Saturday, March 5
North Andover, Mass.
1:30 PM
Boston College
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Connecticut
Photo by: John Quackenbos
Sights Set on Hockey East Semifinal Clash vs. UConn
March 02, 2016 | Women's Hockey
Eagles will face the Huskies in Saturday’s semifinal for the right to play in their third-straight championship game
2016 HOCKEY EAST TOURNAMENT | Semifinal Round
No. 1 BOSTON COLLEGE (36-0-0, 24-0-0 HEA)
vs. CONNECTICUT (17-14-5, 11-10-3 HEA)
Saturday, March 5, 2016 | 1:30 p.m.
Lawler Rink, North Andover, Mass.
SEMIFINAL HEADLINES
SEMIFINAL MATCH-UP INFO
Boston College, the No. 1 seed in the 2015-16 Hockey East Tournament, will face No. 4 seed Connecticut on Saturday for the right to play for the conference's championship on Sunday ... UConn finished the league season 11-10-3 while scoring 52 goals (fourth-most in the conference) and allowing 61 (third-fewest)... BC went 24-0-0 in Hockey East, out-scoring opponents 127-27 to lead the league in both offense and defense ... this is UConn's seventh appearance in the HEA Tournament semifinals, and their second-straight year ... in both 2015 and 2016, they've matched up with the Eagles in the semis.
TOURNAMENT EXPERIENCE
Boston College is playing in its 11th Hockey East Tournament this year ... the Eagles' 11 appearances are tied for third most in league history, behind Providence (14) and New Hampshire (13) ... BC has advanced to the semifinal round for the sixth straight season and for the 10th time in program history.
SEARCHING FOR TITLE NO. 2
Boston College is in search of its second Hockey East Tournament title ... the Eagles won their only other HEA tournament championship in 2011 when they defeated fifth-seeded Northeastern 3-1.
TOURNAMENT HISTORY
Boston College is 12-9 all-time in the Hockey East Tournament, advancing to the championship game five times (2006, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015) and winning once (2011) ... BC is 6-1 in the quarterfinal round, 5-4 in the semifinals and 1-4 in the championship game ... 2010 was the lone season in which the Eagles failed to advance to at least the semifinal round.
HISTORY AS TOP SEED
This is the third-straight year in which Boston College is the No. 1 seed in the Hockey East tournament ... BC has a 7-2 record as the No. 1 seed, falling in the last two championship games to Boston University ... BC is 5-5 as the No. 2 seed (winning its lone title as the second seed in 2011), and 0-1 marks as the No. 4 and No. 6 seeds.
BC AGAINST CONNECTICUT
EAGLES VS. THE HUSKIES
EAGLES HONORED BY HOCKEY EAST WEDNESDAY
A trio of Eagles were honored by Hockey East on Wednesday in the first release of the 2015-16 awards ... Megan Keller was voted the conference's Best Defenseman, while Katie Burt was crowned the Goaltending Champion ... additionally, Makenna Newkirk was a unanimous selection to the All-Rookie Team.
PROGRAM-RECORD GOALS SCORED SO FAR
With five goals on Saturday against Maine, the Eagles pushed their season scoring total to 195 goals ... this matches the program's single-season goals record, which they just one year ago in 2014-15 in 39 games ... the team's 195 goals are tied for ninth-most in a single-season in NCAA history ... Minnesota Duluth holds the record with 226 goals in 2002-03, the same season in which Harvard scored 220 goals.
ALSO POWER-PLAY MARK PASSED
In addition to matching the program's goals record Saturday, the Eagles also set a new single-season power-play goals mark ... BC now has 41 power-play goals this season, most in program history ... that total passed the previous mark of 39, scored by the 2004-05 team ... the Eagles are section nationally on the power play, converting at a 32.2 percent clip ... in 2014-15, BC scored just 28 power-play goals and converted at a 17.5 percent rate … 11 different players have recorded a power-play goal this season, headlined by Haley Skarupa's 10 which is second-most nationally.
