Former hockey coach Jeff Sauer, the all-time Wisconsin men’s hockey wins leader, died on Thursday after a fight with pancreatic cancer. He was 73.
Sauer, a member of both the United States Hockey Hall of Fame and the Wisconsin Athletics Hall of Fame, coached the Badgers from 1982 to 2002, winning NCAA championships in 1983 and 1990. He is seventh on the all-time wins list with 655, 489 of which came with the Cardinal and White.
A longtime advocate for sled and hearing-impaired hockey, Sauer won gold medals coaching the United States Paralympic Sled Hockey Team in 2014 and with the Deaflympic team in Salt Lake City in 2007.