MADISON – The Wisconsin men’s hockey team put an exclamation mark on its regular season Friday, March 6.
The Badgers scored a 5-2 victory over Penn State at Pegula Ice Arena in University Park, Pa., to complete a sweep of the Nittany Lions and finish the regular season with six wins in their last eight games.
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UW went 3-1 against ranked teams during that stretch, getting a split Feb 21-22 versus Michigan, which was ranked No. 2 in the USCHO poll at the time, and sweeping No. 6 Penn State this week.
Wisconsin (21-11-2) finished the Big Ten season with a 14-10-0 record and 39 points. With their fourth place finish, the Badgers will host Ohio State in a first-round Big Ten tournament game at 7 p.m. Wednesday March 11 at the Kohl Center.
Here are three takeaways from the win.
Oh, how sweep it is 🧹
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UW's top three lines put heat on Penn State in second period
The Badgers took control of the game during the first 5 minutes of the second period when they scored three times and caused Penn State to pull its starting goalie.
The beauty of that portion of the game was that UW’s top three lines each got a piece of the action.
Sophomore Gavin Morrissey started the run by finishing off a pass from senior Ben Dexheimer 22 seconds into the period.
Freshman Oliver Tulk, who posted the first two-goal game of his career, followed 67 seconds later with a score set up by sophomore Ryan Botterill and senior Jack Horbach.
And last but not least, freshman Blake Montgomery finished pass from freshman Luke Osburn at 4:52 to give the Badgers a 4-0 edge.
All those goals were even strength scores. In fact, all five of UW’s scores came that way.
Badgers defense does job again
Penn State proved how explosive it could be when the teams played in Madison and it hit UW with seven goals during the final two periods of one game and a three-goal third period in the other.
This time Wisconsin helded the Nittany Lions to 25 shots and killed four of five penalties, including a 5-minute major for a game misconduct ejection on Montgomery. It was his second straight ejection.
With the exception of a 2-minute stretch in the third period when Penn State scored twice, freshman Daniel Hauser (24 saves) was sharp.
Strong finish for Wisconsin
Penn State (20-12-2, 12-10-2 Big Ten - 41 points) was attempting to avoid limping into the postseason with a third straight loss, but Wisconsin didn’t let up in the final period.
For the second straight game the Badgers didn’t give up a goal in the final 20 minutes. In fact, UW finished the series winning every period.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Wisconsin hockey sweeps No. 6 Penn State, enters B1G tourney on roll