Saturday, 12 March 1994 at East Lansing
CCHA First Round Series, Game 2
 
UIC   0   0   1   0  -  1
MSU   0   1   0   1  -  2
 
First period- No scoring.
                Penalties- Finner, UIC (hold) 7:05
                           Mathias, UIC (slash) 13:54
                           Blum, UIC (cross check) 14:46
                           Perrault, MSU (charge) 19:16
 
Second period- 1, MSU Ferranti 6 (Harper) 16:56
                Penalties- Buzak, MSU (slash, served by Suk) 3:56
                           Vanstaaulduinen, MSU (hold) 14:21
                           Dennis, UIC (slash) 18:10
                           Blum, UIC (rough) 18:10
                           Knorr, UIC (rough) 18:10
                           Carter, MSU (rough) 18:10
                           Guolla, MSU (rough) 18:10
 
Third period- 2, UIC, Knorr (MacDonald) 5:17
                Penalty- Brenner, UIC (hold) 2:33
 
Overtime- 3, MSU Carter 26 (Guolla, Turner) 4:40
                Penalties- None
 
                (BTW, Knorr's goal was his 22nd of the season)
 
Goaltender saves- MSU Buzak 10-5-5-3---23
                  UIC Spencer 8-11-8-1---28
 
Power plays- MSU 0-5, UIC 0-3
 
Refereees- Shegos*2 (Mark and Matt)
Linesman- Kelly
 
A- 5,752
 
3 stars- 1. Anson Carter, MSU
         2. Mike Buzak, MSU
         3. Steve Ferranti, MSU
 
        (like John, I don't know how one team can have all three stars in an
overtime game, but........)
 
MSU has had a tendency this season to make good teams look bad and bad teams
look good.  This weekend is no exception.  This one was tight from start to
finish.  As in the second and third periods of Friday's game, UIC dominated the
play for probably most of the first two periods.  Ferranti's goal late in the
second seemed to shift momentum to MSU which they then promptly lost early in
the third.  This one had the feel of an overtime game about midway through the
third.  MSU had some good opportunities late in regulation to win it but could
not put one past Spencer (he really did deserve one of the three stars).
 
In overtime, UIC had some golden opportunities to score but couldn't finish
off the play (on many of these, Buzak was well out of position).  On the game-
winner, Guolla (who had about four excellent scoring opportunities throughout
the game only to be stoned by Spencer) led a 3-on-2 after a lead pass from
Turner.  He fed the puck to Carter on the right wing who rifled one low into
the right corner of the net, which Spencer didn't have much of a chance on.
 
A lot fewer penalties called tonight, mainly because the Shegos boys couldn't
figure out how to work the whistle.  First, the CCHA gives us Petterle and
Breach, who are so blow-happy it's pathetic, and then we get Shegos*2.  Hey,
CCHA, tonight's the real thing, can we get some decent refs?
 
Should the Spartans win tonight, they will play either BG or UAF (depending on
the UAF-Miami game tonight) in the late game next Friday at the Joe.  (IMO, I'd
much rather have to play BG.)  Should the Spartans lose, they'll be able to
sit home and cheer for Shawn and Co. as the B-ball team enters the Field of
64, because our chances for the NC$$ Tourney will go up in Flames (pun, un-
fortunately, intended).
 
G. M. Finniss
Michigan State University
WVU '87, UTenn '92, MSU who the hell knows when?
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