New UW Student Practicing With Team, But No Promises From Coach

A 21-year-old forward from Stockholm has been practicing with the Wisconsin men’s hockey team for just over a week, but he doesn’t have any guarantees from coach Tony Granato. Oscar Skiold enrolled for the spring semester to try to earn a place on the U-W roster.  Skiold played the last two seasons for the Jersey Hitmen of the junior-level U-S Premier Hockey League.  The Badgers are ranked 15th in this week’s U-S-C-H-O-dot-com Division I men’s poll.  They play a weekend series at Penn State starting tomorrow (Friday) night.