No. 15 Eagles Hit the Road to Face UNH and No. 7 Providence

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – 15th-ranked Boston College begins a split road weekend in Hockey East play with a trip to the Whittemore Center on Friday (Nov. 1) to face the UNH Wildcats at 7 p.m. on NESN. The Eagles then travel to face No. 7 Providence on Saturday (Nov. 2) at 7 p.m. to finish the season series with the Friars. Pre-game radio coverage begins at 6:45 p.m. each night on WEEI 850 AM and BCEagles.TV.

SCOUTING THE WILDCATS
• New Hampshire enters the weekend at 2-2-1 overall and 1-1-0 in Hockey East
• UNH beat Merrimack 3-2 in overtime last Friday at Lawler Rink on Charlie Kelleher's winner but fell 3-0 on the road to Boston University on Saturday
• Kelleher leads the team with eight points on three goals and five assists, while classmate Kohei Sato has scored a team-high four goals
• Junior Mike Robinson has started four of the team's five games in net with a 1-2-1 record, 2.69 goals against average, and .878 save percentage
• UNH leads the league at 31.8% on the power play and is 15-for-18 (83.3%) on the kill
• Former Wildcat and UNH associate head coach Mike Souza is in his second season leading the program following the retirement of Dick Umile after 28 years
• Last year, New Hampshire went 12-15-9 (8-10-6 HEA), going 1-6-1 over its final eight games and falling in two at No. 1 seed UMass in the Hockey East Opening Round

SERIES HISTORY
• BC and UNH will meet for the 155th time in the all-time series with Boston College holding a 75-64-15 overall advantage over New Hampshire
• Boston College had its 12-game series unbeaten streak (9-0-3) snapped in January with a 6-4 loss at the Whittemore Center despite holding 2-0 and 4-3 leads
• It was the Eagles' first loss to New Hampshire in exactly six years; Boston College had gone unbeaten at 4-0-1 in its previous five trips to Durham
• Over its last 20 matchups with New Hampshire, the Eagles are 15-2-3
• In the last nine meetings, Boston College has averaged 4.3 goals per game

LEAGUE OPENER
• BC dropped a 6-2 final to No. 7 Providence in the Eagles' Hockey East opener last Friday night at Kelley Rink
• Graham McPhee and Logan Hutsko tallied goals for the Eagles in a five-goal second period, but the Friars carried a 4-2 lead into the third and sealed the win with a pair of insurance goals
• David Cotton collected an assist on Hutsko's 20th career goal for his 96th career point
• Boston College finished the night 0-for-4 on the power play, while PC was 1-for-4

MILESTONE WATCH
• David Cotton posted his 50th career assist on Oct. 13 at Colgate and is four points away from 100
• Cotton would become the 81st player in program history to reach 100 career points
• The last Eagle to hit the century mark was Ryan Fitzgerald in 2017 (T-42nd, 132 points)
• Julius Mattila is one point away from 75 for his Boston College career
• Hutsko has exactly 20 goals and 40 assists for 60 points in his time at BC

UP NEXT
• The Eagles face UConn next weekend in a home-and-home set, beginning on Friday night at Kelley Rink

No. 15 Eagles Hit the Road to Face UNH and No. 7 Providence

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Players Mentioned

David Cotton

Ryan Fitzgerald

Logan Hutsko

Julius Mattila

Graham McPhee