Red Berenson

has been always has been yeah always has been because that that's a place that forever um what was their legendary coach's name Ron? Ron something? Burgundy? Was it red?

Was that red? No, that's Red Berenson in Michigan.

What was...

Mun?

So you guys just

reminded me of something.

You said Red Berenson.

There's a thing going viral right now with a guy with a Red Baron shirt.

I don't know how I missed this all these years, but I just watched the Mike Legg.

documentary you know about the Michigan goal and how like you know he was like I was just in some rink and this guy Bill Armstrong was doing it like I guess I'm like basically like a men's league you know at that time you know he's just the guy that's got the end of his career and then you probably like for a lot of us like that we think who's the hardest coach you think there was like at that time and it's probably Red Berenson you're like that guy's not gonna let that happen like Like, it's like a Don Cherry type thing.

Like, you're going to ruin the game if you do that.

But this kid found a way to do it.

And I was like, "Oh, no," like, "I'm not gonna make it anymore," like.

But then there was another part of me, and I, I think this was probably one of the coolest things that's ever happened to me, is my, my coach at Michigan, Red Berenson, had called me, um, and he was just like...

He was, he's a very stoic man.

I don't know if you guys know Red, or if you don't.

Uh, if anybody's watching this and you wanna know more about Red Berenson, just look up an interview with Red Berenson-

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... and he's very stoic.

Michigan State, kind of eliminated them, so it was down to those final two.

Red Berenson, I played against Pembroke.

No, I played against Brockville.

Red flew in to that game, and then he took me back on my recruiting trip on the plane to Ann Arbor.

I said, well, you're the deal.

Yeah, I got access to guys like Red Berenson and, of course, Herb Brooks.

Barry Smith.

I used to go to their practices when I was at the Detroit News.

A lawsuit was filed by former members of the University of Michigan men's hockey program, who complained of sexualized hazing as part of their team, where they say coaches knew of the abuse and did nothing about it from 1984 to 2001.

Which, for anyone, if they're counting at home, this was the Red Berenson era.

Which, of course, Red Berenson being at least... a very famous college hockey coach.

Um, and of course this is not a good sign, although I have not seen almost any followup to this story.

Yeah.