Boston University (0-0-0, 0-0-0) vs. No. 5/7 Northeastern (3-1-0, 0-0-0 HE)
Date & Time: Friday, October 6 - 6 p.m.
Venue: Walter Brown Arena - Boston, Mass.
Date & Time: Saturday, October 7 - 1:30 p.m.
Venue: Matthews Arena - Boston, Mass.
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BOSTON - The Boston University women's ice hockey team begins its new era with first-year head coach Tara Watchorn on Friday (Oct. 6) when it hosts No. 5/7 Northeastern in the opener of weekend home-and-home series.
TERRIER TIDBITS
- BU returns eight of its top nine point-scorers from the 2022-23 season.
- Junior Christina Vote is the leading returner in both points (19) and assists (14) while sophomore Clara Yuhn is the leading returner in goals (8).
- The Terriers headed to Montreal last weekend and faced off against McGill in a preseason exhibition.
- BU topped the Martlets by a score of 5-2 and got goals from senior Catharine Foulem, junior Ani FitzGerald and sophomores Sydney Healey, Clara Yuhn and Brooke Disher.
- Graduate student Nadia Mattivi will serve as captain for the second consecutive season while senior Madison Cardaci has been elevated to captain after serving as an assistant captain last year.
- Senior Lacey Martin enters her second year as an assistant captain and Foulem will wear an 'A' for the first time this year.
- The Terriers were selected fifth in the Hockey East Preseason Poll.
- Watchorn, who starred at BU and also came back to serve as an assistant coach, is the second head coach in program history as Brian Durocher was at the helm for the program's first 18 seasons.
SERIES HISTORY
- BU is 32-30-9 all time against Northeastern.
- The Terriers are looking to snap a six-game losing streak to the Huskies.
SCOUTING THE HUSKIES
- Northeastern is coming off a weekend road sweep of LIU, posting 6-0 and 2-0 shutouts.
- The defending Hockey East champions opened the year by splitting with Penn State.
- Junior Skylar Irving has a team-best four points - all assists - this season while grad student Peyton Anderson and sophomore Kristina Allard each have posted two goals and an assist.
- Fifth-year goaltender Gwenyth Phillips, the reigning national goaltender of the year, has three shutouts in four starts this season and boasts a .980 save percentage and a 0.50 goals-against average.
