ATWBARTLEY posted, Bob Ryan wrote:
 
> After winning title No. 9 in 1964, Michigan put on the ice a succession
> of teams whose capabilities ranged from hold-your-nose to reasonably
> decent. Whereas fans had once stood around the clock in order to obtain
> entrance into the raucous, 2,000-seat Michigan Coliseum to see the
> Wolverines play, interest had evaporated by the mid '80s. It was
> strictly friends and relatives, and not too many of the latter.
 
Hey, there were a few of us hockey nuts there, too.  Or is that masochists?
I think it speaks well of hockey as a sport that my real interest in it was
kindled in Yost during the John Giordano and early Berenson years.  I don't
miss walking in and finding the place full of Michigan State fans, though.
 
J. Michael Neal
 
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