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Strauss Mann has started 21 of 22 games this season for Michigan (photo: Michigan Athletics).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How does Michigan get to follow up its first road sweep of the season, an upset of No. 14 Notre Dame?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re at Penn State,\u201d said Wolverines coach Mel Pearson. \u201cSo it just gets easier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pearson then laughed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re on the road again,” he added. “Have at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wolverines are in a phase that coaches of storied programs don\u2019t like to discuss in depth.<\/p>\n

Programs like Michigan used to be able to reload. Now they rebuild.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a constant for Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin since the inception of Big Ten hockey. Schools attract elite players and develop them for a year or two and the players leave to play professional hockey.<\/p>\n

Teams that were once fixtures in the NCAA tournament are now trying to figure out how to put together back-to-back competitive seasons, victimized in a way by their own success for developing talent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to build a program here,\u201d said Pearson, \u201cnot up and down and up and down.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wolverines lose talented players with remaining eligibility at the end of every season, often so late that it\u2019s difficult to fill specific needs in the roster.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt messes your recruiting up,\u201d said Pearson. \u201cYou can\u2019t tell them that Alex Turcotte\u2019s leaving, because you really don\u2019t know, he probably doesn\u2019t know, and that kid\u2019s ready to come in and you tell him, \u2018No, you\u2019ve got to go back another year,\u2019 but he says, \u2018No, I\u2019m going to go to another school,\u2019 and so the cycle begins again. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

Turcotte, of course, is part of an especially talented freshman class at Wisconsin, the team currently at the bottom of the Big Ten standings, 13 points behind first place Penn State. Such talent doesn\u2019t usually remain with a program long enough to help it rebuild. Michigan is just ahead of the Badgers in the B1G standings, 11 points out of first place.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need one of these capologists like you see in the NHL,\u201d said Pearson, only half joking. \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t call them a capologist. You\u2019d call them a scholarshipologist or something. It\u2019s crazy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were happy to have Quinn Hughes, but you know when he\u2019s pretty well leaving but you\u2019re not 100 percent sure. Josh Norris, we didn\u2019t know at all what he was going to do, especially after the injury. And now you\u2019ve lost out maybe on a kid that you \u2013 anyway, it is what it is. I\u2019m not complaining. It\u2019s part of our jobs. It\u2019s just managing that you have to be on top of it this day and age.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his second season with the Vancouver Canucks, Hughes will be playing in his first NHL All-Star game this season. He was a freshman defenseman at Michigan in 2017-18. Had he remained with the Wolverines, he\u2019d still have a year of eligibility remaining. Norris left last year after his sophomore season. He has 20 goals in 38 games for the Belleville Senators of the AHL. Pearson doesn\u2019t blame either for leaving.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a guy is ready, he\u2019s ready,\u201d said Pearson.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, all it takes is a couple of key departures to unsettle a team for a good half season or so \u2013 and that may be one of the things that contributed to Michigan\u2019s rocky start to 2019-20. The Wolverines endured a seven-game (0-6-1) winless streak Oct. 26-Nov. 30, a month-long slump against a mix of nonconference and Big Ten opponents. Since then, Michigan has gone 6-4-0, culminating with last weekend\u2019s sweep of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood for our team,\u201d said Pearson. \u201cThey had to earn them. Notre Dame doesn\u2019t give you anything. You\u2019ve got to play and you\u2019ve got to earn your victories and I thought we did a nice job of that. Just to see the excitement and the joy of our players afterwards \u2013 I don\u2019t want to say relief, almost \u2013 but I haven\u2019t seen that emotion quite so much this year, so it\u2019s a good sign going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michigan is a team that is better than the sum of its parts, but those parts haven\u2019t quite come together yet into a unit that can produce consistently good hockey.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s almost the best way you can put that,\u201d said Pearson. \u201cSome of those parts haven\u2019t quite been functioning as they should have so far. We had some injuries early. Some guys got out to some slow starts. We have not had that cohesiveness that we\u2019re looking for because every weekend it seems like we\u2019re messing with the lines and defensive pairings and whatnot. The one constant has been our goaltender, and he\u2019s been good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sophomore Strauss Mann has emerged as the starter for Michigan, and he\u2019s done that by improving significantly on his play from a season ago. Mann\u2019s save percentage has gone from .895 last year to .935 this season, taking him from 67th in the country last year to ninth this season. His GAA has improved from 2.91 last year to 1.90, also ninth in the nation.<\/p>\n

