The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, December 6, 1977-Page 11 uckih dAeu d Partisans thrive ... .0 .on Wolverine win By BRIAN MILLER REFLECTIONS on a successful weekend of Michigan hockey: Three days ago, the Wolverines swept the defending NCAA champion Wisconsin Badgers. Most people who went to the games have calmed down by now, but I'm still excited about what took place. I can picture the action as clearly as when I first saw it all from my seat at Yost Ice Arena. The Great Weekend started early for me - about noon on Friday, to be precise. At that time, when Michigan plays at home, the Dekers Club hosts a luncheon with coaches from both teams in attendance. Badger coach Bob Johnson kept the overflow audience laughing with his story about his hockey injuries, but he didn't say much about his squad. What he did say sounded like pre-game excuses on why his team might not do too well this weekend. Wolverine coach Dan Farrell was also entertaining, joking about his team's 6 losses in 7 games against Wisconsin last year,- with the final loss coming in the NCAA championship game. But it was easy to see that Farrell was slightly nervous about the two game set, predicting "a challenging weekend." Everywhere I -went Friday, I heard people talking about how good Wisconsin is and what a tough struggle the Wolverines were in for. I was at one of Ann Arbor's major banks about three hours before gametime, waiting for some friends to finish their transactions. Having nothing better to do, I eavesdropped on a couple of tellers' conversation. "I can't wait to get out of here," said the first employee. "What's your hurry?" inquired the other. "The Michigan (hockey) game starts at 7:30 and I've got to get home and change first," explained the first teller. "I can't wait - its going to be a helluva series!" With that reminder, I became hyperactive and literally dragged my friends home. I wanted to make sure I'd be at Yost early enough to get my favorite seats behind the goal. While 6.364 rabid fans, second largest crowd of the year at the time, filled the arena, the Hockey Pep Band played the 'M' Fanfare and The Vic- tors. Rarely have I heard so much noise in one place. The arena was literally shaking. And, for the first time in recent memory, Wisconsin's small con- tingent of fans were drowned out by the Michigan followers. When the Badgers scored first and early I thought, maybe the Wolverines' finish last year was a fluke. I admit, I was doubting the ability of this year's team, as Wisconsin absolutely dominated the early part of the game - the first 3:49 to be exact. But then at 3:50, Dan Lerg scored to tie the game; it was the first of his four goals on the night. The crowd, myself in- cluded, went bananas. For the rest of the first period, Michigan and Wisconsin played what both coaches called "the finest period of hockey" each team had played all year. After the first intermission, Michigan was on top, 3-2. That's about the time the fun began for the home crowd and its team. After Mike Eaves tied the game for Wisconsin, Michigan scored, scored and scored again. The Wolverines pumped in three goals in the span of only 1:53. And the crowd went bananas again. Offense and defense-Badgers sputter While Michigan was scoring, Wisconsin's highly touted offense was sput- tering. If passes made it to the slot, the Badgers' centers either shot wide, fanned on the shot or were stopped by the brilliant acrobatic goaltending of Frank Zimmerman. When the game finally ended the Wolverines embarrassed the con- ference's best defensive team and its best goal-tender, Julian Baretta, 11-3. Amidst the frenzy it was sad to see Baretta crying as he skated off the ice. Leaving Yost, I thought of what a great time I had, as did most of the fans and Michigan's hockey team. But what about Saturday night? The Blue have had a habit in the past of succumbing to the "Saturday Night Jinx": winning the Friday game while dropping the Saturday contest. But this is a new team and a new year. Maybe that's all behind them now, I thought. In any case, I'd find out soon enough. Saturday night, I left for Yost earlier than I did the night before. But this time I had trouble getting my seats. Friday over 6,000 fans came to see the Badgers, but Saturday 7,649 (500 less than capacity) came to see the Wolverines. The whole scene was like a circus. Whenever the crowd started to quiet down as the two teams battled, some of the fans started cheers to liven things up. The band also got into the act, playing the "Let's Go Blue" cheer six different ways. Then Badger fans began their haunting cheer they made famous last year - softly crooning Pal-1-1--mer-r-r-r, Pal-1-1-1-mer-r-r-r, to Michigan goalie Rick Palmer. The Maize and Blue fans picked up on it and then some. 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