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The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | December 7, 2015

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Michigan wins shootout

to end wild game,
high-scoring series

By JUSTIN MEYER

Daily Sports Writer

In the middle of the second period,

with Michigan down two goals to an
unheralded Wisconsin hockey team,
pandemonium broke out at Yost Ice Arena.

Four players were in the box, junior

defender Michael Downing was being
scolded by an official for trash-talking the
Badgers players across the scorer’s table
and the Wolverines had lost control.

Michigan’s upperclassmen mustered a

tremendous effort to win in a shootout,
7-6, but it was a frantic game in which
neither side kept command for long. The
shootout victory will earn the Wolverines
an extra point in the Big Ten standings, but
will count as a tie in the NCAA Pairwise
rankings.

“You don’t sing the song after a tie,” said

Michigan coach Red Berenson.

Added Downing: “If you give up 10

goals in a weekend, you should get swept.
... Luckily our offense came up big this
weekend.”

The game the day after a wild, high-

scoring affair

is often a tight defensive contest. Saturday
night, after a rollercoaster 5-4 win over
Wisconsin on Friday, that adage didn’t
hold true at all.

Instead, momentum swings and a

slew of penalties in the first period
ensured neither team would leave
the arena satisfied.

Michigan (1-0-1 Big Ten,

8-2-3 overall) jumped out
to an early two-goal
lead behind a season-
best effort from
the second line.
Senior forwards
Justin Selman and
Boo Nieves each
recorded three
points in the first
period alone.

Nieves

opened the
scoring
less than a
minute and
a half into
the period
by shooting
a dribbling
rebound into

Michigan 6, Wisconsin 4

Michigan 7, Wisconsin 6 (SO)

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