Great Lakes Invitational

Great Lakes Invitational

Sport	College ice hockey
Founded	1965
Founder	John MacInnes, Jack Paterson, Jack Tompkins
No. of teams	4
Venue(s)	Joe Louis Arena (1979–2012, 2014–present) Comerica Park (2013) Olympia Stadium (1965–1978)
Most recent champion(s)	Michigan
Most titles	Michigan (17)
TV partner(s)	Fox Sports Detroit

The Great Lakes Invitational (GLI) is a four-team NCAA men's ice hockey tournament held annually at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit between Christmas and New Year as part of College Hockey at The Joe.

The tournament was born out of a conversation between the general manager of Olympia Stadium, Lincoln Cavalieri, Michigan Tech's legendary coach, John MacInnes, and Detroit Red Wings scout Jack Paterson. The three men were discussing the lack of American-born players in the National Hockey League and concluded that a prestigious collegiate tournament could make a difference by promoting interest in hockey among young athletes, as well as the general public. Jack Tompkins, American Airlines vice president, former University of Michigan goalie, and a member of the Detroit Red Wings organization, championed their vision as well, and together in 1965, they founded the Great Lakes Invitational hockey tournament.

The GLI has grown into one of the premier college and holiday sporting events in the country, originating at Detroit's Olympia Stadium. Michigan Tech, the host for the tournament since its inception, added Michigan as a co-host in 1976 and moved into its present home, Joe Louis Arena, in 1979.

Michigan State University is traditionally selected as a third participant while the fourth is a different team each season. Western Michigan University will participate in 2016, with Bowling Green State University participating in 2017 in the first GLI at the new Detroit arena.

The 2012 edition of the invitational was originally scheduled to take place at Comerica Park in Detroit, MI on December 27–28. The cancellation of the 2013 NHL Winter Classic meant the NHL would not build the additional rink at Comerica Park, therefore the GLI was moved into Joe Louis Arena where it is traditionally played.^[1] Because the lockout prevented 2012's guest, Western Michigan, from playing outdoors at Comerica Park as originally promised, they were invited again in 2013, when the GLI was finally held at Comerica. In a rematch from 2012's Championship game, Western defeated Michigan Tech 1–0 in overtime.

The GLI will move to Little Caesars Arena in 2017, as Joe Louis Arena will be demolished following the 2016-17 hockey season.

