Michigan Hockey: Ohio State -- Friday Night Recap

Posted at 7:30am — 1/17/2015

Michigan Wolverine Hockey: Ohio State — Friday Night Recap

The Wolverines played another wild game on Friday night, much like last Saturday’s affair and raced past a depleted Buckeye team, 10-6. That is not a typo, folks. I have not seen a game like this in… well… since the late 70’s/80’s when college hockey was nothing more than pond hockey to hockey purists. Let’s just say that outside of Boston U and Minnesota or Wisconsin, two way hockey didn’t exist.

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I say that only because this is what Michigan hockey looks like this season. Pond hockey, which is not to disparage the talent as much as it is the style they are playing. (Not that anyone will mistake Zach Nagelvoort or Steve Racine for Marty Turco or Shawn Hunwick.) It is cringe-awful watching the defensive zone play, then absolutely exhilarating watching talents like Hyman, Larkin and company score highlight reel goals.

Well, anyway- Zach Hyman has now gained the attention of the college hockey media with two more goals tonight- including the first two of the game, had a third waived off due to goalie interference and was denied on a penalty shot. Not a bad night’s work. His linemate, freshman Dylan Larkin, score twice and had three assists as the Wolverines built leads of 4-1, 5-2 and 8-3 before the walls started to cave in again.

Ohio State cut the lead to 8-6 with eight minutes to go before a Kile goal took the wind out of the scarlet sails and an empty netter sealed the deal at 10-6. Both starting netminders were yanked, Racine mercifully after the 6th goal- and Nagelvoort shut the door the rest of the way. It wasn’t pretty and Red Berenson was fuming after the game, but a road win is a win. The team will head back north and then travel out to Madison next weekend for a pair of games.

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As of now, Michigan has played their way to the top of the B1G Ten standings, two points ahead of Penn State who will play Michigan State again Saturday. (Michigan will then have two games in hand.) Michigan State & the Nittany Lions tied on Friday with Michigan State taking the extra shoot out point. Nationally, Michigan also moved up to 13th in the pairwise from 19th which was on account of the emphasis the NCAA is now placing on road wins (even against bad teams.) They should stay inside the top 16 even idle on Saturday.

Wisconsin, meanwhile is starting to right their ship, posting a come from behind 2-2 tie with Minnesota and then winning the shootout. Their record is not indicative of how they are playing the last couple of weeks, although Michigan, with any type of defensive discipline, should be motivated to take points out of Madison. The Wolverines are now 11-2 in their last 13, and have beaten the Buckeyes five straight and are 10-0-1 in their last 11 against them.

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