#1/1 Hockey Earns Street Sweep at Northern Michigan

MARQUETTE, Mich. – Top-ranked Michigan State hockey accomplished the collection sweep over Northern Michigan on Saturday evening, taking down the Wildcats 6-2, from the Berry Events Center.
 
“I thought the first period might’ve been one of the best periods we’ve played this year, thought we got to our game right off the bat,” mentioned Michigan State head coach Adam Nightingale.
 
MSU improves to 5-1-0 heading right into a bye week, whereas Northern Michigan falls to 0-8-0. The Spartans return to motion on Friday, November 7 once they open Big Ten play towards Penn State inside Ron Mason Rink at Munn Ice Arena.
 
Junior Tommi Mannisto and senior Tiernan Shoudy every had career-best performances on Saturday with each tallying 4 factors on two targets and two assists apiece. Freshman Porter Martone (1 objective, 1 help) and junior Patrick Geary (2 assists) additionally registered multi-point performances. Martone has posted two factors in 4 of his six video games this season.
 
Also scoring for the Spartans was senior Daniel Russell who earned his first objective of the yr and the twelfth game-winning objective of his profession when he broke a 2-2 tie within the third interval. Russell is the NCAA energetic chief in profession game-winning targets.
 
Senior Travis Shoudy, junior Maxim Strbak, senior Charlie Stramel and freshman Austin Baker additionally had assists. Baker’s was his first profession level, incomes a secondary help on Tiernan Shoudy’s first objective of the evening.
 
Making his collegiate debut in objective, freshman Melvin Strahl made 22 saves to earn his first victory.
 
“I thought Melvin was great, he made a big save about 30 seconds in and made that look easy,” mentioned Nightingale. “We did a good job of limiting their opportunities and he looked really confident in there.”
 
The Spartans out-shot Northern Michigan 45-24 total, together with decisive margins within the first (21-5) and third (15-7) intervals. MSU’s penalty kill went 7-for-8, stopping 10 photographs and scoring a short-handed objective.
 
How It Happened
Freshman Ryker Lee thought he’d opened the scoring up for Michigan State on the 2:29 mark of the primary interval, however a profitable NMU problem caught the Spartans offsides. MSU was fast to reply to the negated objective nonetheless as Mannisto put one at the back of the web on the 2:54 mark from the slot. Mannisto continued his sturdy play on the weekend scoring his second of the interval at 11:14 after placing a puck on objective following a Tiernan Shoudy face-off win.
 
Northern Michigan tied the sport at 2-2 within the second interval, scoring on an influence play on the 1:35 mark and once more at 7:38. Freshman Anthony Romani regarded to have given the Spartans a 3-1 lead early within the second after he beat the NMU goaltender, however his objective was referred to as again after one other profitable Northern Michigan offsides problem.
 
Michigan State killed back-to-back minor penalties early within the third earlier than Russell broke the tie on the 6:36 mark along with his first objective of the season. Stramel discovered Russell from behind the web, who was ready in entrance of the crease to attain. MSU rapidly prolonged its benefit to 5-2 over the Wildcats simply previous the mid-way level of the interval. Martone scored on a redirect and simply 15 second later Tiernan Shoudy went round NMU’s goalie for his first objective of the yr. Shoudy scored his second of the sport short-handed with lower than two minutes to play in regulation on an empty web.