Friday, January 10
Chestnut Hill, Mass.
7:00 PM
Boston College
vs
UMass
Photo by: John Quackenbos
No. 4 Eagles Meet No. 10 UMass for Key Home-and-Home Series
January 09, 2020 | Men's Hockey
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Fourth-ranked Boston College carries the longest winning streak in the nation into a home-and-home series with No. 10 UMass, taking aim at an 11th straight victory in the series opener on Friday night (Jan. 10) at 7 p.m. on NESN at Kelley Rink. The series concludes on Saturday (Jan. 11) at 7 p.m. in Amherst on NESN+. Live audio is available both nights at BCEagles.com and Friday night's game will be carried live on WEEI 850 AM.
STREAKY EAGLES
• Boston College's 10-game winning streak is the second-longest unbeaten run in college hockey behind North Dakota (15 games: 14-0-1)
• The Eagles have outscored their opponents 50-12 for a +38 goal margin in the streak
• It marks the first 10-game winning streak for BC since October and November of 2015 and the first by a Hockey East team since 2016
• The power play is 15-for-37 (40.5%) with at least one power play goal in all 10 games during the streak, while the penalty kill is 34-for-40 (85.0%) with four shorthanded goals
• The forward lines of Cotton-Mattila-Hutsko (17-23-40) and Hardman-Newhook-Räsänen (16-21-37) comprise the team's top-6 individual scorers in the 10-game run
SCOUTING THE MINUTEMEN
• UMass won its first Hockey East Regular Season Championship and reached its first NCAA National Championship Game last season
• The Minutemen eventually fell 3-0 to Minnesota Duluth in Buffalo but finished the year with a program-record 31 wins
• Juniors Mitchell Chaffee and John Leonard have each scored 12 goals this season; Chaffee leads the team with 12 assists and 24 points
• Sophomore Filip Lindberg (5-4-1, 1.89 GAA, .924 SV%) and junior Matt Murray (8-2-0, 1.82, .919) have both started 10 games between the pipes
• UMass is clicking at 14.7% on the power play and 85.9% on the penalty kill
• Massachusetts had won four straight before being swept at No. 5 Denver last weekend by 4-2 and 4-3 finals in a Frozen Four rematch at Magness Arena
• Greg Carvel is in his fourth season as the head coach in Amherst
SERIES HISTORY
• BC entered last season with an eight-game winning streak against UMass but lost both regular season meetings to the Minutemen in February
• The No. 7 seed Eagles responded by shutting out the top-seeded Minutemen 3-0 at TD Garden in the Hockey East Semifinal
• UMass earned a 4-2 win at a sold out Kelley Rink to sweep the regular season series on Feb. 16, 2019 despite a pair of goals from Graham McPhee
• The Eagles hadn't fallen at home to Massachusetts since Jan. 18, 2013 as the loss snapped a 10-game home unbeaten streak (9-0-1) in the series
• Boston College still leads the overall series with UMass 64-15-3 and holds a 28-6-1 head-to-head advantage dating back to 2008
RONNY HAT TRICK
• Ron Greco was selected as the Hockey East Co-Player of the Week on Monday along with Tim Doherty of Maine
• Greco netted his first career hat trick on Saturday afternoon in an 8-3 home win over Vermont while picking up the game-winner in just his second career multi-goal game
• The senior added an assist for a career-high four points and finished the contest with a plus-three rating
• Greco and his sophomore linemates Marc McLaughlin and Patrick Giles combined for four goals and nine points
RED HOT HUTSKO
• Logan Hutsko is currently riding a career-high 12-game point streak with a 9-5-14 scoring line
• Hutsko, who lost four games to injury in the first half, has at least one point in every one of his appearances
• The junior is tied for the team lead in goals (9) despite missing those four contests
• He is also tied for the Hockey East lead in goals per game (0.75) with Tyler Madden of Northeastern
OH WHAT A KNIGHT
• After earning Hockey East Rookie of the Month and National Rookie of the Month honors in November, Spencer Knight took home another monthly award on Monday as the league's Goaltender of the Month for December
