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Kornacki: Red's First Champs Recall Winning It All in Cincinnati

CINCINNATI -- There is a photo as grand as any taken of a coach and a player after they've scaled the mountaintop together, staking their flag at the summit after a long and tiring quest.

Brendan Morrison has his right arm around University of Michigan coach Red Berenson, who is holding a puck out with his right hand and looking at it the way gold rush miners gazed at the panned nugget of a lifetime. The "Red Baron" had finally, at last, pulled out the big one in winning the 1996 NCAA ice hockey championship.