Wisconsin romps to 9-2 win at Notre Dame

Saturday, December 6

South Bend, IN

4 p.m.

Wisconsin Badgers

12-2-2, 8-2-0

Notre Dame

4-11-1, 0-8-0

Wisconsin

Notre Dame

Photo by: Kali Mick

Wisconsin romps to 9-2 win at Notre Dame

December 06, 2025 | Men's Hockey

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Badgers move into first place in the Big Ten at the break

NOTRE DAME, Indiana – Nine different players scored to lead the Wisconsin men's hockey team to a 9-2 victory at Notre Dame on Saturday at Compton Family Ice Arena.

The Badgers (12-2-2, 8-2-0 Big Ten, 22 points) close out the fall semester schedule with their most goals in a conference game since 2006. They also finish up the first half in first place in the Big Ten by two points over top-ranked Michigan.

The onslaught began early with a Quinn Finley snipe just 3:37 into the game. That jump-started a four-goal first 12 minutes for Wisconsin. Grady Deering, Ben Dexheimer and Blake Montgomery tallied the other three to give UW a 4-0 lead at the first intermission.

Notre Dame (4-11-1, 0-8-0 Big Ten), who owns the nation's leading power play, got on the board in the first minute of the second period with a power-play tally by Dany Nelson. UW answered right back with a Jack Horbach goal just 10 seconds later, but a Notre Dame challenge of offsides wiped the response.

Instead, Aiden Dubinsky provided the Badger riposte, scoring at 3:43 to give UW back its four-goal lead.

The game stayed 5-1 until just before the midpoint of the third period when Adam Pietila tallied his third of the season.

Tyson Dyck created his own breakaway by knocking the puck out of the air at the Badger blue line and finished for the second time this season to make it a 7-1 game.

After Sutter Muzzatti scored for Notre Dame, Finn Brink and Simon Tassy added to the UW total for the fifth goal in seven minutes of game time between the two teams. Brink and Tassy's markers gave UW its second four-goal period of the game, third of the weekend and fourth in four games. The Badger goals also closed out the scoring and made it the 9-2 final score.

NOTES TO KNOW
- UW's nine goals are the most for the Badgers since an 11-5 victory at Merrimack on Oct. 12, 2019.
- The nine goals mark the highest conference goal total since UW won 9-1 at Colorado College during WCHA action on Jan. 14, 2006.
- Fifteen different Badgers collected points in the contest and eight different skaters posted multi-point efforts.
- UW's 12-2-2 ledger marks its best 16-game start since 2005-06 when the Badgers opened 13-1-2.
- UW improved to 7-1-0 on the road for the season
- Junior forward Quinn Finley posted his second-straight multi-point game and finished with three goals and five points on the weekend.
- Sophomore forward Gavin Morrissey finished the weekend with five assists, including three on Saturday.
- Junior defenseman Joe Palodichuk (2g, 2a) and senior forward Tyson Dyck (1g, 3a) each had four-point weekends.

UP NEXT: Wisconsin next plays at the fifth-annual Kwik Trip Holiday Face-Off at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee. The Badgers open the tournament against Lake Superior State on Sunday, Dec. 28 and then take on either defending NCAA champion and No. 7 Western Michigan or No. 15 Boston College on Monday, Dec. 29, depending on first day results.

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