Per USCHO (https://www.uscho.com/2026/04/15/reports-yost-damaged-in-wind-storm), Michigan's Yost Arena suffered damage to its roof this week on Tax Day 2026, rendering it unusable for a while.
The USCHO Staff report says, "Large metal pieces from the arena's roof were scattered around the building, according to reports, with debris lodged in nearby trees and blown into the backyards of nearby homes. The damage was the result of a severe, overnight storm that featured thunderstorms and strong winds <"featured"? hello, get me rewrite> across the region. Damage included toppled trees and power lines, and a vehicle flipped on its side, according to reports."
I was thinking the vehicle flipped could just as well have been in celebration of men's basketball winning the NCAA championship, that or #1 Michigan men's hockey was ousted in NCAA semifinals double overtime by Denver.
In hopes of filling in more details that USCHO's first reporting, I looked up the arena: Yost Ice Arena was originally the Fielding H. Yost Field House (as in for basketball) since the 1920s, an ice surface was laid down in 1973 and over the years capacity has jumped around:
Capacity:
8,100 (1973–1991)
7,235 (1991–1996)
6,343 (1996–2001)
6,637 (2001–2012)
5,800 (2012–present)
Yost has drawn as much as 8,411 for a single game, against Michigan State, in 1988, and 19,114 for a weekend series against Cornell, March 15-17, 1991.
[thread drift:] Note that as the number of seats have gone down, the number of premium seats at Yost has gone up by several hundred. It turns out that as sports fans age (or get richer), they tend to not want to have people in the bench seat row above sticking their knees in your backs. <cough cough> Lynah.