Huskies, Eagles Set to Meet for Two-Game Series
January 27, 2021 | Women's Hockey
Seventh-ranked Boston College and UConn will meet for a home-and-home series.
BC and UConn are scheduled for a 3:00 p.m. puck drop on Saturday, Jan. 30 at Kelley Rink, with the contest set to air live on NESN. The Eagles will then make the trip to Storrs for a 3:00 p.m. start on Sunday, Jan. 30 at Freitas Ice Forum. This follows the earlier postponement of the series between Boston College and Boston University that was originally scheduled for Jan. 29-30, as also announced on Wednesday.
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GAME 14 | UConn at Boston College
Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021 | 3:00 P.M. | NESN
Kelley Rink | Chestnut Hill, Mass.
GAME 15 | Boston College at UConn
Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021 | 3:00 P.M.
Freitas Ice Forum | Storrs, Conn.
WHAT'S ON TAP
• Boston College and UConn will square off in a home-and-home series this weekend, dropping the puck at Kelley Rink on Saturday and then at the Freitas Ice Forum on Sunday.
• The teams met last weekend for one game on the Heights, with the Eagles earning a 2-1 overtime win ... the Eagles also took the first two meetings of the 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.
ABOUT BOSTON COLLEGE
• BC enters the weekend at 10-3-0 after playing a single game last weekend, a 2-1 overtime win over this weekend's opponent, UConn, on Saturday, Jan. 23 at Kelley Rink.
• Kelly Browne leads the conference and team in scoring with 15 points on five goals and 10 assists ... Browne is also tied for first in the nation with five multi-point game and ranks second with 161 face-off wins.
• Savannah Norcross is tied for second in Hockey East with 14 points while also scoring a league-leading seven goals.
• 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 seven points.
• Maddy McArthur has gone 4-1-0 in goal with a .914 save percentage and 2.66 goals against average while Kelly Pickreign is 3-1-0 with a 1.76 goals against average and .927 save percentage and Abigail Levy is 3-1-0 with a 1.45 goals against average and .950 save percentage ... BC is the only team in the country with three goaltenders with multiple wins.
• UConn enters the weekend at 5-7-1 overall after dropping a 2-0 game at No. 4 Northeastern on Tuesday night ... Samantha Carpentier-Yelle made 29 saves in the loss while the Huskies blocked 27 shots as a team.
• Savannah Bouzide leads UConn in scoring with 10 points on a team-high six goals and four assists ... Viki Harkness has recorded nine points on three goals and six assists while Jada Habisch (3-4-7) and Natalie Snodgrass (3-4-7) have seven points each.
• Tia Chan and Carpentier-Yelle have split time between the pipes for the Huskies ... Chan is 3-3-1 with a .953 save percentage, 1.41 goals against average and one shutout ... Carpentier-Yelle is 2-4-0 with a .907 save percentage, 2.48 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, 41-19-10 ... BC has a mark of 24-9-2 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 three 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 Eagles then picked up an overtime win at Kelley Rink on Jan. 23, 2021, with Jillian Fey scoring the game-winner in overtime.
• The senior class of Willow Corson and Maegan Beres have played UConn 18 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.
• Twelve current Eagles have registered at least one point against UConn, with Cayla Barnes sporting a team-high 12 points on two goals and 10 assists against the Huskies.
• Kelly Browne is second on the team with three goals and seven helpers for 10 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 an overall record of 42-19-10 against UConn with a mark of 25-10-2 at Kelley Rink.
• Move BC's all-time program record to 476-353-80.
• Give head coach Katie Crowley an overall record of 332-116-51 with a mark of 35-7-10 against UConn.
LAST TIME OUT
• Boston College played a single game last week, earning a 2-1 overtime win over UConn on Saturday, Jan. 23 at Kelley Rink.
• The Huskies scored late in the first frame and held the 1-0 lead with less than five minutes to go in the third period ... Hannah Bilka tied the game with 4:56 on the clock to force overtime, where Jillian Fey scored the unassisted game-winner.
• Abigail Levy finished with 28 saves to move to 3-1-0 on the year for BC ... Cayla Barnes and Willow Corson picked up assists on Bilka's goal.
SCORING SOME GOALS
• Boston College leads the nation in goals scored with 43 and sits third overall with a 3.31 goals per game average ... the Eagles also lead the nation with 37 even-strength goals.
• Junior Savannah Norcross is tied for third in the country and leads all of Hockey East with seven goals.
• Hadley Hartmetz is tied for third in the country with a plus-13 rating ... the sophomore defender also happens to lead the nation with 11 assists.
• The Eagles have scored the first goal of the game in a nation-leading nine games ... in BC's six road contests, the team has scored the first goal of the game in five of them which ties for the most in the nation.
• The Eagles have three players with multiple game-winning goals in Fey, Gaby Roy and Savannah Norcross ... six players total have tallied game-winners for BC, tied for first in the nation.
FEY THE FORWARD
• After playing her first two seasons primarily on the blue line for BC, Jillian Fey now finds herself as a center.
• The junior has already recorded a career-high 10 points on a career-high six goals and four assists.
• Fey's three game-winning goals leads the Eagles and is tied for first in Hockey East.
• Last season, Fey put up seven points on two goals and five helpers ... as a freshman, she had three points on one goal and two assists.
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 seven 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 have tallied game-winners for BC, tied for the national lead.
• 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.
CAPTAIN KELLY
• Through the first 13 games of the season, Kelly Browne has racked up a Hockey East-leading 15 points on five goals and 10 assists ... her 15 points are tied for third overall in the nation.
• Browne also ranks second overall in the country with 161 face-off wins and a .634 winning percentage.
• She also is tied for first in the country with five multi-point games ... those multi-point games include 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 13 contests.
• Browne was named the Hockey East Player of the Week on Dec. 7 for her three goal, one assist weekend against UConn.
• Browne currently hast 973 face-off wins, needing 27 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.
• Through her first 150 face offs this season, 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.
• The junior recorded 36 points on 13 goals and 23 assists a season ago while earning Hockey East Third Team All-Star honors.
MEET THE CAPTAINS
• Cayla Barnes, Maegan Beres and Kelly Browne will serve as tri-captains of the 2020-21 Eagles.
• All three Eagles are first-time captains for BC ... Browne and Barnes become the ninth and 10th junior captains in program history.
• Beres enters her senior season having suited up for all 113 games that BC has played over the last three years ... last season, she finished second on the team with 47 blocked shots - a number that also ranked first in Hockey East and ninth in the nation among forwards ... she also set career-highs in goals (4) and shots on goal (50) in 2019-20.
• Barnes, a redshirt junior, is coming off a year in which she was named a Hockey East Second Team All-Star and was one of three finalists for Hockey East Player of the Year ... she recorded a career-high six goals and 17 assists for 23 points and finished third in the nation with a Hockey East-leading 103 blocked shots.
• Barnes is a two-time captain of the U.S. Under-22 Team and also captained the U.S. Under-18 squad that won gold at the 2017 IIHF Under-18 Women's World Championships.
• Browne set career-highs in points (36), goals (13) and assists (23) during the 2019-20 season ... the Hockey East Third Team All-Star finished fourth in the country and first in the conference with 451 face-off wins, becoming the first Eagle to record more than 450 wins at the dot since the 2015-16 season.