Yearly results

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place	Jack Tompkins Trophy (MVP)
2015	Michigan	Michigan Tech	Northern Michigan	Michigan State	Kyle Connor, UM
2014	Michigan	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	Ferris State	Steve Racine, UM
2013	Western Michigan	Michigan Tech	Michigan State	Michigan	Lukas Hafner, WMU
2012	Michigan Tech	Western Michigan	Michigan	Michigan State	Pheonix Copley, MTU
2011	Michigan	Michigan State	Boston College	Michigan Tech	Kevin Clare, UM
2010	Michigan	Colorado College	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	Luke Glendening, UM
2009	Michigan State	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Michigan	Michigan Tech	Brett Perlini, MSU
2008	Michigan	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	North Dakota	Louie Caporusso, UM
2007	Michigan	Michigan Tech	Providence	Michigan State	Billy Sauer, UM
2006	Michigan State	Michigan	Harvard	Michigan Tech	Bryan Lerg, MSU
2005	Colorado College	Michigan State	Michigan	Michigan Tech	Joey Crabb, CC
2004	Michigan State	Michigan	New Hampshire	Michigan Tech	Jim Slater, MSU
2003	Boston College	Michigan State	Michigan	Michigan Tech	Joe Pearce, BC
2002	Boston University	Michigan	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	Sean Fields, BU
2001	North Dakota	Michigan State	Michigan	Michigan Tech	Tim Skarperud, UND
2000	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	Boston College	Michigan	Ryan Miller, MSU
1999	Michigan State	Michigan	Michigan Tech	Lake Superior State	Shawn Horcoff, MSU
1998	Michigan State	Michigan	Northern Michigan	Michigan Tech	Mike Gresl, MSU
1997	Michigan State	Michigan	Michigan Tech	St. Lawrence	Mike Weaver, MSU
1996	Michigan	Lake Superior State	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	Brendan Morrison, UM
1995	Michigan	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	Northern Michigan	Brendan Morrison, UM
1994	Michigan	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	Cornell	Brendan Morrison, UM
1993	Michigan	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	Notre Dame	David Oliver, UM
1992	Michigan	Northern Michigan	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	Cam Stewart, UM
1991	Michigan	Michigan Tech	Michigan State	Harvard	Steve Shields, UM
1990	Michigan	Maine	Michigan Tech	Michigan State	Steve Shields, UM
1989	Michigan	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	Northern Michigan	Warren Sharples, UM
1988	Michigan	North Dakota	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	Todd Brost, UM
1987	Wisconsin	Michigan State	Michigan	Michigan Tech	Dean Anderson, UW
1986	Western Michigan	Michigan	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	Bill Horn, WMU
1985	Michigan State	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Michigan	Michigan Tech	Don McSween, MSU
1984	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	Michigan	Bowling Green	Bob Essensa, MSU
1983	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	Northern Michigan	Michigan	Dan McFall, MSU
1982	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	Michigan	Notre Dame	Dale Krentz, MSU
1981	Notre Dame	Michigan Tech	Michigan, Michigan State		Dave Laurion, ND
1980	Michigan Tech	Michigan	Michigan State	Harvard	Paul Fricker, UM
1979	Michigan Tech	Michigan	Wisconsin	Michigan State	Murray Eaves, UM
1978	Michigan Tech	Ohio State	Boston University	Michigan	John Rockwell, MTU
1977	Michigan Tech	Michigan	Lake Superior State	Western Michigan	Dave Joelson, MTU
1976	Michigan Tech	Michigan	Brown	Bowling Green	Greg Hay, MTU
1975	Michigan	Michigan Tech	Boston University	Pennsylvania	Stu Ostlund, MTU
1974	Michigan Tech	Michigan	Harvard	Yale	Robbie Moore, UM
1973	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	Boston College	Pennsylvania	Tom Ross, MSU
1972	Harvard	Michigan Tech	Boston University	Michigan	Dave Hynes, Har
1971	Michigan Tech	Michigan State	Dartmouth	Notre Dame	Ian Williams, ND
1970	Michigan Tech	Michigan	Colgate	Brown	Mike Usitalo, MTU
1969	New Hampshire	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	Princeton	Larry Smith, UNH
1968	Michigan Tech	Wisconsin	Michigan State	Michigan	Bill Watt, MSU
1967	North Dakota	Michigan Tech	Michigan State	Western Ontario	Roger Bamburak, UND
1966	Michigan	Michigan State	Michigan Tech	Western Ontario	Mel Wakabayashi, UM
1965	Toronto	Michigan Tech	Boston University	Colorado College	Henry Monteith, UT

Team records

Team	Titles	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place	Years participated
Michigan	17	13	10	6	46
Michigan State	12	14	11	5	42
Michigan Tech	10	14	11	16	51
Western Michigan	2	1	0	1	4
North Dakota	2	1	0	1	4
Toronto	1	0	0	0	1
New Hampshire	1	0	1	0	2
Colorado College	1	1	0	1	3
Wisconsin	1	1	1	0	3
Boston College	1	0	3	0	4
Notre Dame	1	0	0	3	4
Boston University	1	0	4	0	5
Harvard	1	0	2	2	5
Maine	0	1	0	0	1
Ohio State	0	1	0	0	1
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	0	2	0	0	2
Lake Superior State	0	1	1	1	3
Northern Michigan	0	1	3	2	6
Colgate	0	0	1	0	1
Dartmouth	0	0	1	0	1
Providence	0	0	1	0	1
Brown	0	0	1	1	2
Cornell	0	0	0	1	1
Ferris State	0	0	0	1	1
Princeton	0	0	0	1	1
St Lawrence	0	0	0	1	1
Yale	0	0	0	1	1
Bowling Green	0	0	0	2	2
Pennsylvania	0	0	0	2	2
Western Ontario	0	0	0	2	2

Gallery

Michigan State and Northern Michigan before the 2015 consolation game
Michigan Tech and Michigan before the 2015 championship game
A face-off during the 2015 championship game
Michigan with the MacInnes Cup after winning the 2015 GLI
Michigan posing with the GLI banner after winning the 2015 tournament

References

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Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey

Venues	Weinberg Coliseum (1914–1973) Yost Ice Arena (1973–present)

