Welcome to the Badger Herald live blog! I’m Brett Sommers, Statistics Editor at the Badger Herald, and I’m coming to you live from the Kohl Center. I’ll be bringing you all the action as UW hosts the Golden Gophers of Minnesota. Stay tuned all night as I’ll be posting live from the drop of the first puck until the final horn.

Last weekend the Badgers traveled to St. Could State, and lost game one 7-2 and made an epic comeback in the final five minutes of game two to leave with a 3-3 tie. Minnesota (9-1-0, 6-0-0) enters this series on a four-game winning streak and ranked No. 1 in the country, and Wisconsin (4-5-1, 3-4-1) is looking for its first win since October 29, against Nebraska-Omaha.

Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves has made one significant change to his typical lineup tonight. Joel Rumpel will start tonight’s game in place of Landon Peterson, who has started each Friday night opener this season.

Thanks for joining us tonight and enjoy the game.