Badgers men’s hockey ends regular season with split

(UW ATHLETICS) – MADISON – In its final regular season game of the season, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team fell to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, 6-1, on Saturday night at the Kohl Center.

Notre Dame (10-21-1, 4-17-1 Big Ten – 14 points) scored twice in the first period and 7:44 into the second to take a 3-0 lead. At 16:44 of the second, Wisconsin’s (12-19-3, 7-15-1 Big Ten – 27 points) Anthony Kehrer got the Badgers on the board. The Irish scored three more times, including once in the second period and twice in the third, to take home a 6-1 victory.

How it Happened
Notre Dame got on the board first at 4:50 into the opening period on a shot from Niko Jovanovic.
The Fighting Irish doubled their lead with five seconds remaining in the first on a power-play goal from Justin Janicke.
Cole Knuble made it a 3-0 game for ND at 7:44 into the second.
Graduate student forward Kehrer got Wisconsin on the board 16:35 into the second in his final regular-season game at the Kohl Center. From center ice, junior forward Jack Horbach slid the puck to junior forward Tyson Dyck at the right side of the ND blue line. While falling over, Dyck sent a pass behind him toward the net, which deflected off an Irish skater into the Notre Dame goalie’s pads. Kehrer picked up the loose rebound and shot the puck home to tally his first goal of the season.

Nine seconds later, Notre Dame regained its three-goal lead at 16:44 after Danny Nelson found the back of the net.
In the third period, the Irish lit the lamp two more times, once at 7:36 into the frame and again on a short-handed empty-net goal at 15:16 into the frame, to earn a 6-1 victory.
Wisconsin went 0-for-4 on the power play and 4-for-5 on the penalty kill. UW finished the contest with a 32-24 advantage in shots on goal.

Friday’s result

Led by a four-goal first period and six different goal scorers, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team charged past the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, 7-3, on Friday night in front of an electric crowd of 12,463 at the Kohl Center.
Wisconsin’s (12-18-3, 7-15-1 Big Ten – 27 points) Ryland Mosley opened the scoring 8:05 into the first period. Jack Horbach, Owen Mehlenbacher and Zach Schulz also found the back of the net over the course of a two minutes and 25 seconds to send the Badgers into the second period with a four-goal lead. Notre Dame (9-21-1, 3-17-1 Big Ten – 11 points) struck twice early in the middle frame to cut the deficit and half, but Simon Tassy and Adam Pietila scored two goals in the course of 30 seconds at 11:44 and 12:14 of the second period, respectively, to regain UW’s four-goal advantage. Both teams scored again in the third period on the power play with Mosley recording his second goal of the night to give Wisconsin a 7-3 victory.

How it Happened
The Badgers opened the scoring 8:05 into the first period. From neutral ice, freshman defenseman Weston Knox passed up to sophomore forward Finley at the left side of the Notre Dame blue line. Finley rushed up to the net before sending a backward pass to graduate student forward Mosley in front of the blue paint who looped home his 15th goal of the season.

Junior forward Horbach extended Wisconsin’s lead with a short-handed goal at 12:05 into the period. From the slot in UW’s zone, graduate student forward Owen Lindmark intercepted an ND player’s pass and sent the puck up to Horbach in neutral ice. Horbach then rushed up the ice and ripped his third goal of the season and second shorthanded goal of his career.

Ninty seconds later at 13:35, sophomore forward Mehlenbacher made it a 3-0 game. From behind the Wisconsin net, Knox skated to the neutral zone and passed to his right to find freshman defenseman Logan Hensler. Hensler then rushed up and around the ND goal and passed to Mehlenbacher in front of the net, who fired home his third goal of the year.

The Badgers scored their fourth goal of the evening 14:30 into the first period. From near the middle of the blue line, Finley took a shot, which hit Mosley in front of the net and ricocheted into mid-air. Mosley batted the puck onto the ice and slid it around the left side of the boards to Finley at the circle, who then passed up to sophomore defenseman Zach Schulz at the blue line. Schulz then skated to the slot and sent a wrist shot to the back of the net to record his second goal of the season.

Notre Dame got on the board first 27 seconds into the second period on a shot from Cole Knuble and cut the deficit in half 2:50 into the second period on a power-play goal from Danny Nelson.

But at 11:44 of the second period, freshman forward Pietila regained the Badgers’ three-goal lead with his first career tally. On a 2-on-1 rush, Mosley slid a pass across the zone to Pietila, who took a wrist shot to light the lamp shortly after coming out of the penalty box.

Thirty seconds later at 12:14 remaining in the frame, junior forward Tassy made it 6-2, Wisconsin.

ND’s Justin Janicke scored the Irish’s second power-play goal of the night 3:42 into the third period.

To wrap up a high-scoring evening, Mosley tallied his second goal of the night 13:19 into the third period on the power play.

Wisconsin went 1-for-4 on the power play and 5-for-7 on the penalty kill. UW finished the contest with a 31-25 advantage in shots on goal.

Badgers men’s hockey ends regular season with split

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