better players). Understand that the players really do matter. Well, the better players do anyway. Ride those horses into the ground. They will make or break you. Don’t risk your reputation and put the weaker players on the ice at an important juncture in the game. Don’t worry about giving them experience and opportunity to see what they can do in the event that you might really need them at some point in the season. Put your top dogs out whenever you can, especially on power plays, penalty killing, and the first and last minute of each period. Fill in wherever needed with the other players, but only to give the best players a quick break. Never give the weaker players the chance to let you down. Be sure to get the most mileage you can from your top players. Don’t spend any time teaching them how to interact with their teammates. Tell them not to pass the puck. The weaker players will just lose it anyway. Exploit your stars and make sure they play an individual game and go end-to-end whenever they can. If they don’t actually learn how to play hockey as a team game it doesn’t matter. Once you have earned your reputation as a winning coach the better players from other teams will come to your team. There is no shortage of players and parents who want to be part of a winning team with great coaching. Don’t worry about coaching any of your players. Use them as needed until you can replace them.
A DIFFERENT APPROACH Unfortunately, there are some coaches who operate that way. Sadly, there are some parents who actually think they are good coaches. If you want to actually be a good youth hockey coach you will need to take a different approach. The journey might be a little bumpier but it will be a lot more enjoyable. First of all you will need to detach yourself from your ego. If you want to make it all about you, then you should definitely not coach kids. Go and play in an adult league where you can be the star or play in a fantasy league where you can get satisfaction in making all of the right moves that the NHL coaches and GM’s just can’t seem to make. If you can park your ego, you might be ready to coach kids. But you have to be willing to accept that your role is to coach the kids, all of the kids, and not take advantage of them. As John F. Kennedy (I think he was the first coach of the Capitals) once said, “Ask not what your players can do for you, but what you can do for your players.” Or something along those lines. A good coach strives for improvement in all of the players on the team. A good coach takes pride in the improvement in all players on the team. Good coaches provide the opportunity for all players to play in all situations. How would you know how a player will react in a situation if they are never given the chance? How do players have a chance to learn and improve from experience if never given the opportunity? Good coaches don’t wait for the opportunity to replace their weaker players at the next tryout. They coach those players to give them the chance to improve so they are not longer a “weaker player”. Good coaches don’t exploit the advantages that the early maturing kids enjoy, being bigger and stronger and faster than most of the others. Good coaches know that at some point, nature evens the playing field and the others catch up. If the early maturing players aren’t taught how to play the game properly and rely solely on the early physical gifts they received, they will quickly be passed by. How is allowing that to happen considered good coaching? But most of all, good coaches know and understand that an approach that allows for harmony in the short-term (what is best for the team) and in the long-term (what is best for individual players) is much, much, more important than coach-term (what is best for the coach’s reputation).
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Fort Wayne Komets forward Brandon Naurato grew up playing in the Livonia Hockey Association and the Compuware Hockey Club before attending Novi Detroit Catholic Central and playing for the Shamrocks. Naurato worked hard to get stronger and improve his skills and went on to play four years at the University of Michigan. During his summer off-seasons, Naurato searched for high-end training on the web but couldn’t find the information and direction he was looking for. So he decided to do it himself. Naurato tabbed former Wolverine teammates now playing pro hockey and has developed a seven-part training system available at the website: HockeyTrainingfromthePros.com. “Growing up I was fed the wrong information,” he said. “Hockey Training from the Pros was strategically developed to guide players at every level to achieve their individual goals and reach their maximum hockey potential.” Hockey Training from the Pros includes strength and conditioning workouts, stretching routines, a comprehensive nutritional guide and, perhaps the most insightful part – in-depth audio interviews with “the pros”, Naurato’s former teammates, opponents and coaches who speak from experience. After playing with several current and future NHL regulars at Michigan, Naurato knew that while he had some advice to offer aspiring players, his greatest strength was his connection to the guys who have made it to hockey’s highest level, as well as fitness and nutritional experts he has been exposed to in his career. Naurato doesn’t pretend to know everything about training, nutrition and how to overcome obstacles to become a better player. “But I know people who can help,”he said. “And this is really good program to learn the basic guidelines to work out, eat right and develop the mental toughness you need to succeed.” Naurato’s connections – players like Matt Hunwick of the Boston Bruins, Eric Nystrom of the Minnesota Wild and Andrew Cogliano of the Edmonton Oilers – offer advice ranging from skill development, dealing with injuries, overcoming a loss of confidence and building relationships with teammates and coaches. “These guys have been through all the ups and downs of
a season and they’ve had success at the highest levels,” said Naurato. “Hockey is fun and it is a game. But learning to deal with adversity makes you a stronger person both on and off the ice. And this gives you an opportunity to learn from them.” Current Trenton Devils (ECHL) goalie Jeff Lerg overcame his small stature and severe athsma to lead Michigan State to the 2007 national championship. “This website provides every possible detail for what it takes for a player to take his game to the next level,” said Lerg. “The only other thing that Brandon can do is to do the workouts for you. He has provided everything he can, and it is the player’s job to actively participate. His knowledge and dedication to making young hockey players better athletes is second to none.” Naurato knows that players are always looking for an edge on their competition and following a consistent training and nutrition routine is what makes average players good and good players great. The nutrition portion of the program is one that Naurato takes a great deal of pride in, as he is quick to point out that while players usually begin lifting weights and working on strength during their mid-teen years, nutrition isn’t usually addressed until players get to college. Making sure that players feed their body correctly in order to maximize the effectiveness of their workouts and be in peak shape for game day can give players a big edge over those who ignore this part of their development. “We want to educate players at a young age about developing a proper nutritional plan,” Naurato said. “This is a very detailed program and tells you what to eat every day.” In addition, the videos and content on the website are downloadable and portable, even to an iPod Touch or iPhone, allowing players to bring along videos of each workout to ensure that they’re doing it correctly while at the rink or the gym. “Brandon’s understanding of the game will help guide young athletes to become more aware of hockey specific training and nutrition so they can take their hockey game to the next level,” said Northville’s Aaron Palushaj, a former teammate of Naurato’s at Michigan and currently a forward with the AHL’s Hamilton Bulldogs. In the future, Naurato is hoping to build a community of users and pro players at HockeyTrainingfromthepros.com that will offer continually evolving and more involved content.
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November 1, 2010, Volume 21 : Issue 7
20 Years/20 Issues Michigan Hockey Headlines The first issue of Michigan Hockey Magazine (left) is published in September, 1990 and is available at newsstands for $1.25. The first issue of Michigan Hockey features an interview with new USA Hockey executive director Baaron Pittenger, a former Harvard administrator and USOC director who had just taken the position after Bob Johnson left to become head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins. After four years as head coach of Ferris State, John Perpich resigns over the summer to become as assistant coach with the Washington Capitals. Current ADM regional manager Bob Mancini is named the Bulldogs new head coach.
