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Jake Linhart (6) Wittchow (1), Kunin (9) |
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PSU
David Goodwin (6)
Pedrie (7), Berger (7)
OT
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Jan. 15, 2016
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- For the second straight Friday night at Pegula Ice Arena, the No. 15 Nittany Lion men's hockey won in overtime. David Goodwin (Des Peres, Mo.) scored the game-winner as Penn State beat Wisconsin, 4-3, in front of 6,119 fans. Goodwin finished with a team-best two points.
Tommy Olczyk (Long Grove, Ill.), Dylan Richard (Sherwood Park, Alberta) and Andrew Sturtz (Buffalo, N.Y.) tallied goals in regulation as Penn State (14-4-3, 4-1-0-0 Big Ten) out-shot Wisconsin (4-9-6, 1-4-2-1 Big Ten) by a wide margin, 58-25.
"(David Goodwin) is a very cerebral player," Head coach Guy Gadowsky said. "It's more so the assists than the goals. He can create opportunities with his mind, and when you have a guy like that he can get guys going by somehow feeding pucks and getting easy goals, not easy goals, but it gets guys going."
Penn State won just its second game when trailing after the first period by producing one of its more dominant periods in program history, out-shooting the Badgers, 24-3, and earning a 2-1 lead after 40 minutes. Wisconsin came back twice in the third period to even the score before Goodwin scored 44 seconds into the extra session.
Following a Wisconsin scoring chance, Chase Berger (St. Louis, Mo.) won the puck near the team benches and sent a cross-ice pass through the neutral zone to Vince Pedrie (Rochester, Minn.). Pedrie deftly played the puck to a sprinting Goodwin who tried to knock it off Matt Jurusik's right pad, but it slid underneath for the game-winning goal.
Goodwin earned his first game-winning goal of the season, while notching his 13th career multi-point game (last: Nov. 13, 2015 vs. Sacred Heart). Pedrie tallied a point for the third straight game and for the seventh time in nine contests.
During the second period, Penn State fired the first four shots of the period and eight of the first nine and 15 of the first 18 shots before Olczyk lit the lamp with 6:35 to go. Luke Juha (Mississauga, Ontario) sent a stretch pass to a rushing Olczyk down the right wing who went stick-side for his seventh goal of the season.
Juha picked up his 11th helper of the season and turned in a plus-1 on the night, improving his team-leading plus-minus rating to plus-17. Juha also blocked a game-high five shots in his return to the ice after missing Saturday's loss to Minnesota.
The Nittany Lions took the lead with only 12.8 seconds remaining on the penalty kill. Richard intercepted a Wisconsin pass and went in on Matt Jurusik (54 saves) and beat him below his blocker for a 2-1 lead. The goal was Richard's ninth of the season and Penn State's NCAA-leading eighth short-handed tally.
In the third, Luke Kunin wasted little time in evening the score, putting away a feed from Cameron Hughes after five minutes.
Penn State regained the lead with 6:47 to go when Goodwin, who was earlier penalized to end a PSU power-play opportunity, collected the puck after being released from the penalty box. He dumped the puck into Wisconsin's end where David Glen (Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta) forechecked to allow Goodwin to scoop up the puck and feed Sturtz in front of the net for the go-ahead goal.
Sturtz became PSU's second 10-goal scorer, joining fellow freshman Berger. Goodwin also tallied his team-leading 14th assist of the season.
Exactly three minutes later, Jake Linhart found the back of the net from the slot as his shot deflected off Matthew Skoff's (McKees Rocks, Pa.) glove and trickled in with 3:47 to go. The goal was Linhart's second of the game. Skoff finished with 22 saves and improved to 6-2-3 on the year.
Earlier in the first period, Wisconsin exchanged shots off the post with Penn State with Corbin McGuire finding iron after three minutes and Goodwin hitting the left post off a Glen pass midway through the frame.
The Badgers took the lead on Linhart's power-play goal, scored from the high slot with 7:37 remaining. That goal broke Penn State's 13-straight penalty kill streak and was just the third goal in 38 power-play chances for an opponent. Penn State finished 3-for-4 on the penaly kill.
NITTANY NOTES
Penn State won its fifth straight game against Wisconsin to even the series at 6-6-0 all-time. Penn State is 3-2-0 against the Badgers at Pegula Ice Arena. The five straight wins are the most for PSU against any opponent in varsity history.
Penn State improved to 2-4-1 when trailing after the first period and 14-0-0 when leading after two periods.
The Wisconsin Badgers lost their first overtime game in 13 contests. They had gone 1-0-11 in their previous 12 overtime games. UW's last OT loss came March 14, 2014 at Michigan State.
Penn State is 2-0-3 in overtime this season and has a streak of eight-straight OT games without a loss (last: Jan. 9, 2015 vs. Ohio State).
The Nittany Lions launched 58 shots on target, the sixth occasion this season where Penn State tallied at least 50 shots. Penn State has fired at least 40 shots in 14-of-21 games and out-shot every opponent but one (Minnesota).
Penn State became the only team this season to have two 10-goal freshman scorers. Chase Berger and Andrew Sturtz are two of five freshmen in the country to score at least 10 goals. They are the only two of those five to be undrafted.
Dylan Richard is the seventh different Nittany Lion to register a short-handed goal. He scored his second such goal on Friday night as Penn State has the national lead (8) over five other teams at 6 short-handed goals.
Richard now has a team-high eight points against Wisconsin in his career on three goals and five assists. David Goodwin is one point behind on three goals and four assists.
Tommy Olczyk scored his fourth career goal against Wisconsin, the most by a PSU player against the Badgers.
After giving up 13 shots in the first period to Wisconsin, Penn State held Wisconsin to just 12 attempts on net in the final 40:44 of action.
Wisconsin had the top-ranked scoring offense in the second period with 30 goals, but was held to three shots.
Penn State played in front of its 47th sellout in 50 regular-season games at Pegula Ice Arena. The Nittany Lions have played in front of 27 straight home sellouts.
NEXT TIME OUT
Penn State and Wisconsin conclude their first series of the season on Saturday inside Pegula Ice Arena for another nationally televised game. ESPNU will carry coverage in the United States with TSN2 broadcasting the game in Canada. Puck drop is set for 6 p.m. and the game can be streamed on WatchESPN with free audio streaming through GoPSUnow or on 103.1 FM in State College.