2004-05 Notre Dame Hockey Notes
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At Not At Eas Neutra Last 1 Sports Information Office University of Notre Dame 2004-0 112 Joyce Center 2004-05 NOTRE DAME Dec. 1 Notre Dame, IN 46556 Dec. 1 www.und.com 574-631-7516 HOCKEY NOTES 574-631-7941 FAX THE RENSSELAER SERIES GAME NOTES - January 1-2, 2005 2004-05 NOTRE DAME Notre Dame Breaks For Finals And Christmas Holidays HOCKEY (4-9-4/3-8-3) Irish return to action on January 1-2 when Rensselaer Polytechnic OCTOBER Institute makes first-ever visit to South Bend. 7 #4/#4 Minnesota-Duluth T, 2-2 (ot) • The Series: Notre Dame Fighting Irish (4-9-4/3-8-3) vs. Rensselaer Engineers (8-9-2/2-5-1 in ECAC) 8 #4/#4 Minnesota-Duluth L, 1-4 • Date/Site/Times: Sat.-Sun., Jan. 1-2, 2005 - 7:05 p.m./5:05 p.m. - Joyce Center (2,713) 15 * at #9/#10 Miami (OH) L, 2-4 • Broadcast Information: Radio: Notre Dame hockey can be heard live on ESPN Radio 1580, South 16 * at #9/#10 Miami (OH) L, 0-5 Bend’s SportsCenter. Mike Lockert, “the voice of Irish hockey” and Tom Nevala will bring you all the 22 #1/#1 Boston College W, 3-2 action both nights. Irish hockey can also be heard live via the internet at www.und.com. 29 * #15/#15 No. Michigan T, 1-1 (ot) 30 * #15/#15 No. Michigan L, 1-4 HAPPY HOLIDAYS: The Notre Dame hockey team takes a 20-day break for final exams and the NOVEMBER Christmas holidays following last weekend’s split with Michigan State. The Irish will spend the week of 4*at Bowling Green L, 1-3 5*Bowling Green T, 4-4 (ot) Dec. 12-17 taking finals. The players will get a chance to go home for the holidays from Sat., Dec. 18 12 * at Western Michigan T, 2-2 ot until Monday, Dec. 27 when they return for an 8:00 p.m. practice at the Joyce Center. The Irish icers will 13 * at Western Michigan W, 3-2 then ring in the New Year on Saturday, Jan. 1 when they play host to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 19 # U.S. Under-18 Team L, 2-7 (R.P.I.) Engineers in a 7:05 p.m. game. The two teams will meet again on Sunday, Jan. 2 at 5:05 p.m. to 26 * at Alaska Fairbanks W, 3-2 close out the series. Notre Dame finished the 2004 portion of the schedule with a 4-9-4 overall record 27 * at Alaska Fairbanks L, 2-3 and are tied for ninth in the CCHA with Western Michigan with a 3-8-3 league record. Rensselaer is 8- DECEMBER 9-2 overall and stands 2-5-1 in the ECAC Hockey League, good for 10th in the league standings. Fol- 3*at #5/#5 Michigan L, 1-6 lowing the R.P.I. series, the Irish will return to CCHA play when they travel to Lake Superior State on 4*#5/#5 Michigan L, 0-8 Jan. 7-8. 10 * Michigan State W, 3-2 (ot) 11 * at Michigan State L, 1-4 THE SERIES: Notre Dame and Rensselaer have SERIES INFORMATION met twice in the all-time series with both games vs. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute JANUARY being played in Troy, N.Y. as part of R.P.I’s an- 1 Rensselaer 7:05 p.m. All-Time Series: Engineers lead, 2-0-0 2 Rensselaer 5:05 p.m. nual Christmas Tournament. The Engineers have 7*at Lake Superior State 7:35 p.m. won both meetings. The first meeting came on At Notre Dame: First Meetings 8*at Lake Superior State 7:05 p.m. Dec. 29, 1988 in the first round of the tournament At Troy, N.Y.: Engineers lead, 2-0-0 14 * Ohio State 7:35 p.m. with R.P.I. taking a 6-0 victory. The last meeting Previous Meetings: 15 * Ohio State 7:05 p.m. came on Dec. 30, 2000 in the third-place game 18 $ vs. Michigan Tech 6:35 p.m. Dec. 29, 1988 at Rensselaer 6, ND 0 with the Engineers taking a 6-2 win from the Irish. 21 Wisconsin 8:05 p.m. Dec. 30, 2000 at Rensselaer 6, ND 2 22 @ vs. Wisconsin 7:05 p.m. 28 * at Bowling Green 7:05 p.m. HOME FOR CHRISTMAS: The Irish will not Both meetings came at the R.P.I. Christmas 29 * Bowling Green 7:05 p.m. be playing in a Christmas Tournament for the first Tournament in Troy, N.Y. time since the 2001-02 season this year. Last sea- FEBRUARY son, Notre Dame played in the Everblades Col- 4*Nebraska-Omaha 7:35 p.m. 5*Nebraska-Omaha 7:05 p.m. lege Hockey Classic in Estero, Fla., where the Irish finished third. During the 2002-03 season, the Irish 11 * Ferris State 7:35 p.m. competed in the Ledyard Bank Classic at Dartmouth where they finished in a third-place tie. In 2001-02, 12 * Ferris State 7:05 p.m. Notre Dame played a pair of games at Princeton following the Christmas holidays and then in 2000-01, 18 * %Michigan 8:05 p.m. the Irish were in R.P.I.’s tournament where they finished fourth. 