Friday, 4 February at East Lansing
OSU- 3 2 0 - 5
MSU- 1 2 1 - 4
First period- 1, OSU Richards (Paterson, Green) 9:44
2, OSU White 10:55 (not real sure of this one, Jerry didn't
announce it. The Spartans on the ice weren't the only ones
who had a bad night.)
3, OSU Power (Winter, Sutton) 15:35
4, MSU Crane (Sullivan, Tuzzolino) 17:54
Penalties- Sullivan, MSU (high stick) 13:30
Second period- 5, MSU Carter (Perrault) 6:12
6, MSU Carter (Guolla, Kruse) 12:45
7, OSU Riedel (Smith) 17:01
8, OSU White (Richards, Sellers) 17:39
Penalties- Harper, MSU (interference) 11:58
(correct that, 6:42)
Paterson, OSU (interference) 11:58
Holmes, OSU (roughing) 13:57
Power, OSU (roughing) 13:57
Sullivan, MSU (roughing) 13:57
Vanstaalduinen, MSU (roughing) 13:57
Third period- 9, MSU Guolla (Carter, Slater) 16:07
Penalties- Paterson, OSU (interference) 9:26
Clifford, MSU (checking from behind) 12:08
Goaltender saves- MSU, Kruse 7-8-x--15
Buzak (17:39 2nd period) x-2-2--4
OSU, Askey 3-8-9--20
Power plays- MSU 1-2, OSU 0-3
Referees- Sotiroff, Cline
Linesan- Thompson
A- 6,629 (147th consecutive sellout at Munn)
Analysis- Since we've pretty much been talking overrated teams all week, let's
add one--- MICHIGAN STATE. The Spartans, to put it bluntly,
SUCKED tonight. They came out extremely flat and Ohio St., who
has been termed one of the better 40 minute teams in hockey,
beat them. Plain and simple. No excuses (like have been
bandied about quite recently by another school we won't men-
tion). You could sort of tell it was going to be a bad night
when the Slapshots (the self-anointed cheering section for
MSU, which usually doesn't stand even if you light fires under
their asses) were standing for the majority of the game. MSU
basically played a very similar game to the one they played
here against Western Michigan in December (except we scored
this time).
It appeared that the Spartans had come back and taken command of the
game in the middle of the second period, only to have the
Buckeyes score two quick goals with 3:00 left in the second
to take a 5-3 lead at the intermission. When MSU failed to
score until the 16:00 mark of the third, the result was fairly
academic. Askey played an excellent game for OSU, making the
big stops when he needed to. Considering that he is only a
sophomore, there is some potential in Columbus to build a
succesful program around him.
This will probably go down as one of, if not the, biggest upset of
the year. The Spartans had come into this game winning six
of their last seven. Now, they only have 18 hours to regroup
before the UIC Flames come to town (who, at last report, were
leading BG 6-5). To give you an idea of the size of this
upset, this was OSU's first win EVER in East Lansing (they
are now 1-21).
Oh, and before I forget......
3 stars- 1. White, OSU
2. Askey, OSU
3. Carter, MSU
G. M. Finniss
Michigan State University
WVU '87, UTenn '92, MSU who the hell knows when? (if we play many more like
we did tonight, it'll be sooner than later)
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