Notes & Quotes: #11 Michigan 5, Michigan State 1
12/28/2008 12:00:00 AM | Ice Hockey
N O T E S
Great Lakes Invitational Notes:
The Wolverines won their tournament-best 13th Great Lakes Invitational championship (1966, '75, '88, '89, '90, '91, '92, '93, '94, '95, '96, 2007 and '08). U-M improved to 13-13-0 in GLI title bouts. Michigan has appeared in three straight championship games.
Michigan is 8-7-1 vs. Michigan State in the GLI, including a 6-5-0 ledger in championship games. U-M had lost its last five meetings with the Spartans in the GLI -- all occurring in the championship game (1997, '98, '99, 2004, '06). U-M defeated MSU for GLI championships in 1966, '89, '93, '94, '95 and 2008.
Four of the six all-tournament team honorees were Wolverines: Louie Caporusso (F), Chris Summers (D), Chad Langlais (D) and Bryan Hogan (G). Caporusso was named tournament MVP as he scored four goals overall. The two other forward spots went to Matt Schepke (MSU) and Jordan Baker (MTU).
Travis Turnbull has five goals and an assist in eight GLI contests. He had a goal and an assist tonight. Last year he scored in double overtime of the GLI title game to send U-M past Michigan Tech 1-0.
Brandon Naurato has a 2-3-5 line in eight GLI appearances. He had a power-play goal tonight.
U-M's team GLI shutout streak ended at 227:46 minutes when MSU scored in the first period. The Wolverines had recorded a tournament-record three straight shutouts over the last two Great Lakes Invitationals heading into tonight.
Streaks:
Michigan extended its season-best winning streak to four games. Three of the four wins are against Michigan State.
Dating back to last season the Maize and Blue has won four consecutive games against MSU, which matches its best streak since the 1995-96 season when U-M won its final four meetings with the Spartans. U-M is 3-0-0 vs. MSU this season and beat the Spartans 5-2 on Feb. 23, 2008.
Louie Caporusso upped his point streak to four games with his nation-best 18th goal of the season. He has five goals and three assists over the span.
Bryan Hogan has won five straight starts. He has started each of U-M's last four games. Hogan has a season line of 11-1-0.
Offense:
Chris Summers, who had three assists tonight, is U-M's top active scorer against Michigan State with four goals and seven assists in 13 career games. This season, he has a 1-4-5 line in three meetings.
Summers set a career high with three assists and tied his career high with three points. He had a 2-1-3 output vs. MSU at Joe Louis Arena on Feb. 10, 2007.
Over the last six games, Turnbull has four goals and four assists. He has multiple points in three of those contests -- two assists at Minnesota (Nov. 28), a hat trick at MSU (Dec. 6), and a goal and an assist tonight vs. the Spartans.
Ben Winnett scored his first goal since the season opener vs. St. Lawrence on Oct. 10. The sophomore has a 2-4-6 line in 19 games this season.
Luke Glendening assisted on U-M's second goal to give him three assists for the GLI. The freshman entered the weekend with zero points in 12 games.
Brandon Naurato notched his first multi-point game of the season with a goal and an assist.
Robbie Czarnik tallied his second career multi-point game with a pair of assists.
Notables:
The next four invitees to the Great Lakes Invitational will be Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2009), Boston University (2010), Boston College (2011) and St. Cloud State (2012).
Q U O T E S
Michigan Head Coach Red Berenson
On tonight's win... "I thought both teams came out and played hard. In the first period it was a very close game and [MSU] took the lead on a power-play goal. But I liked the way our team battled back. Eventually, I don't know if it was a fatigue factor since we had the advantage of playing the [early] game yesterday, we got the momentum and we got the goals. It's not often that you get more than one or two goals against [MSU goalie] Jeff Lerg. It was one of those nights where we got the puck behind him and we built from there. It wasn't just our top line with [Louie] Caporusso having a great weekend. [Travis] Turnbull's line was good -- each one of them (Brandon Naurato and Ben Winnett) had goals. The fourth line had a good weekend. It was just a good effort out of our team."
