![]() ![]() Umberger (16) for first in the CCHA (he is tied third in the latest NCAA national goalscoring rankings, with 1.50 goals per game) … Globke now has five multiple-goal games this season and 10 in his ND career. GLOBKE CLAIMS CCHA GOALSCORING LEAD: Junior LW Rob Globke’s two goals in the 5-3 win at UNO give him 17 for the season, edging ahead of Ohio State’s R.J. That left the Irish as the third-highest seed still in action and set off a celebration in the lockerroom – as Notre Dame stunningly was headed to Joe Louis Arena for the CCHA semifinals. 8 seed) two days later in the “play-in game” – but 7th-seeded UNO matched BG with its own upset (UNO beat #4 NMU in three games while BG had swept two at #3 LSSU). 5 seed that season and likely still had to face upstart Bowling Green (No. The Irish won the first game (4-3) but had to regroup after a 6-1 loss, winning the decisive third game by a 4-2 count. The second game of the 1999-2000 series was played at Van Andel Arena while the last 10 games of the series all have taken place at the Notre Dame Joyce Center.įRESHMAN MEMORIES: Three of the meetings in the strange 10-game stretch of consecutive ND-FSU Joyce Center matchups came in a 2000 CCHA first-round playoff series (under the old 10-team postseason format), when the current seniors were freshmen. 23, 1999 (a 5-3 FSU win), the Irish have not made a visit to Ewigleben (due to the change in scheduling format and neutral-site games). HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE IT?: The Notre Dame hockey team is making its first visit to the Ferris State campus since early in the 1999-2000 season, just five games into the freshman season of the current senior class. The second-leading goalscorer on the current Irish squad, sophomore Yan Stastny, has played in just one of four previous ND-FSU games his career (with no points). ![]() Ferris State during the past three seasons (due to the World Juniors his freshman year and a game DQ last season). Junior Rob Globke – currently the CCHA’s leading goalscorer – has totaled just one goal and no assists while playing only three of six games vs. For more information on the Bulldogs, see STRANGE SERIES: Many aspects of the ND-FSU series present some unique scoring combinations, as current Irish defensemen have accounted for a large portion of the goals and assists in recent games between the teams (see chart). Mike Brown – a CCHA all-rookie team pick last season – narrowly trails Ohio State’s Mike Betz atop the CCHA overall goals-against average charts (2.16 to 2.10) but it the league’s runaway leader in save percentage (.928). Sophomore Jeff League (14G-14A) checks in as the CCHA’s third-leading overall scorer while his classmate Derek Nesbitt is seventh (7G-18A). ![]() Senior Chris Kunitz ranks third in the nation for points per game (1.90 14G-24A) and at +22 is one of five FSU players who sit atop the CCHA plus-minus charts. The Bulldogs lead all CCHA teams with 4.65 overall goals per game (second with 2.15 goals allowed/gm) while both FSU specialty-team units rank third among the conference’s teams (25.3% power-play, 86.2% penalty-kill). FSU’s formula for winning includes often dominating goal differentials (+50 in 20 games this season), most recently a 15-2 margin in two non-conference wins over Niagara last week. SCOUTING THE BULLDOGS: Ferris State is one of the nation’s biggest surprises thus far in 2002-03, after being picked to finish ninth in the CCHA preseason polls. The Irish – who have son three of their last four CCHA games – took a three-game winning streak into holiday tournament action but dropped a 6-4 game to host Dartmouth and skated to a 3-3 tie with Vermont, at the Ledyard National Bank Tournament (that followed a 14-day break for finals and the Christmas holiday). Ferris State – a 2002-03 CCHA “cluster partner of ND, Bowling Green and Western Michigan – posted a pair of three-goal decisions at Notre Dame on Oct. The Irish – who split a pair of 5-3 games last week at Nebraska-Omaha – are slotted sixth in the tightly-bunched CCHA standings, as five points separate third-place Michigan and co-8th-place teams WMU and UNO. ROAD ROLLS ON: The Notre Dame hockey team (9-8-3, 7-7-0 CCHA) concludes its seven-game road stretch this week with a challenging series at CCHA frontrunner and #11-ranked Ferris State (15-5-0, 10-2-0 CCHA), with the games slated for Jan. ![]()
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