With demand at metro-Detroit arenas growing, and 6 a.m. ice times and adult games that finish after midnight the norm, Fraser Hockeyland (now Great Lakes Sports City) expands to four ice surfaces. The 1990-91 season marks the Silver Anniversary of hockey at Lake Superior State. In the 25 years after Ron Mason guided the first group of players at S.S. Marie’s Pullar Stadium the Lakers won three national championships and moved into a new Norris Center. After teammate Scott Stevens jumps to the St. Louis Blues for $1 million a year, Washington Capitals star defenseman Kevin Hatcher (Sterling Heights) sits out training camp looking for a raise from his $200,000 a year contract. Hatcher is in the lineup on opening night and signs a new three-year deal a couple of weeks later.
March 12th Los Angeles Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
January 14th “The Simpsons” premiered on Fox-TV
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February 5th Notre Dame football becomes 1st school to sell its game to a major network (NBC)
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January 21 Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director
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February 11th Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, freed in South Africa
January 7th Tower of Pisa closed to the public after leaning to far.
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March 22nd Anchorage, Alaska jury finds Captain Hazlewood innocent of Valdez oil spill
April 25th Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery
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May 22nd Microsoft releases Windows 3.0
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June 4th Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die
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March 30th Jack Nicklaus made his debut in the “Seniors” golf tournament
March 19th 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held in Ottawa
April 29th Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Bandenburg Gate
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May 31st Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as “Seinfeld Chronicals”
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Flashback: DOUG WEIGHT
MLB Champion Cincinnati Reds
Cost of a U.S. Stamp $0.25
NFL Superbowl winner San Francisco 49ers
Hart trophy - NHL MVP Mark Messier - Edmonton Oilers
NBA Champion Detroit Pistons
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OHL Champion Oshawa Generals
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#1 Song Wind Beneath My Wings, B. Midler
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Ross trophy - Top scorer in NHL Wayne Gretzky - L.A. Kings
Academy Award’s Top Movie Dances with Wolves
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Jack Adams awardTop NHL Coach Bob Murdoch - Winnipeg Jets
Vezina trophy Best NHL Goaltender Patrick Roy - Montreal Canadiens
In the fall of 1990, New York Islanders veteran center Doug Weight was just beginning his sophomore season at Lake Superior State under first-year head coach Jeff Jackson, who had just replaced Frank Anzalone behind the Lakers’ bench. Weight was coming off a big first season in S.S. Marie where he led all freshmen in the country in scoring (21-48-69) and was third on the Lakers behind Jim Dowd (25-67-92) and Jeff Jablonski (38-33-71). Over the summer the Warren native had been selected by the New York Rangers in the second round of the 1990 NHL Draft (34th overall) and he quickly established himself as one of the top players in college hockey. As a sophomore Weight improved his scoring totals (29-46-75), helped the Lakers win the 1991 CCHA regular season and playoff titles and was named second team All-American. Weight started playing hockey at age five in the St. Clair Shores house league, before making the Squirt A St. Clair Shores Mustangs when he was seven and then moving to the AAA Fraser Crees when he was eight. After playing Midget AAA with the St. Clair Shores Falcons, Weight was selected first overall by the Bloomfield Jets in the 1988 North American Hockey League draft and led the league in scoring (32-60-92) his first season. He was recruited by then Lakers’ coach Anzalone, who shared Weight’s competitive nature and passion for the game. “Doug worked hard and wanted to be the best player on the ice every night,” said Anzalone, now the head coach of the Quad City Mallards of the Central Hockey League. “We knew he was going to be a good player.” Weight left Lake Superior State after two seasons, signed with the Rangers on April 2, 1991 and made his NHL debut on April 13. After two seasons with New York, Weight was traded to Edmonton for Esa Tikkanen in March, 1993. With the Oilers Weight developed into a first-line NHL center and enjoyed his best NHL season the 1995-96 when he broke the 100-point mark with the Oilers (25-79-104). Weight played nine seasons in Edmonton and served as Oilers captain from 1999-2001 before being traded to St. Louis before the 2001 season.
July 25th Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at San Diego Padre game
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JULY July 22nd 90th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Phil Mickelson
August 31st Ken Griffey Sr. & Ken Griffey Jr. become 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning
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Carolina acquired Weight in January 2006 and he helped the Hurricanes win the 2006 Stanley Cup. He was also a member of the 1998 and 2002 U.S. Olympic Teams and played in the World Cup in 2005. Weight signed as free agent with St. Louis the next off-season and was traded to Anaheim in December, 2007. After a season with the Ducks, Weight signed a freeagent contract with the New York Islanders in July, 2008, and was named Islanders captain in October, 2009. After an injury plagued 2009-10 season that included shoulder surgery, Weight is healthy again and has a goal and six points in his first eight games this season with the Islanders. By Philip Colvin
December 31st Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
October 3rd Tiger Cecil Fielder becomes 11th player to hit 50 home runs
November 28th Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain’s Prime Minister, replaced by John Majors
September 10th 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win U.S. Open
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September 18th Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 Summer Olympics
August 7th Desert Shield begins U.S. Deploys troops to Saudi Arabia
September 10th Bush and Gorbachev meet in Helsinki
October 30th England and France complete Chunnel
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November 15th Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didn’t sing on their albums
December 6th NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning
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Holiday Gift Guide
Holiday hockey gift list includes something for players, coaches and fan BY MH STAFF
Despite the temperate weather, it’s that time of year when stores and websites have their Holiday gift ideas out. And whether you’re shopping stocking stuffers or a more extravagant gift for your hockey player, coach or super fan, here are a few ideas for great gifts:
FOR THE COACH Coach-Mate Boards dry erase boards come in three sizes and help coaches diagram a drill or play on the bench or on the ice at practice. The 24” x 15” board has a blue and red rink outline and has suction cups so it sticks to any flat, clean surface and includes a clip to hold coach’s notes. The clipboard size (9” x 15”) and Bench Boss Pocket Board (3”x 5”) are perfect for between shift chalk talks. Dry-erase or damp-off marker is included. Check out coachmate.com.
EQUIPMENT CLEANING If a rank smell hits you when you open your hockey bag you could have things growing inside. Deep within the padding and foam of hockey equipment are bacteria, fungus, mold, yeast, and viruses that pose a very real threat to all athletes in contact sports today. The dark, moist and warm environment provides a perfect medium for these microorganisms to flourish. And while it might not be the prettiest gift, you can help protect your player (and your nose) by getting their equipment cleaned with the Esporta system or Sani-Sport machine. Michigan Sani-Sport, Silvers Sani-Sport in Ann Arbor and Perani’s Hockey World in Livonia are among the Sani-Sport locations in Michigan. Esporta operators in the state include: Fresh Gear in Southgate Civic Center and Pure Gear Esporta in Marquette.
GIFT CERTIFICATE TO HOCKEYTOWN CAFÉ AND HOCKEYTOWN AUTHENICS Located on the northwest corner of Woodward and Montcalm, just north of the Fox Theatre, the Hockeytown Café is a hot spot before, during and after Red Wings games. The restaurant and bar doubles as a Red Wings museum, as team memorabilia is displayed prominently throughout the establishment. Items such as game-worn jerseys, Stanley Cup replicas, team photos, murals and life-sized sculptures are located in the restaurant, and numerous televisions are linked fiber optically to bring the sights and sounds of Joe Louis Arena during Red Wings games. Hockeytown Authentics, the official Red Wings store, is located on the corner of Big Beaver and John R in front of the Troy Sports Center. The store is a one-stop shop for everything Red Wings, including one-of-a-kind autographed merchandise and photos, along with game-used collectibles like jerseys, sticks, gloves and pucks.
