Saturday, 19 February 1994 at Joe Louis Arena (Detroit) MSU home team
UM- 0 1 0 - 1
MSU- 1 2 2 - 5
First period- 1, MSU Burkett 7 (Turner, Ferranti) pp 10:29
(someone out there may want to check this one, listed
as power play by LSJ, but penalty giving the one-man
advantage is listed at 8:27. Suspect that one of the
two times is wrong)
Penalties- MSU bench (too many men) 2:04
Willis, UM (interference) 8:27 (see above)
Wiegand, MSU (interference) 11:02
Knuble, UM (high stick) 15:37
Perrault, MSU (rough) 17:16
Luhning, UM (double rough) 17:16
Second period- 2, MSU Carter 21 (Suk, Murray) 8:15
3, MSU Slater 2 (Guolla) 9:25
4, UM Knuble 28 (Wiseman) pp 17:59
Penalties- Turner, MSU (hold) 5:06
Botterill, UM (trip) 5:30
Halko, UM (hook) 6:09
Sullivan, MSU (hold) 11:15
Botterill, UM (interference) 14:46
Wiegand, MSU (high stick) 17:34
Carter, MSU (trip) 19:16
Third period- 5, MSU Worden 3 (Murray) 11:44
6, MSU Albers 3 (Burkett, Ferranti) 17:00
Penalties- Harper, MSU (interference) 12:40
Hilton, UM (trip) 13:01
Sloan, UM (trip) 14:34
Goaltender saves- MSU Buzak 8-12-7---27
UM Shields 4-7-7---18
Power plays- MSU 1-8 (see above), UM 1-8
Referees- Hall, Floyd
Linesman- Floyd (change other ref to Graff)
A- 18, 398
Man, did we need this one! Jekyll showed up for MSU last night, Hyde stayed
home. From the radio broadcast, it sounded as if UM sort of folded after
Buzak withstood the barrage in the first and early part of the second. For
those of you out there who heard some of my latest rantings, I take it all back.(Of course, my voice is a little hoarse from singing the MSU fight song all
night, a fact which my neighbors are probably really glad for.)
MSU seems to do their best while spreading the wealth, and they did that on
Saturday, with five different goal scorers including four whose tallies have
been few and far between for the Green and White this year (Burkett, Slater,
Worden, and Albers). Buzak, who had been at best lackluster in his last few
performances, held the Spartans in the game early (MSU didn't get a shot on
Shields in the first 10 minutes of the game) until the offense kicked in.
Tough to tell if UM came in flat or just sort of felt snakebitten by Buzak.
So now the Spartans hold onto second (with LSSU's defeat of WMU), a prospect
that had seemed extremely unlikely earlier in the week. The final four games
include three against teams that just love to make life miserable for MSU,
Ferris St. and Western Michigan. MSU has probably the weirdest schedule left,
playing on Thursday and Friday for the next two weeks. Let's just hope that
Hyde stays in the closet for the next two weeks.
As Keith pointed out, MSU loses the tiebreakers with everyone but BG (Miami
and LSSU on goals, WMU on season series). Unfortunately, the one other team
that we do win the tiebreaker against has already clinched the CCHA. MSU wins
the season series with UM 2-1, including wins at two places where the Spartans
have had little success recently, Yost Arena in Ann Arbor and Joe Louis Arena
in Detroit. The only problem is that the NC$$ West Regional is in a place
where the Spartans have struggled recently, Munn Ice Arena in East Lansing.
We're out of the fire for now, but there's still grease in the frying pan, and
we've already been breaded. It will be intersting to see whether the meal
becomes Fried Greek or Flame-Roasted Bulldog or Bronco.
G. M. Finniss
Michigan State University
WVU '87, UTenn '92, MSU who the hell knows when?
P. S. New title for SkateGate: Tonya and Nancy: The Story that the Media
Wouldn't Let Die!
P. P. S. Could somebody tell me exactly what is it about the boring programs
and dull music that Russian figure skaters use that makes Olympic
judges have orgasms? ELVIS WAS ROBBED!
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