Metro Detroit hockey notebook: Riverview Gabriel Richard becoming battle tested for postseason

Rick DeSana likes to challenge his team in the regular season, loading up the schedule for Riverview Gabriel Richard with top-shelf opponents around the state and from higher divisions than the Division 3 title hopeful. In the first few years he did it, he noticed that eyes got wide and play tensed up. Now, though, going toe-to-toe with deeper or more talented teams doesn’t phase a Riverview Gabriel Richard program that, despite being 9-9-1 at this point in the season, feels like it is very much on the right track. “We're right there,” DeSana said. “So, you know, this season from a coaching standpoint is going well because we've had — we won a really good, tough matchup against Trenton,...