GOALIE INSTRUCTION DVDS Goaltending coach Steve McKichan of Future Pro Goalie School has created a eight-DVD instructional series for goaltenders called “No Rebounds.” The Future Pro DVDs contain over nine hours of instruction, including slow motion, freeze frame and close ups from eight camera angles all designed to breakdown and teach all the elements that make a successful goaltender. Series One includes four DVDs entitled Goaltending Fundamentals, Big League Goaltending, Simply the Best Drills and The Away Game. Series Two’s four DVDs are titled The New Game, Control, eXtra Drills and eXtra Dryland. Check out futurepro. com for sample video clips and more information.
HOCKEY MOM GEAR With the idea that Hockey Moms deserve great style and a fresh look for their many trips to the rink, Hockey Mom and Skating Mom apparel and accessories include Fit-For-Mom Fashion Tees, Stay-Warm-In-The-Stands Blankets, Road-Trip Totes, Klean Kanteens, Neoprene Bottle Slings, and Show-Mom-Pride Car Decals. Check out hockeymomstyle.com.
HOCKEYSLED Michigan inventor Kirk Schlappi developed his HockeySled on-ice resistance training device after remembering pushing around a tire on the ice when he was a
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young player. But a stick doesn’t fit well inside a tire, and carrying around the big piece of rubber isn’t very practical. So the Royal Oak resident and youth coach developed the HockeySled, a hollow, triangular resistance device made of durable quarterinch plastic panels. The HockeySped can be filled with water for up to 30 pounds of resistance and includes a center channel on top to easily accommodate a stick blade. Without water, the HockeySled weighs in at eight pounds, which makes it easier to carry to the rink. HockeySled’s weight can be adjusted according to the players’ age and size. Similarly, the plastic triads can be stacked on one another to double the resistance. The HockeySled helps players develop muscles in their wrist, forearms and shoulders while solidifying their core strength through the back and stomach. The HockeySled can also be used for on-ice relays to create an element of fun. Check it out at: hockeysled.com.
NHL MONOPOLY Why let the real millionaires have all the fun? The NHL Edition Monopoly plays just like classic Monopoly, but you build your empire with teams, arenas and luxury boxes instead of streets, houses and hotels. It’s also available in an Original Six collector’s edition. The NHL Edition Monopoly game allows you to buy, sell, and trade 22 of the NHL’s 30 teams. The game features customized money, title deeds, Chance and Community Chest cards, logos and references to the NHL and includes customized pewter board tokens, featuring skates, goalie, net, Zamboni, player, and puck.
ON AND OFF-ICE TRAINING AIDS Whether its help with your passing, shooting or stickhandling, Hockeyshot has you covered. Specializing in hockey training and skillbuilding products, their website hockeyshot.com features things like dryland shooting tiles to practice your shot on, goals and targets to shoot at, slideboards to help you work on your skating stride and everything in between. Hockeyshot.com also has coaching manuals, goaltender training videos, stocking stuffers and gift certificates.
TICKETS TO THE WHALERS AND SPIRIT Located just north of M-14 on Beck Road in Plymouth, the Compuware Arena is home to one of the best major junior teams in North America. The Plymouth Whalers have produced NHL players such as Nashville’s David Legwand, Carolina’s Chad LaRose, Florida’s Stephen Weiss and Boston’s Tyler Seguin, while the Spirit’s NHL alumni include New Jersey’s Matt Corrente. The Spirit plays at the Dow Events Center in downtown Saginaw. The pace is fast, physical and exciting, and tickets are under $15. Both teams offer numerous special promotional nights and group rates and gift certificates are also available from both teams. Check out plymouthwhalers. com and saginawspirit.com.
TRAINING SESSIONS Could your player use a little push in improving their fitness level, agility and overall strength? Or maybe they need a little extra work on his or her wrist shot? Then a session at a training facility might be helpful. Farmington Hills-basedTriad Health and Fitness has already developed a reputation as a place where serious athletes train. With a 3,000 square foot training facility, players can get personal sport specific fitness training to improve speed, quickness, strength, balance and coordination. The Total Performance Training Center inside Wixom’s Total Sports complex has a Frappier Acceleration skating treadmill so you train the way you play –with your skates on. Using the treadmill and video analysis, the training center staff can analyze a skater’s mechanics and help to correct general skating flaws. Canton’s Arctic Edge houses Velocity Sports Performance helps athletes become faster, stronger and more explosive for their sport. Core Sports Fitness, inside Troy Sports Center, offers plyometrics, a Blade skating treadmill and trains players for speed, endurance and performance. Hockey Masters, located inside Chelsea’s Arctic Coliseum, offers power skating instruction and an off-ice hockey specific training regiment, including an area to practice your shooting technique. Wixom’s Puckmasters includes a 100’ x 44’ real ice surface, another 60’ x’ 36’ real ice surface, training simulators, a dryland training area, weight equipment, a Rapid Shot shooting system, an Endless Ice skating treadmill, locker rooms with showers and a steam room.
OUTDOOR ICE RINK NiceRink is the world’s leading manufacturer of backyard ice rink systems that you can put up and use without harming the lawn under the ice. The NiceRink system provides quality ice in a single day on any reasonably level outdoor space of any size or shape. NiceRink Thermoformed boards, liners and special brackets make it easy and practical for anybody to set up a smooth backyard rink for any skating purpose. A NiceRink can be made in almost any size and the “Rink in a Box” gives you everything you need to make a 20’ x 40’ rink. Or opt for the 60’ x 120’“Gold Package.” A NiceIce resurfacer will help maintain your rink and goals, nets and other related products are also available. Check it out at nicerink.com.
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Why walk to the ice when you can roll to the ice? With the innovative Rollergard rolling skate guard system, it’s possible. Rollergard takes the place of traditional skate guards and is essentially a set of roller hockey wheels that go right on your skate blade. Rollergard comes with durable 89A hardness, indoor/outdoor wheels and ABEC 5 bearings. Your skate fits securely with a non-slip strap and lock-notch strap technology. Rollergard is available in three colors – black, red and blue. Players can train off the ice and also break in their new skates without even hitting the ice. Check out rollergard.com for more information.
