{"id":550652,"date":"2026-04-11T23:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550652\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T23:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:09:14","slug":"report-michigan-hockeys-michael-hage-returning-for-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550652\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Michigan Hockey\u2019s Michael Hage returning for 2026-27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/contributor\/emily-kaplan\/9b5d228e69395\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> on Saturday, Michigan forward Michael Hage is expected to return to the program for his junior year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hage \u2014 who was the 21st overall pick in the 2024 NHL Draft and is expected to play for the Montreal Candiens \u2014 was the nation\u2019s leader in assists last season. He finished the 2025-26 season with 13 goals and 39 assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">His freshman season was just as impressive. Hage was the Big Ten Rookie of the Year after scoring 12 goals and picking 21 assists. Hage is a crucial piece of helping Michigan\u2019s offense run. The Wolverines had the top-scoring offense in all of college hockey this season. Despite losing players like Hughes, the Wolverines have a chance at getting some other crucial pieces back for another season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Wolverines lost 4-3 in double overtime to the Denver Pioneers on Thursday in the Frozen Four. Michigan is hoping to break a streak of Frozen Four losses in the near future, and having Hage return could certainly help with that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Thoughts on Hage returning for another year? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to multiple reports on Saturday, Michigan forward Michael Hage is expected to return to the program for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[5,3564],"class_list":{"0":"post-550652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-michigan-hockey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116388597849146756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}