Eagles Set to Host Harvard on New Year's Eve

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The No. 9 Boston College women's hockey team will open up the second semester of play on Tuesday afternoon, hosting Harvard at Kelley Rink. The New Year's Eve tilt is set for a 2 p.m. puck drop, with the game streaming on CBS SportsLive.

GAME 20
No. 9/9 Boston College (11-6-2) vs RV/RV Harvard (7-4-0)
Kelley Rink at Conte Forum | Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019 | 2:00 p.m.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR
• No. 9 Boston College and Harvard University will face off at Kelley Rink on Tuesday afternoon in the nation's final NCAA women's hockey contest of 2019.
• Boston College is 15-26-1 all-time against Harvard with a mark of 7-8-0 in games at Kelley Rink and a record of 12-5-1 under head coach Katie Crowley ... Tuesday marks the 43rd meeting between the two Beanpot schools ... Boston College is 6-3-1 in the last 10 meetings and has gone 14-5-1 against Harvard since Feb. 14, 2006.
• BC was picked to finish third in the Hockey East Preseason Coaches Poll while Harvard was picked to finish fifth in the ECAC Hockey Preseason Coaches Poll.
• Kelly Browne has at least one point in four out of the last five games and has at least one point in 14 out of BC's 19 contests.
• Savannah Norcross has fired at least one shot on goal in all 19 of BC's contests this year while Hannah Bilka has put at least one shot on goal in all 17 games that she has played in.

BOSTON COLLEGE IN BRIEF
• The Eagles closed out the first semester of play with a home-and-home series with No. 8 Boston University ... BC fell 6-0 at BU on Dec. 6 and then dropped a close 2-1 tilt at Kelley Rink the next afternoon.
• Kelly Browne leads the team with 24 points on eight goals and a career-best 16 assists while sitting third in the nation with 243 face-off wins.
• Hannah Bilka has a team-high 11 goals and 12 assists for 23 points and leads the Eagles with 68 shots on goal.
• Eight total Eagles have at least 10 points while 16 of 18 skaters have registered at least one point.
• Maddy McArthur is 9-5-2 in goal with a .917 save percentage, 2.25 goals against average and two shutouts while Kelly Pickreign is 2-1-0 with a shutout and a 1.34 goals against average and .958 save percentage.
• BC opened up the year with seven consecutive wins and a 10-game unbeaten streak overall ... BC's 7-0-0 start marked the second-ever such start for the program (40-0-0 in 2015-16).

OVER THE LAST DECADE...
• Boston College started off the decade with a 3-3 tie against Yale on Jan. 9, 2010 and has gone on to accumulate a record of 274-74-31.
• The team's 274 wins mark the most of any Hockey East school and third-most in the nation and make BC just one of four schools to eclipse 250 wins over the past 10 years (Clarkson, 270; Wisconsin, 308; Minnesota, 316).
• The program won three Hockey East Tournament titles and five Beanpot titles.
• Over the last decade, the Eagles have outscored opponents 1418-689.
• The Eagles have advanced to nine consecutive NCAA tournaments and made six Frozen Four appearances and one national title game appearance.
• The Eagles have been ranked in the USCHO Poll for all but the first 10 polls of the decade, earning a top-10 spot in 216 consecutive polls since earning a No. 9 ranking on Sept. 27, 2010.

ABOUT HARVARD
• Harvard enters Tuesday's tilt with an overall record of 7-4-0 with a mark of 2-3-0 in the last five games ... the Crimson last played on Dec. 7, earning a 3-2 overtime win at Brown to cap a 2-0-0 weekend after a 4-2 in at Yale on Dec. 6.
• Harvard - like BC - was one of four teams to play in the Country Classic over Thanksgiving, falling to Wisconsin, 5-1, and Minnesota, 4-0.
• Dominique Petrie has a team-high 13 points on four goals and 10 assists while Kristin Della Rovere has 13 points on a team-leading 10 goals and three assists ... five total players have at least 10 points for Harvard.
• Lindsay Reed has started nine of 11 games for Harvard, going 5-4-0 with a 3.21 goals against average and .904 save percentage ... Reed was named to the ECAC Hockey All-Preseason Team.
• Katy Stone is in her 25th season as head coach of the Harvard program.

SERIES VS HARVARD
• BC and Harvard have met 42 times in varsity play since the Eagles elevated to Division 1 status in the 1994-95 season.
• The Eagles trail the all-time series, 15-26-1 ... at home, BC is 7-8-0 against Harvard, and 3-15-1 on the road at the Bright-Landry Center ... BC leads 5-3-0 on neutral ice … the Eagles are 7-11-0 against Harvard in the Beanpot.
• Boston College is 6-3-1 in the last 10 meetings and has gone 14-5-1 against Harvard since Feb. 14, 2006.
• Katie Crowley is 12-5-1 all-time against Harvard
• Maegan Beres had a career-best three-assist outing against Harvard in a 6-2 win on Jan. 16, 2018 ... she is one of six Eagles with at least one point against Harvard.
• Last year, BC dropped a Beanpot semifinal game, 4-1, at Harvard in the lone meeting of the season between the two teams.
Harvard's 17-2 win at Kelley Rink on Jan. 28, 2003 set several NCAA records: most goals by a team in a game (17), most combined goals by two teams in a game (19) and largest margin of victory (15 goals).

