East Lansing — Hate is back on the menu.
After years of a hockey rivalry gone dormant, Michigan and Michigan State started to get out a decade's worth of animosity in their meeting at Munn Ice Arena in East Lansing on Friday night.
In the precursor to Saturday night's "Duel in the D" at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, the Spartans and Wolverines combined for 67 penalty minutes, 17 penalties and three ejections — in the second period alone.
Oh, and they played a hockey game, too.
Michigan took a 3-0 lead in the first period and withstood a late push from the Spartans that cut the Wolverines' lead to 3-2, escaping East Lansing with a 4-2 win after adding an empty-netter with 1:01 remaining.