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Familiar Foe Awaits No. 6 BC in Hockey East Tournament Quarterfinal
February 23, 2021 | Women's Hockey
The single elimination game between the second-seeded Eagles and the seventh-seeded Huskies is set for 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 28 at Kelley Rink. The game will be shown live on NESN and will also be available on CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports app.
Hockey East announced earlier this month that the 2021 women's and men's tournaments will be single-elimination format with each game hosted at the home arena of the higher seed. Semifinals will take place on Wednesday, March 3 and the championship game will be held on Saturday, March 6 to determine the winner of the Bertagna Trophy.
GAME 19 | Hockey East Tournament Quarterfinal | UConn at Boston College
Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021 | 4:30 P.M. | NESN
Kelley Rink | Chestnut Hill, Mass.
WHAT'S ON TAP
• Boston College and UConn will square off in the Hockey East Tournament Quarterfinal round on Sunday afternoon at Kelley Rink.
• This marks the third consecutive season that the Eagles are hosting the Huskies in the quarterfinal round and the fourth straight year they're meeting in the playoffs.
• This is also the sixth time this season that the teams will see each other ... BC took all five regular season meetings.
ABOUT BOSTON COLLEGE
• The Eagles finished an 18-game regular season slate at 14-4-0 ... BC split a two-game series with rival BU last weekend, with each team winning their road game.
• Kelly Browne and Savannah Norcross are tied for the team lead in points with 20 each, a number which also places them ninth in the country ... 13 different players have scored goals while nine players have at least eight points each.
• Norcross has a team-high 11 goals, which also ranks second in Hockey East and fifth in the nation ... Browne has 13 assists and seven goals while also sitting fifth in the nation with 219 face-off wins.
• Hadley Hartmetz is tied for second nationally among defenders in scoring with 14 points on one goal and 13 helpers, with her assists sitting first in the nation among defenders ... additionally she has been on the ice for 30 even-strength goals, which ranks second nationally among all players.
• Abigail Levy is 6-2-0 with a 1.22 goals against average, .959 save percentage and two shutouts ... Maddy McArthur (5-1-0) and Kelly Pickreign (3-1-0) have also picked up wins in goal for the Eagles.
ABOUT UCONN
• UConn finished the regular season at 8-9-1 ... the Huskies last played on Feb. 13, picking up a 4-2 win at Holy Cross to finish off a weekend sweep after a 1-0 win at home on Feb. 12.
• Viki Harkness leads the way for UConn offensively with 14 points on three goals and 11 assists ... three players have recorded six goals each for UConn in Savannah Bouzide (6-7-13), Natalie Snodgrass (6-4-10) and Danika Pasqua (6-2-8) ... three of Snodgrass' goals are game-winners.
• Camryn Wong has 219 face-off wins, which ties with Kelly Browne for the most in Hockey East.
• Tia Chan and Samantha Carpentier-Yelle both started nine games during the season ... Chan went 4-4-1 with a 1.43 goals against average, .948 save percentage and two shutouts ... Carpentier-Yelle was 4-5-0 with a .921 save percentage, 2.11 goals against average and three shutouts.
• Chris MacKenzie is in his eighth season as head coach of the Huskies.
SERIES NOTES
• The Eagles lead the all-time series between the teams, 43-19-10 ... BC has a mark of 25-9-2 against the Huskies at Kelley Rink ... BC is 16-9-8 against UConn in Storrs and 2-1-0 in neutral site meetings.
• BC won all five regular season meetings this year ... the Eagles earned 5-3 (Dec. 3) and 4-0 (Jan. 31) road wins while defending home ice with a 2-1 overtime (Jan. 23), 3-2 (Jan. 30) and 3-1 (Dec. 5).
• 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.
• The Eagles also swept the 2019 Hockey East Tournament quarterfinal series at 2-0-0 ... BC won the first game, 4-1, and then had a dramatic 5-4 overtime for the sweep.
• These two teams met in the 2018 Hockey East Tournament semifinal game, with UConn winning 4-2 to snap a 14-game BC unbeaten streak in the series.
• Thirteen current Eagles have registered at least one point against UConn, with Cayla Barnes and Kelly Browne sporting a team-high 13 points each ... Barnes has three goals and 10 assists, including a game-winning goal ... Browne has four goals and nine assists along with one short-handed goal and one game-winning goal.
