Graced By Rain

Elaine counts down the top five best moments for the Grand Rapids Griffins since the 2026 AHL All-Star Break .

She also gives an update on where she's been and on the Griffins Charitable Goals.

On this episode of the “Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins”, our host Elaine Shircliff quickly touches on the beauty of Dominik Shine's family celebrating his 500th AHL Game together and the relationship of Shine and Brian Lashoff.

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Graced By Rain LLC is run by Elaine Shircliff out of Michigan. The purpose of “Graced By Rain” is to highlight the beauty in life. You can read articles, blog posts, and creative writing posts, on ⁠GracedByRain.com⁠.

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The Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) are the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings (NHL). They play out of Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and are currently have a blazing hot record of 22-1-0-1.

Michael Spruit joins Elaine Shircliff on “Graced By Rain” to discuss the beauty of concerts and the Grand Rapids Griffins. 

Spruit is a multimedia creator from Michigan who spent eight years working in professional hockey—first with the Grand Rapids Griffins from 2014 to 2018, where he was part of the team during their 2017 Calder Cup championship run, and then with the Detroit Red Wings from 2018 to 2021, traveling with the team and creating behind-the-scenes content.

These days, he leads multimedia projects for LLYC, a marketing agency with an office in Grand Rapids, but his other passion is live music. Michael’s been to more than 65 concerts and seen over 130 different bands—from Foo Fighters and Green Day to local favorites like Mustard Plug. Recently, he started tracking his “Concert Alphabet” , where he’s working his way through the alphabet, one live show at a time.  With only V and X remaining.

Whether it’s hockey or live music, he’s all about capturing moments that bring people together.

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Michael’s Social Media: 

TikTok: @michaelspruit

Instagram: @michaelspruit  

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Graced By Rain LLC is run by Elaine Shircliff out of Michigan. The purpose of “Graced By Rain” is to highlight the beauty in life. You can read articles, blog posts, and creative writing posts, on ⁠GracedByRain.com⁠.

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The Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) are the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings (NHL). They play out of Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and are currently on a hot streak,starting the season 19-1--0-1. 

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Michael Spruit’s Concert Alphabet as of 12/08/2025:

• A Day To Remember

• All Time Low

• Angel Du$t

• Aquabats

• Backstreet Boys

• Badfish

• Baylee Littrell

• Beach Slang

• Beauty School Dropout

• Billy Strings

• Bill Nershi

• Blood or Whiskey

• Bob Dylan

• Boob Sweat

• Break Anchor

• Brett Eldredge

• Bouncing Souls

• Buckcherry

• Cabildo

• Campanellis

• Cauterize

• Cavo

• Cheap Girls

• Chevelle

• Chris Pandolfi

• Chuck Ragan

• Concussions

• Dashboard Confessional

• Daughtry

• Dave Hause

• Dead Daisies

• Dead Milkmen

• Descendents

• Disturbed

• Domestic Problems

• Drake White

• Dropkick Murphys

• Electric 6

• English Beat

• Evanescence

• Every Time I Die

• Fall Out Boy

• Flogging Molly

• Foo Fighters

• Frank Iero

• Gang of Youths

• Godsmack

• Great Good Fine Ok

• Green Day

• Green Room Rockers

• Halestorm

• Half Past Two

• Hard Lessons

• Hunter Valentine

• Interrupters

• Jake Burns

• Janet Jackson

• John Mailander

• JROB w/Bedrock

• Kaiser Chiefs

• Karisa Wilson

• Kenny Wayne Shepherd

• Kesha

• Kid Rock

• Kill Lincoln

• KISS

• Koffin Kats

• Kilograms

• Lemon Twigs

• Lifehouse

• Lionel Richie

• Little Dragon

• Lynn Thompson Band

• Mac Sabbath

• Mahones

• MALAFACHA

• Mark Lavengood

• Mars Volta

• Mavis Staples

• Mayday Parade

• MGK (Machine Gun Kelly)

• Molly

• Molly Tuttle

• Murder Party

• Mushmen

• Mustard Plug

• MxPx

• My Chemical Romance

• New Found Glory

• Nickelback

• O.A.R.

