Freshman Brodie Ziemer’s overtime goal rallied the Gophers men’s hockey team to a 3-2 victory over Wisconsin on Saturday in Madison, Wis.
Ziemer’s goal, his third goal of the season, at 3 minutes, 21 seconds of the extra session gave the Gophers (9-1, 4-0 Big Ten) their eighth consecutive victory.
The Gophers, who trailed 2-1 going into the third period, tied the score with 6:04 left in the third period on Connor Kurth’s power-play goal. The goal was Kurth’s team-leading seventh of the season.
After a scoreless first period, Brody Lamb’s power-play goal gave the Gophers a 1-0 lead with 12½ minutes remaining in the second period.
The Badgers (2-8, 1-5) scored twice in the final five minutes of the second period to take a 2-1 lead. Ryland Mosely’s goal tied the score with 4:12 left in the period before Quinn Finley scored with 32 seconds remaining in the period.
Gophers goalie Liam Souliere made 31 saves as the Gophers outshot the Badgers 42-33.
“Most important tonight, it was how we responded,” Gophers coach Bob Motzko said. “I thought it was just a great effort by our guys from start to finish. That’s a gutsy effort; we needed to rebound from what we did yesterday, and we came up with a big power-play goal to tie it. I thought we played well enough to win this hockey game, but it took until the last minutes of overtime and a backhand saucer pass and a guy gets it out of midair. A great goal for us and something we can continue to build on.”
