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Neil’s Notebook: Under-the-Weather Spartans Come Up Short vs. Buckeyes
2/22/2020 9:55:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey
By Neil Koepke
MSUSpartans.com staff writer
EAST LANSING – It was a tough night for Michigan State against Ohio State on Friday at Munn Arena.
The Spartans were not only battling a very good and well-balanced Buckeye team that's ranked No. 12 in the nation, they were also dealing with a flu bug that's impacted most of the team, and even the coaches.
Only two players sat out – standout goalie John Lethemon and left wing Logan Lambdin – but many other Spartans were not at 100 percent and tried to work as hard as they could.
In the end, Michigan State couldn't generate many quality scoring chances, and a fluke goal against the Spartans was the difference as Ohio State played a solid road game and earned a 1-0 victory in the first game of a Big Ten series in front of a sellout crowd of 6,376.
"It was a tough battle out there. It was two teams that played pretty hard,'' MSU coach Danton Cole said. "It had a playoff feel to it. I liked the way our guys battled. We had a lot of guys who played hard and did most things right.
"You try to scratch and claw and it's a weird goal that ends up being the winner. I have no issues with how hard we played, and how they prepared and what they had to deal with between yesterday and tonight's game.''
The Buckeyes' victory lifted them three points ahead of the Spartans (31 points) and into sole possession of third place, while MSU fell into sixth place, one point behind fifth-place Notre Dame (32) and two behind fourth-place Michigan (33). The Irish beat the Wolverines, 2-1, on Friday in Ann Arbor.
The Spartans (14-16-1 overall, 10-10-1-0 Big Ten) and Buckeyes (17-10-4, 10-8-3-1) close out the series at 7 p.m. Saturday at Munn Arena on MSU's Senior Night. The senior ceremonies will be held after the game.
"I can't ask for a heck of a lot more out of them. Maybe one bounce,'' Cole said of his team. "We have to be a little better and a little bit smarter in a few plays tomorrow. There wasn't a lot of bad plays by us.''
With Lethemon too sick to play, sophomore goalie Drew Lethemon made his first appearance since late October and had a solid game. He made 33 saves and kept his team in contention until the end.
The Buckeyes got a good bounce off the backboards to score the only goal of the game at 2:24 of the second period. OSU defenseman Matt Miller shot the puck from the right point and it bounced off boards behind the net and came out front, hit DeRidder's stick and slid underneath him and dribbled into the net.
"I thought he was outstanding. He gave us a chance to win,'' Cole said of his sophomore goaltender. "They got that one (goal) and he got right back up, got on his toes and made a couple of big saves.''
Ohio State goalie Tommy Nappier didn't face many quality shots but he did make two or three excellent saves to earn his second shutout over MSU this season and his third of the year.
Mitchell Matson had a good scoring chance from the slot in the second period but an alert Nappier made a pad save. On a power play early in the third period, the OSU goalie made a clutch save on Tommy Apap from close in to preserve his team's 1-0 lead.
MSU was 0-for-2 on the power play. OSU was 0-for-1.
For sure, the Spartans didn't play with the same energy level they've had in most of the games in the last few weeks. But the Buckeyes also played well defensively, especially in the third period. They got back into their zone quickly to retrieve pucks, and get them out of the zone before MSU's forecheckers could force puck battles.
"They got to the red line and if there were no plays, they made us come 200 feet all the time,'' Cole said. "That's a veteran team that's been in some NCAA playoffs, and two years ago, some of those guys were in the Frozen Four.''
Asked how much the players who took regular shifts were impacted by the flu running through the team, Cole said:
"It's hard to tell. But if you're up all night throwing up and not sleeping, it takes a little bit out of you. But I liked the way they focused and got locked in. Sometimes, when you're sick like that those things happen. You get your body and mind right.
"Could they have had more energy, sure. They compartmentalized and some players sucked it up.''
Michigan State was also without assistant coach Chris Luongo, who stayed home battling the same illness that impacted the team.
"For Lou not to be here, you know it has to be bad,'' Cole said. "He kind of got (the flu issues) later and he's right in the contagious stage. He might have been able to come but if he did, it's just more chances to spread it to more guys.''
