Maine Comes to Town for Friday-Sunday Battle

GAME DAY INFORMATION
WHEN	Friday, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. & Sunday, Nov. 8, at 1 p.m.
WHERE	Kelley Rink at Conte Forum // Chestnut Hill, Mass.
HOW TO FOLLOW	Live Stats // Video // Audio
GAME NOTES	PDF // WEB // Maine Notes
MEDIA CENTER	Radio (WEEI 850 AM): P x P: Jon Rish // Color: Andy Powers // Engineer: Mark Feldman

BOSTON COLLEGE vs. MAINE
Boston College welcomes Maine to The Heights as part of the Eagles' three games in six days stretch when the Eagles and Black Bears square off on Friday and Sunday. Friday's contest will mark the 118th installment of the series as BC possesses a 62-46-9 mark overall. If any team has given the Eagles trouble within league place recently, it has been Maine. The Black Bears are 6-4 in the last 10 meetings when facing Boston College even though BC has won the last two encounters at Kelley Rink. Alfond Arena, which has always proven to be a tough atmosphere to play in, is not on the Eagles' regular season radar this season. Boston College has gone 2-6-2 in the last 10 journeys up to Orono. Luckily, this year's series will be contests in Chestnut Hill as Boston College is 8-2 against Maine in the last 10 meetings on home ice. BC and Maine has also staged some epic contests in the Hockey East Tournament, most notably in 2010 when Matt Lombardi ended a wild 7-6 victory for Boston College in overtime to win the Hockey East title. Lombardi capped his first-career hat trick at 5:25 into overtime to emerge victorious from the back-and-forth affair. The Eagles also defeated Maine in 2012 at TD Garden for the Hockey East title by a 4-1 final. With Maine head coach Red Gendron heading into his third season as head coach, Jerry York has posted a 4-2 mark against the Black Bears' skipper.

BLACK BEAR BEAT
Maine skates onto The Heights in search of its first victory after losing its last four contests before tying the first three games of the season. The Black Bears joined UMass, Princeton and Yale at the Capital City Classic in Trenton, N.J., losing to the Minutemen in overtime in the first game followed by a 3-1 setback to Princeton in the third-place game. Starting off the season, Maine showed promise with a 3-3 tie against Michigan State and tied now No. 1 North Dakota on Oct. 10 as both of those contests were part of the Ice Breaker Tournament in Portland. Through seven games, senior Will Merchant leads the club with three goals while junior Cam Brown's four points (1-3-4) lead the Black Bears in points. Junior Matt Morris and freshman Rob McGovern have split time in net as McGovern's goals against average (2.15) ranks 21st in college hockey. The Black Bears' defense is tied for fifth in Hockey East and tied for 27th, nationally, surrendering only 2.71 goals per game. On the flip side, though, Maine has struggled to generate offense, scoring only 1.43 goals per game, ranking last in Hockey East and 58th on the national level. Maine has scored two power play goals on 27 chances (7.4 percent) and allowed eight goals on 33 penalty-killing opportunities (75.8).

OFFENSIVE NUGGETS
• Boston College scored six goals in the second period against UMass on Nov. 3, marking the most goals in a frame since Nov. 25, 1995 in a 10-4 victory over St. Lawrence.
• Colin White broke out for a team-best four-point performance with a goal and three assists vs. UMass on Nov. 3. White is the lone active Eagle to record three assists in a game this season.
• Eleven different skaters scored at least one point in BC's 7-0 win against UMass. Every active, healthy player that'd dressed for BC this season has scored at least one point.
• The Miles Wood - Austin Cangelosi - Chris Calnan line has been held scoreless only twice in six games - as a whole, the three have combined for 20 points (7-13-20) and a +15 rating
• Alongside Matthew Gaudreau, Christopher Brown turned in his first-career multi-point performance after doling out an assist on Travis Jeke's first goal in over a year in addition to Teddy Doherty's second power play marker of the night. Brown is +3 thus far with four points (1-3-4)

