Neil’s Notebook: Spartans Hungry and Looking to Get Back in Sync
11/22/2018 10:09:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey
By Neil Koepke
MSUSpartans.com staff writer
EAST LANSING – Michigan State is a team still searching for its identity. So is Minnesota.
The Spartans are going through a tough stretch with losses in its last five games. So are the Gophers, who have lost five of their last seven.
MSU needs a major boost on offense, after scoring only two goals in its last three games. And so is Minnesota, which went through a spell of four games in which it scored one goal in each contest.
The Spartans have a losing record, and – you guessed it – so do the Gophers.
Both teams are hungry for victories and looking to get back in sync, and that makes for an intriguing matchup as Michigan State (4-6 overall, 0-2 Big Ten and Minnesota (3-5-2, 1-1) meet in a Big Ten, Thanksgiving weekend series at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at 3M Arena at Mariucci in Minneapolis.
"It's a huge weekend to get back on the right track,'' MSU junior center and captain Sam Saliba said. "We have to find a way to get a win. As quick as we were 4-1, we find ourselves losing five in a row.
"We're still very upbeat. We have a close group and we know it's about us. And the only way we turn this around is with the guys in the room. We're sticking together.''
The Spartans are coming off two close, home losses against Notre Dame, 3-1 with an empty-net goal by the Irish on Friday and 2-1 on Saturday.
"On Friday, we had only six chances from the high danger areas but we had 15 on Saturday," MSU coach Danton Cole said. "That was from more of a commitment of different things – getting in front of the net, screening the goalie. We had enough chances to win the game.
"Results-wise, one goal isn't enough. We're in a bit of a drought, but you can't get away from the process. I like what we did on Friday, and on Saturday we were a little better. I think we hit five posts (in the two games) and if any of those go in, it's a different weekend.''
The Gophers suffered an embarrassing 4-3 overtime loss against St. Lawrence at home last Friday, but rebounded for a 3-0 victory and series split on Saturday. St. Lawrence came into the series with a 1-8 record and only six goals scored in its last six games. Earlier this season, the Saints lost at home to Wisconsin (7-1) and at Michigan (3-0 and 3-1).
"That was not a very good performance by a Gopher hockey team,'' first-year Minnesota coach Bob Motzko told Forum New Service on Friday. "It blindsided us a bit. We thought we were going to piggy-back off last weekend. But what we saw tonight, we've already seen numerous times this year.''
Minnesota trailed 3-1 after two periods but rallied with two goals in the third to send the game into overtime. The Saints won it three minutes into OT.
The weekend before the St. Lawrence series, the Gophers split at Wisconsin, winning the first game, 3-2, and losing the second, 3-1.
"We should have been getting beat 7-1 (by St. Lawrence) if (goalie Mat) Robson wouldn't have been so good tonight,'' Motzko said. "The story for us is the fact that we were even in the game because of great goaltending.''
Minnesota has dropped out of the USCHO Top 20 poll for the first time since Feb. 15, 2006.
So now, the Spartans and Gophers look to build on the positives from last weekend and focus on the present.
"We talked about a few things after the game (on Saturday). It wasn't long, probably a couple of minutes,'' Cole said. "We talked about where we're going and what (the players) needed to do Sunday to be ready to get better on Monday.
"I was impressed with where the guys were mentally and physically. We had a great practice on Monday. I put that on the coaches to deal with that. We can't go back and replay those games. We'll take some of the good out of last weekend and build on that.''
MSU outshot Notre Dame, the No. 8-ranked team in the nation, in both games – 29-21 on Friday and 29-22 on Saturday. The Irish went 0-for-4 and 1-for-2 on the power play while the Spartans were blanked, 0-for-3 and 0-for-4. Michigan State had several excellent chances to tie Saturday's game in the last few minutes.
"We're better than we were last year. We're much better than last year,'' Cole said. "Our goal is to be better than last week. We talk about character drives the process and drives the results. And (the players) can take care of it by focusing on the first part and we'll (the coaches) guide them on the process and the results will follow.
"That's something we've tried to stick with and it's a great way for the guys to go through it. And it keeps things in reality.''