Sam Saliba, the Spartans' senior co-captain, said he felt fine, after dealing with flu-like issues earlier in the week.
"I'm all right. But we've got 8-12 guys who are feeling it,'' he said. "I guess the bug hit us at the wrong time.''
Saliba gave credit to Ohio State for being hard to play against, and especially for not giving up much defensively.
"They played a real good road game. In the first period, it was pretty even for the most part, and in the second, they took it to us a bit,'' he said. "They had more chances and got the fluky goal. But I thought we responded pretty well in the third period.
"We just needed to do a better job of generating offense. We have to do a better job of shot-first mentality and getting more traffic (around the net).''
Both Saliba and Cole said the Spartans passed up some good chances by making an extra pass or two, instead of shooting.
"There weren't a lot of bad plays. But off the top of my head, I know there will be five or six that will be on the video tomorrow,'' Cole said. "He's a good goalie and you have to get some volume. When we did chuck some pucks at him, (he had to make some saves).
"We did that with the power play in the third period. Tommy Apap had one of our best chances in front of the net. We need to generate more of those.''
Saliba and defenseman Jerad Rosburg led MSU with three shots on goal apiece. Mitchell Lewandowski, Mitchell Mattson, Apap and defensemen Cole Krygier, Christian Krygier and Dennis Cesana had two shots on goal.
"We're not getting a lot in terms of high-quality chances,'' Saliba said. "It's a tough league. Everybody comes back hard and those seams close up pretty quick. So, we have to get pucks to the net and get in front of (Nappier's) eyes and generate second chances. That's how you score in this league.''
Michigan State battled to the end in the third period in an effort to tie it, but the Buckeyes didn't give up much and held on for the win.
"We're never going to quit, always competing and fighting to the end,'' Saliba said. "We're a resilient group. I liked our effort and we did a lot of good things. We managed the puck well and defended well as a team.
"As a forward group and defense group, we have to figure out how to generate some offense and score some goals. Obviously, scoring two goals in the last three games is not going to win you a lot of games.''
TOUGH TO SCORE: Last season, Michigan State and Ohio State had no problem putting the puck in the net in the four games against each other. The Buckeyes scored 20 goals and the Spartans 11 for 31 overall.
In four games this season, the teams have combined for seven goals and two – by Ohio State - have been scored into empty nets. So, five pucks eluded the goaltenders.
OSU won 3-1 and 2-0 in Columbus on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, respectively. The Buckeyes added empty-net goals in each game.
And once again, on Friday, goals were tough to get as Ohio State needed only one to claim a 1-0 victory.
Last season's series started with a bizarre January game at Munn Arena, one of the most exciting and memorable for the Spartans in several years. MSU trailed 7-4 late in the third period but rallied with three goals in the last five minutes to tie it and send it into overtime.
The 5-minute, 5-on-5 overtime was scoreless so the game officially ended in a 7-7 tie. But the Spartans' Logan Lambdin's dramatic goal in the 3-on-3 overtime gave MSU the extra point in the standings.
In the second game of the series, Ohio State rolled over MSU, 6-0.
The teams met again in the final series of the regular season in Columbus, with the Buckeyes winning the opener, 5-1, But the Spartans rebounded in the series finale to spoil OSU's Senior Night with a 3-2 victory.
It's still possible that these teams could meet again in the first round of the Big Ten playoffs – if one team finishes No. 3 in the Big Ten and other is No. 6, or if they finish in 4th place and 5th place.
No matter what happens in Saturday's series finale, the pairings for the playoffs won't be known until after next Friday or Saturday's games.
The Spartans close out the regular season at Notre Dame, while the Buckeyes play host to seventh-place Wisconsin.
BACK IN THE NET: Drew DeRidder said he didn't know for sure if he was playing until Friday afternoon. It was his first appearance since facing Cornell on Nov. 2. He gave up four goals in the first two periods and was replaced by John Lethemon late in the second period of a 6-2 loss.
Lethemon has played every game since – 24 straight – until Friday when he couldn't go because of the flu.
"I haven't played in a while and it's a feeling I haven't had,'' he said of being in goal for the first time in three-and-a-half months. "It's hard to explain.''
DeRidder said he felt comfortable when he made his first save in the first period.
