Eagles Look to Extend Streak Against UNH

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - After starting the season with five straight losses, Boston College has won three straight and will take aim at four in a row on Friday (Nov. 16) at 7 p.m. against New Hampshire for a single-game weekend at Kelley Rink. The game will air live on both ESPN3 and WEEI 850 AM. The Eagles are riding a seven-game winning streak and an 11-game unbeaten run against the Wildcats heading into the 153rd all-time meeting between the longtime rivals.

CATAMOUNT SWEEP
• Last weekend, BC secured all four points in a home series against Vermont at Kelley Rink
• Boston College scored three goals in the first period on Thursday and never looked back in a 4-1 win
• BC had four different goal scorers and 10 different point producers in the three-goal victory, while linemates David Cotton (1 G, 1 A) and Logan Hutsko (2 A) each secured two-point nights
• Junior Joseph Woll stopped 29 shots and missed his fourth career shutout by less than four minutes
• Rookies Jack McBain and Patrick Giles each collected their first collegiate points with assists
• Cotton scored twice on Friday night, including the eventual game-winner with 21.6 seconds left in the second period, lifting the Eagles over the Catamounts 3-2
• Hutsko had two assists for the third straight game, while Mattila had a goal, an assist, and eight shots on goal
• Ryan Edquist earned the start in net and made 23 saves in the winning effort

SCOUTING THE WILDCATS
• New Hampshire enters the weekend at 1-5-2 overall and 1-2-1 in Hockey East play
• Four of the Wildcats' last six games have gone to overtime, including both contests last weekend in a 2-2 tie at UMass Lowell and a 3-2 home loss to Boston University
• All but one game this season for UNH has been decided by a goal or less
• Sophomore defenseman Max Gildon leads the team with eight points and is tied with classmate Charlie Kelleher for the team-lead in assists with seven
• Fellow sophomore Mike Robinson has started five of eight games in net and carries a 1-3-2 record, 2.52 goals against average and .910 save percentage
• UNH is 4-for-21 on the power play thus far and 33-for-39 on the penalty kill
• Former Wildcat player and associate head coach Mike Souza is in his first season leading the program following the retirement of Dick Umile after 28 years; his wife, Kelly McManus Souza, played two seasons at Boston College as an ECAC All-Star and was inducted into the BC Varsity Club Hall of Fame in 2015
• Last year, New Hampshire went 10-20-6 (5-14-5 HEA), losing its last six games in a row and getting swept by Maine on the road in the Hockey East Opening Round

SERIES HISTORY
• The two schools are meeting for the 153rd time in the all-time series on Friday night with Boston College holding a 75-63-14 overall advantage
• BC brings a seven-game winning streak and an 11-game unbeaten (9-0-2) streak against UNH into Friday's first regular season meeting
• The Eagles' last loss to the Wildcats was almost six years ago on Jan. 12, 2013
• During the winning streak, BC has averaged 4.7 goals per game, scoring at least four goals in all but one meeting; BC has scored 4+ in nine straight home games vs. UNH
• Over its last 18 matchups with New Hampshire, the Eagles are 15-1-2
• Last season, Boston College edged UNH 3-2 at the Whittemore Center in November before downing the Wildcats 5-2 at Kelley Rink in January
• Michael Kim scored twice in the road victory in Durham, while Graham McPhee lit the lamp twice in the home win at Conte Forum
• Joseph Woll is a perfect 4-0-0 in his career against New Hampshire

INSIDE THE WIN STREAK
• Over the three-game winning streak, Boston College has out-scored its opponents 11-4
• The BC penalty kill is 16-for-17 during the streak and ranks 10th in the nation overall at 86.1%
• The Eagles are averaging 34.3 shots per game and have out-shot their opponents by 18 total shots
• Only seven teams currently have longer winning streaks across Division I, and only UMass has a more impressive run among Hockey East schools (5-0-0)
• BC has out-scored its opponents 5-1 in the first period, scoring first in all three contests

TERRIFIC TRIO
• The Eagles' red-hot top line of Cotton, Mattila and Hutsko has combined for eight goals and 11 assists for 19 points as well as 41 shots on goal during BC's three-game winning streak
• All three forwards have a plus-5 rating during the three-game stretch
• Hutsko (1-6-7) and Mattila (3-2-5) are both riding four-game point streaks, while Cotton has put together a career-best three-game goal streak (5-3-8), two of which were game-winners
• Much like Cotton, Mattila has tied his career-high with a three-game goal scoring streak
• The trio has accounted for eight of the team's 11 goals and nearly 60-percent of BC's offense during the streak

BOLD STRATEGY COTTON
• With eight goals in eight games this season, David Cotton ranks second nationally in goals per game behind only Princeton's Ryan Kuffner, who has seven goals in five contests
• The junior's team-high 12 points this season have come in just four contests
• Cotton was named the Hockey East Player of the Week on Nov. 5 following his second four-point performance in a five-game stretch against Merrimack
• He and Cal Burke of Notre Dame are the only two players in the nation with a pair of four-point games
• Cotton leads the country in second period goals (5) and sits third in points (7) during the middle frame
• The winger leads Hockey East in both points per game and shots on goal per game (3.88)

WHO'S NEXT
• BC concludes its season-long five-game homestand on Black Friday (Nov. 23) against Bentley at 3 p.m.

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Players Mentioned

David Cotton

Ryan Edquist

Patrick Giles

Logan Hutsko

Michael Kim

Jack McBain

Graham McPhee

Joseph Woll