No. 8 BU Travels to Providence Friday to Begin Home-and-Home Series

Friday, January 10

Providence, RI

6 PM

Boston University

Providence

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No. 8 BU Travels to Providence Friday to Begin Home-and-Home Series

January 9, 2020 | Women's Ice Hockey

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The eighth-ranked Boston University women's ice hockey team will begin a home-and-home series with Providence on Friday night at Schneider Arena (6 p.m.). The teams will then skate at Walter Brown Arena on Saturday at 3 p.m.

LAST TIME AGAINST PC

The Terriers earned a 2-1 win at Providence on Nov. 9.
Freshman Julia Nearis scored both BU goals, including the game-winner at 5:34 of the third period to break a 1-1 tie just 1:06 after Providence tied the contest.
Redshirt senior Sammy Davis assisted on both markers.
Freshman Nadia Mattivi and junior Nara Elia also contributed an assist apiece.
Junior Corinne Schroeder made 26 saves and did not allow a 5-on-5 goal in the win.

TURNING POINT FOR THE TERRIERS

The Nov. 9 win at Providence was junior Jesse Compher's first game back with BU.
She had missed the first eight games of the season due to injury.
Since Compher's return to the lineup, BU is 8-1-1, including a 7-0-1 mark when she collects a point.
Compher has tallied seven goals and nine assists for 16 points.
Sammy Davis, Compher's linemate, has notched four goals and 10 assists for 14 points since Compher's return.
Compher and Davis are the highest-scoring duo in Hockey East since Nov. 9.

HISTORY WITH PROVIDENCE

BU is 29-14-3 all-time against Providence, including a 9-11-2 road record and an 18-3-1 mark at home.
The teams have split the last two meetings, both of which finished 2-1.
BU has won three of its last four contests against Providence and has not lost two straight to the Friars since the 2008-09 season.

BEST OF BU AGAINST PROVIDENCE

Sammy Davis leads the Terriers with eight points (2g, 6a) against Providence.
Jesse Compher and Abbey Stanley each have one goal and are tied with Davis for the team lead with six assists against Providence.
Natasza Tarnowski (3g, 3a), Nara Elia (4g, 2a) and Abby Cook (1g, 5a) all have six points apiece against the Friars.
Deziray De Sousa (2g, 3a) has tallied five points against PC, followed by Kristina Schuler (4a), Kaleigh Donnelly (3a) and Breanna Scarpaci (3a).
Sixteen different BU skaters have collected at least one point against PC.
Corinne Schroeder has only allowed one 5-on-5 goal in each of her last three starts against the Friars.

FORECASTING THE FRIARS

Providence opened 2020 by splitting two games at Vermont on Jan. 4-5, earning a 3-1 win on the 5th.
The Friars have rebounded from the loss against BU on Nov. 9 and are 6-3-0 in their last nine games.
Senior defender Whitney Dove leads Providence with 14 assists and 20 points while sophomore Sara Hjalmarsson has a team-high 10 goals and is second with 19 points.
Senior goaltender Clare Minnerath was pulled from the first game at Vermont after allowing three goals through the first 25 minutes.
Minnerath, who did not face BU on Nov. 9, has started all 16 games in which she has appeared, posting an 8-5-2 record with a .902 save percentage and a 2.22 goals-against average.
Sophomore Sandra Abstreiter improved to 2-3-0 in that 3-1 win at UVM.
She owns a 1.77 goals-against average and a .930 save percentage.

STAYING CLOSE TO HOME

The Terriers will play at least one home game every week during the second semester.
The only time they play two straight road games this semester is when they travel to Merrimack (Jan. 25) and Northeastern (Jan. 28).

SCHROEDER NAMED GOALIE OF MONTH

Junior Corinne Schroeder was named Hockey East and National Goaltender of the Month for December.
Schroeder, who the league also selected as its top goaltender for October, was sensational in December, posting a nation-leading .979 save percentage among goalies that started at least two games.
She allowed just one goal in a weekend sweep of then-No. 8 Boston College, making 21 saves in a 6-0 win on Dec. 6 before recording 25 saves in a 2-1 triumph the next day.
Schroeder stopped 46 of the 47 shots she faced against the Eagles and did not allow an even-strength goal.
This was the second time that Schroeder received National Goaltender of the Month honors; she was also the National Goaltender of the Month for December 2018.

SCHROEDER HAS BEEN SENSATIONAL

Junior goaltender Corinne Schroeder ranks third in the NCAA with a .943 save percentage and fifth in the country with a 1.49 goals-against average.
Schroeder has recorded two shutouts this season and has been nearly unbeatable on the road, sporting a .957 save percentage and a nation-best seven wins away from Walter Brown Arena.
She has allowed three goals just twice this year and has yet to allow more than two even-strength goals this season.

DUROCHER NEARING A MILESTONE

Head coach Brian Durocher is now two wins away from 300 as the Terriers' bench boss.
He has been at the helm of the program for all 15 seasons.
Combined with his brief stint as the head coach of Colgate's men's team, Durocher has logged 310 victories.

MATTIVI MAKES HER MARK

Freshman Nadia Mattivi scored her first goal at home when she lit the lamp in the Terriers' 3-3 tie with Maine on Jan. 5.
She also provided the primary assist on Nara Elia's overtime-winner the previous afternoon.
Mattivi has recorded a point in five of her last seven games, including a career-best two points in a 6-0 win over Boston College on Dec. 6.
She is third among Hockey East rookie defenders in plus/minus at plus-8.