1. Freshman defenseman Jon Gaskins injured his left knee in MSU's 4-1 win over
   Western Michigan and is expected to be out the rest of the year.  With
   Gaskins' injury and Chris Sullivan's one-game suspension, the Spartans only
   dressed 5 defensemen for Saturday's 7-1 loss in Detroit against Michigan.
   (They could have dressed 10, it didn't make much difference.)  Sullivan
   should be in the lineup for Friday's final home game against Notre Dame,
   along with Brian Crane and Matt Albers.
 
2. While the Spartans swept Western Michigan this season, the Spartans were
   swept during the regular season by Michigan for the first time since the
   1963-64 regular season, 31 years ago.  If that season sounds familiar to
   some, it should.  If memory serves correctly, it was the last year that
   the Wolverines won the NCAA title.
 
3. The Spartan offense, which had put up 7 goals in seven different conference
   games this season, has been ice cold through the month of February.  In
   amassing a 1-4-1 record since the shortest month of the year began (man,
   it doesn't seem to be the SHORTEST month), the Spartans have scored only
   13 goals while giving up 20, for an average of 2.17 goals per game.  Even
   worse is the fact that most of the games in February for MSU have been at
   Munn Ice Arena, where before the month began, the Spartans had lost only
   once (to UAF on 11/20/94).  MSU is 1-3 at Munn in February.
 
G. M. Finniss
Michigan State University 13-7-3, 18-10-3
WVU '87, UTenn '92, MSU who the hell knows when?