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Partial 2020-21 Notre Dame Hockey Schedule Released

Lost in the hoopla of Saturday’s football game is that there will be a 2020-21 season for Notre Dame hockey.

Lost in the hoopla of Saturday’s football game is that there will be a 2020-21 season for Notre Dame hockey. On Thursday, the Big Ten announced its schedule running up to its pre-winter break. The Irish will begin their season next weekend with two home games against Wisconsin. Starting with Thanksgiving weekend, they will play two-game series on four consecutive weekends against Michigan, Arizona State, Ohio State and Michigan State in that order.

The rest of the schedule will be announced at a late date. All Big Ten teams will play 24 conference games, plus four additional homes games against the Sun Devils. Every team will qualify for the conference tournament, which will revert to single-elimination, one-weekend format it had during the Big Ten’s initial four years in hockey.

We’re very fortunate to see college hockey come back when it, like many other sports, was uncertain about its immediate future. Anything that makes it feel like normal times, we’re all for. It gives us peace of mind in this tumultuous moment.

Notre Dame in NHL: Anders helps lead Islanders to Game 3 win

Former Notre Dame hockey captain Anders Lee helped the Islanders to a game three victory over Philadelphia on Saturday evening.

For the sixth time this NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, former Notre Dame captain Anders Lee found the back of the net for the New York Islanders.

Lee and the Islanders won Game Three of the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals on Saturday night, putting the Islanders ahead 2-1 in the best-of-seven game series.

Lee scored early in the third period to put the Islanders up 3-1 on the night which wound up being the final score.

Lee added an assist earlier in the contest.

The New York Islanders are two wins away from advancing to the NHL’s Eastern Conference Final for the first time since the 1992-93 season.

Game Four of their series with the Philadelphia Flyers takes place on Sunday night.

U.S. National U17 Forward Maddox Fleming Commits to Notre Dame

Notre Dame now has four commitments from the U.S. National Under-17 Team for the upcoming season.

Notre Dame now has four commitments from the U.S. National Under-17 Team for the upcoming season. Before Friday, the Irish already had landed centers Logan Cooley and Rutger McGroarty as well as defenseman Tyler Duke. Now, the Irish have won over forward Maddox Fleming, who made the following announcement on social media:

Maddox, who hails from Rochester, Minnesota, played this past season with Shattuck-St. Mary, a boarding school rich in hockey history. In 42 games, he scored 38 of his 52 points on assists. Before that, he played his previous two seasons of prep hockey at Rochester Mayo High School, accumulating 83 points in 41 regular-season games and scoring a goal in one playoff game. In January, he, Duke and McGroarty helped the U.S. capture a silver medal at the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Nearly a year ago, ISS Hockey released the following scouting report for Maddox:

The remaining players who have committed to Notre Dame beginning in the 2022-23 season are forward Jack Larrigan and defensemen Matthew Jovanovic and Michael Mastrodomenico.

Notre Dame: This Week in Twitter

A look back at the week that was on Notre Dame twitter.

We hope all of you had a fun and safe 4th of July and welcome you back into another week of what happened on Notre Dame Twitter. Enjoy!

Ice Hockey Player Pierce Crawford reads Where the Wild Things Are

Who’s your favorite former member of Notre Dame athletics to represent the USA?

Irish Defensive Pass Game Coordinator Terry Joseph was on campus at a historical venue

Notre Dame CF Spencer Myers makes the 1st team All-Fitt

Happy Canada Day

Former Women’s Head Coach Muffet McGraw on equality

Notre Dame Watch Party Moving Nights

Notre Dame has been having watch parties for old games all spring and summer. They will continue on a new night starting this week.

If you’ve been really craving sports during this pandemic that has left us largely without live team sports to take in, you may have tuned in and watched a few of the classic Notre Dame games that have been re-aired on the Notre Dame Athletics YouTube page.

Those have been occurring the last few months on Saturday night’s and they’re not going away anytime soon, but they are switching nights starting this week.

This Thursday at 7 p.m. ET you can tune in to see the 2011 Notre Dame win over Michigan State.  That will be the first game shown on a Thursday with a few more scheduled.

June 18 will feature the 1997 game against Georgia Tech in which Notre Dame Stadium was dedicated following renovations. Immediately following that game will be the 2011 hockey win over Boston College in which the Compton Family Ice Arena was dedicated.

The series concludes for June on the 25th when the thrilling 2002 football win over Michigan will air.

Check it all out on the Notre Dame Athletics YouTube page.

Notre Dame Opens Big Ten Tournament with Win

The Fighting Irish failed to convert on a five minute power play in the second period but did find a net via a Trevor Janicke put-back late in the period.

Quarterfinals for the 2020 Big Ten Hockey Tournament got underway Friday and can I start by just throwing a little praise to the Big Ten?

I know that’s not generally a popular view in these parts and I tend to lead that charge but in hockey the regular season conference champion gets a first round bye in the conference tournament while the other six qualifying schools play a best-of-three against their quarterfinal opponent to advance.

It’s not perfect as I wish it was a best-of-three in the next two rounds but hey, it’s at least a start.

