Michigan vs Notre Dame | NCAA College Hockey | Highlights - March 11, 2026

As we are underway, postseason hockey is here and Notre Dame will... Notre Dame, Mazzotti just trying to send it ahead. Robertson will get pinned against the board up in front of the net. Almost had a shot there. Way back, Slager adding a bit of pressure. That one taken away. Notre Dame trying to find anything. Femis sends a shot, that one goes to Belin Jovanovic or two chasing. Perron will come up with it, he'll just try and send it out. Korkov is there. Pressure from Robertson will send it all the way up to Schiffski. Schiffski has two guys in the middle. Ernest, he was there. Really good deflection by Notre Dame. That one sent in front. Draper can't get a clean look at it. Muscat the freshman comes in and deflects it. Korkov has it behind the net looking for someone in the middle. He'll change it all the way over to Duke. Duke looking for something in the middle. That one deflected. Good pressure from Hage. Hage finds Raymond Mullen, weak side, and he loses it. Had a chance there, just lost off on the wall by Moldenhauer, but eventually knocked back out. Fisher trying to change. Robertson gets there. Werner with a shot, no good. The former Wolverine gets saved by Ivankovic. Dump it to McKinney. McKinney flashing in. He'll look weak side. Does find Korkov in the middle, but can't control it. Good knock by Notre Dame. Kumlin was the one that got it. Now here is Nelson. Nelson, his shot goes up. Good save. Notre Dame just looking to get rid of it. Nelson will eventually do so. Now Dashall Oliver has a chance. Two on one. He'll take it himself. Tries to beat Duke. Ends up just having to turn around. Fantilli will get it behind the net. Blocked on the outside. Now Mission going the other way. Perron has Hughes. He'll take it himself and scores! Jaden Perron takes it himself. One-nothing lead for the Wolverines. Jaden Perron. My gosh. That's a beautiful goal right there. I mean, he's one of those, I would say, unsung heroes of the Wolverines. It's so hard to really make yourself stand out on a line with such great players like, you know, he has TJ Hughes on his line. And so he does it, though. And I feel like he's been one of the most improved over the season. With a chance. Werner jumping off to Mazzotti. And that one no good. Puck kind of sitting behind the net. And Majercev is there to receive it. Trying to find Ali in the middle. That one ends up in the stick. Majercev with a clean shot. Good save. There goes a Schock. Schock pushing to Moldenhauer. Moldenhauer back to Schock. Schock tries to find it. And good defense by Kumlan to block McKinney out. McKinney had a chance there. This is a little too far ahead of it. Kevin Werner will lose his stick as he goes into the Michigan zone. And now send it down. Fisher and Hughes fighting for it. Cron will be the one that comes up with it. Looking out to Barnett. And Barnett sends all the way over to Rayo Mullin. Rayo Mullin, good glove save from Kemp. Yeah, Kemp having an 89% save percentage coming into this game. And a 3.5% in the country can do. Hughes will send it all the way over. Hughes can't find a clean shot. Looking for Horkoff in the middle. He'll give it to him. That one's saved by Kumlan. And Spence tried to get around. But that one will be whistled dead. A little bit of an early whistle there. It wasn't quite covered up yet. But, you know, a good attempt there by Michigan. It really seemed like they were on top of it. They were looking to pass and then make a good shot. High by Moldenhauer. Robertson up to Rayo Mullin again. Back to Robertson. Robertson in the middle. A little tic-tac-toe to Park. Park can't get a clean, super clean shot off that one. So that one will be covered up by Kemp. Good passing, though, from the Wolverines. Yeah, I would agree. A couple of sticks on Park's stick. Preventing it from really getting a good velocity on that puck. Yeah, you can see Master Domenico, especially on the left there, was able to get his stick in. Kind of prevented Ducal control. And that will do it for this first period. Jaden Perron, the only player to add any damage on the scoring card. It's now Michigan again with the 1-0 lead. Second period is about to get underway between this faceoff. That one is sent out. Almost looked like a good stick save from Ivankovic. Both goalies shining here early. Another shot in. Glove save from Ivankovic. Yeah, two shots right off the bat right there. I mean, Evan Warner has done really well so far in this game. I would say he's one. Bemis can't quite get it. Earnesty will take it himself. That one goes a little bit high. Goes up into the net. That one kind of goes right above the head of Kemp. Good opportunity from Earnesty. Yeah, already