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Michigan State Spartans 
University Michigan State University Conference CCHA Head coach Tom Anastos 1st year, 0–0–0 Arena Munn Ice Arena
Capacity: 6,470Location East Lansing, Michigan Colors Green and White Fight song MSU Fight Song NCAA Tournament Champions 1966, 1986, 2007 NCAA Tournament Frozen Four 9 times NCAA Tournament Appearances 23 times Conference Tournament Champions 1966, 1967, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2006 Conference Regular Season Champions 1959, 1967, 1971, 1973, 1976 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1998, 1999, 2001 Current uniform 
The Michigan State Spartans men's ice hockey team is the college ice hockey team that represents Michigan State University (MSU). The team plays at the Munn Ice Arena in East Lansing, Michigan, on the MSU campus. The current head coach is Tom Anastos, who took over coaching duties on March 23, 2011, after Rick Comley announced his retirement. Since the Big Ten Conference does not yet sponsor Division I ice hockey, Michigan State currently competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). Along with the University of Michigan and Ohio State University, it is one of three Big Ten schools in the CCHA.
The MSU ice hockey program has seven CCHA regular season championships and 11 CCHA Tournament titles. MSU has also won 12 Great Lakes Invitational titles. The Spartans have been in the NCAA tournament 23 times, with nine Frozen Four appearances and three national titles (1966, 1986, and 2007). On April 7, 2007, the Michigan State Spartans won their third Collegiate Championship by beating Boston College 3-1.
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History
Early history
The Spartan Ice Hockey program traces its roots back to the first informal varsity team that began in 1922 playing an independent NCAA Division I schedule.[1] On January 11, 1922, Michigan State played its first intercollegiate hockey game, a 1-5 loss to Michigan.[2]
Michigan State finished 0-3 in the 1922 season and picked up its first win during the second season on February 11, 1923, 6-1 over the Lansing Independents.[2] The team did not play the 1923-24 season but returned for the 1924-25 season. The 1924-25 season marked the first time the program had a head coach, John H. Kobs, who also coached the Michigan State Spartans baseball team.[2] Kobs' tenure at Michigan State lasted six season before the team was suspended for 19 seasons. During which time the team compiled a record of 8-18-1.[1]
Harold Paulsen was hired as the varsity ice hockey coach at Michigan State on August 1, 1948 following the suspension of the hockey programs during the years of the Great Depression and World War II.[2] Before recruiting or coaching, Paulsen oversaw the renovation of Demonstration Hall into an indoor rink with artificial ice-making capabilities. On January 12, 1950, MSU played its first game since 1930, losing to Michigan Tech 6-2. Paulsen struggled through his first two years at Michigan State with a 6-25 record.[1] MSU athletic director Ralph Young felt the hockey program's progress was inadequate and Paulsen resigned. Following the 1951 season, Amo Bessone accepted the head coaching position at Michigan State University. Bessone would remain at MSU for the next 28 years.
Amo Bessone era
When Bessone arrived at Michigan State, the ice hockey program was beginning its third full season after being reinstated. That same season, in 1951-52, the Spartans joined Colorado College, Denver, Michigan, Minnesota, Michigan Tech, and North Dakota as founding members of the Midwest Collegiate Hockey League (MCHL).[3]
Amo Bessone won his first collegiate hockey game as head coach on November 29, 1951, when the Spartans defeated Ontario Agricultural College 8-2.[2] The Spartans struggled with six losing seasons before Bessone turned things around in his seventh season as coach.[1] In 1957-58, Michigan State enjoyed its first winning season. The following season, Bessone guided MSU to a Big Ten championship and a berth in the NCAA tournament.[4] The tournament was MSU's first NCAA tournament appearance. The Spartans defeated Boston College 4-3 in the semifinals and advanced to the schools's first championship appearance. The Spartans lost the 1959 national championship game in overtime 3-4 to North Dakota. MSU finishes the season 17-6-1.[2] Michigan State became a charter member of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) in 1959.[2] The WCHA was a reincarnation of the loosely affiliated Midwest Collegiate Hockey League and Western Intercollegiate Hockey League that disbanded following the 1957-58 season.[3] Bessone and MSU struggled during the first five seasons of the WCHA. Again, Bessone turned things around with a winning season in 1964-65. The following season, Bessone coached Michigan State to an improbable NCAA National Championship.[2][5]
