BOSTON - The Boston University men's ice hockey team welcomes defending NCAA runner-up and fifth-ranked Massachusetts to Agganis Arena to open a weekend home-and-home series on Friday (Nov. 15). Game time is set for 7:30 p.m.

Fans who attend Friday's contest will receive a BU wall flag courtesy of BU Study Abroad.  

BU (2-3-4, 1-2-3 Hockey East) is six games into a stretch of 10 straight Hockey East contests and has accumulated five league points in six games. The Minutemen (6-2-0, 2-2-0) had a five-game win streak snapped on Sunday at New Hampshire.

Since they first met on Jan. 16, 1920, the Terriers and Minutemen have played 82 times and BU holds an impressive 62-13-7 (.799) record in the series. The Terriers are 17-4-4 against the Minutemen since the beginning of 2010. BU is 17-3-3 (.804) at Agganis Arena against UMass. 

UMass, last year's Hockey East regular-season champion, earned its first-ever season sweep of the Terriers last season. On Feb. 1 at Agganis Arena, BU came up short in a wild 7-5 contest against the Minutemen. One week later in Amherst, the Terriers scored first before UMass reeled off four straight goals in an eventual 4-2 contest. 

The Minutemen won six of their first seven games this season but have lost two of their three road games. UMass is allowing only 21.4 shots per game, which ranks second in the nation. 

Junior Mitchell Chaffee has a team-best 12 points on seven goals and five assists. He shares the lead in goals with classmate John Leonard (7-1--8). Freshman Zac Jones has impressed early on with nine points on the strength of a squad-high seven assists while fellow rookie has six points, including four goals.

Junior Matt Murray (1.51 GAA, .918 sv. %) and sophomore Filip Lindberg (2.01, .917) have shared time in goal with each goaltender earning three wins.

Despite scoring eight goals, BU came away with only one point in a weekend home-and-home series with Providence last weekend, skating to a 3-3 home draw on Friday before being edged on the road by a score of 6-5..

Junior David Farrance tallied six points (5g, 1a) in the series, including his first collegiate hat trick. Freshman Trevor Zegras tallied a goal and two assists in both contests en route to Hockey East Rookie of the Week honors.

Farrance leads all Division I players in power-play goals with six. Among blueliners, Farrance ranks first in the nation in both points (14) and goals (8). He set a BU record for goals in a weekend by a defenseman with five against the Friars. It marked the first time in 19 years that a BU defensemen scored multiple goals in back-to-back games. Chris Dyment scored twice versus Merrimack on Oct. 28, 2001, before adding two more against Northeastern five days later.

Seniors Patrick Harper (4g, 9a) and Patrick Curry (7g, 3a) have combined for 23 points this season. Harper ranks eighth in the nation in points per game at 1.86 and has at least one point in all seven games he has played in. Curry is one of only nine players in the country with at least seven goals this season.