... AND SINGLE-SEASON RECORDS
Alex Carpenter has already established - and will continue to reset - a new BC single-season scoring mark for seniors ... with 76 points, Carpenter has already passed the prior best season by a senior: Kelli Stack's 58 points in 2010-11 ... her 77 points this season represent the second-best single-season point mark in program history, passing Haley Skarupa's 71 points in 2014-15:
Rank Player Points Season
1. Alex Carpenter 81 2014-15
2. Alex Carpenter 77 2015-16
3. Haley Skarupa 71 2014-15
4. Alex Carpenter 70 2012-13
5. Haley Skarupa 68 2015-16
NEW WINS RECORD - AND POTENTIAL NCAA MARK - FOR BURT
With a perfect 31-0-0 record this season, Katie Burt has set a new program record for goaltender wins in a season ... Burt's 31st win, which she collected on Feb. 27, passed the school's previous mark of 30 - held by Burt and set in 2014-15 ... Burt is now a remarkable 61-3-2 in her two-year career at BC ... she will wrap up her sophomore season comfortably within the NCAA top 30 in career wins ... Burt should also enter her junior campaign as the NCAA's career leader in winning percentage (min. 30 wins), which currently .885 by Wisconsin's Christine Dufour '07 (45-5-2) ... currently Burt's career winning percentage is .939.
RECORD-BREAKING SEASON FOR KELLER
Megan Keller's 46-point campaign is now the highest scoring output in a season by a BC defenseman in program history ... with three assists on Feb. 19 against Providence, she passed Emily Pfalzer '15, who previously held the record with 42 points in 2014-15 ... in BC's last game, she also matched Pfalzer's school record of 34 assists in a season by a defenseman ... Genevieve Missirlian had a 32-point season in 1997-98 for the third-most points in a year ... Keller is averaging 1.28 points per game and with at least two games left this season, she has a chance to become the first BC defenseman in program history to reach the 50-point mark in a season.
NEWKIRK IS NOW TAKING NAMES
Makenna Newkirk has made some great company with her freshman-year scoring numbers ... with 45 points, she passed Alex Carpenter for the fifth-highest freshman year point total in program history ... in 2011-12, Carpenter posted 39 points (21g, 18a) ... the freshman record is held by Kelli Stack who posted 57 points in 2006-07 ... Haley Skarupa scored 53 points in 2012-13, while both Allie Thunstrom (2006-07) and Jennifer Buckley (1997-98) collected 47 points as freshmen ... Newkirk is the fifth freshman in program history to record at least 20 goals - and her 21 goals are tied for fourth-best freshman total, matching Carpenter's 21 as a rookie ... Newkirk's 24 assists are tied for fifth-most by a freshman, matching Buckley's total.
TRIVIGNO CLAWING AT CAREER TOP 5
Dana Trivigno became the latest Eagle to join the program's top 10 scoring chart and is quickly ascending up the ranks with 27 points in 16 games since Jan. 1 ... she is tied for sixth in career scoring at The Heights with 138 points, matching Emily Field '15 ... Trivigno is now two points back of cracking the top 5, as Allie Thunstrom '10 is currently fifth with 140 points ... Trivigno was the 12th player in BC history to reach the 100-point plateau, and she is also the third player of the Class of '16 to reach 100 points.
CAREER APPEARENCES MARK IN JEOPARDY
The Boston College career appearances mark is in jeopardy this season ... Emily Field '15 and Kate Leary '15 each played in a program-record 149 games in their four seasons at The Heights, but Lexi Bender matched that total in the Eagles' last game, playing her 149th career game ... so long as she dresses Saturday against Connecticut in the Hockey East semifinals, she'll assume the program's appearances record, becoming the first Eagle to play 150 career games ... in addition to Bender, Meghan Grieves is now tied for fourth with 148 appearances ... Alex Carpenter has 145 appearances, while Dana Trivigno has 143 ... the Eagles have at a minimum two games left this season and as many as five.
