The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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MICHIGAN IN THE PROS Schilling appeared in eight games last season and started three before a torn ACL landed him on injured reserve in November. He was ex- pected to vie for a starting job after the Seahawks traded away starter Max Unger. A Bellevue, Wash., native, Schilling spent the first three seasons of his ca- reer with the San Diego Chargers be- fore signing with his hometown team last year. LAMARR WOODLEY SIGNS WITH THE CARDINALS The Oakland Raiders released for- mer Michigan defensive end LaMarr Woodley in February after part of one season, most of which he spent on injured reserve with a torn biceps muscle. It didn't take him long to find another home in Arizona. Oakland had signed Woodley to a two-year, $12 million deal after he was cut by the Steelers, a team with which he spent the first seven years of his career, but the Raiders released him after one season. Though Wood- ley has notched only nine sacks in three seasons since averaging 11 from 2008-11, Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians has confidence in what Wood- ley can do. "Wood is a pocket crusher," Arians told ArizonaSports.com. "He always has been. He collapses the pocket. We'll have some good inside pressure now. "LaMarr is a guy that has been a 10- to 12-sack guy every year, and then the injury last year set him back. He's a very physical, outside edge player." The NHL MAX PACIORETTY'S PLAYOFF STATUS IN DOUBT DUE TO INJURY Former Michigan standout Max Pacioretty might be the key to Mon- treal's playoff hopes, but the for- ward's status is in doubt following a suspected concussion. Pacioretty suf- fered what The Canadian Press called an "upper-body injury" in a game at Florida April 5 — at that point, he'd scored 37 goals and was the team's leading scorer. Montreal was slated to play the Ottawa Senators in the opening game of a best-of-seven, first-round playoff series April 15, but Pacioretty was still waiting to see if he could handle the physicality of a practice before deciding if he'd play at all in the series. "That's the next step," Pacioretty said. "You want to practice with full contact." Pacioretty was injured when the Panthers' Dmitry Kulikov hit him, knocking him against the boards. He was helped off the ice and did not return. He would not confirm that he suffered a concussion, though he wore a tinted visor in practice to help his sensitivity with light. "At this point of the year, I have an obligation to say I have an upper- body injury," he said. "Obviously, you don't want to give anybody a competitive edge by telling anybody what it is. I have an upper-body in-