seeing a lot of. 2-0 lead over Minnesota. And Penn State 3-1 in the regular season against them. That shot from Barnett really went off Valentini. Oliver can't quite get it. And so now Valentini dumps it off to Hage. Hage takes it himself. Almost gets there. First real chance we've seen from Notre Dame so far this period. Google trying to dump it off to Mazzotti. And that one just stolen right away. And here comes Shipski. He'll break off to the right side. That shot goes just wide. Earnesty will send it in and scores. Using the back of his stick, he sends it right behind Kemp on the rebound. And they're excited about that one. I don't know if they expected that one to go in. I didn't expect that one to go in at all. But, you know, that just proves that if you throw anything at the net, eventually something can make its way through a pocket. And that's what happened with Earnesty. Almost looked like he was crossing it in for maybe somebody that wasn't even there. But it just kind of slid right behind Kemp. And I know he's kind of beating himself up about that one because he's played it phenomenal. Almost with the redirect at the net front. Now Fleming will take it the other way for Notre Dame. He'll send a shot. Good save by Ivankovic. And he gets run into. We've seen a little bit of this chippiness early. But, I mean, that's the second time now in the last two meetings between these two teams that a Notre Dame player is sent flying into Ivankovic. Now children of Yost showing their disapproval. Yeah, they're not happy about that one, especially after that same type of situation took Ivankovic out for three series. I mean, that's just a guaranteed fighting situation right there if you come barreling into a goalie. And Ivankovic is still down. Slagert, who was the one that ran into Ivankovic, has also not stood back up on his skates receiving many choice words, I'm sure, from McKinney and Horkov. Bemis and Barnett are also chat shot off. Back to park on the left. Back over to Moldenhauer. Moldenhauer looking for something. He'll take it all the way around. Rayo Mullen with the shot. That one deflected by Danny Nelson. And that one will go all the way up. And Kemp kind of lost his stick there. But Man City, Michigan really having a ton of shots, but Notre Dame doing an even better job. I mean, I think all thanks to Kemp and that right now. He's doing a phenomenal job despite, you know, letting in two goals. He's really... Now Panofimis will take it in. He'll just shoot it himself right in the chest of Ivankovic. First time he's been challenged. Notre Dame, a strategy of note, as now they have a chance on the break. That one, Perron gets in the way of the... Perron down to Hage. Michael Hage surveying to Hughes. Hughes tries to find the five hole. Kemp able to cover it up. A little over a minute remaining here in this power play. His third kill from Michigan and beyond their own power play, kind of like Jaden had said, they have their own special way of doing power plays and they just can't get it happening right now. Hughes send it over to Hage. Hughes back with it at the point. Send it down to Hage. That one redirected by Perron. Gets the rebound and scores! Catches Kemp off balance after that initial shot. He finds the back of the net for his second goal of the night. What I really like about Perron's goals is they're very, very meticulously placed. He finds a way, despite the chaos, to place his puck where he wants to put it. That one was also lifted up as soon as he saw Kemp on the ice. He's like, okay, I'm going to get it right above his shoulder. And the one right before that that he also got, same situation. He finds where that space is and he places it there. Sometimes you get lucky with some goals and you kind of throw them at the net and you can just get it. But that's what makes a great hockey player is despite the chaos, you're able to place the puck where you want it. Robertson tried to send one in. Now Musket will have it at the point. McKinney looks for a deflection. That one covered up. A minute 30 left in this second period. Notre Dame with a chance. Knubel will send it in. That one goes wide. A stick is loose. It's slammed by Fantilli. Now Michigan with the break. Perron, two on one with Hughes. Perron looking to pass. Takes it himself. Good save by Kemp. Knocked all the way up in the air. Master Domenico is able. You know, he'll probably use that. That'll do it for the second period. Again, 5-2 was the score heading into the third period. They have 45 goals against them in the first period and even more in the second. Normally they don't have very many in the third. So they're a second half team and even. From the children of Yost proving just how energetic this team can be. A