‘We paid a price to win that game’: Wisconsin celebrates new year with shutout of Notre Dame

MADISON – This was an excellent begin to 2023 for the Wisconsin males’s hockey workforce.

Sparked by second-period targets from freshman Tyson Jugnauth and sophomore Corson Ceulemans and anchored by one other high quality efficiency in purpose by senior Jared Moe, the Badgers scored a 2-0 victory over No. 20 Notre Dame in entrance of seven,256 on the Kohl Middle Friday night time.

The victory gave UW (9-12, 2-9 Massive Ten) its fourth win over a ranked opponent.  It additionally supplied some uncommon satisfaction for the Badgers in opposition to Notre Dame, which gained the final two conferences and 5 of the final seven.

The win was Moe’s third shutout of the season. He completed with 27 saves.

“The most important factor we felt is that Moesy was on high of his sport…,” Wisconsin coach Tony Granato stated. “He made that one dramatic save on the free puck on the rebound (within the third interval) when he bought his glove on the market, however for essentially the most half I believed our D did a superb job of boxing out.

“We bought into plenty of shot block lanes and compelled them to shoot vast at completely different occasions and we blocked sufficient. They’ll have some ice baggage on tonight as a result of I believed we paid a value to win that sport.”

Wisconsin’s targets got here inside 5 minutes of one another.

Jugnauth bought the Badgers on the scoreboard with a power-play purpose on the 14:46 mark of the second interval. The rating got here off assists from freshman Cruz Lucius and junior Mathieu De St. Phalle and was Jugnauth’s second of the season and first in seven video games.

Nearly instantly after that rating, the Badgers, led by the road of seniors Owen Lindmark and Dominick Mersch and sophomores Sam Stange and Liam Malmquist, killed their third penalty of the sport to disclaim the Combating Irish an opportunity erase their momentum.

The sequence took on larger which means after Ceulemans’ shot went between the legs of goalie Ryan Bischel for the Badgers’ second purpose with 69 seconds left within the interval. For a workforce that workforce that has struggled at occasions to complete probabilities, it was candy justice.

“I believe it’s a type of ones once you say we deserve that one as a result of there have been lot of probabilities and plenty of alternatives once you assume they need to go in for us they usually don’t,” Granato stated. “While you get a little bit little bit of a fluke one like that, you are feeling such as you’ve paid your dues alongside the best way to deserve it.”

At that time Wisconsin was in nice place for the win, however earlier than it closed out the sport it needed to flip again Notre Dame’s fiercest prices on the web. The Combating Irish generated 12 pictures in the course of the third interval in comparison with 15 for the remainder of the sport.

Many of the night time, nonetheless, was considerably quiet for Moe. His teammates blocked 21 pictures and managed the puck so nicely that the Combating Irish had solely a few robust scoring probabilities in the course of the first two durations.

“They didn’t get too many pictures although from the purpose and even when they bought into a superb scoring probability throughout the center, we had a man there to close it down,” Moe stated. “If we will try this and may have our forwards coming again and our D working nicely in tandem with the forwards, we’ll play nicely defensively and get our probability on the different finish as nicely.”

Wisconsin may have an opportunity to finish a sweep at 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Freshman Charlie Stramel, contemporary off a run with Crew USA on the World Junior Championships, shall be again within the lineup for the Badgers.

“That workforce is just not simple to play in opposition to,” Granato stated. “You’ve bought to pay a value. You’ve bought to stick with it and preserve grinding. Thankfully for us tonight we had been in a position to do it for 60 and discover a method to get a win.”