{"id":53064,"date":"2013-10-01T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=53064"},"modified":"2020-08-24T20:54:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T01:54:32","slug":"wisconsin-season-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2013\/10\/01\/wisconsin-season-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Season Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"ps_captionIns\" aria-describedby=\"caption-ps-captionIns\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uscho.photoshelter.com\/img-show\/I0000Xc4RgBTLR0M\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Alex Rigsby\" alt=\"Players on the 2012-2013 All-USCHO D-I Women's teams (Alex Rigsby). (Dan Sanger)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MG-3856.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-ps-captionIns\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Players on the 2012-2013 All-USCHO D-I Women&#8217;s teams (Alex Rigsby). (Dan Sanger)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After scoring 212 goals during its last NCAA Championship season in 2010-11, Wisconsin&#8217;s offensive output dropped to 103 goals a year ago. Brianna Decker, who tallied a point on more than half of those, is now gone. That doesn&#8217;t bode well for a return to potency this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thing that helps us, especially in the early part of the season, is our goaltending situation where we&#8217;re strong in the nets,&#8221; coach Mark Johnson said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got some good veteran defensemen coming back. From an offensive standpoint, that go-to person, the Brianna Decker, they&#8217;ve graduated, they&#8217;ve moved on. Hopefully, we&#8217;ll be able to do things by committee, which, actually, could turn out to be a very positive situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Badgers will need more committee members to emerge, as only three players besides Decker had as many as 20 points. Those three &#8212; Madison Packer, Karley Sylvester, and Courtney Burke &#8212; are back, but only one other returnee from last year reached double-digit points. Luckily, Brittany Ammerman is healthy after an injury limited her season to three games; Ammerman recorded 30 points as a sophomore.<\/p>\n<p>The situation is far more promising on the other end of the ice for Wisconsin, where senior goaltender Alex Rigsby has already posted 83 career victories.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve got the strongest returning goalie probably in the whole country, at least experience wise,&#8221; Minnesota coach Brad Frost said. &#8220;They&#8217;re extremely tough to score on, and with Rigsby in net, she gives them a great chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For Wisconsin to get back to the top spot in the WCHA, it will need improvement from many players. Johnson expects the team to get a boost in that regard as the Badgers begin their second season in their new rink.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The one advantage this group has had is that we had the LaBahn Arena all summer,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So for the kids that stayed around in summer school, they got a chance to skate all summer during that eight-week summer session. They got a chance to work out. So our base, as far as a conditioning standpoint, a strength standpoint, we&#8217;re probably ahead of where we were last year at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After scoring 212 goals during its last NCAA Championship season in 2010-11, Wisconsin&#8217;s offensive output dropped to 103 goals a year ago. Brianna Decker, who tallied a point on more than half of those, is now gone. 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