Saturday, October 22
East Lansing, MI
6 pm
Michigan State University
4-2-0
8
vs
4
Long Island University
1-4-1
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2
3
F
LIU
1
2
1
4
Michigan St.
4
2
2
8
Spartans Sweep Sharks With 8-4 Saturday Victory
10/22/2022 9:34:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey
East Lansing, Mich. -- Michigan State exploded for eight goals from five different players on Saturday night to earn a weekend sweep of visiting Long Island University, 8-4.
Senior Jagger Joshua had his first career hat trick and Nash Nienhuis scored twice to propel MSU to the weekend sweep and a 4-2 overall record as they turn attention to Big Ten play next week, which starts at Notre Dame.
Michigan State skated out and set a tone early, scoring four first period goals and adding two more in the second and third periods. MSU scored four times on the power play (4-for-7); meanwhile, the Spartans also limited both their own trips to the penalty box and kept the Sharks off the board when they had their three man-advantage opportunities.
Seven players had multiple-point nights: in addition to Joshua and Nienhuis, freshman Karsen Dorwart had four assists, Daniel Russell and Tanner Kelly each had three, while Matt Basgall (2a) and Jesse Tucker (1g, 1a) each had two-point efforts.
The Spartans exploded for a season-best 50 shots on net, the most of the season and the fourth time MSU has recorded 39 or more in six games.
LIU had four different goal scorers, including former Spartan forward Adam Goodsir, who is playing his graduate year with the Sharks. Goalie Vinnie Purpura had 42 saves, while Pierce Charleson made his first start of the season and had 23 saves.
STATISTICS OF NOTE
First Period: The Spartans came out of the locker room flying, taking a 3-0 lead with the game just over 10 minutes old. The first three minutes of the game was MSU with sustained pressure in the offensive zone. An early boarding call against LIU's Nolan Welsh resulted in a power play goal less than 20 seconds later for senior Jagger Joshua, and the Spartans held a 3-0 lead by the 10:17 mark as Jesse Tucker and Cole Krygier each scored their first goals of the season. David Gucciardi made it 4-0 at 14:42, but the Sharks got one back before the period expired to cut the Spartan lead to 4-1 at the intermission. MSU outshot its guests 14-7 in the period.
Second Period: Each team scored twice in the middle frame, with Nash Nienhuis starting things on the power play just 1:52 into the frame. Riley Wallack and Adam Goodsir cut the MSU lead down to 5-3, but a second goal for Joshua in the final minute of the period pushed MSU back out by three at the break. The Spartans again peppered Purpura, edging the visitors 17-10 in shots.
Third Period: With a three-goal deficit, LIU continued to press, and came back within a pair at 4:25 of the final frame to make it 6-4. The play on the ice got increasingly chippy as the period wore on, which aided MSU in scoring a pair of power-play markers in the final four minutes for the final 8-4 margin – Joshua capped his hat trick by tipping a Dorwart shot, and Nienhuis also finished a Dorwart offering at 18:05 for his second goal of the night. Charleson had nine of his 23 saves in the final period for MSU.
Senior Jagger Joshua had his first career hat trick and Nash Nienhuis scored twice to propel MSU to the weekend sweep and a 4-2 overall record as they turn attention to Big Ten play next week, which starts at Notre Dame.
Michigan State skated out and set a tone early, scoring four first period goals and adding two more in the second and third periods. MSU scored four times on the power play (4-for-7); meanwhile, the Spartans also limited both their own trips to the penalty box and kept the Sharks off the board when they had their three man-advantage opportunities.
Seven players had multiple-point nights: in addition to Joshua and Nienhuis, freshman Karsen Dorwart had four assists, Daniel Russell and Tanner Kelly each had three, while Matt Basgall (2a) and Jesse Tucker (1g, 1a) each had two-point efforts.
The Spartans exploded for a season-best 50 shots on net, the most of the season and the fourth time MSU has recorded 39 or more in six games.
LIU had four different goal scorers, including former Spartan forward Adam Goodsir, who is playing his graduate year with the Sharks. Goalie Vinnie Purpura had 42 saves, while Pierce Charleson made his first start of the season and had 23 saves.
