Notre Dame is off to a rough start after dropping its first two games of the 2020-21 season to Wisconsin at home. Fresh off a bye week for final exams, it doesn’t get any easier as the Irish will spend the Friday and Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend at Michigan, which is ranked fourth in the latest USCHO poll. This will be the only time the Irish are on the road during the first and so far, only portion of the Big Ten schedule.
Colin Theisen will be the Notre Dame player to watch as he accounted for all of his team’s goals in scoring a hat track during the second game against the Badgers. He and fellow senior Matt Hellickson enter the series having played every possible game in their Irish careers (119). However, it will take more than recent achievements and iron man streaks to take down a team like the Wolverines.