Pearson said that coming into the season, defense was what concerned the coaching staff the most. The Wolverines are tied with Ohio State for the fifth-best defense nationally, allowing 2.05 goals per game. Scoring, though, is a different beat altogether. The Wolverines are averaging just 2.32 goals per game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re starting to come together and we\u2019re finding ways to win the close games,\u201d said Pearson. \u201cAt the GLI, we found a way to lose another close game. Wisconsin, UNH, you go down the list \u2013 we\u2019ve been either ahead or tied and we\u2019ve sort of stumbled. Notre Dame was a real key turning point in finding a way to hold onto the lead and find a way to win those games and not give up the lead. That\u2019s going to be a real confidence booster.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can see that it\u2019s coming together. The sum of all those parts are starting to come together, and that\u2019s the exciting thing for us. We have nowhere near played as well as we can \u2013 maybe the Penn State game at home, right before the break, but other than that we\u2019ve been okay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pearson said that there\u2019s plenty of reason for optimism as the Wolverines face the rest of the season. The roster has seven NHL draftees and veterans who went to the Frozen Four in 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got guys who have done it,\u201d said Pearson. \u201cThat\u2019s the beauty of it. It\u2019s not like we\u2019re relying on guys that we\u2019re not sure that they can do this. We have a bunch of guys who have done it. That\u2019s the exciting part, because we\u2019re not far off.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we get a little bit better and a little bit more together, we could be pretty darned good and I think that\u2019s where we\u2019re at. We like this team. We have the pieces. It\u2019s just getting them on the same page.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another advantage?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re only halfway through the Big Ten schedule,\u201d said Pearson. \u201cWe\u2019ve got 12 games left and we\u2019ve got the majority of those either at home or at a neutral site.\u201d<\/p>\n

If last year is any indication of how conference standings may play out, Pearson has cause for a bit of optimism.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year when it went down the final, we could have finished second and we ended up finishing sixth,” Pearson said. “It was one win. We expect the same this year. It\u2019s going to be a mish-mash and I don\u2019t think we see anybody that\u2019s pulling away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pearson reconsidered, \u201cmaybe Penn State.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wolverines and Nittany Lions face off Friday and Saturday in State College.<\/p>\n

A matter of perspective<\/h4>\n

On more than one occasion this year, Penn State coach Guy Gadowsky has lamented his team\u2019s offensive slumps \u2013 something that seems a bit odd for a team that is averaging four goals per game.<\/p>\n

The Nittany Lions led the nation in offense last season, though, finishing the season with an average of 4.54 goals per game and going the entire season without being shut out by an opponent.<\/p>\n

A 4-0 loss to Alaska Oct. 18 followed by a 2-1 win over Robert Morris Oct. 25 had Gadowsky wondering about the team\u2019s high-flying offense and, therefore, the team\u2019s whole identity. A 3-0 loss to Notre Dame Dec. 14 and then two relatively low-scoring wins over Niagara (3-2, 2-0) the first weekend in January brought similar misgivings.<\/p>\n

Last weekend, though, the Nittany Lions found their edge again \u2013 and a little vindication \u2013 in a 6-2 win over Robert Morris.<\/p>\n

Gadowsky said that he\u2019s happy his team has learned to win tight games, but that \u201cthe goal is to put it all together.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that the Nittany Lions are happy with \u201ccertain aspects\u201d of their game, but there\u2019s a sense that something is still not quite there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can put it all together, we\u2019re going to be very dangerous,” said Gadowsky.<\/p>\n

Freshmen have scored all three game-winning goals for the Nittany Lions since the midseason break. Forward Connor McMenamin had both game winners in the Niagara series, and defenseman Mason Snell had the goal that held up to win the game against Robert Morris. Freshman Connor MacEachern also had a goal in that contest.<\/p>\n

Gadowsky said that contributions from freshmen \u201ccertainly helps.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou expect or want to see their development throughout the season and hope that the second half of the year produces better all-around play than the start,\u201d said Gadowsky. \u201cThe jump from junior hockey to college hockey is a tough one and specifically in this league. It\u2019s extremely fast and physical and the skill level is high. I\u2019m really happy to see the start our freshmen have had coming off break.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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