Welcome to the Badger Herald live blog. I’m Brett Sommers, Statistics
Editor at the Badger Herald, alongside Associate Sports Editor Kelly
Erickson and Badger Herald alum and former men’s hockey beat writer Adam
Holt. We will be bringing you all of tonight’s Game 2 action between Wisconsin
and No.1 Minnesota-Duluth from the Kohl Center.
Friday night Wisconsin (7-8-2, 4-7-2 WCHA) rushed out to an 2-0 lead in the first period against No.1 Duluth (11-3-3, 9-2-2 WCHA), now unbeaten in 13 straight games since starting the season 1-3, before settling for a 3-3 tie. The Badgers never trailed to the number one team in the country, but they couldn’t shake the Bulldogs either. After allowing UMD to tie the game at 2-2, the Badgers took an early 3-2 third period lead only to give allow the Bulldogs back in just three minutes later.
Wisconsin junior defenseman Justin Schultz scored two goals in the tie and sophomore forward Mark
Zengerle extended his point streak to 16 games. Duluth is led
by Jack Connolly who has 26 points on the season after an assist in Friday’s contest.
A Badgers win tonight would also give Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves the 200th victory of his Badger coaching career and a total of three points in the WCHA standings over the weekend.
Stay tuned for all of tonight’s action and see if the Badgers can end the nations longest active unbeaten streak.
