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Wunder Back Home After Strong Season In Canada
 ESCANABA----Escanaba High School graduate Levi Wunder has completed his first season of junior hockey. Wunder won the Rookie of the Year award for the Drumheller Dragons of the Alberta Junior Hockey League in western Canada. Wunder was the Dragons' leading scorer despite being a rookie, tallying 25 goals and 28 assists for 53 points in 59 games played. The Dragons were eliminated from the league playoffs earlier this week by Canmore (Alta.), and finished with a 25-29-6 record. Wunder is back home in Escanaba after a 23-hour drive from western Canada. He spoke at the Escanaba High School hockey team's post-season banque Tuesday night. "It was definitely tough," Wunder said of his first junior campaign. "It's a 16-team league, with eight teams in each division. You battle guys you see three times, maybe, in a weekend. They ;pick up on your team's characteristics. It's just a battle every night." But Wunder adapted well to the grind of a 59-game schedule, so far from home. "I think it's just working hard every day," Wunder said. "Showing up to the rink with a good attitude. You know, there were some tough times during the season. We went on an eight-game skid. But then we'd go on an eight-game winning streak. Just those ups and downs is hard to deal with. But you learn as you go." Wunder says playing junior hockey is much faster and tougher than high school hockey. "You've always got to have your head up," Wunder said. "That's a huge thing. To play with your head up all the time, see the ice, and make plays, and get to open ice. Playing away from the puck, I learned, is maybe even bigger than playing with the puck." Wunder shattered every Eskymo scoring record on the books between 2012 and 2015, and in his senior year, had 46 goals and 46 assists for 92 points in 29 high school games played. Wunder was runner-up for Michigan's Mr. Hockey award, and was the winner of the Warrior Sports Michigan Hockey Player of the Year. Wunder has committed to playing college hockey for NCAA-Division One Alabama-Huntsville after his junior hockey career ends in 2017. |
| Date | Time | Opponent | Score | Record |
11/20 |
7:00 PM |
at Alpena Wildcats
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1 - 2 (L)
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0-1-0
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11/21 |
1:00 PM |
at Alpena Wildcats
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7 - 2 (W)
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1-1-0
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11/24 |
7:00 PM |
at Kingsford Flivvers
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3 - 2 (W)
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2-1-0
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12/1 |
7:00 PM |
Marquette Redmen
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3 - 2 (W)
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3-1-0
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12/5 |
5:00 PM |
Houghton Gremlins
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1 - 0 (W)
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4-1-0
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12/7 |
7:00 PM |
at Negaunee Miners
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13 - 0 (W)
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5-1-0
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12/12 |
1:00 PM |
Hancock Bulldogs
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2 - 5 (L)
|
5-2-0
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12/18 |
5:00 PM |
at Midland Dow High School
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1 - 3 (L)
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5-3-0
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12/19 |
12:00 PM |
at Midland Chemics
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5 - 3 (W)
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6-3-0
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12/30 |
7:00 PM |
Painesdale-Jeffers Jets
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8 - 1 (W)
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7-3-0
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1/3 |
1:00 PM |
Cheboygan Chiefs
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8 - 0 (W)
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8-3-0
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1/8 |
7:30 PM |
Central Algoma, Ontario
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4 - 1 (W)
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9-3-0
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1/9 |
1:00 PM |
Central Algoma, Ontario
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9 - 2 (W)
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10-3-0
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1/15 |
4:00 PM |
Macomb Dakota
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5 - 4 (W)
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11-3-0
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1/16 |
12:30 PM |
Grand Haven High School
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10 - 0 (W)
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12-3-0
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1/19 |
7:00 PM |
at Marquette Redmen
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2 - 0 (W)
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13-3-0
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1/21 |
7:00 PM |
Calumet Copper Kings
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2 - 4 (L)
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13-4-0
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1/28 |
6:00 PM |
at Chelsea Bulldogs
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3 - 3 (T)
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13-4-1
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1/29 |
10:00 AM |
at Romeo High School
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3 - 5 (L)
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13-5-1
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1/30 |
12:00 PM |
at Berkley-Ferndale United
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4 - 4 (T)
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13-5-2
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2/4 |
7:00 PM |
Kingsford Flivvers
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4 - 1 (W)
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14-5-2
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2/13 |
1:00 PM |
at Houghton Gremlins
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3 - 3 (T)
|
14-5-3
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2/19 |
5:00 PM |
at Calumet Copper Kings
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2 - 2 (T)
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14-5-4
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2/20 |
1:00 PM |
at Hancock Bulldogs
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2 - 3 (L)
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14-6-4
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2/25 |
7:30 PM |
Negaunee Miners
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8 - 3 (W)
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15-6-4
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3/1 |
7:00 PM |
Marquette Redmen
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1 - 2 (L)
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15-7-4
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