The IHL's Muskegon Lumberjacks will fold after this season and be replaced in Muskegon with a junior team in the United States Hockey League, the Muskegon Chronicle reported.

Here’s the good news for the Port Huron Icehawks tonight: They were only a touchdown and a field goal away from winning the game.9-1? Are you kidding?

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- First off, I wanted to check in and tell you all that I will be back soon from covering the Super Bowl. And I wanted to thank Ben Smith for standing in so capably. For your amusement and clicking pleasure, though: See this

The Muskegon Chronicle has a story in which the Lumberjacks' owners confirm that a move out of professional hockey and to the United States Hockey League is a possibility.

Well, that was startling, to say the least.For almost 52 minutes the Komets were so serenely in command of the Dayton Gems tonight I was, I confess to say, already composing my game story. Something about Nick Boucher’s first shutout of the season.

While I was watching the Komets take a 1-0 lead over Dayton in the first period tonight … I asked Komets president Michael Franke about the rumors aloft that Muskegon might be contemplating a jump to the juniors in the USHL.

OK, so last week I took some shots at those hideous “Exorcist” Green jerseys Quad City was wearing, during my stint as Justin’s stunt double. So it’s only fair I turn the tables on what the Komets are wearing tonight.

Claude Noel, who was named interim coach of the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday, has ties to the Komets.

The Komets' Nick Boucher was selected as IHL Goaltender of the Month. He went 3-1-0 with a 1.71 goals-against average and a .953 save percentage.

Dick Zimmerman, a former statistician, goal judge and public-address announcer with the Komets, died at 83 Monday, the team confirmed. He and his wife, Flossie, worked for the team in various capacities for more than 50 years. The Zimmermans are referred to by some as the first family of Komets hockey.

I know I defended the Bloomington PrairieThunder, after the Flint Generals signed a bunch of goons before what would be a heated game recently. (I still think that was a little much by the Generals.) But trouble does certainly seem to be following the PrairieThunder these days.

Cathie Rowand of The Journal Gazette has some great photos from Friday's 4-1 victory by the Komets over Quad City. Click here to see them.

God bless those Quad City Mallards. They may not know how to dress, but they sure have an impeccable sense of timing.

Yoo-hoo, over here. It's Justin's stunt double, Ben Smith, and we're one period deep between the Komets and Quad City. Leo Thomas' sweet wraparound goal has given the Komets a 1-0 lead.

Center Rick Varone, who was waived by the Komets on Thursday to make room for Mitch Woods, has been acquired by the Bloomington PrairieThunder.Varone, a member of the IHL's All-Rookie Team last season, was picked up by Flint on waivers, then traded to the PrairieThunder for future considerations.He is expected to be in the lineup tonight at Dayton, Ohio.

Remember when the Komets' Brad MacMillan got suspended one game for hitting a Bloomington player with his own helmet in a fight this season.