Motzko left St. Cloud State after 13 years to take over as Gophers coach last spring. He replaces Don Lucia, who retired after years as a head coach and 19 seasons at Minnesota. Lucia led the Gophers to NCAA championships in 2002 and 2003, with Motzko as his assistant.
Cole doesn't expect the Gophers to play a different style in Motzko's first season at Minnesota.
"I've known Bob a long time, with the U.S. team playing at St. Cloud, and there are similarities to Lucia,'' Cole said. "Both Bob and Don like an uptempo game with the defense joining in, with a lot of offense and a lot of talent. They have a lot of guys back.
"But Bob will put his brand on it. They have eight or nine seniors so next year you'll see more of his flavor with more of his recruits there. But they're similar in that there is a lot of talent and a lot of NHL draft picks (13). They can skate and make plays.''
Under Lucia, Minnesota played in the NCAA Tournament 13 times in 19 seasons but failed to qualify in two of the last three years. The Gophers won the regular-season title in the first four years of the Big Ten.
Motzko led St. Cloud State to five NCAA appearances in the last six seasons. His teams won two regular-season titles in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference and one in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.
"Bob is a tremendous coach. I'm sure the success he had at St. Cloud will continue at Minnesota,'' Cole said. "You look at what he left behind there. St. Cloud is the No. 1 rated team in the country right now.
"Any time you have a new coach, you're figuring out things as you move along. But they're a dangerous team. You look up front and they've got Lance Pitlick, Tyler Sheehy, Brent Gates and those are guys who have scored a lot. (Sammy) Walker is playing well as freshman and their goalies – (Eric) Shierhorn and (Mat) Robson have .925 and .916 saves percentages.
"They're going to be a good team and they're going to play fast. They're just kind of figuring out who they are, like a lot of other teams.''
SCOUTING THE GOPHERS: Minnesota is averaging just 2.33 goals-per-game, which is low for a team that usually is one of the highest-scoring teams in the nation. That ranks 43rd in the country. Michigan State is averaging 2.80, 28th nationally. Defensively, the Gophers' goals-against average is 2.67, 23rd in the nation and a little better than the Spartans' 3.00 GAA, 34th nationally.
Minnesota is converting on 16.2 percent on the power play and its penalty killing is at 82.2 percent. MSU specialty team numbers: 22 percent on the power play and 84.4 percent penalty killing.
Junior Rem Pitlick leads the team Gophers in scoring with four goals and four assists for eight points in nine games. Senior Brent Gates Jr. (2-3-5), freshman Sammy Walker (2-3-5) and sophomore defenseman Clayton Phillips (0-5-5) are tied for second in scoring.
Other top offensive threats include sophomore Brandon McManus (3-1-4), freshman Sampo Ranta (2-2-4), seniors Tyler Sheehy (1-2-3) and Tommy Novak (0-3-3) and freshman Nathan Burke (2-0-2), who scored two goals in the Gophers' 3-0 win over St. Lawrence last Saturday. Burke, from Scottsdale, Ariz., has played in only three games since recovering from mononucleosis.
"They're especially tough to play in their rink, with the Olympic ice sheet (which is 100 feet wide)," MSU senior forward Cody Milan. "We're not used to playing on that. They always have skilled players, high-end recruits, so it's tough to play there.''
Sheehy, a First-Team NCAA West All-America and the Big Ten Player of the Year in 20016-17, leads all active Gophers against Michigan State, with five goals and six assists for 11 points in 12 games.
Junior goalie Mat Robson has played in six games and has a 2-3-1 record, a 2.87 goals-against average and a .916 saves percentage. Senior Eric Shierhorn has played in four games, has a 1-2-0 record, with a 1.60 GAA and a .925 saves percentage. Schierhorn is 9-1-1 against Michigan State.
The Gophers started the season with a 1-1 tie at then-No. 1 Minnesota Duluth and a 7-4 win over the Bulldogs at home. But then they lost three straight – 3-1 vs. North Dakota in the U.S. Hall of Fame Game in Las Vegas, and 5-1 and 2-1 in a home-and-home series against Minnesota State. Minnesota followed with splits at Wisconsin and at home vs. St. Lawrence.
Gates Jr., a 6-foot-3, 200-pound forward from Grand Rapids, Mich., was heavily recruited by MSU. He's the first player from the state of Michigan to play for the Gophers.
