The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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2014 HOCKEY PREVIEW 2015 HOCKEY PREVIEW pete for a national championship. Prior to the last two years, Beren‑ son and his Michigan teams went on an unprecedented 22‑year streak of gaining entry into the national cham‑ pionship playoffs. Entering his 31st season as head coach at Michigan, Berenson needs only 12 more victories to achieve his 800th career coaching win — which would make him only the fourth coach in NCAA ice hockey history to achieve that mark. Over that span of years, he's learned what it takes to achieve tournament selection. "I can tell you that there was a year [before the streak] when we just about made the tournament," Berenson remembered. "We played the consolation game in our playoffs against Bowling Green, and the con‑ sensus was that the winning team would probably be in the tourna‑ ment. We won that game handily and yet Bowling Green was invited to the tournament. That really up‑ set our whole team because we were knocking on the door to get in that tournament. "We had a meeting after that and we all agreed our team can't make it close [for tournament entry]. From then on, we were pretty decisive choices, pretty sure we'd be invited to the tournament. We earned our way in. It took a lot of good players Sophomore goaltender Zach Nagelvoort posted an 11-9-3 record, a 2.20 goals-against aver- age and a .929 save percentage in 24 outings as a rookie. PHOTO BY LON HORWEDEL