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Friday, October 20, 2000
| Notre Dame | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| Northeastern | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
The Huskies' record fell to 1-1-0 as they traveled to South Bend, Indiana to take on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish (2-2-1) in a two game series. It was the first time that the Huskies had been to Notre Dame since their only other trip in 1970.
The Huskies took a two goal lead against the Irish in the first period. The first goal came from Scott Selig as he scored his second of the season from Graig Mischler and Mike Ryan at 4:50. The goal was the fifth of the season for the Selig, Mischler, Ryan line which did the only scoring against St. Lawrence in the season opener a week earlier. The dogs seemed to hold a territorial advantage over the Irish, who were held scoreless in the first period. Trevor Reschney put the dogs up 2-0 at 19:50 with an assist to Rich Spiller. The Huskies went into the locker room with great momentum and an opportunity to put away the Irish, one of the better teams in Division I.
The Irish would have none of it. Notre Dame came storming back in the second period and answered the Huskies by putting up five goals in the second and all but sealing the win. Ryan Dolder scored two goals 19-seconds apart to tie the game. The first came at 2:34 from David Inman and Dan Carlson. The second came at 2:53 from Aaron Gill and Brett Henning. The Huskies took a 3-2 lead at 7:52 when Chris Lynch scored on an assist from Jim Fahey. Then Notre Dame took control. Connor Dunlop (from Rob Globke, Dan Carlson) at 8:35; David Inman (from Paul Harris) at 13:15; and Chad Chipcase (from Evan Nielsen) at 13:47 put the Fighting Irish up for good. At 14:56, Willie Levesque (from Fahey and Lynch) made things closer and got the Huskies to within 5-4.
According to the play-by-play analysis proffered by WRBB (by the way, good job on covering the game guys) Notre Dame coach Dave Poulin (former Philadelphia Flyer and Boston Bruin) sent his defensemen in on the Northeastern net and created chaos in front of Mike Gilhooly.
In the third period speculation over who Bruce Crowder would keep in net for the final stanza was answered when the coach showed confidence in Gilhooly and left him in net. However, the Huskies were unable to come back in the third. Graig Mischler did have a chance to tie the game when his shot rang off the crossbar. But Notre Dame added insurance at 18:07 when Chad Chipcase (from Jake Wiegand, John Wroblewski).
The dogs get another chance at Notre Dame in Game two Saturday, October 21, 2000, at the Joyce Center. Let's go Huskies!