Michigan State captain Sam Saliba said it'll take a while for the Gophers to get used to a new coach and staff and find some consistency.
"I'm sure it's a little bit of a learning process with the new staff and implementing the new things they want done,'' he said. "There's an 8-10-game feel-out process where you're trying to get comfortable with the systems.
"But they're very skilled, they move the puck well and their defense is very active – especially in their rink, with a lot of ice and space out there.''
THE RIVALRY: Minnesota is 117-45-16 against Michigan State since the schools started playing on Feb. 19, 1926 – a 2-0 Gophers victory. They resumed the series in 1950. Minnesota is 7-0-1 in the last eight meetings. The last MSU victory was a 5-0 decision on March 5, 2016, with goalie Jake Hildebrand earning the shutout at Munn Arena.
One area which the Spartans have an edge on the Gophers is in shootouts. MSU is 4-0 in picking up the extra point in Big Ten play with a victory in the shootout. The last one came on March 11, 2017, a 1-1 tie in the final game of the regular season in Minneapolis.
Last season, Minnesota swept MSU, 3-1 and 4-0 in November in Minneapolis and won 5-4 in mid-January at Munn Arena. Two nights later, the Gophers edged the Spartans 2-1 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
DEFENSE STRONGER: Michigan State's defense will get a major test from Minnesota this weekend, but the Spartans have played three solid games in a row – one at Arizona State in a 2-0 loss two weeks ago and two against the Notre Dame last weekend, 3-1 and 2-1 defeats in which Irish's third goal in the series opener was into an empty-net.
"It's been a couple of adjustments. We tweaked some things in how our defensemen handled the rush, and tried to get our forwards to be more responsible in doing some things,'' MSU coach Danton Cole said. "That was a good bump for us, and I thought last weekend we did a good job, not just in terms of keeping them from scoring goals but shot suppression, back-pressuring and transition.
"When you don't have the puck on your stick, you're playing defense. So it starts from there. I thought that took some pressure off.''
MSU ranks No. 4 in the Big Ten on defense, allowing 3.0 goals per game and No. 1 in penalty killing at 84.4.
"I think we did a much better job with rotation and getting pressure and getting to pucks,'' the Spartans coach said. "It was a more mature style of play. We were able to transition faster, and because we did a good job with that, our breakout percentages were some of the highest of the season, against a really good forechecking team.
"There were a lot of positives. I think we defended well last weekend.''
IN THE BIG TEN: No. 6 Penn State (9-2, 1-1 Big Ten) visits No. 5 Ohio State (8-3-1, 3-1) on Friday and Saturday. The Buckeyes have posted shutouts in four of their last six games.
Notre Dame (7-4-1, 4-2) is in first place in the Big Ten with 12 points and the Buckeyes are second with nine. But Notre Dame has played six league games and OSU just four.
In the other conference series, No. 14 Michigan (6-5, 2-2) plays host to Wisconsin (5-7, 1-3), also on Friday and Saturday. The Badgers have lost five of their last six, including getting swept at Ohio State, 4-0 and 3-1, last weekend.
Notre Dame has the weekend off, but plays a non-conference game at home against Northern Michigan on Tuesday.
Penn State is the highest-scoring team in the Big Ten and the nation, averaging 5.73 goals-per-game. OSU's 1.83 goals-against average is No. 1 in the Big Ten, with Notre Dame a close second at 1.92. The Buckeyes are No. 3 nationally.
It's no surprise that Penn State has the top three scorers in the conference with 19 and 17 points. Sophomore forwards Evan Barratt and Alex Limoges are tied for the lead – Barratt with nine goals and 10 assists for 19 points and Limoges with seven goals and 12 assists. They ranked No. 1 in the nation.
Junior forward Nikita Pavlychev is third with seven goals and 10 assists for 17 points. He's 4th in the country.
Michigan State's Taro Hirose is in a three-way tie for fourth place in Big Ten scoring with five goals and 10 assists for 15 points. Patrick Khodorenko of the Spartans still leads the conference in power-play goals with five.
Ohio State sophomore goaltender Tommy Nappier has the best goals-against average at 1.27 and saves percentage at .958 in seven games. He has one shutout. But his Buckeyes goaltending partner, senior Sean Romeo, has three shutouts, all in his last three games.
