STEPPING UP
- Several Fighting Irish skaters have increased their point totals this season over the past few years.
- After a freshman season with one goal in eight games and a sophomore season with 16 points in 24 games (5-11-16), Max Ellis has 14 goals and 10 assists for a career-best 24 points in 23 games.
- Ellis posted the first hat trick of his career, capped by scoring the overtime game-winning goal, at Michigan on Nov. 20 marking the first visiting player to record a hat trick at Yost Ice Arena in 15 years (2006).
- In 24 games this season, Cam Burke has eight goals and eight assists for 16 points, all of which represent career-high totals for the senior.
- Solag Bakich has a career-high 14 points (4-10-14) in 20 games this season after scoring once in 10 games as a freshman and then notching seven points (4-3-7) in 28 games as a sophomore.
- Ryder Rolston had six points on a goal and five assists last season as a freshman and now has nine goals and 12 assists for 21 points in 23 games as a sophomore.
- Defenseman Jake Boltmann joined the Irish for the second semester last season, skating in 19 games (0 points).
- This season, Boltmann has a goal and eight assists for nine points in 24 games.