Third-seed Miami led 3-0 by the middle of the first period and never looked back on its way to a 6-2 win over Notre Dame on Friday and their first championship game appearance since 2008.<\/p>\n
Andy Miele led Miami with two goals and two assists. Carter Camper had two goals and a helper, all in the first period. And Reilly Smith had three assists, with Cody Reichard stopping 25 shots in his 14th win of the season. <\/p>\n
“Obviously, a good first period for our team,” said Miami coach Enrico Blasi. “Our guys came out hard and with a purpose. We were fortunate on Carter’s first goal and we seemed to roll from there.”<\/p>\n
Notre Dame coach Jeff Jackson said that Miami’s “great performance” was too much for the Fighting Irish. “They put us on our heels at the beginning and we didn’t recover. I thought our team recovered a little bit in the second period, but when they scored the fifth goal, I thought that was pretty much it.” <\/p>\n
Miami made a statement with two goals a minute apart before the game was six minutes old. Camper scored at 4:52 on the power play on a pass from the corner by Miele and at 5:52, Bryon Paulazzo netted just his second of the season from Alden Hirschfeld. <\/p>\n
Miele said that the quick start served two purposes for the RedHawks: “It not only puts them on their heels but it gives us a lot of confidence. We kept on rolling after that. They’re a young team, and that’s where our experience comes in and we got the outcome we wanted.”<\/p>\n
Hirschfeld made it 3-0 at 9:47 on the second Miami power-play goal of the night and Camper capped the first period with his second goal — his 19th of the season — at 13:32, short-handed. Miami outshot Notre Dame 14-2 in the first.<\/p>\n
The Irish capitalized on a couple of chances in the second period and outshot the RedHawks for the remainder of the game. At 6:46 in the second, a power-play shot by T.J. Tynan ricocheted off the skate of Billy Maday in front of the Miami net and back past Reichard to make it 4-1. <\/p>\n
But at 12:01, Miele scored his first of the night — from the slot, on his knees, and almost face-down — to make it 5-1. Calle Ridderwall scored Notre Dame’s second goal at 18:05 in the second, but at that point, even Jackson thought it was too late.<\/p>\n
Miele’s second and 23rd of the season at 3:35 made it a 6-2 game and Notre Dame brought in Steven Summerhays to replace starting goalie Mike Johnson. <\/p>\n
“Their skill and speed forced us to turn a lot of pucks over,” said Jackson, “and you can’t do that against a team like that because they transition so well offensively and they’ve got so many great weapons. It was a lot about them, in my opinion.”<\/p>\n
“I thought our guys did a pretty good job for 60 minutes of limiting their chances,” said Blasi. “They’re a great team. They’re a high-scoring team. I knew in the second period they were going to get some chances. Cody came up big. I thought we did a real good job in the third period of limiting their chances. Good performance by our guys.”<\/p>\n
Video:<\/b> Miami’s Reilly Smith:<\/p>\n
httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pXJ-5EAksoY<\/p>\n
Video:<\/b> Miami’s Andy Miele:<\/p>\n
httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=phcYBcRrSZE<\/p>\n
Video:<\/b> Notre Dame’s T.J. Tynan:<\/p>\n
httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bOWSoAEW1io<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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