Ohio State didn’t need a big third period on Saturday to send the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team to a season-long six-game losing streak. The damage was done in the second period, forcing UW’s fourth goalie change in the last six games and officially eliminating the Badgers from contention to host a quarterfinal series in the Big Ten playoffs before the first week of February was done. The ninth-ranked Buckeyes scored three times in the middle frame en route to pasting the Badgers 6-2 in Columbus, Ohio. UW has lost six in a row for the first time since dropping the last six games of the 2017-18 season. It is locked into finishing fifth, sixth or seventh in the Big Ten a year after winning the regular-season title. Milewski on Hockey: Are the Badgers college hockey’s version of the Montreal Canadiens of 2021 and 2022? People are also reading……
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