For the video gamers in your family, there are two hockey video games to choose from: NHL 11 from EA Sports and NHL 2K11 from 2K Sports. EA Sports celebrates its 20th year with NHL 11 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. NHL 11, with Chicago’s Jonathan Towes on the cover, features a new Real-Time Physics Engine that helps players creates highlight reel moves with realistic looking big goals, huge hits, broken sticks, and faster dangles. The game features an all-new faceoff system and goals are disallowed, players can jump over downed players to get to loose pucks and can even grow playoff beards. Also new this year is the ability to build a team from the ground up by acquiring top Canadian Hockey League and American Hockey League prospects and grooming them for success. Or you try to win now by acquiring current NHL superstars. 2K Sports hockey entry, NHL 2K11, features the Vancouver Canucks’Ryan Kesler of Livonia on the cover and is made exclusively for the Wii. This year’s version features new improved Wii MotionPlus control that brings revolutionary puck skills to your Wii Remote with the ability to execute real-time dekes, puck juggling, shooting and defensive maneuvers, like stick lifts. The game also has improved player models, freshly lit and redesigned arenas, and highly detailed jerseys and equipment. NHL 2K11 introduces the all-new Road to the Cup mode featuring Mii characters battling in six different mini-games, trivia challenges and skills competitions.
TICKETS TO THE NTDP An option for anyone with ticket sticker shock or a interest in watching some of the best young players from across the United States, the USA Hockey National Team Development Program (NTDP) offers incredibly skilled players at a great price. Now in their 14th season at the Ann Arbor Ice Cube, the USA Hockey program features some of the best 16- and 17-year players in the country. In the last 13 seasons, the NTDP has helped develop over 225 players for NCAA college hockey, has had over 75 players drafted by NHL teams and numerous former NTDP players started this season on NHL rosters. Check out usahockey.com/USANTDP.
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Michigan continues to stock collegiate rosters BY PHILIP COLVIN
Whether it’s current captains like Ferris State defenseman Zach Redmond (Traverse City) and Michigan right wing Luke Glendening (East Grand Rapids), top-end scorers like Miami’s Andy Miele (Grosse Pointe Woods) and Michigan’s Matt Rust (Bloomfield Hills), talented goalies like Michigan State’s Drew Palmisano (Ann Arbor) and Ferris State’s Pat Nagle (Bloomfield) or skilled defensemen like Western Michigan’s Luke Witkowski (Holland), the state of Michigan has a long and storied history of producing top-end college players. This season there are 83 Michigan-born players (down from 86 last year), and another 14 with Michigan ties (up from 11 a year ago), on Central Collegiate Hockey Association rosters alone. Ferris State tops the list with 16 players who were either born or played junior hockey in the state. Michigan State is next with 15 players with connections to the state and Michigan has 14. Michigan’s other Division I program, Michigan Tech (Western Collegiate Hockey Association), also recruits in state: the Huskies’ roster has seven players with Michigan ties. With the Ann Arbor-based National Team Development Program (see story on page 31), Tier I Junior A United States Hockey League’s Muskegon Lumberjacks and Tier II Junior A North American Hockey League’s Traverse City North Stars, Michigan Warriors, Port Huron Fighting Falcons and Motor City Metal Jackets, some of the best young players in the country are playing in our state. Other top Michigan players have found homes with other junior teams and prep schools outside the state. Here is an alphabetical list of some of Michigan’s top college prospects for 2011: DREW BROWN, LW, KENT SCHOOL (PREP) Date of Birth: April 28, 1992 Height/Weight: 5-11/180 Hometown: Chelsea Comments: Goal scorer that knows how to get open and can finish. Scored 57 goals as a junior at Chelsea High School in the 2008-09 season. Headed to Connecticut to repeat his junior year and scored 26 goals and 41 points last season. Works hard, has improved his skating and has made a verbal commitment to attend Union College. AUSTIN CZARNIK, C, GREEN BAY (USHL) Date of Birth: December 12, 1992 Height/Weight: 5-8/140 Hometown: Washington Comments: Slick, speedy playmaker has quick hands and stick. Good skater with agility and is a very effective penalty killer. Very competitive and does a little bit of everything well. Has made a verbal commitment to attend Miami next season. BRENT DARNELL, F, SIOUX FALLS (USHL) Date of Birth: March 23, 1992
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Height/Weight: 6-0/193 Hometown: Canton Comments: After being mostly offensive-minded at Novi Detroit Catholic Central, Darnell has developed into a solid two-way player with a scoring touch. Can handle the puck, has good hockey sense and plays hard in all three zones. Has made a verbal commitment to attend Michigan State next season. STEVEN HENSLEY, D, CEDAR RAPIDS (USHL) Date of Birth: July 9, 1992 Height/Weight: 6-1/201 Hometown: Livonia Comments: Solid two-way blueliner is still a bit raw, but can do a little of everything. Agile enough to defend down low and can play it physical if needed. STUART HIGGINS, C, YOUNGSTOWN (USHL) Date of Birth: May 8, 1992 Height/Weight: 5-8/165 Hometown: Troy Comments: Shifty, quick centerman is a playmaker with offensive flair. Has good skill set, excellent hockey sense and competes. After scoring six goals and 15 points last season with the Phantoms, he is playing another year of junior hockey. Has made a verbal commitment to attend Maine. CASON HOHMANN, RW, CEDAR RAPIDS (USHL) Date of Birth: January 10, 1993 Height/Weight: 5-8/163 Hometown: Plymouth Comments: Creative, dynamic playmaker has quick hands and terrific on-ice vision. Elusive, makes plays at high speed and is tough to put a body on. Good passer and is dangerous around the net. Has made a verbal commitment to attend Boston University. TANNER KERO, F, FARGO (USHL) Date of Birth: July 24, 1992 Height/Weight: 5-11/171 Hometown: Hancock Comments: Former NAHL Rookie of the Year with Marquette, Kero is a goal scorer that is dangerous on both the powerplay and penalty kill. Has made a verbal commitment to attend Michigan Tech. WILLIAM KESSEL, F, GREEN BAY (USHL) Date of Birth: January 6, 1992 Height/Weight: 6-3/196 Hometown: Bloomfield Hills
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Lincoln’s John McCarron (Macomb) is headed to Cornell next season.
