Score: Michigan 4 Bowling Green 0
Scoring Summary: Caporusso (Wohlberg, Brown, 2nd), Caporusso (Langlais, 3rd), Lebler (Brown, 3rd), Burlon (Rust, Lynch, 3rd)*
Shots: Michigan 40 Bowling Green 21
All stats courtesy of CCHA.com

Overall, a very well played game by Michigan. They dominated for the most part and Hogan was sharp when he had to be. Nice to see Louie start scoring again, the team will need his scoring touch if they hope to really succeed in the CCHA tournament. After a slow start, Michigan got one goal in a really good second period and then dominated the third, scoring three times, twice in the last 5 minutes of the game. In a strange quirk, according to the Michigan Daily, Eno somehow broke his pads and Bowling Green was forced to place their backup, Hammond, into the game. Hammond was responsible for all 4 goals by Michigan.

Crowd Aspects:
The crowd was pretty much nonexistent owing to several factors: the snow wreaking havoc on people trying to get to and from the game, the beginning of midterms for students, and the odd timing of a Tuesday night game. Those who did show up did a fine job and made it a much less boring affair than it could have been. The Giant Swedish Flag made it to the game, along with someone who walked in wearing snow shoes. Also appearing was a Yellow M&M, who participated in Score-O and missed both shots.

Crowd Chants for the game (This will be a staple so long as I can remember what we said during the game. Note that the usual "Sieve (both versions), Goal Count, C-Ya," etc. chants will not be mentioned):
Phone Chant: Mom, Dad, Garfield, The Great Pumpkin, Traffic Card (not quite sure what it was), an Oompa Loompa, and the Cast of Jersey Shore all decided to phone in.
The alternate version of "Ref You Suck"
Ugly Goalie
Ugly Jerseys

* The scoring format from here on out will be Goal (Assist, Assist, Period Number in which the goal was scored).

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Team: Bowling Green
Record: 3-14-3 (CCHA Record) 4-19-4 (Overall Record)
Time: Tuesday February 9, 7:35 PM
Where: Yost Ice Arena
Television: Comcast

Michigan will play Bowling Green in the second half of a series that started on Thursday at Bowling Green. Michigan won that game 2-1. After Saturday's loss to Wisconsin, Michigan now sits in 6th place with 34 points, one point back of the teams tied for 4th. Michigan has 3 games in hand against these teams.

Basically, this is a must win game for Michigan, as the rest of the schedule consists of Nebraska-Omaha (currently in 4th place, tied with Alaska-Fairbanks), Northern Michigan (7th), and Notre Dame (also 7th). Bowling Green currently sits in 12th. If Michigan wants any shot at making the tournament, they need to beat teams lower in the standings than them.

The last time Bowling visited Yost, they scored 3 times in the 3rd Period to win 4-2, while Michigan won the next game 4-1 in Toledo. Bowling Green is backstopped by Nick Eno, who was quite sharp in his outing against Michigan back in November at Yost. He sports a 3.13 goals against average and a .899 save %.

A review of the game itself will be posted sometime shortly after the game is over.