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Badgers give up four first period goals, fall on the road to No. 13 Ohio State

By Reagan Eckley | Dec. 3, 2020

Wisconsin has now lost three consecutive games after a hot start to the season.

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Badger Men’s Hockey: Wisconsin falls to 4-4 after Arizona State series, looks to bounce back against Ohio State

By Cole Wozniak and Reagan Eckley | Dec. 3, 2020

The 14th-ranked Badgers have a chance to recover from last weekend's rough outing against Arizona State as they take on the 13th-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes on Thursday and Friday.

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Wisconsin men’s hockey loses home opener in fast-paced game against Michigan

By Reagan Eckley | Nov. 20, 2020

The Badgers couldn't hold off a fast-strike Michigan offense in Thursday night's home opener.

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Wisconsin Men’s Hockey sweeps No. 20 Notre Dame in Big Ten season-opener

By Cole Wozniak | Nov. 16, 2020

Back-to-back victories have the 2020 season looking much more promising than last year's failures.

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Wisconsin Men’s Hockey team seeks to bounce back after a disappointing season

By Cole Wozniak and Reagan Eckley | Nov. 12, 2020

The UW men's hockey team seeks to bounce back after a rough 2019-20 campaign.

Defenseman Peter Tischke was almost cut when Granato took over, but since then he's come to embody all the characteristics that 'Badger hockey' represents.

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Chaotic final seconds lead to Notre Dame win, heartbreak for Badgers

By Cameron Lane-Flehinger | Nov. 16, 2019

The margins between winning and losing are often small, for Wisconsin’s men’s hockey team on Saturday night, they couldn’t have been smaller.

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Badgers pick up huge Big Ten win, topple Notre Dame

By Cameron Lane-Flehinger | Nov. 15, 2019

With just over 13 minutes left in the second period Wisconsin goaltender Daniel Lebedeff made a glove save on Notre Dame’s Colin Theisen.

Wisconsin took a 3-2 lead in the second period on two goals in 24 seconds, but couldn't hold the lead with its season on the line.

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Badgers improved work on faceoffs leading to more success on the ice

By Cameron Lane-Flehinger | Nov. 15, 2019

If you’ve felt like Wisconsin’s men’s hockey team had been chasing the action all game in recent years, you wouldn’t be far off.

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Penn State ends Wisconsin's season in 4-3 overtime thriller

By Cameron Lane-Flehinger | Mar. 10, 2019

10 minutes, 50 seconds. That’s how long Wisconsin was able to extend its season, taking No. 18 Penn State to overtime in the final game of its Big Ten Tournament first-round series.

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Badgers look to control Penn State's explosive offense in tournament matchup

By Rory Lawson | Mar. 8, 2019

A chaos-filled end to regular season play drastically changed the Big Ten Tournament bracket before Saturday’s action.

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Dhooghe's last-second goal keeps Wisconsin's hopes of home-ice alive

By Cameron Lane-Flehinger | Mar. 2, 2019

When senior center Seamus Malone went off for a hooking with two minutes and 28 seconds left in overtime, Wisconsin’s chances of making it to the end of the period looked slim.

Without the services of star freshman defenseman K'Andre Miller, Wisconsin's defense will have to step up against the Fighting Irish.

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Badgers looking to get back on track defensively against Notre Dame

By Nathan Denzin | Feb. 15, 2019

The struggling Badgers (5-8-5 Big Ten, 9-14-5 overall) travel to No. 15 Notre Dame (8-8-2 Big Ten, 15-10-3 overall) this weekend, hoping to snap a four-game winless streak.

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A magical night for Johnson as number rises to the rafters

By Cameron Lane-Flehinger | Feb. 14, 2019

Nearly everyone knows what Mark Johnson did on Feb. 22, 1980. With a pair of goals in an Olympic hockey game against the Soviet Union, Johnson took center stage in one of the most famous sporting events in history.

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Badgers spoil Mark Johnson's historic night with mistake-filled performance

By Cameron Lane-Flehinger | Feb. 9, 2019

In his three years with Wisconsin, Mark Johnson racked up a program-record 125 goals through a combination of accurate shooting, elite skating, smart play with the puck and timely hockey instincts.

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100 games of Granato: After a hot start, mixed on-ice results

By Cameron Lane-Flehinger | Feb. 8, 2019

When athletic director Barry Alvarez hired Tony Granato to replace Mike Eaves as head coach of the Wisconsin men’s hockey team, the reception inside and outside the program was nearly unanimous: The Badgers had swung big, and got their guy.

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Badgers stumble on road against Michigan State's top line

By Cameron Lane-Flehinger | Feb. 4, 2019

As Wisconsin headed to East Lansing for its road test against Michigan State, the focus inside and outside of the locker room was on how the Badgers (5-6-5 Big Ten, 9-12-5 overall) would handle their second meeting with the Spartans (6-8-4, 10-13-5) elite top line without the ability to dictate line matchups.

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Road Reversal: After years of success away from home, Badgers struggling to find results this season

By Cameron Lane-Flehinger | Jan. 23, 2019

At the start of head coach Tony Granato’s tenure, Wisconsin went into opposing teams’ buildings and played like they had slept the night in their own beds. The Badgers went 14-13-1 away from Madison in the first two years under Granato — better than their 15-18-4 record in the Kohl Center — despite traveling to some of the toughest road environments in college hockey.

Senior forward Will Johnson tied the game at four with a third period goal, but it wasn't enough to help the Badgers avoid defeat Friday night against Notre Dame.

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Two comebacks prove not enough for Badgers in 6-4 loss to Fighting Irish

By Cameron Lane-Flehinger | Jan. 18, 2019

Twice on Friday night Wisconsin fell behind against against Notre Dame, and twice it came charging back. After Will Johnson poked in a rebound of his own shot with 12 minutes left in regulation to tie the game at four goals a side, it looked like the Badgers had managed to grab at least a tie from the jaws of defeat.

Junior goaltender Jack Berry produced one of his best performances of the season in his first action in over a month, but it wasn't enough for the Badgers to come out with a win against Denver.

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Saturday night magic runs out for Wisconsin as Badgers drop overtime thriller to Denver

By Nathan Denzin | Jan. 5, 2019

Even Wisconsin’s (4-3-3 Big Ten, 8-9-3 overall) magic on Saturday night couldn’t save them from losing another tough game to No. 8 Denver (4-4-0 NCHC, 12-4-2 overall).

Sophomore forward Sean Dhooghe scored two goals, the second with just 26.2 seconds remaining in overtime, to give Wisconsin a needed three points in the Big Ten standings

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Suffocating defense powers Wisconsin to 3-0 win over Michigan State

By Nathan Denzin | Dec. 8, 2018

At least Wisconsin has hockey, right? After a disappointing day from both men’s basketball and volleyball, both the men's and women’s hockey teams came out of the day with dominant victories.