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Notre Dame’s Cale Morris is 9-7-1 this season with a 2.30 GAA, a .926 save percentage and a pair of shutouts\u00a0 (photo: Omar Phillips).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notre Dame was riding a 16-game winning streak when the Fighting Irish met Wisconsin at Chicago\u2019s United Center last January.<\/p>\n

No such luck for the Irish this year.<\/p>\n

This time around, they are coming off of being swept at home by Minnesota. The Badgers and Irish will play in Madison on Friday before playing in Chicago on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Last Saturday\u2019s loss was a heartbreaker for Notre Dame. Minnesota\u2019s Blake McLaughlin broke a 1-1 tie with eight seconds left in the third period to give the Gophers the win.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a tough loss, obviously the way it happened with eight seconds left,\u201d Notre Dame coach Jeff Jackson said. \u201cIt was kind of reminiscent about the way we were winning a lot last year. The tables have kind of turned right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

As things stand, the Irish have a 12-8-1 record. They\u2019re tied for 14th in the PairWise and are sixth in the Big Ten \u2014 one point behind the Badgers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we played well Saturday night — we could have very easily won that game,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a fluky situation late in the game. We had some bad changes in the game. I think some of that is the pressure of adversity. We\u2019ve got a younger team, probably almost half of our team are freshmen, so it\u2019s a maturity thing, too.”<\/p>\n

Notre Dame lost multiple quality players from last year\u2019s Frozen Four team. Jackson said that fact, plus some nagging injuries, has made for tougher sledding this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust getting over the hump as far as dealing with the pressure of adversity, you know, like tightening up on the stick trying to score goals or making mistakes with line changes,\u201d he said. \u201cSome of it is guys trying to do too much and that\u2019s sometimes what happens when you get into a bit of a tough stretch. We\u2019ll work our way out of it. We\u2019ve got to get healthy first, that\u2019s got to be the first priority. You can\u2019t lose two or three of your top scorers and expect to be consistent.\u201d<\/p>\n

There has been inconsistency in net, too, as crazy as that statement sounds after Cale Morris\u2019 stellar season last year. Morris went 27-8-1 with a 1.94 GAA as a sophomore. This year, he owns a 9-7-1 record and a 2.30 GAA. Jackson gave sophomore Dylan St. Cyr the net on Saturday against the Gophers.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery goalie has these moments,\u201d Jackson said of Morris. \u201cHe\u2019s a mature kid, and he\u2019ll get it back on track, hopefully sooner than later. He\u2019s still making the majority of the saves, but we got accustomed to him making a lot of great saves. He\u2019ll be back at it — it\u2019s just the matter of how long it takes him to get out of this.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just like a pitcher in baseball. They all go through it, and our team\u2019s going through that as well right now. We can\u2019t feel sorry for ourselves, we\u2019ve just got to get back on the horse and go right back at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Notre Dame\u2019s special-teams units are still looking to get on track with the new faces in new places, too. Last season, its power play converted 23.66 percent of the time and the penalty kill finished the season with an 89.43 percent success rate. This season, the Irish\u2019s power play has a 16.88 percent success rate and the penalty kill stands at 81.16 percent. Both rankings put the Irish near the middle of the pack nationally. The saving grace is that they average the second-fewest penalty minutes per contest.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still haven\u2019t gotten the results that we want, yet,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cThe big thing is you lose your top two penalty killers from last year up front and your top two penalty killers on the back end and the same thing applies to the power play. You lose your whole first unit, it\u2019s always a challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery team goes through it. I\u2019m not feeling sorry for ourselves, but we need some of our young guys to step up and be more productive players on the power play and also to step forward and be good penalty killers. It\u2019s a learning process for the young kids, and I\u2019m sure in time some of the guys will fill those open vacancies and grab ahold of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Badgers ended Notre Dame\u2019s winning streak with a resounding 5-0 win at United Center last season. This year, the Irish will be hoping for better fortunes. This is the second of a two-year agreement for the two teams to play at the Chicago arena, but Jackson said he wouldn\u2019t mind seeing it become a tradition.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something that we\u2019ve been wanting to do for several years with Wisconsin,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s halfway between both of our campuses, a little closer to us, but both teams recruit heavily in Illinois and the Chicago area and both teams have a tremendous alumni base in the area. We\u2019re going to try and continue to do it, or maybe take a year off and then do it again. It\u2019s good for our program and I\u2019m sure (Wisconsin coach) Tony (Granato) feels the same way, to play in big venues and get prepared for the NCAA tournament and that type of atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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