Do whatever you want to build the moment.
“At the end of the day, it’s still a hockey game,” Michigan State coach Adam Nightingale said.
No. 4 Michigan and No. 14 Michigan State will put their season series to rest with a two-game set this weekend, starting Friday night at Munn Ice Arena in East Lansing and concluding with Saturday’s “Duel in the D” at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. For the first time in a long time, the annual meeting in the Motor City is about more than bragging rights.
Just when you thought the Spartan-Wolverine rivalry couldn’t grow more heated, the two schools have rediscovered the on-ice element to their endless battle for state supremacy.