A Once Glorious Era Concludes in Ignominious Desolation: MSU 4, Michigan 1 at Yost.

Maybe it's not as bad as that night after a game at LSSU where he walked through the snow in his game suit, but it's hard to imagine it being worse than this for Red Berenson.

In two games at Yost, against Michigan State, Michigan has been outscored 7-1. 

This would be bad enough in the Ryan Miller years, when MSU was capable of such shutout against anyone. But this MSU team has a season record of 6-17-3. They are coached by Tom Anastos, a man completely out of his league. They are in every way an embarrassment to their school, to their conference, and to the sport of college hockey.

And they've blown out Michigan twice at Yost this year. 

That's a third of their win total for the entire season. And Michigan hasn't even been able to beat them in regulation, either--the other three games have all gone to OT, and Michigan's two conference "wins" over MSU have been meaningless shootout exhibition victories.

It took Michigan 119 minutes and 50 seconds to score a single goal at home.

It's the worst team he's had since those first couple of years rebuilding the program. It is a second, utterly humiliating loss at home to an arch-rival that is itself at an all-time low point. 

It is the low point of the Red Berenson Era. What a tragedy.