For every young athlete, there is a team he grows up loving. For every team the young boy loves, there is band of players he grows up idolizing.
A little over a year ago, JT Stenglein was just another name lost on the MSU Hockey roster. Hidden underneath the skill of guys on the depth chart, Stenglein was a non concern.
Whatever sparked MSU’s shooting urge over the weekend, they might need to keep it. MSU (4-3-1) put on another clinic of shooting, skating, and electric plays Saturday, looking like a team finding its stride and exerting confidence in a 7-4 drubbing of New Hampshire (3-4-1). “We expected a different game than last night,” head coach Tom Anastos said.
If MSU (3-3-1) was at all fazed at its 2-3-1 start to the season, they didn’t show it Friday night.
Tom Anastos opened up his press conference with a smile on Tuesday. His enthusiastic grin expressed his itch to take the ice again.
MSU took on former CCHA Conference rival Lake Superior State Thursday night in front of a sparse home opening crowd, in large part due to it being a Thursday.
The confines of Munn Ice Arena will be a welcome sight for the travel weary Spartan hockey team that hasn’t played a game at Munn this season other than the exhibition game with Western Ontario back on Oct. 4.
With two flicks of the wrist on Friday night, Zach Osburn, unintentionally set the bar high for himself the rest of the year.
Not many times is the goalie the most recognizable face of a hockey team, but when he is, it’s with great reason. Standing at six feet tall, and 184 pounds, the keeper of MSU’s blue paint Jake Hildebrand is not even the biggest goaltender in the Big Ten, let alone his own team.
If you’re looking for a mantra for the 2015-16 hockey season, you won’t find one. Coach Tom Anastos didn’t jump on the “Reach Higher” bandwagon Mark Dantonio is driving with Tom Izzo sitting pretty in the shotgun seat.
On March 3, 1993 Shawn Walsh, head hockey coach at the University of Maine, looked on from the bench as his Black Bears skated to their first ever national title.
Under the trappings and new gimmicks of a newly renovated Munn Ice Arena, MSU Hockey picked up right where they left off last season by defeating Western Ontario 2-1 Sunday evening. It didn’t take long for the Spartans to break the ice on the fresh season as freshmen center Cody Milan gave the Spartans an early lead just two minutes into the opening period.
If there’s any green paint left over from the “green line” experiment at Munn Ice Arena, MSU Hockey might just want to use it to scrawl “NCAA Tourney or Bust” on the walls of the locker room. That was the sentiment from many of the players during MSU Hockey Media Day Wednesday at Munn Ice Arena.
MSU Hockey already knows its talent depth but now two of the team's top returners have garnered some early conference recognition. The Big Ten Conference today released its 12 member deep Preseason Players to Watch List, and two Spartans grace this year’s list.
On a Friday morning two days before official move in for freshmen, a group of alumni gathered in a familiar spot on MSU's campus.