The Boston University women's ice hockey team will host Vermont on Friday night at Walter Brown Arena. Game time is set for 7 p.m.
LOOKING TO USE THOSE BROOMS
- BU can complete a regular-season sweep of the Catamounts with a win on Friday.
- The Terriers earned a pair of wins at Vermont in November, defeating the Catamounts 7-1 on Nov. 17 before a 3-1 win the next day.
- It would be the first time since the 2012-13 season that the Terriers won all three regular-season showdowns against Vermont.
- Senior Victoria Bach notched four goals and five points in the 7-1 win before scoring again on Nov. 18.
HISTORY WITH THE CATAMOUNTS
- BU is 30-7-6 overall against UVM, including a 17-2-4 record at Walter Brown Arena.
- The Terriers have only lost once at home to Vermont during the regular season.
- BU and UVM skated to a pair of ties at Walter Brown last season (3-3, 1-1).
BEST OF BU AGAINST VERMONT
CHATTING ABOUT THE CATAMOUNTS
- Vermont swept Northeastern this past weekend in Burlington, earning 5-2 and 4-3 victories over the Huskies.
- Sophomore Eve-Audrey Picard tallied five goals against Northeastern, including a hat trick on Saturday, and leads the team in goals (11), assists (10) and points (21).
- Senior Amanda Drobot also has 10 assists while junior Alyssa Gorecki is second in points with 16 (7g, 9a).
- In 21 starts, Sydney Scobee is 7-11-3 with a .920 save percentage and a 2.75 goals-against average.
WHERE DOES BACH RANK NATIONALLY?
- Senior Victoria Bach is third in the country with 54 points.
- Her 32 goals is second in the NCAA, though Bach does lead the nation with 1.28 goals per game.
- In addition, no other player has more multi-goal games (9), hat tricks (4) or four-goal games (2) than Bach.
- Bach is also tied for ninth with 22 assists this season.
- She has generated an NCAA-best 6.36 shots on goal per game.
- Bach's 25 even-strength goals is first in the nation, as are her three shorthanded strikes.
- She also leads the country with 20 road goals, while an additional five markers have also come at neutral sites this season.
- Bach has not gone two straight games without a point this season.
WHEN PK IS ON, BU IS ON
- The Terriers are 15-for-16 on the penalty kill over the last four games.
- That mark of 93.8 percent ranks seventh in the NCAA since Jan. 16.
- On Saturday, BU went 4-for-5 on the PK, including a crucial stretch of 1:38 when the Terriers killed a 5-on-3 disadvantage in the third period.
COMPHER COMES THROUGH AGAIN
- Freshman Jesse Compher collected her fourth goal in six games on Thursday at Merrimack thanks to her game-winner.
- Her power-play strike at 1:04 of the second stanza gave BU a 2-1 lead that it never surrendered.
- She followed that with an assist on Saturday to extend her point streak to four games (2g, 2a).
- Compher has been on a roll over the last seven games, recording a point in six of those tilts (4g, 4a).
- She now has six goals and 15 assists for 21 points this season.
LESLIE KEEPS ON ROLLING
- Senior captain Rebecca Leslie is in the midst of a terrific stretch of games.
- Her 10-game point streak and nine-game multi-point streak ended on Jan. 12, but she has bounced back with four two-point efforts in her last five games.
- Since Nov. 10, Leslie has recorded at least two points in an NCAA-best 81.2 percent of games.
- She has tallied 18 goals and 27 assists for 45 total points this year, with all 45 points coming in the last 21 games.
- Leslie is seventh in the NCAA in total assists and fifth in the nation with 1.08 assists per game.
- She is just four assists from matching Marie-Philip Poulin's program record of 100 career assists at BU.
BEANPOT UP NEXT
- BU will face Harvard on Tuesday, Feb. 6, in the opening round of the 40th Women's Beanpot at Boston College.
- Puck drop is scheduled for 5 p.m.
