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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…]

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 upset top-ranked Gophers in hockey series opener

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The Wisconsin men’s hockey team (6-5-0, 6-3-0-0-1-0 Big Ten) scored first and knocked off top-ranked Minnesota (10-1-0, 8-1-0-0-0-0 Big Ten), 3-1, on Saturday at LaBahn Arena, handing the Gophers their first loss of the season.

Linus Weissbach put the Badgers on the board midway through the second period at 10:44 on assists from Tarek Baker and Cole Caufield to make it 1-0 Wisconsin.

Baker put the Badgers up 2-0 just 1:59 into the third period, scoring his second goal of the season on a feed from Sam Stange and Ty Emberson.

The Gophers finally answered at 7:50 of the third period with a power-play goal from Sampo Ranta to make it 2-1 Wisconsin.

The Badgers closed out the scoring with a short-handed empty-net goal at 19:06 in the third period from Owen Lindmark to make it 3-1.

Badger goaltender Robbie Beydoun made 35 saves in goal to get the win for the Badgers.  Wisconsin has now won three straight games against Minnesota when the Gophers were No. 1, winning a pair of games on Feb. 6-7, 2014 at the Kohl Center.

The two teams close out the 2-game series on Sunday afternoon (4 p.m. CT / Fox Sports Wisconsin) at LaBahn Arena.

 

Hockey Badgers picked fifth in Big Ten preseason coaches poll

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Minnesota was tabbed the favorite to win the 2020-21 Big Ten regular season hockey title in a poll of the league’s coaches.

Michigan was selected second h the poll, Notre Dame and Ohio State tied for 3rd.  Wisconsin is picked to finish fifth, while Michigan State is sixth and defending Big Ten Champion Penn State rounds out the poll in seventh.

Wisconsin’s 2019-20 Big Ten scoring champion, sophomore forward Cole Caufield is one of six players to make the 2020-21 Preseason All-Big Ten Hockey Team.  Badger Sophomore forward Dylan Holloway and Junior Defenseman Ty Emberson were both named Big Ten Honorable Mention.

The Badgers open their season Friday and Saturday night at Notre Dame.  Wisconsin will be trying to improve on a season that saw them win just 14 games for the third straight year.

Wisconsin has three new goaltenders, led by Michigan Tech graduate transfer Robbie Beydoun.  Beydoun is expected to be the Badgers opening night starter, but freshman Cameron Rowe is pushing for playing time.