Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, March 25; 1970 Erratic By JOEL GREER Inconsistent is about the only way to describe the fortunes of the Michigan hockey team this past season. The icers complet- ed their overall season with a 14-16 won-lost record, including a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Wisconsin in the WCHA play- offs. The final game- featured a strong Michigan defense and a weak offense; a complete re- versal of the entire season. Michigan hockey coach Al Ren- frew praised the Badger goal- tending as the key in the play- off defeat. RENFREW ADDED that the team's biggest problem was that "we never put three good per- iods of hockey together." This was evident in many games es- pecially in -the two-game series at Minnesota which Renfrew Icrs crsj termed as "the turning point of the season" for the eventual WCHA champions. Iii both con- tests Michigan held early leads only to see them melt away into convincing defeat. In the opening affair Michi- gan held a 4-2 lead after two periods before their weakened defense collapsed enabling t h e Gophers to grab an 8-6 triumph. THE FOLLOWING afternoon. Michigan leaped to a 3-0 first period lead before falling to de- feat again 6-3. Not only did the Wolverines show a two-face personality dur- ing games, Michigan was also very inconsistent in their two- game sets. Out of twelve week- end series in WCHA play, the icers split nine of them, won one, and lost two. There o n 1 y twin killing came over a hap- less Colorado College squad at prove disappointing the Coliseum taking the Friday contest 8-7 while Karl Bagnell gained his only shutout of the season in the Saturday encount- er with a 6-0 decision. The icers lost pairs to Minnesota-Duluth and to Minnesota. Michigan was not the on 1 y team that was unsteady during the season. Renfrew mentioned that the remainder of the WCHA teams were up one night and down the next with the ex- ception of Denver and Wiscon- son. "They were the most con- sistent squads this year." Asked why league play was unsteady, Renfrew noted that the freshmen rule made the squads accept both last year's freshmen and the new crop of freshmen this season 'That is a lot of untested ability as Michi- gan alone had 11 new players. CORNELL GAINED the NCAAf crown by beating Clarkston in the national finals. Both Wis- consin and Michigan Tech fell in the semis while Clarkston and Cornell advanced. Wisconsin advanced to meet Denver after the victory over Michigan while Denver knocked off Michigan State. Michigan Tech made the na- tionals by upsetting Minnesota in the WCHA eastern finals. To get that far the Huskies had to get by North Dakota while the Gophers needed three over- times to edge Minnesota-Du- luth. "I was not impressed with either Michigan Tech or Wis- consin in the semifinals," Ren- frew noted, "It was perhaps Wisconsin's worst game of the season." Wisconsin coach Bob Johnson explained to Renfrew that his O team probably peked too early in their 6-5 victory over Denver in the WCHA western division finals. K 4 Another major problem t h e Wolverines encountered w a s their forwards failure to back- check. The forwards constant- ly made the defense look bad as many times during the season the forwards were caught up ice. RENFREW MENTIONED that the goaltending came on toward the later part of the season as Karl Bagnell had to make up lost ground since he was inac- tive his entire freshman year. Talking about Michigan's in- effective power play, Renfrew admitted that adequate time was not spent working on the power play as other things were more important. "It was just a dis- appointing year," concluded Renfrew. Next season could be a prom- ising one, however, as only six seniors played on this y e a r s squad. Captain Dave Perrin, who finished third on the team in league scoring (14 goals, 10 assists), along with B a r n e y Pashak will both be missed at left wing while second leading scorer Don Deeks (11 goals, 15 assists) will be missed at center. The Heyliger twins, who spec- ialized in penalty kililng are the remainder of the graduates who will not be back next season. THE ENTIRE defense will re- turn next season with the need- ed experience as Tom Marra was the only veteran defense- man this year. Both Karl Bag- nell and Doug Hastings will re- turn in goal and this was their first year of competition. The offense will be led by Michigan's most successful line 4 For SGC PRESI DENT and VICE-PRESIDENT: MARTY SCOTT and JERRY DE GRIECK' MEMBERS AT LARGE: JIM ZIMMERMAN CYNTHIA STEPHENS DARRYL GORMAN BRUCE WILSON JOAN MARTIN, For LS&A PRESIDENT & VICE-PRESIDENT:- BRAND & FORD (Endorsed) 'SEA ENDORSEMENTS SGC Pres.-V. P. Excellent Marty Scott and Jerry De Grieck Council Members Excellent Cynthia Stevens Bruce Wilson Well Qualified Jim Zimmerman Joan Martin Dale Ocsterle L.S.&A. Student Govnt. Pres.-V. P. Well Qualified David Brand and Brian Ford Qualified Bob Nelson and Ray Littleton -Daily-Dave Schindel Jarry (11) and Gamsby (9) hassle Green Meanies of Bernie Gagnon, Brian Slack and Paul Gamsby. Gagnon led the team in WCHA scoring with 15 goals and 12 assists. He also was named to the all-WCHA se- cond team and should be a sparkplug again next season. Renfrew notes that play in the WCHA is improving overall, and he hopes that Michigan can keep up with the rest of the teams. I 1I NELSON & LITTLETON ! Y INKS PACT TODAY (Endorsed) Pistons to sign Lanier, BUFFALO, N.Y. (A)-All-Amer- fer was a interest-free of 10-year ican Bob, Lanier will sign a $1.5 loan that would enable Lanier to million contract with the Detroit invest and build a large equity Pistons of the National Basketball for himself. Association today, the Associated "I don't know anything about Press learned last night. it," Lanier professed. Lanier, St. Bonaventure's 6-foot- While the 21-year-old player 1 center, will leave his hospital had refused to say with whom he room to join Ed Coil, Detroit gen- wanted to play, he did say Mon- eral manager, in a conference day there was more prestige and room to pen his signature to a competition in the NBA and that five-year pact, he had friends in- the league. Coil, who arrived in Buffalo late Lanier, recovering from his Tuesday, indicated he had Lanier March 15 operation to repair torn4 in the fold. 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