No. 11/10 Eagles Open Hockey East Slate Against Northeastern

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – No. 11/10 Boston College opens its Hockey East slate this weekend with a home-and-home series against Northeastern. The series begins Thursday at Kelley Rink before squaring off at Matthews Arena on Friday night. Both games are scheduled for a 7:00 p.m. puck drop on ESPN+ along with a radio broadcast on WEEI 850 AM. Additionally, Friday's game will also be available regionally on NESN.

SETTING THE SCENE
• The Eagles fell to 2-2-1 after dropping its lone game of the week to Denver
• Northeastern is currently 3-1-0 overall and 1-0-0 in Hockey East
• Boston College sits at No. 11 in the USCHO.com poll and No. 10 in the USA Hockey poll
• Northeastern is receiving votes in both national polls

DEFEAT TO DENVER
• BC played just one game this past weekend, falling to No. 7 Denver 7-3
• Andre Gasseau, James Hagens, and Jake Sondreal each scored for the Eagles
• Hagens pushed his point streak to five games
• Sondreal scored for the second-straight game
• Dean Letourneau recorded an assist, extending his point streak to four games
• Aram Minnetian tallied his first point of the year with an assist

THE EAGLES
• J. Hagens leads the team in points (6) and goals (3), and is tied for the team-lead in assists with three
• Ryan Conmy, Drew Fortescue, Letourneau, and Sondreal each have two goals
• Five players have registered three assists; Lukas Gustafsson, Gasseau, Hagens, Letourneau, and Sondreal
• Luka Radivojevic and Fortescue share the team-lead for blocks with eight, while Will Skahan has seven
• Louka Cloutier has started the last four games between the pipes and has a .888 save percentage along with a 2.47 goals against average

A LOOK AT NORTHEASTERN
• The Huskies are coming off a 1-0 victory over No. 7 Denver in their lone game last weekend
• NU is 1-0-0 in league play after defeating UMass, 4-2
• Joe Connor, Tyler Fukakusa, and Dylan Hryckowian lead the team in points with three each
• Connor has team-high three goals
• Lawton Zacher has started all four games for the Huskies and has a .930 save percentage along with a 2.02 goals against average
• Northeastern had two Hockey East weekly award winners this past week with Zacher being named the Goaltender of the Week along and Amine Hajibi earning Rookie of the Week honors

SERIES HISTORY
• The Eagles are 117-62-18 all-time against the Huskies
• The two teams met four times last season with each winning two games
• They split the Hockey East regular season series, each winning on home ice
• BC got the upper-hand in the Beanpot semifinal, winning by a score of 8-2
• Northeastern claimed the victory in the Hockey East quarterfinal 3-1

NHL NOTES
• Marshall Warren (NY Islanders) made his NHL debut on Saturday, becoming the 93rd Eagle to play in the NHL
• Warren recorded his first NHL points in his debut with two assists
• Miles Wood (Columbus) scored two goals, including the overtime game-winner, on Tuesday night against Buffalo
• Spencer Knight (Chicago) made 21 saves on Tuesday for his fourth win of the season

UP NEXT
• BC heads to Vermont next weekend for two games starting on Friday at Gutterson Fieldhouse. Both games will be streamed live on ESPN+ and a radio broadcast will be available on WEEI 850 AM.

No. 11/10 Eagles Open Hockey East Slate Against Northeastern

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Players Mentioned

Louka Cloutier

Ryan Conmy

Drew Fortescue

Andre Gasseau

Lukas Gustafsson

James Hagens

Dean Letourneau

Aram Minnetian

Luka Radivojevic

Will Skahan

Jake Sondreal