Michigan State Hockey - 1986 NCAA Final (ESPN)

Select MSU highlights from the 1986 NCAA hockey championship game between the Harvard Crimson and the Michigan State Spartans. The game was played on March 29, 1986, at the Providence Civic Center, Providence, R.I.
The national title was Ron Mason's first in NCAA Division I and was Michigan State's second national title.
The Michigan State bench minor penalty for too many men in the third period and the subsequent face-off is missing.
Jack Edwards, play-by-play announcer
Lou Nanne, color commentator

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Massachusetts also produced NHL talent in the 1963-67 age group G - Barrasso D - Taglianetti-Norton- Shaunessy-Campedlelli- Laviolette-Jay F - Carpenter-Wood-Carter-Costello-Harlow-Brown-Sweeney-Kudelski- Stevens-Jensen-Noonan-Leach-Hodge-Morris-Young-Bennett Also it should be noted Scott Fusco was missing in this Harvard game and won The Hobey Baker award that year. Alan Bourbeau made the 1988 US Olympic Team with Kevin Miller from Michigan State and Brad Jones from Michigan. Also this guy named Tom Glavine from Massachusetts was thought to be a projected elite NCAA hockey talent in 1984!!!

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MSU had a good number of guys from Michigan in Donnelly, Reynolds, Miller, Cole Luongo, Tosto, Fernandez and Hamway on their roster. It was somewhat fitting that a Massachusetts school and Michigan school played for the NCAA Title in 1985-86. Going on the assumption most of the players were born 1963-1967 both Michigan and Massachusetts easily produced the most talent in the US. NHL players in that era from Michigan were: G- VanBiesbrouck D - Iafrate, Hatcher, Wolanin, Chambers, McSween F - Lafontaine, Turcotte, Presley, Miller, Jones, Donnelly, Reynolds, Cole, Out of that group of Michigan guys VanBiesbrouck, Iafrate and Lafontaine were 2nd Team NHL All Star level.

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Pretty evenly matched teams but have to think Harvard wins with Fusco in lineup.