MONDAY 10: Wisconsin sweeps Notre Dame to sit atop B1G standings, Stavroff pops four goals for Dartmouth, Northern Michigan gets win No. 1

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Nine different players scored to lead Wisconsin to a 9-2 victory at Notre Dame on Saturday at Compton Family Ice Arena (photo: Kali Mick).

Each week, USCHO.com picks the top 10 moments from the past weekend in our Monday 10 feature.

1. Badgers on top

After coming from behind to win 7-4 in Notre Dame Friday, Wisconsin punished the Fighting Irish Saturday in a 9-2 rout that saw nine different Badgers notch a goal.

Ryan Botterill had the goal that finally put Wisconsin ahead at 2:26 in the third period Friday night.

With the win and Michigan’s loss in East Lansing Saturday, Wisconsin climbed to the top spot in the Big Ten standings – a long way from where the Badgers were in their sixth-place finish a year ago. Wisconsin’s 12-2-2 first half is their best opener since their 13-1-2 start in 2005-06.

And that 16-goal performance is a quarter of all conference goals (64) Wisconsin scored in 2024-25.

2. Hayden Stavroff, a one-man wrecking ball

With two games to go before the midseason break, Dartmouth remains college hockey’s only undefeated team and Hayden Stavroff is a big part of the reason for that.

Stavroff scored four times in Dartmouth’s 7-3 win over Brown Friday and twice again the Big Green’s 6-1 win over Yale Saturday, finishing the weekend with a total of nine points (6-3-9).

His sixth of the weekend came at 1:10 in the second period Saturday, on the power play.

Friday’s hat trick was the second of the season for Stavroff, who has 13 goals in 10 games and leads nation in goals (1.22) and points per game (1.78). The 10-0-0 Big Green have the second-best (4.56) offense in the nation, a hair behind Michigan (5.00).

3. A phantom hat trick is still a hat trick

While Hayden Stavroff was busy collecting four goals in Dartmouth’s 7-3 win over Brown Friday, someone on the other bench was doing all he could to keep his team in the game.

Brown sophomore Andrew King notched his first career hat trick – his first career goals – when he scored all three Bears’ goals. King scored at 2:54 in the first to give Brown a 1-0 lead and then made it a 2-2 game at 17:10 in the first with his second of the game.

At 4:01 in the third, King made it 6-3.

The goals came in King’s 24th career game.

4. Finally, a win for Northern Michigan

After starting the season 0-16-0, Northern Michigan earned its first win of the season on the road against Bowling Green, a 3-2 decision that almost slipped away in the third.

Girts Silkalns, a junior transfer from UMass Lowell, scored his first as a Wildcat at 2:01 of the third, giving Northern a 3-0 lead.

Bowling Green came back with two goals, making Silkalns’ tally the game-winner.

The Wildcats lost to the Falcons 4-3 in overtime Saturday, giving Northern Michigan four of six points in the series.

5. Mercyhurst, though, is still waiting

Mercyhurst lost 4-1 on the road to Holy Cross Saturday, which means that the Lakers are the last remaining DI men’s team that has yet to win a game this season.

Freshman Francesco Iasenza scored first career goal 4:09 in the second to tie the game 1-1.

The Lakers – the most penalized team in the nation – took eight penalties in the game, which is close to what they average (7.81). Although they allowed no power-play goals in the contest, their penalty kill (63.27%) is last in the country.

Saturday’s loss closes out the first half for Mercyhurst (0-9-1, 0-15-1 AHA). The Lakers start the second half with a road series against North Dakota.

6. Niagara delivers Bentley its first conference loss

With a 3-1 win over Bentley Friday night, Niagara did what no other Atlantic Hockey team has been able to do this season – beat Bentley.

Lane Brockhoff had the game-winning goal at 11:11 in the third period. It was Brockhoff’s third goal of the season and his second game-winner.

It was Niagara’s fourth conference win of the season and Bentley’s first conference loss.

Bentley (8-1-1, 9-6-1 overall) earned a split with a 3-2 win Saturday, putting the Falcons one point behind Holy Cross (8-1-1, 10-6-1 overall) at the top of the AHA standings.

7. Now that’s the way to introduce yourself to your archrivals

In Michigan’s 3-0 win road win over Michigan State Friday, three Wolverines in their first-ever games against their archrival accounted for all three goals, and a freshman goaltender picked up his first win against the Spartans.

When the home-and-home series moved to Ann Arbor Saturday, two Spartan rookies accounted for all three goals in Michigan State’s 3-1 win.

It began with freshman Malcolm Spence’s goal at 5:17 in the first period Friday.

Freshman Aidan Park made it 2-0 at 10:09 in the second. At 16:30 in the third, Jayden Perron – a junior transfer from North Dakota – made it 3-0.

First-year goaltender Jack Ivankovic had 23 saves in his third shutout of the season.

Two rookies returned the scoring favor Saturday night. Anthony Romani scored at 18:44 in the second to tie the game 1-1 and had that game-winning goal at 1:44 in the third. Porter Malone hit the empty net at 18:51. Junior Trey Augustine made 30 saves in the win.

8. The traveling man gets the OT game-winner for Western

William Whitelaw spent his freshman season playing for Wisconsin and his sophomore year with Michigan. The junior looks at home in a Western Michigan uniform this season, especially when scoring game-winning goals.

Whitelaw bagged the winner for the Bronco’s in their 3-2 overtime win against visiting Minnesota Duluth.

The goal was Whitelaw’s ninth goal in his 16th game, his third game-winner of the season. He had 10 goals in 36 games as a Badger and 11 in 35 as a Wolverine.

The come-from-behind win earned the Broncos a split with the Bulldogs after Minnesota Duluth’s 4-1 win Friday. Both teams are now 6-4-0 in NCHC play. The Bulldogs sit in third place with 18 points, the Broncos a point behind them in fourth.

9. New Hampshire earns a rare road sweep of Maine

When New Hampshire sophomore defenseman Josh Player scored at 11:59 in the second period of the second game of the Wildcats’ road series against Maine Saturday night, he did three things at once.

It was Player’s first goal, his first collegiate point and held up as the game-winning goal to secure New Hampshire first sweep in Alfond Arena since 2008.

The Wildcats won that game 3-2 after shutting out the Black Bears, 1-0, Friday night. Kyle Chauvette, a senior transfer from Union, had 21 saves Friday for his third shutout of the season.

10. There may be no tougher job right now than in Brown’s net

Brown dropped two 7-3 conference games on the weekend, a Friday loss to Dartmouth and a loss Saturday to Harvard. Tyler Shea and Freddie Halyk each started a game, each relieved the other and each got a workout.

In his start Friday, Shea surrendered five goals on 24 shots through the first 31:22 of the game, earning him the loss. In relief, Halyk played 28:01 minutes and gave up two goals on 17 shots.

Halyk started Saturday and played 28 minutes, allowing five goals on 16 shots, giving him the loss. In the final 33 minutes of that game, Shea stopped 33-of-35 for a .943 save percentage. Harvard outshot Brown 23-7 in the final period of the game.

For the weekend, Brown was outshot 92-38, with Dartmouth putting up 51 shots on the Big Green goaltenders.

Opponents are outscoring the Bears by 1.27 goals per game on average. Brown is 57th for offense nationally (2.09) and 45th (3.36) for defense.

Someone get Shea and Halyk a spa day.