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Final: MSU hockey rallies back to win 7-5 against Michigan Wolverines – The State News
Following a devastating 7-1 loss for the Michigan State Spartans hockey team at Munn against the Michigan Wolverine last night, the Spartans were ready to get back into their style of play away at Yost Ice Arena. The team was able to make a comeback from a 1-4 deficit halfway through the second period and take home a dominating 7-5 win.
Michigan State came out into this game already attacking better than the night before and getting back to their strengths. Just two minutes into the game, the Wolverines ended up in the penalty box after a high sticking call was made, but the Spartans were not able to capitalize on the man advantage.
Just off of the power play the Wolverines came down the ice with the puck, putting in an attempt on freshman goaltender Trey Augustine. With an incredible leap of faith, he kept the puck out of the net to leave the game scoreless.
Seven minutes into the first period the Spartans received a penalty of their own after an interference call was made on senior defenseman Nash Nienhuis, as the team went to work against the dangerous Michigan power play. The Spartans were able to kill off the penalty with a breeze.
Just after the kill of the penalty, the Wolverines ended up on the scoreboard to put them 1-0 halfway through the first period.
With just over four minutes to go in the first period, the Spartans took on another power play and even though the team struggled greatly last night with these plays, Michigan State was able to strongly capitalize on the man advantage after freshman defenseman Artyom Levshunov shot a puck into the back of the net to tie the game.
Just after the goal was on the board for the Spartans, their rivals tried to retaliate, but the goal was immediately called no good for high sticking on the play, keeping the game tied. The Spartans were able to keep the game on an even playing field through the first, earning their much-needed power play goal. The team played outstanding defense and broke up passes to prevent scoring opportunities for their opponents.
The Spartans went into the second period trying to one-up the first, and they played great defense to keep the Wolverines out of their goal for the first four minutes. But off of a breakaway, the Wolverines sent the puck back and forth and got past Augustine as he tried his hardest to shuffle back over. Michigan had put themselves up 2-1.
Just three minutes after their second goal, the Wolverines came in hot again and put one straight past Augustine to go up 3-1. By now, it was looking similar to last night.
With 12 minutes to go in the middle period, the Spartans nagged another penalty after a holding call on Nienhuis, putting the Wolverines on their dangerous power play. And with just 16 seconds left in the kill for the Spartans, fifth-year forward Nicolas Müller was sent out leaving the team to play five-on-three. While the team was able to kill the final 16 seconds of the first penalty, shortly after, the Wolverines were able to capitalize and put themselves up 4-1.
Just 30 seconds after Michigan’s fourth goal of the night, the Spartans attacked back as sophomore forward Issac Howard put the puck past the Wolverines netminder to get back into the game. And just a minute and a half later the Spartans inched closer to a tie game as Müller lit the lamp himself for a 4-3 game.
The Spartans then quickly jumped ahead after scoring their fourth and fifth goal of the night, one coming from freshman forward Gavin O’Connell and the next coming from senior forward Jeremy Davidson. Somehow, the Spartans rallied back from being down 1-4 at the halfway point in the period to now being up 5-4 at the end of the second period.
Michigan State came back out onto the ice ready to finish off what they started in the second period, trying their best to come back and take a win home to East Lansing. The team began to take subtle control in their offensive zone as they came back from seven shots on goal after the first to 23 shots on goal to start the third.
The teams remained scoreless in the third period as the Spartans kept their 5-4 lead, both continuously battling it out on the ice, but kept the roughing to a minimum, as well as fewer penalties than the Munn game.
The Spartans continued their rally back into a win as Müller put his second goal of the night into the net to finally give the Green and White a two goal lead for the first time on the weekend.
With three minutes to go in the game, the Wolverines were quick to pull their goalie, but sophomore forward Joey Larson was quick to capitalize and sent the puck streaming down the ice into the empty net for a 7-4 lead. But the Wolverines quickly pulled their goalie yet again and that resulted in a goal to cut the three goal lead to two.
The Spartans continued to send pucks down the ice for an attempt at an empty net goal and while they could not achieve one, the team continued to keep the Wolverines out of their net and took the win at Yost Ice Arena.
