Nine different players including Blake Montgomery scored to lead the Wisconsin Men's Hockey team to a 9-2 victory at Notre Dame at Compton Family Ice Arena.
Wisconsin closed out the fall semester schedule with their most goals in a conference game since 2006. They also finished 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 Montgomery scored the other three to give Wisconsin a 4-0 lead at the first intermission.
Notre Dame, 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. Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin riposte, scoring at 3:43 to give 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 Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin total for the fifth goal in seven minutes of game time between the two teams. Brink and Tassy's markers gave Wisconsin 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.
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