Coaches	Joseph Barss (1922–27) Eddie Lowrey (1927–44) Vic Heyliger (1944–57) Al Renfrew (1957–73) Dan Farrell (1973–80) Wilf Martin (1980) John Giordano (1980–84) Red Berenson (1984–present)

Seasons	1934–35 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Conference affiliations	WCHA (1951–1958, 1959–1981) CCHA (1981–2013) Big Ten (2013–Present)

Rivalries	Michigan State

Culture & lore	Great Lakes Invitational The Big Chill at the Big House Cold War

All-time leaders	Brendan Morrison (284 Points) Denny Felsner (139 Goals) Marty Turco (127 Wins)

National championships	1948 1951 1952 1953 1955 1956 1964 1996 1998

Frozen Four appearances	1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1962 1964 1977 1992 1993 1995 1996 1997 1998 2001 2002 2003 2008 2011

NCAA Tournament appearances	1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1962 1964 1977 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Conference Tournament champions	CCHA: 1994 1996 1997 1999 2002 2003 2005 2008 2010

Hobey Baker winners	Brendan Morrison (1997) Kevin Porter (2008)

University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI

Michigan State Spartans men's ice hockey

Playing venues	Demonstration Hall (1949–1974) Munn Ice Arena (1974–present)

Head coaches	John Kobs (1924–1930) Harold Paulsen (1949–1951) Amo Bessone (1951–1979) Ron Mason (1979–2002) Rick Comley (2002–2011) Tom Anastos (2011–present)

Conference affiliations	WCHA (1951–1958, 1959–1981) CCHA (1981–2013) Big Ten (2013–Present)

Rivalries	Michigan

Culture & lore	Great Lakes Invitational Cold War The Big Chill at the Big House

All-time leaders	Tom Ross (324 Points) Tom Ross (138 Goals) Chad Alban (88 Wins)

National championships	1966 1986 2007

Frozen Four appearances	1959 1966 1967 1984 1986 1987 1989 1992 1999 2001 2007

NCAA Tournament appearances	1959 1966 1967 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2004 2006 2007 2008 2012

Conference Tournament champions	CCHA: 1982 1983 1984 1985 1987 1989 1990 1998 2000 2001 2006

Hobey Baker winners	Kip Miller (1990) Ryan Miller (2001)

Michigan State University East Lansing, MI

Michigan Tech Huskies men's ice hockey

Playing venues	Dee Stadium (1943–1972) MacInnes Student Ice Arena (1972–present)

Head Coaches	E. R. Lovel (1919–20) Elmer Siotte (1920–21, 1923-24) Mike Fay (1921–22) Bill Murdoch (1922–23) Leon Harvey (1924–26) Carlos Haug (1926–29) Bert Noblet (1929–37) Joe Savini (1937–38) Ed Maki (1938–41, 1945-48) Elwin Romnes (1941–43) Amo Bessone (1948–1951) Al Renfrew (1951–56) John MacInnes (1956–82) Jim Nahrgang (1982–85) Herb Boxer (1985–1990) Newell Brown (1990–1992) Bob Mancini (1992–96) Tim Watters (1996–2000) Mike Sertich (2000–2003) Jamie Russell (2003–2011) Mel Pearson (2011–present)

Conference affiliations	WCHA (1951–1958, 1959–1981, 1984–Present) CCHA (1981–1984)

Culture & lore	Great Lakes Invitational

All-time leaders	Mike Zuke (310 Points) Mike Zuke (133 Goals)

National Championships	1962 1965 1975

Frozen Four appearances	1956 1960 1962 1965 1969 1970 1974 1975 1976 1981

NCAA Tournament appearances	1956 1960 1962 1965 1969 1970 1974 1975 1976 1981 2015

Conference Championships	WCHA: 1960 1962 1965 1969 1970 1974 1975 1976 1981

Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI

Michigan Technological University

Campus	Sherman Field MacInnes Student Ice Arena Memorial Union Building Mont Ripley Seaman Mineral Museum

Athletics	Blizzard T. Husky Great Lakes Invitational Men's ice hockey Miner's Cup

Student groups	Huskies Pep Band WMTU-FM

Other	Alberta, Michigan Michigan Tech Research Institute Winter Carnival Women at Michigan Tech

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