Comments: Big, strong power forward is tough and can play it physical. Also has soft hands, good hockey sense and can finish. Has made a verbal commitment to Western Michigan next season. JOHN MCCARRON, F, LINCOLN (USHL) Date of Birth: April 16, 1992 Height/Weight: 6-3/219 Hometown: Macomb Comments: Power forward with size, hockey sense and a rocket for a shot. Has developed skill-wise, is a good leader and is at his best when he plays a physical style. Has made a verbal commitment to attend Cornell next season. OTHER PLAYERS TO KEEP AN EYE ON: Kevin Albers, D, Lake Orion/Green Bay (USHL); Kelin Ainsworth, F, Traverse City (NAHL); Ryan Amin, F, Canton, Traverse City (NAHL); Steve Brancheau, F, River Rouge/ Motor City (NAHL); Alex Carpenter, F, Chicago (USHL); Chris Ciotti, F, Romeo/St. Louis (NAHL); Doug Clifford, F, Woodhaven/Des Moines (USHL); Michael Gunn, D, Chicago (USHL); Joe Kalisz, F, Davison/St. Louis (NAHL); David Johnstone, F, Grand Ledge, Indiana (USHL); Justin Kovacs, F, Grosse Pte. Woods/Cedar Rapids (USHL); John-Paul LaFontaine, F, Green Bay (USHL); Brandon Lubin, D, Commerce Twp., Sioux City (USHL); Travis Lynch, F, White Lake/Green Bay (USHL); Tyler Marble, G, Traverse City/Traverse City (NAHL); Dajon Mingo, F, Grand Rapids/Des Moines (USHL); Ryan Misiak, F, Shelby Twp./Muskegon (USHL); C.J. Motte, G, St. Clair/Waterloo (USHL); Jordan Oesterle, D, Dearborn Hts./Sioux Falls (USHL); Mac Olson, F, Grosse Pointe/Wichita Falls (NAHL); Andrew Sinelli, F, Dubuque (USHL); Dominic Panetta, LW, Baldwin/Tri-City (USHL); Rick Pinkston, D, Trenton/Tri-City (USHL); Matt Stewart, D, Brighton/Green Bay (USHL); Reid Sturos, F, South Lyon/Omaha (USHL); Mike Szuma, D, Novi/Michigan (NAHL); Cody Wydo, C, Wyandotte/Motor City (NAHL)
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NTDP has strong developmental track record BY PHILIP COLVIN
The Ann Arbor Ice Cube has long been home to some of the best young players in the country and this year is no different. The three-ice sheet arena houses the USA Hockey National Team Development Program’s (NTDP) Under-17 and Under-18 squads, which has sent over 230 players on to college hockey over the last 13 seasons. Each national team plays an ultra-competitive schedule that includes a regular slate of games in the Tier I Junior A United States Hockey League (USHL) in addition to matchups against college teams (U-18 Team) and competition at international tournaments. Brighton’s Andy Ryan and Blake Pietila, along with Grand Ledge’s Reid Boucher, are the U.S. Under-18 team’s Michigan natives. Star center Rocco Grimaldi moved to Michigan from California and played for Little Caesars before joining the NTDP. As usual, this year’s roster has top-end players at every position:
offensively and has the wheels to recover. Has made a verbal commitment to attend Denver next season.
TYLER BIGGS, RW, 6-2/207, 4/30/1993, CINCINNATI, OHIO Big, strong power forward is tough, competitive and at his best in big games. Hard worker and team captain. Good skater, attacks the net and can score from perimeter and from in tight. Lots of upside. Another potential first round NHL pick in 2011 and has made a verbal commitment to attend Miami next season. REID BOUCHER, LW, 5-9/186, 9/8/1993, GRAND LEDGE As close to pure goal scorer as there is at NTDP. Very dangerous from the blueline in with great hands, quick release and a big shot. Led the U-17 Team with 17 goals last season and improved his overall game. Has made a verbal commitment to attend Michigan State next season.
MATT MCNEELY, G, 6-2/204, 2/16/1993, BURNSVILLE, MINN. Has good size and agility and covers a lot of net. Good athlete who challenges shooters and battles for rebounds. Has made a verbal commitment to attend Minnesota Duluth next season.
TRAVIS BOYD, C, 5-10/176, 9/14/1993, HOPKINS, MINN. Slick center has good skills and can create offense. Has soft hands, good hockey IQ and effective on the penalty kill, but beeds to use players around him better. Has made a verbal commitment to attend Minnesota next season.
JOE FIALA, D, 6-1/182, 2/11/1993, VERONA, WIS. A stay-at-home defensive defenseman, Fiala is a good passer and at his best when he keeps things simple. Needs to be more assertive in his own end. Has made a verbal commitment to attend Western Michigan.
DAN CARLSON, LW, 6-0/198, 5/14/1993, CORCORAN, MINN. Good skater has struggled with consistency and needs to play with lots of energy to be effective.
JAKE MCCABE, D, 6-0/195, 10/12/1993, EAU CLAIRE, WIS. Tough competitor who is solid in his own zone. Good positionally, makes the smart play and sees time on the powerplay. Has made a verbal commitment to attend Wisconsin next season. CONNOR MURPHY, D, 6-3/192, 3/26/1993, DUBLIN, OHIO Top-end two-way defenseman ruptured his spleen last season and is out with a back injury this year. Has a lot of raw ability: good skater both forward and backward, can handle the puck under pressure and has a big shot. Good hockey sense and strong, although not overly physical, in his own end. Has made a verbal commitment to attend Miami next season.
ROCCO GRIMALDI, C, 5-6/161, 2/8/1993, ROSSMOOR, CALIF. Dynamic team captain led U-17s in scoring last season (14-26-40) and just keeps getting better. Has the speed to blow by defenders in open ice and is quick and strong enough on his skates to lose defensemen down low. Despite size, wins battles for the puck, attacks the net and creates scoring chances by the bushel. A game changer that has won at every level. Highly recruited and has made a verbal commitment to attend North Dakota next season. RYAN HAGGERTY, C/RW, 5-11/184, 3/4/1993, STAMFORD, CONN. RPI recruit has good hands and a quick release. Has played both at center and at right wing. ZAC LARRAZA, RW, 6-2/192, 2/25/1993, SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. Has the size and skill level to be effective power forward, but needs to use his teammates more effectively. Good hands and can finish around the net. Has made a verbal commitment to attend Denver next season.
MICHAEL PALIOTTA, D, 6-3/198, 4/6/1993, WESTPORT, CONN. Team’s best blueliner so far has the whole package: good size, works hard, plays with an edge and can move the puck. A potential first round pick in 2011 NHL Draft and has made a verbal commitment to attend Vermont next season.
J.T. MILLER, RW, 6-1/193, 3/14/1993, EAST PALESTINE, OHIO Big, strong pro-size winger with speed, soft hands and a hard shot. Good skater and passer, and can make plays in open ice, but at his best when he gets to the net. Should be a first round pick in 2011 NHL Draft.
ROBBIE RUSSO, D, 5-11/189, 2/15/1993, WESTMONT, ILL. Very solid two-way blueliner who plays with poise and always seems to make the right decision with the puck. Good outlet passer, runs the power play from the point and led U-17 Team defensemen in scoring last season (7-24-31). Has made a verbal commitment to attend Notre Dame next season.
BLAKE PIETILA, LW, 5-10/187, 2/20/1993, BRIGHTON Strong skating power forward has struggled early, but is best when playing high energy game. Good two-way player who can shoot the puck and kill penalties. Has made a verbal commitment to attend Northern Michigan next season.
ANDY RYAN, D, 6-1/200, 7/24/1993, BRIGHTON Solid, poised, heady blueliner was injured in the first game of the season. Returned to practice in mid-October. Solid in his own end and plays against the opposition’s top line. Shutdown guy and effective on the penalty kill. Has made a verbal commitment to attend Notre Dame next season. MATT VAN VOORHIS, D, 5-7/162, 1/19/1993, EDINA, MINN. Dynamic skater with good defensive instincts. Likes to jump into the play
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COLE BARDREAU, C, 5-9/178, 7/22/1993, FAIRPORT, N.Y. High-energy two-way centerman is a team captain. Works hard, wins battles and plays on the power play and penalty kill. Has made a verbal commitment to attend Cornell next season.
