Game 7-8 | Wisconsin (0-3-3, 0-0-0-0 Big Ten) vs. Arizona State (3-4-0)
Dates/Times	Fri., Oct. 30, 7 p.m. CT Sat., Oct. 31, 7 p.m. CT
Locations	Madison, Wis. Kohl Center (15,359)
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Oct. 9 Northern Michigan T, 2-2* Oct. 10 Northern Michigan T, 3-3* Oct. 16 at Boston College L, 6-0 Oct. 17 at Boston University L, 4-1 Oct. 23 at Ferris State T, 5-5* Oct. 24 at Ferris State L, 2-1* Oct. 30 Arizona State 7 p.m. Oct. 31 Arizona State 7 p.m. Nov. 6 at North Dakota 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7 at North Dakota 7 p.m. Nov. 20 Denver 7:30 p.m. Nov. 21 Denver 7 p.m. Dec. 4 at Michigan 6:30 p.m. Dec. 5 at Michigan 6:30 p.m. Dec. 11 at Michigan State 6 p.m. Dec. 12 at Michigan State 1:30 p.m. Jan. 1 Trinity Western (Ex.) TBA Jan. 8 Ohio State 7 p.m. Jan. 9 Ohio State 7 p.m. Jan. 15 at Penn State 5:30 p.m. Jan. 16 at Penn State 5 p.m. Jan. 22 Minnesota 8 p.m. Jan. 23 Minnesota 7 p.m. Jan. 29 Alaska 7 p.m. Jan. 30 Alaska 7 p.m. Feb. 12 Michigan 7 p.m. Feb. 13 Michigan 7 p.m. Feb. 19 Michigan State 8 p.m. Feb. 20 Michigan State 8 p.m. Feb. 26 at Ohio State 5:30 p.m. Feb. 27 at Ohio State 6 p.m. March 4 Penn State 7 p.m. March 5 Penn State 7 p.m. March 11 at Minnesota 7 p.m. March 12 at Minnesota 7 p.m. March 17 Big Ten Tourney (St. Paul, Minn.) TBA March 18 Big Ten Tourney (if necessary) TBA March 19 Big Ten Championship Game TBA March 27-28 NCAA Midwest and Northeast Regional (Cincinnati/Worcester, Mass.) TBA March 28-29 NCAA West and East Regional (St. Paul, Minn./Albany, N.Y.) TBA April 9 & 11 NCAA Frozen Four (Amalie Arena, Tampa Bay) TBA   Printable Schedule 3 Corbin McGuire SO* F 4 Patrick Sexton FR D 6 Peter Tischke FR D 7 Jake Bunz FR D 8 Jarod Zirbel FR F 9 Luke Kunin FR F 10 Jake Linhart SO D 11 Adam Rockwood SO F 12 Grant Besse JR F 13 Ryan Wagner SO F 14 Zac Keryluk FR F 15 Matthew Freytag FR F 16 Alex Shuchuk FR* F 17 Will Johnson FR F 18 Seamus Malone FR F 19 Cameron Hughes SO F 20 Eddie Wittchow SR D 21 Jason Ford SO F 22 Tanner Barnes FR F 23 Aidan Cavallini JR F 24 Jedd Soleway JR F 25 Cullen Hurley SO F 26 Tim Davison SO* F 27 Matt Ustaski SO F 28 Kevin Schulze SR D 30 Matt Jurusik FR G 31 Adam Miller SR G 34 Gabe Grunwald FR* G * Redshirt Complete Roster

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Last Meeting: First meetings.

Series Notes: Teams have never met ... Arizona State sits 1-4-0 against NCAA Division I competition in its first season as an NCAA Division I program, capturing the program's first victory during its first weekend of play at the Kendall Hockey Classic in Anchorage, Alaska. ASU defeated Alaska on Oct. 10, 2-1, for the program's first victory in its second game ... the last time UW played against a first-year program, Penn State came to the Kohl Center for a Feb. 24-25, 2013 series and came away with a split. The Badgers won the first game, 5-0, but fell in overtime, 3-2, in game two of the series.

THIS WEEK IN MEN'S HOCKEY
• Wisconsin (0-3-3, 0-0-0-0 Big Ten) returns home to the Kohl Center to take on first-year program Arizona State (3-4-0) with games on Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m.
 
