Fans eager to see professional hockey players in action several weeks before training camp can do so later this month, all while supporting a good cause.
Dylan Larkin is among several Red Wings and former Wolverines playing in the "Stars & Stripes Showdown" on Sunday, Aug. 26 at the USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth.
The game is being played in honor of the late Jim Johannson, who died unexpectedly at age 53 this past January. Johannson had worked for USA Hockey since 2000, including the previous 11 years as assistant executive director of hockey operations. The proceeds from the Stars & Stripes Showdown will benefit both the Jim Johannson Legacy Fund of the USA Hockey Foundation, which benefit grassroots community hockey programs across the country, and the Ellie Johannson College Fund, for Jim's two-year-old daughter.