MSU hockey works out playing rotation for second round matchup with Miami (Ohio)
Earlier in the season, Tom Anastos and the rest of the MSU hockey coaching staff shuffled lines in an effort to find chemistry that worked.
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Earlier in the season, Tom Anastos and the rest of the MSU hockey coaching staff shuffled lines in an effort to find chemistry that worked.
Heading into the CCHA playoffs, Tom Anastos frequently said the postseason means a whole new season.
Sitting in last place following the CCHA regular season, the MSU hockey team managed to defeat Alaska in the first round of the CCHA playoffs and advance to the quarterfinals.
The first round of the CCHA playoffs is ongoing for four teams, but Michigan has secured its place in the quarterfinals with a sweep of Northern Michigan.
The first round of the CCHA playoffs is back to a clean slate for the MSU hockey team after Alaska defeated the Spartans on Saturday night, 4-1.
The MSU hockey team picked up a win in the first game of the CCHA playoffs with a 2-1 defeat of Alaska on the road Saturday night.
Saturday night’s MSU hockey 1-0 win against Western Michigan at Munn Ice Arena marked multiple “lasts” for the Spartan players.
Friday night’s 5-2 win by Western Michigan over MSU hockey means the Broncos have a shot at a first-place CCHA finish, but for the Spartans, it means securing last place.
They started as nine in 2009; they’ve since dwindled to four.
For the first time in months, Will Yanakeff sang to arena music.
After starting both games in a series for the first time since Oct. 19-20, junior goaltender Will Yanakeff has been honored as the CCHA Warrior Goaltender of the Week.
It might not be the series sweep it was looking for, but MSU hockey (10-21-3 overall, 8-17-1-0 CCHA) picked up its first pair of back-to-back wins this season with a 1-0 win against Alaska on Friday night.
Multiple flights and a day’s worth of travel, only to be welcomed by a high of minus 4 degrees. The weather of Fairbanks, Alaska, might make the frigid winters of East Lansing seem tropic, but to Tanner Sorenson, the sub-zero temperature means home.
After an upper body injury plagued Ryan Keller the first half of the season, the freshman forward finally is finding his stride for the MSU hockey team.
Twenty-eight seasons. Fourteen trips to Alaska. Hundreds of games. Countless players.
At Tuesday afternoon’s press conference, MSU hockey players and head coach Tom Anastos finally were able to say they succeeded at the little things last weekend.
Sitting last in the CCHA and yet to sweep a series, the MSU hockey team doesn’t have much to show for its work.
Coming off Friday night’s game where fatal mistakes were the demise of the MSU hockey’s 5-3 loss to Northern Michigan, the Spartans managed to find the positives and apply it to Saturday evening. This time, the effort and the execution outweighed the mistakes, and MSU (13-15-4 overall, 7-13-4-1 CCHA) came out on top of the Wildcats, 4-2.
Walking away from Friday night’s game, one thing MSU hockey can be sure of is the Spartans still have some fight in them.
A fight to get out of last place might not be the position MSU hockey wants to be in, but it’s the reality.