Shutting down the league's best line ain't easy.

Shutting down the league's best line ain't easy.
by wearendhockey (2019-03-10 15:53:30)

The KHL Line (Patrick Khodorenko, Taro Hirose and Mitchell Lewandowski) combined for 49 goals and 121 points this season. They had scored at least 1 point in 13 of Michigan State's previous 14 games, at least 1 goal in 11 of MSU's previous 14 games and multiple goals in 8 of them. Over the course of the season, that line was kept entirely off the board just 4 times in 34 games. They were not held scoreless in consecutive games during the regular season and when they were held scoreless for a game, they generally responded with at least 2 points the next game.

Notre Dame blanked them totally for 2 straight nights. In desperate games. Not bad.

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Sort of off topic: what happened to MSU? - OCND 2019-03-11 12:30:45
- Tom Anastos was a major dud as head coach. - Mr Wednesday 2019-03-11 12:33:29
  - It's almost as if hiring a conference commissioner - Boston Domer 2019-03-12 10:58:48
    - Yep - on top of the fact ... - BIGSKYND 2019-03-12 11:03:13
Impressive. I didn't know much about MSU. * - cbo86 2019-03-11 06:54:28
And with Nardella out the whole series?? * - zahm82 2019-03-10 17:43:24