New Michigan senator Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a former hockey goalie and lifelong Detroit Red Wings fan who says ‘Hockeytown deserves better’
There will be a hockey-loving man representing Hockeytown in the United States Senate for the next six years. Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, an epidemiologist from Southeast Michigan, defeated Republican Mike Rogers in Tuesday's election, winning Michigan's open Senate seat and becoming the first Muslim American elected to the United States Senate. The 42-year-old former public health official…