Red coming back next year?

Submitted by Wolverine Devotee on

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Inside word, for what it's worth (and very hard to give anything much credence until Berenson decides): might not be his last year.

— John U. Bacon (@Johnubacon) March 13, 2016

Warde Manual said he wants Red Berenson to remain as Michigan hockey coach next season.

— Brendan F. Quinn (@BFQuinn) March 16, 2016

Raoul

March 17th, 2016 at 4:29 PM ^

That tweet from Quinn is like a lot of tweets: misleading and lacking context. Here's the full quote from an MLive article:

Manuel said he has met and had a "great conversation" with longtime Michigan hockey coach Red Berenson early this week. In regards to the oft-discussed topic of Berenson's eventual retirement, Manuel said: "We'll see where it goes, but Red is in a good place. I love what coach Berenson has brought to the University of Michigan all his life. At the end of the season, Red and I will sit down and have more of a conversation about the future and what he wants to do. As far as I'm concerned, I'd love for Red Berenson to be our coach next season."

blueday

March 17th, 2016 at 5:01 PM ^

If Carr would have passed the baton appropriately we never would have Jimmy ... this is the only postive. Carr showed zero class bringing Rich Rod on board. I expect more from a former "head coach". No comparison to hockey. He looked great in the Disney parade.

gwkrlghl

March 17th, 2016 at 2:28 PM ^

I'm farting around with some numbers from the last 10-15 years of tournaments - thinking about writing a diary on our odds this year - and it looks bad for us.

Michigan is currently #1 in offensive GPG and #38 in defensive GPG. Since 2002-2003, teams with a difference of 20 or more between those numbers have never made the frozen four and almost always lose their first game.

There are 18 teams since that time with a defensive GPG ranking more than 20 spots behind their offense. 15 of them lost their first game, the other 3 lost their second.

gwkrlghl

March 17th, 2016 at 6:51 PM ^

 

Year Team Seed O Rk O GPG D Rk D GPG Rk Delta Finish
2016 Michigan   1 4.82 38 3.03 -37  
2014 Robert Morris 4 7 3.45 44 3.10 -37 0
2013 Boston College 2 2 3.37 34 2.82 -32 0
2011 Air Force 4 6 3.61 38 3.03 -32 0
2010 Yale 3 1 4.15 33 3.09 -32 1
2007 Michigan 2 1 4.24 37 3.15 -36 0
2007 UAH 4 24 3.11 60   -36 0
2006 Michigan 3 3 3.59 36 3.05 -33 0
2006 UNO 4 5 3.56 60   -55 0
2003 Mercyhurst 4 17 3.65 60   -43 0
2003 Minnesota State 4 11 3.78 60   -49 0

So if you only gaze at the major powers in there, you see how our predecesors have fared.

2-seed BC was bombed 5-1 by 3-seed Union and then two Michigan teams several here will remember. 07 Michigan lost spectacularly to North Dakota 8-5 and 06 Michigan also lost to North Dakota, 5-1.

Trying to predict the NCAA tournamet is an exercise in futility, but I found this a bit forboding.

The Maizer

March 18th, 2016 at 1:56 AM ^

The GPG difference between offense and defense is the most favorable by far for this year's team, which seems more important than rank difference. So there's that. But yeah, giving up 3 goals a game doesn't instill a lot of confidence in going the distance.

+1 Props on the effort to go out of your way to be pessimistic.

gwkrlghl

March 17th, 2016 at 6:44 PM ^

But I was only gazing at tournament teams. A team with the #37 offense and #37 defense probably has about 10 wins.

Amongst tournament teams with such wide margins, you tend to see an elite offense paired with a bad defense or an elite defense pared with a bad offense, and they all lose almost immediately

Bando Calrissian

March 17th, 2016 at 3:06 PM ^

...in sports in which a player goes pro, and is then drafted. Hockey players have professional organizations literally on the other side of the locker room door, who own your professional rights, and are not hesitant to put pressure on you to sign on the dotted line literally the second your college team's season is over. In Connor's case, it's the Jets.

When I was in the hockey band and we stayed at the team hotels for NCAA tournament trips, it was always an interesting drama to hear who got on the team bus to go to the airport and who was still around the next morning negotiating a contract or catching a flight somewhere else to play for their new teams that very night