No. 1 Eagles Meet No. 14 Huskies Tuesday at Matthews Arena

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Top-ranked Boston College makes the short trip to Matthews Arena on Tuesday night (Feb. 2) to face No. 14 Northeastern on NESN+ at 7 p.m. Fans outside New England can view the game for free on SportsLive. Radio coverage begins at 6:45 p.m. on WEEI 850 AM and BCEagles.com.

BC is tied for the third-longest active unbeaten streak in the country (4-0-1), while the Huskies have won three straight overall but have not played since Jan. 13. Northeastern is 5-3-0 in the last eight meetings between the schools, but the Eagles are 6-1-1 in their last eight visits to Matthews.

SCOUTING THE HUSKIES
• Northeastern (6-3-2) rides a three-game winning streak into Tuesday but hasn't played since a dominant 7-0 home win over UNH on Jan. 13
• Captain Zach Solow had four points on Jan. 13 against New Hampshire and leads the team in scoring with six goals and seven assists for 13 points
• Junior defenseman Jordan Harris has five goals and five assists and is tied with four other players for second on the squad in points
• Sophomore Connor Murphy has started all 11 games between the pipes with a 2.42 goals against average and a .921 save percentage
• He posted a 37-save shutout against UNH on Jan. 13 in Boston
• Rookie Devon Levi has yet to make his Northeastern debut after starting in net for Team Canada at the IIHF World Junior Championship
• NU is clicking at 25% on the power play and 83.7% on the penalty kill

LAST YEAR'S SERIES
• Boston College won both meetings against Northeastern last February in a home-and-home series
• The Eagles held off the Huskies 3-2 on Feb. 20 at Matthews Arena; Julius Mattila scored twice while Marshall Warren added a goal
• BC out-shot NU 18-6 in the second period to pull ahead for good
• The following night, Boston College posted a dominant 10-1 win over NU at Kelley Rink
• BC received goals from eight different players, lighting the lamp 10 times for the first time since an 11-0 shutout of Army at Conte Forum on Nov. 10, 2013

ANOTHER ROUND NUMBER
• With a 4-2 win at UConn last time out on Jan. 23 in Storrs, Jerry York reached 1,100 career victories in his 49+ years as a Division I head coach
• UConn women's basketball coaching legend Geno Auriemma, who collected his 1,100th career win just 48 hours prior, was in attendance at the Freitas Ice Forum
• York was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Nov. 18, 2020 in Toronto and is scheduled to be enshrined in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in December of this year

CAPTAIN CLUTCH
• With an early flare for the dramatic this season, captain Marc McLaughlin is tied for the NCAA lead in game-winning goals (4) and leads the country in shorthanded goals (3)
• The junior has already surpassed his career-high in goals (5) with a team-leading seven and has matched his career-high in points with 12, set last year as a sophomore
• The North Billerica native is fifth in Hockey East in goals per game and is riding a career-best three-game goal scoring streak
• He already has four multi-point games after entering the year with just two

A HUNDRED FOR HUTSKO
• With a primary assist on the game's opening goal on Jan. 16 against Merrimack, Logan Hutsko became the 83rd member of the program's 100-point club
• He joins former linemates David Cotton and Julius Mattila, who both hit 100 last season
• The Tampa native is seventh in Hockey East in points per game (1.10)

THE DARK KNIGHT
• Spencer Knight owns a near-perfect 8-0-1 record in net this season
• Knight finished last season on an identical nine-game unbeaten streak and is now unbeaten in his last 18 starts (16-0-2) overall
• The sophomore leads the country in winning percentage (.944) among goaltenders with more than two appearances
• He ranks sixth nationally in save percentage (.945) and 10th in goals against average (1.87)
• Knight is coming off his two highest save totals of the year (37 and 39) against UConn

CASEY MAKING HIS CASE
• Casey Carreau posted the first two multi-point performances of his career last weekend in a home-and-home series against UConn
• The junior had a goal and an assist in each contest and finished the weekend with nine shots on goal and a +3 rating, both tied for a team-high
• It marked the first time that Carreau has had goals or assists in back-to-back games

FIRST OF MANY
• Harrison Roy scored in each game against UConn last weekend, including his first collegiate tally on Friday night at Kelley Rink
• Roy became the 15th different player to score a goal this season for Boston College (Jack St. Ivany then became the 16th on Saturday) and the sixth different freshman
• The rookie finished the weekend tied for the team-lead with a +3 rating

EVEN STRENGTH
• BC is second in the nation behind Minnesota in even strength scoring (3.08 goals per game)
• Only four of Boston College's 47 goals (8.5%) have been scored on the power play while six (13%) have come shorthanded
• Six Eagles have a plus-minus of +10 or better on the year

WE WERE MERELY FRESHMEN
• BC's highly-touted freshman class has combined for 19 goals and 42 points to lead the team, accounting for 34% of the Eagles' total points
• Nikita Nesterenko, Colby Ambrosio and Trevor Kuntar are all tied for third in Hockey East in goals scored by a freshman with five apiece
• Defenseman Eamon Powell (+11) leads the league in plus-minus rating among rookies, while Nesterenko (+8), Kuntar (+4) and Ambrosio (+4) also rank top-5

GO SHORTY
• After leading the nation with 11 shorthanded goals last season, Boston College once again leads the country with six shorthanded goals this year in only 12 games
• Marc McLaughlin leads college hockey with three shorthanded goals and has five since the start of his sophomore campaign
• BC has a rate of nearly 85% on the penalty kill, good for third in Hockey East

No. 1 Eagles Meet No. 14 Huskies Tuesday at Matthews Arena

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Players Mentioned

Colby Ambrosio

Casey Carreau

David Cotton

Logan Hutsko

Spencer Knight

Trevor Kuntar

Julius Mattila

Marc McLaughlin

Nikita Nesterenko

Eamon Powell

Harrison Roy

Jack St. Ivany

Marshall Warren