No. 1 BOSTON COLLEGE (36-0-0, 24-0-0 HEA)
vs. CONNECTICUT (17-14-5, 11-10-3 HEA)
Saturday, March 5, 2016 | 1:30 p.m.
Lawler Rink, North Andover, Mass.
SEMIFINAL HEADLINES
- The Eagles will be looking to advance to their third-straight Hockey East Championship game and their sixth title game overall ... BC's lone tournament title came in 2011
- Alex Carpenter (38-39-77) and Haley Skarupa (30-38-68) are ranked No. 2 and 3 nationally in points ... the line mates are also ranked No. 1 and 2 in assists nationally
- Megan Keller - the 2015-16 Hockey East Best Defenseman - is the nation's leading scorer among defenseman with 46 points (12-34-46) ... her 16 power-play assists share the national lead with Carpenter, while her 20 PP points (4-16-20) rank second in the country behind Carpenter
- Alex Carpenter is now fifth on the NCAA career scoring list with 267 points, while Haley Skarupa is No. 16 with 233 points
- Makenna Newkirk has 21 points (8g, 13a) in 12 games since Jan. 22 ... she leads all freshmen nationally with 21 goals and is four points back of first in freshman points with 45 pts. ... she was Hockey East Rookie of the Month in February and an unanimous selection to the Hockey East All-Rookie Team
- Dana Trivigno has 27 points in 16 games in 2016 and now has a career-high 47 points ... her previous best was 34 points as a junior in 2014-15
SEMIFINAL MATCH-UP INFO
Boston College, the No. 1 seed in the 2015-16 Hockey East Tournament, will face No. 4 seed Connecticut on Saturday for the right to play for the conference's championship on Sunday ... UConn finished the league season 11-10-3 while scoring 52 goals (fourth-most in the conference) and allowing 61 (third-fewest)... BC went 24-0-0 in Hockey East, out-scoring opponents 127-27 to lead the league in both offense and defense ... this is UConn's seventh appearance in the HEA Tournament semifinals, and their second-straight year ... in both 2015 and 2016, they've matched up with the Eagles in the semis.
TOURNAMENT EXPERIENCE
Boston College is playing in its 11th Hockey East Tournament this year ... the Eagles' 11 appearances are tied for third most in league history, behind Providence (14) and New Hampshire (13) ... BC has advanced to the semifinal round for the sixth straight season and for the 10th time in program history.
SEARCHING FOR TITLE NO. 2
Boston College is in search of its second Hockey East Tournament title ... the Eagles won their only other HEA tournament championship in 2011 when they defeated fifth-seeded Northeastern 3-1.
TOURNAMENT HISTORY
Boston College is 12-9 all-time in the Hockey East Tournament, advancing to the championship game five times (2006, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015) and winning once (2011) ... BC is 6-1 in the quarterfinal round, 5-4 in the semifinals and 1-4 in the championship game ... 2010 was the lone season in which the Eagles failed to advance to at least the semifinal round.
HISTORY AS TOP SEED
This is the third-straight year in which Boston College is the No. 1 seed in the Hockey East tournament ... BC has a 7-2 record as the No. 1 seed, falling in the last two championship games to Boston University ... BC is 5-5 as the No. 2 seed (winning its lone title as the second seed in 2011), and 0-1 marks as the No. 4 and No. 6 seeds.
