Michigan Hockey News
1. Luke Glendening named captain for next season. Assistant/Alternate captains include Shawn Hunwick, David Wolhberg, and Greg Pateryn.
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/051811aaa.html
2. The final three candidates for the assistant coaching postion are Matt Herr, Bill Muckalt, and Brian Wiseman. All three are former players and Herr and Muckalt were part of the 96 and 98 national championship teams.
http://michiganhockey.net/2011/05/18/three-finalists-for-assistant-coac…
3. Zach Hyman, the Canadian Junior A Player of the Year, commited today for next season. He was also looking at Boston College, Boston University, and Minnesota-Duluth. He was a fifth round pick of the Florida Panthers and tallied over 100 points this past season.
http://michiganhockey.net/2011/05/18/zachhyman-picks-michigan/
Awesomesauce.
Can we get a Hello to the Hy-Man!?!?!
hyman: does he start with M in 11 or 12?
Pretty sure he'll be part of this fall's class (http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/051711aaa.html).
Didn't Herr play baseball as well? I thought I heard a story how an OSU player hit a homer off of him, did a little "who let the dogs out" type of celebration, and by doing essentially forced Herr to hit the next batter in the head with a fastball. One could argue that situation was bushleague both ways, but yo, our helmets have wings.
Drafted by the Atlanta Braves. Herr is also head coach of the baseball team at Kent Prep School and according to his bio there teaches A.P Psychology and U.S History, in addition to coaching the hockey team.
lol hyman is one letter away from something else...
but he's a badass hockey player.
A shy man?
Duh.
and a Princeton decommit at that
From all of the rumblings I have been hearing inside Yost is that the favorite is Herr. He is a great coach and I had the opportunity to play against him out East at prep school. He really turned Kent around from his first year there. They were awful, and now they are highly regarded as a East Coast hockey school.
I would prefer Weisman and Herr over Muckalt for numerous reasons. I'm holding out hope its either one of them.
Edit:
Watching Hyman's highlight tape, he looks like a gamer. His skating needs work, he doesn't look like one of those Michigan freshmen (JMFJ, Tambellini, Comrie, etc) that will dominate in year one, but should be a solid role player. I think he has a lot of upside, but people should not expect this kid to come in and give the offense a major boost its been missing for 2 years.
Louie signed his professional contract.
Great to hear about Hyman. Don't know much about hockey scouting, but he seems like a player from what I've read. And the team needs offense something awful.
Can't complain about any of the candidates for the assistant coaching opening. All three represented the school well when they were players, and each was pretty darn good on the ice as well.
First time Hyman scores next season I'm using this call: "Hyman TEARS through the neutral zone, SQUEEZES through two defenders, RIPS a shot from the circle, HE SCORESSSS!"
On that note, any students interested in joining WCBN next year... this is the kind of stuff you live for. Hit me on the twitters (@amgodd) if interested.
if the shot comes from the slot or near the crease it would be that much better... or worse... or something.
...is needed. Hunwick, Pateryn and Wohlberg are Alternate Captains, not Assistant Captains.
which ever former player gets the assistant coaching job...it will hopefully work out well. Also good to hear we have a scorer coming in next year...we needed one with all the losses on offense and this is a good bridge to the following year which has some good prospects coming to Ann Arbor
in joining the long line of distinguished Michigan hockey captains.