The Wisconsin Badgers women’s hockey team is not used to playing on the road in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament, and while that surely didn’t affect them too much, the Northeastern Huskies were able to win their matchup on Saturday afternoon, 4-2, in the comfy confines of their home barn, Matthews Arena.
We mentioned in our game preview that a deciding factor for this game would be Wisconsin’s excellent penalty kill against Northeastern’s excellent power play. Well, the Huskies scored two power play goals, the first and last goals of the game, on four attempts and the Badgers only scored one PPG on their four attempts.