BC AGAINST CONNECTICUT
- The Eagles lead the all-time series between the teams, 27-14-7
- This will be the second straight year the Eagles and Black Bears meet in the Hockey East Tournament semifinal ... in 2014-15, the Eagles topped UConn 3-1 to advance to their third-straight final
- Between 2001-02 and 2006-07, UConn went 11-6-3 against BC … since 2007-08, BC is 21-3-4 vs. Connecticut
- Boston College has won the last nine meetings between the two teams, including four matchups last year and all three regular-season meetings this year
- BC is 11-8-6 against UConn in Storrs ... at Kelley Rink, BC is 15-6-1 … the teams have met once on neutral ice – the 2015 Hockey East Tournament in Hyannis, Mass., which the Eagles won
- The Eagles are 11-0-0 at home vs. Connecticut since the 2007-08 season
- UConn handed BC its last Hockey East regular-season loss – a 2-0 defeat in Storrs on Feb. 8, 2014
- The teams first met in 2001-02, with UConn going 2-0-1 in three meetings
- The Eagles' first win against Connecticut came on Feb. 16, 2003 in the teams' sixth meeting
- The teams have meet three times every season since 2001-02, except when the played four games in 2014-15 (three regular-season, one HEA Tournament), 2003-04 and 2004-05 (four regular-season HEA meetings)
- Katie Crowley has a 21-3-4 career mark against UConn
EAGLES VS. THE HUSKIES
- 15 current Eagles have registered at least one point against Connecticut
- Alex Carpenter leads all Eagles with 26 points (15g, 11a) against UConn in 13 games … 12 of her points (7g, 5a in 3 games) came in her sophomore year in 2012-13
- Haley Skarupa has 18 points (9g, 9a) in 12 games … in the three games this season, she has 7 points (4g, 3a)
- Andie Anastos has collected 11 points (4g, 7a) in 10 career games against UConn … she had two assists in the prior two 2015-16 meetings
- Dana Trivigno has 10 career points (4g, 6a) in 12 games against Connecticut
- Kaliya Johnson has six points (2g, 4a) – including the go-ahead goal in the 2015 Hockey East Tournament semifinals
- Megan Keller (1-6-7 career in 7 games) already have five points (1-4-5) in three games this season against Connecticut, including 1g, 2a on Oct. 31
- Lexi Bender has one goal and six assists in 13 games vs. UConn, including a pair of assists on Feb. 6
- Kali Flanagan (1-4-5 career in 7 games) also added 1 goal, 2 assists in the Eagles' Oct. 31 venture to Storrs
- Tori Sullivan has recorded 6 points in 6 games against UConn ... in four games as a freshman, she had five points (3-2-5)
- Kristyn Capizzano (3g, 2a) and Kenzie Kent (1g, 4a) each have five points vs. the Huskies
- Toni Ann Miano (0-4-4), Meghan Grieves (0-2-2) and Makenna Newkirk (1-1-2) have also picked up points vs. UConn
- Katie Burt is 7-0-0 against Connecticut, with an 0.86 goals against average with a .944 save percentage and three shutouts - including two this year ... the four goals she surrendered on Feb. 6 match the most she's given up in a game in her career
EAGLES HONORED BY HOCKEY EAST WEDNESDAY
A trio of Eagles were honored by Hockey East on Wednesday in the first release of the 2015-16 awards ... Megan Keller was voted the conference's Best Defenseman, while Katie Burt was crowned the Goaltending Champion ... additionally, Makenna Newkirk was a unanimous selection to the All-Rookie Team.
PROGRAM-RECORD GOALS SCORED SO FAR
With five goals on Saturday against Maine, the Eagles pushed their season scoring total to 195 goals ... this matches the program's single-season goals record, which they just one year ago in 2014-15 in 39 games ... the team's 195 goals are tied for ninth-most in a single-season in NCAA history ... Minnesota Duluth holds the record with 226 goals in 2002-03, the same season in which Harvard scored 220 goals.
ALSO POWER-PLAY MARK PASSED
In addition to matching the program's goals record Saturday, the Eagles also set a new single-season power-play goals mark ... BC now has 41 power-play goals this season, most in program history ... that total passed the previous mark of 39, scored by the 2004-05 team ... the Eagles are section nationally on the power play, converting at a 32.2 percent clip ... in 2014-15, BC scored just 28 power-play goals and converted at a 17.5 percent rate … 11 different players have recorded a power-play goal this season, headlined by Haley Skarupa's 10 which is second-most nationally.
