Game Information: No. 1 Northeastern (22-1-1) vs. No. 2 Wisconsin (16-3-1)
National Championship Game	Saturday, March 20 | 7:36 p.m. | Women's Frozen Four
Where	Erie, Pa. | Erie Insurance Arena | Tickets
Broadcast & Statistics	ESPNU | Listen (WRBB Radio) | Live Stats
Game Notes	Northeastern (PDF)
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FLINT PREVIEW

ERIE, Pa. - The top-ranked Northeastern Huskies (22-1-1) will take on No. 2 Wisconsin (16-3-1) in the National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey National Championship this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. inside Erie Insurance Arena. The game will be nationally-televised on ESPNU and fans can listen on WRBB 104.9 FM.

LEADING THE WAY
The top-ranked Huskies have won an NCAA-best 54 games over the last two seasons, including an astounding .895 winning percentage (54-5-3). Northeastern has a NCAA-best 22-game unbeaten streak, the longest streak in program history since going undefeated in the 1987-88 season (26-0-1).

FLINT NAMED NATIONAL COACH OF THE YEAR
Dave Flint was named CCM/AHCA National Coach of the Year for the first time in his career, announced by the AHCA on Friday. Flint is in his 12th season as head coach of the Huskies and led Northeastern to seven Hockey East championship game appearances in the last 11 seasons, including four straight titles. He moved into eighth all-time in NCAA history with 344 victories and his 256 wins at Northeastern is a school record.

FRANKEL TOP-3 FINALIST FOR PATTY KAZMAIER AWARD
Senior goaltender Aerin Frankel is 1-of-3 finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, given to the best player in Division I women's ice hockey. A native of Briarcliffe Manor, N.Y., Frankel leads the country in wins (20), goals against average (0.76), save percentage (.967), shutouts (9) and winning percentage (.932). She needs just one more shutout to tie her single-season record from a season ago, and her current GAA and save percentage rank second all-time in NCAA single-season history.

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
The Huskies are playing for their first national championship in any sport. Northeastern is 2-3 all-time in the National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Championship and is making its fifth all-time appearance (2016, '18, '19, '20, '21).
Games in the NCAA tournament:
2016 at No. 1 Boston College - L, 5-1 (3/12/16)
2018 at No. 3 Colgate - L, 3-1 (3/10/18)
2019 vs. No. 6 Cornell - L,  3-2 (OT) (3/16/19)
2020 vs. No. 6 Princeton - Canceled due to Covid (scheduled for 3/14/20)
2021 vs. No. 8 Robert Morris, W, 5-1, Erie Insurance Arena (3/15/21)
2021 vs. No. 5 Minnesota Duluth, W, 3-2 (OT), Erie Insurance Arena (3/18/21)

REACH FOR THE SKY
Skylar Fontaine leads all players in the NCAA Championship with five points (3 goals, 2 assists). A native of East Greenwich, R.I., Fontaine scored the game-winning goal for the Huskies in the Women's Frozen Four with just 26.3 seconds remaining in overtime against Minnesota Duluth to send Northeastern to its first-ever national championship game. She leads all blue-liners in program history with 122 points in her career and is the top scoring defenseman in the NCAA with 30 points (14 goals, 16 assists).

MONEY MUELLER
Alina Mueller leads the country with 37 points and 25 assists and the Huskies are 33-0-1 over the last two years when she scores a goal. Mueller, a native of Winterthur, Switzerland, leads Northeastern with 12 multi-point games and is the second-fastest player to reach 100 points in Northeastern history, behind 2016 Patty Kazmaier Award winner Kendall Coyne-Schofield, and currently is eighth all-time in school history with 154 points (60 goals, 94 assists).

LAST MEETING AGAINST WISCONSIN
The Huskies and Badgers met in the Battle at the Burgh championship game at the Lemieux Sports Complex last season where the top-ranked Badgers defeated then-No. 3 Huskies, 4-3 in overtime on Jan. 5, 2020. Frankel made a career-high 51 saves in the game and Wisconsin scored in the final minute of OT as Caitlin Schneider tallied a power-play goal for the Badgers. Brooke Hobson, Tessa Ward and Fontaine all scored for the Huskies.

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