{{featured_button_text}} Ohio State’s Carson Meyer scores his third of four goals Friday, on a second-period breakaway in the Buckeyes’ 9-1 victory against the Badgers. RIC KRUSZYNSKI, OHIO STATE ATHLETICS COLUMBUS, Ohio — So much for momentum going into the postseason. The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team, unbeaten in four games to close the regular season, opened the Big Ten Conference playoffs with an epic face plant that no one on the Badgers saw coming. With four goals by Carson Meyer, some taking advantage of undisciplined defensive-zone play by the Badgers, No. 11 Ohio State unleashed a 9-1 throttling on Friday at Value City Arena. The Buckeyes jumped ahead in the best-of-three Big Ten quarterfinal series and can end UW’s season in Saturday’s Game 2. At one point, the Badgers trailed by nine. The eight-goal defeat was the team’s worst in 36 years and ranked second-worst in the program’s 230…
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