MSU began the 1965-66 season 4-10,[2] but rebounded winning 12 of their last 15 games including defeating the defending national champion, Michigan Tech, to win the WCHA playoffs after finishing sixth in the regular season.[2] The win earned MSU a spot in the 1966 NCAA tournament.[2] In the national semifinals, Bessone upset highly-favored Boston University 2-1 with a goal by Spartan forward, Doug Volmar.[2] In the national championship game, Bessone and the Spartans faced Len Ceglarski's Clarkson team that owned the national-best record of 24-2. On March 19, 1966, Michigan State beat top-ranked Clarkson 6-1 victory to give Michigan State is first national championship.[1][2] Len Ceglarski and Amo Bessone shared the Spencer Penrose Award as the national coach of the year in 1966. The national title and coaching award cemented Bessone's legacy as a coach. To this day, Bessone's 1966 Michigan State team remains one of the biggest underdog stories in NCAA ice hockey history. The total number of team victories (16) and team winning percentage (.551) is the lowest of any NCAA ice hockey champion. MSU made the NCAA tournament again with a strong WCHA playoff finish in 1967, but lost 2-4 in the national semifinals, a rematch of the 1966 NCAA Tournament against Boston University.[2]
Bessone began the 1970s with six straight winning seasons. During Bessone's time coaching the Spartans the team won MSU won its first Great Lakes Invitational by defeating Michigan Tech 5-4 on December 28, 1973.[2]
As MSU hockey was building momentum, Munn Ice Arena opened October 25, 1974, when Michigan State hosted Laurentian.[2] That same season saw the first sellout crowd in Munn's history when the Spartans defeated North Dakota 6-2.[2] A season later, in 1975-76, Bessone guided MSU to its best WCHA conference record of 20-12-0 before Minnesota knocked MSU out of the WCHA playoffs in 6-7 triple overtime loss.[2] Minnesota, who had finished below Michigan State in the conference, received an NCAA tournament bid instead. Bessone announced his retirement effective at the end of the 1978-79 season after three straight losing seasons.[1] Bessone coached his final game as head coach on March 3, 1979, when the Spartans defeated rival Michigan 5-3.[1]
Ron Mason era
"The Cold War"
After Amo Bessone retired from Michigan State University, the MSU Athletic Director, Joseph Kearney, hired Ron Mason as the Spartans new head coach. Mason was named Spartan head coach on April 1, 1979, and spend the next 23 seasons at Michigan State. It was a rough start in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association for Mason as he compiled a record of 26-46-2 over two seasons. Michigan State joined the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) in 1981 and over the next few seasons Mason turned the hockey program around. The Spartans won CCHA playoff championships the first four straight seasons of the conference in 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985.[1] MSU would win a second national title in 1986 when the Spartans defeated Harvard 6-5.[2][6]
In 2000 CCHA coaches and athletic directors unanimous voted to renamed the CCHA championship trophy to the Mason Cup in honor of Ron Mason, who was a key figure in establishing the conference in the early 1970s prior to his tenure at Michigan State. During the 2000-01 season Michigan State finished first in the regular season and advanced through the CCHA Tournament winning the first ever Mason Cup.[1][2] That same season the Spartans made a Frozen Four appearance by beating Wisconsin 5-1 before losing to North Dakota in the Semifinal game.[7] On October 6, 2001, the Spartans hosted an outdoor game at Spartan Stadium against rival Michigan known as The Cold War. The school would set an attendance record for an outdoor hockey game as 74,554 fans attended.[8] The game ended in a 3–3 tie.
