

"Brett scored 30 goals the second half of the season, and then in 1985-86 … 52." When he came back, Brett already had lost some weight and had a completely different attitude. "We had a heart-to-heart before that break.

"Brett only had a couple of goals in the pre-Christmas part of the schedule," Sertich said. That's how he wound up in Tier II juniors in Canada. The hockey scouts throughout Canada seemed to agree on this: Brett was out of shape and not filled with desire. She's a great lady and she loves the Bulldogs to this day." "We were told that the person with influence was his mom," Sertich said this week.ĭave Zentner, a longtime Sertich friend and Bulldogs booster, said: "I was flying back to Duluth, trying to make a game, and I first met Joanne on that flight. Mike Sertich was the UMD coach when his recruiter, Tim McDonald, made the trips to Penticton, British Columbia, to convince Brett that Duluth was where he could become an actual NHL prospect.
