No. 12 Eagles Put Six-Game Win Streak to Test at No. 6 Harvard Friday

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – 12th-ranked Boston College looks to extend its six-game winning streak against an undefeated and sixth-ranked Harvard squad on Black Friday (Nov. 29) at the Bright-Landry Hockey Center at 4:30 p.m. The game will be televised live on both ESPN+ and NESN. Radio coverage begins at 4:15 p.m. on WEEI 850 AM and BCEagles.TV.

MAKE IT SIX
• Boston College received goals from six different players to extend its winning streak to six in a convincing 6-2 victory over Yale on Tuesday night at Kelley Rink in non-conference action
• BC also pushed its unbeaten streak against Yale to six (5-0-1) as the schools met for the first time since 2013
• Aapeli Räsänen finished the night with a goal and two assists, while Alex Newhook (0-2-2), Mike Hardman (1-1-2)and Logan Hutsko (1-1-2) registered multi-point efforts
• 11 different Eagles collected at least one point in the win as BC matched a season-high with 10 total assists
• Spencer Knight stopped 23 of 25 Bulldog shots to run his personal winning streak to six

#SCTOP10
• Logan Hutsko's unassisted power play goal in the third period on Tuesday made the SportsCenter Top 10
• The junior curled around a Yale defenseman in the left corner with one hand on the puck, cut back above the goal line, and snapped a shot off high the right post to give BC a 5-2 cushion
• Hutsko set a new career-high with an eight-game point streak (6-3-9) and tied a career-best with a three-game goal streak; he is tied with Aapeli Räsänen for the team lead in goals (6) despite missing four games to injury

SCOUTING THE CRIMSON
• At 6-0-0, Harvard is one of two unbeaten teams in the nation (Cornell)
• The Crimson rank sixth in the most recent USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll and ninth in the USCHO.com poll released on Monday
• Harvard beat RPI 6-3 on the road last Friday in its last contest
• Sophomore forward Casey Dornbach leads a balanced scoring attack with five goals and 12 points; 14 different players have scored at least one goal
• Rookie Mitchell Gibson (1.49, .955) and senior Cameron Gornet (1.90, .955) have split time in net and each owns a perfect 3-0-0 record
• Harvard is 5-for-24 (20.8%) on the power play and 17-for-20 (85.0%) on the kill
• Harvard alum Ted Donato '91 is in his 16th season as the head coach and led his alma mater to the 2017 ECAC title and later the Frozen Four in Chicago
• Last season, the Crimson finished at 19-11-3 (13-7-2 ECAC) and made the NCAA Tournament before falling to UMass 4-0 in the Northeast Regional Semifinal

SERIES HISTORY
• Black Friday marks the 129th all-time meeting of the series; Boston College owns a 75-47-6 overall edge against Harvard
• Last year, the teams met in the Beanpot Semifinal at TD Garden with the Eagles edging the Crimson 2-1 on a third period game-winner from Jack McBain
• In the schools' last 25 meetings, last year's Beanpot matchup was the lowest scoring game between the high-scoring programs
• BC's last trip to the Bright-Landry Center resulted in a 5-2 loss on Nov. 18, 2016; Harvard was 3-for-7 on the power play as the teams combined for 19 penalties
• The year prior, the Eagles beat Harvard 4-1 in the NCAA Tournament in Worcester behind two goals each from Alex Tuch and Austin Cangelosi

ON A ROLL
• Boston College is riding a six-game winning streak, which is tied with Harvard for the third-longest unbeaten streak in the nation behind North Dakota (9) and Cornell (8)
• During those six games, the Eagles have outscored their opponents by a total of 28-6
• The power play is 9-for-26 (34.6%) and the penalty kill is 19-for-23 (82.6%) during that span
• BC's shot totals have risen to an average of 35.0 per game with a +45 shot margin over the last five
• Spencer Knight owns a 1.00 GAA and .964 SV% with two shutouts during the win streak

YOUTH GONE WILD
• Boston College has received a 13-16-29 scoring line from its five rookie skaters through 12 games
• Alex Newhook and Mike Hardman have each posted four multi-point games, which is tied for second among all Hockey East rookies behind only Matt Brown of UMass Lowell
• Newhook is also tied for second among freshmen in goals (5), while Hardman is tied for seventh (4)
• In November, Newhook leads the league with 1.29 points per game by a freshman
• Marshall Warren is one of only seven rookie defensemen in HEA with multiple goals
• Matt Boldy collected his first career assist on Tuesday night in the win against Yale

OH WHAT A KNIGHT
• In the month of November, Spencer Knight leads the nation in SV% (.963) and ranks second in GAA (1.00)
• BC is tied for the number one scoring defense in the country during November with Minnesota State
• Knight was named the Hockey East Rookie of the Week on Nov. 18 following his 2-0-0 weekend in Vermont
• Overall, the rookie netminder ranks third in Hockey East in both SV% (.935) and GAA (1.92) while leading the league in shutouts (3) in just 12 career starts between the pipes

SCORING IN BUNCHES
• Boston College has already scored 5+ goals five times this season after doing so just twice last season
• A sixth game with at least five goals would tie the team's total from two years ago
• BC is 5-0-0 this year when scoring at least five times and 7-1-0 when scoring first
• The Eagles have risen to third in Hockey East and ninth in the NCAA with 3.5 goals per game

NOT SO FAST
• Boston College has only allowed five first period goals all season through 12 games
• Yale's first period goal on Tuesday was the first allowed by BC in over a month
• The Eagles went nearly 135 consecutive minutes of first period action without conceding a goal

UP NEXT
• Boston College faces No. 5 Notre Dame in a home-and-home series next weekend to close the first half
• The series begins with a 7 p.m. puck drop on Friday, Dec. 6 at Conte Forum before shifting to South Bend on Sunday, Dec. 8 for a 5 p.m. faceoff

No. 12 Eagles Put Six-Game Win Streak to Test at No. 6 Harvard Friday

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Matt Boldy

Austin Cangelosi

Mike Hardman

Logan Hutsko

Spencer Knight

Jack McBain

Alex Newhook

Marshall Warren