BC Hosts No. 9 Northeastern for Senior Night to Open Home-and-Home

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Boston College will attempt to snap a six-game losing streak on Friday (March 1) as it heads into Senior Night to honor the Class of 2019 at 7 p.m. against ninth-ranked Northeastern at Kelley Rink. Friday marks the final regular season home game for the Eagles' five-member senior class of Christopher Brown, JD Dudek, Casey Fitzgerald, Michael Kim, and Ian Milosz. The Eagles and Huskies will complete a home-and-home series on Saturday (March 2) at Matthews Arena at 7 p.m.

BEANPOT FLASHBACK
• Boston College's comeback from 3-0 down in the third period fell one goal short in the title game of the 67th Beanpot on Feb. 11 as Northeastern defended its crown with a 4-2 victory at TD Garden
• David Cotton led the way offensively with his eighth multi-point game of the season, while Joseph Woll stopped 31 shots in net
• Lincoln Griffin's backhander early in the third period gave the Huskies a commanding 3-0 cushion, but Cotton's team-high 16th of the season at 4:09 put BC on the board
• Cotton was the catalyst with just under eight minutes remaining, creating a turnover behind the NU net before finding senior JD Dudek wide open in front for his sixth tally
• The Eagles pulled Woll for an extra skater with roughly 90 seconds left on the clock and won multiple offensive zone draws, but Zach Solow's empty-netter sealed the NU win in the dying seconds

PLAYOFF PICTURE
• Heading into the final three games of the regular season, Boston College sits in seventh place at 9-9-3
• The Eagles trail Maine and Boston University (tied for fifth) by three points, and need six points to catch both Northeastern and UMass Lowell (tied for third); the only tiebreaker BC owns in that group is BU
• Eighth-place UNH is two points behind BC but owns the tiebreaker with a 1-0-1 head-to-head record
• Six of the top-8 teams have played 21 of their 24 league games (Maine and Providence have each played 22)
• UConn, Vermont, and Merrimack have all been eliminated from playoff contention

CLASS OF 2019
• Boston College's five seniors have helped the program to 79 total victories in their NCAA careers
• The group won the school's 20th Beanpot trophy in 2016 as freshmen and helped the Eagles reach their 25th Frozen Four in program history just a few months later
• The Class of 2019 has earned at least a share of the Hockey East Regular Season Championship during each of its first three seasons on the Heights

SCOUTING THE HUSKIES
• Beginning with its Beanpot victory over Boston College at TD Garden back, Northeastern has won five straight games
• The Huskies, who are 21-9-1 overall and 13-7-1 in Hockey East, rank ninth this week in both the USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey polls
• Junior defenseman Jeremy Davies leads the Huskies with 23 assists and 31 points, while sophomore forward Zach Solow has tallied a team-high 14 goals
• Between the pipes this season, sophomore Cayden Primeau has started 28 games with a 19-8-1 record, 2.20 GAA, .928 SV%, and four shutouts
• NU is clicking at 19.7% on the power play and 85.1% on the penalty kill
• Jim Madigan is in his eighth year as the head coach at his alma mater

SERIES HISTORY
• Boston College has a 166-53-16 advantage against Northeastern heading into the 236th all-time meeting in series history
• NU has won three straight overall but BC is 4-1-0 in the last five league meetings
• Last season, both schools won by three goals on the other's home ice during the Hockey East regular season in the first half
• Overall, the teams are dead even at 5-5-1 in the last 11 meetings

A BUNCH OF COTTON
• David Cotton has a three-goal cushion atop the Hockey East leaderboard with 18 tallies on the year
• He is also tied for the league lead with seven power play goals
• Nationally, he is sixth in the country in goals per game and 13th in power play goals
• The Texan is tied for 10th in Hockey East with eight multi-point games, his most recent coming on Feb. 11 in the Beanpot title game against Northeastern with a goal and an assist in the third period
• The junior set a new career-high with his 29th point last Saturday, edging his sophomore total (9-19-28)

POWERING UP
• Boston College's power play unit began the second half with an 0-for-17 stretch, but has rebounded by going 11-for-43 in the 12 games since for a percentage of 25.6%
• The Eagles have scored a power play goal in a season-best four straight games
• During Hockey East play, the BC power play (24.3%) ranks second in the league behind only UMass (32.9%)
• Boston College has the lowest number of power play attempts in Hockey East (104)

SO CLOSE...
• Each of Boston College's last five losses have come by either one goal or two with an empty-netter
• Nine of the team's last 10 games have been decided by one goal or two with an ENG
• Overall this season, BC is just 5-12-0 in games decided by two goals or less

UP NEXT
• The Eagles close the regular season next Thursday night (March 7) against No. 8 Providence at Schneider Arena

BC Hosts No. 9 Northeastern for Senior Night to Open Home-and-Home

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Players Mentioned

Christopher Brown

David Cotton

JD Dudek

Casey Fitzgerald

Michael Kim

Ian Milosz

Joseph Woll