No. 9 BU Set for Home-and-Home Series with New Hampshire

Saturday, February 15

Durham, NH

2 PM

Boston University

New Hampshire

Photo by: Rich Gagnon

No. 9 BU Set for Home-and-Home Series with New Hampshire

February 14, 2020 | Women's Ice Hockey

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The ninth-ranked Boston University women's ice hockey team will begin a home-and-home series with New Hampshire on Saturday afternoon at Whittemore Center (2 p.m.). The teams will then skate at Walter Brown Arena on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. Sunday's showdown will be televised live on NESN.

IMPORTANT PAIR OF GAMES

The Terriers have an opportunity to clinch home-ice advantage in the Hockey East quarterfinals with either two victories or one win and a loss by both UConn and Providence.
BU is currently in second place with 31 points, three clear of the Huskies and the Friars, who both sit in a tie for the fourth and final home-ice spot.
UNH is in the mix for home ice as well; the Wildcats are sixth with 25 points, just three back of UConn and Providence.
If BU wins twice this weekend, the Terriers will secure the No. 2 seed.

HISTORY WITH NEW HAMPSHIRE

BU is 30-16-5 all-time against UNH, including an 11-8-3 mark at Whittemore Center.
The Terriers are 8-1-2 against the Wildcats over the teams' last 11 meetings, with the one loss coming in Durham back in October.
BU has won six straight games against UNH at Walter Brown Arena and has only lost once to the Wildcats at Walter Brown since the start of the 2011-12 season.

LAST TIME AGAINST THE WILDCATS

Abby Cook opened the scoring with a power-play goal just 5:58 into the game, but UNH scored the next three goals and then added a fourth early in the third period en route to a 4-2 victory in Durham on Oct 12, 2019.
Sammy Davis assisted on Cook's strike also found the back of the net.
Nara Elia had an assist on both strikes while Courtney Correia also provided a helper.
Kate Stuart made a career-high 43 saves.

BEST OF BU AGAINST THE WILDCATS

Sammy Davis leads the Terriers in goals (11), assists (11) and points (22) against the Wildcats.
Jesse Compher has two goals and 10 assists while Abby Cook also has two goals to go along with nine assists.
Courtney Correia (1g, 3a), Deziray De Sousa (1g, 3a) Nara Elia (2g, 2a), Mackenna Parker (3g, 1a) and Natasza Tarnowski (3g, 1a) each have four points against UNH.
Kristina Schuler (2g, 1a) and Abbey Stanley (3a) have each notched three points against the Wildcats.
Corinne Schroeder is 4-0-1 in five starts against UNH, posting a .963 save percentage and a 1.18 goals-against average.
She has won four straight starts against New Hampshire, allowing just one goal in each of those four triumphs.

SCOUTING THE WILDCATS

UNH is 2-0-2 in its last four games, including a 2-2 tie with Merrimack in its last game on Feb. 8.
The Wildcats are in sixth place, three points ahead of seventh-place Maine and just one point behind Providence and UConn, two teams tied for fourth.
Senior Meghara McManus leads the team with 16 goals and 24 points.
Senior Tori Howran is tops on the squad with 16 assists.
Junior Ava Boutilier, who missed eight straight games and 10 of the last 11, returned last weekend.
She shut out Boston College on Feb. 7 and then earned a 2-2 tie against Merrimack the next day, combining for 63 saves over the two tilts.
Boutilier owns a .934 save percentage and a 1.93 goals-against average.
She made 27 saves in the Wildcats' win over BU in October.

TALKING ABOUT TUESDAY'S TIE

BU and No. 3 Northeastern skated to what will officially go down as a 3-3 tie on Tuesday night in the championship game of the 42nd annual Women's Beanpot at Walter Brown Arena.
Redshirt senior Sammy Davis tied the score with 22.8 seconds remaining in regulation.
Junior Kristina Schuler opened the scoring with a shorthanded goal while senior Abby Cook lit the lamp with a power-play marker.
Both Davis and Cook had one assist as well, with freshman Nadia Mattivi and sophomore Kaleigh Donnelly also adding one assist apiece.
Junior Corinne Schroeder made 27 saves, including 11 stops in the third period.

COMPHER COLLECTS WEEKLY HONOR

Junior Jesse Compher was named Hockey East Player of the Week on Monday.
Compher was also selected as the No. 1 Star of the Week by the NCAA.
This is the second time she has won both those awards.
Compher led the conference with five points in two games last week, scoring two goals in the Terriers' 4-0 Beanpot semifinal win over Boston College on Feb. 4 before notching one goal and two assists in a 5-2 triumph at Holy Cross on Feb. 8.
Only two players in the country had more points than Compher last week.
Not only did Compher produce points at a high rate, but she also shined in the faceoff circle.
The center led the nation by winning 90% of the draws she took last week, going 27-3 at the dot.
That includes an impressive 15-1 record against BC in the Beanpot semifinal win.

THE COMPHER FACTOR

Since junior Jesse Compher made her season debut on Nov. 9, BU is 15-3-3.
Compher has notched a team-high 15 assists and is second on the squad with 10 goals and 25 points in that span.
BU is 12-0-1 this season when Compher collects a point.
Compher has also generated a team-high 85 shots on goal since Nov. 9 and has won 208 faceoffs.
Since Jan. 31, only two players in the NCAA have a better faceoff percentage than Compher, who has won 71% of the draws she has taken over the last four fixtures.

OFF TO FAST STARTS

The Terriers have scored the opening goal in 25 of their 30 games this year.
That is tied for first overall with Wisconsin in that category.
BU is 14-1-1 this season when leading after the first period, with that lone loss coming on Jan. 28 at Northeastern.