Everyone that knows me knows what a numbers geek I
am and that one of my favorite topics is Michigan
hockey stats.  I often compile UM career stats to
look for upcoming milestones, particularly among
the seniors.  I'll occasionally bore the rest of
you with some of the numbers.  For now, here are
some *unofficial* career numbers for Michigan's
well known senior class.
 
NO POS NAME               GP  G   A PTS PIM PP SH +/-
 9  C  Brendan Morrison  123 75 139 214 125 23  2  73
18  F  John Madden       129 62  78 140  75 14 19  82
19  LW Jason Botterill   118 73  63 136 393 35  0  52
28  RW Warren Luhning    125 56  72 128 318 24  6  81
15  F  Mike Legg         129 44  67 111  76 13  2  58
 6  D  Harold Schock     132 10  53  63 181  4  0  99
27  D  Blake Sloan       129 10  48  58 183  2  0  90
 4  D  Chris Frescoln     70  2  17  19 135  0  1  46
 5  D  Peter Bourke       64  2  12  14  38  0  0  41
 
If you're wondering about UM's junior class, beyond
the goaltending of Marty Turco and Gregg Malicke,
look no further.
 
NO POS NAME               GP  G   A PTS PIM PP SH +/-
16  RW Bill Muckalt       90 55  51 106 107 20  0  49
 8  F  Matt Herr          88 37  27  64 124  8  5  39
26  D  Chris Fox          39  1  12  13  28  0  0  26
 
Of note: Michigan's all-time scoring leader is Denny
Felsner with 261 points.  Morrison should threaten
that mark as the season wears on.  Madden's next SHG
will be his 20th.  Now that DQ's go in the books as
10 PIM, Botterill has an outside chance at Chris Tamer's
record of 515.  Here's hoping that he DOESN'T break it.
I doubt that you can find a class with a higher fifth
leading scorer than Mike "the goal" Legg.  Schock and
Sloan's career stats are eerily close.  (Shades of
Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker at this point in their
careers if you're a Tiger fan.)  Shock is about to go
+100.  Very cool.  Lastly, when will people (the media)
finally take notice of Bill Muckalt?  He probably has
the best shot of getting 100 career goals among all
those mentioned above, and it's conceivable that he'll
leave Michigan with more points than any of the above
save Morrison.  Love ya, Bill.
 
Non-UM notes: For those of you scoring at home, the
CCHA record for goals (in league games) by a defenseman
is 36 by BGSU's Scott Paluch.  Unofficially, I have
FSU's Andy Roach at 29 and BGSU's Kelly Perrault at
27 through Sunday.
 
Fwiw...with apologies to BGSU's Curtis Fry, my three
leading CCHA Hobey hopefuls are Madden, Morrison and
Roach.
 
 
John Haeussler
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