JOHN GIBSON, G, 6-3/200, 7/14/1993, PITTSBURGH, PA. Big, strong and athletic netminder has improved his consistency in net and has lots of upside. Aggressive, controls rebounds well and is a good passer. Has made a verbal commitment to attend Ohio State.
BARRETT KAIB, D, 5-9/182, 2/7/1993, UPPER ST. CLAIR, PA. Likes the physical side of the game and keeps things simple, but can sneak into holes in the offensive zone. Consistent and competes hard every night.
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ADAM REID, LW, 6-3/202, 1/29/1993, CHINO HILLS, CALIF. Hard working power forward is good around the net and scores most of his goals in tight. Strong skater with a long reach. Drives to the net well and is good on the powerplay. Has made verbal commitment to attend Northeastern next season. AUSTIN WUTHRICH, F, 6-0/185, 9/11/93, ANCHORAGE, ALASKA Smart, two-way forward was injured in the second game of the season and has been out of the lineup. Does a little of everything and plays a physical style that creates space.
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NORTH AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE 2010-11 NAHL Standings (as of Oct. 25) CENTRAL Coulee Region Bismarck Owatonna Alexandria Aberdeen Austin NORTH St. Louis Janesville Springfield Motor City Traverse City Michigan Chicago Port Huron SOUTH Texas Wichita Falls Amarillo Topeka Corpus Christi New Mexico WEST Wenatchee Fairbanks Alaska Kenai River Dawson Creek Fresno
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PCT 0.750 0.536 0.500 0.500 0.458 0.300 PCT 0.733 0.667 0.447 0.615 0.625 0.536 0.400 0.000 PCT 0.767 0.733 0.750 0.643 0.500 0.333 PCT 0.769 0.714 0.563 0.438 0.406 0.429
GF 34 41 40 37 46 21 GF 57 47 52 60 34 46 54 21 GF 62 56 59 45 47 36 GF 52 66 46 45 32 42
GA 25 35 44 37 55 33 GA 37 34 57 42 26 48 64 77 GA 44 43 41 37 55 68 GA 36 44 42 51 42 61
PIM 164 276 222 181 163 215 PIM 210 319 290 367 214 232 295 485 PIM 395 360 442 351 708 424 PIM 408 355 433 290 444 494
TOP SCORERS TEAM POS GP G A Wydo, Cody MCM F 13 15 14 Osborn, JT FAI F 14 14 10 Nauman, Ethan SPR F 19 8 16 Brancheau, Steve MCM F 13 7 15 Hill, Michael TOP F 14 11 10 Einersen, Rock TEX F 11 13 7 Kleiman, RJ MCM F 13 7 13 Walker, Beau COR F 14 6 14 Stouffer, Ryan STL F 15 11 8 Vierling, Zach FAI F 13 3 16 Freibergs, Ralfs TEX D 15 1 18 Educate, Louis CHI F 14 9 9 Ciotti, Chris STL F 15 8 10 Callahan, Jack SPR D 19 4 14 Ward, Cory ABD F 12 10 7 Kalisz, Joe STL F 15 8 9 Albrecht, James CHI F 13 6 11 Nagtzaam, Nardo ALX F 12 6 11 Thauwald, Charlie FAI D 14 7 9 Jacobson, Derek JNE F 15 4 12 Keane, Sean WFS F 15 9 6 Benedict, Mike COR F 14 8 7 Prince, Jack TEX F 15 6 9 Smoot, Zack AMA F 14 6 9 Davis, Jordan TOP F 14 3 12
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PIM 4 6 15 2 30 10 13 6 8 0 10 12 16 15 4 12 2 20 30 14 37 32 9 28 32
PPG 5 3 2 4 7 6 3 0 3 0 1 5 1 2 3 5 2 3 3 2 3 4 4 1 1
SHG 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1
TOP GOALIES Kruger, Jimmy Moberg, Paul Hamby, Jimmy Jacobson, David Marble, Tyler Faragher, Ryan Szczerba, Nikifor OBrien, Ian Tirronen, Rasmus Meyers, Jacob Walsh, Andrew
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SV 134 283 138 349 240 266 344 116 184 152 331
SV% 0.931 0.946 0.908 0.921 0.927 0.920 0.927 0.899 0.911 0.899 0.938
Albrecht making most of chance with the Hitmen BY MATT MACKINDER
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Not long after the Chicago Hitmen were admitted as an expansion franchise in The Port Huron Fighting Falcons’ new mascot, “Shootsy,” is sponsored by area the North American Hockey League for this season, the team moved quickly to sign restaurateur Casey Harris, a former pro player in Port Huron … Traverse City their first player in Jimmy Albrecht. defenseman Travis White (Sterling Heights) is the North Stars’ captain for the Albrecht, a 20-year-old who lived in second straight season … Seven NAHL PHOTO COURTESY NAHL Macomb Township until he was eight years players were recognized on the NHL Central old before moving to suburban Chicago, Scouting Bureau’s “Players to Watch” list captained the Chicago Force of the Tier III for 2011 NHL Draft, released on Oct. 19 – Junior A Central States Hockey League last Wenatchee forwards Eliot Grauer and Evan season. He played for the Force (now known Schmidbauer, Fairbanks forwards Jared as the Hitmen as well) from 2007-10 and Linnell, an Alaska-Fairbanks recruit, and made the jump to the NAHL this season for Tayler Munson, Alexandria defenseman his last year of junior eligibility. Paul Ladue, Amarillo defenseman Kyle Albrecht is an alternate captain with the Sucher, a Bowling Green recruit, and Hitmen and is currently second on the team Dawson Creek forward Jason Wark … in scoring with 17 points, including a teamTopeka goaltender Rasmus Tirronen has best 11 assists. He’s been one of the more committed to Merrimack College, while consistent players in Chicago this year. the expansion Austin Bruins have their first“We have a lot of Tier III players on the ever college commitment in defenseman team and I’d say for the first five or six Trevor Waldoch, who has chosen Air Force games, we had that adjustment period for the 2012-13 season. Also choosing Air of getting used to the NAHL style of play,” Force is Wenatchee forward Ben Carey, said Albrecht, who played for the Mt. who will also enroll in 2012 … The Clemens Wolves organization during his Michigan Warriors also have their first minor hockey days in Michigan. “Guys in D-I commitment as defenseman Mike the NAHL are a lot smarter with the puck Szuma (Novi) will suit-up for the Michigan and if you make a mistake, it’ll wind up Wolverines next fall. “It’s great news for in your own net. Players here capitalize the young man and gives (an indication) on mistakes, whereas that maybe didn’t of what (the Warriors) level of hockey is Former Macomb resident Jimmy Albrecht is off to a great happen as much in Tier III.” start with the Chicago Hitmen this season. all about,” said Warriors coach-GM Moe With the NAHL sending dozens of Mantha to mlive.com. “It’s about giving players on to college hockey each season, Albrecht wants to add his name to the list players an opportunity to move up and pursue their dreams in college hockey. He’s and feels if he continues at the pace he’s been on, that will hopefully come to fruition. going to a top-notch university to get an education and play hockey. He’s living “I’ve been talking to a couple Division III schools and a Division I school, so we’ll a dream.” … The Warriors also acquired forward Andrew Kolb from the USHL’s see what happens,”said Albrecht.“If it’s a D-III school with a great academic program, Muskegon Lumberjacks on Oct. 21 for future considerations. that’s fine with me. A lot of D-III schools compare favorably to some D-I programs, so I’ll just have to keep playing my game the way I have been and hope for a D-I offer.”