DEFENSIVE NUGGETS
• For the first time in Boston College hockey history, the Eagles have shutout their fourth opponent in five outings. Over the course of the run, BC has outscored its opponents, 25-3
• Thatcher Demko is now tied for fourth all-time on the single season shutouts list with Matti Kaltiainen (2003-04) and Scott Clemmensen (1997-98) with four thus far in 2015-16
• Scott Savage found the back of the net against UMass on Nov. 3 for the first time in over a season, tallying for the first time since Feb. 15, 2014, against Vermont.
• Teddy Doherty has scored three power play goals over the course of two games -- the last time an Eagle scored two PPGs in a game was Ryan Fitzgerald against UConn on Jan. 24, 2015
• Travis Jeke, playing his third-career game at forward, scored his first goal since Dec. 27, 2013, against Bowling Green at the Three Rivers Classic in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh native has scored four career goals in 35 games dressed.

GIMMIE FOUR BAGELS
For the first time in Boston College hockey history, the Eagles have shutout their fourth opponent in five outings after a 7-0 whitewash of UMass on Nov. 3. Thatcher Demko has backstopped all four of those blankings and is the first BC goalie in program history with that distinction. The closest BC has ever come to this current record is when the Eagles shutout four teams in six games from Jan. 23 to Feb. 11, 2000.

RAPID FIRE
After skating to a 0-0 draw in the first period of play against UMass on Nov. 3, Boston College lit the lamp six times in the second period to run away with victory. The last time Boston College scored six goals in a period was almost 20 years ago. The Eagles posted a six spot against St. Lawrence on Nov. 25, 1995 in a 10-4 victory.

SAN DIEGO IS GERMAN FOR SHUTOUT
With the 7-0 blanking of UMass on Nov. 3, Thatcher Demko is now tied for fourth all-time on the single season shutouts list with Matti Kaltiainen (2003-04) and Scott Clemmensen (1997-98). For a career, the San Diego native ranks fifth all-time in career shutouts, posting his seventh with Tuesday's victory. Demko ranks alone in fifth and is now currently one shutout behind one behind Jack Fitzgerald (1922-25) and Matti Kaltiainen (2001-05) for a career. Cory Schneider (2004-07) is the Eagle record holder for career shutouts with 15.

ONE-SIDED
Over the course of BC's four shutouts in five games, the Eagles have outscored their opponents by a combined 25-3. BC's 7-0 shutout was the largest margin of victory in a blanking since the 11-0 win over Army on Nov. 10, 2013.

BEST DEFENSIVE START IN 94 YEARS
In allowing only six goals in BC's first six regulation games, the Eagles are off to their best defensive start in program history. Boston College's 0.86 goals allowed per game through the first seven contests of the season is the lowest mark in BC's 94 years of varsity hockey.

BREAK ON THROUGH
Travis Jeke and Scott Savage both scored .in the UMass game on Nov. 3. For Jeke, it was his first goal since Dec. 27, 2013, against Bowling Green while Savage had not found the back of the net since Feb. 15, 2014, against Vermont.

STURDY SCORELESS STRING
Thatcher Demko is the the 21st goaltender in NCAA hockey history to have shutout three opponents consecutively. He earned his sixth-career shutout at Colorado College and is now tied for sixth all-time at Boston College with six career shutouts. He is tied with Parker Milner (2009-13) and Joe Carroll (1951-54) on BC's all-time shutouts list. The junior's 1.00 goals against average is fourth best in the nation currently and his .957 save percentage is also ranked fourth. Demko's .833 winning percentage is tied for seventh in the nation thus far.

DON'T DOUBT DOHERTY
Teddy Doherty recorded his third power play goal in two games after not netting one since his freshman season on Dec. 1, 2012. He scored a pair against UMass on Nov. 3 and one against Denver on Oct. 30. It marks the first time an Eagle scored two power play goals since Ryan Fitzgerald on Jan. 24, 2015.

