Michigan's Hagelin Hangs Up NHL Skates

Longtime NHL left wing Carl Hagelin (Michigan) has decided to call it a playing career. The Sodertalje, Sweden native, who sat out the entire 2022-23 NHL campaign due to an eye injury, has announced his retirement from professional hockey.

Drafted 168th overall in 2007 by the New York Rangers, he played four seasons in Manhattan while helping the Rangers to the 2014 Eastern Conference crown. He also played for Anaheim, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and Washington in his 11-year NHL career, which spanned 713 regular-season contests from 2011 to 2022, and included 110 goals and 186 assists for 296 points. 

Hagelin also added 22-28—50 points in 141 Stanley Cup Playoff contests, and won two Stanley Cup titles with Pittsburgh (2016, 2017). In addition, he appeared in 22 career AHL games with Hartford/Connecticut his first year as a professional, before joining the NHL ranks for good that same year.

Prior to turning pro, Hagelin, 35, skated four full collegiate seasons at Michigan (2007-2011), in which he rang up 61-91—152 points in 171 appearances with the Wolverines. He helped Michigan to the 2008 NCAA Frozen Four as a freshman, and then captained the team his senior season as they came within an overtime goal of a national title. He also helped Michigan to two CCHA regular-season and two conference playoff championships in his career. 

Internationally, Hagelin won a silver medal with Sweden at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, six years after doing the same with Sweden at the 2008 IIHF World Junior Championship.

MSU's Petry Coming Back to Michigan

Jeff Petry (Michigan State) is coming home.

The Ann Arbor native, who spent last season with the Pittsburgh Penguins, will join his home state Detroit Red Wings on the blueline for the 2023-24 NHL campaign, after being traded to them earlier this month for defenseman Gustav Lindstrom and a conditional 2025 fourth-round draft choice. Petry will wear No. 46 with the Red Wings, the same number his father wore as a major league pitcher with the Detroit Tigers.

Petry, 35, tallied five goals and 26 assists for 31 points in 61 games last year with Pittsburgh, which did not qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2006. Prior to the 2022-23 season, he had skated the previous eight years with the Montreal Canadiens, helping the Habs to the 2021 Stanley Cup Final. He began his NHL career with four-plus seasons with the Edmonton Oilers, who drafted him 45th overall in 2006 after his first season of juniors with Des Moines (USHL). In 864 NHL regular-season outings to date, he has collected 92-261—353 points and 349 penalty minutes, while adding 5-8—13 points and 18 PIM in 61 career Stanley Cup Playoff appearances.

The 6-foot-3, 209-pound Petry played three years on defense at MSU, from 2007 to 2010. He totaled 9-58—67 points and 86 PIM in 118 contests overall with the Spartans, while helping them to the 2008 NCAA tournament.

Union College Now Garnet Chargers

Union College announced earlier this month it is changing its nickname to Garnet Chargers, starting with the 2023-24 school year. Garnet has been the school's primary color for a century-and-a-half. The university has also introduced a new logo to coincide with the new name.

According to USCHO.com, the Union men's hockey team, which originally began play in 1903, was known as the Skating Dutchmen until 2002, when it dropped "Skating" from the nickname. Union went on to win the 2014 NCAA Division I men's hockey national championship. 

The Union women's program started up in 1999 and switched to Skating Dutchwomen in 2002 before becoming just the Dutchwomen the following season. They Union women have never recorded a winning campaign in their short existence.

The Union men went 14-19-2 overall last season, while the women finished 11-22-1. Both remain members of ECAC Hockey. The only other NCAA Division I hockey school nicknamed "Chargers" was Alabama-Huntsville, although UAH has been dormant since May 2021.