Sports Information Office University of Notre Dame 112 Joyce Center 2004-05 NOTRE DAME Notre Dame, IN 46556 www.und.com 574-631-7516 HOCKEY NOTES 574-631-7941 FAX THE BOWLING GREEEN SERIES GAME NOTES - January 28-29, 2005 2004-05 NOTRE DAME Notre Dame Opens Final Leg Of 2004-05 Schedule With A Home-And- HOCKEY (5-16-5/3-11-4) Home Series Versus Bowling Green Irish to play seven of final 10 regular-season games on home ice. OCTOBER 7 #4/#4 Minnesota-Duluth T, 2-2 (ot) • The Series: Notre Dame Fighting Irish (5-16-5/3-11-4) vs. Bowling Green Falcons (10-9-3/7-7-2) 8 #4/#4 Minnesota-Duluth L, 1-4 • Date/Site/Times: Friday, Jan. 28, 2005 - 7:05 pm. - BGSU Ice Arena (5,000) - Bowling Green, Ohio 15 * at #9/#10 Miami (OH) L, 2-4 Saturday, Jan. 29, 2005 - 7:05 p.m. - Joyce Center (2,713) - Notre Dame, Ind. 16 * at #9/#10 Miami (OH) L, 0-5 • Broadcast Information: Radio: Notre Dame hockey can be heard live on ESPN Radio 1580, South 22 #1/#1 Boston College W, 3-2 Bend’s SportsCenter. Mike Lockert, “the voice of Irish hockey” and Tom Nevala will bring you all the 29 * #15/#15 No. Michigan T, 1-1 (ot) action both nights. Irish hockey can also be heard live via the internet at www.und.com. 30 * #15/#15 No. Michigan L, 1-4 NOVEMBER THE HOME STRETCH: The Notre Dame hockey team returns to CCHA play this weekend with a 4*at Bowling Green L, 1-3 home-and-home series versus the Bowling Green Falcons. On Friday night, the two teams meet at the 5*Bowling Green T, 4-4 (ot) 12 * at Western Michigan T, 2-2 ot Bowling Green Ice Arena for a 7:05 p.m. game. The following night, the Irish and Falcons meet at the 13 * at Western Michigan W, 3-2 Joyce Center in the regular-season series finale at 7:05 p.m. The weekend series begins the final 10 19 # U.S. Under-18 Team L, 2-7 games of the regular season, all versus CCHA opponents. The Irish will play seven home games with 26 * at Alaska Fairbanks W, 3-2 just three on the road in the stretch drive. Besides Bowling Green, Notre Dame will play two at home 27 * at Alaska Fairbanks L, 2-3 versus Nebraska-Omaha (Feb.4-5), two versus Ferris State (Feb. 11-12) and then home-and-home series with Michigan (Feb. 18-19) and Michigan State (March 4-5). The Feb. 18 game with Michigan will be DECEMBER 3*at #5/#5 Michigan L, 1-6 played in Fort Wayne, Ind. The Irish will look to 4*#5/#5 Michigan L, 0-8 snap their current six-game losing streak this week- 10 * Michigan State W, 3-2 (ot) end versus the Falcons. Notre Dame fell to 5-16- SERIES INFORMATION 11 * at Michigan State L, 1-4 5 overall after three losses last week to teams from vs. Bowling Green Falcons the WCHA (Michigan Tech, 6-2 and a pair of 2-0 JANUARY All-time Series: Series even, 32-32-5 shutouts by Wisconsin). The Irish are currently in 1 Rensselaer L, 1-3 At Notre Dame: Notre Dame leads, 18-11-4 12th in the CCHA standings with a 3-11-4 league 2 Rensselaer W, 2-1 At Bowling Green: BGSU leads, 21-13-1 7*at Lake Superior State T, 1-1 (ot) record. Bowling Green is coming off a pair of Neutral: ND leads, 1-0-0 8*at Lake Superior State L, 1-2 (ot) losses at Northern Michigan last weekend (3-1, 4- Last 10 meetings: ND leads 6-3-1 14 * #12/#12 Ohio State L, 1-4 1) and is 2-2 in the 2005 portion of the schedule. 15 * #12/#12 Ohio State L, 1-3 Overall, the Falcons are 10-9-3 and sixth in the 2004-05 Meetings: 18 $ vs. Michigan Tech L, 2-6 CCHA with a mark of 7-7-2. 