The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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GAINS Net Michigan's Goalie Situation Is A Difficult Start Sorting Itself Out After R goalie was before the 2012-13 season began, Berenson was steadfast in his pronouncement of freshman Jared Rutledge. But, best laid plans, they say, often go astray, and less than 24 hours after Rutledge started Michi- gan's opener, he stood behind the bench, watching classmate Steve Ra- cine backstop the Maize and Blue to a 7-2 victory over RIT Oct. 12. Rutledge earned his night off with a brutal debut, surrendering five goals on 26 shots in a 5-4 over- time defeat to the Tigers in a game the Wolverines led by two enter- ing, and at the halfway point of, the third period. Goalies allow goals, no netminder is perfect, but Berenson declared that all five markers were "soft" in his postgame presser. "I tell our goalies, 'Make the saves ed Berenson may have grown tired of repeating himself, but every time he was asked who his No. 1 BY MICHAEL SPATH you're capable of making on a regu- lar basis. You make them every day in practice, so you should be able to make them in a game. It's the bad goals against that jump up and bite you,'" Berenson said, days later. "They know that and need to elimi- nate the bad goals. In Rutledge's case, they never scored a good goal on him. All the goals were kind of tainted. And could he have saved Freshman Steve Racine earned a win in each of his first three starts at Michigan, stopping 73 shots while posting a .913 save percent- age and a 2.33 goals-against average. PHOTO BY LON HORWEDEL NOVEMBER 2012 THE WOLVERINE 101