Tales of the Howlin' Huskies:Â Women's Ice Hockey Freshman Bring International Experience
WAKEFIELD, Mass. – After helping the Northeastern women's hockey team extend its winning streak to nine straight games, freshmen
Chloe Aurard and
Alina Mueller were honored with Hockey East weekly awards on Monday. Aurard was named the Hockey East Player of the Week, while Mueller was tabbed the Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Week for the second straight Monday.
The top two scorers in Hockey East last week, Aurard (six points) and Mueller (five points) combined for three goals and eight assists as the No. 6 Huskies (10-1-1, 9-0-1 WHEA) swept New Hampshire by scores of 3-0 and 5-3.
Both Aurard (Villard-de-Lans, France) and Mueller (Winterthur, Switzerland) finished with a goal and an assist in Friday's road win. Mueller opened the scoring with the game-winning, shorthanded strike early in the second period, and Aurard helped add to the lead later in the frame when she set up
Brooke Hobson for NU's second goal. Mueller then assisted on Aurard's third-period goal as Northeastern skated to a 3-0 victory in Durham.
On Saturday, Aurard dished out four assists and Mueller notched a goal and two assists as Northeastern overturned a late 3-2 deficit to claim a 5-3 win. Mueller opened the scoring once again after a beautiful assist from Aurard, who picked the pocket of a UNH defender and
delivered a no-look pass to Mueller in the slot.
After UNH took a 3-2 lead late into the third period, the duo combined for both assists on
Kasidy Anderson's game-tying power-play goal at 16:10 of the final frame. Aurard then set up
Paige Capistran for the game-winning goal just 1:16 later, and both Mueller and Aurard picked up assists on
Tessa Ward's empty-netter at 19:57 to seal the game.
Through 12 games, Mueller (18 points) and Aurard (15 points) rank as the top two rookie scorers in the nation. Both players have 11 assists this season; no other NCAA rookie has more than eight helpers on the year.
After being held off the scoresheet in the first game of the season, Mueller has notched at least a point in all 11 games since, the longest scoring streak among any freshman skater in the NCAA this season. Aurard has also been piling up the points as of late, notching five multi-point efforts in her last seven games, including Northeastern's first four-assist game since Teresa Ella in 2003 (
Kendall Coyne had five assists vs. Maine in 2016, but no player has had exactly four in a game since Ella).
Northeastern has now been honored for six straight weeks in the WHEA weekly awards.
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