Boston College
UConn
UConn Huskies Up Next For Eagles
January 22, 2021 | Women's Hockey
BC and UConn will meet for a single game on Saturday.
All Hockey East games this season will be made available across the U.S. and internationally on SportsLive, while all games televised on NESN and NESN+ and other select matchups will also be made available on CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports app outside of New England.
GAME 13 | UConn at Boston College
Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021 | 3:00 P.M.
Kelley Rink | Chestnut Hill, Mass.
WHAT'S ON TAP
• Boston College and UConn are slated to meet for a single game at Kelley Rink on Saturday, Jan. 23.
• UConn and Boston College met twice earlier this season, with the Eagles earing a weekend sweep.
ABOUT BOSTON COLLEGE
• BC enters the weekend at 9-3-0 after a two-game sweep of Holy Cross last weekend, earning a 3-2 win at home and a 5-1 win on the road.
• Kelly Browne leads the nation, conference and team in scoring with 15 points on five goals and 10 assists ... Browne is also first in the nation with five multi-point game and 151 face-off wins.
• Savannah Norcross is tied for second in Hockey East with 14 points on a league-leading seven goals and seven assists.
• The Eagles have had 13 different goal scorers so far this season while 16 different players have recorded at least one point and nine players have at least six points each.
• Maddy McArthur has gone 4-1-0 in goal with a .914 save percentage and 2.66 goals against average while Kelly Pickreign (3-1-0) and Abigail Levy (2-1-0) have both picked up starts and wins for the Eagles to make BC the only team in the country with three goaltenders with at least two wins each.
ABOUT UCONN
• The Huskies enter the game at 5-5-1 overall ... UConn last played a week ago, earning a two-game sweep of New Hampshire with a 1-0 road win and a 4-0 road win on Jan. 15 and Jan. 16, respectively.
• Savannah Bouzide leads UConn in scoring with nine points on a team-high six goals and three assists ... Viki Harkness has recorded eight points on two goals and six assists while Jada Habisch (3-4-7) and Natalie Snodgrass (3-4-7) have seven points each.
• Tia Chan and Samantha Carpentier-Yelle have split time between the pipes for the Huskies ... Chan is 3-2-1 with a .953 save percentage, 1.32 goals against average and two shutouts ... Carpentier-Yelle is 2-3-0 with a .901 save percentage, 2.57 goals against average and two shutouts.
• UConn went 19-18-2 season in 2019-20, tying a program record with 13 Hockey East wins.
• The Huskies returned six of the top eight point getters from a season ago including leading scorer Snodgrass ... Snodgrass had 33 points on 16 goals and 17 assists en route to Hockey East Second Team All-Star honors last year.
• Chris MacKenzie is in his ninth season as head coach of the Huskies.
SERIES NOTES
• The Eagles lead the all-time series between the teams, 40-19-10 ... BC has a mark of 23-9-2 against the Huskies at Kelley Rink ... BC is 15-9-8 against UConn in Storrs and 2-1-0 in neutral site meetings.
• BC took the first two meetings of the 2020-21 season, earning a 5-3 win on the road on Dec. 4 and a 3-1 win at home on Dec. 5.
• The senior class of Willow Corson and Maegan Beres have played UConn 17 times in their BC careers, seeing the Huskies more than any other opponent.
• UConn won the regular season series in 2019-20 at 2-1-0 ... on Nov. 9, the Huskies skated to a 5-2 win in Storrs in what was the first loss of the season for BC ... the teams then traded 2-1 road wins in a home-and-home series, with UConn winning on Nov. 22 at Kelley Rink and BC taking a 2-1 game on Nov. 23 in Storrs ... UConn would go on to take the best-of-three Hockey East Tournament quarterfinal series two games to one.
• BC swept the 2018-19 regular season series at 3-0-0 ... the Eagles put up 3-0 and 4-0 wins at home as well as a 3-0 road win.
• Twelve current Eagles have registered at least one point against UConn, with Cayla Barnes sporting a team-high 10 points on two goals and eight assists against the Huskies.
• Kelly Browne is second on the team with two goals and six helpers for eight points against UConn.
• Olivia Finocchiaro potted her first career goal against UConn on Nov. 16, 2018.
• Natalie Tulchinsky scored the first and second goals of her career with a two-goal outing on Dec. 4, 2020.
• Maddie Crowley-Cahill earned her first career point with an assist against UConn on Dec. 4, 2020.
• Maddy McArthur shutout the Huskies in all three regular season meetings in 2018-19.
A WIN WOULD . . .
• Give BC a record of 41-19-10 in the all-time series with UConn and a mark of 24-9-2 at Kelley Rink.
• Move BC's all-time program record to 475-353-80.
• Give head coach Katie Crowley an overall record of 331-116-51 with a mark of 34-7-7 against UConn.