• The Badgers scored a goal with 19.2 seconds remaining in regulation to earn a 5-5 tie last Friday at Ferris State, before dropping a 2-1 contest to the Bulldogs on Saturday.
Arizona State won a pair of games over NCAA Division III Southern New Hampshire, claiming 9-2 and 7-1 victories over the Penmen at Oceanside Ice Arena in Tempe, Arizona. 
 
• For the second time this season, the Badgers struck for an extra-attacker goal to earn a tie. Last Friday, it was sophomore defenseman Tim Davison who tallied with 19.2 seconds left in regulation to even the game at five and send it into overtime.
    UW junior forward Grant Besse scored with 41.2 seconds left in the season opener against Northern Michigan on Oct. 9 in Madison, Wisconsin, to get UW a 2-2 tie. 
    Before this season, the last Badger to score an extra-attacker goal to tie a game was Justin Schultz, who scored at 19:20 of the third period in a 3-3 tie at St. Cloud State on Nov. 5, 2011.
 
• Sophomore defenseman Tim Davison scored the game-tying goal last Friday at Ferris State with an extra attacker and just 19.2 seconds left in regulation. The goal ended a 28-game, goal-scoring drought for the rear guard and marked his third career tally. Davison's last goal prior to Friday came on Dec. 5, 2014 against Penn State. 
    The goal marked Davison's first point of the season after tallying nine points last season as a redshirt freshman.
 
• A pair of Badgers struck for their first career goals last Friday. Freshman forward Seamus Malone got the Badgers on the board and tied the game at 1-1 at 1:53 of the first period when an FSU defenseman knocked Malone's centering pass into the FSU goal. The goal came on the power play. 
Later in the period, at 13:19 of the second, Will Johnson finished off a give-and-go with Adam Rockwood, for his first career marker. 
 
• A trio of Badgers recorded multi-point efforts last Friday, with sophomore defenseman Jake Linhart (1 goal, 1 assist), sophomore forward Cameron Hughes (two assists) and freshman forward Luke Kunin (two assists) each collecting two points. For all three skaters, it marked their first multi-point games of the year. For Hughes and Linhart, their multi-point performances marked the second of their career, while it was the first of Kunin's career.
 
• Freshman forward Luke Kunin scored a power-play goal last Saturday, his second of the season, which is tied for the team lead with sophomore defenseman Jake Linhart. Kunin finished the weekend with three points after posting his first multi-point game last Friday with a pair of assists. Kunin's four points share second on the team with fellow rookie Seamus Malone and sophomore Adam Rockwood. 
 
• Junior forward Grant Besse owns a modest three-game point scoring streak after posting a goal and an assist last weekend at Ferris State. UW's current points leader with five points on two goals and three assists, Besse has points in five of UW's six contests this season.
  Wisconsin's leading scorer last season with 11 goals and 22 points, Besse' career-long, point-scoring streak is four games. He's done that twice, including most recently Jan. 30 through Feb. 7, 2015. 
 
• The Badgers went 3-for-10 on the power play last weekend, including 2-for-5 last Friday and 1-for-5 last Saturday. The two-goal, power-play performance last Friday marked the second time in six games this season that UW tallied twice on the power play. During the entire 2014–15 season, the Badgers had at least two power-play goals in a game on just two occasions.
    UW is 6-for-27 on the power play this season, good for 22.2 percent. That ranks second among Big Ten schools and ranks 14th in the country.
 
• Sophomore defenseman Jake Linhart, who did not score a goal his freshman season, tallied his second power-play goal of the season last Friday, tying him for sixth in the nation in goals with the man-advantage along with teammate Luke Kunin.
 
• The Badgers scored four times in the second period last Friday, including twice on the power play, for their first four-goal period since March 15, 2014. That night at Michigan State, the Badgers scored four goals in the first period in an eventual 4-3 victory over the Spartans. 
 
• Wisconsin's tie last Friday was its eighth consecutive overtime games that ended in a deadlock. UW was 0-0-5 in overtime last season and is 0-0-3 this year.
    The Badgers are unbeaten in their last nine overtime contests, going 1-0-8 over a span that dates back to March 22, 2014 and the Badgers' 5-4 overtime victory over Ohio State in the championship game of the 2014 Big Ten Tournament.
 
