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the CCHA … it also extends the Irish unbeaten streak in overtime to 22 games (5-0-17), dating back to March 21, 2008 … Tynan saw his career-best eightgame point streak (3-14-17) stopped by the Wildcats as did Lee and his sevengame goal streak (10-3-13).
October 29, 2011 Notre Dame 3 • Bowling Green 2 Bowling Green, Ohio – Notre Dame rallied from a 2-1 third-period deficit, getting a power-play goal from Anders Lee and the game winner from Patrick Gaul to hand the Bowling Green Falcons a 3-2 loss at the BGSU Ice Arena … Austin Wuthrich scored the first Irish goal of the night … the Falcons got goals from Ryan Viselli and Bryce Williamson to build their lead … Mike Johnson made 19 saves in the win, including several big saves in the third period to hold Bowling Green off the board … Andrew Hammond had 23 saves … after a scoreless first period, the Falcons got on the board first with 10:00 remaining in the middle period as Viselli tapped in a Mike Fink pass for a 1-0 lead … Wuthrich evened the score at 12:41 when he whipped a shot past Hammond for his third goal of the season … Bowling Green retook the lead with 20 seconds left in the second (19:40) when Williamson tucked a shot inside the left post to make it 2-1 … Lee scored his 10th goal of the season on the power play at 7:01 of the third period to tie the game at 2-2 … from there, Gaul gave the Irish a 3-2 lead less than five minutes later capitalizing on a great effort from freshman Peter Schneider … the native of Vienna, Austria picked up a rebound and carried it behind the Falcons’ goal and found Gaul coming through the slot … the senior center whipped a wrister over Hammond’s shoulder and under the cross bar for his second goal of the year … the win improved the Irish to 5-2-0 on the year and 3-1-0-0 in conference play. #5/#5 Notre Dame Bowling Green
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1st: No Scoring. 2nd: BGSU: Ryan Viselli 1 (Mike Fink), 10:00; ND: Austin Wuthrich 3 (Billy Maday, Riley Sheahan), 12:41; BGSU: Bryce Williamson 4 (Brett Mohler, Ryan Carpenter), 19:40. 3rd: Anders Lee 10 (Sheahan, T.J. Tynan), PPG, 7:02; ND: Patrick Gaul 2 (Peter Schneider), 11:59. Saves: ND: Mike Johnson (60:00) BGSU: Andrew Hammond (58:44)
Power Play: ND: 1-4; BGSU: 0-4 Penalties: ND: 4 for 8 min.; BGSU: 4 for 8 min. Attendance: 1,928
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GAME 8 November 4, 2011 Notre Dame 2 • Northern Michigan 2 (ot) Marquette, Mich. – Notre Dame and Northern Michigan battled 65 minutes in front of 3,794 at the Berry Events Center with the teams settling for a 2-2 overtime tie … the Wildcats picked up the extra point in the CCHA standings as they won the shootout, 1-0, on a goal by Reed Seckel … the Irish got goals from Mike Voran and Billy Maday in regulation while the Wildcats’ Ryan Kesti and Justin Florek got on the score sheet … Notre Dame out shot Northern by a 27-21 margin … Mike Johnson made 19 saves for the Irish while Reid Ellingson had 25 stops for the Wildcats … Northern opened the scoring at 6:02 of the first when Kesti redirected a centering pass from Tyler Gron for his first career goal … Notre Dame answered back at 13:20 when Voran notched his second goal of the season on a one-timer from the bottom of the right circle to make it 1-1 … the Irish took the lead just 3:36 into the middle stanza on the power play … Maday scored from the low slot for his second of the year, set up by passes from Anders Lee and Riley Sheahan … that gave Notre Dame at least one power-play goal in each of their first eight games … Northern tied the game at 6:41 of the second when Florek whipped a shot past Johnson from between the face-off circles … the defenses took over from their as neither team could find the back of the net … the shootout went down to the final Wildcat shooter T.J. Tynan, Sheahan and Maday were stopped for the Irish while Andrew Cherniwchan and Florek failed to score for Northern Michigan … that left it to Seckel who tucked a shot inside the left post for the shootout win … the tie gives Notre Dame a 5-2-1 overall record and a 3-1-1-0 mark in
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1st: NMU: Ryan Kesti 1 (Tyler Gron), 6:02; ND: Mike Voran 2 (Billy Maday), 13:20. 2nd: ND: Maday 2 (Riley Sheahan, Anders Lee), PPG, 3:36; NMU: Justin Florek 6 (Matt Thurber, Reed Seckel), 6:41. . 3rd: No Scoring. Overtime: No Scoring. Shootout - ND - T.J. Tynan (save); NMU: Andrew Cherniwchan (save); ND: Riley Sheahan (save); NMU: Justin Florek (save); ND: Billy Maday (save); NMU: Reed Seckel (goal); NMU wins shootout, 1-0. Saves: ND: Mike Johnson (64:50) NMU: Reid Ellingson (65:00)
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Power Play: ND: 1-5; NMU: 0-2 Penalties: ND: 2 for 4 min.; NMU: 5 for 10 min. Attendance: 3,794
GAME 9 November 5, 2011 Notre Dame 1 • Northern Michigan 1 (ot) Marquette, Mich. – For the second consecutive night, fans at the Berry Events Center were treated to a goaltending battle as Notre Dame’s Mike Johnson and Northern Michigan’s Reid Ellingson dueled to a 1-1 tie with the Wildcats picking up the extra point with a 1-0 win in the shootout … the Irish peppered Ellingson with a season-high 45 shots with the Wildcat netminder stopping 44 … Johnson faced 22 shots in the Notre Dame net and had 21 saves to his credit … the Irish got their only goal of the night from Bryan Rust while Andrew Cherniwchan scored for Northern …Tyler Gron scored the lone shootout goal in front of a sellout crowd of 4,260 … the second consecutive tie gives Notre Dame a 5-2-2 overall mark and a 3-1-2-0 record in the CCHA … Rust gave the Irish a 1-0 lead at 10:29 with his first goal of the year that he tucked inside the right post on a wrap-around bid … the Wildcats evened the game at 1:20 of the third period when Cherniwchan rifled a shot from the slot, beating Johnson to his glove side for his second of the year … in the shootout, Anders Lee, T.J. Tynan and Rust were stopped by Ellingson … Johnson stopped Cherniwchan on Northern’s first shot before Gron scored, beating the Irish goaltender with a nice deke … the Irish are now unbeaten in their last five games (3-0-2) since Oct. 21 and are unbeaten in 23 straight overtime games (5-0-18) since the 2008 CCHA playoffs versus Miami. . #4/#6 Notre Dame #rv/#17 Northern Michigan
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1st: ND: Bryan Rust 1 (unassisted), 10:29. 2nd: No Scoring. 3rd: NMU: Andrew Cherniwchan 2 (Erik Higby, Kyle Follmer), 1:20. Overtime: No Scoring. Shootout - ND - Anders Lee (save); NMU: Andrew Cherniwchan (save); ND: T.J. Tynan (save); NMU: Tyler Gron (goal); ND: Bryan Rust (save); NMU wins shootout, 1-0.
Saves: ND: Mike Johnson (64:58) NMU: Reid Ellingson (65:00)
Power Play: ND: 0-5; NMU: 0-2 Penalties: ND: 3 for 6 min.; NMU: 6 for 12 min. Attendance: 4,260
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