---= .Lists fly Saturday at Yost Jim Rose - ly Sports Writer "The ref's lost control! The rf's lost c4ntrol!" The Yost Ice Arena crowd at Saturday's Michigan hockey fight, er, game, was right. The referee, indeed, serried to lose control. ,Greg Crozier got his arm broken. Bill Muckalt got speared in the neck. Brendan Morrison got blasted from behind. Bubba Berenzweig took six *4nches in the face. And Michigan won. ;The game, not the fight. But never mind the 4-1 victory - the repercussions for the Wolverines will be se'vere. Greg Crozier is out indefinitely with a fractured left arm, after Bowling Green forward Dave Faulkner hit Crozier from behind with a two-handed swing of his stick. Jason Botterill, ualt and Berenzweig all received Vkme disqualifications, and will not be elgible to play when Michigan State visits Yost this Friday. "It's kind of a bittersweet win," Michigan coach Red Berenson said. "I'm-really disappointed in that kind of hockey, and the way it was handled. I'm not oing to point fingers, but I'd like to:' "The ref beats his wife! The ref beats his wife!" * With 1:30 to go, and the Wolverines clinging to a 3-1 lead, it got ugly. After Crozier left the ice, Botterill went after Faulkner. Then Botterill went after Johnson. Then Botterill went after the Bowling Green bench. "I just tried to put a little revenge on Johnson, and next thing I know, I get thrown out for fighting," Botterill said. While Botterill was trading blows with anyone and everyone wearing a Falcons sweater, Muckalt charged into the picture by literally diving into the melee that was Bowling Green's bench. "It all started when I got speared in the front of the neck," Muckalt said. "Just an absolutely gutless play. I'm not gonna knock the (officiating), but you can't let the game get out of hand like that." "Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey ... " *The.two teams don't have much time o cool off - they meet again next Saturday, when the Falcons host the Wolverines. The game has already been marked on the calendar as one to look forward to. "Faulkner's absolutely dead," Berenzweig said. Muckalt was just as eloquent in his assessment of next week's meeting. "I'm not gonna lie - it's a war," he Aid. "As far as I'm concerned, if you're gonna play tough, drop the gloves." Berenson wasn't as blunt, but he made it clear he wasn't happy with the Falcons: "I don't have anything to say to them. I was disappointed in them." HOCKEY- The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - November 11, 1996 - 7B Hockeyland open for weary By Dan Stillman Daily Sports Writer Hockeyland would like to roll out the red carpet to the masses of disheartened1 Michigan football and basketball fans. Considering this weekend's events, its may be tough for the park to accomodate everyone wanting in. Nevertheless,1 Hockeyland won't turn away those in need. Admission isj free, but first, a1 brief orientation to avoid culture4 shock.f Hockeyland is basically a happy- '1 go-lucky kind of | place. Football fans having trou-1 ble picturing a place like this in the wake of the 1 Wolverines' three-point effort againsti Purdue need only imagine a world where 1 everyone feels the complete opposite ofs the depressing, cynical shock you are currently experiencing. In Footballworld, the torture begins when the schedule comes out. That's when fans can first pinpoint which late- season, cream-puff opponent the 1 Wolverines will choke on in any season. Visitors from Footballworld will be happy to know that Will Carr will not see ice-time in Hockeyland. Why? Because ; Carr did not make the Hockeyland squad. More important, if he had, The Giant Red Puck would not put Carr in the game with post-season hopes on the line - although he would make a great1 addition to a checking line.1 As for those entering the park from from next-door Hoopsworld, here's an ; important policy change: Hockeyland requires all employees to establish resi- dence within the park's gates no less than 'M'fans two months prior to tourist season. Now, a brief commercial announce- ment. Hockeyland is offering a money- balk, schedule guarantee. As if Albert White's exploits weren't enough, visitors of Hoopsworld were recently reminded upon picking up their season passes of the less than thrilling home slate, which starts tonight with Australian Adelaide,. another in a long line of international juggernauts to open a new season of bas- ketball at Crisler Arena, that Hockeyland guarantees a jam-packed home schedule of exciting conference and non-confer- ence opponents. WARNING: Attention Crisler regu-. lars, or rather, every-once-in-a-whiles, homework is not an acceptable excuse for missing a game at Yost. Also, visitors from Hoopsworld should not fear the,, supportive cheering inside Hockeyland headquarters. Yost fans not only show up, but they actually try to create a home-team advantage, probably a' for- eign concept to those from Hoopsworld. A sense of hospitality is also required in Hockeyland, as it is polite to alert an opposing goaltender of any phone calls from his mom. Hockeyland is ready to open its gates, but lines may be long in coming days. Following their most recent study, Hockeyland researchers warned of a sharp attendance increase. Subjects were asked to pick from choice A, see the Michigan hockey team raise its champi- onship banner and beat Ohio State and Bowling Green in one weekend, or B, wave bye-bye to yet another Michigan basketball defectee and watch the foot- ball team blow a perfectly exciting Rose Bowl push with a lackluster effort against a team it should've beaten hand- ily. Results indicated that option B has lost its novelty after a few years. WARREN ZINN/Daily Michigan's Jason Botterill hunches over after taking on the Bowling Green bench Saturday night. He