{"id":123560,"date":"2020-11-17T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T21:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/?p=123560"},"modified":"2020-11-16T20:25:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T02:25:21","slug":"michigans-mel-pearson-talks-wolverines-pandemic-compressed-big-ten-schedule-uscho-spotlight-college-hockey-podcast-season-3-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2020\/11\/17\/michigans-mel-pearson-talks-wolverines-pandemic-compressed-big-ten-schedule-uscho-spotlight-college-hockey-podcast-season-3-episode-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan&#8217;s Mel Pearson talks Wolverines, pandemic, compressed Big Ten schedule: USCHO Spotlight college hockey podcast Season 3 Episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are joined by Michigan head coach Mel Pearson to discuss this year&#8217;s Wolverines team, preparations in an extended preseason, precautions in the face of the pandemic, and a compressed Big Ten schedule. Pearson also explains the decision made to keep freshman Owen Power at Michigan rather than heading to Canadian World Juniors camp.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to this podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/uscho-spotlight\/id1437717447?mt=2\">on iTunes<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/3185680\/episodes\/feed\">your favorite podcast app<\/a>, or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/user\/uscholive\">Spreaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=42011964&amp;theme=light&amp;playlist=false&amp;playlist-continuous=false&amp;chapters-image=true&amp;episode_image_position=right&amp;hide-likes=false&amp;hide-comments=false&amp;hide-sharing=false&amp;hide-logo=false&amp;hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Sponsor this podcast! Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advertisecast.com\/USCHOSpotlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.advertisecast.com\/USCHOSpotlight<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4>About the hosts<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Jim Connelly<\/strong> is a senior writer at USCHO.com and has been with the site since 1999. He is based in Boston and regularly covers Hockey East. He began with USCHO.com as the correspondent covering the MAAC, which nowadays is known as Atlantic Hockey. Each week during the season, he co-writes &#8220;Tuesday Morning Quarterback.&#8221; Jim is the winner of the 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=45222\">Joe Concannon award<\/a>. He a former color analyst for UMass-Lowell hockey&#8217;s radio network and studio analyst for NESN.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ed Trefzger <\/strong>has been part of USCHO since 1999 and now serves as a senior writer and director of technology. 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