GAME 13 November 20, 2010 Notre Dame 4 • Michigan State 2 Notre Dame, Ind. – Short-handed goals by defenseman Sean Lorenz and center T.J. Tynan in the final 2:23 of the game snapped a 2-2 tie to give Notre Dame a 4-2 win over Michigan State in front of a sold-out Joyce Center ... Ben Ryan and Jeff Costello (ppg) scored Notre Dame’s first two goals of the night to offset Spartan goals by Dean Chelios and Torey Krug ... Krug’s goal came on the power play at 15:35 of the third to tie the game at 2-2 ... the win ran Notre Dame’s home winning streak this season to six straight and was the eighth straight home win for the Irish dating back to Jan. 30 of 2010 ... the Irish are now 9-3-1 on the season and improved to 7-2-1-1 in the CCHA ... the Irish got a break early in the game as Ryan was hauled down on a breakaway and awarded a penalty shot, the first by a Notre Dame player since Ryan Thang had one on Jan. 31, 2009 ... the senior center was stopped on his scoring bid by Yanakeff ... Ryan made the most of his second chance of the game at 6:53 when he gave the Irish a 1-0 lead with a wrist shot past Yanakeff for his second goal of the season ... Chelios would even the score at 15:49 with his first goal of the season ... the Irish took a 2-1 lead at 8:49 of the second period on a power-play goal by Costello ... after Krug tied the game at 15:35 on the power play, the Irish were still short-handed, but Lorenz scored short-handed at 17:37 to make it 3-2 ... with 35 seconds left, MSU pulled its goaltender only to see the Irish clear the puck down the ice where Tynan beat the Spartan defense to it and fired it from the goal line into the empty net with 25 seconds left in the game for his seventh goal of the year and a 4-2 final score ... ... Notre Dame outshot Michigan State, 23-20, in the game ... Johnson finished with 18 saves in the game and picked up his second win of the weekend ... Yanakeff, making his first career start, made 19 saves in the loss ... the last time Notre Dame had two short-handed goals in a game was on Dec. 1, 2007 in a 5-0 win over Nebraska-Omaha. 1 1 1
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1st: ND: Ben Ryan 2 (Calle Ridderwall, Mike Voran), 6:53; MSU: Dean Chelios 1 (Daultan Leveille, Dustin Gazely), 15:49. 2nd: ND: Jeff Costello 3 (Voran, Stephen Johns), PPG, 8:29; 3rd: MSU: Torey Krug 3 (Anthony Hayes, Derek Grant), PPG, 15:35; ND: T.J. Tynan 7 (Joe Lavin), SHG, ENG, 19:35. Saves: MSU: Will Yanakeff (60:00) ND: Mike Johnson (60:00) Power Play: MSU: 1-7; ND: 1-4 Penalties: MSU: 6 for 12 min.; ND: 6 for 18 min. Attendance: 2,721 (sellout)
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GAME 14 November 26, 2010 North Dakota 6 • Notre Dame 3 Grand Forks, N.D. – The North Dakota Fighting Sioux got goals from five different players on the way to a 6-3 win over Notre Dame in front of a sell-out crowd of 11,680 fans at Ralph Engelstad Arena ... five different Fighting Sioux players scored in the game as Jason Gregoire scored twice with Mike Cichy, Corban Knight, Evan Trupp and Chay Genoway adding single goals, while Notre Dame got goals from David Gerths, Ryan Guentzel and Jeff Costello in the loss ... the Fighting Sioux fired a season-high 39 shots against the Irish with Notre Dame goaltender Mike Johnson making 33 saves on the night ... the Irish had 30 shots in the game, and North Dakota goaltender Aaron Dell finished with 27 stops ... the loss dropped the 11thranked Irish to 9-4-1 on the season while the 10th-ranked Fighting Sioux improved to 9-5-1 on the season ... North Dakota dominated the first period on the way to a 2-0 lead with Johnson’s goaltending keeping the Irish in the game ... the Sioux got the first goal of the night at 7:16 as Cichy fired a rebound over Johnson for his third goal of the season ... North Dakota would get their second goal at 16:57 when Knight beat Johnson for his eighth goal of the year ... Notre Dame cut the lead in half with the first goal of the second period as Gerths crashed the crease to jam the puck under Dell for his fifth of the season at 9:44 ... the Fighting Sioux restored the lead to 3-1 at 10:37 when Trupp scored his fourth of the season ... the Irish
Senior defenseman Joe Lavin was named CCHA defensive player of the week for his play in the Michigan State series. He had a short-handed goal, two assists and was +4 on the weekend. answered 46 seconds later with Guentzel doing the honors at 11:23 with a backhander over Dell for his second of the year to make it 3-2 ... the home - standing Sioux would score one more in the period as Chenoway scored on a slap shot from the right point at 18:22 to make it 4-2 as the teams went into the second intermission ... the North Dakota lead would go to 5-2 just 1:13 into the third period as Gregoire scored on a power-play for his fifth goal of the season ... the Irish got a late power-play chance and converted at 17:57 when Costello converted a Billy Maday feed, redirecting the puck behind Dell to cut the lead to 5-3 ... Gregoire closed the scoring at 18:26 for the 6-3 final score ... the last time the Irish played in Grand Forks was Jan. 2-3, 1999 with North Dakota ranked first in the nation ... the Sioux won the first game, 8-1, and the Irish bounced back to take the second game, 4-3. 1 2 3 F #11/#11 Notre Dame 0 2 1 – 3 #10/#9 North Dakota 2 2 2 – 6 1st: UND: Mike Cichy 3 (Ben Blood), 7:16; UND: Corban Knight 8 (Jason Gregoire, Dillon Simpson), 16:57. 2nd: ND: David Gerths 5 (Nick Larson, Bryan Rust), 9:44; UND: Evan Trupp 4 (Matt Frattin, Derrick LaPoint), 10:37; ND: Ryan Guentzel 2 (unassisted), 11:23; UND: Chay Genoway 3 (Danny Kristo, Brad Malone), 18:22. 3rd: Jeff Costello 4 (Billy Maday, Shayne Taker), 17:37; UND: Gregoire 6 (unassisted), 18:26. Saves: ND: Mike Johnson (60:00) UND: Aaron Dell (59:57) Power Play: ND: 1-5; UND: 1-7 Penalties: ND: 7 for 14 min.; UND: 5 for 10 min. Attendance: 11,680 (sellout)
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