After his third-ranked Gophers blitzed Notre Dame with five first-period goals on Friday, Minnesota head coach Bob Motzko warned that the Irish would look like a much different team on Saturday. Boy was he right. Hermantown native Blake Biondi scored 3:46 into overtime to give Notre Dame a 4-3 victory over the Gophers. The Irish took a one-goal lead three times in regulation, and each time the Gophers responded with the tying goal. But Notre Dame controlled the puck for most of overtime, and Biondi scored the winner from the bottom of the left faceoff circle off a feed from Cole Knuble. “We got the response out of Notre Dame that we knew we were going to get,” Motzko said. “We woke up and played a good third period. But that’s the lesson — in the second half of the year, we’re going to be in these every night. One team responded, and it took us a while to respond. We chased the game, made a few mistakes and that was it.” The Gopher outshot the Irish 9-2 in a wide-open third period, but could only come up with the tying goal when Matthew Wood took a centering pass from Oliver Moore, deked a defenseman and slipped a backhander into the net for his ninth goal of the season. The officials swallowed their whistles for much of the game, calling just four minor penalties all night. It was especially notable in the third period, as the Gophers applied pressure trying to find the game-winner. Motzko asked for a replay after the officials looked the other way when Moore took a high cross-check after the whistle. But in college hockey, replay can only be used to identify major penalties, and the crowd at a packed 3M Arena at Mariucci howled its outrage when officials deemed the action unworthy of a five-minute penalty. “You’re always hoping that whenever … you’re creating chances and winning battles that the ref is going to see that we’ve got a step on them,” freshman center Erik Påhlsson said of the third period. “I think they had a couple where they could have given us a penalty. I think they missed a couple trips, a couple of hooks, a couple of slashes, but that’s also how the game goes. You’ve got to keep building and keep going and just keep working.” Owen Say, who shut out the Gophers for the final two periods of Friday’s 5-2 Minnesota victory, got the start in the net on Saturday and stopped 33 shots. Ian Murphy, Carter Slagget and Knuble also scored for the Irish (8-15-1, 3-12-1 in the Big Ten). Jimmy Snuggerud and Luke Mittelstadt also scored for Minnesota (19-5-2, 10-3-1). Liam Souliere stopped 27 of 31 shots. After Murphy redirected Henry Nelson’s shot from the point past Souliere for the game’s first goal, Snuggerud tied it up by showing the stickwork that made him a first-round draft choice of the St. Louis Blues. Snuggerud carried the puck into the zone with  head of steam, gave Say a couple of dekes and slipped the puck home through the 5-hole to tie the game at 12:33 of the first. But instead of triggering a five-goal outburst, Snuggerud’s goal was all the Irish allowed in the opening frame. “We had a good first yesterday,” Påhlsson said, “and one thing they wanted to show was that wasn’t going to happen today.” Slaggert put the Irish back on top early in the second, but the Gophers responded three minutes later with a highlight-reel goal by Mittelstadt to tie it up at 2-all. Påhlsson sprung Mittelstadt with a tape-to-tape breakout pass, and the junior from Eden Prairie did the rest, lifting a backhander over Say while falling to the ice for his first goal of the season. The game stayed tied as Souliere made five saves on Notre Dame’s first power play of the night. But he couldn’t stop Knuble as he converted a 2-on-1 break with a rocket that found the back of the net to give the Irish a 3-2 lead midway through the second. The Gophers are back in action next weekend when they travel to Michigan State for a series that will have huge repercussions on the Big Ten standings, where Minnesota entered the night leading the Spartans by two points. Related Articles College Sports | Men’s college hockey: Jimmy Snuggerud scores twice as Gophers beat Notre Dame College Sports | For Notre Dame hockey coach Jeff Jackson, one last trip to Minnesota’s fertile recruiting grounds College Sports | Gophers men’s hockey team gets their revenge at Ohio State College Sports | Gopher men’s hockey downed 5-1 by Ohio State in series opener College Sports | Mercyhurst proves to be no trouble for Gophers