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK (FOR WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 24) NORTH DIVISION Motor City forward Cody Wydo rang up three goals and two assists as the Metal Jackets finished the weekend with a 1-2 record. On Oct. 22, the Wyandotte, native tallied a goal in a 3-1 loss to Michigan. The next night, the 19-year-old came through with a goal and two assists as Motor City fell to the Warriors, 7-5. Wydo scored another goal in a 5-1 triumph over the Port Huron Fighting Falcons on Sunday. He was also a plus-4 for the weekend. SOUTH DIVISION Wichita Falls forward Mac Olson connected for four goals and two assists as the Wildcats fashioned a 2-1 record. On Oct. 22, the Grosse Pointe native scored a goal in a 5-3 loss to
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the Amarillo Bulls. The next night, the 19-year-old recorded an assist as the Wildcats downed New Mexico, 5-1. On Oct. 24, Olson notched a hat trick, including the game-winner, and an assist in Wichita Falls’ 5-3 triumph over the Mustangs. CENTRAL DIVISON Aberdeen forward Cory Ward struck for two goals and four assists as the Wings celebrated a two-game sweep over Alexandria. On Oct. 22, the Las Vegas native tallied a goal and three assists in a 5-2 victory. The next night, the 17-year-old put home a goal and another assist as the Wings downed the Blizzard, 6-2. He was also plus-3 on the weekend.
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WEST DIVISION Wenatchee defenseman Zach Frye picked up a goal and two assists as the Wild skated to a two-game sweep over Fresno. On Oct. 22, the Spokane, Wash., native registered an assist in a 3-2 victory. The next night, the 16-year-old notched a goal and another assist as the Wild bested the Monsters in a shootout, 4-3. GOALTENDER Janesville goaltender David Jacobson backstopped the Jets to a two-game sweep over Traverse City, turning aside 42 of 44 shots. On Oct. 22, the Janesville native stopped all 26 shots he faced in a 4-0 victory. The next night, the 19-year-old made 26 saves as the Jets bested the North Stars, 3-2.
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November 1, 2010, Volume 21 : Issue 7
Czarnik ready to finish strong with Whalers BY MATT MACKINDER
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Washington native Robbie Czarnik is piling up points in his final season with the Plymouth Whalers.
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Robbie Czarnik wasn’t sure he’d be back with the Plymouth Whalers for his final season of junior eligibility, but he is making the most of it with 12 points in his five games since being returned by the Los Angeles Kings. After leaving the University of Michigan team to join the Whalers last Thanksgiving, Czarnik finished with 49 points in 43 OHL games. He’s way ahead of that pace this season, but passed the credit to his linemates, Stefan Noesen and Rickard Rakell. “Our line is really coming together,”said Czarnik, a 20-year-old Washington native. “We get along really good off the ice, too, and I think as we keep playing together, our line will just continue to get better.” Czarnik arrived in Kingston for the final game of Plymouth’s Eastern Ontario road swing after attending Los Angeles’ pro camp and then playing in Manchester (N.H.) with the Kings’ American Hockey League affiliate. Czarnik said maybe his quick offensive outburst is due to playing with pros with the Kings’ organization that drafted him in the third round (63rd overall) of the 2008 NHL draft. “You build yourself up to playing at that level,” explained Czarnik. “Then once I came back to Plymouth, I think I was still playing at that level and things just started happening. Everything seems to be working and I’m just having a great start.” One of three overage players with the Whalers, along with forwards Tyler Brown and James Livingston, Czarnik is filling the role of an older player also serving as a role model for the slew of youngsters in Plymouth. “I just need to show these guys how to play hard,” said Czarnik. “Every team needs the older guys to fill that role and I’d like to think I’m doing that here. I kind of figured there would be the possibility I’d be back (with the Whalers) this season and if I was, I was going to have to be a leader for the younger guys.”
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Czarnik is hoping that by playing the entire season with the Whalers, he can focus on two things: a deep playoff run and signing with L.A. “Every player wants to sign a contract and that’s what I’m hoping for this season,” Czarnik said. “I just want to keep going with the year I’m having.”
WHALERS NOTEBOOK Goalie Scott Wedgewood will play for Team OHL in the first game of the Subway Super Series against Team Russia on Nov. 11 in London … The Whalers’ annual Pink Out! game on Oct. 16 raised over $18,000 for the Karmanos Cancer Institute. Plymouth beat Windsor, 4-1, and is now 3-0 in Pink Out! games since the event started in 2008 … In Plymouth’s 5-4 overtime loss in Owen Sound on Oct. 20, all four goals were each player’s first this season – Livingston, Jay Gilbert, Beau Schmitz (Howell) and Dario Trutmann (first OHL goal, too) … Ex-Plymouth forward Myles McCauley, traded to Sault Ste. Marie last January for Livingston, left the Greyhounds and returned to his Sterling Heights home last week and was traded days later to Peterborough for a pair of draft picks.
SPIRIT STILL SOARING Saginaw continues to roll and has the OHL’s best record (10-2-1). The Spirit beat one of the powers in the East, the Mississauga St Michael’s Majors, 3-2, at home on Oct. 22. Anthony Camara’s goal with 5:54 to play snapped a 2-2 tie and Mavric Parks did the rest stopping by 38 of 40 shots for the win. The next night at the Dow the Spirit knocked off Belleville, 5-2, behind a hat trick from Jordan Szwarz and the strong play of Jake Peterson, who picked up his first career win in his first start by stopping 23 of 25 shots. The Spirit, ranked fifth overall in the CHL’s Top Ten, feature a balanced scoring attack led by forwards Vincent Trocheck (13 points), Brandon Saad (11) and Jordan Szwarz (11). Defensemen Brad Walch, (Saginaw), Matt Ashman, Ryan O’Connor and Peter Hermenegildo have combined for 17 points from the back end and the team has gotten good goaltending from Mavric Parks and Tadeas Galansky. “We have been fortunate, we’ve gotten big goals and the team has worked very hard,” said Saginaw GM/coach Todd Watson. With a file from Carl Chimenti
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July 12, 2010, Volume 20 : Issue 21
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After an injury filled last season, Detroit’s Dan Cleary (left) is playing with Mike Modano and Jiri Hudler on the Red Wings third line.
