Notre Dame will close out the non conference portion of its schedule by playing host to Boston College at 7 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Jan. 19 at Compton Family Ice Arena in a makeup game after the teams’ first semester meeting was postponed due to COVID-19 protocols within the BC program.
The Fighting Irish are 7-2-0 in non conference play this season and 9-4-0 at Compton Family Ice Arena.
Notre Dame is coming off a two-game road series at Ohio State (Jan. 14-15), where it took game one in overtime, 3-2, before falling in game two, 4-1.
Spencer Stastney had that overtime game winner for his fourth goal of the season, while Landon Slaggert figured in all the scoring with a goal and two assists for a career-high three points.
The Eagles were most recently swept in a home-and-home series with New Hampshire (Jan. 14-15), losing game one on the road, 3-2, before dropping game two at home, 5-2.
The game against the Eagles will close out a busy start to the second half for Notre Dame, including seven games in the first 19 games of January.
Max Ellis leads the Irish with a career-best 24 points on a team-high 14 goals and 10 assists. Ellis’ 14 goals rank tied for seventh in the country (tied for second in the Big Ten).
Ellis and Cam Burke are tied for the NCAA lead with two shorthanded goals this season.
Burke and Ryder Rolston lead the Irish with three game-winning goal apiece.
Burke now ranks second on the Irish with eight goals (he had seven goals in his previous three seasons combined ).
Balanced attack: all told, 15 Notre Dame players have scored this season, while 12 players have at least 10 points on the season.
The Irish are 11-1-0 when scoring first this season.
Notre Dame’s penalty kill is 81-for-88 on the season (.9205), which ranks second in the NCAA and trails only Quinnipiac (.9310).
The Irish also have five shorthanded goals this season (Ellis 2, Cam Burke 2, Spencer Stastney), which ranks tied for second in the country (first in the Big Ten).
Notre Dame has made each of the last five NCAA Tournaments, the longest streak in program history, and eight of the last 11 NCAA Tournaments overall.
The five consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances is the second-longest active streak in the NCAA, trailing only Minnesota Duluth (6), with Minnesota State (3) and St Cloud State (3) tied for third.
As the No. 4 seed, Notre Dame had been set to face top-seeded Boston College in the first round of the 2021 NCAA Tournament in the Albany Regional, but the Irish were removed from the tournament due to COVID-19 protocols..
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