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!