Cleary glad to be healthy again BY DAVE WADDELL
Last season was a nightmare for veteran Red Wings forward Dan Cleary. Trouble was he just couldn’t leave his woes at the rink. Cleary lived with a broken down body that had him planning the most mundane details of his life as to limit the stress and discomfort of his daily movement around his home. With a torn groin, injured knee and later a separated shoulder, Cleary became like a little boy dreading when it was bedtime knowing he faced the climb upstairs. “It was a tough 13 months for sure,” Cleary said. “Not being able to go up the stairs, having to be cognizant of when you’re going to bed so you don’t have to go up them again. That’s a good thing to have behind me.” With 25 stairs in his home, it would take Cleary at least half a minute to make it to the top on a good day. He could only shuffle sideways up the steps. He still managed 15 goals and 34 points in 63 games despite being a medical basket-case, but despite the obvious excuses Cleary won’t take them. “You always want to do better, play better,” said Cleary. “I didn’t think it was a great season. I needed to be better in different areas. “My goal is just to be healthy. The numbers offensively and defensively, playing good on the power play and penalty kill will happen. “Missing 20 games doesn’t help your numbers. No one wants to see you on the training table.” Cleary said he’s healthy now and he had a strong camp. His skating is much stronger and quicker and he’s been able to hold onto the puck longer while searching out teammates for passes. “With the extra month off, getting my knee scoped and my groin was finally healed and my shoulder healed, I definitely feel a lot better, really strong,” said the six-foot, 210-pound winger. “I feel skating-wise as good as I’ve felt. As long as I can skate and go, the rest of it will take care of itself.”
THE THIRD LINE Playing on a line with Mike Modano and Jiri Hudler, Red Wings coach Mike Babcock doesn’t downplay the importance of the trio to Detroit’s hopes this season. The Wings feel the line gives them the depth they had during their consecutive Stanley Cup Final runs in 2009 and 2010. “The line has been okay,” said Babcock. “It can be better and they will be better.” The trio has gotten off to slow start to the season as two
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players who weren’t in Detroit last season try to mesh with Cleary. Cleary has skated well and had chances, but he only has a goal and an assist to go with a minus-four rating through the season’s first seven games. Still, Babcock knows what he has in Cleary and is confident over the long run the veteran winger will be fine. “We think Cleary’s health is going to make a huge difference,” Babcock said. “They can be better and we believe by playing them together that’ll help their confidence and help each other. “It’s amazing, when you feel real good about yourself and you’re playing with someone else you make them better. When you’re just feeling okay about yourself you’re just okay.” While a lot of two-time 20-goal scorers wouldn’t be happy playing on the third line, Cleary said the trio recognizes the significance of their role. It’s not points, but June parades down Woodward Avenue with the Stanley Cup that matter to the veteran trio. “It’s evident depth is what wins,”Cleary said.“We had depth when we won and we had it again when we lost in Game 7 (to Pittsburgh in 2009). Chicago won last year and they had it. “You’re not going to get as much ice time as you want. For me, it’s go out and not play like a third line. Play like a second line or a 1B line, that’s our mindset.” Cleary admits the prospects of what his line might accomplish is exciting. He doesn’t feel it’s beyond reasonable that the unit could produce three 20-goal men. Cleary reasons that his line will see a steady diet of third liners and third pairings on defense. “To be honest, I don’t think we’re going to see the top-end players,” Cleary said. “The best defense is pretty much going to be against Pav (Datsyuk) and Z (Henrik Zetterberg). “We have to go out and take advantage of the situation that we’re going to be put in. We have to work harder than the other guys. “We all have different elements of skill that we bring. Each guy brings something different. For me, it’s getting the puck to Mike or Jiri and trying to get to the net.”
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Shootout changes could be coming
NHL shootouts are like desserts in that even those who enjoy them realize sooner or later that you should have them only in moderation. Last season, 15% of all regular-season games were decided by shootouts and there is growing support around the league for the notion that shootouts have become too much of a good thing. “No one anticipated (shootouts) would play such a prominent role,” Toronto President and General manager Brian Burke said. Because Collective Bargaining negotiations between owners and players loom within the next two years, it’s not likely that league would want to ask players to sign off on any shootout changes for next season. But Detroit Red Wings general manager Ken Holland is still expected to put forth a discussion proposal at the November general managers meeting that would extend overtime to eight minutes, with four minutes played 4-on-4 and four minutes played at 3-on-3. A total of 301 games went to overtime in 2009-10, and more than 60% those games ended up in a shootout. There is still support for the shootout deciding deadlocked games, but the majority of people in the hockey community still believe that it is desirable to have the outcome decided in regulation or overtime. As parity has become a staple in the post-lockout NHL, concern over the role of shootouts has escalated. Shootouts have played a major role in determining which teams qualify for the playoffs. Last season, Philadelphia won a shootout over the New York Rangers on the last day of the regular-season to make the post-season. The Flyers then reached the Stanley Cup Final. Concern over the importance of shootouts has reached the point that this season the league has a new rule that says shootout wins are not counted when breaking ties in the standings. There is undeniably a mood for change when it comes to shootouts, but it’s difficult to project what form that change will take on. My guess is that most general managers support the general idea of Holland’s proposal. He’s one of the NHLs most respected executives. He doesn’t float trial balloons. When he talks, his colleagues listen. But not everyone adores the 3-on-3 idea. Honestly, to me, that seems a bit gimmicky. We just don’t see that much 3-on-3 in today’s game. There will be concern over the length of games, but you won’t be able to convince me that adding three minutes of
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overtime will suddenly make games too long for television. More importantly, there are folks in the hockey community who want to preserve the shootout’s place in the game. The reason: fans enjoy it. Purists grumble about it, but there still seems to be considerable excitement in the building during a shootout, particularly when the shootout goes longer than the regulation three shooters. My attitude about shootouts is simply that they need to be a rarer occurrence, and they need to be at least five shooters. When the shootout was introduced, I believed it should be five shooters. My opinion hasn’t wavered. My argument for five is that most of a team’s offensive stars would then have a say in the outcome. The five-person shootout has been a staple of international soccer for years. Hockey’s popularity is puny compared to soccer’s international appeal. The American Hockey League uses five shooters and I’ve been told by pro scouts it’s more entertaining. The best case for the shootout is our memories of what was going on in the NHL before the shootout. More than 13 percent games ended in ties before the shootout. There were 170 tie games in 1,230 league games. Twenty-three teams had 10 or more ties in 2003-04. The Minnesota Wild had 20 ties that season playing the league’s most boring style. The third periods always seemed to be about preserving that tie Before we add time to overtime, Detroit native Don Waddell, the Atlanta Thrashers’ president, believes we should switch ends for overtime, meaning both teams would have a long change during the overtime period. In theory that would lead to more odd-man rushes. He believes that would lead to more overtime wins. Probably what would sell among general managers is any plan that would reduce the number of shootouts down to four or five percent. If they became that rare, they might become even more entertaining. My suggestion would be to adjust Holland’s plan, going with extending overtime to eight minutes, but have one sixminute period of four-on-four and one two-minute period of three-on-three. I’m still not sold on 3-on-3, but I’m willing to look at because it was exciting in the 1980s when we had more three-on-three action. Extending the length of a hockey game by several minutes wouldn’t bother me. My hunch is that longer games would bother TV executives more than fans. Frankly, the NHL’s first order of business before any shootout change is made should be to survey fans about their opinions. After all, they are paying the tab for the sport on a nightly basis.
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