(UW ATHLETICS) UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – An overtime tally from Daniel Laatsch with 1:12 remaining in the extra period capped a wild game and gave the Wisconsin men’s hockey team a 5-4 victory over No. 18 Penn State on Friday night at Pegula Ice Arena.
The Badgers now sit in third place in the conference with eight points.
Wisconsin (3-8-0, 2-5-0 Big Ten) led 1-0, 3-1 and 4-3, before finally scoring for the 5-4 overtime win. It got on the board first with 16:29 left in the first period when Ryland Mosley redirected a Quinn Finley shot home. Penn State (4-4-0, 0-3-0 Big Ten) responded with 1:25 remaining in the period after Aidan Fink found the back of the net on the power play. Sawyer Scholl and Cody Laskosky each scored their first goals of the season in the final seven minutes of the second period to give Wisconsin a 3-1 lead heading into the third.
Penn State rallied back, tying the game at three with two quick goals in the first seven minutes of the third, but Ryan Botterill notched his second goal of the year with 8:40 left in the period to give the Badgers back the lead. In the final minute of regulation, the Nittany Lions capitalized on a UW penalty to send the game to overtime tied at four. Daniel Laatsch proved to be the hero for Wisconsin, tallying the game-winner with 1:12 remaining in the extra time to give the Badgers two big conference points.
How it Happened
Wisconsin lit the lamp first, 3:31 into the contest. Penn State won a faceoff at the left circle, but sophomore forward Quinn Finley intercepted a PSU player’s attempted pass up the boards near the blue line. Finley then shot the puck toward the net, which graduate student forward Mosley redirected home to give the Badgers a 1-0 lead.
Penn State tied it up with 1:25 left in the period on a power-play goal from Aidan Fink.
Sophomore forward Scholl notched his first goal of the year 13:18 into the middle frame. Junior forward Tyson Dyck skated through the middle of the Penn State zone before leaving the puck for graduate student defenseman Anthony Kehrer in the middle of the left circle. Kehrer took a shot, which Nittany Lion goaltender Arsenii Sergeev saved, before Scholl capitalized on the rebound to make it 2-1, Wisconsin.
Graduate student forward Laskosky doubled the Badgers’ lead with 3:17 left in the second period. Graduate student defenseman Anthony Kehrer passed from the Badgers’ defensive zone up to Scholl in the middle of neutral ice. Scholl rushed it into Penn State territory and passed to his left to find Laskosky near the blue line, who then skated toward the net and let a wrist shot fly to put home his first goal as a Badger.
Charlie Cerrato sparked a PSU comeback with a tally 1:44 into the third period to make it, 3-2.
The Nittany Lions tied the game at three with 13:35 left in the third on a goal from Ben Schoen.
The Badgers made it a 4-3 game on freshman forward Botterill’s second goal of the year. Scholl possessed the puck in Wisconsin’s zone and started to skate out to neutral ice before he lost the puck while being pushed over by a Nittany Lion. Junior forward Simon Tassy picked up the loose puck and joined by Botterill, started a two-on-two rush into the PSU zone. In the slot, Tassy passed to his left to find the freshman, who flicked a wrist shot past the netminder to reinstate UW’s lead.
With 59 seconds left in regulation, the Badgers took a penalty. Nine seconds later, Penn State’s Danny Dzhaniyev capitalized on the man advantage to send the contest to overtime with both teams tied at four.
Senior defenseman Laatsch scored the game-winner for Wisconsin with 1:12 remaining in overtime. A Penn State player took a shot that went wide in the Badgers’ zone, and Laatsch picked up the loose puck before skating coast-to-coast and shoving the puck past the PSU goalie to give UW the victory.
Wisconsin went 0-for-3 on the power play and 3-for-5 on the penalty kill. UW finished the contest with a 36-28 deficit in shots on goal.
Notes to know:
– Sawyer Scholl set a single-game career-high with three points (1g, 2a)
– RIT transfer Cody Laskosky scored his first goal with the Badgers
– Daniel Laatsch scored his second game-winning overtime goal of the year, setting a career-high. Four of his six career goals are game-winners.
– Wisconsin scored a season-high five goals tonight
– UW owns wins in six consecutive games against Penn State, which is the longest win streak for the Badgers over the Nittany Lions
– Wisconsin has won four consecutive games in the series at Penn State, extending its longest road win streak in series history
Up Next: The Badgers continue their series against Penn State on Saturday, Nov. 16. Puck drop is set for 6:30 p.m. CT
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