The Notre Dame Fighting Irish opened the 2002-03 season with an offensive explosion at the Joyce Center as they knocked of the University of Toronto 8-1 in front of a crowd of 2,367.<\/p>\n
Freshman center Matt Amado scored twice in the game with six others getting single goals in the seven-goal victory. The Irish broke the game open in the third period when they fired 31 shots on two Toronto goaltenders.<\/p>\n
After a scoreless first period, Notre Dame broke through on Blues’ goaltender Jamie Bruno when Amado cashed in on a two-on-one with defenseman Tom Galvin at 11:24.<\/p>\n
The Irish improved the lead to 3-0 with a pair of goals 29 seconds apart. Rob Globke made it 2-0 when he ripped a feed from Connor Dunlop under the crossbar at 15:04. Defenseman Joe Zurenko made it 3-0 at 15:33 when he tucked the rebound of Aaron Gill’s shot under Bruno’s pads for the final goal of the third period.<\/p>\n
The third period was all Irish as they ran off five unanswered goals to build an 8-0 lead. John Wroblewski (1:15), Dunlop (2:34) and Cory McLean (3:14) scored three goals in a 1:59 span to chase Bruno from the Toronto goal as the lead went to 6-0. Dunlop’s goal was the lone power-play goal of the game.<\/p>\n
Amado greeted backup goaltender Tim Knight with his second goal of the game at 6:17 and Jake Wiegand closed out the scoring 41 seconds later when his wrist shot from the top of the left wing circle beat Knight to the far post.<\/p>\n
Toronto broke the shutout at 7:48 when Scott Johnson’s shot was stopped by Tony Zasowski in the Irish goal and deflected off a Notre Dame defenseman into the cage for the final of 8-1.<\/p>\n
On the night, the Irish outshot Toronto 61-25. Morgan Cey got the win in goal making 16 saves over the first two periods. Zasowski made eight saves in the final stanza.<\/p>\n
Bruno surrendered six goals in 43:14 while making 32 saves. Knight gave up two Irish goals while stopping 21 shots in the final 16:46.<\/p>\n
The Irish now begin preparations for their season opener on Friday, Oct. 11 when they travel to Duluth, Minn., to meet the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs in a two-game weekend series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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