No. 4 Ohio State, No. 2 Minnesota Set To Meet Again
2/11/2021 7:14:40 AM | Women's Ice Hockey
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State meets a familiar foe on Friday when it returns to action following a bye week. The fourth-ranked Buckeyes tangle with second-ranked Minnesota in a weekend series at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis. Ohio State and Minnesota will be meeting for the fifth and sixth times this season.
The Basics
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Briefly on the Buckeyes
- Ohio State is 9-5-0 this season with a national ranking of No. 4 in this week’s USCHO and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls.
- Jenna Buglioni, Tatum Skaggs and Jennifer Gardiner form the trio that currently leads the Buckeyes in scoring with 11 points.
- Buglioni has a team-high seven goals to go along with four assists while Skaggs has six goals and five assists. Gardiner has scored five goals and assisted on six others.
- Senior Liz Schepers (4-6-10) and Emma Maltais (2-8-10) give the Buckeyes five players who have double figure points through 14 games.
- A total of 17 players have scored a point this year while 13 have scored goals.
- Junior Andrea Braendli has started 12 of Ohio State’s 14 games. She has a 1.98 goals-against average, .921 save percentage and 268 total stops.
- In the Buckeyes’ 3-1 win over Minnesota two weeks ago, freshman Amanda Thiele made a career-high 29 saves to earn her second victory of the year.
The Series
- Ohio State and Minnesota have split their previous four games this season. The Gophers won 4-0 on Nov. 21 and 7-4 on Jan. 29 while Ohio State picked up wins by the score of 2-1 and 3-1 on Nov. 22 and Jan. 30, respectively.
- Since the start of the 2017-18 season, the Buckeyes have won nine of 18 games against the Gophers with a 9-8-1 edge in the series.
So We Meet Again
- Ohio State will be facing Minnesota for the fifth and sixth times this season; previously, it had never played the same opponent more than five times in a single regular season.
- The Buckeyes have also never played four consecutive regular season games against the same opponent.
Statistically Speaking
- Senior Liz Schepers is 16 points shy of 100 for her career. She has 40 goals and 44 assists in 124 career games.
- The duo of Jenna Buglioni and Riley Brengman both rank among the top 20 nationally in points by a freshman. Buglioni is 12th (0.79) while Brengman is 20th (0.64).
- Ohio State is No. 4 in the nation on the penalty kill (32 of 34).
- The Buckeyes have been fast starters, outscoring their opponents 17-9 in the first quarter of games this season. They’ve scored first in 10 of 14 games and are 9-1 in those contests.
- Ohio State has outshot its opponents in 11 of 14 games this season.
- Emma Maltais’ 151 career points is fourth all-time. She’s nine away from passing Jana Harrigan for third place.
The Season Series vs. Minnesota
- Seven of the 10 points that Emma Maltais has scored this season have come against Minnesota. She has two goals and five assists in four games against the Gophers.
- Liz Schepers and Tatum Skaggs each have multiple goals (two) vs. Minnesota this season.
- Ohio State holds a 148-105 advantage in shots over the four games.
National Goaltender Watch List
- Seven WCHA netminders, including Ohio State’s Andrea Braendli, have been named to the HCA’s inaugural Goaltender of the Year Watch List.
- Braendli has started 12 of Ohio State’s 14 games this year and has a .921 save percentage, 1.98 goals-against average, 268 total saves and two shutouts.
- Two weeks ago, she won her 43rd career game to become the winningest goalie in program history.
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