"It kind of trickled (into me) and I covered it, and at that point, I felt like I've been doing it the whole season.''
DeRidder, a 5-foot-11, 175-pounder from Fenton, played in 17 games last season, splitting the duties with Lethemon, and three of MSU's first six games this season.
In the four games he's played, the Spartans have scored only one goal. He lost 2-0 at Northern Michigan, 3-1 at Colorado College, and left the Cornell game, trailing 4-0, and was back Friday where his team got shutout again.
Still, DeRidder looked comfortable and sharp. He made 33 saves, including 14 in a busy second period in which he kept his team in the game with several key stops.
Even after Ohio State's fluke goal – off the boards behind the net – DeRidder was especially solid with several key saves.
"You have to forget about it,'' he said. "You have to have that next-shot mentality. Everything that's happened before, it's behind you.''
The Spartans have often benefited from the lively boards at Munn Arena, but it was the Buckeyes who got the good bounce on Friday.
"Everyone knows that this rink has very active boards and they took advantage of it.'' DeRidder said.
MSU senior co-captain Sam Saliba was impressed with DeRidder's return to the crease.
"Drew did the job for us. He made plenty of big saves in the second period and after that,'' Saliba said. "The score was 1-0 and it could have been 2 or 3 (nothing), at times in the second period. He kept us in it.''
THE BIG TEN RACE: Minnesota and Penn State started Friday's game tied for first place with 36 points. When the night ended, the Nittany Lions were in first with 38 points and the Gophers were one point back at 37.
The two teams put on an entertaining show in University Park, Pa., playing to a 3-3 tie, with Penn State scoring in the 3-on-3 overtime to pick up two points in the Big Ten standings, while Minnesota earned one.
The Nittany Lions (19-10-4 overall, 11-8-3-1 Big Ten, 38 points) and Gophers (14-11-6, 9-6-6-4, 37) will go at it again on Saturday in Penn State's final conference game of the season.
PSU scored in the first period and Minnesota answered in the second to make it 1-1 entering the third period.
The teams then combined for four goals in 7 minutes and 34 seconds.
The Nittany Lions took a 2-1 lead on Nate Sucese's goal at 7:03. But the Gophers tied it and went up 3-2 on goals by Ben Meyers at 9:04 and Bryce Brodzinski at 12:02.
But Minnesota's lead didn't last long. Penn State's Brandon Biro tied it at 14:37, the last official goal of the night.
After the 5-on-5 overtime was scoreless and each team was guaranteed one point, the teams went to the 3-on-3 OT to determine the extra point.
Alex Limoges scored on a rebound late in the second overtime to give Penn State the shootout win, two points in the standings and sole possession of first place.
Minnesota goaltender Jack LaFontaine made 54 saves as Penn State outshot the Gophers, 57-22.
Meanwhile, Notre Dame climbed over Michigan State and into fifth place with a 2-1 victory at Michigan. The Irish (13-12-6, 8-8-5-3, Big Ten) have 32 points, one ahead of the Spartans, one behind the fourth-place Wolverines and two away from third-place Ohio State .
The teams were tied 0-0 entering the third period. Notre Dame scored two goals 3 minutes and 26 seconds apart – by Cam Morrison and Matt Hellickson – to take a 2-0 lead.
The Irish maintained their two-goal lead until the final minute when Michigan's Jay Hayhurst scored an extra-attacker goal at 19:17 to make it 2-1. But Notre Dame held U-M without a shot the rest of the way to capture the first game of the series.
Penn State and Minnesota and Michigan and Notre Dame meet against on Saturday.
Entering Saturday's series finales, seven points separate first-place Penn State (38) and sixth-place Michigan State (31).
The standings: 1. Penn State, 38 points, 1 game remaining; 2. Minnesota, 37 points, 3 games remaining; 3. Ohio State, 34 points, 3 games remaining; 4. Michigan, 33 points, 3 games remaining; 5. Notre Dame, 32 points, 3 games remaining; 6. Michigan State, 31 points, 3 games remaining; 7. Wisconsin, 20 points; 2 conference games remaining.
In a non-conference game on Friday, Wisconsin (12-18-1, 6-15-1-1) outlasted Arizona State, 7-6, in Madison. Roman Ahcan's third goal of the game with 69 seconds left in the third period won it for the Badgers. The teams meet again on Saturday.