The Spartans will be back at home on Friday, Jan. 26 and Saturday, Jan. 27 to take on Minnesota for one last time in the season. Friday’s game will begin at 6 p.m. and will be streamed on Big Ten Plus while Saturday’s will start at 4 p.m. and will be streamed on Big Ten Network.
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Two employees who refused to serve a man and his wife because he was wearing a hoodie with President Trump’s name on it were fired after a video of the heated encounter went viral.
Erika Lindemyer and her husband, Jake, were forced out of a Smoothie King franchise location in Ann Arbor, Michigan, following a fiery clash with two young female workers on Sunday.
The employees claimed they didn’t “feel comfortable” serving the couple because of Jake’s pro-Trump hoodie, as captured by Erika in a viral video.
Jake and Erika fired back at the pair and insisted that they were being “discriminated” against based on their “political views.”
“We were just wanting a smoothie and you literally looked at us and I asked you if everything was OK and you said ‘We don’t feel comfortable serving you’ because of my husband’s hoodie. That is discrimination,” Erika spat.
“Okay, well, have a great day,” the first employee said.
“That is illegal,” Erika tried to insist again.
“I said Trump discriminates [against] us,” another employee chimed in.
“Okay, well that has nothing to do with us getting a smoothie!” Erika guffawed.
“OK, well that’s who you support though, that’s who you love,” the first employee chided.
“What’s embarrassing is that we’re American citizens and I wanted to get a smoothie,” Erika huffed.
The second employee noted that they “have a right to refuse service” and directed the couple to the exit.
“You asked a question and [the other employee] gave you an answer. Have a great day. Have a great day. The door’s right there,” the second worker said.
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Erika threatened to call the police while storming out, but it’s unclear if she did.
In a separate video shared Monday, one of the workers joked that she might’ve “accidentally started a race war” and called on the public to help remove Erika’s video.
“I am a minor and she recorded me without my permission. The people in the comments are all white and they’re all being hella racist, guys, please help me get this video taken down,” she implored.
Smoothie King confirmed that the girls involved in the viral confrontation “are no longer with the business” as of Monday.
“As a brand, Smoothie King is committed to ensuring our stores are a place free of discrimination of any kind, where every guest and team member is treated with care and respect,” the company wrote on X.
The owner of the Ann Arbor franchise location will also enforce “mandatory retraining for all employees that outlines our guest experience standards.”
In early December, a woman who worked at a Target in California was berated by a customer for wearing a Charlie Kirk “Freedom” T-shirt.
When the employee insisted she was allowed to wear the red shirt, the irate customer accused her of supporting “a racist.”
The medical center where the agitated customer worked was bombarded with upwards of 6,000 “profanity-laced” phone calls after online sleuths doxxed her personal information.
Ann Arbor — The Wolverines won the outright Big Ten regular-season title with two games to go, but it came at a great cost.
L.J. Cason, Michigan’s backup point guard and a key piece of the rotation, tore his right ACL in the championship-clinching win at Illinois. Just like that, Cason’s season was over and Michigan was hit with a brutal blow.
But when adversity strikes, opportunity knocks. While the team won’t be the same without Cason, coach Dusty May believes Michigan has backcourt pieces who can step up and make up for the loss.
“This is a great opportunity for Roddy (Gayle Jr.), Trey (McKenney) and Nimari (Burnett) to play more, and those guys are really good players,” May said Monday. “Our rotation has been nine and nine, I think, is too deep. It’s playing too many guys, if you want to optimize everyone. But we felt like we had nine guys that deserved to play, that gave us a different element.
“We look at this as another challenge, but it’s also an opportunity for guys to play a little bit more, to play longer periods, to play through a mistake, to play a little bit different role. We do feel like these guys are a lot better than they were earlier this year, so we’re prepared to handle whatever comes at us.”
May said he doesn’t know exactly when Cason tore his ACL, and neither does Cason. The sophomore guard fell to the court and got up favoring his right leg on two separate occasions against Illinois.
