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Badgers have two Hobey Baker finalists

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Wisconsin sophomore’s Cole Caufield and Dylan Holloway have been named two of the ten finalists for the 2021 Hobey Baker Award.

Caufield leads the nation in goals (28) and points 49 in 30 games.  He was named the Big Ten’s player of the year on Tuesday before the Badgers fell to Minnesota in the Big Ten Tournament championship game.  Earlier this year, the Montreal Canadians first round draft pick helped the U.S. win a gold medal in the World Juniors in Canada.

Caufield’s 28 goals are the most for a Badger since 2010 Hobey Baker-winner Blake Geoffrion scored the same number.

Holloway is tied for fourth nationally with 34 points despite missing eight games in the first half of the season to be at Canada’s World Junior Championship camp.

Holloway had 17 points in eight games during the month of February, matching his point total in 35 games played his freshman [Read more…]

Hockey Badgers make a haul in Big Ten honors

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2021 Big Ten Coach of the Year Tony Granato

The Big Ten regular season champion Wisconsin Badger men’s hockey team, set to play in Tuesday night’s Big Ten Tournament championship game, made a haul when the All-Big Ten honors were handed out today.

Eight different Badgers were named either All-Big Ten, All-Big Ten Freshman or a Big Ten Sportsmanship Award winner.

The league’s scoring champion, Cole Caufield, was awarded the Big Ten Player of the Year.  He becomes the eighth Badger to win a conference player of the year award and the first since defenseman Jamie McBain took the WCHA Player of the Year honors in 2009.  The sophomore is the first Badger to be named Big Ten Player of the Year, an award that follows his title of Big Ten Freshman of the Year in 2020.

Caufield tallied 24 goals and 43 points in 24 Big Ten games, outpacing the next closest skater by 10 goals and 10 points.  The 2019 Montreal Canadians first-round draft pick also set the Big Ten standard for goals in a conference season with the performance.

Other UW conference player of the year winners are: Mike Eaves (1978), Mark Johnson (1979), Curtis Joseph (1989), Gary [Read more…]

Badgers sweep Ohio State, stay in Big Ten title picture

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Hobey Baker Award candidate Cole Caufield notched a hat trick to lead the 5th ranked Wisconsin men’s hockey team (17-8-1, 15-6-1 1-1-0 Big Ten) to a 7-0 win over the Ohio State Buckeyes (6-17-1, 6-17-1 0-2-0 Big Ten) in the Badgers regular season home finale.

Ty Pelton-Byce also scored twice for the Badgers, who also got single tallies from Ty Emberson and Dylan Holloway.

Freshman goaltender Cameron Rowe stopped all 21 shots he faced for his second career shutout.  Rowe leads all freshmen goalies with a .939 save percentage.

Linus Weissbach, Pelton-Byce, Tarek Baker, Jason Dhooghe, Josh Ess and Robbie Beydoun make up Wisconsin’s senior class.

The hat trick for Caufield is his second of the season and third in his two-year career.

The Badgers kept the heat on the Minnesota Gophers.  With two games left, Wisconsin needs to win twice at Michigan State and get Minnesota to lose once to Michigan for the Badgers to clinch their first regular season league title in 21 years.

 

Wisconsin hockey earns series split with Michigan

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After a 5-1 loss on Saturday, the 7th ranked Wisconsin men’s hockey team (14-8-0, 12-6-0 0-1-0 Big Ten) rebounded with a 3-2 win over 8th ranked Michigan (11-7-0, 9-7-0 1-0-0) on Sunday in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Dylan Holloway and Roman Ahcan both had a goal and an assist and Dominick Mersch scored what proved to be the game-winner :28 into the third period.

Michigan pulled their goaltender with under three minutes left in the game and Brendan Brisson scored with the extra attacker, cutting Wisconsin’s lead to 3-2.

The Badgers closed out the game from there with the help of a late power-play opportunity and a couple of big saves from freshman goaltender Cameron Rowe.  Rowe finished with 24 saves in picking up the win.

Holloway had his eighth multi-point game in the last nine games as the Badgers snapped a six-game losing streak against the Wolverines.

The Badgers went 3-for-3 on the penalty kill and 1-for-4 on the power play.  The Badgers closed the weekend, trailing Minnesota by two-points for the Big Ten Conference lead with six games left in the regular season.

UW returns home to host Notre Dame on Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 4 p.m. at LaBahn Arena.

Wisconsin sweeps Minnesota, moves into first place in Big Ten

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The 11th ranked Wisconsin men’s hockey team (13-7-0, 11-5-0 0-1-0 Big Ten) swept the Minnesota Golden Gophers (15-5-0, 11-5-0 0-0-0 Big Ten), pulling out a 8-1 win in their series finale in Minneapolis on Saturday night.  The win pushes the Badgers into first place in the Big Ten standings, one-point better than the Gophers.

Six different Badgers scored goals as UW outscored Minnesota 12-2 in the two-game weekend series.

The Badgers went on the power play just four minutes into the game and quickly found the net when Roman Ahcan tipped a Cole Caufield shot past Jack LaFontaine for an early 1-0 lead.  Dylan Holloway also scored on the power-play at 8:25 of the first period to put the Badgers up 2-0.

After Minnesota cut the lead to 2-1, Ty Emberson put the Badgers up by two again with his first goal of the season.

