Notre Dame adds transfer forward Chayse Primeau from Nebraska-Omaha

Another transfer is heading the Irish’s way.

Notre Dame continues to add players via the transfer portal. We’ve already seen the arrivals of defensemen Drew Bavaro and Ben Brinkman. With the blue line shored up, they’ve turned to adding forwards beginning with Jackson Pierson. We also now know that they’re benefiting from the arrival of Chayse Primeau from Nebraska-Omaha.

Primeau has spent the past four years with the Mavericks. In 117 games, he scored 72 points, 29 of which came from goals. In what might be one of the craziest coincidences ever in college hockey, he had identical totals of nine goals and 14 assists in each of the past two seasons. While those aren’t huge totals, it doesn’t make the achievement any less interesting.

If Primeau’s last name sounds familiar, it should. His father, Keith, played in the NHL for 15 seasons. His brother, Cayden, also is following in the patriarch’s footsteps as the goaltender for the Laval Rocket, the Montreal Canadiens’ AHL affiliate, during the Calder Cup playoffs.

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New Hampshire forward Jackson Pierson transfers to Notre Dame

What are you expecting out of this transfer?

Lately, we’ve been talking a lot about Notre Dame benefiting from the transfer portal. They recently added two defensemen for the 2022-23 season in Drew Bavaro and Ben Brinkman. Now, the Irish have a new outlet for scoring to look forward to thanks to the addition of forward Jackson Pierson from New Hampshire.

In four seasons with the Wildcats, Pierson scored 88 points, including 31 goals, in 115 games over four years. As a senior, he served as an alternate captain. His 24 points from the past season would have tied him for seventh on the Irish. Hockey East also honored him with the Len Ceglarski Individual Sportsmanship Award.

Pierson also is returning to his home state as he hails from Zionsville, a suburb of Indianapolis. His family also has a history of college sports in Indiana as Todd, his father, was a baseball player at Purdue. Let’s hope for the Irish’s sake, those athletic genes will pay off for them.

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