19 * at Michigan 7:35 p.m. CENTURY MARK: Notre Dame head coach Dave Poulin needs one more win in CCHA play to reach MARCH 4*at Michigan State 7:05 p.m. the 100-win mark in league play. Now in his 10th season, Poulin is 99-133-39 in CCHA play. In all 5*Michigan State 7:05 p.m. games, the Irish head coach is 138-179-48. His 138 career wins rank second on the all-time list at Notre 11-13 First Round CCHA Playoffs TBA Dame behind “Lefty” Smith who has 307 wins behind the Irish bench. (Best two-of -three) 17 & CCHA Play-In Game TBA VERSUS RANKED TEAMS: Through the first 17 games of the 2004-05 season, Notre Dame has 18 & CCHA Semifinals TBA 19 & CCHA Championship Game TBA played nine contests versus teams ranked nationally. In those nine games, the Irish are 1-6-2. The lone win came against Boston College (Oct. 22) when the Eagles were ranked first in the nation. The ties Home Games in caps have come versus Minnesota-Duluth and Northern Michigan. Rankings - USA Today/USCHO # Exhibition Game IN ITALIC BUSY MONTH: Notre Dame’s series with Rensselaer opens a busy month for the Irish. During Janu- All Times Local To Site ary, Notre Dame will play 11 games, including a runs of four games in eight days and a five games in $ at Resch Center (Green Bay, Wis.) nine days. The Irish have only played 11 games in a month once in the program’s history - January of @ at Allstate Arena (Rosemont, Ill.) 1976 when they also played 11 games. Notre Dame was 5-5-1 in those 11 games. This season, the Irish % at Allen Co. War Memorial Coliseum (Fort play Rensselaer (Jan. 1 and 2), at Lake Superior (Jan. 7 and 8), home with Ohio State (Jan. 14 and 15), Wayne, Ind.) vs. Michigan Tech (at Green Bay, Wis., Jan. 18), home with Wisconsin (Jan. 21 and at Chicago on Jan. & at Joe Louis Arena (Detroit, Mich.) 22), at Bowling Green (Jan. 28) and home with the Falcons (Jan. 29). MICHIGAN STATE RECAP: Saturday, Dec. 11 - Michigan State’s Ash Goldie recorded his first career hat trick as the Spartans scored three times in the third period to snap a 1-1 tie on the way to a 4-1 over Notre Dame at Munn THE RENSSELAER SERIES GAME NOTES - January 1-2, 2005 A GAME NOTES - October 8, 2004 HEAD COACH DAVE POULIN Arena in East Lansing, Mich. Goldie scored two bound went to Amado who took a quick slapshot of his three goals in the third period (the hat trick from the left wing circle that beat Vicari. Notre Former National Hockey goal was into an empty net with 30 seconds left), Dame out shot Michigan State, 46-27 in the game. League star Dave Poulin is including the game winner with 6:38 left in the Vicari finished with 43 saves while Brown had 25 in his 10th season behind the game. Irish goaltender David Brown (So., Stoney in the Irish goal. Notre Dame bench. Going Creek, Ont.) kept the Irish in the game in the first into this weekend’s games period, making 18 saves in the opening stanza. Friday, Dec. 10, 2004 – at Notre Dame, Ind. versus Rensselaer, the 1982 Notre Dame broke a scoreless tie just 42 seconds 12 3 OT - F Notre Dame grad owns a into the second period on a power-play tally by Michigan State 1 1 0 0 - 2 138-179-46 (.444) career Josh Sciba (So., Westland, Mich.). Defenseman Notre Dame 1 0 1 1 - 3 record and a 99-133-38 Wes O’Neill’s (So., Essex, Ont.) shot from the 1st Period (.437) record in CCHA play. point was stopped by Dominic Vicari, but Sciba MSU - Colton Fretter 9 (Tyler Howells, Drew Miller), PPG, 11:29; Versus the Engineers, was there to tuck the rebound inside the right post ND - Mike Walsh 1 (Victor Oreskovich, Cory McLean), 18:57. Poulin is 0-1-0 versus R.P.I, dropping a 6-2 deci- 2nd Period for his fourth goal of the year.