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Hockey Badgers fall at Denver

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bucky-badger-logoThe Wisconsin Badgers comeback fell short in the third period, falling to the second-ranked Denver Pioneers 6-5 on Saturday night.

Wisconsin (7-5) started the third period with a goal from Max Zimmer to cut the Pioneers’ lead to 5-3 with just under 16 and a half minutes to play.

Denver went back up by three goals when Troy Terry scored on a 5-on-3 power play.

But the Badgers got goals from Grant Besse (PP) and Seamus Malone on a major power play at 8:36 to close the gap to one.

The Badgers had allowed just 12 shots on goal in a 2-1 victory at Colorado College, but they surrendered 45 shots against Denver.

Wisconsin freshman goaltender Jack Berry made 39 saves in Wisconsin’s loss.

The Badgers return home to face Omaha this next weekend at the Kohl Center.

Badgers rally falls short, split’s with Boston College

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Trent Frederic

Trent Frederic

A third period rally came up short for the Wisconsin men’s hockey team (2-2-0, 0-0-0-0 Big Ten) as they dropped the second game of the weekend series 8-5 against Boston College (2-2, 0-0-0-0 Hockey East).

The Badgers fell behind 6-2 in the second period, but rallied to pull within one at 6-5.  But forced to pull their goaltender, the Badgers saw the Eagles score a pair of empty net goals to pull out the win.

The Badgers got third period goals from Cameron Hughes, Grant Besse and Ryan Wagner to pull within a goal.

Wisconsin killed off all six Boston College power plays and didn’t allow a power play goal in the series.  They are now 21-for-23 on the penalty kill, good for a 91 percent efficiency. [Read more…]

Badgers split with NMU, Granato secures first victory

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Tony Granato

Tony Granato

The Wisconsin Badger men’s hockey team scored four power-play goals and bounced back from a season opening loss on Friday night to knock off the Northern Michigan Wildcats 6-5 at the Resch Center in Green Bay on Saturday night.

Trent Frederic scored the game-winning goal for Wisconsin (1-1) on the power play at 11:36 to break a 5-5 tie.

Corbin McGuire scored twice for the Badgers.  Luke Kunin and Seamus Malone both had a goal and an assist.  Grant Besse had three assists and JD Greenway tallied two assists.

Robbie Payne had two goals and three assists to lead Northern Michigan (1-1).

The Badgers finished 4-for-8 on the power play, while Northern Michigan went 1-for-4.

Matt Jurusik made 25 saves in goal to help Tony Granato secure his first victory as the head coach of the Badgers.   It’s the first win for Wisconsin against Northern Michigan since 2013.

 

Wisconsin men’s hockey announces captains

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Luke Kunin

Luke Kunin

Wisconsin men’s hockey head coach Tony Granato announced that sophomore forward Luke Kunin will serve as team captain, while senior forward Grant Besse and junior forward Cameron Hughes will serve as alternate captains for the 2016-17 season.

Kunin is no stranger to the role, having captained the U.S. National Team Development Program’s Under-18 Team for the 2014-15 campaign.

The Chesterfield, Missouri, native returns to the Badgers for his sophomore season after getting chosen 15th overall by the Minnesota Wild in this past summer’s NHL draft.  He paced the Badgers last season with 19 goals.  His 32 points ranked second on the squad and helped him earn a spot on the 2016 Big Ten All-Rookie Team. [Read more…]

Hockey Badgers bounce rival Gophers

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Grant Besse

Grant Besse

The Wisconsin men’s hockey team captured its second straight victory, holding off rival Minnesota 4-3 at Mariucci Arena on Friday night.

Grant Besse scored a pair of goals for the Badgers (8-17-8, 3-12-4-2 Big Ten), including an empty-netter in the final minutes of the third period.

The Golden Gophers (18-16-0, 13-6-0-0) appeared to have tied the game with five seconds left in regulation, but the goal was disallowed because Minnesota was offside on the play.

Wisconsin’s Luke Kunin scored his team-leading 17th goal with 19 seconds left in the first period, extending his points streak to five games.

The two teams wrap up the series and the regular season in Minneapolis tonight.

 

Besse’s late goal gives Badgers a tie with Northern Michigan

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Grant Besse

Grant Besse

Wisconsin’s Grant Besse scored the game tying goal with 42-seconds left as the Badgers forged a 2-2 tie with Northern Michigan in the season opener at the Kohl Center.

