On The Fly...
• The Spartans host 16th-ranked Penn State for a pair of games this weekend at Munn Ice Arena…Beginning with PSU this weekend, MSU play six of its final eight Big Ten games at home to end the regular season.
• Michigan State is coming off a weekend split with No. 5 Michigan and currently sits in fifth place in the Big Ten standings (3-9, 9 points) … PSU enters the series third in the Big Ten (7-5, 21 points) … The Nittany Lions ended their four-game losing streak with a 5-3 win at Minnesota their last time out.