The Essentials WHAT #8 Michigan H&H vs #1 Notre Dame WHERE Joyce Ice Arena (Friday)/Yost Ice Arena (Saturday) WHEN 8:05 PM Friday, 7:35 PM Saturday THE LINE Uh… do they have college hockey lines? TELEVISION Friday on CBS College Sports, Saturday on FSN *(NCAA football lines courtesy BetUS spor...

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One more time to the well. This Kampfer thing appears to be over, and I'm still pissed and you should be too. In all likelihood, Steve Kampfer is going to have to skate against the two guys who did this to him next year. Those games are going to be kegs of gunpowder, and Kampfer is going to cringe a...

  Back on the Kampfer thing: we should set an expectation for punishments. I've obsessively read every comment on every message board and every article on the incident and it appears the general consensus is that both players should come in for heavy discipline but probably won't. Certainly Com...

By Matt Mackinder/Michigan Beat Writer Apparently, Michigan State feels that if you can't beat 'em, well, beat 'em. At the end of the third period in the Wolverines' 5-3 win over MSU Saturday night, Michigan defenseman Steve Kampfer was decked from behind by Andrew Conboy, who then knocked Kampfer t...

Steve Kampfer takes his status as a Wolverine to heart, albeit in this case its the variety with an adamantium skeleton: Junior defenseman Steve Kampfer appears set to play in the GLI, Berenson said last Friday, and he'd likely be paired with Tristin Llewellyn or Chad Langlais. The tournament would ...