The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 17, 1984 - Page 3 Tech making last visit to By MIKE MCGRAW Two years ago it was The Who, last summer it was Carl Yastrzemski and now there is the Michigan Tech hockey team. Just like Pete Townshend's band and the Boston Red Sox great, who com- pleted farewell tours recently, when the Huskies skate off the Yost Arena ice Saturday night, it will be the last we see of them - at least for a while. WITH TECH bolting from the CCHA after this season for the glamour of the WCHA, this weekend's game will mark the end of a rivalry that has lasted 57 years. "I don't think the team has been thinking about this being our last trip here," said MTU coach Jim Nahrgang. "The only time we think of that is when we go to Ferris State or Miami and realize that we're glad we don't have to go back again." Tech announced, along with Northern Michigan, last month that the two teams would be breaking their ties with the CCHA and heading for the older Western Collegiate Hockey Association, where they will play an in- terlocking schedule next season with the "Super Seven," a new league of eastern teams. "I THINK the move will give us more national exposure than being in the CCHA," Nahrgang said. "Being able to play from Boston to Colorado will help our recruiting.'' Michigan might be wishing that the f--<:: . J:;.. ': Huskies had left sooner, based on the last meeting of the teams at Houghton in November, which left the Techsters looking like title contenders. But MTU, much like the Wolverines, suffered a case of injury-itis in mid- season, losing senior forward Ron Zuke and defensemen Dave Reierson and Brian Clark. "AFTER WE saw you guys, we were healthy until we played Michigan State (Dec. 2-3)," said Nahrgang. "That began a string of injuries that continued until two weeks ago. But now we're all back and ready to go." The Huskies were coming off a six game winning streak when injuries set in and proceeded to go on a 4-10 clip in the conference until they met the Spar- tans again two weeks ago - and swept them. Now Tech finds itself in a tight battle with Ferris, Northern and Western for the final home-ice advantage playoff spot. The Wolverines are in eighth, two- and-a-half games behind the log jam for fourth. But like MTU, Michigan is the healthiest it's been in some time. "I THINK we'll be at 100 percent," said Michigan coach John Giordano. "(Tech) has had a lot of injuries too, but I don't know if they had them as bad as us. They have a fast team with good speed and they've got some goal scorers." Leading the scoring punch for the Huskies are forwards Chris Cichocki and Bill Terry. Cichocki, a sophomore from Warren, is the top goal scorer with 23 and has been helpful to a team that has missed a lot of regulars. "He's been playing great since the start of the year," Nahrgang said. "He's our most consistent player." THE WOLVERINES' most consistent player, Jim McCauley, has been bothered by back problems this week, but both he and freshman John Bjork- man, who separated his shoulder last Saturday, are expected to play. Giordano has not decided yet who will start in goal tonight and it will be an in- teresting decision after benchwarmer Jon Elliott started last week against Ferris and played very well. Michigan will have to make Tech's final visit to Ann Arbor a Wolverine sweep if it has any notions of moving up THE " i1 1 trr , CLUB-; Happy Hour 's POPPI N' Monday - Friday 4-8 pm Yost? in the final standings and will have to duplicate that performance again rext weekend when Northern Michigan comes to town for a less teaft-l farewell. "I'm sorry that we won't be playing Michigan anymore," said Nahrgaug. "We've always enjoyed going there atid it's one of the teams I enjoy playing."-F So any hockey fans that haven't seen Michigan Tech in action during their lifetime, better delay their vacation and frequent Yost Arena tonight.,t may be your last chance. Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER Center Tom Stiles makes a move to the net in a recent game at Yost Arena. Stiles, with six goals, has been one of the few Wolverines to play in all 33 games this season. _. .. I I NON- First Floor 1 ,,. > . '" . '64 icers o play alumni game By JOE EWING Thoughts of national championships will once again dance in the heads of Michigan hockey fans this weekend. .But the fans won't be thinking of this year's squad. Instead, Michigan hockey followers will be remembering the last Michigan ice team ever to win a national title - the 1964 team - which will play in a ,contest against a team of Michigan old- imers at Yost Ice Arena at noon on Saturday. ~THE GAMIE, which is part of the an- hual hockey alumni reunion, will -feature names from the distant, as well s not so distant, past of Michigan hrockey. The 1964 squad, which was the last Michigan athletic team in any sport to Vin a national title, will be led by its captain, Gordon Wilkie, who was an All- American in 1964 and collected 45 goals and 111 assists while at Michigan. Mel Wakabayashi, an All-American in 1965; Gary Butler; George Forrest; :nd 1964 NCAA Tournament Most Valuable Player Bob Gray will also be :inaking the return trip to Ann Arbor for the '64 team. "IT WAS a good team in a good era," said Al Renfrew, coach of the '64 team who is now the ticket manager for the Athletic Department. 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