With a change in staff and personnel, the team has had some noticeable growing pains early in the year. Even as they continue to build, Anastos wants to focus on correcting costly mistakes and forcing other teams to make mistakes of their own.
Late scoring and mistakes ultimately doomed the Spartans this weekend as they were swept in two games by CCHA opponent Lake Superior State. The Lakers’ victories snapped a four-game MSU winning streak in the series, which spanned back to 2009-10.
The Spartans will open up a two-game road series this weekend at Taffy Abel Arena in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., against Lake Superior State.
After a weekend of play, the chemistry continues to grow between Tom Anastos and the MSU hockey team.
With many questions on the table about the new coaching staff and the direction of the program, the MSU hockey team opened up its regular season schedule this weekend. Facing steep competition in the Ice Breaker Tournament in Grand Forks, N.D., the Spartans earned an opening split with a 5-2 loss against No.
The last time the MSU hockey team faced Boston College, it was 2007 and a national championship was on the line. Although the stakes aren’t as high this time, the Spartans will look to make a strong opening statement to the 2011-12 season against Boston College in their first game of the Ice Breaker Tournament in Grand Folks, N.D. The No.
For Tom Anastos and the MSU hockey team, there were many positives to take away from the first game of the season. Aside from handing a 6-1 thrashing to Western Ontario, the Spartans showed resilience and energy to start the Anastos era off on a good note. Although tougher national opponents await, Anastos acknowledged the style of the Spartans’ play and heaped praise on the team’s opening win. “There was a lot to like, actually,” Anastos said.
After a lack luster 2010-11 season, the MSU hockey team enters the new season looking to right the ship with an experienced roster and a new staff. In the first game of the Tom Anastos era, the Spartans were gritty while putting on an offensive clinic to beat a solid Western Ontario team in an exhibition, 6-1.
With the season fast approaching for the MSU hockey team, Tom Anastos and his staff have been hard at work to get the team ready to take the ice.
It was a match made in hockey heaven. When Rick Comley took over the storied MSU hockey program in 2002, he already was one of the great coaches in the history of the game.
Following a disappointing season in 2010-11, new head coach Tom Anastos and several players met with members of the local and regional media Tuesday to discuss the aspirations of a new era in Spartan hockey.
After 17 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings, New York Islanders and St. Louis Blues, goaltender Chris Osgood has decided to end his illustrious playing career with the team that selected him with the 54th pick in the 1991 draft.
For the recently hired MSU hockey head coach and former CCHA commissioner Tom Anastos, restoring the glory of the program to compete as it had under Ron Mason while transitioning into a new role is among the top goals in his first year at the helm of Spartan hockey.
With the hiring of former CCHA Commissioner Tom Anastos as MSU hockey’s head coach comes a new direction for the program. The recently hired Anastos and his staff met with members of the local and regional media Tuesday to discuss the direction of the program in an informal meet-and-greet session.
MSU hockey head coach Tom Anastos completed his coaching staff Monday by announcing the hiring of two new assistant coaches, while retaining assistant coach Tom Newton and video coordinator Adam Nightingale.
Recently-hired hockey head coach Tom Anastos announced his coaching staff Monday, retaining two coaches while adding two former MSU players.
The Detroit Red Wings have battered through the Phoenix Coyotes in the first round of this season’s NHL Playoffs, displaying the poise that it takes to make another deep playoff run as they had two seasons ago and three seasons ago.
The most beautiful, exciting and intense two-month stretch of the year begins when the NHL playoffs kick off with the Detroit Red Wings hosting the Phoenix Coyotes tonight at 7 p.m. on Versus and FOX Sports Detroit. For the next two weeks, viewers will be able to enjoy three or four games on most nights as the field gets whittled down by half and the true contenders separate themselves from the pack.
Less than three weeks after the MSU hockey team’s season came to a close, MSU Athletics Director Mark Hollis introduced former CCHA Commissioner Tom Anastos as the program’s new head coach Wednesday. Anastos, 47, served as commissioner of the CCHA for the past 13 years, played under former MSU hockey coach Ron Mason from 1981-85 and served as an assistant to Mason from 1990-92.
Rick Comley had 783 wins as a college hockey coach. Ron Mason had 924 wins. Amo Bessone had 367 wins at MSU. Tom Anastos, MSU’s newest hockey head coach, is undefeated.