Boston University (9-5-3, 8-4-3 HE) at #7/8 Yale (9-3-1, 5-2-1 ECAC)
Date & Time: Wednesday, Dec. 8 - 7 p.m.
Venue: Ingalls Rink - New Haven, Conn.
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The Boston University women's ice hockey team will close the first semester on Wednesday night when the Terriers travel to Yale. Puck drop is scheduled for 7 p.m.
TERRIER TIDBITS
- BU enters Wednesday on a three-game win steak after a weekend sweep of Merrimack.
- The Terriers have gone 40-for-42 (.952) on the penalty kill over the last 11 games, including a 19-for-19 stretch that ended with a 5-on-3 goal by BC in the third period of the Terriers' Nov. 21 win.
- BU has allowed just five power-play goals all year, going 49-for-54 (90.7%).
- Excluding last season, which started in December, BU is 9-0-0 since the 2018-19 season between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
- Senior Courtney Correia leads the squad with 18 points thanks to eight assists and a team-best 10 goals.
- She scored a goal in both games this past weekend, including the tying goal on Friday to force overtime.
- All three of her goals during her current three-game point streak have come in the third period, and six of her 10 goals this year have been on the road.
- Sophomore Lacey Martin became the 20th different BU skater to record a point this season when she tallied two assists in the 4-1 win over Merrimack on Saturday.
- Freshman Callie Shanahan has won her last two starts, earning victories over Boston College and Merrimack.
- She made over 30 saves in both wins.
SCOUTING THE BULLDOGS
- Yale, nationally ranked for the first time in program history, enters Wednesday with a 9-3-1 record.
- That includes three wins over ranked opponents, while two of their losses have been to Quinnipiac, currently No. 4 in both national polls.
- The Bulldogs haven't played since earning a 4-1 win over Sacred Heart on Nov. 27.
- Junior Claire Dalton (7g, 15a) and sophomore Elle Hartje (6g, 16a) are tied for the team lead with 22 points.
- Hartje also leads Yale with 16 assists.
- Junior Emma Seitz has scored a team-best nine goals this season.
- Seitz has scored a goal in seven straight games.
- Senior Gianna Meloni has started eight of the 10 games in which she has appeared, earning three shutouts in the process.
- She leads Yale with a .942 save percentage and a 1.43 goals-against average.
- Freshman Pia Dukaric has started seven of the five games in which she has appeared, including the 4-1 win over Sacred Heart.
- She owns a .913 save percentage and a 1.66 goals-against average.
HISTORY WITH THE BULLDOGS
- BU is 5-1-1 all-time against Yale, only losing the first-ever matchup between the two programs on Nov. 25, 2008 in New Haven.
- The Terriers are 1-1-1 at Ingalls Rink.
- BU defeated Yale, 5-2, in the Terriers' last trip to New Haven on Dec. 7, 2017.
- Victoria Bach ('18) scored four goals in that contest, the last time a Terrier tallied four goals in a single game.
UP NEXT
- BU will be off until Jan. 1 and 2 when the Terriers travel to Pittsburgh, Pa., for the Battle at the 'Burgh tournament.
- The Terriers will open the event against Syracuse on New Year's Day before facing either Penn State or St. Cloud State the next day.