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Published December 11, 2009, 10:01 AM

Badger hockey has big series this weekend vs. North Dakota

Wisconsin Sports
- The Wisconsin men’s hockey team will play at North Dakota tonight and tomorrow night. The Badgers are a game up on the Fighting Sioux in the WCHA. Wisconsin is 7-4-and-1, while North Dakota is 6-5-and-1 in league play.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - The Wisconsin men’s hockey team will play at North Dakota tonight and tomorrow night. The Badgers are a game up on the Fighting Sioux in the WCHA. Wisconsin is 7-4-and-1, while North Dakota is 6-5-and-1 in league play.

The Badgers also have 10 overall victories to North Dakota’s nine. But they lost goal-tender Brett Bennett indefinitely, after he injured his left shoulder at practice this week. That means Scott Gudmandson will be the full-time goalie.

He and Bennett have split the job until now. Gudmandson has a .933 save percentage and a one-point-five-seven goals-against-average. Freshman Mitch Thompson will be his back-up.

North Dakota has also had injury problems. Senior defenseman Chay Genoway is expected to miss the Wisconsin series after being out four games with a concussion. Senior center Chris VandeVelde has been out since getting an undisclosed injury in the Sioux’s opener against Minnesota-Duluth.

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