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? [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]