After dropping or tying its past three Friday night matchups, the No. 10 Michigan hockey team finally snapped its game-one skid, trouncing Lake Superior State, 7-2, at Yost Ice Arena.

In a first period where goals were plentiful, the Wolverines got out to the early lead. At 4:53, freshman defender Jon Merrill scored through sophomore winger Chris Brown’s screen in front of Lake Superior State freshman goalie Kapalka.

Just over a minute later, the Lakers responded with a tally of their own, putting a puck off senior netminder Shawn Hunwick into the top right corner of the net to tie the game. But Michigan (6-2-1-0 CCHA, 7-3-3 overall) mounted a three-goal lead with three more first-period tallies, coming from junior David Wohlberg, senior Ben Winnett and sophomore A.J. Treais.

The Lakers netted a goal with one second left on the clock to cut their deficit to two heading into the second period.

But unlike the first period, the Wolverines struggled to convert a shot in the second period until senior left winger Carl Hagelin buried a shot past senior netminder Brian Mahoney-Wilson for his sixth goal of the season. Hagelin’s lamplighter put Michigan up 5-2 with just under nine minutes in the second period.

Sophomore winger Kevin Lynch kept the scoring attack rolling for the Wolverines in the third period, netting a backdoor pass from senior center Matt Rust to give Michigan a four-goal advantage. Following the goal, Rust picked up a five-minute major penalty for the Wolverines — only their third penalty all night —but senior forward Scooter Vaughan drilled home a shorthanded breakaway goal to put Michigan up 7-2 halfway through the third period.

The only Wolverine forward that didn’t record a point on Friday was freshman center Jacob Fallon. En route to the 7-2 victory, Wohlberg, Hagelin and Vaughan’s goals put them in a three-way tie for the team lead in goals with six apiece.