Mason lead Michigan State to seven CCHA regular season titles and a conference-record 10 CCHA tournament titles. In addition, MSU under Mason made 19 NCAA tournament appearances during his 23 seasons with the Spartans.[1] He coached MSU to five NCAA Frozen Fours, two National Championship appearances, and one National Championship.[1] Mason coached two Hobey Baker Memorial Award winners, Kip Miller in 1990 and Ryan Miller in 2001.[9]
Rick Comley
Michigan State Spartans men's ice hockey team in 2008Rick Comley was announced as Ron Mason's successor as head ice hockey coach at Michigan State University in March 2002.[2] Comley lead the Spartans to a tournament appearance in 2004, his second season as MSU's head coach. After losing to Northern Michigan in the 2004 CCHA Tournament the Spartans received an at-large bid to the 2004 NCAA Tournament. Third ranked MSU fell to second seed Minnesota-Duluth in the opening round 0-5.[10]
Comley's Spartans returned to the NCAA Tournament in 2006 after missing the NCAA Tournament in 2005.[1] Comley guided MSU to a second-place CCHA finish in the regular season and a CCHA Mason Cup Championship in 2006. Michigan State advanced into the 2006 Tournament with an automatic bid. The Spartans defeated New Hampshire 1-0 before losing to Maine 4-5 in the East Regional Final.[11]
In the 2006-07 season, Michigan State was preseason ranked No. 5, which was MSU's highest preseason ranking since October 2001. The team earned an NCAA Tournament bid after finishing the regular season with a conference record of . Comley led MSU to defeat three higher-ranked teams en route to the national championship including No. 1-ranked Notre Dame in the Midwest Regional final.[12] In the Frozen Four the team defeated defeated No. 4-ranked Boston College in the National Championship game on April 7, 2007, by a score of 3–1 in a game that saw Michigan State score three unanswered goals in the third period.[13]
In December 2010 the Michigan State Spartans and Michigan Wolverines played a second outdoor game at Michigan Stadium. The game, known as The Big Chill at the Big House,[14] took place on December 11, 2010. 104,173 fans filled Michigan Stadium and watched as Michigan beat Michigan State 5-0. The attendance broke the 75,000 of the Cold War and 78,000 of the 2010 IIHF World Championship and set a new attendance record for a hockey game.[15] Later that same season on January 25, 2011, Rick Comley announced that he would retire at the conclusion of the 2010-11 season.[16]
Big Ten Conference
In September 2010 Penn State University announced that the university was elevating its men's and women's American Collegiate Hockey Association club programs to varsity status. Then-CCHA commissioner Tom Anastos publicly stated that the CCHA would strongly consider adding Penn State as the conference's 12th member.[17] On March 21, 2011, the Big Ten Conference announced plans to sponsor men's ice hockey starting in 2013–14 season. Michigan State along with CCHA rivals, University of Michigan and Ohio State University will leave the CCHA to join University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin from the WCHA and Penn State to form a six-team Big Ten Hockey Conference.[18] Less than a week after the Big Ten's announcement Michigan State announced that former CCHA Commissioner, Tom Anastos would become the 6th head coach in the history of the program.[19] Anastos is a former Spartan hockey player who played for MSU from 1981-85. He is also the former coach at Michigan-Dearborn (NAIA) from 1987–90, and compiled a 68-37-7 record. He later served as an assistant coach under Ron Mason from 1990-92.[19]
Season-by-season results
This is a partial list of the last five seasons completed by the Spartans.[1] For the full season-by-season history, see Michigan State Spartans men's ice hockey seasons
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses
Records as of March 23, 2011.
Season GP W L T Finish Playoffs 2006–07 43 21 19 3 1st, CCHA Won in NCAA Championship, 3–1 (Boston College) 2007–08 42 25 12 5 3rd, CCHA Lost in NCAA West Regional Final, 1–3 (Notre Dame) 2008–09 38 10 23 5 11th, CCHA Lost in CCHA First Round, 1–2 (Northern Michigan) 2009–10 38 19 13 6 2nd, CCHA Lost in CCHA Quarterfinal, 0–2 (Michigan) 2010–11 38 15 19 4 10th, CCHA Lost in CCHA First Round, 0–2 (Alaska) Players
Current roster
As of September 28, 2011.[20]
Goaltenders # State Player Catches Year Hometown Previous Team 29 
Drew Palmisano L Senior Ann Arbor, Michigan Omaha (USHL) 32 
Kyle McMahon L Senior Broomfield, Colorado Wichita Falls (NAHL) 37 Will Yanakeff L Sophomore Jerome, Michigan Waterloo (USHL) Defensemen # State Player Shoots Year Hometown Previous Team 2 Chris Sandmeyer R Sophomore Portage, Michigan Green Mtn. (EJHL) 5 
Brock Shelgren R Senior Chicago, Illinois Fairbanks (NAHL) 6 Branden Carney R Freshman Battle Creek, Michigan Owatonna (NAHL) 7 Tim Buttery R Senior Northville, Michigan Chicago (USHL) 15 
AJ Sturges L (RS) Senior Madison, Wisconsin US NTDP (USHL) 17 
Matt Crandell L Senior St. Cloud, Minnesota Sioux City (USHL) 23 
