What is Gulo Gulo?
Gulo Gulo Hockey is the world’s preeminent coverage of the University of Michigan men’s ice hockey team. Gulo Gulo isn’t about aggregating scores or providing rote game recaps. Instead, it is your best source for engaging narrative journalism about the most talented college hockey team in history. Expect semiweekly essays guiding you through the Wolverines’ season, a blend of on-ice analysis, historical touchstones, and musings on the aesthetic merits of college hockey.
At least most of the time. Sometimes, we will wander elsewhere across the hockey map, pausing to review the latest in hockey media, daring a foray into NHL punditry, or reminiscing on our fondest on-ice memories.
This site was born because its author was tired of a lot of the hockey writing he stumbled into across the internet. At Gulo Gulo, we are bored of scoffing at the AAV on the latest NHL contract signed. We think analytic player cards have grown so accurate as to suck the joy out of watching a game. What we love about hockey is the possibility of creation within and despite rigid and oppressive institutional infrastructure. We aren’t interested in thinking about the game through pixelated snapshots. Instead, we’d rather study its sprawling continuities. We’d rather laugh at its absurdities and marvel at its wonders.
We think relevance is important, of course, but we also feel no compunction about distinguishing between it and contemporality. We often find websites so devoted to providing you with the latest information that they offer commentary so of the moment it grows stale within hours, much less days.
At Gulo Gulo, our mission is simple: providing compelling and unique coverage of Michigan hockey and whatever else strikes our interest at any given time. Mostly, it will concern hockey, but, if you’ll allow us the indulgence, we’d love to cast a slightly wider net. If that sounds fun to you, join us by subscribing. If you’d prefer not to, we’ll harbor no grudges.
If you’d like to reach out to Gulo Gulo, we’d love to hear from you. Write to us at gulogulohockey@gmail.com
We hope you’ll enjoy reading this newsletter as much as we enjoy writing it.