MSUSpartans.com staff writer
EAST LANSING – Michigan State is a team still searching for its identity. So is Minnesota.
The Spartans are going through a tough stretch with losses in its last five games. So are the Gophers, who have lost five of their last seven.
MSU needs a major boost on offense, after scoring only two goals in its last three games. And so is Minnesota, which went through a spell of four games in which it scored one goal in each contest.
The Spartans have a losing record, and – you guessed it – so do the Gophers.
Both teams are hungry for victories and looking to get back in sync, and that makes for an intriguing matchup as Michigan State (4-6 overall, 0-2 Big Ten and Minnesota (3-5-2, 1-1) meet in a Big Ten, Thanksgiving weekend series at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at 3M Arena at Mariucci in Minneapolis.
"It's a huge weekend to get back on the right track,'' MSU junior center and captain Sam Saliba said. "We have to find a way to get a win. As quick as we were 4-1, we find ourselves losing five in a row.
"We're still very upbeat. We have a close group and we know it's about us. And the only way we turn this around is with the guys in the room. We're sticking together.''
The Spartans are coming off two close, home losses against Notre Dame, 3-1 with an empty-net goal by the Irish on Friday and 2-1 on Saturday.
"On Friday, we had only six chances from the high danger areas but we had 15 on Saturday," MSU coach Danton Cole said. "That was from more of a commitment of different things – getting in front of the net, screening the goalie. We had enough chances to win the game.
"Results-wise, one goal isn't enough. We're in a bit of a drought, but you can't get away from the process. I like what we did on Friday, and on Saturday we were a little better. I think we hit five posts (in the two games) and if any of those go in, it's a different weekend.''
The Gophers suffered an embarrassing 4-3 overtime loss against St. Lawrence at home last Friday, but rebounded for a 3-0 victory and series split on Saturday. St. Lawrence came into the series with a 1-8 record and only six goals scored in its last six games. Earlier this season, the Saints lost at home to Wisconsin (7-1) and at Michigan (3-0 and 3-1).
"That was not a very good performance by a Gopher hockey team,'' first-year Minnesota coach Bob Motzko told Forum New Service on Friday. "It blindsided us a bit. We thought we were going to piggy-back off last weekend. But what we saw tonight, we've already seen numerous times this year.''
Minnesota trailed 3-1 after two periods but rallied with two goals in the third to send the game into overtime. The Saints won it three minutes into OT.
The weekend before the St. Lawrence series, the Gophers split at Wisconsin, winning the first game, 3-2, and losing the second, 3-1.
"We should have been getting beat 7-1 (by St. Lawrence) if (goalie Mat) Robson wouldn't have been so good tonight,'' Motzko said. "The story for us is the fact that we were even in the game because of great goaltending.''
Minnesota has dropped out of the USCHO Top 20 poll for the first time since Feb. 15, 2006.
So now, the Spartans and Gophers look to build on the positives from last weekend and focus on the present.
"We talked about a few things after the game (on Saturday). It wasn't long, probably a couple of minutes,'' Cole said. "We talked about where we're going and what (the players) needed to do Sunday to be ready to get better on Monday.
"I was impressed with where the guys were mentally and physically. We had a great practice on Monday. I put that on the coaches to deal with that. We can't go back and replay those games. We'll take some of the good out of last weekend and build on that.''
MSU outshot Notre Dame, the No. 8-ranked team in the nation, in both games – 29-21 on Friday and 29-22 on Saturday. The Irish went 0-for-4 and 1-for-2 on the power play while the Spartans were blanked, 0-for-3 and 0-for-4. Michigan State had several excellent chances to tie Saturday's game in the last few minutes.
"We're better than we were last year. We're much better than last year,'' Cole said. "Our goal is to be better than last week. We talk about character drives the process and drives the results. And (the players) can take care of it by focusing on the first part and we'll (the coaches) guide them on the process and the results will follow.
"That's something we've tried to stick with and it's a great way for the guys to go through it. And it keeps things in reality.''
Motzko left St. Cloud State after 13 years to take over as Gophers coach last spring. He replaces Don Lucia, who retired after years as a head coach and 19 seasons at Minnesota. Lucia led the Gophers to NCAA championships in 2002 and 2003, with Motzko as his assistant.