Now to Friday’s game:

No. 5 Notre Dame dominated the first period Friday at No. 4 Minnesota outshooting the Gophers 12-2. However, no pucks found the net as the opening frame ended scoreless.

The Fighting Irish failed to convert on a five minute power play in the second period but did find a net via a Trevor Janicke put-back late in the period.

Taking a 1-0 lead to the final frame, the Notre Dame defense continued to dominate the evening as they allowed just 12 shots against all night long which resulted in Cale Morris’s 11th career shutout, the third such showing in a Big Ten Tournament game.

Notre Dame and Minnesota again battle Saturday night in Minneapolis with puck drop set for 7 p.m. ET. A win would send Notre Dame to the semi-finals while a loss would force a deciding game three which would be played Sunday night again at Minnesota.

Watch: Former Notre Dame Star Scores First NHL Goal

Evans scored 41 goals in his time at Notre Dame from 2014-2018.

Last Thursday saw former Notre Dame hockey player Jake Evans make his NHL debut for the Montreal Canadiens.

He didn’t score any points but “did all the little things right” according to those who watched the Canadiens victory over the Ducks.

Fast forward just a few nights and now Evans has his first career NHL goal.

Despite the efforts of Evans, the Canadiens still fell to the Arizona Coyotes on Monday night.

Evans scored 41 goals in his time at Notre Dame from 2014-2018.

Ohio State men’s hockey wins second game of series against Notre Dame, takes over first place in Big Ten

The Ohio State men’s hockey team got a big win over Notre Dame Saturday. The win gave it sole-possession of 1st place in the Big Ten

The Ohio State men’s hockey team got a big win against Notre Dame Saturday. The result gave the Buckeyes three out of four total points on the weekend. It was a good finish to a series that began with a shootout Big Ten point after a regulation tie for the Irish on Friday night.

Notre Dame got the scoring going first with a goal with 8:29 left in the 1st period, but Quinn Preston answered a few minutes later to tie the score at 1-1 at the end of the first twenty minutes.

It didn’t take long for the Buckeyes to take the lead for good early in the 2nd period when Gustaf Westlund hit the back of the net just 1:43 into the period. From there, the Irish pressed and pressed but couldn’t get the equalizer through the almost 40 final minutes thanks to a whopping 28 saves by OSU goaltender Ryan Snowden.

With the win, coupled by a Penn State tie, the Buckeyes take over sole possession of first place in the Big Ten. OSU and Penn State have both played 14 games, but Ohio State has 26 points on the season to the Nittany Lions 25.

The Buckeyes now have a big two-game series against Minnesota next weekend on the road. It’ll need some good results to remain in first place in the conference.

 

Ohio State men’s hockey rallies in third period to tie Notre Dame

The Ohio State men’s hockey team used a three-goal 3rd period to gain a valuable point against Big Ten foe Notre Dame.

It looked awfully bleak for awhile.

Ohio State fell down big to Notre Dame, but had one heck of a three-goal third-period rally to snatch a tie away from the jaws of defeat.

The Fighting Irish got the scoring started at 4:02 of the first period, then added two more goals in the second to go up 3-0. The Buckeyes got on the board finally with 7:38 left in the 3rd period when Gordi Meyer lit the lamp. Austin Pooley added another Ohio State goal just over a minute later to make it a one-goal lead.

But then Notre Dame struck again with 3:43 left and it looked like the Buckeyes would go home without a point. But not tonight. OSU rallied to score two more when OSU emptied the net and Quinn Preston scored on a 6×4 Power Play with 1:37 left. Then, a few seconds later OSU remarkably tied it up at 4-4 when Gustaf Westland put one into the back of the net.

And just like that, Ohio State salvaged a point in a big matchup between ranked teams. The Irish got the extra Big Ten point when it scored with the sixth shooter in the shootout after a scoreless overtime period.

The two will be back at it again tomorrow.

Former Notre Dame Defenseman to Make NHL Debut

Gross graduated from Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business as a management consulting major.

When the Phoenix Coyotes take on the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday night Notre Dame will see it’s 36th former hockey player to skate in the NHL.

Jordan Gross, a defenseman for Notre Dame from 2014 to 2018 will make his debut for the Coyotes, becoming the 11th for Fighting Irish to play in the NHL this season as he joins Anders Bjork (Boston Bruins), Ian Cole (Colorado Avalanche), Dennis Gilbert (Chicago Blackhawks), Hinostroza (Arizona Coyotes), Anders Lee (New York Islanders), Kyle Palmieri (New Jersey Devils), Andrew Peeke (Arizona Coyotes), Bryan Rust (Pittsburgh Penguins), Riley Sheahan (Edmonton Oilers) and T.J. Tynan (Colorado Avalanche).

A First Team All-Big Ten selection as a senior, he scored 10 goals and added 20 assists for 30 points as a senior. His 30 points ranked 12th among defensemen. His 146 shots on goal led all defensemen, as did his 3.58 shots on goal per game. He had a goal and two assists in Notre Dame’s 5-4 win over Omaha (Oct. 27), to become the 53rd player in program history to reach 100 career points.

Gross graduated from Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business as a management consulting major.