Ron Mason funeral to take place Thursday, open to public
MSU hockey announced Tuesday evening that visitation and funeral services for former MSU hockey coach and athletic director Ron Mason are open to public.
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MSU hockey announced Tuesday evening that visitation and funeral services for former MSU hockey coach and athletic director Ron Mason are open to public.
The game never left Ron Mason. It was with him in the beginning and it was there with him at the end.
First reported by Michigan Hockey Now, legendary and former MSU hockey coach Ron Mason has died at the age of 76.
MSU hockey released it’s schedule for the 2016-17 season yesterday and after a season ripe with top tier opponents, many of them on the front end of the schedule, MSU hockey again will face a tough non-conference slate.
Nearly two weeks after bowing out of the Big Ten Hockey Tournament to Ohio State University in overtime in the quarterfinals, a relatively quiet offseason for MSU hockey was offset by the departure of junior forward Mackenzie MacEachern.
MSU hockey (10-23-4) headed to the Big Ten Tournament looking to prolong its season. Facing a familiar foe in Ohio State in the quarterfinals it needed to string together a gutsy performance to have a shot at the NCAA Tournament.
With 1:37 left in the first period Saturday night, redshirt senior goaltender Nate Phillips checked into the game for the first time. To Spartan fans unaware of the occasion, seeing Phillips skate to the Spartan goal might have been cause for alarm. Phillips, the third string goaltender for MSU, had never recorded a save or a minute of action in five years on the Spartan bench until he stepped onto the ice on senior night in front of a nearly sold out arena.
Following an 11 goal barrage Friday night, MSU hockey (10-22-4, 6-12-2) and Ohio State University (13-17-4, 8-8-4-1) combined for two goals in Saturday’s contest officially tying 1-1 after three periods of regulation and overtime on MSU senior night in front of a crowd of 6,092. However, the Spartans didn’t send its senior class out without a gift as MSU won the shootout, 1-0.
Down 5-4 after leading the game three different times, MSU hockey’s final desperation attempt yielded a goal off the stick of junior forward Joe Cox knotting the game up with 1.6 seconds left in the period, sending the game to overtime. Nevertheless, Ohio State’s Matthew Weis played the role of hero, redirecting the puck into the MSU net with 26 seconds left in the overtime period giving the Buckeyes a 6-5 win.
A night after bounces seemed to fall in Minnesota's favor at every turn. MSU (10-21-3, 6-11-1) was on the receiving end of some puck luck en route to a 5-0 victory over first place in the Big Ten Minnesota (18-15, 13-5).
Tied up 2-2 with conference leading Minnesota (18-14, 13-4) , MSU (9-21-3, 5-11-1) had a chance to swing the puck luck into its favor. A streaking Mackenzie MacEachern raced out of the zone on a shorthanded breakaway. The junior forward who leads MSU in goals had faked a shot but handcuffed himself in the process sending a shot off target. Minutes later on the power play, senior forward Matt DeBlouw slipped into the slot and sent a shot jarring off the crossbar and out.
For much of the latter half of the season MSU head hockey coach Tom Anastos has been struggling to find answer as to why his team couldn’t string together two wins. In a season plagued with inconsistency, MSU found some steady play on the road in Madison Wisconsin.
In the opening segment of the broadcast of the game the word consistency was uttered multiple times as a key to victory tonight for MSU hockey (8-20-3, 4-10-1-0) and Wisconsin (6-14-7,1-9-3-1). With both teams struggling to string together wins throughout the year it wouldn’t be consistency that ultimately decided the back and forth contest.
Holding tight to a 2-1 lead over Penn State University on Saturday, MSU senior captain and forward Michael Ferrantino made a beautiful play. A Penn State defenseman was about to tee up a one-timer from the point, but a flying Ferrantino dove to the ice, swatted the puck off the defenseman’s stick and slid wrist-and-head-first into the boards. He got up, clutching his wrist, and skated straight to the bench.
Only a week removed from a series split with rival Michigan, MSU hockey (7-20-3, 3-10-1-0) fell to and tied Penn State (18-8-4, 8-5-1-1) in a weekend series at Munn Ice Arena.
This is part four in a series of six stories profiling the MSU Sports Medicine faculty.
In front of 20,027 fans at Joe Louis Arena, University of Michigan forward Dexter Dancs had the game on his stick. All by himself in front of the net, he hesitated, slowing his pace. Dancs was milliseconds away from getting a shot past MSU senior goaltender Jake Hildebrand, but MSU freshman forward Mason Appleton had something else in mind.
In a back-to-back weekend series, a loss the first night usually equals an all out effort to win the next night. And after a much needed 3-2 overtime thriller victory over rival University of Michigan (17-4-4), MSU hockey fell victim to the Wolverines wrath and lost 4-1 at home.
The fate of the most complete effort by this Spartan hockey team (7-18-2) rested on the stick of university of Michigan’s Dexter Dancs. A streaking Dancs broke into the zone unabated on a breakaway looking to end it. He slowed and cocked his stick ready to fire, but a hustling freshman Mason Appleton caught up, dove and swatted the puck off Dancs’ stick, salvaging what was left of a dismal season.
MSU hockey's (6-18-2) direction and intensity were missing in its game Saturday night, as MSU reverted back to usual form, playing timid with the puck and allowing OSU (8-14-2) to jump out to a 2-0 lead before eventually losing 2-1. The Spartans played with much conviction on Friday in a 4-2 victory over the Buckeyes. This series was the first time MSU hasn’t lost both games since the Wisconsin series in December.