• The Badgers own a total of six game-winning goal on their roster, led by senior defenseman Kevin Schulze, who has three game-winners on his resume. Junior forward Grant Besse has scored two career game-winning tallies, while sophomore forward Adam Rockwood has notched one career winner.
 
• Senior defenseman Kevin Schulze, who led the country in 2014–15 with 2.66 blocks per game, blocked eight shots last weekend, including six last Friday. Schulze shares third in the nation with 18 blocks through six games. His 3.00 blocks per game mark ranks fifth in the country.
 
• Freshman goaltender Matt Jurusik boasts three consecutive starts and has appeared in five consecutive games for the Badgers after starting both games last weekend against Ferris State. Jurusik turned aside 27 FSU shots in a 5-5 tie last Friday, before responding with a 37-save effort in a 2-1 loss last Saturday.
Jurusik owns a 3.57 goals-against average and a .890 save percentage to go along with a 0-2-2 record in five appearances.
 
• Wisconsin's penalty kill went 5-for-7 last weekend at Ferris State for an 71.4 percent success rate. For the season, UW has killed 20 of its 25 penalties for an 80.0 percent mark. That ranks fourth among Big Ten schools and 36th in the country.
 
• Sophomore forward Ryan Wagner posted his third assist of the season last Friday. He is over half way to his freshman season point total after producing five points (2 goals, 3 assists) in 35 games as a rookie in 2014–15.
 
• Senior defensemen Kevin Schulze and Eddie Wittchow serve as team co-captains, while junior forward Grant Besse will serve as the team's assistant captain.
 
• The Badgers begin the season with 28 skaters on the roster. That is the largest roster at UW since the 2009–10 team also boasted 28 members. Three of the 28 skaters on the roster that year did not see action.
 
• Wisconsin sits 11 victories away from reaching 200 on the Kohl Center ice, not counting exhibition contests. Since the building opened in 1998, UW has reached at least 11 victories at the Kohl Center in 10 of 17 seasons. 
Wisconsin has averaged slightly more than 11 wins per season at the Kohl Center, including five seasons of 14-plus victories. UW's best single season record in the KC came in 2013-14 with a mark of 17-2-1.
 
• UW faces one of the tougher schedules in the nation this season, with an especially grueling stretch to start the campaign. The Badgers play six of their first 12 games against teams ranked in the top five of the preaseason USCHO.com poll, with at least one game against four of the top five teams. 
  Of its 34 total games, Wisconsin will play 14 against teams ranked in the top 13 of the USCHO.com preseason poll. Only three of UW's series this year are against a team not receiving votes in the preseason poll. 
 
• Sophomore forward Cameron Hughes became just the second Badger drafted by the Boston Bruins when he went in the sixth round, 165th overall, in the 2015 NHL Draft this past June. Hughes, along with fellow sophomore forward Adam Rockwood, enter the season tied for the second-leading scorer spot from last season after each posted three goals and 13 points in their freshman season's last year. Both spent most of the season at center.
 
• Junior Jedd Soleway ranked second on the team last season with seven goals and finished with nine points in 35 games played. He also finished second on the squad with 98 shots on goal, and shared second on the team with a pair of power-play markers.
Soleway ranked 11th in the country in faceoff win percentage at .583. Soleway went 180-129 on faceoffs. Clarkson freshman Ben Dalpe led the nation with a .642 faceoff win percentage (97-54).
 
• Senior defenseman Kevin Schulze led the nation in 2014–15 with an average of 2.66 blocks per game, 0.11 shots-per-game better than Bemidji State defenseman Sam Windle (2.55). Schulze's 93 blocks were four shy of Windle's national lead.
As a team, UW ranked 10th in the country with an average of 14.83 blocks per game. 
 
• After having just four right-handed shots on the team in 2014-15, the Badgers will have nine for the upcoming season.
 
• Wisconsin will serve as host school for the 2016 NCAA Frozen Four set for April 7-9 at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida.
  The Badgers last played host to the NCAA Frozen Four in 2006 when it was held at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee. The Badgers won the championship that season, defeating Boston College, 2-1, in the title game.
 
