3/28/2010 – Michigan 5, Bemidji State 1 – 26-17-1 3/29/2010 – Michigan 2, Miami 3 (2 OT) – 26-18-1, season over Ariel Bond / Daily Indiana's state motto is "The Crossroads of America," which promises nothing more than the ability to leave it. As you do so the towns radiating northward from Fort Wayne on I-69 have ill-omened names like Angola and Waterloo and make you wish you had a heinous ex-girlfriend named Ashley or a bone to pick with Auburn, color or university, doesn't matter. There, the flat American expanse of a pitch-black highway makes prime brooding habitat. Nearby zings of color and denuded trees that make their presence known by obscuring something flashing red in the distance provide momentary focal points that slip past, their steady movement drawing the primitive sections of your intelligence and slightly distracting you from the reason you're staring grimly at a Big Lots that closed hours ago. The recent past recedes at 80 miles an ho
Michigan is heading to Boston for it's NCAA-leading 26th Frozen Four, hoping to add to its NCAA-leading nine National Champions banners. Since I started closely following Michigan Hockey back in my freshman year of 2003-04, the Wolverines have made it to the final weekend just three times. In April 2008, Michigan was the best team in the country, flying through the CCHA and Albany Regional, led by Hobey Baker winner Kevin Porter and his winger Chad Kolarik. Everything Porter touched that season turned to goals. Unfortunately, Billy Sauer never really got the hang of playing at the Pepsi Center and the best team in the country came up a little short in OT to (surprise) Notre Dame. A few years later in 2011 a scrappy group of seniors led by Carl Hagelin, Matt Rust, and Louie Caporusso.not to mention Mighty Mite Super Goalie Shawn Hunwick.fought and clawed their way to St Paul through a two goal deficit and overtime winner again Nebraska-Omaha and then held on in a tight nail-biter