• Offspring

• Papa Roach

• Paradox

• Planet Smashers

• PotatoeBabies

• Pretty Reckless

• Queens of the Stone Age

• Rancid

• Relient K

• Scratch

• Shinedown

• Sierra Hull

• Simien the Whale

• Skinny Lister

• Social Distortion

• Strokes

• Story of the Year

• Sum 41

• Supergrass

• Teenage Bottlerocket

• Thompson Square

• Three Days Grace

• Thundercat

• Thursday

• Time Again

• Toasters

• Turnstile

• The Used

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• Weezer

• Who

• Wonder Years

• Write-Ups

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• Yellowcard

• Zebrahead

• ZZ Top

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On this episode of the “Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins”, our host Elaine Shircliff discusses the duality of forward Eduards Tralmaks, Jakub Rychlovsky being a team dad, and the loving souls of Griffins legends Travis Richards, Michel Picard, and Jeff Hoggan. 

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THE GRIFFINS SHOW JUST HOW RESILIENT THEY ARE + Cossa Returns but Lombardi Gets Injured (EP208)

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Graced By Rain LLC is run by Elaine Shircliff out of Michigan. The purpose of “Graced By Rain” is to highlight the beauty in life. You can read articles, blog posts, and creative writing posts, on ⁠GracedByRain.com⁠.

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The Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) are the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings (NHL). They play out of Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and are currently on a hot streak,starting the season 19-1--0-1.

Another Monday, another round of “The Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins”. On these segments, our host, Elaine Shircliff, discusses a few things that she found beautiful surrounding the Griffins.

On this week’s episode, Elaine discusses how Carter Gylander has been playing since he was reassigned to the Grand Rapids from the Toledo Walleye on November 8th, 2025.

She also takes a moment to talk about the 10-0-0-1 Griffins!Share your favorite moments from the past week with Elaine at any of her socials below! ---------TikTok : ⁠@imaraindancer⁠Youtube :⁠ @gracedbyrain⁠X: ⁠@GracedByRainPod⁠BlueSky : ⁠@imaraindancer.bsky.social⁠Facebook: ⁠ElaineShircliffWriter⁠------Graced By Rain LLC is run by Elaine Shircliff out of Michigan. The purpose of “Graced By Rain” is to highlight the beauty in life. You can read articles, blog posts, and creative writing posts, on ⁠GracedByRain.com⁠.------The Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) are the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings (NHL). They play out of Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and are currently on a hot streak,starting the season 10–0-0-1.

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Another Monday, another round of “The Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins”. On these segments, our host, Elaine Shircliff, discusses a few things that she found beautiful surrounding the Griffins. 

On this week’s episode I give you my Top 5 favorite parts of Amanda Lagesson’s interview with the GRG Better Halves. 

Lagesson is the wife of Alternate Captain William Lagesson.

The GRG Better Halves was started by the Grand Rapids Griffins wives and girlfriends in 2003 to showcase their community service and relationships with their partners. 

Share your favorite moments from the past week with Elaine at any of her socials below! 

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You can find the Q & A the Griffins Better Halves did with Amanda here

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Graced By Rain LLC is run by Elaine Shircliff out of Michigan. The purpose of “Graced By Rain” is to highlight the beauty in life. You can read articles, blog posts, and creative writing posts, on ⁠GracedByRain.com⁠.

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The Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) are the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings (NHL). They play out of Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and are currently on a hot streak,starting the season 8–0-0-1. 

Another Monday, another round of “The Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins”. On these segments, our host, Elaine Shircliff, discusses a few things that she found beautiful surrounding the Griffins. 

On this week’s episode I dive into the beauty of how defenseman Erik Gustafsson handled his daughter’s Celiacs Diagnosis and dive into my own experience with having a gluten allergy, which is different than Celiacs but the diet and some of the symptoms are similar. 

