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Three Badgers among Patty Kazmaier Top-10 finalists

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Three Wisconsin women’s hockey standouts are among the 10 finalists for the 2020 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award.

junior Daryl Watts, senior Abby Roque and sophomore Sophie Shirley, are among the 10 candidates for the top honor in women’s collegiate hockey.

Watts is in her first season with the second ranked Badgers, was the 2018 Patty Kazmaier winner as a freshman at Boston College.  She leads the WCHA and the NCAA with 67 points on 22 goals and a league-and national-best 45 assists.

Shirley is the WCHA’s second-leading scorer with 55 points on a league-leading 26 goals and 29 assists.  She ranks second nationally in goals scored and her point total is tied for third in the NCAA.

Roque has registered 53 points on 23 goals and 30 assists this season to rank third in the league and sixth nationally in scoring.  Roque also leads the WCHA in game-winning goals with five.

Three finalists for the 2020 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award will be announced on Feb. 27, with the winner being revealed on March 21 at the Women’s Frozen Four in Boston.

 

Badger women’s hockey caps weekend with overtime win

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Photo: David Stluka – UW Athletics

A crowd of 14,361 at the Kohl Center on Sunday saw the 2nd ranked Badger women’s hockey team skate to a 1-1 tie with 6th ranked Ohio State in regulation before the Badgers earned a 2-1 win in a 3-on-3 overtime.

Wisconsin (26-4-2, 16-4-2-1 WCHA) picked up a critical point in the league standings as Britta Curl scored the game winner in overtime.

The Buckeyes (18-9-5, 11-7-4-2 WCHA) scored the first goal three minutes into the game.  The Badgers wouldn’t tie it until Abby Roque went top shelf over Ohio State goaltender Andrea Braendii with 9:14 left in the third period.

Curl’s game winner was assisted by juniors Daryl Watts and Natalie Buchbinder to give the Badgers their first WCHA extra point of the season.

Wisconsin senior goaltender Kristen Campbell earned 21 saves while the Badgers outshot the Buckeyes 41-22.

The 14,361 fans that showed up ranks second in NCAA women’s hockey history being the 2017 record crowd of 15,359 that showed up to watch the Badgers at the Kohl Center.  Wisconsin now owns seven of the top-10 attendance marks in NCAA women’s hockey history.

The Badgers enter the final weekend of the regular season with a three-point lead on second-place Minnesota in the WCHA standings.  The Badgers wrap up their regular season at Minnesota Duluth on Friday and Sunday.

Top ranked Badger women’s hockey sweeps rival Gophers

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Senior Presley Norby scored two goals to lead the top-ranked Wisconsin women’s hockey team to a 3-0 victory over second-ranked Minnesota on Saturday afternoon, sweeping the Gophers in the two game series at LaBahn Arena.

Norby, who is a native of Minnetonka, Minnesota, moved her way closer to the century-point club with two points while leading the Badgers (23-2-2-1, 13-2-1-0 WCHA) to move Wisconsin back into the drivers seat of the WCHA race.  Wisconsin sits in first place in the league with 40 points, while Minnesota (20-4-3, 12-4-2-1 WCHA) is in second place with 39 points.

After a scoreless first period. Norby scored past Gophers’ goaltender Sydney Scobee with 15:32 left in the second period.  She doubled the lead just 10 minutes later off a feed from Delaney Drake to send the Badgers to the locker room up 2-0 after two periods.

Junior Daryl Watts put the game out of reach with 32 seconds remaining with an empty-net goal.

Senior goaltender Kristen Campbell made all 22 saves to add a fourth shutout this season and a 28th career shutout to her record.

It’s the second time in three years that the Badgers have swept the Gophers at home.  UW improved to 9-7-0 all-time against Minnesota at LaBahn Arena.

The Badgers also won the series opener, 5-4 on Friday night.  They’ll take on St. Cloud State at LaBahn Arena this Saturday, Feb. 1 at 3 p.m. and then wrap up the series on Sunday at 2 p.m.  Both games are sold out.

Badgers rally for border battle draw on Sunday

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After falling Saturday, the top ranked Wisconsin women’s hockey team battled number-two Minnesota to a 2-2 draw at Ridder Arena on Sunday afternoon.

The Gophers took a 1-0 lead in the first period, a lead the Golden Gophers held after 40 minutes of action.

Britta Curl tied the game at 1-1 early in the third period as she pick-pocketed a Gopher skater and beat the Minnesota netminder for her seventh goal of the year.

A minute later, the Gophers retook the lead, but Dara Greig tied the game at 2-2 with her second goal of her career.

After a five-minute overtime and a five-minute 3-on-3 overtime, the game went to a shootout, which Minnesota won 1-0.

The Badgers outshot the Gophers 34-25, including an 11-5 advantage in the third period and a 4-0 advantage in the five-on-five overtime.

The Badgers will enjoy a weekend off of competition before hosting Minnesota State, Nov. 15-17, at LaBahn Arena.

 

Top-ranked Badger women’s hockey stays perfect

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The number-one ranked Wisconsin Badger women’s hockey team earned a 4-1 win over Bemidji State on Sunday in front of a sellout crowd.

The Badgers (10-0-0, 4-0-0-0 WCHA) jumped out to a two-goal lead against the Beavers (3-4-1, 2-2-0-0 WCHA) thanks to a pair of goals from UW’s top line.

Senior Abby Roque flipped in a rebound from junior Daryl Watts’ shot just 4:27 into the first period before Watts claimed her own goal with an on-ice rocket from sophomore Sophie Shirley and freshman Chayla Edwards at the 17:16 mark.

