The Boston University women's ice hockey team will begin a home-and-home series with No. 4 Boston College on Friday night at Conte Forum. The teams will then head to Walter Brown Arena on Saturday afternoon.

Saturday is Faculty and Staff Appreciation Day at Walter Brown Arena, and there will also be a postgame skate with the Terriers after the contest. Click here register for the postgame skate.

INSIDE THE GREEN LINE RIVALRY

• Friday will be the 54th meeting between BU and BC.
• The Terriers are 17-29-7 all-time against BC, including a 7-13-4 record at Conte Forum.
• Six of the last seven games have been decided by one goal or less.
• BU last defeated BC on Nov. 5, 2016, a 5-3 victory at Walter Brown Arena.

BEST OF BU AGAINST BC

• Sammy Davis leads the Terriers in goals (3) and points (7) against BC.
• Davis is also tied with Nara Elia for the lead in assists against the Eagles, as both players have four helpers.
• Abby Cook has tallied a goal and three assists against BC while Reagan Rust and Jesse Compher both have one goal and two assists against the Eagles.
• Mary Grace Kelley and Deziray De Sousa both have one goal and one assist apiece against the Eagles.
• Eleven Terriers in total have recorded at least one point against the Eagles.
• Corinne Schroeder's has made 63 saves over her two starts against BC, both of which came on the road.

EYE ON THE EAGLES

• BC enters Friday having dropped a 5-4 overtime decision at No. 5 Northeastern on Tuesday night.
• Makenna Newkirk scored two goals against the Huskies and leads BC with 13 assists and 19 points.
• Daryl Watts leads the team with nine goals, including a marker at NU.
• Maddy McArthur, who made only 10 saves against BU on Nov. 20, owns a 1.53 goals-against average and a .931 save percentage in 15 starts.
• 2018 Olympians Megan Keller and Cayla Barnes each have 11 assists.

TALKING ABOUT TUESDAY

• The Terriers earned a 5-2 road win at Brown on Tuesday night.
• Senior Reagan Rust broke a 2-2 deadlock with 8:48 remaining in regulation, with sophomore Nara Elia and freshman Mackenna Parker adding insurance goals.
• Elia, senior Connor Galway and redshirt junior Sammy Davis each tallied a goal and an assist.
• Freshman Emma Wuthrich notched her first collegiate point with an assist on Rust's game-winner.
• Corinne Schroeder made 15 saves.

COMPHER COLLECTING POINTS

• Sophomore Jesse Compher leads BU with 12 assists and 19 points after she extended her point streak to nine games on Tuesday night at Brown.
• It was her first single-point effort after four straight multi-point games.
• Compher has notched six goals and added 11 assists for 17 points over the last nine games.
• She owns the longest active assist streak in the nation as well as the third longest active point streak in the NCAA.
• Compher is a plus-14 this season, including a plus-11 rating over the last six tilts.
• The Northbrook, Illinois, native has recorded at least two points in six of the Terriers' 12 games this year.

DAVIS DYNAMITE LATELY

• Redshirt junior tri-captain Sammy Davis has been outstanding over the last five games.
• She has notched 10 points (4g, 6a) in that stretch, including a goal and an assist on Tuesday at Brown.
• That streak began on Nov. 9 at UConn when she tallied two goals and one assist, including the unassisted game-winner just 47 seconds after UConn tied the game.
• That was Davis' first three-point game since Oct. 7, 2016.
• Davis then tallied three points (1g, 2a) over the weekend of Nov. 16-17 against Vermont, including a third-period goal on Nov. 17 that broke a 2-2 tie and nearly proved to be the winner.
• The tri-captain leads the Terriers with eight goals and is second on the squad with 15 points.

PARKER PICKING UP THE PACE

• Freshman Mackenna Parker has been on a roll ever since she joined the top line with sophomore Jesse Compher and redshirt junior Sammy Davis.
• Parker has tallied a goal in each of the last four games, including the Nov. 20 contest at Boston College.
• She enters Friday having totaled six points (4g, 2a), including five points over the last four games.

• Sophomore Nara Elia has recorded four points over the last two games.
• Elia notched a goal and added an assist in the Terriers' 5-2 win over Brown on Tuesday.
• Her third-period strike made it 4-2.
• She also collected the primary helper on Connor Galway's opening goal.
• That performance came after she collected a career-high two assists at Boston College on Nov. 20.
• She had the primary helper on Jesse Compher's goal that opened the scoring for BU in the first period.
• She also assisted on Abby Cook's power-play goal in the third period.
• Tuesday was Elia's fourth two-point game of her career.
• Elia has factored on both of the Terriers' power-play goals this season.
• She enters Friday with six points on three goals and three assists.