One-sided affair

Officially, it was the last game of the first half of the season, but the Mavericks started their second half right with a 6-1 win over Princeton at the Alltel Center.

Joel Hanson scored two goals and assisted on another. Jason Wiley scored two late goals. And Trevor Bruess and Nick Canzanello each had two assists.

The line of Hanson, Bruess and Kael Mouillierat was dominant as was the defense, which allowed 19 shots to get to goalie Mike Zacharias, who won his seventh game.

The Mavericks are now 8-7-3, which includes a 5-1-2 mark over their last eight games. Hanson has eight points over that stretch after starting the season pointless in MSU's first 10 games.

His game-winning goal Friday was a tip in from Bruess after Bruess won an offensive-zone faceoff through his opponent's legs then slipped by the center to retrieve the puck before sliding it over to Hanson.

There were pretty goals galore as Mouillierat opened the scoring after making a nifty move to beat goalie Zane Kalemba, Mick Berge scored a wrap-around goal and Wiley, well, Wiley got credit for a goal after a length-of-the-ice dump-in that Kalemba played to a teammate, only to have the puck carom back into the net.