The adage is almost as old as ice: A national championship gets the proud recipient a trophy and a bull’s-eye on his or her back.
So what does that say about consecutive national championships? Is the answer twin bull’s-eyes or does the second championship nullify the bull’s-eye theory altogether?
That is the question facing the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team, back-to-back NCAA champion, as it opens its season with a two-game non-conference series at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., this weekend. As two-time champions, the Badgers understand they are going to get their opponents’ best games night in and night out.