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 in overtime in the quarterfinals a relatively quiet offseason for MSU hockey was offset by the departure of junior forward Mackenzie MacEachern. MacEachern will forego his senior season and last year of NCAA eligibility; signing a two-year entry level contract with the St.
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. But 13:47 into the overtime period, Buckeye Mason Jobst blasted home a rebound effectively ending the Spartans season.
With 1:37 left in the first period on Saturday night, redshirt senior goaltender Nate Phillips checked into the game for the first time.
Following an 11 goal barrage on Friday night, MSU hockey (10-22-4, 6-12-2-1) and Ohio State (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.
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.
A night after bounces seemed to fall in Minnesota's favor at every turn it was MSU who was on the receiving end of some puck luck en route to a 5-0 victory over first place in the Big Ten Minnesota. “Tonight we kind of got a few of the bounces that they took from us last night,” senior forward and captain Michael Ferrantino said.
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.
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.
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.
For MSU’s hockey program, the healing process for players is in good hands with Dr. Andrew Schorfhaar of the MSU Sports Medicine team.
The Spartans celebrated as if they they had won an NCAA title, piling on top of each other on the boards adjacent to the Spartan bench. But they still had won a trophy: a 50-pound metal trophy called The Iron D. MSU laid claim to the newly inaugurated trophy in the hotly contested Duel in the D matchup. That harrowing effort was followed up with a 4-1 loss at the hands of U-M on Saturday. The Iron D might be the only trophy the MSU hockey team will have to show for their losing season.
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 Michigan’s Dexter Dancs.
MSU hockey lost 2-1 to Ohio State Saturday night. The two teams split the series 1-1, with MSU defeating the Buckeyes 4-2 on Friday. The split is MSU's first time not losing a series since Dec. 11, 2015.