Greetings from the U.P.!

I'll be live-blogging from tonight's game in Houghton, Mich., where the sun came out today! That's momentous in a place that gets 20 feet of snow.

Game time is 5 p.m. MT. December's Lightning College Hockey Classic and October's series at New Hampshire are the only other times this season the Tigers have played in the Eastern Time Zone and they won't play in it again after this series.

Left wing Scott McCulloch didn't make the trip, as he is still recovering from a concussion.

Here are tonight's lines:

Colorado College
10 Thauwald--14 Rau--23 Kilpatrick
21 Sweatt--19 Vlassopoulos--25 Testwuide
5 DeBoer--22 Walsky--28 Schultz
18 Overman--17 Johnson--9 McMillin

8 Hillen--15 Prosser
7 Fredheim--4 Gannon
11 Connelly--24 Lowery

30 Bachman
31 O'Connell

Michigan Tech
9 Gwilliam--14 Rouleau--23 Shelast
11 Foote--16 Royer--19 Kerr
28 Kitti--13 Angelow--21 Bunger
22 Baker--18 Gagne--25 Kivisto

12 Kinrade--10 Schwarz
4 Malekoff--5 Dobson
26 Cousens--8 VanWagner

29 Teslak
37 Nolan
33 Hachey