• With one more goal, Cayla Barnes can move into a tie for 10th all-time in program history for goals by a defender ... one more point would give her 53 for her career and sole possession of 10th all-time in scoring by a defender.
• Maddy McArthur (4-1-0), Kelly Pickreign (3-1-0) and Abigail Levy (2-1-0) have each registered at least two wins in goal, making the Eagles the only team in the country to have three goaltenders with at least two wins each.
• Hannah Bilka needs three more points to reach 50 for her career, currently standing at 47 on 18 goals and 29 assists ... the Eagles are 12-0-1 over the last two seasons when Bilka scores a goal.
• Kelly Browne needs to more assists to reach 50 for her career.
• Over the last three seasons, BC has gone 7-1-0 when Jillian Fey records a goal and 15-2-0 when she has at least one point.
• The Eagles have three players with multiple game-winning goals in Fey, Gaby Roy, and Savannah Norcross ... six players total of tallied game-winners for BC, tied for Providence for the most in the country.
• Since she arrived on the Heights, the Eagles have a record of 20-1-1 when Willow Corson has a point and 10-0-0 when she scores a goal.
• McArthur has 1,513 career saves, needing 487 to reach 2,000 for her career ... she currently sits sixth all-time in program history.
• BC is 17-3-0 over the last two seasons when Hadley Hartmez records at least one point.
• Bilka has recorded at least two shots on goal in every game so far this season ... Bilka and Hartmetz are the only players on the team to have at least one shot on goal in every game this season.
LAST WEEKEND
• Boston College played a home-and-home series against Holy Cross last weekend, earning a 3-2 win at home and a 5-1 win on the road.
• On Friday, Holy Cross took a 1-0 lead and BC responded to hold a 2-1 lead ... after the Crusaders tied things up, Savannah Norcross potted the game-winning goal with under five minutes to go ... Kelly Pickreign made 25 saves to move to 3-1-0.
• Saturday's game saw Alexie Guay score two goals and Kelly Browne register three points ... Hadley Hartmetz chipped in two helpers while Hannah Bilka had two points on one goal and one assist ... Abigail Levy made 26 saves to move to 2-1-0.
• Guay earned Hockey East Defensive Player of the Week honors for her three-goal weekend ... Guay's three goals tied for the national lead on the weekend.
A BALANCED BC ATTACK
• The Eagles have had 13 different goal scorers so far this season while 16 different players have recorded at least one point and nine players have at least six points each.
• Ten players have recorded multi-point games for BC while four players have had multi-goal games.
• The Eagles have three players with multiple game-winning goals in Gaby Roy, Jillian Fey and Savannah Norcross ... six players total of tallied game-winners for BC, tied for Providence for the most in the country.
• Through the first six games of the year, 10 different players scored a goal ... it marked the first time since the 2016-17 season that BC had 10 different goal scorers through the first six games.
• Through the first 12 games of the season, Kelly Browne has racked up a nation-leading 15 points on five goals and 10 assists.
• Browne's 151 face-off wins is also first in the country while her winning percentage (65.4%) is first among players who have taken more than 200 draws.
• The captain also leads the nation with five multi-point games so far this season, including the third multi-goal game of her career with two scores at UConn on Dec. 4 -- a performance that included a short-handed goal and a game-winning goal.
• She opened up the season with a career-long six-game point streak and has points in nine out of 12 contests.
• Browne was named the Hockey East Player of the Week on Dec. 7 for her three goal, one assist weekend against UConn.
• The junior recorded 36 points on 13 goals and 23 assists a season ago while earning Hockey East Third Team All-Star honors.
• Through her first 150 face offs, she had a 62% win rate, marking the highest winning percentage for a BC player through the first 150 faceoffs of a season since Alex Carpenter won 69% during the 2015-16 season.
• Browne currently hast 963 face-off wins, needing 37 to reach 1,000 for her career ... her single-game career high for wins is 21, coming in a 3-3 tie with Maine on Oct. 26, 2019.
THE NORCROSS NOTE
• Savannah Norcross is currently second on the team and tied for second in the nation with 14 points on seven goals and seven assists ... her seven helpers already mark a career-high while her seven goals on the year leads Hockey East.
• Norcross started the year with a career-long six-game point streak ... she opened the season with a career-high three assist game at New Hampshire on Nov. 20 and then reeled off a three-game goal scoring streak.
• She has assisted on three game-winning goals and scored two game-winning goals herself, potting winners against UConn and Holy Cross.
• Norcross has tallied three multi-point outings on the year and now has seven in her career ... the junior has at least one point in 10 of BC's 12 games.
• The Lynn, Mass. native has picked up right where she left off last season, as she recorded career highs in points (17), goals (11) and assists (6) as a sophomore.