Cole doesn't expect the Gophers to play a different style in Motzko's first season at Minnesota.
"I've known Bob a long time, with the U.S. team playing at St. Cloud, and there are similarities to Lucia,'' Cole said. "Both Bob and Don like an uptempo game with the defense joining in, with a lot of offense and a lot of talent. They have a lot of guys back.
"But Bob will put his brand on it. They have eight or nine seniors so next year you'll see more of his flavor with more of his recruits there. But they're similar in that there is a lot of talent and a lot of NHL draft picks (13). They can skate and make plays.''
Under Lucia, Minnesota played in the NCAA Tournament 13 times in 19 seasons but failed to qualify in two of the last three years. The Gophers won the regular-season title in the first four years of the Big Ten.
Motzko led St. Cloud State to five NCAA appearances in the last six seasons. His teams won two regular-season titles in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference and one in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.
"Bob is a tremendous coach. I'm sure the success he had at St. Cloud will continue at Minnesota,'' Cole said. "You look at what he left behind there. St. Cloud is the No. 1 rated team in the country right now.
"Any time you have a new coach, you're figuring out things as you move along. But they're a dangerous team. You look up front and they've got Lance Pitlick, Tyler Sheehy, Brent Gates and those are guys who have scored a lot. (Sammy) Walker is playing well as freshman and their goalies – (Eric) Shierhorn and (Mat) Robson have .925 and .916 saves percentages.
"They're going to be a good team and they're going to play fast. They're just kind of figuring out who they are, like a lot of other teams.''
SCOUTING THE GOPHERS: Minnesota is averaging just 2.33 goals-per-game, which is low for a team that usually is one of the highest-scoring teams in the nation. That ranks 43rd in the country. Michigan State is averaging 2.80, 28th nationally. Defensively, the Gophers' goals-against average is 2.67, 23rd in the nation and a little better than the Spartans' 3.00 GAA, 34th nationally.
Minnesota is converting on 16.2 percent on the power play and its penalty killing is at 82.2 percent. MSU specialty team numbers: 22 percent on the power play and 84.4 percent penalty killing.
Junior Rem Pitlick leads the team Gophers in scoring with four goals and four assists for eight points in nine games. Senior Brent Gates Jr. (2-3-5), freshman Sammy Walker (2-3-5) and sophomore defenseman Clayton Phillips (0-5-5) are tied for second in scoring.
Other top offensive threats include sophomore Brandon McManus (3-1-4), freshman Sampo Ranta (2-2-4), seniors Tyler Sheehy (1-2-3) and Tommy Novak (0-3-3) and freshman Nathan Burke (2-0-2), who scored two goals in the Gophers' 3-0 win over St. Lawrence last Saturday. Burke, from Scottsdale, Ariz., has played in only three games since recovering from mononucleosis.
"They're especially tough to play in their rink, with the Olympic ice sheet (which is 100 feet wide)," MSU senior forward Cody Milan. "We're not used to playing on that. They always have skilled players, high-end recruits, so it's tough to play there.''
Sheehy, a First-Team NCAA West All-America and the Big Ten Player of the Year in 20016-17, leads all active Gophers against Michigan State, with five goals and six assists for 11 points in 12 games.
Junior goalie Mat Robson has played in six games and has a 2-3-1 record, a 2.87 goals-against average and a .916 saves percentage. Senior Eric Shierhorn has played in four games, has a 1-2-0 record, with a 1.60 GAA and a .925 saves percentage. Schierhorn is 9-1-1 against Michigan State.
The Gophers started the season with a 1-1 tie at then-No. 1 Minnesota Duluth and a 7-4 win over the Bulldogs at home. But then they lost three straight – 3-1 vs. North Dakota in the U.S. Hall of Fame Game in Las Vegas, and 5-1 and 2-1 in a home-and-home series against Minnesota State. Minnesota followed with splits at Wisconsin and at home vs. St. Lawrence.
Gates Jr., a 6-foot-3, 200-pound forward from Grand Rapids, Mich., was heavily recruited by MSU. He's the first player from the state of Michigan to play for the Gophers.
