{"id":549347,"date":"2026-04-10T06:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549347\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:57:15","slug":"wisconsin-moves-on-to-ncaa-hockey-championship-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549347\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Moves on to NCAA Hockey Championship Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo courtesy of Wisconsin Athletics<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/brackets\/print\/icehockey-men\/d1\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n        BRACKET<br \/>\n      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>LAS VEGAS, Nevada\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Wisconsin has advanced to the NCAA Championship Game after defeating No. 1 seed North Dakota, 2-1, Thursday at the NCAA Semifinals in T-Mobile Arena. Wisconsin, which returns to the finals for the first time since 2010, will take on Denver of the NCHC at 5:30 p.m. ET Saturday on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin (24-12-2) scored twice in the first period on goals from Simon Tassy and Ryan Botterill and received outstanding goaltending from freshman Daniel Hauser, who stopped several point-blank shots. The Badgers become the fourth Big Ten team to reach the championship game and will look for their seventh title in program history.<\/p>\n<p>Denver downed Michigan, 4-3, in double overtime in the second semifinal. Top-ranked Michigan (31-8-1) received goals from Josh Eernisse, TJ Hughes, and Jayden Perron as the Wolverines finished with a 52-26 shot advantage. Denver freshman goaltender Johnny Hicks made 49 saves on the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy of Wisconsin Athletics BRACKET LAS VEGAS, Nevada\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Wisconsin has advanced to the NCAA Championship Game after defeating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[2144,2569,2568,2570,5,2573,2571,86,1381,1392,2572],"class_list":{"0":"post-549347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-big-ten","9":"tag-college-basketball-scores","10":"tag-college-football-scores","11":"tag-college-volleyball-scores","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-player-statistics","14":"tag-sports-information","15":"tag-sports-news","16":"tag-sports-scores","17":"tag-sports-videos","18":"tag-team-statistics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116379113471891114","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}