Marquette - It’s only two weeks into the season, but patterns are already emerging for the MSU hockey team - lose badly Friday night, watch the videotape of the loss early Saturday, make adjustments and then win the second game.Such was the case against Northern Michigan at the Berry Events Center during the weekend.
Marquette - The 3,916 fans at the Berry Events Center on Friday were treated to a steady diet of public address announcer Tim McIntosh yelling “Wildcat goal.”McIntosh nearly went hoarse because, for the second time in three games, the MSU hockey team was severely overmatched.
Marquette - Senior defenseman Brad Fast carried the MSU hockey team to a 3-1 win over Northern Michigan at the Berry Events Center on Saturday.Fast scored MSU’s first two goals, including the game-winner with 8.3 seconds left in the third period.Sophomore goaltender Matt Migliaccio was solid in making 17 saves on 18 shots for MSU (2-2-0 overall, 1-1-0 CCHA) .But Fast, the team’s captain, proved to be MSU’s hero Saturday.
Rick Comley has been through this before. “When we went down to Lake Superior - I can still remember to this day - they did the introductions, the teams were lined up, they introduced me as Northern’s head coach and everybody in the building booed,” Comley said.
Rarely does a 55-year-old man want a bunch of college kids to play their music louder.But that’s one of the things head coach Rick Comley still is trying to get his 10th-ranked hockey team (1-1-0) to do in his first year at the helm.Comley wants noise.
Hockey head coach Rick Comley’s ax finally fell last week, and little-used junior defenseman Mike Porter took the brunt of it. Porter, a 6-foot, 185-pounder, was cut from the MSU team to fulfill Comley’s wish for a 26-man active roster. The 23-year-old Northville native played three games last season, but didn’t register any statistics.
CCHA arenas don’t get much farther away from MSU than Nebraska-Omaha’s Civic Auditorium.But they don’t get much closer to home for Spartan hockey players Tim Hearon and Chad Hontvet.Hearon, a junior center, and Hontvet, a freshman right wing, both played their junior hockey in the Cornhusker State.
Omaha, Neb. - Amid the cheering for the victorious Denver Pioneers, one could almost hear the sigh of relief from MSU fans at the Omaha Civic Auditorium this weekend. Very rarely do Spartan fans take any solace from a one win, one loss weekend.
Omaha, Neb. - In the wee hours of Saturday morning, head coach Rick Comley watched the replay of MSU’s humbling 5-0 loss to Denver with a tally sheet in his hand.He was counting the number of turnovers his seventh-ranked hockey team made against the Pioneers in the first round of the season-opening Maverick Stampede on Friday.Comley’s final calculation: 110 MSU giveaways, including 50 by the defensemen, in 60 minutes of hockey.
MSU head coach Rick Comley said he doesn’t know if his seventh-ranked Spartans will be as good as No.
They keep getting younger and younger. In a year during which both MSU and Michigan will rely on 17-year-old starting goaltenders, the Spartan hockey team got a verbal commitment from a 16-year-old defenseman last week. A.J.
The MSU hockey team didn’t win by as much as most people expected, but the Spartans still conquered heavy underdog Western Ontario 6-2 on Tuesday night at Munn Ice Arena. MSU misfired for most of the game, going 1-for-6 on the power play and regularly sending passes just out of the reach of their targets. But the Spartans still thoroughly outplayed the Mustangs, outshooting them 23-2 in the first period, 21-4 in the second and 12-7 in the third.
Seventh-ranked MSU probably won’t be challenged by Western Ontario tonight, but the Spartans know what’s looming just three days from now.The ice hockey team’s exhibition game against the Mustangs tonight is a mere speed bump in MSU’s collision course with No.
The MSU hockey team got a bit of revenge against the Under-18 U.S. National Development Team on Saturday night, but the Spartans know they have plenty of room for improvement heading into their final exhibition game Tuesday. MSU, which trailed 2-1 to the young U.S.
For awhile, it looked as though MSU might be embarrassed by the Under-18 U.S. National Development Team for the second time in three years.But the seventh-ranked Spartans recovered from a 2-1 second-period deficit to beat the Nationals, 4-3, in an exhibition game Saturday night at Munn Ice Arena.MSU lost 6-4 to the U.S.
Nothing that happens this weekend will show up on the MSU hockey team’s record, but the pair of exhibition games on the docket still are quite important as the Spartans prepare for the start of the regular season next week. MSU officially opens its schedule today with the Green and White intrasquad scrimmage.
Detroit - Former MSU goaltender Ryan Miller returned to his home state Thursday night as a member of the Buffalo Sabres.
Offense was the name of the game at the hockey team’s annual Green and White intrasquad scrimmage Friday.Ultimately, the Green team, guided by freshman goaltender Justin Tobe, prevailed, 10-5.
The names Matt Migliaccio and Justin Tobe had might as well be superglued together for the next several months, because rarely will you hear one mentioned without the other.The young goaltenders have almost morphed into one entity in the minds of Spartan fans this fall.
Among the changes made by new hockey head coach Rick Comley this season is the segmentation of duties for assistant coaches Tom Newton and David McAuliffe. In the past Newton and McAuliffe worked with former head coach Ron Mason on all aspects of the team, but Comley wants the duo to focus their attention on smaller factions.