21 #5/#5Wisconsin L, 0-2 Nov. 4 at BG 3, ND 1 22 @ vs. #5/#5 Wisconsin L, 0-2 Nov. 5 at ND 4, BG 4 (ot) 28 * at Bowling Green 7:05 p.m. IRISH VERSUS FALCONS: Notre Dame and 29 * Bowling Green 7:05 p.m. Bowling Green have met 69 times in the all-time IRISH VERSUS BOWLING GREEN: series and are dead even at 32-32-5. The two teams FEBRUARY met on Nov. 4-5 in a home-and-home series. At Player GP G A PTS Cory McLean 14 4 7 11 4*Nebraska-Omaha 7:35 p.m. Bowling Green, the Falcons took a 3-1 win on Nov. 5*Nebraska-Omaha 7:05 p.m. Wes O’Neill 6 3 2 5 11 * Ferris State 7:35 p.m. 4. The following night at Notre Dame, the Irish Mike Walsh 8 1 4 5 12 * Ferris State 7:05 p.m. took a 3-0 lead in the second period only to see Josh Sciba 6 3 1 4 18 * %Michigan 8:05 p.m. the Falcons score four unanswered goals to take a Matt Williams-Kovacs 4 0 4 4 19 * at Michigan 7:35 p.m. Jason Paige 6 2 1 3 4-3 lead at 11:32 of the third period. Wes O’Neill Evan Rankin 2 1 1 2 (So., Essex, Ont.) salvaged a point for Notre Dame Matt Amado 9 0 2 2 MARCH Tim Wallace 10 0 2 2 4*at Michigan State 7:05 p.m. when he scored with three seconds left for the 4-4 tie. At the BGSU Ice Arena, the Falcons have a Mark Van Guilder 2 1 0 1 5*Michigan State 7:05 p.m. Michael Bartlett 6 1 0 1 11-13 First Round CCHA Playoffs TBA 21-13-1 edge in the all-time series. At the Joyce Chris Trick 8 0 1 1 (Best two-of -three) Center, Notre Dame leads, 18-11-4. In the last 10 Joe Zurenko 8 0 0 0 17 & CCHA Play-In Game TBA meetings between the two schools, the Irish are 6- Tony Gill 4 0 0 0 18 & CCHA Semifinals TBA 3-1, going back to the 2002-03 season. T.J. Jindra 6 0 0 0 19 & CCHA Championship Game TBA Noah Babin 4 0 0 0 Dan VeNard 2 0 0 0 Home Games in caps LOOKING FOR A FEW GOALS: Notre Brock Sheahan 2 0 0 0 Dame’s scoring woes continued last weekend Victor Oreskovich 2 0 0 0 Rankings - USA Today/USCHO Luke Lucyk 1 0 0 0 # Exhibition Game IN ITALIC when the Irish were shut out, 2-0, in back-to-back All Times Local To Site games by Wisconsin. In the month of January, Goaltenders MIN W-L-T GA SVS SV% GAVG $ at Resch Center (Green Bay, Wis.) the Irish have scored just nine goals in the nine David Brown 139:02 2-1-0 2 79 .975 0.86 games played. For the year, they have just 39 goals Morgan Cey 665:28 7-3-1 31 341 .917 2.79 @ at Allstate Arena (Rosemont, Ill.) Rory Walsh 40:00 0-0-0 3 13 .813 4.50 % at Allen Co. War Memorial Coliseum (Fort in 26 games for a 1.50 goals-per-game average. Wayne, Ind.) Only Army, with 1.39 goals-per-game has scored & at Joe Louis Arena (Detroit, Mich.) less. For the season, Notre Dame has been outscored 82-39. In 15 of the 26 games played to date, Notre Dame has scored one goal or less. The last time the Irish were shutout in back-to-back games occurred Feb. 12-13, 1999 when they were blanked 1-0 by Michigan State on the road and 1-0 by Ferris State at home. Notre Dame’s previous low for goals-per-game in a season occurred during the 1999-2000 sea- son when the Irish scored just 2.45 goals per game. THE BOWLING GREEN SERIES GAME NOTES - January 28-29, 2005 A GAME NOTES - October 8, 2004 HEAD COACH DAVE POULIN WISCONSIN RECAP: it 2-1 at 2:33 of the second when Chris Conner Saturday, Jan. 22 - Wisconsin got all the offense flipped a centering pass over Morgan Cey’s pads Former National Hockey it would need in the first period on goals by Robbie on to see the Irish come back just 37 seconds later League star Dave Poulin is Earl and Matt Ford to hand Notre Dame its second when Dan VeNard (Fr., Vernon Hills, Ill.) score in his 10th season behind the consecutive 2-0 loss. Bernd Bruckler recorded the his first collegiate goal at 3:10 to even the score at Notre Dame bench. Going shutout for the Badgers, making just 14 saves in the 2-2. From there, Michigan Tech tacked on two into this weekend’s games game. Morgan Cey (Sr., Wilkie, Sask.) again more goals in the second period. Nick Anderson versus Bowling Green, the kept the Irish in the game with a 34-save perfor- scored the first of his two power-play goals at 7:57 1982 Notre Dame grad mance. For the second night in a row, neither team and Ryan Markham made it 4-2 at 11:46.