The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, May 23, 1978-Page 23. FARRELL FILLS IN WEAK SPOTS: Blue dekers snatch top prospects By BOB MILLER This past season the Michigan hockey team was plagued by a lack of defense, shaky goaltending, and the inconsisten- cy from its potentially high-scoring centers. So Coach Dan Farrell went out and recruited what he hopes is a stock of players to fill the voids. Most notable on the list is Murray Eaves, a 5-10, 175-pound center iceman whose brother Mike made a name for himself at Wisconsin. The younger Eaves is according to Farrell, "a tenacious forechecker and his excellent scoring ability will make him a solid WCHA center." Eaves led his team in scoring last year and finished second in the Western Ontario Junior "B" League scoring race. One of Eaves' teammates, Jeff Tessier, was also tapped by the Wolverines. Tessier is a5-11, 175-poiund left wing. To shpre up last year's sagging defense, Farrell recruiteda goalie and three defensemen. The blueliners, Paul Brandrup (6-1, 185) of Rochester, Min- nesota; David Richter (6-4, 200) from St. Boniface, Manitoba and Brian Lungerg (6-0, 180) out of Lake Cowichan, British Columbia, will hope- fully provide the Wolverines with some muscle. Last year Michigan wound up with one of the highest goals-against totals in the league. With that in mind, Farrell also picked up a goalie, Bob Sutton (6-1, 180), a native of Oakville, Ontario who played for the University of Pennsylvania last year. But when the Quaker hockey program disbanded, the Penn players were allowed to transfer to other schools without having to sit out a year as the NCAA normally insists. Michigan also picked up the services of Terry Cullen, a 5-9, 165-pound center from Guelph, Ontario. Cullen racked up 33 goals and 99 assists to break the all- time Ontario Provincial Junior "A" League scoring record. WCHA realigns into two divisions For more sports, see pages 21 and 24 By BOB MILLER Although a national champion has been crowned and the skates have long since been put into storage for the summer months, hockey has had a couple developments occur which are worthy of mention. First and foremost is the division realignment by the WCHA for the 1978-79 season. As was reported here on February 23, the WCHA wanted to expand and realign for the sake of saving money on the part of a number of the in- stitutions. THERE WAS no expansion involved, at least not for the '78-79 season, but the WCHA did divide into two five-team conferences. Michigan is in the East Conference along with Michigan State, Minnesota, Notre Dame and Wisconsin. si-ns,.- -i.4 -- ihrlessl in~no WCHA games so that some teams can continue to play traditional rivals in the other division. This means Michigan can play Michigan Tech in a home- and-home series every year as usual, and Minnesota would still play four games against Duluth, as is customary. BECAUSE THERE IS sure to be an imbalance in the number of WCHA games played between each school, positions in the standings will be determined by percentages. As far as the playoffs are concerned, the top four teams in percentage in each division will qualify. The pairings will be East 1 vs. West 4; East 2 vs. West 3; East 3 vs. West 2 and East 4 vs. West 1. From there, the home ice advantage will go to the top two teams that survive the quarterfinals. AS WAS ALSO reported, expansion was supposed to be a topic of discussion between the WCHA officials at their April "Terry is a battler and plays with a lot of intensity," Farrell said. According to Farrell, the competition between schools to land quality players was fierce, more so than in the past couple of years because there just weren't that many blue chip prospects available this time around. Two new coaches in the Big Ten, Jim Young of Purdue and Gary Moeller of Illinois, are both natives of Ohio and played for Woody Hayes at Ohio State. This leav Duluth and] Each tea a home-and the other di alternated. Arbor this y the following For non games a yi 'es Coulorauo, Dener msiuigaisenu, innesoUa- meeting, but one thing they didn't consider was the folding of North Dakota in the West Conference. the hockey program at St. Louis University. St. Louis was an m plays the other teams in its division four times, attractive school as far as geography was concerned for a -home series of two games each, and the teams in ss ivision twice. The sites of these games are to be possible spot in the West Division. 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