‘“He felt his time was right,” Pearson said of Mann last week during media day. “I think one of the issues there too is, we had to play — we didn’t have to — but Erik Portillo really made great strides last year. We had to find a way to get him more games, and I think Strauss was looking at the big picture and he probably wouldn’t have got as many games as he did the past couple years here at Michigan. He felt he had really done all he could in net as far as numbers go and wins.”’