Career
He broke into the league during the Original Six with the Detroit Red Wings, where he competed as the starting goalie with Roger Crozier in 1964, seeing action in two games. However, he is probably best known for starring for the United States ice hockey national team at the 1967 Ice Hockey World Championship in Vienna, where he was, despite his team"s fifth-place finish, voted best goaltender of the tournament, an award earned by only four other Americans in the history of the IIHF (Don Rigazio, "55, Willard Ikola, "56, Jack McCartan, "60 and Ty Conklin, "04). Wetzel finished his major league career in 1973 with the WHA Minnesota Fighting Saints after spending the previous season in Austria with KAC Kitzbuhel.
He would later serve as an assistant coach under Herb Brooks with the Minnesota North Stars in 1987-1988.