Wisconsin pulled goaltender Adam Miller with a minute to play, before Besse found the back of the net.

The Badgers found the net again in the closing seconds, but an official review showed the whistle blew before the puck crossed the line.  Neither team scored in the overtime.

Miller had 19 saves in the final period to keep the Badgers in the game.  He finished with 32 saves.  Sophomore Jake Linhart scored Wisconsin’s first goal in the second period.

Seamus Malone and Kevin Schulze each had two assists.

The Badgers and Wildcats will wrap up their two-game series at the Kohl Center tonight.

 

Badger hockey team wins first Big Ten game

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Joe LaBate

Joe LaBate

The Wisconsin Badger men’s hockey team (3-19-4, 1-9-2-2) captured its first Big Ten victory of the season, knocking off Ohio State 3-2 in the series finale at Schottenstein Center in Columbus on Saturday night.

Wisconsin’s Joseph LaBate forced a third period turnover in the right corner on the forecheck and fed Adam Rockwood with a perfect pass in the slot and saw the freshman bury a wrist shot past OSU goaltender Christian Frey for the game winner (his 2nd goal in the last three games).

LaBate also scored a goal, tying the game 2-2  Grant Besse scored his 10th goal of the season to get the Badgers on the board.

Joel Rumpel made 28 stops in-goal to earn the win for the Badgers.

The Badgers are back on home ice this coming weekend against Michigan State at the Kohl Center.

Hockey Badgers miss out on first Big Ten win

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The Wisconsin Badgers scored a goal nine seconds into the game, but allowed a goal with two seconds left in regulation and settled for a 4-4 tie against the rival Minnesota Gophers at the Kohl Center on Saturday night.

Grant Besse

Grant Besse

The Badgers (2-16-4, 0-6-2-2 Big Ten) grabbed an extra point in the Big Ten standings with the shootout victory, outscoring Minnesota 3-2 in seven rounds.  But they remain without a victory in Big Ten play.

Freshman Ryan Wagner scored the first goal of the game, nine seconds in.  It was his first career goal and it tied Gary Winchester (1973) and Steve Reinprecht (1999) for the fastest goal to start a game for UW.

Freshman Cameron Hughes also scored his first career goal, giving the Badgers a 4-3 lead with a power-play goal at 18:47 of the third period.

Sophomore Grant Besse scored his fifth goal in four games against Minnesota this season.

Badger goaltender Joel Rumpel made 42 saves, while succeeding on five of seven shots in the shootout.

The Badgers will play four of their next five games on the road, beginning with a 2-game series next weekend at Penn State.

 

 

Hockey Badgers blow lead, fall to Michigan

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Kohl Center Ice 2The Wisconsin Badger men’s hockey team had scored just two first-period goals through its first 18 games.  Last night, the Badgers scored three times in the first period, marking the first three-goal period for the team since the third period on Jan. 10, 2014 against Michigan.

The Badgers took a 3-1 lead into the second period against the Michigan Wolverines.  Bucky went up 4-1 after a Jedd Soleway power play goal at 2:21 of the second period, giving the Badgers their first three goal lead of the season.

The good news stops there.  Michigan, which entered the game as the highest scoring team in the nation, would follow with two goals in the second and four more in the third period, to come from behind to beat the Badgers 7-4 at the Kohl Center in the series opener on Friday night. [Read more…]

Badgers fall to Gophers in series finale

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Grant Besse

Grant Besse

The Wisconsin Badgers (2-13-2, 0-3-1-1 Big Ten) fell behind 5-0 and went on to lose to the 16th-ranked Minnesota Gophers (11-7-2, 2-2-2-0)
5-2 on Saturday night at Mariucci Arena in Minneapolis.

After pumping 20 shots on Badger goaltender Joel Rumpel on Friday night, the Gophers got 21 shots on net in the opening period last night, tallying three first period goals.

The Badgers finally found the back of the net at the 15:27 mark of period two when Grant Besse stepped out of the right corner with the puck and initially shoved it into goaltender Adam Wilcox’s pads, but eventually got it to cross the goal line for his fifth score of the season.

The Plymouth, Minnesota native tallied again in the third period on a Wisconsin 5-on-3 power play.

Rumpel finished with 45 saves, two shy of his career high which was tied on Friday night.  The senior stopped 92 of the 99 shots he faced during the series.

Wilcox made 24 saves for the Gophers, earning his 11th victory of the season.

The Badgers return home for a series with Michigan next weekend.