Shirley scored again for UW with a tip-in off sophomore Nicole LaMantia’s shot one minute into the second.

After killing three penalties in the second, junior Caitlin Schneider snuck in her fourth goal of the season and the fourth goal for the Cardinal and White unassisted at the top of the third. [Read more…]

Johnson secures 500th coaching victory in Columbus

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Mark Johnson – (Photo by David Stluka)

The top-ranked Wisconsin women’s hockey team is on quite a roll, improving to 6-0 on the season after sweeping 8th ranked Ohio State 7-3 in Columbus on Saturday night.

The win is the 500th for head coach Mark Johnson with the Badgers.  Johnson became the first NCAA national Collegiate women’s ice hockey coach to reach 500 victories.

The Badgers (6-0-0, 2-0-0-0 WCHA) found themselves in an unfamiliar position early on as the Buckeyes (4-2-0, 2-2-0-0) scored an even-strength goal, the first even-strength goal UW has given up in more than nine games, to take a 1-0 lead.

However, Wisconsin would take a 2-1 lead into the first break thanks to a pair of power-play goals. [Read more…]

Badgers pegged as WCHA preseason favorites

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Abby Roque

Fresh off winning its fifth NCAA title, the Wisconsin women’s hockey team has been picked to win its eight WCHA regular-season title, according to the league’s annual preseason coaches’ poll that was announced Wednesday.

The Badgers earned 36 points and six first-place votes, while Minnesota earned 31 points and the other first place vote.  The two Border Battle rivals will rekindle their rivalry with a series on Nov. 2-3 in Minnesota and a series Jan. 24-25 in Madison.

Abby Roque was named the Preseason WCHA Player of the Year along with Ohio State forward Emma Maltais.  Roque, who was the league’s forward of the year in 2016-17, was second on the Badgers last year with a career-high 43 points.

The Badger forward was one of four Badgers named to the Preseason All-WCHA Preseason Team along [Read more…]

Wisconsin women’s hockey captures WCHA tournament title

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The Wisconsin women’s hockey team earned the top overall seed in the 2019 NCAA Women’s Ice Hockey Championship and will host Syracuse in a tournament quarterfinal on Saturday at LaBahn Arena.

The Badgers captured the WCHA Tournament Championship earlier in the day on Sunday, knocking off the Minnesota Golden Gophers 3-1 at Ridder Arena.

Sophomore Caitlin Schneider, freshman Britta Curl and senior Annie Pankowski all scored for the Badgers (32-4-2, 18-4-2-0 WCHA) in Sunday’s contest to lead UW to its eighth WCHA tournament title, the most of any school in the league.

Wisconsin now has won 17 of its last 18 WCHA postseason games and holds a 51-15-0 all-time record in conference playoff games.

The Badgers, who have the country’s best record of 32-4-2, enter the quarterfinal looking to advance to the NCAA Frozen Four for the sixth-straight year.

Syracuse is making its first NCAA tournament appearance after winning the 2019 CHA Tournament, winning three games in three days to claim its first conference title.

Pankowski’s hat trick lifts Badger women

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Annie Pankowski (Photo by David Stluka).

Annie Pankowski’s hat trick gave the second-ranked Wisconsin women’s hockey team a 8-0 win over St. Cloud State and a sweep in the opening round of the WCHA playoffs on Saturday.

Pankowski, who has been named one of three finalists for the Patty Kazmaier award, now had 21 goals on the season.  She is the third Badgers player to score 20 goals in each of her four seasons, joining Hilary Knight and Meghan Duggan.

Pankowski’s three goals left her with 199 points in 148 career games.  One more point, Pankowski will become the sixth Badgers player to reach 200 points.

With the win, the Badgers head into the WCHA’s Frozen Faceoff semifinal against 10th ranked Ohio State on Saturday in Minneapolis.  Top-seeded Minnesota meets Minnesota-Duluth in the other semifinal with the winners to meet for the WCHA Tournament Championship.

The Badgers are looking for their fourth playoff title in the last five years.

Badger women’s hockey skates to a second tie, settles for second in WCHA

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LaBahn Arena

The top-ranked Wisconsin Badger women’s hockey team battled to a 2-2 tie against number-10 Ohio State on Saturday afternoon in front of a sellout at LaBahn Arena.

Freshman Sophie Shirley and senior Emily Clark scored for Wisconsin (28-4-2, 18-4-2-0 WCHA) in Saturday’s matchup.

The Buckeyes (18-12-2, 12-10-2-2) got on the board just 23 seconds into the contest off a shot from Ohio State’s Emma Maltais to take an early lead.  Ohio State would score again in the second period on a power-play at the 12:13 mark of the frame to extend the lead to two.

The Badgers found life in the third period as Shirley scored just 4:29 into the period.  Clark followed by putting the puck past OSU goaltender Andrea Braendli to send things to overtime on senior day.

After a scoreless extra time period, the Badgers fell 2-1 in the shootout and the Buckeyes stole the extra point in the WCHA standings for the second consecutive game, ending the regular season.

Friday’s 1-1 tie with the Buckeyes gave Minnesota the WCHA regular season title, ending the Badgers three-year run.

The Badgers will host St. Cloud State next weekend in the first round of the WCHA playoffs.  The best-of-three series begins Friday at 4 p.m. at LaBahn Arena with Saturday’s game to follow at 3 p.m.  If a third-place game is necessary, it would take place on Sunday, March 3 at 2 p.m.