HOUGHTON — After earning a split on the road against then-No. 8 Minnesota, the Michigan Tech Huskies hockey team has spent the last week battling with each other, rather than preparing for another opponent. While the time to work with the 18 new faces, 13 freshmen and five transfers, has been good for first-year head coach Bill Muckalt and his staff, it has also been a bit of a frustration.

The good news? The Huskies hit the road this weekend to face the Alaska Nanooks in Fairbanks, Alaska.

“I think having a bye week’s tough this early in the year, watching other teams play, as much as you can try and replicate in practice the intensity, I don’t think there’s any substitute for playing,” he said. “Having said that, I think we had a good week of practice. I thought we had an awesome morni

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