by Mitch Albom | Mar 5, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
At the end of the season, if you’re the best player in the NHL, the trophy they give you is named after Ted Lindsay. That’s all you really need to know. He won four Stanley Cups and once led the league in scoring, was a Red Wings general manager and briefly their...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 5, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
This is the first week of the rest of the Detroit Red Wings’ life. Their new life. As ground dwellers. They let go of the mountain last week, trading all easily movable players to stockpile draft picks. It is the kind of move teams make when they realize the...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Feb 7, 2017 | News, Theatre
Back by popular demand, Mitch Albom’s original plays Ernie and Hockey – The Musical! will return to City Theatre inside Hockeytown Cafe. Ernie, about the legendary Detroit Tigers announcer, will return for its seventh year beginning Thursday, June 8...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Nov 9, 2016 | News, Theatre
It’s with deep sadness that I post news of the death of Bernadine Vida, a dear, talented lady who designed the costumes for our show Hockey – The Musical! this past summer in Detroit. Bernadine had a long and storied career in costuming, having worked in film and...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 13, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Hank Zetterberg is seeing ghosts. He sits in an empty Joe Louis Arena locker room and actually nods in their direction as he praises them — Steve Yzerman, who used to sit on his left, Nick Lidstrom, who sat a few stalls down on his right. “You do know they’re gone,” I...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 12, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Reflecting on the tales centered around Gordie Howe–Mr. Hockey–shows he touched most of metro Detroit, hockey world in special way Here’s a Gordie Howe story. He was playing at the old Olympia, and an opposing player hit him and somehow cut his hand....
by Mitch Albom | Jun 10, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Superman just bid us farewell. It’s hard to believe, Gordie Howe dying, because for so many years, he seemed immune to all of life’s blows. From a terrible early head injury that might have ended other players’ careers, to a stroke a few years ago that brought him to...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Jun 7, 2016 | News, Theatre
Detroit’s newest power play from Mitch Albom extended through July 10th Mitch Albom and Olympia Entertainment are proud to announce a three-week extension of the acclaimed author and playwright’s first musical, Hockey – The Musical!. The new show dates for the...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | May 9, 2016 | News, Theatre
Mitch and the cast members appeared on Live in the D this morning! Giving Chuck and the viewers a little preview of the upcoming world premiere of Hockey the Musical! When the Lord decides the world has too many sports, He decides to wipe out one – hockey – to...
by Mitch Albom | May 8, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Comment, Theatre
Mothers want their kids to get along. Play nice.… Tell him you’re sorry. … These are sentences heard around the world, right? For most of my adult life, my mother urged me to have a close relationship with my brother. For much of it, I failed. Or we both did....