Postgame Notes: #13 Michigan 2, Ohio State 1
2/12/2011 12:00:00 AM | Ice Hockey
Feb. 12, 2011
Series Notes
• Michigan improves its record all-time against Ohio State to 68-31-11. U-M is 35-12-6 in Ann Arbor, having won the last five contests at Yost Ice Arena.
• Michigan holds a 17-14 advantage over the Buckeyes in one-goal games. Five consecutive games and six of the last seven have been decided by a single tally with U-M winning four.
Team Notables
• The Wolverines have won nine consecutive games at Yost Ice Arena, their longest single-season streak since the 2004-05 campaign when the Maize and Blue ran off 10 in a row.
• Michigan recorded its 11th perfect game on the penalty kill this season. OSU had two power plays, the second of which was a five-minute major during the third period.
• Michigan scored first in each game against the Buckeyes to improve to 15-1-3 when tallying the game's first goal.
• The Maize and Blue has notched five series sweeps this season: three at Yost, one on the road and one home-and-home.
• U-M is 8-3 in one-goal games.
• Michigan upped its record 12-2-2 on Saturdays.
Player Notables
• With a goal in each of this weekend's games, Chris Brown tallied markers in back-to-back games for the first time this season. He accomplished that feat three times in the 2009-10 season.
• Brown's tally tonight proved to be his second game-winning goal of the season and the sixth of his career.
