58 // VARSITY April 3, 2014
Seniors leave a legacy
Back-to-back conference tourney titles a rarity
A
mong the many en-
tertaining ways the
NCAA used the score-
board during the 2014 NCAA
Midwest Regional showed
meaningful quotes from great
names in history, including
one from Jesse Owens that ap-
plies greatly to how the season
ended for the Wisconsin men's
hockey team.
The scoreboard read,
"Awards become corroded,
friends gather no dust." The
full quote reads, "Friendships
born on the field of athletic
strife are the real gold of com-
petition. Awards become cor-
roded, friends gather no dust."
Wisconsin's nine-member
senior class didn't end their
careers with the trophy they
wanted, but through four years
of living, eating, practicing and
playing together, they forged
great friendships, which is
what the seniors and the rest
of the team will eventually find
solace in.
The group can point to win-
ning the Broadmoor Trophy
as WCHA champs in Wiscon-
sin's final season in the league
and to capturing the inaugural
Big Ten tournament trophy
as tangible evidence of what
all the blood, sweat and tears
amounted to.
Only three other times in
school history have the Bad-
gers captured consecutive
conference tournament titles
and only in 1982 and 1983
were they full tournament
crowns. The 1972 and 1973 titles, and
the 1977 and 1978 championships both
included at least one title of the WCHA
regional variety.
SENIORS BY THE NUMBERS
● The nine-member senior class played
in 1,177 games, scoring 210 goals,
359 assists and 569 points. They fin-
ished plus-167, with all nine in the
plus. They won 84 games, averaged
3.62 points per game over 157 con-
tests and saw five of the seniors skate
in at least 150 of those. Three finished
with over 100 career points.
SCHEDULE (24-11-2, 13-6-1-0)
NCAA MIDWEST REGIONAL
March 28 vs. North Dakota L, 5-2
COMING UP
Oct. 10-11 Kendall Hockey Classic
Anchorage, Alaska (Alaska, Alaska
Anchorage, Maine)
INSIDE
MEN'S HOCKEY
BY PAUL CAPOBIANCO @BADGERMHOCKEY
