No. 19 Eagles Visit Sacred Heart to Open New Martire Family Arena

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – No. 19 Boston College travels to face Sacred Heart on Saturday night as the Pioneers open their brand new Martire Family Arena in Fairfield, Connecticut at 7 p.m. The game will be televised live on SNY and streamed on FloHockey. Radio coverage on WEEI 850 AM and BCEagles.com begins at 6:45 p.m.

SETTING THE SCENE
• The Eagles have just two regulation losses in their last 11 games dating back to Nov. 11
• BC entered the national rankings this week at No. 19 in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll and No. 20 in the USCHO.com poll
• Sacred Heart saw its five-game winning streak snapped last Sunday with a 4-1 defeat to New Hampshire at the Whittemore Center

SERIES HISTORY
• Saturday marks the first all-time meeting between the schools in men's hockey
• Boston College is 38-6-0 all-time against teams from Atlantic Hockey
• Last year, the Eagles beat Holy Cross and Mercyhurst but fell to Bentley

FROZEN FENWAY
• Graduate forward Cam Burke scored his first two goals in a BC sweater, powering the Eagles to a 4-2 victory over No. 15 UMass on Saturday at Fenway Park
• BC improved to 4-1-0 all-time at Fenway, including four consecutive wins
• Boston College pushed its record to 8-6-4 (5-3-3 HEA) following the non-conference victory and moved to 7-1-0 in its last eight meetings with the Minutemen
• In his return from the World Junior Championship, Cutter Gauthier opened the scoring just 2:25 into the night and added an assist on Eamon Powell's empty-netter
• Graduate goaltender Mitch Benson posted 23 saves, including nine in the third period
• BC finished with a 37-25 advantage in shots on goal and won the faceoff battle 30-24

BURKEY'S BREAKOUT
• Cam Burke was named the Hockey East Player of the Week on Monday
• Burke registered his first two goals in a Boston College sweater including the game-winner in the victory over UMass in Frozen Fenway
• The Boxborough native and Notre Dame transfer scored the Eagles' second and third goals of the night and finished with a plus-1 rating
• Burke (57.2%) ranks fifth in the league in faceoff percentage among skaters with at least 200 attempts

A CUT ABOVE
• With 11 goals in his first 14 collegiate games, Cutter Gauthier leads Hockey East and ranks second nationally in goals per game (0.79)
• Gauthier was named the Hockey East Co-Rookie of the Week on Monday after posting his fifth multi-point game of the year at Frozen Fenway
• He has scored goals in back-to-back games on three occasions this season
• The forward was named the Hockey East Rookie of the Month for November after leading all league rookies with eight points and five goals in seven games

POWER UP
• Boston College went 2-for-3 on the power play at Fenway and enters the weekend second in the league and 10th nationally at 25%
• BC started the year 0-for-7 on the power play but went 15-for-49 (30.6%) with the man advantage over the next 13 games
• The Eagles have scored at least once on the power play in 12 of the last 16 games
• Cutter Gauthier and Trevor Kuntar are tied for fourth in Hockey East with 4 PPG

NHL NOTES
• Johnny Gaudreau (Columbus) and Kevin Hayes (Philadelphia) have been selected to the 2023 NHL All-Star Game
• Gaudreau will make his seventh All-Star appearance while Hayes makes his first
• Patrick Brown (Philadelphia) skated in his 100th career NHL game on Wednesday night
• Alex Tuch (Buffalo) scored twice against Seattle on Jan. 10 to tie his career-high in goals with 20, which was set three years ago with Vegas
• Tuch is tied for 19th in the NHL in goals; Chris Kreider (NY Rangers) is one goal behind with 19 to rank tied for 26th in the league

UP NEXT
• BC returns to league play and hosts Vermont for a two-game series at Kelley Rink next weekend on Jan. 20-21
• For tickets, call (617) 552-GoBC or visit BCEagles.com.

No. 19 Eagles Visit Sacred Heart to Open New Martire Family Arena

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Players Mentioned

Mitch Benson

Cam Burke

Cutter Gauthier

Trevor Kuntar

Eamon Powell