It’s happening. The revival we didn’t see coming.
For 15 years, paying attention to the Wisconsin Badgers men’s hockey program this early in the season would’ve felt like a waste of time. That includes my time in school in Madison from 2015-2019 when the men’s hockey team’s collective record was 56-71-18.
Less than six years removed from a National Championship Final appearance in 2010, Wisconsin had three Big Ten conference wins and they fired head coach Mike Eaves and hired Tony Granato to revive Wisconsin’s sleeping giant. Seven mostly dreadful seasons later, Granato was let go and we were supposed to be in a full rebuild mode for the second time in less than a decade.