MSU Hosts No. 1 Wisconsin In B1G Series

No. 11/11 Michigan State (8-3-1, 3-0-1 B1G) vs. No. 1/1 Wisconsin 9-1-0, 4-0-0 B1G)
Dates/Times	Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, 7:30 pm Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023, 6pm
Location	Mason Rink at Munn Ice Arena \| Bag Policy
Tickets	Spartan Ticket Office
Television	none
Radio	WVFN 730AM (Friday) \| WJIM 1240 AM (Saturday) Listen Online: Click "Spartan Media Network" Scott Moore (pxp) and Rob Woodward (analysis)
Webstreams	B1G+ (Friday) \| B1G+ (Saturday)
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Game Notes	Michigan State \| Wisconsin
Promotions	Spartans Full Strength (Both Games) Love Your Melon Beanie pickup at the top of Section X (Saturday) - pre-purchases only.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: Please leave extra time for parking on Friday, as there is a men's basketball game which tips off at 6:30 pm.
If you have a parking pass for ANY lot for hockey, that pass will be honored at Lot 79 (South end of Spartan Stadium, off Shaw Lane).
Lot 39 (Across from the International Center) and Lot 56 ( Corner of Shaw Lane and Red Cedar Road) are pay lots.

Parking Map 11.17 MBB Hockey

THE ORIGINAL SIX
What you need to know about Spartan Hockey
Click on "game notes" above to see the entire notes packet for the weekend.

• Michigan State continues its four-game Big Ten homestand with a pair of games against No. 1/1 Wisconsin at Mason Rink. Michigan State owns a slim one-game edge in the all-time series with the Badgers, 64-63-4. Since the beginning of Big Ten play, the Spartans are 18-21-1 against the Badgers, with five wins in the last eight games.

• At 8-3-1, the Spartans are off to their best start since the 2009-10 season when MSU started 9-2-1. MSU has scored 54 goals (second nationally), and its 4.60 goals per game is ranked second in the Big Ten and third nationally. Through 12 games, MSU is halfway to its total of 107 goals it scored a year ago in 38 contests. MSU leads the nation in shorthanded goals (4).

• Four Spartan forwards are averaging a point per game, and 14 players have had at least one multiple-point game this season. MSU continues to spread out its scoring throughout the lineup, as the Spartans had seven different goal scorers of its eight tallies against the Nittany Lions last weekend and a total of 14 players had at least one point.

• The all-sophomore line of Karsen Dorwart centering Isaac Howard and Daniel Russell was the top-producing trio for the third straight weekend. Howard had a goal and two assists in the Penn State series for a second consecutive three-point weekend. He now owns the team lead in assists (11, second B1G/fifth nationally). His 15 points is tied for fourth in the B1G (eighth nationally) with his centerman Dorwart, who had a pair of assists in the PSU series to keep him tied atop the scoring column with 15 points (6g, 9a, +8). He is second on the team in goals (tied with Russell) and leads all forwards with a +8. Dorwart is riding a team-best 11 straight games with at least one point, while Howard has points in 10 straight.

• Freshman Gavin O'Connell skates on the left side of a line with Red Savage and Joey Larson, the only MSU line which consists entirely of newcomers. O'Connell had two-goal games in both contests at Ohio State and added a third against Penn State, and now leads the team lead in goals (eight, tied for second in the B1G, fourth nationally) and has a 8-3-11 scoring line. He is MSU's second-leading scorer among freshmen, behind first-year blueliner Artyom Levshunov (3-9-12), who is averaging a point per game.

• Savage owns a 4-10-14 scoring line on the season, which is third on the team in points and second in assists. He is fifth in the B1G in assists and seventh in points, and has matched his sophomore year point total at Miami (14) and is two points behind the 16 he had as a freshman with the RedHawks. He has points in eight of 12 Spartan games, and six of them were multiple-point efforts - tied for the most multiple-point efforts in the Big Ten. Savage is third in the league in faceoff wins (120), which also ranks 12th among all Division I players.

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Players Mentioned

Karsen Dorwart

Isaac Howard

Joey Larson

Artyom Levshunov

Gavin O'Connell

Daniel Russell

Red Savage