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BOSTON - The Boston University men's ice hockey team will make its sixth visit of the season to TD Garden on Saturday (April 11) and college hockey's biggest stakes will be on the line. The Terriers, in search of their sixth NCAA title, will face Providence in the 2015 NCAA Frozen Four championship game. ESPN will broadcast the game, which starts at 7:30 p.m.

This will be the third national championship game pitting two Hockey East schools against each other and the first since 1999 (UNH vs. Maine). BU topped Maine in the first-ever Hockey East showdown in the 1995 title game.

The Terriers are on an eight-game win streak, their longest since a nine-game run during their last NCAA championship season in 2008-09. This is their 11th appearance in the national title game, posting an even 5-5 record in the previous 10.

BU has already won two titles at TD Garden this season, hoisting the Beanpot with an overtime victory over Northeastern on Feb. 23 before taking the Hockey East title with a 5-3 win over UMass Lowell on March 21.

The Terriers and Friars split their prior two meetings this season with the road team winning both ends of a weekend home-and-home on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. BU posted a 4-1 win at Providence on Halloween before the Friars posted a 2-1 win at Agganis the following night. The game at Schneider Arena marked the first-ever BU-PC meeting in which both teams were ranked in the top 10.

BU's David Quinn will attempt to become the first Division I men's hockey coach since North Dakota's Barry Thorndycraft in 1963 to win a national title in his first NCAA tournament.

The second-year coach was named runner-up for this year's Spencer Penrose Award (national coach of the year) and was selected as the both the Hockey East and New England Coach of the Year.

He is also trying to become just the second coach in NCAA hockey history to win his first four games in the NCAAs. Denver's Murray Armstrong holds the record at seven.

BU and PC have combined to eliminate five of the six NCHC teams that were in this year's NCAA tournament. This season, Hockey East is 12-8-1 versus the NCHC (7-7-1 regular season, 5-1 NCAA tournament).

The Terriers and Friars first met in the 1926-27 season and have played 173 times since that encounter. BU leads the series, 106-54-13 (.650). BU is 10-3-1 against PC in their past 14 meetings.

The teams have not met in the postseason since the 2004-05 Hockey East quarterfinals. Their lone NCAA meeting took place in 1978 with the Terriers earning a 5-3 win at Schneider Arena to earn a spot in the national semifinals.

Providence, the preseason Hockey East favorite, finished right behind BU at the top of the standings and fell to New Hampshire in the league quarterfinals before sneaking into the NCAA tournament as the final at-large team.

The Friars have the fourth-best defense in the nation, allowing just 2.02 goals per game, and they rank fifth at the faceoff dot, winning 54.3-percent of the time.

Junior Nick Saracino leads PC in points (38) and assists (24) while juniors Noel Acciari and Trevor Mingola share the team lead in goals at 15. Accari and senior Shane Luke (13g, 18a) each have 31 points on the year.

Goaltender Jon Gillies boasts a .930 save percentage and a 1.98 goals-against average which rank eight and ninth, respectively, in the country.

Head coach Nate Leaman is in his fourth season behind the bench for the Friars and has a record of 78-58-19 at the school.

Freshman Jack Eichel, who leads the nation in points (70) and assists (44), became the third Terrier to win the Hobey Baker Memorial Award on Friday. He is just the second freshman to ever claim college hockey's top honor, joining Paul Kariya (1993).

Eichel and senior linemate Evan Rodrigues rank 1-2 in the nation in both points (70, 61) and assists (44, 40). The third member of college hockey's best line is junior Danny O'Regan, who needs one point to join the 50-point club (22-27--49).

Junior goaltender Matt O'Connor is 15-0-1 in his past 16 decisions and has a .928 save percentage to go along with a 2.13 goals-against average.