The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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talk about it and another thing to go do it." Michigan has been happy with its goaltending play, senior Steve Ra- cine posting a .915 save percentage and a 2.85 goals-against average in 20 games this season through Feb. 15. "He's giving us a chance every night, and that's what we need from our goalie," Berenson said. It's not about the goalie alone, though. It never has been, even if the netminder is an easy scapegoat for most fans. "When you set a goal, like over the next 10 games we want to give up 20 goals or less, it's the responsibility of every single guy in that locker room," Hayes said. "If we had a bad night or a bad weekend, we wouldn't point the finger at our goalie, Marty Turco. If anything he could look at us and say, 'Where was my help?' "So the guys need to understand it's about them as much, or even more, than about the one guy between the pipes." Heading into its game against Ferris State, Michigan sat sixth in the Pair- wise Rankings and sat one point back of Minnesota in the Big Ten standings (33-32 points). For the first time in the past four years, the Wolverines are in great position to make the NCAA Tourna- ment as an at-large team if it does not win the conference tournament, but to realize that dream and extend their season it can't all be about the offense. "It's an entire team effort that wins championships," said Compher, Senior goalie Steve Racine had a .915 save percentage and a 2.85 goals-against aver- age in 20 games this season through Feb. 15, but U-M would like to see better defen- sive play in front of him. PHOTO BY LON HORWEDEL TEAMS THAT HAVE AVERAGED 4.00 GOALS PER GAME LAST 10 YEARS Season School GPG 2015-16 Michigan 4.78 2015-16 St. Cloud State 4.33 2006-07 Michigan 4.24 2010-11 Yale 4.19 2009-10 Yale 4.15 2013-14 Boston College 4.10 2015-16 Boston College 4.10 2009-10 Boston College 4.07 2010-11 North Dakota 4.05 2007-08 Miami (Ohio) 4.02