• Savannah Norcross registered the first multi-goal game of her career with a two-goal outing at the Huskies on Jan. 31, 2021 ... Norcross also has three game-winning goals, one short-handed goal and one power-play goal against UConn.
• Jillian Fey has scored two game-winning goals against the Huskies.
• Katie Crowley has a 36-7-7 career mark against UConn.
WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE
• This marks the third consecutive season that Boston College and UConn are meeting in the Hockey East Tournament quarterfinals at Kelley Rink and the fourth straight year they're meeting in the playoffs.
• Last year, the Eagles won the first game of the best-of-three series, 4-2, but then the Huskies put up 2-0 and 2-1 wins to advance to the semifinal round.
• The Eagles won the 2018-19 best-of-three series in two games, earning a 4-1 win in game one before a dramatic overtime 5-4 win in game two.
• BC is 5-3 versus UConn in the Hockey East Tournament.
• These teams also met in the 2018 Hockey East Tournament semifinal game, with UConn winning 4-2 to snap a 14-game BC unbeaten streak in the series.
BC IN THE HOCKEY EAST TOURNAMENT
• Boston College is playing in its 16th Hockey East Tournament this season ... that ties with UConn for the third-most appearances in league history behind Providence (19) and New Hampshire (17).
• The Eagles have won three titles (2011, 2016, 2017) and have advanced to five out of the last seven championship games ... BC's eight championship game appearances are most in league history.
• BC is 24-13 all-time in the Hockey East Tournament, second only to Boston University's 25-12 mark.
• The Eagles hold a record of 13-3 in the quarterfinal round.
• BC has a mark of 8-6 in the tournament as the second overall seed, including a 3-0 record in the quarterfinal round.
• The 2010 season was the lone year in which the Eagles failed to advance to at least the semifinals.
TRYING TO FIND THE FOURTH
• Boston College is in search of its fourth Hockey East Tournament title.
• The Eagles broke a five-year drought in 2016 with a 5-0 win over Boston University and repeated in 2017 with a 2-1 win over Northeastern ... BC fell to UConn in the 2018 semifinals and dropped an overtime heartbreaker to Northeastern in the 2019 championship game.
• BC won its first championship in 2011, topping fifth-seeded Northeastern, 3-1, while seeded second.
A WIN WOULD . . .
• Give BC an overall record of 15-4-0 overall.
• Move BC's all-time program record to 480-353-80.
• Give head coach Katie Crowley an overall record of 336-116-51 and a mark of 37-7-7 against UConn.
• Bump BC to an overall record of 25-13 in the Hockey East Tournament and 15-3 in the quarterfinal round
LAST TIME OUT
• Boston College faced Boston University in the Battle of Comm Ave to close out the regular season, splitting the home-and-home series.
• The Eagles jumped out to a 2-0 lead at home on Friday only to see the Terriers score three unanswered for the comeback win.
• On Saturday, the teams played two scoreless periods for the first time in series history ... Jillian Fey broke the deadlock midway through the third and Hannah Bilka made it 2-0 just 18 seconds later ... Abigail Levy made 35 saves to earn the shutout, the first for BC against BU in 17 games (March 6, 2016).
• Levy finished the weekend with a 1.50 goals against average and .952 save percentage after stopping 59 of the 62 shots she saw.
IT'S WORTH NOTING . . .
• The Boston College junior class has combined for 30 goals and 36 assists for 66 points, second most among all junior classes ... BC's Class of 2022 has scored 11 game-winning goals, the most of any team's class year in the country.
• The Eagles penalty kill unit ranks seventh in the country with an 89.7 percent kill rate.
• Maegan Beres is tied for second in the nation and is first in Hockey East for blocks by a forward with 26.
• Hannah Bilka, Kelly Browne and Savannah Norcross have all tallied points in 13 of 18 games.
• Abigail Levy (6-2-0), Maddy McArthur (5-1-0) and Kelly Pickreign (3-1-0) make BC one of just two teams in the country to have three goaltenders with multiple wins and the only team in the country to have at least two goaltenders with five wins.
• BC has four players with multiple game-winning goals in Jillian Fey (4), Savannah Norcross (3), Cayla Barnes (2), and Gaby Roy (2).
• BC is 18-4-0 over the last two seasons when Hadley Hartmetz records at least one point and 18-3-1 when Alexie Guay does.
• Hannah Bilka has registered at least one shot on goal in all 51 contests that she has played for BC, putting multiple shots on goal in 46 of them ... BC is 15-0-1 all-time when she scores a goal.
