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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
>
 
 
    I believe number 10 (Kevin Harper, younger brother of former Spartan winger
Kelly Harper) is being red-shirted and that is why he didn't play against U of
M.  It wasn't too much of a surprise that Jon Gaskins didn't play at the Jo.
If you payed attention at the Western game, he took a spill into the boards,
got up slowly and discretly limped to the bench.  Shortly after there was an
announcement for someone to report to the trainers room and Gaskins never
returned.  I agree, however, that a 6th defenseman would not have made a
difference against U of M.  It seems that with the wolverines style, they would
have  problems with a team that plays a neutral zone trap but I haven't had the
opportunity to see to many games that weren't at MSU so I can't say if anyone
in the CCHA or anywhere else plays that style.