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EAST LANSING – It was a tough night for Michigan State against Ohio State on Friday at Munn Arena.
The Spartans were not only battling a very good and well-balanced Buckeye team that's ranked No. 12 in the nation, they were also dealing with a flu bug that's impacted most of the team, and even the coaches.
Only two players sat out – standout goalie John Lethemon and left wing Logan Lambdin – but many other Spartans were not at 100 percent and tried to work as hard as they could.
In the end, Michigan State couldn't generate many quality scoring chances, and a fluke goal against the Spartans was the difference as Ohio State played a solid road game and earned a 1-0 victory in the first game of a Big Ten series in front of a sellout crowd of 6,376.
"It was a tough battle out there. It was two teams that played pretty hard,'' MSU coach Danton Cole said. "It had a playoff feel to it. I liked the way our guys battled. We had a lot of guys who played hard and did most things right.
"You try to scratch and claw and it's a weird goal that ends up being the winner. I have no issues with how hard we played, and how they prepared and what they had to deal with between yesterday and tonight's game.''
The Buckeyes' victory lifted them three points ahead of the Spartans (31 points) and into sole possession of third place, while MSU fell into sixth place, one point behind fifth-place Notre Dame (32) and two behind fourth-place Michigan (33). The Irish beat the Wolverines, 2-1, on Friday in Ann Arbor.
The Spartans (14-16-1 overall, 10-10-1-0 Big Ten) and Buckeyes (17-10-4, 10-8-3-1) close out the series at 7 p.m. Saturday at Munn Arena on MSU's Senior Night. The senior ceremonies will be held after the game.
"I can't ask for a heck of a lot more out of them. Maybe one bounce,'' Cole said of his team. "We have to be a little better and a little bit smarter in a few plays tomorrow. There wasn't a lot of bad plays by us.''
With Lethemon too sick to play, sophomore goalie Drew Lethemon made his first appearance since late October and had a solid game. He made 33 saves and kept his team in contention until the end.
The Buckeyes got a good bounce off the backboards to score the only goal of the game at 2:24 of the second period. OSU defenseman Matt Miller shot the puck from the right point and it bounced off boards behind the net and came out front, hit DeRidder's stick and slid underneath him and dribbled into the net.
"I thought he was outstanding. He gave us a chance to win,'' Cole said of his sophomore goaltender. "They got that one (goal) and he got right back up, got on his toes and made a couple of big saves.''
Ohio State goalie Tommy Nappier didn't face many quality shots but he did make two or three excellent saves to earn his second shutout over MSU this season and his third of the year.
Mitchell Matson had a good scoring chance from the slot in the second period but an alert Nappier made a pad save. On a power play early in the third period, the OSU goalie made a clutch save on Tommy Apap from close in to preserve his team's 1-0 lead.
MSU was 0-for-2 on the power play. OSU was 0-for-1.
For sure, the Spartans didn't play with the same energy level they've had in most of the games in the last few weeks. But the Buckeyes also played well defensively, especially in the third period. They got back into their zone quickly to retrieve pucks, and get them out of the zone before MSU's forecheckers could force puck battles.
"They got to the red line and if there were no plays, they made us come 200 feet all the time,'' Cole said. "That's a veteran team that's been in some NCAA playoffs, and two years ago, some of those guys were in the Frozen Four.''
Asked how much the players who took regular shifts were impacted by the flu running through the team, Cole said:
"It's hard to tell. But if you're up all night throwing up and not sleeping, it takes a little bit out of you. But I liked the way they focused and got locked in. Sometimes, when you're sick like that those things happen. You get your body and mind right.
"Could they have had more energy, sure. They compartmentalized and some players sucked it up.''
Michigan State was also without assistant coach Chris Luongo, who stayed home battling the same illness that impacted the team.
"For Lou not to be here, you know it has to be bad,'' Cole said. "He kind of got (the flu issues) later and he's right in the contagious stage. He might have been able to come but if he did, it's just more chances to spread it to more guys.''
Sam Saliba, the Spartans' senior co-captain, said he felt fine, after dealing with flu-like issues earlier in the week.
