3/12/2022 – Michigan 2, Notre Dame 1 – 28-9-1 (16-0-5-3 B1G) Hockey is a sport where the flow of the game hinges on energy level. Brian called basketball "a game of runs" in a column last year, and I don't think hockey is dissimilar. The only twist is that because hockey is such a low scoring sport, the best way you can tell who is in the midst of a "run" is through watching the game. That, or tracking shot attempts on a minute by minute basis. One team will start racking up the chances, then they commit a penalty, and suddenly the other team gets a power play, and they also get the opportunity to go on a run after it ends, even if they don't score on it. Those runs are driven by energy level, when one team's skaters just have a little more jump in their step than those on the opposing team. They start winning more puck battles, look more tenacious on the walls, and seem a bit faster on the rush. When the other team is strangling your team, it&#
2/25/2022 – Notre Dame 4, Michigan 1 – 25-8-1 (16-4-0-3 B1G) 2/26/2022 – Notre Dame 2, Michigan 1 – 25-9-1 (16-5-0-3 B1G) Playing Notre Dame in hockey is a decent microcosm of what it's like to play any team in the NCAA Hockey Tournament. In my five years covering the Michigan hockey team, one thing has always been true about playing Notre Dame: you have to get the first goal in order to have a good chance of winning. If you get the first goal, you force Notre Dame to open it up. They have to send defensemen up in the neutral zone, they have to be more aggressive pinching at the point in the offensive zone, and thus are more exposed to the sorts of 3v3 entries or even odd-man rushes that Michigan has become so reliant on as Mel Pearson has built his roster exclusively around NHL caliber talent. If you score first, your probability of scoring 3 or 4 on the Irish goes up considerably. If you don't score first, your chance of scoring 3 or 4 plummets like a couch thro
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