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(It\222s 4:30 a.m. on a Thursday and Oakland University ice hockey player\
Sean Trueblood is up. In less than two hours, the right)Tj
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(wing will pad up at The Onyx, OU\222s home rink. Before then, he\222s go\
t to shower, down breakfast, pull his books together for after-)Tj
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(practice engineering classes and drive an hour.)Tj
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(There\222s no luxury in hockey, except maybe in winning. And that\222s w\
hat Trueblood and the other 24 players on OU\222s Division II)Tj
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(club team plan to do this year. The season starts Sept. 27 with a match \
up against Bowling Green.)Tj
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(\223We\222re going to win, a lot,\224 says Trueblood\222s teammate Chris\
Ballach. The sophomore joined the team this year as a goalie.)Tj
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(\223We\222re having high-intensity practices. The lines are getting toge\
ther. We\222re fast.\224)Tj
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(They need to be fast, says Center Ron Kolito, a junior pre-med major. \223\
We\222re not a very big team \(physically\). We\222re not going)Tj
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(to play crash and burn hockey. We\222re going to win on speed.\224)Tj
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(If they do win, it won\222t just be just speed that takes them home. Add\
in talent, agility and plain old determination. The team)Tj
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(practiced all summer, on and off the ice. Most of the players carry at l\
east 12 credits and hold down part-time jobs to help pay)Tj
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(tuition. From September through March, they\222ll hit the ice a minimum \
of three times per week, and often four times.)Tj
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(That determination took the Grizzlies to nationals last season for the s\
econd year running. Of 123 American Collegiate Hockey)Tj
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(Association Division II club teams, only 16 make it to nationals. OU wal\
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(also pulled out a winning record, 15-13-3.)Tj
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(This year\222s 29-game, regular-season schedule pits them against Divisi\
on I teams nine times. Last year, OU joined the newly)Tj
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(formed Great Midwest Hockey League, along with Michigan State University\
, the University of Michigan, Ferris State, Indiana)Tj
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(University and Miami University of Ohio.)Tj
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(\223We have by far one of the toughest schedules in the league,\224 said\
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(prove that we can compete against the best teams, and we want to prepare\
our team for playoffs and nationals.\224)Tj
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(The team heads into the season with a new head coach. Rick Kaminski come\
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(served as an assistant coach for the past four years. He helped take U o\
f M\222s team to the national championships last season.)Tj
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(Kaminski replaces OU Hockey Coach Tony Jalaba.)Tj
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(A strapping man, Kaminski is agile on hockey skates, sailing smoothly ac\
ross the ice during practice and shouting out orders to)Tj
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(each line as they climb the boards and take their positions.)Tj
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(It\222s glaringly bright in the Onyx at 7:15 a.m. \226 shockingly so com\
pared to the foggy dusk outside. But everyone on this team is)Tj
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(wide-awake, slamming the boards and flying after that tiny black puck. A\
s it spins toward the other goal, the steely sound of)Tj
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(blades hammering the ice reverberates through the arena\222s empty stand\
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(Kaminski hardly notices, too focused on the scrimmage. He started coachi\
ng when he was 18, taking on a crew of 6-year-olds)Tj
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(on the east side of Detroit. It\222s a little different now, when they\222\
re 20 and three to four times bigger. But building a team still starts)Tj
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(\223We\222ve been stressing team play, quickness and conditioning,\224 K\
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(everything that relates to how a group of players play a game. We\222re \
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(much as team skills.\224)Tj
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(More than half the team is new; about 13 players gained spots this year.\
Veterans returning include Defenseman and Captain)Tj
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(Karl Borgquist, Goalie Shaun Zeldes and Forwards Scott Marlinga and Koli\
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(Forwards William McMahon, Justin Jagels and Ronnie Teasdale.)Tj
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(While the team dons OU black and gold for games, for practice they wear \
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