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ASU Hockey: Sun Devils sweep No. 14 Wisconsin
Behind the first two goals of Jax Murrays’ collegiate career, Arizona State (2-3-1) completed the series sweep of No. 14 Wisconsin (4-4) at Madison with a 3-1 final on Sunday.
ASU came with similar energy and jumped out the group had the night before, leading to a 2-0 lead in the first period.
The Sun Devils carried the momentum throughout the match, holding the ties for the last 20 minutes to end a solid show.
Hopefully this will recharge the race for the rest of our season, Powers said of the two wins. We love our team. We have a very good hockey team and this result does not surprise us. It’s more of what we expect to come and it’s a step in the right direction.
As mentioned above, Murray accounted for two of ASU’s goals, but the first strike came from freshman Matthew Kopperud.
Kopperud, a former Dubuque Fighting Saint in the United States Hockey League (USHL), used a Wisconsin defender as a screen, then fired a wrist shot that ricocheted off a stick, a leg and past the blocker of Badger-starting netminder Robbie Beydoun .
Through six games, the freshman seemed to find his legs every shift and minute he was on the ice.
The first few games from juniors to here were a big leap, Kopperud said. But getting my first one yesterday was kind of a relief and now I can just go and play.
Overall, Powers was delighted with the progress he had seen from his freshman forwards in recent weeks, including Kopperud, Michael Mancinelli, Benji Eckerle and Ryan OReilly.
Kopperud comes in as a top-five recruiting course and currently leads all Sun Devils in points with five, while Eckerle and OReilly also have three points. The group seemed to improve with every game.
All freshmen were great, Powers said. … Mancinellis was our best man in freshman face-offs, OReillys gets a ton of opportunities and opens things up and he’s a threat. He does things that in the infancy of our program we did not have children who had the ability to do the things that he does.
And then Benji Eckerle is the other kid who just got out. He’s a horse and he’s a kid, as a freshman, that I trust in any situation to quit games and kill in big moments. His habits are so good. All four have been very good to us.
Aside from those core four, however, it was a sophomore who was in the spotlight in Sunday’s game. Murray lit the lamp on ASU’s second and third goals, helping to secure victory.
It was a great moment for the Minnesota native, who appeared in and out of the lineup very briefly last season, playing in only four games.
Murray sustained a shoulder injury during his junior time with the North American Hockey Leagues (NAHL) Fairbanks Ice Dogs, and was in much of the recovery process in his first season after surgery in 2019. Now that he had fully recovered , he looked back at the trial after his burst of two goals.
It was a long way, Murray said. It was an eight-month recovery period that started at the start of my freshman season. It wasn’t the best and not a lot of fun, but Liane Blyn (ASU’s Head of Sports Performance) worked hard to build the strength and we worked really hard. Eventually I started to gain confidence over time and now I’ve found a way to get into the lineup and hopefully we’ll run and shoot from here.
Murray was a big ray of hope in Sun Devil’s win, as was goalkeeper Evan DeBrouwer. After being hounded at No. 4 in Michigan at the start of the year, DeBrouwer settled in Michigan State last weekend, before putting on his best performance against the Badgers on Sunday.
He made 28 saves and had nothing to do with Wisconsin’s lone goal, which came on a fluky bounce in which forward Sean Dhooghe tried to break the puck from behind DeBrouwers net. It kicked off a skate and slid into the goal.
But otherwise, DeBrouwer was spotless and made a number of big saves, including a save on Wisconsin striker Sam Stange.
Powers praised both DeBrouwer and freshman Cole Brady this weekend, saying the battle for the net has only gotten bigger between the duo.
After being put in a bad position and going winless for four games, the Sun Devils are now just one game away from a return to .500. Similar to how the group started slow last year when it was 1-3, ASU is trying to claw itself out of a hole. They thought about the experience and don’t try to look back from now on.
Although Wisconsin was this weekend, Powers was still satisfied with how his group performed, given the course of the first few weeks.
That is a very good team. I know they had a few guys, but their second line is two fourth rounders and a fifth rounder (draft pick) on it, Powers said. They are still very good. That’s a legit sweep out there and I’m really proud of our guys. I would think it’s pretty safe to say this is our best course of action as a program against a team that is talented and a blue blood program like Wisconsin.
Injury update
Johnny Walker was known to go out this weekend and was listed as series-to-series, but halfway through the game on Sunday, attacker Demetrios Koumontzis disappeared. He scored two goals on Saturday, but left halfway through the game with the Badgers on Sunday.
Powers noted that he went out with a lower body injury, but it should be okay and it wasn’t long lasting or serious.
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