#9 Boston University (4-3-1, 1-1-1 HE) at/vs. UMass Lowell (4-4-0, 1-3-0 HE)
Date & Time: Friday, Nov. 10 - 7:15 p.m. | Saturday, Nov. 11 - 7 p.m.
Venue: Tsongas Center - Lowell, Mass. | Agganis Arena - Boston, Mass.
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The No. 9/8 Boston University men's ice hockey team will return to Hockey East play this weekend when the Terriers face UMass Lowell in a home-and-home series that begins Friday night at Tsongas Center. Puck drop is scheduled for 7:15 p.m. on Friday and 7 p.m. on Saturday for Heroes Night at Agganis Arena. Tickets for Saturday can be purchased by clicking here, with both contests streamed live on ESPN+.
 
TERRIER TIDBITS

• BU split last weekend's series with then-No. 3/4 North Dakota, earning a 3-2 win on Friday at Agganis before suffering a 5-4 overtime setback the next night.
• Sophomore Lane Hutson was named Hockey East Player of the Week after recording four goals against the Fighting Hawks, including his first collegiate hat trick on Saturday.
• Hutson was the first Terrier defenseman since David Farrance in 2019 to record a hat trick.
• He leads all NCAA defensemen with six goals in just seven games. 
• Senior Luke Tuch broke a 2-2 tie early in the third period of Friday's victory.
• Sophomore Devin Kaplan (1g, 2a) and freshman Macklin Celebrini (3a) each tallied three points over the weekend, with Kaplan providing the primary helper on Tuch's winner before scoring the tying goal with 2:17 remaining in regulation on Saturday.
• Kaplan enters the weekend on a five-game point streak (2g, 5a).
• Celebrini enters the weekend as the NCAA leader in freshman goal scoring and point production, having notched eight goals and six assists for 14 points this year.
• Nineteen different Terriers have tallied a point this season, including 12 with at least three points.

HISTORY WITH UMASS LOWELL

• BU is 79-36-12 (.669) in 127 all-time meetings with the River Hawks.
• The teams have played each other to an 11-11-3 record since the start of the 2014-15 campaign.
• That includes a split of last season's home-and-home series, with UMass Lowell winning, 2-1, at Tsongas Center and BU earning a 2-1 overtime victory at Agganis.
• Each of the last three meetings between BU and Lowell have finished with a 2-1 score while seven of the last nine contests have either been decided by one goal or finished even.
• BU is 14-8-3 (.620) against Lowell at Agganis and 17-18-5 (.487) at Tsongas Center 
• In 18 overtime games, BU is 6-0-12 versus Lowell.
• Head coach Jay Pandolfo went 11-3-1 against the River Hawks as a player.

SCOUTING THE RIVER HAWKS

• UMass Lowell is 4-4-0 after suffering a pair of 3-2 setbacks to No. 1 Boston College this past weekend.
• The River Hawks are 1-3-0 in their last four games, all of which were one-goal affairs.
•  That includes a 1-0 victory at UConn on Oct. 28.
• Three players - sophomore Scout Truman (2g, 6a), junior Matt Crasa (6g, 2a) and junior Owen Cole (3g, 5a) - lead UMass Lowell with eight points apiece.
• Crasa has scored a team-high six goals, including four at Colgate on Oct. 20, and Truman has added a team-leading six assists, though all six assists came in two victories at Colgate.
• Junior Luke Pavicich and senior Henry Welsch have each played four games between the pipes, with each netminder posting a 2-2-0 record.
• Pavicich, a UMass transfer who gave up five goals in each of his two losses to BU last season with the Minutemen, owns a .935 save percentage and a 1.99 goals-against average this year.
• Welsch, who made 32 saves in Lowell's win over BU last season, sports a .933 save percentage and a 2.00 GAA this season.