"I'm all right. But we've got 8-12 guys who are feeling it,'' he said. "I guess the bug hit us at the wrong time.''
Saliba gave credit to Ohio State for being hard to play against, and especially for not giving up much defensively.
"They played a real good road game. In the first period, it was pretty even for the most part, and in the second, they took it to us a bit,'' he said. "They had more chances and got the fluky goal. But I thought we responded pretty well in the third period.
"We just needed to do a better job of generating offense. We have to do a better job of shot-first mentality and getting more traffic (around the net).''
Both Saliba and Cole said the Spartans passed up some good chances by making an extra pass or two, instead of shooting.
"There weren't a lot of bad plays. But off the top of my head, I know there will be five or six that will be on the video tomorrow,'' Cole said. "He's a good goalie and you have to get some volume. When we did chuck some pucks at him, (he had to make some saves).
"We did that with the power play in the third period. Tommy Apap had one of our best chances in front of the net. We need to generate more of those.''
Saliba and defenseman Jerad Rosburg led MSU with three shots on goal apiece. Mitchell Lewandowski, Mitchell Mattson, Apap and defensemen Cole Krygier, Christian Krygier and Dennis Cesana had two shots on goal.
"We're not getting a lot in terms of high-quality chances,'' Saliba said. "It's a tough league. Everybody comes back hard and those seams close up pretty quick. So, we have to get pucks to the net and get in front of (Nappier's) eyes and generate second chances. That's how you score in this league.''
Michigan State battled to the end in the third period in an effort to tie it, but the Buckeyes didn't give up much and held on for the win.
"We're never going to quit, always competing and fighting to the end,'' Saliba said. "We're a resilient group. I liked our effort and we did a lot of good things. We managed the puck well and defended well as a team.
"As a forward group and defense group, we have to figure out how to generate some offense and score some goals. Obviously, scoring two goals in the last three games is not going to win you a lot of games.''
TOUGH TO SCORE: Last season, Michigan State and Ohio State had no problem putting the puck in the net in the four games against each other. The Buckeyes scored 20 goals and the Spartans 11 for 31 overall.
In four games this season, the teams have combined for seven goals and two – by Ohio State - have been scored into empty nets. So, five pucks eluded the goaltenders.
OSU won 3-1 and 2-0 in Columbus on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, respectively. The Buckeyes added empty-net goals in each game.
And once again, on Friday, goals were tough to get as Ohio State needed only one to claim a 1-0 victory.
Last season's series started with a bizarre January game at Munn Arena, one of the most exciting and memorable for the Spartans in several years. MSU trailed 7-4 late in the third period but rallied with three goals in the last five minutes to tie it and send it into overtime.
The 5-minute, 5-on-5 overtime was scoreless so the game officially ended in a 7-7 tie. But the Spartans' Logan Lambdin's dramatic goal in the 3-on-3 overtime gave MSU the extra point in the standings.
In the second game of the series, Ohio State rolled over MSU, 6-0.
The teams met again in the final series of the regular season in Columbus, with the Buckeyes winning the opener, 5-1, But the Spartans rebounded in the series finale to spoil OSU's Senior Night with a 3-2 victory.
It's still possible that these teams could meet again in the first round of the Big Ten playoffs – if one team finishes No. 3 in the Big Ten and other is No. 6, or if they finish in 4th place and 5th place.
No matter what happens in Saturday's series finale, the pairings for the playoffs won't be known until after next Friday or Saturday's games.
The Spartans close out the regular season at Notre Dame, while the Buckeyes play host to seventh-place Wisconsin.
BACK IN THE NET: Drew DeRidder said he didn't know for sure if he was playing until Friday afternoon. It was his first appearance since facing Cornell on Nov. 2. He gave up four goals in the first two periods and was replaced by John Lethemon late in the second period of a 6-2 loss.
Lethemon has played every game since – 24 straight – until Friday when he couldn't go because of the flu.
"I haven't played in a while and it's a feeling I haven't had,'' he said of being in goal for the first time in three-and-a-half months. "It's hard to explain.''
DeRidder said he felt comfortable when he made his first save in the first period.
"It kind of trickled (into me) and I covered it, and at that point, I felt like I've been doing it the whole season.''
