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Five Michigan State Hockey Players Receive All-Big Ten Honors

Five Michigan State Hockey Players received All-Big Ten Honors this week including Forward Patrick Khodorenko. Read more details today!

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Five different Michigan State Hockey players received All-Big honors this week. The honorees include Forward Patrick Khodorenko, who signed an entry-level deal with the New York Rangers. He was the only Spartan named to All-Big Ten First Team. Three MSU Hockey players were named All-Big Second Team and one Spartan received All-Big Ten Honorable Mention.

Check out the full breakdown of All-Big Ten Honorees below along with MSU Hockey’s official Tweet:

  • Patrick Khodorenko: All-Big Ten First Team
  • John Lethemon: All-Big Ten Second team
  • Jerad Rosburg: All-Big Ten Second Team
  • Dennis Cesana: All-Big Ten Second Team
  • Mitchell Lewandowski: All-Big Ten Honorable Mention

Important note, Jerad Rosburg also signed an entry-level deal with the Dallas Stars, reporting to the Dallas’ American Hockey League affiliate, the Texas Stars.

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MSU Hockey F Patrick Khodorenko signs entry-level deal with New York Rangers

Michigan State Hockey forward Patrick Khodorenko has signed an entry-level contract with the New York Rangers.

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On Tuesday, March 10, it was officially announced that the New York Rangers have signed Michigan State senior forward Patrick Khodorenko to an entry-level contract. Khodorenko’s deal starts in the 2020-21 season and he will immediately join the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League on an Amateur Try-Out.

Khodorenko led the Spartans in scoring in 2019-20 with 33 points (16 goals). Khodorenko, who is from Walnut Creek, California, led the Big Ten in goals in conference games with 13 and was fourth in Big Ten scoring with 22 points in conference play.

Patrick Khodorenko ended his career with MSU with 120 points on 54 goals and 66 assists. This is the eighth-most in the history of the program since the year 2000.

Khodorenko was a two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree and made All-Big Ten Second Team last season.

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Hockey Sweeps No. 8 Ohio State/Earn Big Ten’s Third-Star of Week

For the second week in a row the Irish found a player earning the Big Ten’s Third Star of the Week as senior net-minder Cale Morris did so.  Morris earned two wins over the weekend, bringing his career total to 50, the fifth most in Notre Dame hockey history.

Notre Dame hockey improved to 7-0-1 over the weekend after sweeping previously No. 8 Ohio State as  Jake Pivonka and Cam Burke scored third period goals on Saturday to complete the sweep.

As a result the Irish moved to No. 3 in the USA Hockey/USA Today poll this week, trailing just No. 1 Denver and No. 2 Minnesota State in the rankings.

The Irish now sit alone atop the Big Ten standings with 10 conference points on the year.  Penn State (9) and Minnesota (7) sit directly behind.

For the second week in a row the Irish found a player earning the Big Ten’s Third Star of the Week as senior net-minder Cale Morris did so.  Morris earned two wins over the weekend, bringing his career total to 50, the fifth most in Notre Dame hockey history.

Jordan Pearce (2005-09) leads the way all-time with 59.

The award is the twelfth time Morris has been named one of the Big Ten’s Three Stars of the Week as he’s been named top-star six times, and second and third-star both three times now.

Senior forward Patrick Khodorenko of Michigan State top away this week’s first-star honors while freshman forward Alex Turcotte of Wisconsin took home the second-star.

Morris and the Irish will travel to Madison to take on Turcotte and the Badgers for a two-game series this weekend.   Both games starting at 8 pm ET on Saturday and Sunday with the Badgers still looking for their first conference win.