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Alpena hockey team hosts Purple Game tonight

News File Photo Alpena’s Anden Marceau, left, skates toward teammate Tanner Orban to celebrate Orban’s first period goal during a 2020 game against Traverse City West at Northern Lights Arena.

ALPENA — The Alpena High hockey team’s home contest tonight will take on a special significance.

The Wildcats will host their annual Purple Game tonight in support of those affected by cancer. The purple cancer ribbons, which have popped up by the dozens at past Alpena Purple Games, represent all cancers, those affected by cancer, and cancer survivors.

During past Purple Games, the Wildcats have worn purple jerseys, Northern Lights Arena has been decked out in purple decorations and hundreds of “I’m Fighting For” signs have been made available for attendees to fill out the names of family members and friends who have been affected by the disease.

All proceeds collected by the Alpena Blue Line Club tonight will be donated to Friends Together.

Alpena’s first event of this kind — a Pink Game — occurred in Jan. 2013 and supporters of the hockey program have worked to make the game an annual event ever since.

Alpena (17-2) enters the game on a 13-game winning streak and will play Gaylord for the second time in three days.

The Wildcats blanked Gaylord 8-0 in Gaylord on Wednesday, posting their third straight shutout and fifth in their last six games.

Alpena has scored at least eight goals in each of its last three games and could do so again tonight in a Big North Conference matchup against the Blue Devils (4-13).

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