Chad Cassel wins ACHA DI Coach OF The Year

Chad Cassel Head Coach at the University of Illinois has won the ACHA DI Men's Coach-Of-The Year Award. Read More


They went 38-0 so he was the clear choice.

Hockey Fights

I love goin through Hockey Fights or youtube checkin out different hockey fights. Link Gaetz featured in both here are his all time stats



Two "classics" if u can call em that

PLYMOUTH CAPTAIN ANDREW FOURNIER SIGNS WITH NORFOLK OF AHL

Congrats to Andrew and Chris Terry Read more here

NHL Coach Ratings: Star Wars Edition

If your into Star Wars this may be good for you if not still some funny comments on NHL Coaches

Link here

Future Grizzlies Full of Talent

Two articles for you all today:

Blake Cushingberry's talent is a coach's dream

When stakes are high, Drew Maynard is 'fearless'

Both from the Detroit Free Press

Also All Metro First team:

WXOU Birthday Bash Wednesday

WXOU presents our 42nd Birthday Bash featuring music from We Are The Fury, Chris Bathgate, The Hadituptoheres, and 1964 (not the Beatles' tribute band). Show starts at 7pm inside the Gold Rooms at the Oakland Center. Admission is free to OU students with student ID and only $5 for non-students. There will be food, drinks, and free swag to give out. Fun times to be had by all.

Raining McCain

Regardless of how you feel about politics you have to love the videos people are posting on youtube here is "Raining McCain"

Quebec Remparts at Chicoutimi Sagueneens QMJHL Fight

Check out Patrick Roy and his son:

Plymouth Whalers Playoffs

The Whalers playoffs are about to get underway. They are The 8th seed facing the 1 Seed Kitchener Rangers. The game is about to get underway in the Aud in Kitchener, which is a tough place to play with a good atmosphere. Making the drive there myself a few times it was well worth it! Pete Krupsky has the call at the Plymouth Whalers site

Also good luck to Whalers assistant coach Brian Sommariva as well.

Now never say never with Jeremy Smith back in net as we have seen at Oakland last year when everyone says you can't, including myself and you have a hot goalie (Collin Chase)and key players on D and Forward scoring key clutch goals and playing simple hockey anything can happen. Its a new season and everyone is 0-0 (just as I type this the Rangers Score)

Brad Beer is the Ref so expect lots of calls!

Lucky for our OU Hockey color analyst Kyle Horner is sitting at home in Essex watching it on Rogers Cable

Ouch Talk about letting in a bad goal

Annoying Fans

So at the Summit League Tournament we (Brad Doescher-Corey Hagood) were sitting with members of the OU Media Relation Staff watching the Centenary game and this women all game screaming at the top of her lungs here is a quick clip of her you can even see me on the far left looking at her you can only imagine what I was thinking!

Wednesday Hockey Show 5-6pm

5-6pm "The OU Hockey Show" is on wxou.org and 88.3fm

We will talk about what does OU need in the future
Overall Grade of the season was it a success? Failure? or what is should have been
Recap Illinois Winning Nationals
Where does OU fit in with the rest of the Top teams in the ACHA?
Did OU Rival Davenport Win the Championship? we will discuss.
Who out of the guys on the Roster should get the "C"

Call us 248-370-4274 or message us on aim at wxoudj

What Happened in Tulsa

At the ORU-IUPUI Summit League Tournament Championship Game in Tulsa, OK mascot fight it was not as dramatic as the video makes it seem but they were not joking:

Also it sucked watching ORU celebrate the championship knowing OU's season ended the night before.

D1 Grades Show

Did our grades show today. The reaction was "Hagood your a homer" and that I went to easy on the guys and the Coaches. I have only had 1 upset person for being harsh. I admit I have since January decided to ease up and go lighter on everyone on the show and on the broadcast which has led to the homer comments which fine I guess. I know some fans had noticed and wondered why that was, it was because I thought I was being to harsh at times. Maybe that was a bad move on my part to start throwing softballs around.

For some reason after talking to Coach Gordie Schaeffler today on the show I really do feel they are going to get the exact players they need for next year which includes 3 or 4 pure goal scorers 1 top 4 defender and a solid backup. This was a wakeup call and learning experience for all of us.

Good to see all 4 coaches will be back next season. We are very lucky for that as they will grow and learn from this as well.

Stewart and Ronayne join us

Andrew Stewart and Colin Ronayne will join us Wednesday

Hockey Show Wed 5-6pm

5-6pm on 88.3FM WXOU and www.wxou.org call us at 248-370-4274 or message us on aim at wxoudj

Oakland Hockey Assistant coach Gordie Schaeffler will join us
We recap the National Tournament loss to Oklahoma
Final Season Grades will be given out
What does the future hold?
Who are now the leaders of this squad?

Hopefully we get a player or so on as well.