Hockey News Hockey News
News | Roster | Schedules--Results | Archives
12/6/2008-Hockey
Detroit News Boys Hockey Preview
Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood: Always a contender for the Division 3 state championship, Cranbrook is out to improve upon last year's 21-7 record and quarterfinal overtime loss. With 11 players returning, Cranbrook is much quicker, stronger, older and more experienced. Defenseman Matt Wahl is its leader and igo-to guy.
Orchard Lake St. Mary: After struggling through a mediocre regular season last year, OLSM strung together five victories in its last seven games and carried that momentum into the playoffs, where it tied for the state championship with Marquette. Eight players are graduated from last year, including Billy Balent and Ryan Morley-Stockton, but players like senior defenseman Max Uhrin return.
Detroit Catholic Central: Greg Marrow (first-team all-state) graduated, but Brent Darnell, who is committed to Michigan State as a junior; Tony Thomas and Nick Gatt are among the 15 players returning. Also, 12 of 22 players are from C.C.'s successful junior varsity program,
Trenton: Expectations are high for Trenton, which returns 11 players from last year's Division 2 state championship team. Losing Mr. Hockey winner Josh Miller and Scott Henegar to graduation leaves a large void in leadership, and it's up to captains Cam Wojtala and defensemen Jon Wilson and Ben McPartlin to fill it. Given time, they will.
Warren DeLaSalle: DeLaSalle is coming off its best year as a program, winning the Michigan Metro League championship, Catholic League championship and advancing into the quarterfinals before losing 3-2 to eventual Division 2 state champion Trenton. Dexter Jacques, David Sitarski and Chris Clements graduated, but goalie John Kleinhans, Frank Sorise and Steve Vandenberghe return.
Copyright 2008, St. Mary's Preparatory, Orchard Lake, Michigan. All rights reserved.
No logos, photographs, or graphics on the site may be reproduced without written permission.