The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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son said. "We didn't have a lot of conversation about it as a staff. He'd been with our team for a month and had proven himself in practices, and the way he finished the game on Friday, it was an easy call for us. position. That's why we recruited him. You never know what's going to happen, but no one on our team could say with certainty that given his opportunity he'd run away with it." Last year, in his first real opportunity to serve as a team's No. 1 goalie, Nagelvoort was 8-1-1 with a 1.66 goals-against average and a .949 save percentage in 10 games for Aberdeen Wings of the North American Hockey League. photo by Lon horwedel "But still, you don't know a lot about the kid. We were getting a player with a lot of question marks because he had bounced around from team to team, and had never really been a No. 1. "The one thing I felt good about was he was a solid person, a solid student, and he had passion for the Racine missed Michigan's next five games, and Nagelvoort continued to rise up, going 3-2-0 in that stretch, in allowing nine goals. Overall this season, he stood 4-2-1 with a 1.71 goals-against average and a .940 save percentage through Nov. 16, instilling greater confidence in his teammates, his coaches, and himself.