... AND SINGLE-SEASON RECORDS
Alex Carpenter has already established - and will continue to reset - a new BC single-season scoring mark for seniors ... with 76 points, Carpenter has already passed the prior best season by a senior: Kelli Stack's 58 points in 2010-11 ... her 77 points this season represent the second-best single-season point mark in program history, passing Haley Skarupa's 71 points in 2014-15:
Rank Player Points Season
1. Alex Carpenter 81 2014-15
2. Alex Carpenter 77 2015-16
3. Haley Skarupa 71 2014-15
4. Alex Carpenter 70 2012-13
5. Haley Skarupa 68 2015-16
NEW WINS RECORD - AND POTENTIAL NCAA MARK - FOR BURT
With a perfect 31-0-0 record this season, Katie Burt has set a new program record for goaltender wins in a season ... Burt's 31st win, which she collected on Feb. 27, passed the school's previous mark of 30 - held by Burt and set in 2014-15 ... Burt is now a remarkable 61-3-2 in her two-year career at BC ... she will wrap up her sophomore season comfortably within the NCAA top 30 in career wins ... Burt should also enter her junior campaign as the NCAA's career leader in winning percentage (min. 30 wins), which currently .885 by Wisconsin's Christine Dufour '07 (45-5-2) ... currently Burt's career winning percentage is .939.
RECORD-BREAKING SEASON FOR KELLER
Megan Keller's 46-point campaign is now the highest scoring output in a season by a BC defenseman in program history ... with three assists on Feb. 19 against Providence, she passed Emily Pfalzer '15, who previously held the record with 42 points in 2014-15 ... in BC's last game, she also matched Pfalzer's school record of 34 assists in a season by a defenseman ... Genevieve Missirlian had a 32-point season in 1997-98 for the third-most points in a year ... Keller is averaging 1.28 points per game and with at least two games left this season, she has a chance to become the first BC defenseman in program history to reach the 50-point mark in a season.
NEWKIRK IS NOW TAKING NAMES
Makenna Newkirk has made some great company with her freshman-year scoring numbers ... with 45 points, she passed Alex Carpenter for the fifth-highest freshman year point total in program history ... in 2011-12, Carpenter posted 39 points (21g, 18a) ... the freshman record is held by Kelli Stack who posted 57 points in 2006-07 ... Haley Skarupa scored 53 points in 2012-13, while both Allie Thunstrom (2006-07) and Jennifer Buckley (1997-98) collected 47 points as freshmen ... Newkirk is the fifth freshman in program history to record at least 20 goals - and her 21 goals are tied for fourth-best freshman total, matching Carpenter's 21 as a rookie ... Newkirk's 24 assists are tied for fifth-most by a freshman, matching Buckley's total.
TRIVIGNO CLAWING AT CAREER TOP 5
Dana Trivigno became the latest Eagle to join the program's top 10 scoring chart and is quickly ascending up the ranks with 27 points in 16 games since Jan. 1 ... she is tied for sixth in career scoring at The Heights with 138 points, matching Emily Field '15 ... Trivigno is now two points back of cracking the top 5, as Allie Thunstrom '10 is currently fifth with 140 points ... Trivigno was the 12th player in BC history to reach the 100-point plateau, and she is also the third player of the Class of '16 to reach 100 points.
CAREER APPEARENCES MARK IN JEOPARDY
The Boston College career appearances mark is in jeopardy this season ... Emily Field '15 and Kate Leary '15 each played in a program-record 149 games in their four seasons at The Heights, but Lexi Bender matched that total in the Eagles' last game, playing her 149th career game ... so long as she dresses Saturday against Connecticut in the Hockey East semifinals, she'll assume the program's appearances record, becoming the first Eagle to play 150 career games ... in addition to Bender, Meghan Grieves is now tied for fourth with 148 appearances ... Alex Carpenter has 145 appearances, while Dana Trivigno has 143 ... the Eagles have at a minimum two games left this season and as many as five.
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