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Saturday, October 21, 2000

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The Northeastern Huskies took on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the second game of a two game road trip to South Bend, Indiana and attempted to even the series against their hosts at the Joyce Center.  The previous night the dogs were not able to hold onto a 2-0 first period lead and eventually fell to the Irish 6-4.  Unable to overcome the lead that Notre Dame had built up in the second period the night before, the Huskies needed to put the loss out of their minds and concentrate on defense in front of goalie Jason Braun in order to get back on the winning track.  They did just that and ran their record to 2-1-0.

Trevor Reschny opened the scoring at just 38 seconds of the first period as he beat Notre Dame goal tender Jeremiah Kimento on an assist from Brian Cummings to put the Huskies out in front 1-0.  Scott Selig scored his third of the season (in his third game) at 2:25 from Graig Mischler and Arik Engbrecht and suddenly the Huskies were in again in control of a 2-0 lead which they held through the end of the period.  The Ryan, Selig, Mischler line had notched its eleventh point of the season in only the third game; good news for those of us envious of the high scoring lines belonging to our cross-town rivals.

Connor Dunlop scored at 2:10 into the second period from Dan Carlson to get Notre Dame onto the scoreboard at 2-1.  Repeat of the previous night?  Northeastern started making miscues in the defensive end giving the Irish scoring opportunities and putting pressure on Braun.  However, Mike Ryan put the Huskies back out in front by two with his fourth goal of the season at 10:09 from Mischler and Jim Fahey to stifle the Notre Dame attack, even though the Irish had been out-shooting the Huskies by a margin of 21 to 14 by that point.  The Irish came back to within one goal at 13:20 with Dunlop's second goal of the game as a Notre Dame player screened screened Braun and the puck trickled in beneath his pads.  With the referee signaling for a penalty against the Huskies, they stopped playing before gaining control of the puck and allowed Notre Dame to score at 18:20 as David Inman scored his first of the game and tied the game at 3 goals each.  Notre Dame had been out-shooting the Huskies 27-16.

Mike Ryan scored yet again to continue his offensive prowess and give hope to the tiny crowd of NU fans who made the trip out west (yours' truly was not among them).  On a power play Arik Engbrecht put the puck on the net and drew the Irish defense allowing Ryan to step up and score on the rebound (Engbrecht and Selig) at 1:34 of the third period to put NU back out in front 4-3.  Okay, so the dogs had scored four goals in each of their first three games.  Northeastern had also started to even out the number of shots on net and generally play more aggressively.  At approximately 17:00 minutes of the third period, Willie Levesque had an opportunity to add the insurance goal for the Huskies, but Kimento robbed him with a tremendous save.  With 1:06 remaining in regulation, Globke took a 2-minute minor for holding giving NU a 4-3 man advantage.  Chris Lynch scored the back-breaker for Northeastern from Mischler and Engbrecht 10 seconds into the power play giving the Huskies a 5-3 lead.

Northeastern carried the play for the third period as demonstrated by the 17-9 advantage in shots to even it to 37-33 in favor of Notre Dame for the game.  The Huskies were able to do what Notre Dame had done the night before: score a crucial goal late in the game to deal the deal.  By salvaging a split with the Fighting Irish, the Huskies justify some of the lofty feelings inspired by their win over St. Lawrence.  This team came back from the adversity of losing the lead and game a night earlier.

Next, the Huskies must travel to UMass-Lowell Friday, October 27 as they play at Lowell's Taxpayer Financed Paul Tsongas Arena. They Huskies had a 1-2-0 record against the Riverhawks last season, but they need to be able to beat Lowell and get their first win in they new Lowell building.  They return to Historic Matthews Arena against Wisconsin October 28.

Let's go Huskies!