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Weekend Series with Northeastern On Tap for Eagles
January 07, 2020 | Women's Hockey
The Eagles will host the Huskies on Friday afternoon at Kelley Rink and then the teams will face off on Sunday at Matthews Arena.
BC hosts the weekend opener on Friday, Jan. 10 with a 2 p.m. tilt at Kelley Rink. The teams will then face off on Sunday, Jan. 12 with a 1 p.m. game at Matthews Arena. Friday's game will be streamed on CBS SportsLive while Sunday's contest will air on NESN.
GAME 21
Boston College (11-7-2, 10-5-1 HEA) vs No. 3/3 Northeastern (15-3-1, 12-2-0 HEA)
Kelley Rink | Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Friday, Jan. 10, 2019 | 2 p.m.
GAME 22
Boston College (11-7-2, 10-5-1 HEA) at No. 3/3 Northeastern (15-3-1, 12-2-0 HEA)*
Matthews Arena | Boston
Sunday, Jan. 12, 2019 | 1 p.m.
*records do not include Friday night's results.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR
• Boston College and No. 3 Northeastern will play a home-and-home series this weekend, facing off at Kelley Rink on Friday afternoon before heading to Matthews Arena for a Sunday matinee.
• Boston College is 45-40-7 all-time against Northeastern since elevating to Division I status for the 1995-96 season ... Friday marks the 92nd meeting in the series ... the Eagles are 19-16-4 at home against the Huskies, 19-19-2 on the road and 7-5-1 in neutral site meetings.
• The Huskies took the first meeting of the season back on Nov. 19 at Kelley Rink, 3-0.
• BC was picked to finish third in the Hockey East Preseason Coaches Poll while Northeastern was picked to win the conference.
• Savannah Norcross has fired at least one shot on goal in all 20 of BC's contests this year while Hannah Bilka has put at least one shot on goal in all 18 games that she has played in.
• Friday marks BC's sixth consecutive game against a team ranked or receiving votes in the national polls ... eight if the teams last 10 games have come against teams either ranked or receiving votes.
BOSTON COLLEGE IN BRIEF
• Kelly Browne leads the Eagles with 24 points on eight goals and a career-best 16 assists while sitting fourth in the nation with 256 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 17 of 18 skaters have registered at least one point.
• Maddy McArthur is 9-6-2 in goal with a .914 save percentage, 2.35 goals against average and two shutouts while Kelly Pickreign is 2-1-0 with a shutout and a 2.52 goals against average and .913 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).
ABOUT NORTHEASTERN
• The Huskies played in the Battle of the Burgh last weekend, tying Colgate 1-1 and falling to No. 1 Wisconsin in overtime, 4-3.
• Aerin Frankel, the Hockey East Defensive Player of the Week, made 51 stops against the Badgers to go with her 31 stops against the Raiders ... Frankel boasts a 1.18 goals against average, .953 save percentage and four shutouts on the year.
• Alina Mueller leads the team with a league-best 34 points on 11 goals and 23 assists while Chloe Aurard has 12 goals and 12 assists for 24 points.
• Northeastern is allowing just 1.05 goals per game, the second-best mark in the nation.
• Dave Flint is in his 11th year as head coach of the Huskies.
• Northeastern, two-time defending Hockey East Tournament champion, was picked as the favorite in the 2019-20 Hockey East Preseason Coaches Poll.
SERIES NOTES
• Boston College is 45-40-7 all-time against Northeastern since elevating to Division I status for the 1995-95 season ... Friday marks the 92nd meeting in the series.
• Overall, the Eagles are 19-16-4 at home against the Huskies, 19-19-2 on the road and 7-5-1 in neutral site meetings.
• Northeastern took the first meeting of the season, 3-0, back on Nov. 19 at Kelley Rink
• The teams met five times last season, with Northeastern taking the series at 3-2-0 ... each team won their respective home games, with the Huskies earning 5-4 overtime and 4-1 wins while the Eagles had a 7-5 victory ... BC won the neutral site Beanpot semifinal meeting, 4-1, and then the Huskies won the Hockey East Tournament title game in overtime, 3-2.
• Delaney Belinskas (3-8-11) is the team's active scoring leader against Northeastern ... last season, she has posted five points in five games against the Huskies ... Belinskas tied a career-high with four points on two goals and two assists in a 7-5 home win on Jan. 12, 2019 ... picked up four assists in five games as a freshman in 2016-17 ... Kelly Browne has six points (2-4-6) in five career games against the Huskies ... she had two assists in a 5-4 overtime loss on Nov. 27, 2018 and added two points on one goal and one assist in a 7-5 win on Jan. 12, 2019.
OVER THE LAST DECADE...
• Boston College started off the 2010s with a 3-3 tie against Yale on Jan. 9, 2010 and went on to accumulate a record of 274-75-31 in the decade.
• The team's 274 wins marked the most of any Hockey East school and third-most in the nation and made 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 outscored opponents 1419-696.
• The Eagles have advanced to nine consecutive NCAA tournaments and made six Frozen Four appearances and one national title game appearance.
LAST TIME OUT
• Boston College hosted Havard on New Year's Eve in the final women's college hockey contest of the decade, falling to the Crimson, 7-1.
• Harvard jumped out to a 1-0 lead 90 seconds into the game and never looked back, stretching the lead out to 5-0 before BC scored.
• Maegan Beres scored her second goal of the season midway through the third period.
• Kate Annese earned the primary assist on the Beres goal, her first point since tallying a goal against Harvard on Nov. 22, 2017.
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.
BALANCED SCORING
• Through the first 20 games of the season, Boston College has had 12 different players score at least one goal and 17 of 18 skaters 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.
BAR DOWN, KELLY BROWNE
• In a 5-2 win over New Hampshire on Nov. 1, Kelly Browne registered a career-high four goals ... it was the 11th fourth-goal game in program history ... it marked the second multi-goal game of her career and the hat trick included her third career game-winning goal.
• Through the first 20 games of the season, Browne has registered eights goals and 16 assists for 24 points ... her 16 assists mark a career-high while her 24 points lead the team.
• Browne put together a career-long five-game point streak from Oct. 20 to Nov. 2, putting up 10 points on six goals and four assists.
• She is fourth in the country with 256 face-off wins. ... she registered a career-high 21 wins at the dot against Maine on Oct. 23.
• The sophomore has six multi-point games on the year and 11 in her career.
• Browne registered 26 points on 11 goals and 15 assists as a rookie.
• The Burlington, Mass. native earned her first call up to the U.S. National Women's Hockey team in December, earning a spot on the roster for the Rivalry Series with Canada.
