In a penalty-filled contest, Wisconsin scored two third-period goals to send their road game against Penn State into overtime, but the Nittany Lions prevailed in the shootout to earn the extra conference point. Liam Folkes had the only shootout goal, which puts the third-place Nittany Lions four points behind second-place Ohio State.
Folkes scored the first goal of the night for Penn State, a power-play marker at 13:11 in the first, but the Badgers answered with Linus Weissbach’s goal at 14:39 to make it 1-1 after one.
Goals at the end of the second period and beginning of the third gave Penn State a 3-1 lead. Sam Sternschein’s scored at 19:01 in the second, and it took Chase Berger 56 seconds in the third, four-on-four, to make it a 3-1 game. Sean Dhooghe cut the lead to 3-2 with his goal at 3:41 in the third and then picked up the second assist on Peter Tischke’s goal at 18:08, tying the game.
Wisconsin’s Kyle Hayton finished the game with 35 saves; Penn State’s Peyton Jones made 26 stops. Wisconsin had 11 penalties for 22 minutes, while the Nittany Lions had nine penalties for 29, including a Trevor Hamilton’s 10-minute major and game misconduct for contact to the head just 17 seconds into the contest.
The Badgers (10-10-3, 4-6-2-0 B1G) host Michigan State next weekend while Penn State (12-7-3, 5-4-3-1 B1G) hosts Ohio State for two.