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January 10, 2008 - North American Hockey League (NAHL)
Alpena IceDiggers News Release


Alpena MI: The North American Hockey League has three division league with eighteen teams total. The Alpena IceDiggers (19-12-2 40 pts.) play in the very competitive North division and find themselves in a battle for positioning within the standings.

The St. Louis Bandits (26-6-1 53 pts.) hold a comfortable nine point lead on the rest of the division but after that things get tight three teams including Alpena sit only one or two points apart in the standings.

Alpena who will play host to the Marquette Rangers (20-11-2 42 pts.) this Friday and Saturday night at Northern Lights Arena begin the weekend only two points out of second place. Both games start at 7:00PM.

"We know that it is a very long year and one weekend does not make or break your season but this could be our biggest weekend yet." said GM - head coach Kenny Miller. "With the showcase next week it would be good to go into that on a high." The IceDiggers travel to Mahoning Valley (19-9-3 41 pts.) next weekend to play in the North division showcase, Alpena will play St. Louis and the USA U-17 team (15-15-2 32 pts.) twice each.

The IceDiggers are coming off a weekend sweep where they defeated Marquette on Friday 7-3 and Traverse City (11-14-8 30 pts.) on Sunday 4-3 in a SO.

"Friday might have been our best effort this year, we got down early and found a way to come back and get a win, we need to play for 60 minutes every night to win in this division." added Miller

Erik Peterson led the way with 8 points in two games earning player of the week honors. Nick Graves picked up both wins in net stopping a total of 61 shots for his 5th and 6th win since joining the IceDiggers.

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