MICHIGAN STING FOUNDER SAM CUPP BEING REMEMBERD! MITCH ALBOM SAID: ” DEATH ENDS A LIFE – NOT A RELATIONSHIP!”   WEEK TWO PLAYOFFS HABS   1     HAWKS   1 Playoff hockey at its best!  Hawks Captain Mark Smyth scores on the games first shift and “Gentleman” Don Coutley goes five hole for the Habs in this penalty free…

CONGRATS TO THE FIRST PLACE WINGS WHO WILL ENJOY A FOUR POINT HEAD START INTO THE PLAYOFFS! TALK ABOUT PARITY! WINGS END UP 2 POINTS UP ON THE UP AND COMING FLYERS. SHARKS WERE IN THIRD PLACE AND THE HAWKS, HABS AND BRUINS ALL TIED FOR FOURTH OR LAST, DEPENDING  ON YOUR PERSPECTIVE! SAM CUPP WOULD BE PROUD!   STAT…

CONGRATS TO THE WIRE TO WIRE FIRST PLACE BRUINS! THE BRUINS AND THE FIRST HALF WINNERS WINGS WILL HAVE A TWO POINT HEAD START INTO THE PLAYOFFS. STAT LEADERS: POINTS – ROBERT STEMPIAN – 32 GOALS – ROBERT STEMPIAN – 21 ASSISTS – PAT BERRY – 19 PENALTY MINUTES – JEFF MORTON – 22 GOALS AGAINST – MIKE SCHLIMGEN –…

  SOME MEMBERS OF THE MICHIGAN STING INCLUDING MYSELF FACED OFF AGAINST THE SPECIAL NEEDS MICHIGAN FLYERS TEAM THIS PAST SATURDAY IN ST. CLAIR SHORES. A GREAT TIME WAS HAD BY ALL!   RIP THE GOLDEN JET!   SHARKS   5     HAWKS   2 Deuces wild for John Cornish and sub Scott Davenport and Greg Stacy with the…

  CAPTAINED BY PAUL GILES, MYSELF AND SOME MEMBERS OF THE MICHIGAN STING, FACED OFF AGAINST THE SPECIAL NEEDS MICHIGAN FLYERS TEAM THIS PAST SATURDAY IN ST. CLAIR SHORES. A GREAT TIME WAS HAD BY ALL! “GENTLEMAN” DON COURTLEY WAS THE STING MVP!!   RIP THE GOLDEN JET!   WINGS   1     HAWKS   1 A goalie clinic…

A WEEK BEFORE OLYMPIA STADIUM WAS DEMOLISHED IN 1987, MYSELF AND MY WIFE, DAD AND BROTHER WENT INTO OLYMPIA STADIUM. PRIED OPEN THE PLYWOOD BACK DOOR. BELOW ARE SOME PICTURES FROM THAT SPECIAL EXCURSION! THE BACK DOOR WE WENT IN.   NOTICE THE “O’ MISSING ON TOP. SOMEONE GOT IT!  UNBELIEVABLE! MARQUEE LETTERS GONE! A CARCASS OF THE OVER HANGING…

A WEEK BEFORE OLYMPIA STADIUM WAS DEMOLISHED IN 1987, MYSELF AND MY WIFE, DAD AND BROTHER WENT INTO OLYMPIA STADIUM. PRIED OPEN THE PLYWOOD BACK DOOR. BELOW ARE SOME PICTURES FROM THAT SPECIAL EXCURSION! THE BACK DOOR WE WENT IN.   NOTICE THE “O’ MISSING ON TOP. SOMEONE GOT IT!  UNBELIEVABLE! MARQUEE LETTERS GONE! A CARCASS OF THE OVER HANGING…

I WENT TO THE RED WINGS GAME SATURDAY. SEATED THE FIRST ROW BEHIND THE WINGS BENCH. NOT TOO SHABBY! THE MICHIGAN STINGS OWN TREVOR THOMPSON PICTURED.   HAWKS   3     FLYERS   3 Flyers score twice in the games last two minutes – their last goal with the goalie pulled, for the tie!  Trevor Wrobel with their first…

I WENT TO THE RED WINGS GAME SATURDAY. SEATED THE FIRST ROW BEHIND THE WINGS BENCH. NOT TOO SHABBY! THE MICHIGAN STINGS OWN TREVOR THOMPSON PICTURED.   HAWKS   2      HABS   0 Hawks sub puck stopper Billy Papciak with the well earned whitewash!  A very good game that could have gone either way.  Power winger Jeff Morton…

A BLAST FROM THE PAST! FOR ALL YOU OLD-TIME EAST SIDERS YOU WILL ENJOY THIS! HEILMAN’S ICE RINK WHERE I FIRST STARTED PLAYING HOCKEY IN 1964. YOU CAN SEE BURBANK GRADE SCHOOL IN THE BACKGROUND. GOTTA LOVE THE FEDORA’S! YES – YOUNGSTERS – THERE WAS OUTDOOR HOCKEY BEFORE THE WINTER CLASSIC’S! PREGAME SHOVELING AND SKATING AGAINST THE WIND – SOMETIMES…