Friday's hockey: MSU snaps 16-game winless skid vs. Minnesota; Husso blanks Belleville

Michigan State ended a 16-game winless streak against the University of Minnesota on a late goal by Daniel Russell for a 3-2 victory on Friday at Munn Ice Arena in East Lansing.

Russell's goal with four seconds left in regulation capped the comeback for the No. 7 Spartans, who beat the No. 9 Golden Gophers for the first time since the 2020-21 season.

Trailing 2-0 in the third period, Griffin Jurecki and Karsen Dorwat scored goals to tie the game 2-2 and South Lyon's Trey Augustine made 28 saves for Michigan State, now 17-5-3 and 11-2-2 in Big Ten play.

Michigan 5, Wisconsin 1

Frank Nazar had two goals and one assist in No. 14 Michigan's 5-1 win over No. 3 Wisconsin on Friday at Yost Ice Arena in Ann Arbor.

Rutger McGroarty had a pair of assists for his fifth-consecutive, multi-point performance and Dylan Duke extended his point streak to 11 games with one goal and one assist.

Grand Rapids 3, Belleville 0

Goalie Ville Husso made 25 saves for the shutout in his Grand Rapids Griffins debut on a conditioning assignment from the Detroit Red Wings.

The Griffins blanked Belleville 3-0 on Friday at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids.

Jonatan Berggren had two goals and one assist, Carter Mazur had a goal and an assist and Marco Kasper added an assist for the Griffins.

Friday's NHL games

Vegas 5, (at) N.Y. Rangers 2: Jonathan Marchessault scored three times and Adin Hill stopped 36 shots for the surging Golden Knights, who will be in Detroit on Saturday night.

Keegan Kolesar and Sheldon Rempal also scored to help Vegas improve to 5-0-1 in its last six games. Ivan Barbashev had three assists and Nicolas Roy added two.

Blake Wheeler had a goal and an assist, and Kaapo Kakko also scored for the Rangers, who came off a 1-2-1 West Coast trip and have lost nine of 13 (4-7-2) this month. Igor Shesterkin finished with 15 saves.

(At) Colorado 5, L.A. Kings 1: Logan O’Connor scored two of Colorado’s three first-period goals helping the Avalanche rout Los Angeles.

Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar and Josh Manson also scored for the Avalanche, who have three straight wins and 11 in their last 14 games. Alexandar Georgiev stopped 26 shots.

MacKinnon’s goal and assist moved him past ​​Tampa Bay's Nikita Kucherov for the NHL points lead with 84 and extended his franchise-record home points streak to 25 games. That latter mark ties him with Bobby Orr in 1974-75 for the second-longest home points streak to open an NHL season.

Kevin Fiala scored the lone goal for the Kings on a power play in the second period.

St. Louis 4, (at) Seattle 3 (OT): Pavel Buchnevich scored his second goal of the game 3:31 into overtime and St. Louis rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat Seattle.

St. Louis, which trailed 3-1 in the second period, won its fourth straight. Buchnevich scored 1:27 into the third period to pull the Blues even at 3 and then won it in overtime. Robert Thomas and Oskar Sundqvist also scored for St. Louis. Jordan Binnington made 33 saves.

Oliver Bjorkstrand had a goal and an assist for Seattle, but the Kraken lost for the fifth time in six games. Eeli Tolvanen and Brian Dumoulin also scored for the Kraken.

Florida 3, (at) Pittsburgh 2 (SO): Aleksander Barkov and Sam Reinhart scored in the shootout to help Florida edge Pittsburgh.

Jake Guentzel followed Barkov with a goal in the shootout for Pittsburgh, but Reinhart won it when he slipped a hard wrist shot behind Alex Nedeljkovic.

Former Penguin Evan Rodrigues also scored for Florida on the power play. Sergei Bobrovsky made 35 saves for the Panthers, who won their third straight game. Florida has won eight of its last 12 overall.

Evgeni Malkin forced overtime with his 16th goal of the season that came with 41.5 seconds left in regulation. Guentzel also scored in regulation for the Penguins, who lost their third straight.

Michigan-area hockey this week

Friday

▶ Grand Rapids 3, Belleville 0

▶ Michigan 5, Wisconsin 1

▶ Michigan State 3, Minnesota 2

▶ Youngstown 2, NTDP U17s 1

▶ Colorado College 2, Western Michigan 1 (OT)

▶ Lake Superior State 3, Michigan Tech 1

▶ Northern Michigan 3, Minnesota State 2 (SO)

▶ Ferris State 5, Augustana 2

Saturday

▶ Vegas at Red Wings, 8 (BSD/97.1)

▶ Belleville at Grand Rapids, 7 (AHL/106.9/1300)

▶ Wisconsin at Michigan, 7 (Big Ten)

▶ Minnesota at Michigan State, 4 (Big Ten+/1240)

▶ University of St. Thomas at NTDP U18s, 7

▶ NTDP U17s at Youngstown, 7

▶ Colorado College at Western Michigan, 6

▶ Michigan Tech at Lake Superior State, 6

▶ Northern Michigan at Minnesota State, 7

▶ Ferris State at Augustana, 7

Thursday

▶ Red Wings 3, Flyers 0

▶ Niagara University 3, NTDP U18s 2 (SO)

Wednesday

▶ Grand Rapids 3, Rockford 1

Tuesday

▶ Dallas 5, Red Wings 4