response 1 of 37:

Jan 7 19:15 UTC 1996

I went down to Yost Ice Arena last night to watch the contest between U-M and
Miami. Note that in this sport there is only one Miami, so there is no need
to  qualify it.

I expected that U-M would be able to win. They had beaten Miami earlier, but
it was a tough struggle. I was not fully prepared for the result, though.

Every time any one went in the penalty box, U-M scored. It didn't matter
whether it was a power play or shorthanded. It was amazing. I hadn't been to
a game all season. I usually don't go during football season, and now tickets
are awfully hard to come by. It was great to watch Botterill get a hat trick
in his first game back after playing with the Canadian Junior team.
It was also great to see Morrison, and of course a shutout by Turco, with 
a little help from a walk-on backup goalie at the end.

Final score 13-0. 

response 3 of 37:

Jan 13 06:41 UTC 1996

They beat Chicago Circle tonight, but I don't have the details yet.

response 5 of 37:

Jan 28 08:18 UTC 1996

I heard that they struggled to a tie in the OSU game. Very disappointing.

response 7 of 37:

Mar 5 02:17 UTC 1996

Oh..I also went to the UM vs. OSU game the day before that I believe when UM
won 3-0.  Good game...UM doesn't seem to have the same offense as they do
against other teams when they play OSU for some reason though.  I even got
a free, cheap, warm up puck with no UM symbol on the side when it flew up into
the seats next to me at the end of warm ups when no one was there...now it
acts as my coaster for my coke :)

response 9 of 37:

Mar 10 14:32 UTC 1996

Haha...nope...they played Miami...last home game of the year...kinda
depressing.  I love going to the games!  Well...at least they don't lose too
many of their players, which means they will have another championship team
returning :)

response 11 of 37:

Mar 16 03:05 UTC 1996

Fair?  Heh..right now it's murder!  UM is currently up 5-1 in the second
period...not even mid way through...Turco just made another great save! :)
Looks like it's all UM right now...I don't know who won the LSSU/BG game, but
it looks like whoever it was, they'll be playing UM.  Oh..wait..it's now 5-2
UM.

response 13 of 37:

Mar 20 13:39 UTC 1996

Actually...It's UM, MSU, Western Michigan, BGSU, and LSSU...5 teams. Very
impressive indeed.  Of course, I'm pulling for Michigan and hope that they
finally win one of these things and don't lose in triple overtime again like
they did against Maine last year after being up 3-1.  If they make it to the
final four, they'll most likely face Boston U., which would make a pretty good
matchup.  Go Blue!

response 15 of 37:

Mar 21 03:03 UTC 1996

Oh..I'm a little surprised that BGSU didn't make the tournament after the way
they played this year.  I mean, they did have a really good year, then beating
Western Michigan in the playoffs before losing to LSSU.  I never thought that
they'd beat WSU.  I always thought that WSU was underrated this year,
especially after the way they crushed UM twice in a row, like 8-1 and um..I
don't remember the other score.  Oh well...anyways, like I said before, GO
BLUE!

response 17 of 37:

Mar 24 02:21 UTC 1996

Well..looks like WMU's history...I don't remember who the other game was
between though.

response 19 of 37:

Mar 24 19:06 UTC 1996

Yipes.

I just found out that the UM-UMN game will be shown on cable
in AA and Ypsi only. Continental cable has picked up the rights and placed
it on cable 19. I am posting here in the hope that someone who cares will
see it in time to do some good.

Sorry if you are not in the coverage area, AA and Ypsi Cable only.

THANK YOU CONTINENTAL!

response 21 of 37:

Mar 24 22:43 UTC 1996

Well the first period saw UM dominated in most aspects of the game. I think
they got a total of 3 shots, and were very lucky to be down only 2-1.
The second period was much more of a Michigan period. The shots were 
roughly even, but U-M definitely took advantage and tied the game on an
amazing shot that will undoubtedly be the first choice for the news clips on
TV tonight. Mike Legg was left alone behind the Minnesota goal with the puck.
He had no one to pass it to -- everyone was covered. He scooped the puck up
on his stick, and reached around to drop it into the top right corner of the
net, over Goalie DeBus's left shoulder. It wouldn't really be honest to call
it a shot. It was the rough equivalent of a slam-dunk in Basketball.

I have seen players do this before in practice -- never in a game. It is not
an easy skill to be able to hold a puck in the air on the blade of your stick.
If any of the gophers had expected it, it would have been easy to defense --
it would have fallen off of his stick if anyone had even breathed on it.

Then in the third period they scored a great goal to go ahead 3-2, but got
defensive too early, and gave up the tie with something around 5 minutes left
in the game. Everybody started thinking it would go into overtime, as the game
had been a defensive struggle so far, with lots of great checking.

But no, Bill Muckalt scored the game winner for Michigan with 2 minutes left,
off a great pass-out from the boards by Brendan Morisson.

--

I am not sure of the matchups for next week, but I believe that of CC beats
UML in the second game, Michigan will play Vermont, but if UML upsets CC then
Michigan will get Clarkson instead. Those games will be in Cincinnati.

The college hockey homepage will have these details after the CC-UML game.

response 23 of 37:

Mar 27 23:49 UTC 1996

Oops..and CC vs. Vermont or someone like that?