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2 6 6 22 57 HOCKEY EAST BEANPOTS NCAA ALL NHL TITLES APPEARANCES AMERICANS DRAFT PICKS FOUR THINGS TO KNOW MEDIA CENTER HOCKEY 1. Northeastern currently sits in third place in the WATCH NESN Friday, March 8 • 7 p.m. Hockey East standings entering the final game of Play-by-play: Rob Rudnick Boston, Mass. • Matthews Arena the regular season. Two points separate the No. 3 Color: Greg Costa through No. 5 teams in the standings. Statistician: Ben Weiss No. 9/9 NORTHEASTERN (22-10-1, 14-8-1 Hockey East) 2. Northeastern can finish anywhere from third to RADIO WRBB Sports (104.9 FM) VS fifth in the final Hockey East standings, and can Play-by-play: Joe Barbito New Hampshire clinch home ice in the HEA quarterfinals with a win Color: Matt Cunha (12-12-9, 8-9-6 Hockey East) on Friday. LIVE STATS NUHuskies.com/mhockey/stats 3. Northeastern has won 22 games in consecutive seasons for the first time in team history, and third 2018-19 SCHEDULE SOCIAL MEDIA NUHuskies.com/social time in the last four seasons. OCTOBER (4-2-0, 1-0-0 HEA) Facebook /GoNUmhockey 12 at Sacred Heart W, 5-2 4. Cayden Primeau is 20-9-1 on the season with Twitter /GoNUmhockey 13 at Sacred Heart W, 5-0 a 2.19 goals against average and .929 save per- Instagram /GoNUmhockey 19 No. 20/rv UNION L, 3-4 (OT) centage. He’s one of six goalies with at least 20 Snapchat /GoNUathletics 20 No. 20/rv UNION L, 1-3 YouTube /GoNUathletics 26 at UMass Lowell * W, 4-1 wins this season. Join the conversation using #HowlinHuskies 27 No. 2/3 ST. CLOUD STATE W, 3-2 NOVEMBER (5-1-1, 4-1-1 HEA) 1 BOSTON UNIVERSITY * T, 5-5 (OT) 3 at Boston University * L, 1-4 9 CONNECTICUT * W, 3-2 10 UMASS LOWELL * W, 5-4 (OT) 16 at Vermont * W, 1-0 24 RIT W, 4-3 30 MERRIMACK * W, 9-1 DECEMBER (3-0-0, 1-0-0 HEA) 8 at Merrimack * W, 7-2 28 vs. RPI @ W, 3-2 (OT) 29 vs. Alabama Huntsville @ W, 2-0 JANUARY (3-4-0, 3-4-0 HEA) 5 MERRIMACK * L, 0-1 11 at Maine * W, 3-2 12 at Maine * W, 4-0 18 at No. 1/1 UMass * L, 1-6 19 No. 1/1 UMASS * W, 2-1 (OT) 25 at No. 14/14 Providence * L, 1-4 26 No. 14/14 PROVIDENCE * L, 0-3 FEBRUARY (6-2-0, 4-2-0 HEA) 1 No. 17/rv UMASS LOWELL * L, 1-3 4 vs. Boston University ! W, 2-1 (OT) 7 at Connecticut * L, 2-3 (OT) 11 vs. Boston College ! W, 4-2 15 VERMONT * W, 4-1 16 VERMONT * W, 2-1 22 at New Hampshire * W, 6-3 23 at New Hampshire * W, 6-0 MARCH (1-1-0, 1-1-0 HEA) 1 at Boston College * L, 1-3 2 BOSTON COLLEGE * W, 4-2 8 NEW HAMPSHIRE * 7 p.m. Home games in BOLD CAPS (Matthews Arena) * Hockey East game ! Beanpot (TD Garden) @ Catamount Cup (Burlington, Vt.) CONTACT Matt Houde [email protected] // 111 Matthews Arena (617) 373-4154 @matt_houde A NORTHEASTERN WIN WOULD... SETTING THE STAGE • Clinch a top-four seed in the league standings and Thank You, Seniors! M-V-Primeau secure home ice for the Hockey East quarterfinals. On Friday night, the Huskies will honor the seven Sophomore goaltender Cayden Primeau blanked members of the Class of 2019: Lincoln Griffin, the Eagles through two periods and made 33 saves • Give Northeastern its 23rd victory of the season, Brandon Hawkins, Liam Pecararo, Austin Plevy, en route to winning his second consecutive Eberly tied for the third most in single-season history. Ryan Ruck, Patrick Schule and Eric Williams. Award and being named the 2019 Beanpot Most Valuable Player. • Tie the program record for regular season wins During their time at Northeastern, the senior class (23), set in 2008-09. has helped the team achieve unprecedented suc- Primeau – who saved 59 of the 62 shots he faced cess, including the program’s first Hockey East during the tournament – joined the company of • Give the Huskies 15 conference wins for the fourth Championship since 1988, two NCAA tournament Bruce Racine (1985, 1988), Marc Robitaille (1997, time in team history. appearances, and back-to-back Beanpot titles. 