By DOYLE WOODY
Assistant sports editor
Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News
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 They've got goaltending galore -- senior Lee Schill is the Western
Collegiate Hockey Association's best returning goalie and sophomore Chris
Davis has proven himself capable.
 They've got defense, too  the seven returning blueliners combined with
Schill and Davis to distinguish themselves as the league's third stingiest
unit.
 And experience? Try 18 returning players from a squad that made a more-
than-respectable sixth-place debut during their first season in the 10-team
WCHA last season.
 But as the University of Alaska Anchorage sets its 1994-95 sights on a top
five finish in the WCHA -- the top five teams gain home ice advantage for
first- round playoff series -- not everything is as smooth as freshly
Zambonied ice.
 There is this little nagging question about goals. Namely, who are they
going to come from? Especially since coach Brush Christiansen wants his
Seawolves to score 20 more goals than they did last season.
 And it's not as if UAA was an offensive dynamo during last season's 15-19-2
campaign, when it was eighth in the league in goals per game (3.44) and
didn't place a scorer among the league's Top 20. The Seawolves were one of
just two league teams that did not feature a 20-goal scorer. And their power
play was just eighth in the league.
 The Seawolves also lost 30 percent of their scoring, most of it with the
losses of Keith Morris (16 goals) and Mitch Kean (12), who finished their
collegiate careers last season.
 Not to worry, the Seawolves say, it'll all work out. Everyone just has to
pull his own weight.
 ""The most important thing is to get one more goal than the other team,''
said UAA junior defenseman Jeremy Mylymok.
The Seawolves' one returning scoring line is an all-senior trio featuring
captain Mark Stitt (15 goals last season) centering wingers Paul Williams
(13) and Troy Norcross (10).
 ""I'm hoping for a similar year from that line,'' said UAA coach Brush
Christiansen. ""They were our most consistent line (last year). It seemed
like they were a threat every game.''
 On defense and in goal, though, the Seawolves don't have many worries.
 The defensive pairings that UAA employed at season's end  Mylymok and Trent
Leggett, WCHA All- Rookie Team selection Todd Bethard and Petri Tuomisto, and
Darren Meek and Jason White  all return. So does Chris Kerr, who played 13
games and appears to have rehabilitated nagging shoulder injuries.
 ""Being a team that doesn't score many goals, it's important not to give up
many goals,'' Junior Jeremy Mylymok said. ""I'm pretty confident we can shut
down any top team in the league.
 In goal, Schill was a second-team all-WCHA selection last season when he
compiled a 3.46 goals against average, a .891 saves percentage and earned the
Seawolves some victories they probably didn't deserve.
 ""He stole games for us,'' said UAA assistant coach John Hill.
 While Schill played in 32 of UAA's 36 games, Davis played in just nine. At
first glance his 4.15 goals against and .879 saves percentage don't look like
much. But throw out a nine-goal shelling he took at Colorado College in his
collegiate starting debut and his numbers in all others games were 3.27 and
.899.
 So the Seawolves seem secure in goal.
 ""It's a coach's dream to have two extremely skilled Division I
goaltenders,'' Christiansen said. ""Lee Schill had a great year last year,
got us some crucial wins and helped some of our young defense, helped give
them some confidence. The defense feels confident with either one of those
goaltenders in there.''
 All in all, the Seawolves sound confident, just as every team does in the
pre- season. And, based on last season's WCHA debut, in which they set a
league record for most points by a first-year team, they have some reason for
optimism.
 ""We'd like to build on what we did last year,'' Christiansen said. ""You
always want to get better every year. After being sixth last year, we
definitely want to be in the top five this year. That's our goal.''