SCORE -- BORED OPERATORS
Boston College, backed by Thatcher Demko, kept the opposition off the board for a combined 206 minutes and two seconds (206:02) that spanned from the end of the Renssealer contest on Oct. 11 to the first period of the Denver contest on Oct. 30. It marked the fourth time in program history (1920-21 // 1997-98 - Scott Clemmensen // 2005-06 - Cory Schneider // 2015-16 - Thatcher Demko) and three times in the modern era. The Eagles are now the only team to shutout three-straight opponents in the modern era three separate occassions. Demko fell just short of Clemmensen's record of 254:23 scoreless minutes posted in January 1998.

KELLEY RINK CLAIMS ITS 300th WIN
Boston College celebrates its 28th season of playing hockey on Kelley Rink at Conte Forum. Starting in 1988, BC's overall record at Kelley Rink is 301-118-37 (.701). The Eagles played at McHugh Forum prior from 1958-86 when Boston College posted an overall mark of 282-95-10 (.748). Boston College has won 10 or more games at home the last seven-consecutive seasons.

WHITE OUT
In his third game as an Eagle, freshman Colin White scored his first career points with a pair of goals on Oct. 16 against Wisconsin, including BC's first 5-on-3 power play tally of the season. For his performance, White was named Hockey East Rookie of the Week on Oct. 19. He also logged BC's first four-point performance of the season with one goal and three assists against Massachusetts on Nov. 3.

DOUBLE TROUBLE
Ryan Fitzgerald notched a pair of goals in the opener at CC on Oct. 23 while Adam Gilmour did the same the following night. For Fitzgerald, it was his first two-goal game since his hat trick against UConn on Jan. 24, 2015 and his third-career multi-goal performance. He also accounted for his team-best seventh-career game winner. Gilmour scored his 10th-career power play goal after netting his fifth-career game winner on Oct. 24. Gilmour also scored the game-winner against UMass on Nov. 3.

LUMBER YARD
Freshman forward Miles Wood set the tone early in his Eagle career, posting three points in his BC debut, including a goal and two assists. It has been 15 years since a rookie notched three points in his first-career game. The last time that occurred was when Ben Eaves doled out three assists in a 4-1 win over Notre Dame on Oct. 13, 2000 at Omaha Civic Auditorium. The last time any Eagle started the year with a three-point performance was when Brian Gibbons (2-1-3) and Brock Bradford (1-2-3) both turned the trick against Wisconsin on Oct. 10, 2008.

ZACH ATTACKS
Sophomore Zach Sanford scored his first-career power play goal at Army on Oct. 9 and followed that up with with his second extra-man tally at Rensselaer on Oct. 11. The last time an Eagle started the season with back-to-back power play goals was at the beginning of the 2008-09 season when Brock Bradford scored power play goals on Oct. 10 and Oct. 17, 2008. Sanford has scored in four of BC's first seven games.

LIVING HISTORY
The Schiller Family Head Hockey Coach of Boston College, Jerry York, enters his 44th season of coaching college hockey. Not only is York the winningest coach in the game's history, having amassed 990 victories and a win-loss total of 990-592-105 (.618), York is approaching another historic benchmark. After locking up the most wins all-time at his alma mater (502) and heads into his 22nd season behind the Eagles' bench, he now has the 1,000-win plateau in his sites. York is just 12 wins away from hitting that number as he is already the winningest coach in the game's history.

Maine Comes to Town for Friday-Sunday Battle

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Players Mentioned

Christopher Brown

Chris Calnan

Austin Cangelosi

Thatcher Demko

Teddy Doherty

Ryan Fitzgerald

Matthew Gaudreau

Adam Gilmour

Travis Jeke

Zach Sanford

Scott Savage

Colin White

Miles Wood