Ty Pelton-Byce scored a quick goal just 42 seconds into the second period to put the Badgers up 4-1.  Roman Ahcan added his second goal of the game a short time later and Jack Gorniak finished the second period scoring, giving the [Read more…]

Badgers climb to within two-points of Big Ten hockey lead

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The 11th ranked Wisconsin men’s hockey team (12-7-0, 10-5-0 0-1-0 Big Ten) moved within two points of the Big Ten Conference lead, knocking off league leader and second-ranked Minnesota (15-4-0, 11-4-0 0-0-0 Big Ten) 4-1 on Friday night in 3M Arena at Mariucci.

Cole Caufield put the Badgers on the board just a minute into the first period, taking a pass from Ty Pelton-Byce on a breakaway to give UW a 1-0 lead.

The Gophers tied the game 1-1 at 8:01 of the second period on a goal by Sammy Walker.

Cole Caufield put the Badgers ahead again at 13:00 in the third period on assists from Pelton-Byce and Linus Weissbach.

Just 42 second later, Dylan Holloway got one past Minnesota goaltender Jack LaFontaine while he was being hooked by a Minnesota defender.  The Badgers then scored again on the ensuing power play when a Holloway shot bounced off of Roman Ahcan’s head and landed in the net for a 4-1 Badger lead. [Read more…]

Badgers Caufield and Holloway named Big Ten stars

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Wisconsin sophomore forward Cole Caufield was named the Big Ten’s number-one star and sophomore forward Dylan Holloway was named the second star by the conference on Tuesday.

Caufield led the nation with seven points last week, including four goals in a series sweep of Michigan State.  He had a pair of goals in Friday’s 6-0 win over Michigan State and two more goals in Saturday’s 4-1 victory over the Spartans.

Caufield leads the nation in goals with 14 in 18 games this season.  He extended his point streak to 10 games (nine goals, 10 assists) and his goal streak to five contests (seven goals).

Holloway tied for second nationally with two goals and four assists on the weekend.  He now has a six-game point streak (three goals, eight assists) and five game multi-point streak.

The Badgers are in second place in the Big Ten, five points behind first place Minnesota.  The two teams will meet this Friday and Saturday in Minneapolis.  Wisconsin and Minnesota split a pair of games in Madison last month.

Hockey Badgers shutout Spartans

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The Wisconsin Badger men’s hockey team (10-7-0, 8-5-0-0-1-0 Big Ten) put together its best performance of the season, blanking the Michigan State Spartans (6-9-2, 5-9-1-2-1-0) 6-0 on Friday night at LaBahn Arena.

Wisconsin’s leading scorer Cole Caufield put the Badgers on the board with a power-play goal just 54 seconds into the game.  Brock Caufield put the Badgers up 2-0 with his seventh goal of the season while Dylan Holloway added a goal to close out the first period scoring, giving the Badgers a 3-0 lead.

The Badgers defense held the Spartans to just three shots on goal in the second period and scored twice on goals from Cole Caufield and a power play tally from Roam Ahcan.

Holloway added his second goal of the game at 8:45 of the third period to close out the scoring.

Cole Caufield and Holloway both tallied two goals.  Caufield added an assist, extending his point scoring streak to nine games.  Holloway also added a pair of assists and now has three goals and seven points in the last two games.

Senior goaltender Robbie Beydoun got the start in goal and stopped 19 shots for his second shutout of the season.

The Badgers outshot the Spartans 50-19 for the game.

The Badgers will shoot for the sweep on Saturday afternoon with a 3 p.m. faceoff at LaBahn Arena.

U.S. blanks Canada to win World Junior Championship

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Alex Turcotte – Photo Courtesy of USA Hockey

The U.S. National Junior hockey team knocked off host Canada 2-0 to capture the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship in Edmonton, Alberta on Tuesday night.  It is the fifth gold medal for the United States in the tournament and fifth medal overall in the last six years for the Americans.

Former Wisconsin Badger forward Alex Turcotte’s first-period goal turned out to be the game winner for the U.S.  Turcotte and current Badger Cole Caufield are the 11th and 12th Badgers to win gold medals in the tournament.  Current Badger Dylan Holloway captured a silver medal with the Canadians.

Goaltender Spencer Knight made 34 saves in the shutout for the Americans.  He stopped all 15 shots he faced from the Canadians in the final period.  Trevor Zegras scored the games other goal just :32 into the second period.

Turcotte, Caufield and Holloway return to Madison and will rejoin the Badgers when they return to the ice in the second half of the Big Ten season against top ranked Minnesota at LaBahn Arena this weekend.

Hockey Badgers sweep Notre Dame

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The Wisconsin men’s hockey team pulled off their first Big Ten weekend sweep since February of 2017, knocking off Notre Dame 5-3 on Saturday night in South Bend, Indiana.

Senior Ty Pelton-Byce finished sophomore Cole Caufield’s rebound to put the Badgers (2-0-0, 2-0-0-0 Big Ten) on the board with just 3:04 left in the first period.

The Badgers also got a pair of Goals from sophomore Ryder Donovan and single tallies from junior Brock Caufield and sophomore  Dylan Holloway.  It was the second goal of the weekend for Holloway.

Senior Colin Theisen notched his first career hat trick, scoring all three goals for the Irish (0-2-0, 0-2-0-0 Big Ten).

Graduate goaltender Robbie Beydoun is now 2-0 on the season, making 29 saves in goal on Saturday night.

Wisconsin’s power play went 3 for 6 on the weekend, while going three of four on the penalty kill.

The Badgers head home to begin a six-game homestand with a battle against Michigan at LaBahn Arena Thursday and Friday, Nov. 19-20.  Both games are currently slated for 6 p.m. starts.