MINNEAPOLIS — If anyone forgot from earlier this season, the Michigan St. Spartans and Minnesota Gophers made sure to reinforce it: a major penalty and game misconduct completely change a game’s flight path. That was indeed true once again in Minnesota’s 6-3 come from behind win inside a sold out 3M Arena At Mariucci in Saturday night’s tilt on Hockey Day Minnesota. It is Minnesota’s 13th straight win against the Spartans.
With the Gophers up 3-2, Michigan State’s Daniel Russell was assessed a five minute major and game misconduct for a hit to the head on Gophers defenseman Mike Koster at the 4:07 mark of the second period.