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InfographicPROVIDENCE, R.I. – Senior
Kendall Coyne notched a goal and an assist and freshman goaltender
Brittany Bugalski registered 23 saves as the No. 5 Northeastern women's hockey team (25-4-1, 19-2-0 WHEA) downed Providence (9-19-1, 5-13-1 WHEA), 3-1, to earn its 14th consecutive win on Saturday at Schneider Arena.
Sophomore
Denisa Krizova and junior
Melissa Haganey also lit the lamp for the Huskies, while Bugalski won her eighth straight decision to improve to 18-3-1 on the season.
Goal Recaps• Coyne put the Huskies in front just over five minutes into the game. After retrieving a
Jordan Krause pass in the defensive end, Coyne weaved through the neutral zone, blew around a defender on the left wing and slipped a shot through the five-hole of PC netminder Madison Myers (35 saves) to make it 1-0.
• Just over nine minutes later, NU made it 2-0. Following a great stretch pass by freshman
Maddie Hartman, Coyne picked up the puck in the right corner and made a no-look centering feed to Krizova for a one-timer inside the left post at 14:07.
• The Friars pulled a goal back on the power-play when Christina Putigna deflected a Lexi Romanchuk point-shot into the back of the net to make it 2-1 with 10:54 left in the second stanza.
• NU pushed its lead back to two with 41 seconds left in the second period when redshirt junior
Paige Savage found Haganey on a 3-on-1 break for a shot that squeezed through the pads of Myers from between the circles.
Stats of the Game• Northeastern extended its winning streak to 14 games.
• With a goal and an assist, Coyne tied a single-season high with her 68th point of the year, matching her total from her sophomore season of 2012-13.
• Coyne's 39th goal of the year represents the second-highest total in a single season in program history (Vicky Sunohara scored 51 in 1988-89).
• Krizova scored her fourth game-winning goal of the season, tying Coyne for the team high.
• The Huskies improved to 11-2-1 in road games this season.
• NU has won five straight vs. Providence.
Up NextThe Huskies will go for Beanpot title No. 17 on Tuesday when they face Boston College in the championship game from BU's Walter Brown Arena at 7:30 p.m.
