Today on Conquering Heroes, we're going to head over to Yost Ice Arena and talk to the captain of the Michigan hockey team, and that is Nick Blankenberg.

Stay tuned for your hockey update here on Conquering Heroes.

Welcome to your one-stop podcast for all things, Michigan Athletics.

Updates on every team on campus and interviews with players and coaches are all on the way.

This is Conquering Heroes.

Here's your host, John Chanson.

I'm now joined by the captain of the Michigan ice hockey team.

That's Nick Blankenberg. Nick, thanks for joining us.

And what's it like playing with so much star power around you? You got so many big time

NHL draft picks. What's it been like in that locker room? Yeah, I mean, obviously they're unbelievable hockey players, but more important than that,

they're even better guys.

And they're just guys that you want to be around at the rink, just seeing their work ethic

and how they carry themselves.

So that's such young guys.

They definitely can teach the older guys a few things, which is always a good thing.

And we're there for them, however we can be with their, with how they are and what they do.

But it's been awesome.

It's been, it's been a blessing just to be around these guys.

And I don't think we realize just how thankful we can be just appear on these guys

and every single day and it's exciting to see.

I mean, I was talking to guys throughout the year and just said how excited we are to see

these guys go on and play NHL games and that's just awesome to see.

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