{"id":97357,"date":"2011-12-30T23:17:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T05:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/ccha-blog\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2011-12-30T23:17:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T05:17:03","slug":"notes-from-the-gli-championship-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2011\/12\/30\/notes-from-the-gli-championship-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the GLI championship game"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Wolverines were the defending Great Lakes Invitational champs, having beaten Colorado College 6-5 in 2010. Including tonight’s win, Michigan has won the GLI title 16 times and these UM seniors have won all but one of their years with Michigan — 2009, the last time Michigan State was crowned GLI champs.<\/p>\n
Michigan State head coach Tom Anastos is a storyteller and a very good one. Here, Anastos explains a few of the turns of the game in the post-game press conference. The voice you hear off camera is that of Neil Koepke, who wrote for the Lansing State Journal<\/i> for years. Koepke — one of the best in the business — is an MSU staff writer now.
\n[youtube_sc url=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wpLDUmUth9g&feature=youtu.be width=500]<\/p>\nA difference of opinion<\/h4>\n
Not surprisingly, Michigan head coach Red Berenson has a very different take on the lack of television timeouts in overtime.
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The winner of the GLI gets to raise a banner to the rafters of Joe Louis Arena. The GLI banner hangs all year, and the winning team is on display until the following year’s tournament.
\nI’m no videographer — clearly — but here’s what I was able to get of the Wolverines raising the banner and leaving the ice.
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Clare, who scored the overtime game winner, was named tournament MVP. With 90 saves in the tournament, 45 each night, Palmisano set a new GLI record. His save percentage for the tourney was .957.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Successful defense The Wolverines were the defending Great Lakes Invitational champs, having beaten Colorado College 6-5 in 2010. Including tonight’s win, Michigan has won the GLI title 16 times and these UM seniors have won all but one of their years with Michigan — 2009, the last time Michigan State was crowned GLI champs. He’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1425],"tags":[1300,1483],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n