- All-time, Michigan leads the series 82-67-5, but Notre Dame leads the series 11-8-0 since joining the Big Ten.
- Notre Dame recognizes the first official meeting as a 3-2 overtime win by the Fighting Irish on Jan. 17, 1922 at the Weinberg Coliseum in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- The Irish and Wolverines met each season from 1991-92 to 2012-13.
- During the 2012-13 season, Notre Dame went 5-0-0 against the Wolverines, including a 3-1 victory in the championship game of the final CCHA tournament.
- In Notre Dame’s inaugural season in the Big Ten (2017-18), the Irish and Wolverines met five times, with the Irish claiming three victories, including a last second win at the 2018 NCAA Frozen Four.
- As time ran down in the 2018 NCAA Frozen Four semifinal (April 5), Cam Morrison slid the puck back to Jake Evans in the slot, who shot it five-hole for the game-winner with five seconds remaining – sending Notre Dame to the national championship.
- Notre Dame and Michigan’s other Frozen Four meeting came at the 2008 Frozen Four (Denver, Colorado) when the Irish posted a 5-4 overtime win to advance to the NCAA championship game for the first time in program history.
- Calle Ridderwall scored the game-winning goal in that contest at the 5:44 mark of overtime.
- The teams also played at Notre Dame Stadium on January 5, 2019, as the two teams utilized the same ice as the Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins of the NHL for the 2019 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic.
- The Let’s Take This Outside game featured the largest crowd to attend a home hockey game for the Irish (23,422) but Michigan claimed the 4-2 win over the Irish.
- Head Coach Jeff Jackson is 37-34-8 all-time against Michigan (including his time at Lake Superior State), while he is 12-6-0 all-time against the Wolverines in the playoffs.
- Jackson named current Michigan head coach Mel Pearson as one of his Team USA assistant coaches for the 1997 IIHF World Junior Championship.
- Jackson and Pearson helped lead Team USA to the silver medal in that tournament in Switzerland.
- Earlier this season, Notre Dame swept a series at Yost Ice Arena with a pair of overtime wins, including 3-2 in game one (Nov. 19) and 5-4 in game two (Nov. 20) to extend their winning streak at Yost to seven games.
- Ryan Bischel played both games in the Notre Dame net, making 28 saves in game one and 37 in game two.
- Ryder Rolston had a pair of goals in the game one win, including the overtime winner.
- Then Max Ellis had a hat trick, including the overtime winner, in game two to become the first visiting player to record a hat trick at Yost Ice Arena in 15 years (2006).
- For the past two and a half seasons, the teams have each posted road sweeps against each other..
BALANCED ATTACK
- The Fighting Irish have seen several players step up and contribute to the offense throughout the 2021-22 season, with Notre Dame averaging 3.43 goals per game which ranks ninth in the country (fourth in the Big Ten).
- An impressive 16 players have double-digit point totals, including five players with at least 20 points on the season.
- Nineteen Notre Dame players have scored this season, while 23 have at least one point.
- In Notre Dame’s sweep of Penn State on Feb. 4-5, 10 Irish skaters accounted for the 10 Fighting Irish goals as Notre Dame took game one 7-2 and followed with a 3-0 win in game two.
- With Notre Dame facing several injuries in that series against the Nittany Lions, freshmen forwards Justin Janicke and Tyler Carpenter each scored their first career goals, while graduate transfer defensemen Adam Karashik and Chase Blackmun each netted their first goals with Notre Dame.
- Freshman defenseman Ryan Helliwell was the most recent player to post a point, notching his first career point with an assist at Michigan State (Feb. 19).