> Woog remains upbeat despite `strange ride'
> St Paul Pioneer Press - Charley Walters 12/23/97
>
> Coach Doug Woog, whose University of Minnesota men's hockey team has lost a
> school-record nine consecutive games, said Monday the streak ``has been the strangest ride
> I've ever been on. And we can't get off.''
>
> Woog, who during his 12 previous seasons at Minnesota won seven of every 10 games he
> coached, detests defeat. Still, he said, he's holding up well and figures the defeats can make
> Minnesota stronger.
>
> ``I feel good about our people,'' he said. ``What you really find in these times is that you've
> got a dozen guys who are extremely prideful, want this thing to come to an end, and other
> younger guys who haven't figured it out. But they will. This probably will end up giving us
> some greater strength down the line.''
>
> Future Mariucci Classic participants besides Minnesota: for 1998-99, Ohio State,
> Boston University and Princeton; for 1999-2000, Northern Michigan, Harvard and
> Massachusetts-Lowell; for 2000-01, Maine and Lake Superior State.
>
> Woog, on the Gophers' nine consecutive losses: ``That's more games than we lose in a
> lot of whole seasons.''
 
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