Saturday Trip to UConn Up Next for Eagles

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The No. 5/6 Boston College women's hockey team will head to UConn on Saturday afternoon for a Hockey East contest against the Huskies. Faceoff is set for 3 p.m. at the Freitas Ice Forum. The tilt, which marks the first of three regular season meetings between UConn and BC, will be the only game for the Eagles this weekend.

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GAME 11
No. 5/6 Boston College (9-0-1, 8-0-1 HEA) at UConn (5-4-0, 2-2-0 HEA)
Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum | Storrs, Conn.
Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019 | 3 p.m.

BOSTON COLLEGE IN BRIEF
• Hannah Bilka leads the team in scoring with 18 points on 10 goals and eight assists ... Kelly Browne has a team-high 11 assists and six goals for 17 points while Cayla Barnes has two goals and 10 assists for 12 points.
• Maddy McArthur is 7-0-1 in goal with a .932 save percentage, 1.49 goals against average and two shutouts while Kelly Pickreign is 2-0-0 with a shutout and a 1.00 goals against average and .962 save percentage.
• The Eagles are converting on 20.9 percent of power plays and killing off 88.5 percent of penalties.
• This is the fourth time in program history that the Eagles have opened up a season unbeaten in the first 10 games ... BC's 7-0-0 start marked the second-ever such start (40-0-0 in 2015-16).
• The Eagles finished the 2018-19 season with an overall record of 26-12-2 and finished second overall in Hockey East regular season standings at 19-7-1 ... the team earned the program's 11th NCAA tournament berth and ninth consecutive.

ABOUT UCONN
• UConn skated to a 7-0 win over Brown on Tuesday night at home, with Natalie Snodgrass racking up five points on one goal and four assists ... Sam Carpentier-Yelle made 12 saves for her second shutout of the season.
• It was the first game in a week for the Huskies, with the team last having played Oct. 25-26 at the Ice Breaker Tournament, dropping games to Colgate (6-2) and Mercyhurst (3-1).
• The Huskies picked up two conference wins earlier this year season against Holy Cross (2-0) and Merrimack (4-3) and dropped two games to UNH (2-0) and Boston University (1-0).
• Carpentier-Yelle has started five games in goal, going 4-1-0 with a .934 save percentage, 1.21 goals against average and two shutouts ... Morgan Fisher has going 1-3-0 in four starts while posting a .908 save percentage and 2.02 goals against average.
• Five Huskies have at least six points, with Snodgrass leading the way with 11 on three goals and eight assists.
• Chris Mackenzie is in his eighth year has head coach of the Huskies in 2019-20.
• The Huskies were picked to finish sixth in the Hockey East Preseason Coaches Poll.

SERIES HISTORY VS UCONN
• The Eagles lead the all-time series between the teams, 36-15-10 ... BC has a mark of 21-6-2 against the Huskies at Kelley Rink ... BC is 13-8-8 against UConn in Storrs and 2-1-0 in neutral site meetings.
• BC swept the 2018-19 regular season series at 3-0-0 ... Maddy McArthur shutout the Huskies in all three regular season meetings ... the Eagles put up 3-0 and 4-0 wins at home as well as a 3-0 road win.
• The Eagles also swept the 2019 Hockey East Tournament quarterfinal series at 2-0-0 ... BC won the first game, 4-1, and then had a dramatic 5-4 overtime for the sweep.
• Ten current Eagles have registered at least one point against UConn.
• Delaney Belinskas has a team-high five points on one goal and four assist against the Huskies while sporting a plus-5.

ABOUT LAST WEEKEND
• Boston College earned a pair of 5-2 home wins last weekend, topping New Hampshire on Friday and Providence on Saturday.
• Kelly Browne led the way against UNH, recording a career-high four goals, while Willow Corson potted her second of the season ... Hannah Bilka had a season-high three assists.
• The Eagles used goals from four different players to top the Friars, with Delaney Belinskas scoring twice ... Caroline DiFiore and Savannah Norcross had a goal and an assist apiece while Jillian Fey added a career-high two assists.
• BC had 10 point getters against Providence, tied for most on the season in a single game.
• Maddy McArthur stopped 39 of 43 shots on the weekend to pick up her sixth and seventh wins of the season.
• The Eagles went 8-for-8 on the penalty kill on the weekend while converting on one of four power plays.

BALANCED SCORING
• Through the first 10 games of the season, Boston College has had 12 different players score at least one goal and 15 players total register at least one point.
• The Eagles have 10 players with at least five points, tops in Hockey East ... Vermont, Northeastern and New Hampshire each have eight players with at least five points.
• BC has five players with at least 10 points each, the most in Hockey East and tied with Minnesota for second in the nation (Wisconsin has six such players) ... UNH and UVM each have three players with at least 10 points.
• Six different players have scored game-winning goals for the Eagles this season, the most in Hockey East ... Northeastern is second with five different game-winning goal scorers

IT'S WORTH NOTING...
• Boston College ranks fourth in the country in scoring with an average of 4.40 goals per game.
• The Eagles have scored a nation-leading four short-handed goals this year.
• Kelly Browne is fourth in the country with 135 face-off wins while her .605 winning-percentage ranks third overall among players who have taken at least 200 face offs.
• BC scored at least five goals in five of the first 10 games ... the Eagles last did that in the first 10 games of the 2014-15 season.
• The Eagles' sophomore class has contributed 52 points on 17 goals and 35 assists ... that is 39 percent of the team's goals (17/44), 47 percent of assists (35/74) and 44 percent of the team's points (52/118).
• BC leads the country in second period scoring, racking up 62 points on 23 goals and 39 assists.
• Fifteen of BC's 44 goals scored this season have come in the opening five minutes of a period with 41 (15-26-41) of the Eagles' 118 total points (44-74-118) also coming in that time frame.
• Six different players have scored game-winning goals for the Eagles this season, the most in Hockey East.
• Hannah Bilka. Savannah Norcross and Cayla Barnes have each registered at least one shot on goal in all 10 games this season.
• BC's 7-0-0 start marked the second-ever such start in program history (40-0-0 in 2015-16).

Saturday Trip to UConn Up Next for Eagles

Players Mentioned

Cayla Barnes

Delaney Belinskas

Hannah Bilka

Kelly Browne

Willow Corson

Caroline DiFiore

Jillian Fey

Maddy McArthur

Savannah Norcross

Kelly Pickreign

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