I also touched on his mindset since being sent down to the Griffins.

Share your favorite moments from the past week with Elaine at any of her socials below! 

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Graced By Rain LLC is run by Elaine Shircliff out of Michigan. The purpose of “Graced By Rain” is to highlight the beauty in life. You can read articles, blog posts, and creative writing posts, on ⁠GracedByRain.com⁠.

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The Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) are the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings (NHL). They play out of Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and are currently on a hot streak,starting the season 8-0. 

The Grand Rapids Griffins and Wilkes Barre Scranton Penguins are off to a blazing hot start to the 2025-26 season.

A 5-0 start for the Griffins is the franchise record for hottest start to a season. The only other season they accomplished this feat was 2004-05.

The Penguins are on a massive 7-0 streak to start the season.

Both have huge games coming up in the last week of October. Their hopes are to keep the streak alive.

On Monday, October 28, 2025, I sat down with Wilkes Barre Scranton Penguins beat reporter Sam Wismer of Olde City Sports to discuss what it's like to cover a wagon of a team. We also discussed a few other AHL and hockey related things !

Enjoy!

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Johnny and Matt Gaudreau tribute that Sam Wismer released early this year.

Part One : ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NREKKywDWjo&t=173s⁠

Part Two : ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmh_AQ3YZKE&t=7s⁠

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Graced By Rain LLC is run by Elaine Shircliff out of Michigan. The purpose of “Graced By Rain” is to highlight the beauty in life. You can read articles, blog posts, and creative writing posts, on ⁠⁠GracedByRain.com⁠⁠.

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The Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) are the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings (NHL). They play out of Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and are currently on a hot streak,starting the season 5-0. 

The Wilkes Barre Scranton Penguins (AHL) are the farm team of the Pittsburgh Penguins (NHL). They are currently on a 7-0 winning streak to start the 2025-26 season.

Another Monday, another round of “The Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins”. On these segments, our host, Elaine Shircliff, discusses a few things that she found beautiful surrounding the Griffins. 

This weekend, I had a chance to speak with Head Coach Dan Watson and Goaltending Coach Roope Koistinen. During both interviews, they mentioned the importance of staying in the moment and enjoying what is in front of you. 

On this week’s episode, I dove into the beauty of that sentiment. 

Share your favorite moments from the past week with Elaine at any of her socials below! 

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Graced By Rain LLC is run by Elaine Shircliff out of Michigan. The purpose of “Graced By Rain” is to highlight the beauty in life. You can read articles, blog posts, and creative writing posts, on GracedByRain.com.

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The Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) are the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings (NHL). They play out of Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and are currently on a hot streak,starting the season 5-0. 

#GoGRG #GrandRapids #GrandRapidsMichigan #MinorLeagueHockey #LGRW #RedWings #DetroitRedWings #GrandRapidGriffins #Griffins #DanWatson #RoopeKoistinen #Finland #LiveInTheMoment #Beauty #BeautyOfHockey #Beaut #HockeyPodcast #Hockey #AHL #AmericanHockeyLeague #TheAHL #NHL #NationalHockeyLeague

Earlier this season, I had Nick Harrington (s6e2) and Travis Focht (S6E5) from Hockeytown West Podcast on to discuss the farm teams of the Detroit Red Wings : the Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) and the Toledo Walleye (ECHL).

During the course of our recordings, we realized some of the fun parts would be best in a second episode!

Nick and I talked about our love of snacks. Especially the sweet ones.

Travis and I talked about hockey jerseys, and then bonded over our love of Phil Kessel.

Hope you enjoy!!!

Make sure you follow Hockeytown West Podcast! They are putting out some great content about the Griffins this season. It's been fun working alongside them in the locker room.

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Graced By Rain LLC is run by Elaine Shircliff out of Michigan. The purpose of “Graced By Rain” is to highlight the beauty in life. You can read articles, blog posts, and creative writing posts, on GracedByRain.com.