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SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Kevin Roy's four points, along with points from nine different skaters, set the tone for the Northeastern men's ice hockey team (20-13-5), which competed a sweep of No. 10/10 Notre Dame in the Hockey East quarterfinals on Saturday night at Compton Family Ice Arena, 6-4. The win sends the Huskies into the Hockey East semifinals for the first time since 2011.
 
After falling behind 1-0 late in the first period, NU responded with six of the game's next seven goals to skate away from the Fighting Irish late in regulation and earn the team's first quarterfinal sweep since 1994. It also extends the team's winning streak to 11 games, the second longest in program history, while the 12-game unbeaten streak (11-0-1) is tied for the longest in team history.
 
Saturday also marked Northeastern's 20th victory of the season, which is the sixth time in the 84-year history of the program that the Huskies have won at least 20 games.
 
Mike McMurtry (two assists), Dylan Sikura (one goal, one assist), Garret Cockerill (one goal, one assist) and Colton Saucerman (one goal, two assists) all registered multi-point nights on the evening, while Ryan Ruck made 25 stops in net.
 
Mario Lucia led Notre Dame with a pair of goals, while Luke Ripley and Thomas DiPauli also scored and Cal Petersen made 28 saves in goal.
 
Goal descriptions:
• The Fighting Irish drew first blood with 5:22 to play in the first period when Luke Ripley netted his first of the year. Following a clean face-off win by Connor Hurley back to Ripley at the point, Ripley took a couple strides along the blueline before sending a shot through traffic and past a screened Ruck for the score.
 
• With Northeastern on the power play late in the period, Saucerman leveled the score at one with his fourth of the year. After Kevin Roy hit Garret Cockerill with a pass along the half wall, Cockerill spotted Saucerman between the hashmarks and slid a pass across to his defense partner. Saucerman then quickly gathered the puck and sent a wrist over the blocker of Petersen with 1:10 left in the period.
 
• The Huskies exploded for three goals in 3:20 to start the second period, the first coming from Roy just 2:26 into the frame. After a Notre Dame defender fell down at the blue line, it sprung Sam Kurker and Roy on a two-on-one. Kurker's patience drew the remaining defender towards him, and Kurker was able to slide the puck to a waiting Roy who tapped it past Petersen for his ninth of the year.
 
• Cockerill put Northeastern up 3-1 just 67 seconds after the Roy tally when NU benefitted from a bounce in front of the Fighting Irish cage. John Stevens began the play in transition by finding Cockerill entering the zone at the right side. Cockerill tried to thread a pass across to Nolan Stevens on the doorstep, but it ricocheted off the skate of a Notre Dame defenseman and past Petersen for Cockerill's eighth of the year.
 
• Sikura made it a 4-1 game with a power play tally 5:46 into the second period on his 10th of the year. With NU controlling the puck in the attacking zone, Saucerman hit SIkura with a pass from behind the net, and Sikura ripped a shot from atop the left face-off dot to beat Petersen glove side.
 
• Notre Dame cut the deficit to 4-2 with 5.5 seconds to go in the period when the Fighting Irish got a lucky bounce of its own. After Ruck handled a shot from the left side, the rebound was left sitting in front of the crease. A Northeastern blueliner tried to clear the puck, but in the process shot it off the body of Mario Lucia and it got past Ruck.
 
• Roy put Northeastern back on top by three in the opening two minutes of the third period during four-on-four play. With NU in transition, Saucerman saw Roy streaking towards the net and sent the puck into a dangerous area, allowing Roy to get a stick on it to redirect past Petersen for his second of the night.
 
• Pond extended the lead to 6-2 with 7:29 left in regulation when he roofed a shot from between the hashmarks off a feed from Sikura, beating Petersen over the blocker.
 
• Notre Dame added a couple goals late in regulation to bring the Fighting Irish within two, the first of which came from Thomas DiPauli when he received a feed from Justin Wade and sent a shot from just inside the point past Ruck for the score.
 
• Lucia would close out the scoring with his second of the game, collecting a face-off win from DiPauli and firing a shot from the slot past Ruck.
 
Stats of the game:
• Northeastern is now 10-4-2 all-time against Notre Dame. The Huskies are also 17-31 all-time in the Hockey East quarterfinals, including a 10-26 in quarterfinal series on the road. It is the program's first quarterfinal sweep in a best-of-three series since 1994.
 
• The Huskies advance to the Hockey East semifinal for the first time since 2011, and eighth time in program history.
 
• Saturday's win extends NU's winning streak to 11 games, the second longest such streak in program history and one shy of tying the program best mark of 12 games at the start of the 1980-81 season.
 
• Northeastern's 12-game unbeaten streak (11-0-1) is tied for the program's longest such streak, also set at the start of the 1980-81 season. It is currently the nation's longest active winning streak.
 
• The Huskies are unbeaten in 20 of their last 21 games (18-1-2), the best stretch in team history.
 
• Saturday marked Northeastern's 20th victory of the season, the sixth time in team history that the Huskies have won at least 20 games, and the first time since 2008-09.
 
• The Huskies finish their road schedule 8-0-2 in their last 10 true road games, and hasn't lost on the road since Nov. 20 at No. 1/1 Providence.
 
• Roy moved into sole possession of 11h place on Northeastern all-time scoring list (148 points). He is also now tied for 12th all-time in goals (65) and tied for 16th all-time in assists (83).
 
• Northeastern defensemen have accounted for 25 goals this season, which is tied for the sixth most in the nation. Cockerill registered his eighth of the year on Saturday, the most for an NU blueliner since Jake Newton in 2009-10.

The road ahead:
• Northeastern advances to the 2016 Hockey East semifinals, which will be played on Friday at TD Garden against an opponent to be determined.