COUNTRY CLASSIC RECAP
• Boston College played in the inaugural Country Classic in Nashville, Tenn. over Thanksgiving, taking on then No. 1 Minnesota and No. 2 Wisconsin.
• On Nov. 29, the Eagles battled the Gophers to a 2-2 overtime tie ... BC jumped out to a 1-0 lead thanks to a short-handed goal from Delaney Belinskas and then used another short-handed goal from Kelly Browne to take a 2-1 lead into the third period ... Minnesota would tie the game and neither team found the back of the net in overtime.
• Maddy McArthur finished with 41 saves for BC ... BC's two short-handed goals marked the first time a team has ever scored multiple short-handed goals in a game against the Gophers.
• On Nov. 30, the Badgers jumped out to a 3-0 lead after the first period but Savannah Norcross and Caroline DiFiore brought the Eagle within one by the end of the second period ... Wisconsin took another two-goal lead midway through the third and Cayla Barnes scored on the power play with six minutes to play, but the Badgers held off several late looks before finding the empty net.
• McArthur made a career-high 43 saves, topping her previous best set the day before against Minnesota.
• Harvard fell to Wisconsin, 5-1, and Minnesota, 4-0, in the Country Classic's other contests.

SHORT HANDED? NOT A PROBLEM
• Boston College has scored a nation-leading six short-handed goals this season.
• Delaney Belinskas has potted three short-handed goals, which ties for tops in the country.
• A nation-leading four different players have scored short-handed goals for BC this year in Belinskas, Lindsay Agnew, Hannah Bilka and Kelly Browne.
• Twice this season the Eagles have scored two short-handed goals in a game, doing it at Holy Cross on Oct. 3, 2019 and against Minnesota on Nov. 29, 2019.
• BC is the only team to ever score multiple short-handed goals in a single game against Minnesota, doing it on Nov. 29, 2019.
• Agnew has five career short-handed goals, tied with Emily Field for seventh in program history.

SECOND PERIOD SCORING SURGES
• Boston College is tied for second in the country with 26 goals scored in the middle frame while the team's 68 points ranks fifth overall ... BC's 26 goals, 42 assists and 68 points leads all of Hockey East.
• The Eagles have also scored a nation-leading four short-handed goals in the second frame ... the team also has scored four game-winning goals in the second.
• The Eagles scored four goals in the first 9:06 of the second period against Holy Cross on Oct. 3, with Hannah Bilka recording a hat trick in exactly seven minutes ... against Providence on Nov. 2, BC scored four goals in the first 10:12 of the middle frame.
• BC also put in five goals in the second period of an 8-0 win over Merrimack on Oct. 18.

BALANCED SCORING
• Through the first 19 games of the season, Boston College has had 12 different players score at least one goal and 16 players total register at least one point.
• BC has eight players with at least 10 points each, the most in Hockey East ... the Eagles have 11 players with at least five points.
• Seven different players have scored game-winning goals for the Eagles this season.

IT'S WORTH NOTING...
• Boston College ranks 10th in the country in scoring with an average of 3.11 goals per game.
• The Eagles lead the nation in short-handed scoring with six goals.
• Kelly Browne is third in the country with 243 face-off wins.
• BC's sophomore class has contributed 69 points on 25 goals and 44 assists ... that is 42 percent of the team's goals (25/59), 46 percent of assists (44/95) and 44 percent of the team's points (69/155).
• BC has scored 26 goals in the second period,
• Sixteen of BC's 58 goals scored this season have come in the opening five minutes of a period while four game-winning goals have been scored in the opening five minutes of a period.
• Seven different players have scored game-winning goals for the Eagles this season.
• Savannah Norcross has fired at least one shot on goal in all 19 of BC's contests this year while Hannah Bilka has put at least one shot on goal in all 17 games that she has played in. ... Cayla Barnes has registered at least one shot in all 18 contests that she has skated in.
• BC scored at least five goals in five of its first 10 games ... the Eagles last did that in the first 10 games of the 2014-15 season.
• BC's 7-0-0 start marked the second-ever such start in program history (40-0-0 in 2015-16).

Eagles Set to Host Harvard on New Year's Eve

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Players Mentioned

Lindsay Agnew

Cayla Barnes

Delaney Belinskas

Maegan Beres

Hannah Bilka

Kelly Browne

Caroline DiFiore

Maddy McArthur

Savannah Norcross

Kelly Pickreign