The first instance came in the final minute of the first half, when Cason tipped a long rebound ahead and chased it down to start a fast break. After he grabbed the ball in the air and bounced it backward between his legs to a trailing teammate, Cason went down. He got up hobbling, was subbed out and went back to the locker room.
Cason briefly checked back in during the second half and scored a driving layup a minute into his shift. But on Michigan’s next possession, he fell down after trying to score through contact and got up limping again. Shortly after that, Cason motioned to the Michigan bench to be taken out of the game and he exited for good.
“At halftime, the training staff came and said basically he’s passed all of his jump test. He just did the bike. He says he’s 100% ready to go. I was surprised, because I was expecting him to be out,” May said. “I said, ‘What about the test?’ They said both of his knees are loose, so it’s hard. We don’t feel that anything is torn.
“He comes back in. He lands funny again. … It’s unfortunate for him because he was playing so well. When an ACL pops on a noncontact injury, you’re like, ‘Man, what could we have done different?’ When it happens on a funny, quirky play, usually those are the ones that aren’t preventable.”
May added it hasn’t been determined yet when Cason will undergo surgery. Given the typical recovery timeline for a torn ACL ranges anywhere from nine to 12 months, May said Cason redshirting next season is a possibility that’s “on the table.”
“That’s certainly been discussed as well, and then that impacts the recruiting decision-making,” May said. “But right now, we’re still trying to figure out when he’s going to have it. What’s the timeline? Does it make sense to go ahead and sit out next year? … We haven’t made any definitive decisions, because all the information is so inconclusive.”
Moving forward, the plan isn’t to have just one guy replace Cason, who averaged 8.4 points and 2.4 assists in 18.6 minutes per game, shot 40.2% from 3-point range and served as a facilitator when starting point guard Elliot Cadeau wasn’t on the court. It’ll be a by-committee approach.
That said, Cason’s absence is certainly going to put much more on Cadeau’s shoulders. The Wolverines can ill afford to have Cadeau commit unnecessary fouls and miss long stretches at a time. Without Cason, Cadeau is the one guard who can break down opposing defenses off the dribble and create for others.
“This will force Elliot to be much more solid with his defensive decision-making when it comes to fouling,” May said. “He doesn’t have that insurance policy anymore named L.J. behind him, because L.J. came in and carried the load several games for our group. That’s not there anymore.”
While Burnett, Gayle and McKenney haven’t had to be facilitators in their roles this season, May expressed confidence all three can take on minutes with the ball in their hands and initiate the offense.
Even beyond the guards, May noted the team has “other capable weapons” who can serve as triggers on offense depending on the matchup, like forwards Yaxel Lendeborg and Morez Johnson Jr. and big man Aday Mara.
Add it all together, May feels the Wolverines can find a way to absorb the blow, fill the void and forge ahead with Cason sidelined.
“We have enough to overcome what L.J. brought to the team,” May said. “I don’t know if he’s the best backup point guard in the country, but I can’t think of one that’s better. We’re losing a lot, but once again, we’re not going to sit here and look at it from that angle.
“This is an opportunity for all these other guys to do a little bit more, and they’re more than capable. It’s on us to find the right rotations and situations. Without a doubt, we have a lot of confidence in our roster.”
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The Michigan State Police is looking for the driver of a Jeep that the agency said hit one of its patrol cars on Lodge Freeway in Detroit Sunday night.
According to officials, the incident happened at 7:50 p.m. on the northbound side of the freeway near Shaefer Highway. The agency said a trooper was investigating a crash and had the patrol car parked on the right shoulder of the freeway with its emergency lights on when it was rear-ended by the Jeep.
“The impact forced the patrol car to strike the concrete wall on the right shoulder,” according to the agency.
The Jeep then went across three lanes of the freeway and hit a median wall, officials said. The driver, identified by law enforcement as a 29-year-old Detroit woman, left the vehicle and fled the scene.
Michigan State Police First Lieutenant Mike Shaw said that while the trooper was evaluated and cleared at the scene by medical personnel, he was still taken to the hospital as a precaution.
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