Michigan State captain Sam Saliba said it'll take a while for the Gophers to get used to a new coach and staff and find some consistency.
"I'm sure it's a little bit of a learning process with the new staff and implementing the new things they want done,'' he said. "There's an 8-10-game feel-out process where you're trying to get comfortable with the systems.
"But they're very skilled, they move the puck well and their defense is very active – especially in their rink, with a lot of ice and space out there.''
THE RIVALRY: Minnesota is 117-45-16 against Michigan State since the schools started playing on Feb. 19, 1926 – a 2-0 Gophers victory. They resumed the series in 1950. Minnesota is 7-0-1 in the last eight meetings. The last MSU victory was a 5-0 decision on March 5, 2016, with goalie Jake Hildebrand earning the shutout at Munn Arena.
One area which the Spartans have an edge on the Gophers is in shootouts. MSU is 4-0 in picking up the extra point in Big Ten play with a victory in the shootout. The last one came on March 11, 2017, a 1-1 tie in the final game of the regular season in Minneapolis.
Last season, Minnesota swept MSU, 3-1 and 4-0 in November in Minneapolis and won 5-4 in mid-January at Munn Arena. Two nights later, the Gophers edged the Spartans 2-1 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
DEFENSE STRONGER: Michigan State's defense will get a major test from Minnesota this weekend, but the Spartans have played three solid games in a row – one at Arizona State in a 2-0 loss two weeks ago and two against the Notre Dame last weekend, 3-1 and 2-1 defeats in which Irish's third goal in the series opener was into an empty-net.
"It's been a couple of adjustments. We tweaked some things in how our defensemen handled the rush, and tried to get our forwards to be more responsible in doing some things,'' MSU coach Danton Cole said. "That was a good bump for us, and I thought last weekend we did a good job, not just in terms of keeping them from scoring goals but shot suppression, back-pressuring and transition.
"When you don't have the puck on your stick, you're playing defense. So it starts from there. I thought that took some pressure off.''
MSU ranks No. 4 in the Big Ten on defense, allowing 3.0 goals per game and No. 1 in penalty killing at 84.4.
"I think we did a much better job with rotation and getting pressure and getting to pucks,'' the Spartans coach said. "It was a more mature style of play. We were able to transition faster, and because we did a good job with that, our breakout percentages were some of the highest of the season, against a really good forechecking team.
"There were a lot of positives. I think we defended well last weekend.''
IN THE BIG TEN: No. 6 Penn State (9-2, 1-1 Big Ten) visits No. 5 Ohio State (8-3-1, 3-1) on Friday and Saturday. The Buckeyes have posted shutouts in four of their last six games.
Notre Dame (7-4-1, 4-2) is in first place in the Big Ten with 12 points and the Buckeyes are second with nine. But Notre Dame has played six league games and OSU just four.
In the other conference series, No. 14 Michigan (6-5, 2-2) plays host to Wisconsin (5-7, 1-3), also on Friday and Saturday. The Badgers have lost five of their last six, including getting swept at Ohio State, 4-0 and 3-1, last weekend.
Notre Dame has the weekend off, but plays a non-conference game at home against Northern Michigan on Tuesday.
Penn State is the highest-scoring team in the Big Ten and the nation, averaging 5.73 goals-per-game. OSU's 1.83 goals-against average is No. 1 in the Big Ten, with Notre Dame a close second at 1.92. The Buckeyes are No. 3 nationally.
It's no surprise that Penn State has the top three scorers in the conference with 19 and 17 points. Sophomore forwards Evan Barratt and Alex Limoges are tied for the lead – Barratt with nine goals and 10 assists for 19 points and Limoges with seven goals and 12 assists. They ranked No. 1 in the nation.
Junior forward Nikita Pavlychev is third with seven goals and 10 assists for 17 points. He's 4th in the country.
Michigan State's Taro Hirose is in a three-way tie for fourth place in Big Ten scoring with five goals and 10 assists for 15 points. Patrick Khodorenko of the Spartans still leads the conference in power-play goals with five.
Ohio State sophomore goaltender Tommy Nappier has the best goals-against average at 1.27 and saves percentage at .958 in seven games. He has one shutout. But his Buckeyes goaltending partner, senior Sean Romeo, has three shutouts, all in his last three games.
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