• Knight made a pair of starts against No. 9 Notre Dame in a home-and-home sweep of the Fighting Irish in early December, stopping 53 of the 54 shots he faced for a .981 save percentage
• The rookie missed Saturday's win over Vermont as he returned from the Czech Republic, where he started four of five games for Team USA at the 2020 IIHF World Junior Championships with a 2.49 GAA and .913 SV%
• He owns a 1.00 GAA and .964 SV% with three shutouts during his personal nine-game win streak
VERMONT RECAP
• Ron Greco scored his first career hat trick and Boston College extended its nation-best winning streak to 10 following an 8-3 victory over Vermont last Saturday afternoon to begin the second half at Kelley Rink
• BC swept the regular season series and pushed its winning streak to nine against UVM
• Greco's linemate Marc McLaughlin also registered a career-high four points on a goal and three assists for his first career multi-point effort as 14 different Eagles picked up at least one point
• Vermont native Ben Finkelstein put together a three assist performance, while David Cotton (1-1-2) and Mike Hardman (0-2-2) gave the Eagles five players with multi-point efforts
• Logan Hutsko extended his career-high point streak to 12 games with a third period goal
POWER RESTORED
• Converting at better than a 40% clip during its 10-game winning streak, Boston College now leads Hockey East and ranks sixth nationally in power play percentage at 27.4%
• The Eagles are 11-1-0 when scoring at least once on the power play this season
• Since Nov. 1, BC is nearly 10 percentage points higher than the next best power play in Hockey East
• Aapeli Räsänen (5) and David Cotton (4) both rank top-10 in the league in power play goals
SHUTOUT CITY
• Spencer Knight currently leads Hockey East with four shutouts and ranks second in GAA (1.73) and SV% (.940)
• The rookie is tied for second nationally in shutouts behind only Dryden McKay (6) of Minnesota State
• Only four other goalies in BC history have posted at least four shutouts in an entire season: Thatcher Demko, Cory Schneider (twice), Scott Clemmensen (twice) and Matti Kaltiainen
• Demko set a school record with 10 shutouts during the 2015-16 season, including three consecutive
UP NEXT
• Next weekend, the Eagles travel to UMass Lowell on Friday night (Jan. 17) before hosting rival Boston University for the Battle of Comm Ave on Saturday (Jan. 18)
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STREAKY EAGLES
• Boston College's 10-game winning streak is the second-longest unbeaten run in college hockey behind North Dakota (15 games: 14-0-1)
• The Eagles have outscored their opponents 50-12 for a +38 goal margin in the streak
• It marks the first 10-game winning streak for BC since October and November of 2015 and the first by a Hockey East team since 2016
• The power play is 15-for-37 (40.5%) with at least one power play goal in all 10 games during the streak, while the penalty kill is 34-for-40 (85.0%) with four shorthanded goals
• The forward lines of Cotton-Mattila-Hutsko (17-23-40) and Hardman-Newhook-Räsänen (16-21-37) comprise the team's top-6 individual scorers in the 10-game run
SCOUTING THE MINUTEMEN
• UMass won its first Hockey East Regular Season Championship and reached its first NCAA National Championship Game last season
• The Minutemen eventually fell 3-0 to Minnesota Duluth in Buffalo but finished the year with a program-record 31 wins
• Juniors Mitchell Chaffee and John Leonard have each scored 12 goals this season; Chaffee leads the team with 12 assists and 24 points
• Sophomore Filip Lindberg (5-4-1, 1.89 GAA, .924 SV%) and junior Matt Murray (8-2-0, 1.82, .919) have both started 10 games between the pipes
• UMass is clicking at 14.7% on the power play and 85.9% on the penalty kill
• Massachusetts had won four straight before being swept at No. 5 Denver last weekend by 4-2 and 4-3 finals in a Frozen Four rematch at Magness Arena
• Greg Carvel is in his fourth season as the head coach in Amherst
SERIES HISTORY
• BC entered last season with an eight-game winning streak against UMass but lost both regular season meetings to the Minutemen in February
