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Reusse: Hope for a Gophers women’s hockey upset of Wisconsin is only that
Murphy went down, and a two-minute penalty was called. Johnson was waving with a high right hand to play on, but then Gophers coach Brad Frost asked for a major review. It stayed two minutes and Frost lost his timeout.
That wasn’t the decisive moment in the pro-Minnesota view.
Ella Huber, Murphy’s senior center and also from the Chicago suburbs, was knocked down behind the Wisconsin net. There was an official standing there, and the Gophers reacted as if there might be a stoppage due to an injured player. Murphy had stopped there next to the prone Huber, and the Badgers used that two-skater advantage to make it 4-2 with two seconds left in the second.
Papa Ed Murphy, the blue-collar guy from Evergreen, Ill., on Chicago’s South Side border, with the daughter who plays with the feisty resolve of her home area, had been hopeful standing outside, two hours before the game.
“I think the Badgers can be beat, I really do,” he said.