shot there from Mazzotti almost found the back of the net. Had really good positioning on the pass from Brown. Back up top. Notre Dame pressuring here early. Brown in the middle. Michigan wins it yet again. Schock looking for anything. They'll send it right into the stomach of Kemp. While in time we'll trade over to the left. Yeah, shots like that nine times out of ten probably are not. Now Schermerhorn will take it across the blue line. Schermerhorn trying to find. Unable to get there. Now it's going against Barnett. Fisher will find Jersive. That's Jovanovich. Domenico and that one goes past. Domenico finds Knubel in the middle and that one goes past Ivankovic. But doesn't go in the back of the net. Now here's Femis with it. Femis shoots at Oliver just trying to get out of the way. Trying to find Oliver again in the middle. That hit by Knubel gets back on his feet. And Duke nearly scores an own goal. But now have a little bit of a tussle by the goal. Knubel seemed heated for some reason after that. Duke was just trying to get all these. It's the major and will continue after that. Kron looking for a hat trick. Dump it off to Horkoff. Horkoff alone blocked by Kemp. Page looks for Horkoff weak side. The lefty shoots in. Oh, hits the top left corner of the post. Another save from Kemp. TJ Hughes with the shot right into the stomach. And Horkoff centimeters away from adding the fourth goal tonight. Hitting that top left corner. And then Kemp able to come up with a save right after. Let's take a look. Sound is one that a goalie turns around and kisses the post floor. Aiden Park trying to deflect it. Now Mazzotti will just take it himself. That one's saved by Ivankovic. That one's sent a little bit high. Page has it still. Page will send it. Great save by Kemp. Spence over to Hage. Hage trying to find someone in the middle. Spence. Good save by Kemp. Kemp doing an incredible job in the last couple seconds here. Horkoff. Another one slides through the five hole. Will Horkoff scores the power play goal with ten seconds remaining in the five on four. And we said it. Will Horkoff in a little bit of a slump for him, for his sake. Because he was one of the fastest players in school history, program history, to reach 20 goals. And then after that just kind of slowed down a little bit. But I think this kind of ignited a little bit in him. Because what a goal. I mean, it just went right through there. And you can't help but feel bad for Kemp. Here for the Fighting Irish. They need about a goal a minute to send this one to overtime. Yeah, empty netter. That's something that Brock Sheehan had talked about when we had talked to him. He said that's like the last thing they want. But they've had 11 or 12 empty netters is what he said on the season, which is one of the worst he's seen in his time with Notre Dame. But he does it when he needs to. And this is the moment he's decided to do it. Oh, and there goes a shot from Werners deflected into the back of the net. And just like that, the empty net comes up with Notre Dame's first goal of the evening. That'll put this game at 4-1. Make things a little bit more interesting. Kemp will return to the goal. It's almost like I called it. I said if anybody on Notre Dame was going to score against the Wolverines, it was going to be Werner, the ex-Wolverine. And he just needed to place that shot. And that's what he did. He'll be happy as long as his team comes out with a win. He's been sensational in net tonight. 24 shots, only one allowed in, and that was on an effective 6-on-5 with the empty net. That one was sent all the way down, and he scores! Empty net goal! Michigan will take a 5-1 lead with 2.45 remaining in this quarterfinal. That's Tyler Duke. He'll get his second goal of the season for the Wolverines. The senior, his only goal coming against Minnesota back in January. Gets an empty netter. Now, Jerisom will have to chase after it as Michigan will change their entire line. Fleming trying to beat this line change. And only a minute left in the quarterfinal. Asher Barnett seeing if he can add one by himself. That one's saved by Kemp. That one deflected from Park and finds the back of it. Promotion in the net front leads to a goal with under a minute to play in this game. Michigan the 6-1 lead. Not only are they going to win this one, but they're going to make sure it stings. Musket coming in and getting his fair share and his stat on the board today. Seeing if they can add any last second goal. The clock will tick down. Master Domenico's shot gets blocked by Musket and that will do it. The Wolverines take a 6-1 win in the quarterfinal of the Big Ten Tournament. Take a look. Michigan is unbeaten as the number two seed in the Big Ten Tournament. They won the title in 2012.