Here is a tentative (near final) Michigan schedule, complements of Jeff
Weiss at the CCHA office.
 
                    1992-93 MICHIGAN SCHEDULE
 
     Sat  Oct 17    NOTRE DAME (NC)
     Fri  Oct 23    Ferris State
     Sat  Oct 24    Ferris State
     Fri  Oct 30    Western Michigan
     Sat  Oct 31    WESTERN MICHIGAN
     Fri  Nov  6    Lake Superior
     Sat  Nov  7    Lake Superior
     Fri  Nov 13    MIAMI
     Sat  Nov 14    MIAMI
     Fri  Nov 27    WESTERN MICHIGAN
     Sat  Nov 28    Notre Dame
     Fri  Dec  4    MICHIGAN STATE
     Sat  Dec  5    Michigan State
     Fri  Dec 11    KENT STATE
     Sat  Dec 12    KENT STATE
     Sat  Dec 26    GLI (Detroit)
     Sun  Dec 27    GLI (Detroit)
     Sat  Jan  2    ALBERTA (EX)
     Sun  Jan  3    ALBERTA (EX)
     Fri  Jan  8    Illinois-Chicago
     Sat  Jan  9    Illinois-Chicago
     Fri  Jan 15    OHIO STATE
     Sat  Jan 16    BOWLING GREEN
     Sat  Jan 23    Notre Dame
     Fri  Jan 29    ILLINOIS-CHICAGO
     Sat  Jan 30    MICHIGAN STATE (Detroit)
     Fri  Feb  5    Ohio State
     Sat  Feb  6    Miami
     Sat  Feb 13    Bowling Green
     Fri  Feb 19    FERRIS STATE
     Sat  Feb 20    BOWLING GREEN
     Fri  Feb 26    LAKE SUPERIOR
     Sat  Feb 27    NOTRE DAME
     Fri  Mar  4    Kent State
     Sat  Mar  5    Ohio State
 
As Keith pointed out earlier, CCHA schedule making has become a much
more complicated task with the addition of Notre Dame and Kent.
 
Some things I've noticed:
 
  - Michigan opens the season with a non-conference game against a
    conference opponent (Notre Dame), in Ann Arbor.
  - Michigan also closes its home schedule against ND in February.
  - Lake Superior only comes to town for 1 game, and very late in
    the season (Feb 26).
  - The UM-MSU Joe Louis Arena series has been reduced to the UM-MSU
    Joe Louis Arena game.  Michigan will wear the home whites this
    year, on January 30th.
  - Michigan does not face any opponent back-to-back in the final 14
    games.  Maybe this will keep tempers down, which tend to flare up
    that time of year, often in the second game of the series.
  - Michigan doesn't face any non-CCHA teams, other than exhibition,
    except for the Great Lakes Invitational (Mich, MSU, MTU, ???).
 
On to the next topic.  A few months ago I posted a look at those chasing
after the Michigan all-time scoring record.  Now that Denny Felsner has
set the mark and joined the St Louis Blues, let's look to the next two
seasons:
 
          CHASING THE ALL-TIME MICHIGAN SCORING RECORD
 
                    Year(s)    GM   G    A   PTS  PIM  +/-
     Denny Felsner  1988-89    39   30   19   49   22
                    1989-90    33   27   16   43   24
                    1990-91*   46   40   35   75   58
                    1991-92*   44   42   52   94   48  +25
                    ---------------------------------------
                    1988-92   162  139  122  261  152
 
     David Roberts  1989-90    42   21   32   53   46
                    1990-91*   43   26   45   71   44  +31
                    1991-92    44   16   42   58   68  +19
                    ---------------------------------------
                    1989-92   129   63  119  182  158
 
     Brian Wiseman  1990-91    47   25   33   58   58
                    1991-92    44   27   44   71   76  +31
                    ---------------------------------------
                    1990-92    91   52   77  129  134
 
* All-America
 
David Roberts needs a 79 point season to catch Felsner and Brian Wiseman
needs to average 66 points over his final two seasons to catch Denny.
I'm gambling that at least one of them will succeed.
 
John H
Anticipatin' October 17th...