Lake Superior State actually won an NCCA Championship a while back. I'm pretty sure ice hockey is the only sport they're actually any good at all in. They brought a better game tonight, though. Yost IS a fun place to see a game.
Michigan's next home game should be even more exciting. 109,901 tickets sold. What, can't find room for 99 more to break the 110k mark?
When you've got 9 championships, every other program seems....
/complete and total arrogance
Yeah, I was just pointing out the ridiculousness of those majors. They're still a CCHA school, which in my mind means they should have some pretty good hockey players. However, besides Schofield and a few others, I was not overly impressed by the Lakers. They seemed to have a lot of big guys who cannot skate very well. Trotman, who we rode the entire game, was a traffic cone. Mahoney-Wilson, one of their goalies, actually went to Catholic Memorial, but he started both games as the back up sieve (he came in for two periods on Friday after Kapalka gave up 4 in the first).
The star of the weekend was certainly Kevin Lynch. Friday was a complete team effort, so I can't really say that anyone in particular stood out. Last night, Lynch scored two of the goals (Burlon sniped the other) and doubled his total goals from 3 to 6 over the weekend.
I'm still waiting for Carl Hagelin and Louie Caporusso to really get in the groove. Hagelin has to be one of the best skaters in college hockey and it seems with the responsibility of the captaincy, he is taking a more assertive role all over the ice (he's been more physical than he last year). He's been playing primarily with Matt Rust (probably the most overlooked player on the team) and Lynch. I believe they played with Chris Brown instead of Lynch for most of last year. Caporusso was a huge reason why we made it to NCAAs last year and won the CCHA. Obviously, Hunwick's emergence energized the team, but Louie was absolutely on fire for the second half last season. Every time Michigan needed an important goal, it seemed he would step up. He's not having a bad start, but I definitely could see him doing more. Both these players were in the Hobey Baker conversation at the beginning of the season, although Carter Camper might be running away with that right now.
I have high hopes for this team. I think they've got great depth, and any line can do some damage. It says something when your three top scorers (Hagelin, Wohlberg, Vaughan) heading into the weekend (goal scorers I mean) are all on different lines. The defenders are contributing too. I've been very impressed with what I've seen from Freshmen, Jon Merrill. He has started since the beginning of the season and we needed someone to step up after Chris Summers and Steve Kampfer graduated. You have a strong senior class led by Hagelin, Caporusso, Rust, Langlais, Hunwick, and Hogan. You also have an emerging sophomore class with Lynch, Brown, AJ Treais, and Lee Moffie. It should be a very good season.
Before the Big Chill, we still have trips to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ohio State. Should be interesting. I'm not going to have anything to do on my Friday and Saturday evenings.