Notre Dame is about to give a player with limited game action over the past couple years a chance to redeem that. Coach Jeff Jackson has announced that the Irish will add graduate transfer Jack Adams for the 2021-22 season. This comes after an injury sidelined Adams throughout the 2019-20 season and he transferred from Union to Providence for last season after COVID-19 forced Union to sit the season out. Adams is a 2017 sixth-round pick of the Detroit Red Wings.
Adams, who hails from Boxboro, Massachusetts, has scored 35 points, including 14 goals, over 72 collegiate games. All of his scoring came at Union as he failed to register a single point in six games at Providence.
Before college hockey, Adams played two seasons with the Fargo Force of the USHL. He had a breakout 2016-17 season there, scoring 37 goals and accumulation 60 points in 56 games. That team included new Irish teammate Michael Graham.