BOSTON – After playing to an exciting 2-2 tie on Nov. 20, the No. 10 Northeastern women's hockey team (10-3-3, 6-1-2 WHEA) and the No. 6 Boston College Eagles (9-3-3, 8-2-1 WHEA) will lock horns once again on Saturday at Matthews Arena as part of NU's 'Blackout Weekend'. The Huskies are riding a six-game unbeaten streak (4-0-2) entering the top-10 showdown.
PENALTY KILL HELPS HUSKIES TIE BC
The Huskies' penalty kill negated all seven Boston College power-plays, including two in overtime, and scored its NCAA-leading sixth shorthanded goal in a 2-2 tie with the Eagles on Nov. 20. Junior
McKenna Brand scored both goals for NU and sophomore
Brittany Bugalski made a season-high 36 saves to help the Huskies snap an 11-game losing streak vs. BC.
HUSKIES COME BACK TO TIE VERMONT
Northeastern overturned a two-goal, third-period deficit to earn a 3-3 tie at Vermont on Nov. 18 at Gutterson Fieldhouse. Senior
Hayley Scamurra and sophomore
Kasidy Anderson scored within a span of 2:10 to turn a 3-1 deficit into a tie score midway through the final frame. With the result, NU extended its unbeaten streak against the Catamounts to eight games (7-0-1).
HUSKIES REMAIN RANKED
For the second straight week, the Huskies held down a spot in the top-10 of the national polls, coming in at No. 10 in the nation. Northeastern has now been ranked in three weeks of the 2016-17 season, climbing as high as No. 9 in both polls during the opening week of the campaign.
BRAND-NAME RECOGNITION
Junior
McKenna Brand enters the weekend ranked second in the NCAA with 13 goals in 16 games on the year. Prior to this season, Brand had scored 18 career goals in 74 games, including 10 in 38 contests last season. Brand has four multi-goal performances this year after notching just three total multi-goal efforts over her first two collegiate seasons combined.
AS CONSISTENT AS THEY COME
Northeastern's leading scorer with nine goals, 12 assists and 21 points, junior
Denisa Krizova has recorded at least one point in 14 of 16 games this season. Over the course of her 86-game collegiate career, Krizova has been held off the scoresheet in only 13 contests, and has piled up 32 multi-point performances. Krizova ranks 18th all-time at Northeastern with 115 career points.
SHORTHANDED SUCCESS
Northeastern currently leads the nation with six shorthanded goals this season. Juniors
Denisa Krizova and
McKenna Brand have each accounted for two shorthanded markers, while
Hayley Scamurra and
Maddie Hartman each have one. The Huskies have potted at least five shorthanded goals in five of the last six seasons overall.
CLOSING IN ON THE CENTURY MARK
Seniors
Paige Savage (94 points) and
Hayley Scamurra (93 points) are closing in on the 100-point plateau for their careers. If Savage and Scamurra can hit the milestone this season, that would give Northeastern three current players with at least 100 career points (joining
Denisa Krizova). The last time NU had three players with at least 100 points on the same team was in 2012-13 with Casey Pickett (125),
Kendall Coyne (113) and Rachel Llanes (102).