DeRidder, a 5-foot-11, 175-pounder from Fenton, played in 17 games last season, splitting the duties with Lethemon, and three of MSU's first six games this season.
In the four games he's played, the Spartans have scored only one goal. He lost 2-0 at Northern Michigan, 3-1 at Colorado College, and left the Cornell game, trailing 4-0, and was back Friday where his team got shutout again.
Still, DeRidder looked comfortable and sharp. He made 33 saves, including 14 in a busy second period in which he kept his team in the game with several key stops.
Even after Ohio State's fluke goal – off the boards behind the net – DeRidder was especially solid with several key saves.
"You have to forget about it,'' he said. "You have to have that next-shot mentality. Everything that's happened before, it's behind you.''
The Spartans have often benefited from the lively boards at Munn Arena, but it was the Buckeyes who got the good bounce on Friday.
"Everyone knows that this rink has very active boards and they took advantage of it.'' DeRidder said.
MSU senior co-captain Sam Saliba was impressed with DeRidder's return to the crease.
"Drew did the job for us. He made plenty of big saves in the second period and after that,'' Saliba said. "The score was 1-0 and it could have been 2 or 3 (nothing), at times in the second period. He kept us in it.''
THE BIG TEN RACE: Minnesota and Penn State started Friday's game tied for first place with 36 points. When the night ended, the Nittany Lions were in first with 38 points and the Gophers were one point back at 37.
The two teams put on an entertaining show in University Park, Pa., playing to a 3-3 tie, with Penn State scoring in the 3-on-3 overtime to pick up two points in the Big Ten standings, while Minnesota earned one.
The Nittany Lions (19-10-4 overall, 11-8-3-1 Big Ten, 38 points) and Gophers (14-11-6, 9-6-6-4, 37) will go at it again on Saturday in Penn State's final conference game of the season.
PSU scored in the first period and Minnesota answered in the second to make it 1-1 entering the third period.
The teams then combined for four goals in 7 minutes and 34 seconds.
The Nittany Lions took a 2-1 lead on Nate Sucese's goal at 7:03. But the Gophers tied it and went up 3-2 on goals by Ben Meyers at 9:04 and Bryce Brodzinski at 12:02.
But Minnesota's lead didn't last long. Penn State's Brandon Biro tied it at 14:37, the last official goal of the night.
After the 5-on-5 overtime was scoreless and each team was guaranteed one point, the teams went to the 3-on-3 OT to determine the extra point.
Alex Limoges scored on a rebound late in the second overtime to give Penn State the shootout win, two points in the standings and sole possession of first place.
Minnesota goaltender Jack LaFontaine made 54 saves as Penn State outshot the Gophers, 57-22.
Meanwhile, Notre Dame climbed over Michigan State and into fifth place with a 2-1 victory at Michigan. The Irish (13-12-6, 8-8-5-3, Big Ten) have 32 points, one ahead of the Spartans, one behind the fourth-place Wolverines and two away from third-place Ohio State .
The teams were tied 0-0 entering the third period. Notre Dame scored two goals 3 minutes and 26 seconds apart – by Cam Morrison and Matt Hellickson – to take a 2-0 lead.
The Irish maintained their two-goal lead until the final minute when Michigan's Jay Hayhurst scored an extra-attacker goal at 19:17 to make it 2-1. But Notre Dame held U-M without a shot the rest of the way to capture the first game of the series.
Penn State and Minnesota and Michigan and Notre Dame meet against on Saturday.
Entering Saturday's series finales, seven points separate first-place Penn State (38) and sixth-place Michigan State (31).
The standings: 1. Penn State, 38 points, 1 game remaining; 2. Minnesota, 37 points, 3 games remaining; 3. Ohio State, 34 points, 3 games remaining; 4. Michigan, 33 points, 3 games remaining; 5. Notre Dame, 32 points, 3 games remaining; 6. Michigan State, 31 points, 3 games remaining; 7. Wisconsin, 20 points; 2 conference games remaining.
In a non-conference game on Friday, Wisconsin (12-18-1, 6-15-1-1) outlasted Arizona State, 7-6, in Madison. Roman Ahcan's third goal of the game with 69 seconds left in the third period won it for the Badgers. The teams meet again on Saturday.
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