Matt Grassi R Junior Burnaby, British Columbia Salmon Arm (BCHL) 42 Jake Chelios L Sophomore Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Chicago (USHL) 44 Torey Krug L Junior Livonia, Michigan Indiana (USHL) Forwards # State Player Shoots Year Hometown Previous Team 4 Trevor Nill R Senior Novi, Michigan Penticton (BCHL) 8 Chris Forfar R Junior Darien, Illinois Lincoln (USHL) 9 
Daultan Leveille L Senior St. Catharines, Ontario St. Catharines (GOJHL) 10 
Tanner Sorenson L Freshman Anchorage, Alaska Shattuck-Saint Mary's (USHS-MN) 11 Brett Perlini L Senior Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Soo (NOJHL) 13 Mike Merrifield R Senior Beverly Hills, Michigan St. Louis Bandits (NAHL) 16 Dean Chelios L Junior Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Chicago (USHL) 18 Kevin Walrod L Junior Westside, British Columbia Cowichan Valley (BCHL) 19 Zach Golembiewski R Junior St. Clair, Michigan Indiana (USHL) 21 Anthony Hayes R Junior Canton, Michigan Green Bay (USHL) 22 
Lee Reimer L Sophomore Landmark, Manitoba Canmore (AJHL) 25 Brent Darnell R Freshman Canton, Michigan Sioux Falls (USHL) 27 Matt Berry R Freshman Canton, Michigan Muskegon (USHL) 86 Greg Wolfe R Sophomore Canton, Michigan Omaha (USHL) Alumni
Notable alumni
Over 500 Spartan alumni have gone on to play professionally, including over 60 current and former NHL players and Olympians:[21]
Spartan Hobey Baker winners
The Hobey Baker Memorial Award has been presented annually since 1981 to the outstanding college hockey player in the United States by the Decathlon Athletic Club of Bloomington, Minnesota. The award is named after college hockey great Hobey Baker of Princeton, a member of both the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in Eveleth, Minn., and the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. Also a standout in football, he is also a member of the National Football Hall of Fame. Baker's brilliant skating and stickhandling abilities allowed him to dominate the college game and lead Princeton to the Intercollegiate League Championship in each of his three years of varsity hockey (1911–14). He added to his physical prowess the exemplary qualities of being a completely unselfish sportsman and an opponent of publicity. Facts about Baker's career often sound more like myths, such as the story of his playing every second of a 73-minute game against Harvard, or the claim that he was penalized just twice during his career, and both times the mere suggestion that he had violated a rule of the game nearly drove him to tears. To date, two Spartans have won the Hobey Baker Memorial Award: Cousins Kip and Ryan Miller.
Spartan center Kip Miller was the recipient of the 10th Hobey Baker Memorial Award in 1990 after leading the nation in scoring for the second consecutive season with 101 points on 48 goals and 53 assists. A two-time first-team All-Central Collegiate Hockey Association honoree, Miller was recognized as the league's Player of the Year after leading the conference in scoring for the second straight season with 36 goals and 38 assists for 74 points. In MSU's career record books, the two-time first-team All-America selection finished third in goals (116), assists (145) and points (261). He closed out his career among the NCAA's top 25 all-time point producers. Over the course of his four seasons, the Spartans won three CCHA regular season and playoff titles and amassed an impressive 132-45-9 record. The 1989-90 Hockey News/Bauer College Hockey Player of the Year also led the Spartans to their ninth consecutive NCAA tournament appearance as a senior.
In 2001, Michigan State goaltender Ryan Miller backstopped the Spartans into the Frozen Four as the number-one team in the nation. Miller shattered the NCAA record for career shutouts in just his second year of college hockey, with 18 overall. The sophomore's selection made him just the second goaltender ever to win the Hobey Baker. Minnesota netminder Robb Stauber was the first, in 1988. To win the award, Miller edged forwards Brian Gionta of Boston College and Jeff Panzer of North Dakota, who tied for second place in the balloting. The native of East Lansing, Michigan, posted 31 wins with a .950 save percentage and a 1.32 goals against average, leading the nation in all three categories. His 31-5-4 record in 2000-2001 included 10 shutouts to also lead the nation in that statistic. Miller, the CCHA Defensive Player of the Week five times during the season, was previously named a First-Team All-American and CCHA Player of the Year, as well as being a member of the all-conference first team. He holds four league and seven school netminding records. Ryan was a general business management major with a 3.07 grade point average. Off-ice activities for the All-Academic goalie included volunteering with the D.A.R.E. drug-resistance program, reading to elementary-school children and giving tours of the dressing room — sometimes during games. Ryan Miller currently plays for the NHL's Buffalo Sabres and Kip Miller plays for the Grand Rapids Griffins of the AHL.
