The NCAA's Michigan Wolverines travel to Tempe, Arizona this weekend to take on the Arizona State Sun Devils in a hockey game and Clearing the Benches will be there to bring you all the action!

These games will be loaded with NHL first round talent including Michael Hage.

The Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team is the college ice hockey team that represents the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Earning varsity status in 1922, the program has competed in 102 seasons. Between 1959 and 1981, the team competed in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) before joining the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) until the 2012–13 season.[3] Since the 2013–14 season, the Wolverines have competed in the Big Ten, which began sponsoring hockey.

Michigan has had many successes as a program including a record-setting number of championships, total championship tournament appearances, and consecutive tournament appearances. From 1991 to 2012, the team played in 22 consecutive NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments, an NCAA record.[3] The Wolverines have won nine Division I NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championships,[3] seven of which came during a 17-year stretch between 1948 and 1964. Two more championships were won under head coach Red Berenson in 1996 and 1998.[3] The Wolverines have won the second-most all-time NCAA National Hockey Championships with nine (1948, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1964, 1996, 1998), behind the Denver Pioneers record ten championships.

Players from the program have earned numerous honors, professional championships, international championships, individual statistical championships, team and individual records. The most recent head coach was Mel Pearson, a former assistant to coach Red Berenson who retired in 2017 after leading the program for 33 years. Berenson for nearly 50 years has continued to hold the school single-season goal scoring record, and was the second player in the program's history to win the Stanley Cup. The program has dozens of National Hockey League alumni and over twenty current players. They currently hold the record for the most titles at the Great Lakes Invitational with 17 titles respectively. Their traditional rival is Michigan State and the teams have played an annual game in Detroit since 1990, first at Joe Louis Arena but currently at Little Caesars Arena since 2018.

In 2010, Michigan hosted a Guinness verified world record crowd in excess of 113,000 in an event known as The Big Chill.