BOSTON - The No. 11 Boston University men's ice hockey team will play its first home game in over a month on Saturday (Jan. 9) when it welcomes Massachusetts to Agganis Arena to kick off a stretch of six straight Hockey East games. Game time is set for 7 p.m.

The Terriers (10-6-3, 4-3-2 Hockey East) are coming off a thrilling, come-from-behind 6-5 win at No. 4/5 Harvard on Thursday and will be trying to secure their second three-game win streak of the season.

UMass (7-9-4, 2-4-4 HE) dropped a 3-2 overtime contest at home to No. 12 Yale on Tuesday after a 2-1 overtime triumph at Army West Point on Saturday for its first win since Nov. 7.

BU is currently tied with Providence for fourth in the Hockey East standings with 10 points while the Minutemen are in a three-way tie for seventh with eight points.

Last season, the Terriers put on an impressive offensive display against the Minutemen, posting an 8-1 win in Amherst in the season opener before scoring five goals in the final eight minutes of a 9-5 home victory on Jan. 30.

The Terriers are 55-11-6 in 72 meetings with Massachusetts, including a 13-2-2 record at Agganis Arena. BU is undefeated in the past four meetings (3-0-1) and 10-2-3 against the Minutemen since the beginning of 2010.

Senior Shane Walsh and sophomore Dennis Kravchenko share the team lead in points with 18. Walsh has a team-best 13 goals, which ranks tied for second in the league, while Kravchenko has seven goals and 11 assists. Sophomore Ray Pigozzi is right behind with 17 points (7g, 10a) and three others have at least 13 points on the year.

Freshman Nic Renyard has started 13 games in goal and has a 3.25 goals-against average to go along with a .906 save percentage. Junior Alex Wakaluk (2.37, 9.12) has started the past two contests.

For the Terriers, senior Ahti Oksanen, who scored the game-winner at Harvard on Thursday, has nine points (4g, 5a) in seven career games against the Minutemen.

Oksanen shares the team lead in goals at 10 with classmate Matt Lane, who has put up two goals and an assist in each of the past two contests. Fellow senior Danny O'Regan continues to lead the squad in both points (21) and assists (14).

Freshman Jordan Greenway brings a six-game point streak into Saturday's contest and is one of four freshmen on the BU roster to have put up at least nine points this season.