In just his second career start, Notre Dame freshman goalie David Brown turned aside 40 shots as his Fighting Irish (2-2-0, 2-2-0 CCHA) posted a 3-0 shutout win against the Bowling Green Falcons (1-3-0, 1-3-0 CCHA). Brown’s shutout is the earliest career shutout ever by an Irish goalie.<\/p>\n
“Brown was great tonight,” said Irish head coach Dave Poulin. “He made a couple of enormous saves when we needed them.”<\/p>\n
In a series which saw the losing team of each game outshoot the winning team 109-42, Saturday’s game was played straight-up, according to Poulin.<\/p>\n
“I thought the game seemed pretty even. I don’t really get caught up in shots,” he said.<\/p>\n
Bowling Green tried everything to put the puck in the net, but could not figure out Brown. Even a breakaway chance in the second period by forward Dana Hanson was turned aside.<\/p>\n
“I came across, stacked the pads and was able to pick [the puck] up,” Brown said of his stellar glove save. “[The save] really helped with the momentum. The crowd was getting into it at that point.”<\/p>\n
BG’s raucous opening-night crowd tried in vain to shake the freshman goalie, but to no avail.<\/p>\n
“There was a lot of energy tonight,” said Poulin. “I know this building well. I’ve seen as much energy in here as anybody has.”<\/p>\n
“It was a great atmosphere,” added Bowling Green coach Scott Paluch. “The fans and students did a good job of responding to us tonight.<\/p>\n
Mike Walsh opened the scoring for Notre Dame just 17 seconds into the game. He netted a goal, beating sophomore netminder Jordan Sigalet on the doorstep for an Irish lead. Cory McLean assisted on the goal.<\/p>\n
The Irish lit the lamp again at the 2:43 mark of the period as freshman Josh Sciba scored his first collegiate goal. Sciba, from the side of the net, tucked the shot in behind Sigalet for the 2-0 lead. Matt Williams-Kovacs and Rob Globke picked up the assists.<\/p>\n
“This was clearly not the way we wanted to start the hockey game,” said Paluch. “We stayed with things from a team standpoint, though. We did a lot of things very well. We were able to generate a lot of offense tonight.”<\/p>\n
“The start was everything,” said Poulin. “That changes the course of the game. Those two goals were really key.”<\/p>\n
After a scoreless second period, Globke added his fourth goal of the season 1:39 into the third, giving the Fighting Irish a 3-0 lead. Tim Wallace and Matt Amado assisted on Globke’s goal.<\/p>\n
Bowling Green outshot Notre Dame 40-17. Notre Dame was 0-for-6 on the power play while the Falcons ended up 0-for-7.<\/p>\n
The Falcons continue their homestand next week as they face Union College in nonconference action. Notre Dame heads east to face Boston College in a Saturday night game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In just his second career start, Notre Dame freshman goalie David Brown turned aside 40 shots as his Fighting Irish (2-2-0, 2-2-0 CCHA) posted a 3-0 shutout win against the Bowling Green Falcons (1-3-0, 1-3-0 CCHA). Brown’s shutout is the earliest career shutout ever by an Irish goalie. “Brown was great tonight,” said Irish head […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}