Welcome to the Herald Sports live blog! I’m Kelly Erickson, Associate Sports Editor at The Badger Herald and I’m joined by Brett Sommers, Statistics Editor, at the Kohl Center. We’ll be live all evening, bringing you all the action as the Badgers drop the first puck of the season against Northern Michigan.
Wisconsin fields a young squad this season with 20 underclassmen on the 26-man roster. Not only do the Badgers have a lot youth on the team, they also have three goals who each have zero collegiate game experience. But junior defenseman Justin Schultz did decided to return to UW this year, giving the Badgers some experience on the blue line.

Northern Michigan is also a young team with more than a dozen underclassmen. Eaves expects a good matchup as both teams need game experience to understand just what they have. 

We’ll be here all night bringing you all the action as another season of Wisconsin hockey starts.