STATISTICS OF NOTE
- Jagger Joshua had first career hat trick and first multiple-goal game since January 4, 2021 vs. Penn State.
- Tanner Kelly had three assists (all primary), establishing a new career best for points in a game.
- Daniel Russell also had a three-assist game, and extended his point scoring streak to the first six games of his career.
- MSU had a four first-time goal-scorers for the season: Jagger Joshua, Jesse Tucker, and Cole Krygier all had goals in the first period, and Nash Nienhuis scored his first of the year in the second.
- Seven of MSU's 11 goals scored on the weekend were the first goal of the season for that player.
- With his assist on Jagger Joshua's first power play goal, senior Nicolas Müller has tied his junior year points total (1-5-6).
- Karsen Dorwart was the leading scorer for MSU on the weekend with a goal and four assists. Daniel Russell had four assists, and Jagger Joshua had three goals and an assist – a combined 13 points for MSU's top line.
- MSU had four goals in the first period. The first time it had that many goals in a period since Oct. 28, 2017 at Lake Superior State.
- The Spartans eight goals were the most since Dec. 1, 2013 at Princeton (W,8-2)
- MSU recorded its first series sweep since Nov. 19-20, 2021 (vs. Wisconsin) and its first non-conference sweep since taking both ends of a home-and-home against Ferris State (Nov. 11-13, 2021).
- MSU had a four-assist performance (Dorwart) for the first time since Jan. 4, 2019 (Patrick Khodorenko vs. Ohio State). Khodorenko was also the last Spartan to record a hat trick before Joshua, scoring three times in a Jan. 24, 2020 victory over Penn State.
- MSU had three players with three or more assists in Saturday's – the last time MSU had a player with three assists in a contest it was Patrick Khodorenko on Oct. 26, 2019 vs. Colorado College.
- MSU had two, two-goal scorers in a game for the first time since Oct. 9, 2021 (Mitchell Lewandowski and Griffin Loughran).
- Vinnie Purpura had 42 saves, the first opposing goalie with 40+ saves since Jakub Dobes of Ohio State on Jan. 22, 2022.
First Period: The Spartans came out of the locker room flying, taking a 3-0 lead with the game just over 10 minutes old. The first three minutes of the game was MSU with sustained pressure in the offensive zone. An early boarding call against LIU's Nolan Welsh resulted in a power play goal less than 20 seconds later for senior Jagger Joshua, and the Spartans held a 3-0 lead by the 10:17 mark as Jesse Tucker and Cole Krygier each scored their first goals of the season. David Gucciardi made it 4-0 at 14:42, but the Sharks got one back before the period expired to cut the Spartan lead to 4-1 at the intermission. MSU outshot its guests 14-7 in the period.
Second Period: Each team scored twice in the middle frame, with Nash Nienhuis starting things on the power play just 1:52 into the frame. Riley Wallack and Adam Goodsir cut the MSU lead down to 5-3, but a second goal for Joshua in the final minute of the period pushed MSU back out by three at the break. The Spartans again peppered Purpura, edging the visitors 17-10 in shots.
Third Period: With a three-goal deficit, LIU continued to press, and came back within a pair at 4:25 of the final frame to make it 6-4. The play on the ice got increasingly chippy as the period wore on, which aided MSU in scoring a pair of power-play markers in the final four minutes for the final 8-4 margin – Joshua capped his hat trick by tipping a Dorwart shot, and Nienhuis also finished a Dorwart offering at 18:05 for his second goal of the night. Charleson had nine of his 23 saves in the final period for MSU.
Team Stats
LIU
MSU
Shots
27
50
PPG
0
4
SHG
0
0
Penalties
8
4
Penalty Mins
16
8
Faceoffs Won
29
24
Game Leaders
Skaters
+/-
1
Goals
0
Sh
10
A
4
+/-
2
Goals
3
Sh
6
A
0
+/-
1
Goals
0
Sh
4
A
3
+/-
1
Goals
0
Sh
1
A
3
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