• The Spartans and Tigers are meeting for the fifth time in the last four seasons on Friday … MSU is 3-1 vs. Princeton in the last four meetings and the Spartans swept the Tigers by scores of 4-1 and 8-2 when the teams last met in East Lansing, Nov. 29 and Dec. 1, 2013.
• The Spartan penalty kill rebounded last weekend to hold Denver to a combined 0-for-5 on the power play … MSU had the Big Ten’s best penalty-kill percentage last season at .864.
• Defenseman Zach Osburn, who ranked third on the team with 92 shots on goal last season, leads the Spartans in the same department this season with 16 … Osburn’s 4.