Eagles Begin Three-Game Week at Brown on Tuesday

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Boston College makes its first trip to Meehan Auditorium in nearly nine years on Tuesday night for a non-conference game against Brown at 7 p.m. The game will air live on ESPN+ and WEEI 850 AM.

SETTING THE SCENE
• The Eagles saw their three-game unbeaten streak snapped on Black Friday with a 5-2 defeat to No. 19 Notre Dame at Kelley Rink
• Brown (3-6-1, 1-6-1 ECAC) has won back-to-back games, including a 3-2 win over No. 8 Providence in the Mayor's Cup on Saturday night at Schneider Arena
• Boston College is unbeaten (8-0-3) in the last 11 meetings with Brown

SERIES HISTORY
• The schools are squaring off for the 75th all-time meeting in series history
• Boston College leads the all-time series 49-18-7
• The teams first met during the 1932-33 season, a 3-3 tie
• The Eagles beat the Bears 5-2 last season on Dec. 7, 2021 at Conte Forum
• Marc McLaughlin and Patrick Giles combined for five points (2-3-5), while Colby Ambrosio and Nikita Nesterenko provided insurance tallies in the third period
• Before last season, the most recent meeting between the schools came in the Ledyard Bank Classic at Dartmouth, a 4-1 Eagles victory over the Bears on Jan. 2, 2015
• Brown's last victory in the series came on Nov. 27, 1978 in Providence

KUNTAR'S CONTRIBUTIONS
• Trevor Kuntar has a career-high three-game goal scoring streak and has matched his career-high with a five-game point streak
• Kuntar has at least one point in eight of his last nine games overall
• The junior is tied for third in Hockey East with three power play goals and leads the team in PP scoring with a 3-3-6 line on 15 shots

ADDING THE 'A'
• Prior to the game against his former team on Black Friday, Notre Dame transfer Cam Burke was named an assistant captain
• Burke joins captain Marshall Warren and assistant captains Mitch Andres and Trevor Kuntar in the team's official leadership group
• The forward has played in all 11 games this year at center with three assists

WHAT'S TRENDING
• Colby Ambrosio is riding a four-game point streak, one shy of his career-high
• Cutter Gauthier had a four-game point streak (4-2-6) snapped on Friday
• Oskar Jellvik has a point in seven of his first 10 collegiate games
• Lukas Gustafsson has nine points in his last nine contests
• Mitch Benson ranks fourth in Hockey East in total saves (284)

LAST TIME OUT
• No. 19 Notre Dame scored the final four goals of the game in a 5-2 non-conference victory over Boston College on Friday afternoon at Kelley Rink
• Juniors Trevor Kuntar and Eamon Powell scored the goals for BC
• Notre Dame took the lead for good when Jesse Lansdell deflected a left point shot from the top of the faceoff circle inside the right post with 1:21 left in the second
• The Eagles won the faceoff battle 43-28 over the Irish
• BC went 0-for-1 on the power play but killed off all four Notre Dame power plays, extending its streak of consecutive kills to 15 in a row

POWER UP
• After starting the year 0-for-7 on the power play, Boston College has gone 10-for-37 (27%) with the man advantage over the last nine games
• The Eagles scored at least once on the power play in eight straight games before coming up empty in their lone PP chance against Notre Dame last Friday
• Boston College is up to fourth in Hockey East in power play percentage at 22.2%

UP NEXT
• BC faces No. 10 Providence in a home-and-home series this weekend, beginning on Friday night at Kelley Rink at 7 p.m.

Eagles Begin Three-Game Week at Brown on Tuesday

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Players Mentioned

Colby Ambrosio

Mitch Andres

Mitch Benson

Cam Burke

Cutter Gauthier

Lukas Gustafsson

Oskar Jellvik

Trevor Kuntar

Nikita Nesterenko

Eamon Powell

Marshall Warren