Going to the NHL Draft

We are officially off to Ottawa for the NHL Draft after the NHL Confirmed us today. We will have coverage updates on a Special "OU Hockey Show" June 18 @ 5pm before we make the drive to Ottawa. We will post updates on here and wxousports.com as well. We are also going to a special conference with Anaheim Ducks GM Brian Burke while in Ottawa and will update you on that.

Pittsburgh Penguins Fan Interrupting Mickey Redmond Pre-Game

JENKS PREPARES FOR NHL ENTRY DRAFT

"Although the National Hockey League Entry Draft isn’t until June 20 in Ottawa, Plymouth Whalers center AJ Jenks has been preparing for the draft for a long time." Read More from the Plymouth Whalers

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Memorial cup breaks in half spokane vs kitchener

Yearego Ready to Return and Dominate

"After his first season at Oakland University defenseman Anthony Yearego learned an obvious but valuable lesson “The game is not over ‘til the last horn.” Yearego said. Especially at Oakland where in the past few seasons the Grizzlies have experienced
multiple late game heroics." Read More

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Rick Kaminski Named as the new Men’s ACHA Division 3 Commissioner

"Effective Wednesday, May 21, 2008, the American Collegiate Hockey Association [ACHA] appointed Rick Kaminski as the new Men’s Division 3 Commissioner.

Rick will be responsible for the administration and management of all the day-to-day operations of the ACHA Men’s Division 3.


Rick’s involvement with the ACHA dates back to the 2003-2004 season, when he was appointed as the Men’s Division 2 Central Regional Coordinator. " Read More

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Stacy Mosely Named Associate Director of Athletics

Stacy Mosely has been named Associate Director of Athletics in charge of internal operations at Oakland University, announced Director of Athletics Tracy Huth on Friday. Read More

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Goodbye, Zamboni: Japanese debut iceless skating rinks

Yahoo Article

Checking in with Anthony Yearego

This week I had a chance to catch up and check in with Grizzlies Defenseman Anthony Yearego I will have that up sometime in the next few days right here

Some key topics will be how his injury has progressed, what the Grizzlies need to do to return to the championship and how his off-season has been thus far.

Golden Grizzlies Sign Matt Samuels

Just In: "The Oakland University men's basketball team has made yet another addition to its recruiting class, coach Greg Kampe announced Tuesday, as Matt Samuels has signed a National Letter of Intent to compete for the Golden Grizzlies in the 2008-09 season. The addition of Samuels rounds out arguably the top recruiting class in school history." Read Full Release

Greg Kampe Photo: OU Athletics

Oakland needed a point guard badly and this is perfect. I love this recruiting class. Maynard (who has a fan club at WXOU apprently) Thames and Cush things are going to be pretty good in Grizzly basketball land

updated finals schedule

NEW YORK (May 19, 2008)—The National Hockey League announced today that the 2008 Stanley Cup Final will open on Saturday, May 24, when the Western Conference champion Detroit Red Wings host the Eastern Conference champion Pittsburgh Penguins at Joe Louis Arena.

VERSUS will telecast Games 1 and 2 of the best-of-seven series in the U.S., while NBC will broadcast Games 3 through 7. In Canada, CBC and RDS will provide coverage for the entire series. All start times are 8 p.m., Eastern.

The NHL Network, the League’s 24-hour, all-access pass to the most comprehensive hockey coverage, will feature special programming surrounding the Stanley Cup Final. NHL Network will air a live pre-game edition of NHL On The Fly from the host arena at 6 p.m., ET, as well as live, on-site, post-game coverage featuring press conferences, highlights and analysis.

2008 Stanley Cup Final Schedule (all start times 8 p.m., ET)

Game 1, Saturday, May 24:
Pittsburgh at Detroit (VERSUS, CBC, RDS, NHL Radio)

Game 2, Monday, May 26:
Pittsburgh at Detroit (VERSUS, CBC, RDS, NHL Radio)

Game 3, Wednesday, May 28:
Detroit at Pittsburgh (NBC, CBC, RDS, NHL Radio)

Game 4, Saturday, May 31:
Detroit at Pittsburgh (NBC, CBC, RDS, NHL Radio)

Game 5, Monday, June 2 (if necessary):
Pittsburgh at Detroit (NBC, CBC, RDS, NHL Radio)

Game 6, Wednesday, June 4 (if nececssary):
Detroit at Pittsburgh (NBC, CBC, RDS, NHL Radio)

Game 7, Saturday, June 7 (if necessary):
Pittsburgh at Detroit (NBC, CBC, RDS, NHL Radio)

Glow Puckbunny technology

"So Versus, the network of hockey and bull riding (which are sometimes indistinguishable, especially in triple overtime) is planning to bring back a modified version of the Fox Glow Puck, the worst TV creation since Baywatch Nights (I would have loved to have been there for that pitch: "It's like Baywatch, but without the skimpy bathing suits! Just more bad dialogue! And vampires!")" Read More from James Duthie

Photo; James Duthie from TSN

YouTubed!

A video has appeared on Youtube of Ashley Giwa and Corey Hagood after covering Presidential hopeful John McCain after coming from his speech inside OU to the protest outside!

and a photo from Highland Wire!

10 Questions: Jessica Pike

"OUGrizzlies.com recently had the chance to visit with two time all-league women's basketball player Jessica Pike about her off-season preparations, her experience as an OU student-athlete, and her thoughts on the 2008-09 women's basketball season." Read More

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Broadcast update

Just testing out the broadcast for hockey...don't mine us!

I think this may be the way to go it has live chat so during the games u the fans can chat live and it has live polling so we can poll the listeners

NBC Stanley Cup Finals Schedule

From NBC:

Saturday, May 31, 8 p.m. ET
Stanley Cup Finals (Game 3)

Monday, June 2, 8 p.m. ET
Stanley Cup Finals (Game 4)

Wednesday, June 4, 8 p.m. ET
Stanley Cup Finals (Game 5 if necessary)

Saturday, June 7, 8 p.m. ET
Stanely Cup Finals (Game 6 if necessary)

Monday, June 9, 8 p.m. ET
Stanley Cup Finals (Game 7 if necessary)

New Web video For OU Hockey

This off-season our project has been working on an online video for Oakland University Hockey. Last season I got a lot of "where can I see that goal, hit, save ect.." or "can you upload my goal for my buddy/parent to see" and ect... from players, fans, parents. So we decided to debut "OU Hockey TV" for the 2008-2009 season that will feature those things we mentioned along with interviews and special features.

We are about 70% away from this becoming a reality with some more testing we need to do. So far everything has come to place nicely on this. Hopefully you all will enjoy it. Ideas that you have for this can be emailed to us as well.

Ribeiro Slash on Osgood

Video from Versus

a Look Back at Wings-Avs

OU’s B-Jay Walker Suffers Career Ending Injury

"Oakland University men’s basketball coach Greg Kampe announced today that senior guard B-Jay Walker suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in a pick-up game. He will have to undergo surgery to repair the knee. Walker, who has had reconstructive surgery on both shoulders in the past year, has decided to forgo his final year of eligibility due to the injuries." Read More at ougrizzlies.com

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