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One Week In, Growing Pains for College Hockey

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27.

That's a decent number: it's probably pretty close to Auston Matthews ' October goal total (joking), Nate Prosser 's career points total (not joking), and the amount of unfunny hockey tweets I made this week.

This past weekend it was the number of penalties the Wisconsin Badgers and the Northern Michigan Wildcats combined for. That's a lot of power play time, especially for a Badgers team that was used to spending more time on the PK than on the PP last season.

There's no rivalry between the schools -- at least no obvious one -- that should have caused so much penalization.