Michigan State hockey opened Big Ten play with an overtime loss on Thursday night at Notre Dame.
The Spartans failed to hold onto two separate leads, with the Fighting Irish ultimately coming out on top in overtime in Michigan State's first game of Big Ten play this year. The win by Notre Dame snapped a 10-game losing streak to Michigan State.
After a scoreless opening period, Michigan State broke the scoreless tie on a pretty goal from Shane Vansaghi finding the back of the net less than two minutes into the second period. That goal, though, was met with a quick answer from the Fighting Irish only one minute later to tie it up. Those would be the only two goals of the period, sending it to the third period tied at 1-1.
It would be Vansaghi again
in the third period to put the Spartans up 2-1 about halfway through the period. Again, Notre Dame would answer, this time about three minutes later to make it 2-2. There was back-and-forth play for the rest of the period but neither team would score, sending this one to overtime.
It didn't take long for Notre Dame to pick up the victory, scoring only 21 seconds into overtime.
With the loss, Michigan State drops to 6-3-0 on the season. This is a third straight two-game series where they've lost the opening game.
Michigan State and Notre Dame will wrap up their two-game weekend series on Friday. Faceoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET, with the game to be streamed on Peacock.
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