• Five Badgers were captains of their teams before arriving on campus including Kevin Schulze (Hill-Murray), Cullen Hurley (Academy of Holy Angels) and Jarod Zirbel (Notre Dame Academy), who each captained their high school teams, as well as Luke Kunin who served as a captain of the U.S. Under-18 Team and Patrick Sexton (Penticton) in the BCHL. Hurley also co-captained the Muskegon Lumberjacks in the USHL. Eddie Wittchow (co-captain) and Grant Besse (assistant captain) will earn their stripes this season as captains of the Badgers.
 
• Wisconsin boasts 13 skaters who have championships on their resumes. Three Badgers (Besse, Davison, Zirbel) own high school state titles, two (Rockwood, Sexton) own BCHL titles, Hughes won an AJHL championship, Malone won a USHL crown, McGuire won an EJHL championship and Keryluk owns an USPHL win. In addition, Kunin won a under-18 world title and Jurusik won the NAHL regular-season crown. Others include Jurusik's NAHL regular-season win, as well as Wittchow's USHL western conference victory and Soleway's BCHL division triumph.
 
• Seamus Malone led the USHL with a plus-29 in 2014–15 playing for Dubuque. Malone ranked 11th in the USHL last season with 58 points and 14th with 26 goals.
 
• Will Johnson led the USHL with 36 points through 30 games for the Madison Capitols last season before an injury ended his season.
 
• Wisconsin's goaltending trio of senior Adam Miller, redshirt freshman Gabe Grunwald and freshman Matt Jurusik own a combined 42 minutes and seven seconds of game action entering the season. Miller made one appearance during the 2012–13 season and one appearance in 2014–15.
 
• Jarod Zirbel is just the fourth player in UW's history with a last name that starts with the letter 'Z'. Coincidentally, three of those four have played for Wisconsin within the last three seasons. Morgan Zulinick (2012-15), Mark Zengerle (2010-14), and Jason Zent (1990-94) are the other three with 'Z' names. 
 
• Santa Barabara, California native Will Johnson is the ninth Badger all-time to hail from the Golden State. In fact, five of those nine players have come during the 14-year tenure of head coach Mike Eaves, with Robbie Earl (2003-06), Matthew Ford (2004-08), Brendan Woods (2011-13) and Nic Kerdiles (2012-14). The other four California Badgers are Chris Chelios (1981-83), Mike McGrath (1983-85), Rob Mendel (1986-90) and Chris Nelson (1988-92). 
 
• Wisconsin will celebrate a pair of NCAA championship anniversaries this season. The 1980–81 team returns for the 35th anniversary of their title the weekend of Nov. 21, while the 2005–06 Badgers return to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the school's sixth NCAA title the weekend of Jan. 30. The UW women's team will also be celebrating their 2006 NCAA title that same weekend.
 
• Head coach Mike Eaves is behind the bench for his 14th season at Wisconsin. The Badgers own one NCAA title (2006), two Frozen Four appearances (2006, 2010), seven NCAA tournament appearances and two conference tournament titles (2013, 2014) during Eaves' tenure. 
Eaves has seen 28 of his former Badgers go on to play in the NHL, as well as over 60 of his former players go on to play some sort of professional hockey (NHL, AHL, ECHL, overseas). Fifty NHL drafted skaters have played at Wisconsin under Eaves.
 
• Wisconsin hockey boasts five new staff members including associate head coach Luke Strand, assistant coach JB Bittner, director of hockey operations John Hamre, video coordinator Emily Engen and primary care Dr. Andrew Watson.
 
• For the new coaches, associate head coach Luke Strand came to UW from a year as general manager and coach of the first-year Madison Capitols of the USHL. He played college hockey for UW-Eau Claire. New assistant coach JB Bittner, who played his college hockey at Ohio State, arrived in Madison from a two-year assistant coaching stint for the USHL's Tri-City Storm in Kearney, Nebraska.

UP NEXT
Wisconsin hits the road again next weekend, as it heads to Grand Forks, North Dakota, for the first time in three seasons to take on North Dakota on Nov. 7-8.