went after Bowling Green's Mike Johnson after he charged Michigan captain Brendan Morrison. But before hockey night turned into fight night, Michigan used a 1:15 stretch to break a third-period tie and earn a 4-1 victory. Third-period spurt keys victory By James Goldstein Daily Sports Writer Before the fracas in the waning moments of Michigan's 4-1 victory over Bowling Green on Saturday, it was a hard-fought game with few punches thrown. It's not as if there weren't slashes, high-sticks, shoves after the whistle and blatant hooking. This game had all of those. But the game went at an intense back-and-forth pace that was relatively clean - that is, until the final minutes of the game. Yet, the game wasn't decided by the brawls. Forgetting the mayhem occurring at the end of the game, a stretch of 1:15 in the middle of the third period with the game knotted at one changed the tone of the contest from nothing-out-of-the-ordi- nary to exciting to wacky. Only 75 ticks on the clock, but so much happened. By the end of that frame, the Wolverines took the lead for good. The Falcons looked frustrated. And the roar of the sold-out crowd at Yost Ice Arena grew to a crescendo. It all started when Michigan center John Madden received a long feed from his own blue line, and skated in for what looked to be a breakaway. Bowling Green defenseman Kelly Perrault hooked Madden, dragging him down to the ice. Fans were screaming for a penalty shot. The referees ruled Madden didn't have a clear path to the goal. The clock read 8:55. "(Madden) goes in all alone, and you think a penalty shot is going to be called," Bowling Green coach Buddy Powers said. "It's not called, and when (Michigan) is on the power play, they are dangerous." On the Wolverines' sixth and final power play, Michigan gained control of the puck in the Falcons' zone and did a good job of keeping it there. Madden couldn't control the puck in front of Bowling Green goaltender Mike Savard, and the Falcons' defense poked it away. Michigan left wing Jason Botterill was in the right place at the right time and wristed the puck high with a logjam of play- ers in front of Savard. The goal light went off, the crowd went nuts, and the Wolverines celebrated. But no. Referee Roger Graff didn't signal that the goal had counted. Graff huddled with both linesmen and still didn't makQ the call. Meanwhile, Botterill and Bowling Green center Brad Holzinger got in a little slash-fest. Both players were sent to the penalty box with the decision on the goal still not made. The referees consulted the goal-judge before finally waving off the goal five minutes after the play occurred. Botterill, who was seated in the penalty box, stood up and pounded his stick. After the game, though, he felt the right call was made. The clock read 8:05. "I saw the traffic in front of the net so I tried to wrist it high" Botterill said. "I wasn't at a good point to see it, bit I think the referee made a good call now. I think it hit the crossbar and came out." Powers said there was no doubt in his mind what call should have been made. "From where I was, it hit the crossbar and came straight down,' Powerssaid. "You could hear the pipe. If the puck hits the lining on the net, it is not going to make that clang. To us, it wasn't even a question mark. (The referees) made it a fiasco." The craziness didn't end there, though. Fifteen seconds later, with the Wolverines on a four-on-three advantage, Michigan goaltender Marty Turco went after a loose puck outside the goal crease:. Turco went all the way to the blue line as the coaches and fans' hearts dropped to their knees. Turco, who often plays the puck outside the goal crease, chased the puck almost to the Michigan bench and attempted a belly-flop to smother it. But the Bowling Green forwards knocked it out of his reach, and Turco had to hustle back to the Michigan net. Bowling Green had several opportunities to grab control of the puck and knock it in the empty net, but the Falcons couldn't do it. The Falcons' failure to score on a gift from Turco immedi- ately came back to haunt them. Ten seconds later, Michigan center Matt Herr slid a pass from the left side of the goal crease to a surging Warren Luhning on the right, and Luhning one- timed it past Savard, giving Michigan a 2-1 lead - a lead the Wolverines would not relinquish. A breakaway, three penalties, a waved-off goal, an empty Michigan net, the game-winning goal. It took more than five minutes to watch the plays, but just one minute and 15 seconds ticked off the clock. When Powers looked up at the clock after Luhning's goal, it read 7:40. "Things were going on there that were really out of whack," he said. Seventy-five seconds of mayhem. W ting history4 ' 9 9 tion a hmpionhipBanner, the :::ti ns to t e ...g th i 95 9 ck i3 a8 e i:1 :4' S ta e h mpier atost John Ma It felt r the' better P t t.ot It b ... back a lot fmemories. Wenhey playd (the rad 1 r endan Morrison's goal, I!had chI p ry back. I coudn't sleep allt day. 1elt Iake l was playing the playo# in. (it wag j1) to finally get ack after seven long road trips, o Alaska, wbilch W$.te worst trip ::. mY entire life. It was nice not to hear somebody banging With a malleto m ed ing torch going off, while you're pleyrrg." * Red Berenson: "The fans were grea(. Th ea stillfocu game, but they still enjoyed the ceremony. It wasn't to long tas 1 it was appropriate. It was important that we had a good hoipst..., ® Hapold Schock: "it was great to have the banner ceremony infro I fans.:We wanted to show our appreciation to (the fans) by;stag ,..f stron, D Rominski: "(The ceremony ws.) flne'ahd dany, but to py. We're not gonna get beat at)Y o t)." * Mon Botterill: "It's always agrt eeling to play in, of the main reasons why I carne back i ve p(ing in th,, .I (r