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Notre Dame’s Max Ellis, Graham Slaggert make pro debuts for same team

A proud day for the Irish.

Max Ellis and Graham Slaggert gave all they could to Notre Dame. Now, it’s time for them to move on and begin their professional careers. As luck would have it, they both remain teammates with the Toronto Marlies, the Toronto Maple Leafs’ AHL affiliate. As further luck would have it, they made their pro debuts on the same day. The Marlies made sure to document the moment on social media:

Neither player, nor fellow former Irish teammate Alex Steeves factored into the Marlies’ 4-1 win over the Grand Rapids Griffins. However, Ellis had a few scoring chances that were worth documenting:

Slaggert played in a role in setting up another chance:

All three former Notre Dame players will hope to contribute as the Marlies continue their push for the Calder Cup playoffs. With Steeves having been around the entire season except for three games with the Maple Leafs, he is sure to show his former-turned-current teammates the ropes. It should be fun for all of them.

Notre Dame’s Max Ellis signs contract with Toronto Maple Leafs

Good luck, Max.

With the season over, a few of Notre Dame’s players are being scooped up by professional teams. So far, we’ve seen it happen with Spencer Stastney and Adam Karashik. Now, we’re seeing it with Max Ellis. The junior forward has been signed to a two-way entry-level contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs, and he will join the Toronto Marlies of the AHL for the Calder Cup playoffs before the contract kicks in next season.

In 71 career games for the Irish, Ellis scored 45 points, 22 of which came from goals. He was a two-time Academic All-Big Ten selection, Notre Dame’s Most Improved Player in 2020-21 and a Hobey Baker Award nominee.

In his third and final season in South Bend, Ellis had career and team highs in goals (16) and points (28) as well as a career high in assists (12). Six of his 39 games were multi-point games, and he was selected as the Big Ten First Star of the Week once.

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Notre Dame’s Ryan Bischel is Big Ten’s First Star of the Week

The Irish are killing it on the ice right now.

For the third week in a row, a Notre Dame player has been named one of the Big Ten’s Stars of the Week. This time, it’s Ryan Bischel taking home the honor, and he’s the conference’s First Star of the Week. This comes after back-to-back weeks of Ryder Rolston and Spencer Stastney getting the Third Star. Bischel is joined this week by Second Star Mason Lohrei of Ohio State and Third Star Carl Fish of Minnesota.

Bischel won both starts against Penn State over the past weekend, making 67 out of a possible 69 saves. The second game saw him make 35 saves for the shutout. That brought him to a 10-4-0 record, a .930 save percentage and a conference-leading GAA of 1.93.

This is the second time an Irish player has been named the Big Ten First Star of the Week. Max Ellis earned the honor Nov. 23.

The Irish continue their season Thursday and Friday at Wisconsin.

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Notre Dame’s Ryder Rolston named Big Ten Second Star of the Week

Nice honor for the sophomore.

Notre Dame is off to an 11-4 start, and one major reason for that is Ryder Rolston. The sophomore forward is second on the Irish with 16 points, and he has earned a lot of those points lately. That recent effort has been rewarded as he was named the Big Ten Second Star of the Week. He was sandwiched between First Star Michael Pastujov of Michigan and Third Star Pierce Charleson of Michigan State.

During the Irish’s two meetings with Ohio State over the past weekend, Rolston had a goal and an assist in both. One of those goals was his third game-winning goal of the season. The games also brought his point streak to seven games, which is a high for his career.

Rolston is the third Irish player to be named a Big Ten Star of the Week this season, joining two Third Stars by Matthew Galajda and one First Star by Max Ellis.

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Notre Dame’s Graham Slaggert is Big Ten’s First Star of the Week

Notre Dame wasn’t going to knock Minnesota from its No. 1 ranking by sweeping it over the weekend and not be honored somehow.

Notre Dame wasn’t going to knock Minnesota from its No. 1 ranking by sweeping it over the weekend and not be honored somehow. It began with the Irish entering the latest poll at 16th. But who should get an individual honor? How about Graham Slaggert as the First Star of the Week in the Big Ten?

Perhaps it was Slaggert’s play in the first game against the Gophers that caught people’s attention. He picked up assists on the Irish’s first two goals and then scored the game-winning in a 3-2 win. That three-point performance, a career high, brought him to 11 points, the most in a season for the South Bend native. He joins Ryan Bischel and Matt Ellis as Notre Dame players who have been one of the Big Ten Three Stars of the Week this season.

Having won three of their past four games, the Irish are third in the Big Ten with a 5-4-1 conference record and a 7-6-1 record overall. One point separates them from both second-place Wisconsin and fourth-place Michigan. They’ll play the latter of those teams for their next weekend series. Even though it’s still early in the second half of the season, the series could play a major role in how the conference tournament will be seeded.