• The No. 7 seed Eagles responded by shutting out the top-seeded Minutemen 3-0 at TD Garden in the Hockey East Semifinal
• UMass earned a 4-2 win at a sold out Kelley Rink to sweep the regular season series on Feb. 16, 2019 despite a pair of goals from Graham McPhee
• The Eagles hadn't fallen at home to Massachusetts since Jan. 18, 2013 as the loss snapped a 10-game home unbeaten streak (9-0-1) in the series
• Boston College still leads the overall series with UMass 64-15-3 and holds a 28-6-1 head-to-head advantage dating back to 2008
RONNY HAT TRICK
• Ron Greco was selected as the Hockey East Co-Player of the Week on Monday along with Tim Doherty of Maine
• Greco netted his first career hat trick on Saturday afternoon in an 8-3 home win over Vermont while picking up the game-winner in just his second career multi-goal game
• The senior added an assist for a career-high four points and finished the contest with a plus-three rating
• Greco and his sophomore linemates Marc McLaughlin and Patrick Giles combined for four goals and nine points
RED HOT HUTSKO
• Logan Hutsko is currently riding a career-high 12-game point streak with a 9-5-14 scoring line
• Hutsko, who lost four games to injury in the first half, has at least one point in every one of his appearances
• The junior is tied for the team lead in goals (9) despite missing those four contests
• He is also tied for the Hockey East lead in goals per game (0.75) with Tyler Madden of Northeastern
OH WHAT A KNIGHT
• After earning Hockey East Rookie of the Month and National Rookie of the Month honors in November, Spencer Knight took home another monthly award on Monday as the league's Goaltender of the Month for December
• Knight made a pair of starts against No. 9 Notre Dame in a home-and-home sweep of the Fighting Irish in early December, stopping 53 of the 54 shots he faced for a .981 save percentage
• The rookie missed Saturday's win over Vermont as he returned from the Czech Republic, where he started four of five games for Team USA at the 2020 IIHF World Junior Championships with a 2.49 GAA and .913 SV%
• He owns a 1.00 GAA and .964 SV% with three shutouts during his personal nine-game win streak
VERMONT RECAP
• Ron Greco scored his first career hat trick and Boston College extended its nation-best winning streak to 10 following an 8-3 victory over Vermont last Saturday afternoon to begin the second half at Kelley Rink
• BC swept the regular season series and pushed its winning streak to nine against UVM
• Greco's linemate Marc McLaughlin also registered a career-high four points on a goal and three assists for his first career multi-point effort as 14 different Eagles picked up at least one point
• Vermont native Ben Finkelstein put together a three assist performance, while David Cotton (1-1-2) and Mike Hardman (0-2-2) gave the Eagles five players with multi-point efforts
• Logan Hutsko extended his career-high point streak to 12 games with a third period goal
POWER RESTORED
• Converting at better than a 40% clip during its 10-game winning streak, Boston College now leads Hockey East and ranks sixth nationally in power play percentage at 27.4%
• The Eagles are 11-1-0 when scoring at least once on the power play this season
• Since Nov. 1, BC is nearly 10 percentage points higher than the next best power play in Hockey East
• Aapeli Räsänen (5) and David Cotton (4) both rank top-10 in the league in power play goals
SHUTOUT CITY
• Spencer Knight currently leads Hockey East with four shutouts and ranks second in GAA (1.73) and SV% (.940)
• The rookie is tied for second nationally in shutouts behind only Dryden McKay (6) of Minnesota State
• Only four other goalies in BC history have posted at least four shutouts in an entire season: Thatcher Demko, Cory Schneider (twice), Scott Clemmensen (twice) and Matti Kaltiainen
• Demko set a school record with 10 shutouts during the 2015-16 season, including three consecutive
UP NEXT
• Next weekend, the Eagles travel to UMass Lowell on Friday night (Jan. 17) before hosting rival Boston University for the Battle of Comm Ave on Saturday (Jan. 18)
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