Spartan Hobey Baker finalists
The Spartans have had 14 players among the top 10 candidates for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, including 1990 winner Kip Miller and 2001 winner Ryan Miller. Goalie Ron Scott was the runner-up to Bowling Green's George McPhee in 1982.
- Ron Scott, 1982
- Ron Scott, 1983
- Kelly Miller, 1985
- Craig Simpson, 1985
- Mike Donnelly, 1986
- Kip Miller, 1989
- Bobby Reynolds, 1989
- Kip Miller, 1990
- Bryan Smolinski, 1993
- Anson Carter, 1995
- Chad Alban, 1998
- Mike York, 1998
- Mike York, 1999
- Shawn Horcoff, 2000
- Ryan Miller, 2001
- Ryan Miller, 2002
- John-Michael Liles, 2003
- Jim Slater, 2004
Coaches
As of completion of 2010–11 season[1]
All-time coaching records
Tenure Coach Years Record Pct. 2011–present Tom Anastos 1 0-0-0 .000 2002–2011 Rick Comley 9 186-140-39 .563 1979–2002 Ron Mason 23 635-270-69 .687 1951–1979 Amo Bessone 28 367-427-20 .463 1949–1951 Harold Paulsen 2 6-25-0 .194 1925–1931 John H. Kobs 6 8-18-1 .315 1922–1924 No Coach 2 2-7-0 .222 Totals 6 coaches 70 seasons 1204-887-129 .571 Program records
The following are the Michigan State school records. Statistics are accurate as of the 2010–11 season.[2]
Note: Italics indicate a player is still an active Spartan.
Career
- Most goals in a career: 138 Tom Ross (1972–76)
- Most assists in a career: 186 Tom Ross (1972–76)
- Most points in a career: 324 Tom Ross (1972–76)
- Most penalty minutes in a career: 466 Don Gibson (1986–90)
- Most points in a career, defenseman: 164 Steve Beadle (1986–90)
- Most wins in a career: 83 Jason Muzzatti (1987–91)
- Most shutouts in a career: Ryan Miller
Season
Players
- Most goals in a season: 59 Mike Donnelly 1985-86
- Most assists in a season: 60 Pat Murray 1989-90
- Most points in a season: 105 Tom Ross 1975-76
- Most penalty minutes in a season: 167 Don Gibson 1989-90
- Most points in a season, defenseman: 64 Norm Barnes (1973–74)
- Most points in a season, rookie:
- Most wins in a season: 32 Jason Muzzatti (1988–89)
- Most shutouts in a season: 4 Joe Selinger (1958–59)
- Most power play goals in a season (since 1975):
Team (since 1950)
- Most wins in a season: 38 1984-85
- Most WCHA wins in a season: 20 1975-76
- Most overtime games in a season: 11 (1991–92; 1986–87)
- Longest overall unbeaten streak: 22 (Dec. 29, 1984-Feb. 15, 1985)
Game
Player
- Most goals in a game: 5 Mike Donnelly vs. Ohio State (Dec. 14, 1985), 5 Tom Ross vs. Notre Dame (Nov. 10, 1973),5 Don Thompson vs. Michigan (Feb 21, 1970), 5 Bob Doyle vs. Ohio (Feb. 17, 1961)
- Most assists in a game: 6 Steve Colp vs. Michigan (Dec. 14, 1974), 6 Daryl Rice vs. Boston College (Dec. 27, 1973), 6 Real Turcotte vs. Ohio (Feb. 17, 1961)
- Most points in a game: 9 Bob Doyle vs. Ohio (Feb. 17, 1961), 9 Real Turcotte vs. Ohio (Feb. 17, 1961)
- Most penalty minutes in a game: 21 Tony Tuzzolino vs. Western Michigan (Oct. 19, 1996)
Team
- Most goals in a game: 18 vs. Ohio State (Dec. 7, 1957)
- Most goals in a period: 8 vs. Ohio State (Dec. 7, 1957, 3rd)
- Most assists in a period: 14 vs. Ferris State (March 3, 1990, 2nd)
- Most penalty minutes in a game: 60 vs. Northeastern (Oct. 15, 1983)
- Most penalty minutes in a period: 53 vs. Ferris State (Dec. 16, 1988, 2nd)
See also
References
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