1998) and Brad Thiessen (2008, 2009) as the NU In addition, this senior class is the winningest in netminders to win multiple Eberly Awards. • Give Cayden Primeau 21 wins on the year, tied Northeastern Hockey history, surpassing last year’s for the second most in NU single-season history. group with an overall record of 85-49-16. Ironman Captain Eric Williams is one of the most seasoned Crunch time Huskies on the roster. Williams has yet to miss a STAT COMPARISON With just one league game remaining, things are game, playing in 150 straight games, the third most tight in the Hockey East standings with just two among all returning players in the NCAA. Category NU UNH points separating the No. 3 through No. 5 seeds in the league standings. Last Saturday, Williams broke the team record for Goals 104 86 career games played, previously held by Wade Goals per game 3.15 2.61 Northeastern is currently third in the standings, MacLeod (149), making Williams the first player in Goals allowed per game 2.15 2.67 and can clinch home ice in the HEA quarterfinals Northeastern history to reach 150 career games. Assists 175 146 with a win on Friday. Assists per game 5.30 4.42 He broke the program record for consecutive Points 279 232 Since 2014-15, Northeastern is 23-8-1 (.734) in games on Feb. 16, previously held by Roger conference games in February and March as the Holeczy (1996-00) and Jason Guerriero (2001-05). Points per game 8.45 7.03 Huskies look to get hot down the stretch yet again. Shots 1031 935 Williams has been on the ice for 85 victories during Shot percentage .101 .092 Davies named National Player of the Month his career, the most of any player in team history. Shots per game 31.24 28.33 Defenseman Jeremy Davies leads the team with Shots allowed per game 30.09 29.18 32 points (eight goals, 24 assists) this season, and All they do is win PPG / opportunities 24/128 21/110 is seventh in the NCAA among defensemen with Northeastern enters Friday with 22 wins of the Power play percentage .188 .191 1.03 points per game. season. It’s the first time in team history that NU has won at least 20 games in consecutive seasons. Penalty kill / opportunities 85/99 110/134 Davies was tied for second in the nation in scoring Shorthanded goals 6 4 among all skaters in February with three goals and The Huskies are one of six teams in the NCAA Penalties 122 148 nine assists, earning Hockey East Player of the with at least 22 wins this season. A win on Friday Penalty Minutes 299 345 Month honors. would give NU 15 victories in conference play for Shot blocks 391 402 the second straight year, and just the fourth time Faceoff wins 972 951 On Feb. 23, he became the first Northeastern de- in program history. Faceoff losses 978 1083 fenseman since Dan McGillis in 1994-95 and 1995- 96 to record 30 points in consecutive seasons. Powering up Faceoff percentage .498 .468 Northeastern is 28th in the NCAA on the power Plus / minus +23 +1 If Davies finishes the season leading the team in play (24-of-128; 18.8%) this season, but has been scoring, he’d be the first defenseman since Jim heating up as of late. In the last eight games, the Fahey in 2001-02 to do so. Huskies are 7-of-26 (26.9%) on the man advan- 2018-19 HONOR ROLL tage, which is 10th in the nation in that span. Champions again! TYLER MADDEN For the first time since 1984 and 1985, the North- In conference play, Northeastern is operating at • Walter Brown Award Semifinalist eastern men’s hockey team is in possession of 22.2% (20-of-90) on the power play, good for third • Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Week (Three times) consecutive Beanpot championships as the No. in Hockey East. 14 Huskies held off Boston College, 4-2, at TD JEREMY DAVIES Garden, laying claim to their second straight title • Hobey Baker Candidate and sixth such trophy during program history. • Hockey East Player of the Month (February) • HCA National Player of the Month (February) 2018-19 HOCKEY EAST STANDINGS LIAM PECARARO ----- Hockey East ----- -----Overall----- • Hockey East Player of the Week (Feb. 25) GP W L T Pts GF GA W L T GF GA 1 Massachusetts ^ * 23 18 5 0 36 89 47 26 7 0 125 66 JOHN PICKING 2 Providence ^ * 24 14 7 3 31 76 44 21 9 6 113 67 • Hockey East Player of the Week (Dec. 3) 3 Northeastern * 23 14 8 1 29 72 52 22 10 1 104 71 4 UMass Lowell * 23 12 7 4 28 63 53 18 11 4 91 72 CAYDEN PRIMEAU 5 Boston University * 23 12 8 3 27 64 59 14 15 4 87 89 • Hobey Baker Candidate 6 Maine * 23 10 9 4 24 58 60 14 15 4 82 95 • Mike Richter Award Watch List 7 Boston College * 24 10 11 3 23 62 60 11 20 3 75 98 8 New Hampshire * 23 8 9 6 22 55 63 12 12 9 86 88 • Beanpot Most Valuable Player 9 Connecticut 23 6 15 2 14 48 74 11 20 2 77 104 • Eberly Award Winner 10 Vermont 23 5 16 2 12 39 57 12 19 2 70 80 • HEA Goaltender of the Month (October) 11 Merrimack 24 4 18 2 10 48 105 7 24 3 67 134 • HEA Player of the Week (Feb.