NOTRE DAME, Ind. – The No. 18 Irish hockey program earned the weekend split against third-ranked Michigan with a 3-2 overtime victory Saturday night. Trailing by two goals at the end of the first period, the University of Notre Dame battled back to score three unanswered goals in the win.
Mirroring the same start as night one, the Irish found themselves trailing early as the Wolverines jumped out to a 1-0 lead just 3:32 into the contest. The visiting Maize and Blue scored off a rebound at 3:32 of the first period after Notre Dame had controlled possession through the first few minutes of play.
The Wolverines would get one more late in the period, beating Bischel glove side on the powerplay.
After successfully killing off two penalties early in the second stanza, the Irish broke their scoreless drought with a goal at 10:55 of the period from Tyler Carpenter.
With less than a minute on the clock for the second, Nick Leivermann’s shot found Chayse Primeau on the doorstep for the game-tying goal as the two teams headed to the locker room deadlocked, 2-2.
Registering just six shots on goal in the second frame, the Irish opened the final period of regulation ripping off four shots in the first 90 seconds of action but were unable to break Michigan’s netminder Erik Portillo.
The two sides continued to trade chances through a physical third period with the Irish outshooting their opposition, 13-9, in the last 20 minutes of regulation hockey. Leivermann had Notre Dame’s best chance to score late, carrying the puck in deep for a wraparound shot with under two minutes to play but the Wolverine goaltender quickly covered the puck before it could cross the line and the teams ended the third still tied up.
It took the Irish 2:26 seconds of overtime to find the game-winner when Grant Silianoff played hero for the Blue and Gold, trickling a shot through the five hole of Portillo just under halfway through the extra session.
GOALS
- Tyler Carpenter net his first of the season to get the Irish on the board halfway through the contest. Niko Jovanovic found Jack Adams on the rush who carried it in. In his first game back, Adams found Carpenter open atop the crease who buried his shot to make it a 2-1 game. With the second assist on the goal, Jovanovic tallied his first collegiate point.
- The Irish tied it up at 19:23 of the second when a shot by Nick Leivermann was redirected by Chayse Primeau on the doorstep. The powerplay tally was set up by Jackson…