WOMEN'S HOCKEY NOTEBOOK
Vermont returns to Gutterson Fieldhouse this weekend for a pair of Hockey East contests against New Hampshire at 7 p.m. on Friday (Oct. 20) and third-ranked Boston College on Sunday (Oct. 22) at 2 p.m. Tickets are available at 802-656-4410, UVMathletics.com/Tickets, or at the Gutterson Box Office one hour before game time. Free video and live stats are both available at CatamounTV.com.
 
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UNH: Video | Live Stats | Tickets 
BC: Video | Live Stats | Tickets 

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CONNECT FOUR
Ève-Audrey Picard is one of only four players in the league this season who has scored four goals. The sophomore set a new varsity single-game record with all four of her goals against Union on Oct. 10, leading UVM to a convincing 7-0 non-conference win. Picard leads all active Catamounts with 20 goals and has posted 36 points in her 43 career games. 

CAT FACTS
Vermont is tied for second in Hockey East on the power play at 25-percent. Mackenzie MacNeil, Alyssa Gorecki, and Saana Valkama are all tied for the team-lead with three assists. Melissa Black and Sydney Scobee have combined to post a .917 save percentage through five contests. UVM has scored nine of its 13 goals this season in the second period of play.
 
SCOUTING UNH
UNH enters the weekend 2-0-1 after taking three points from Merrimack on opening weekend and beating Holy Cross 9-1 last Saturday. The Wildcats are led by defenseman Julia Fedeski with four points, and she is tied with Nicole Dunbar for the team-lead in goals with three. Ava Boutilier has started all three games between the pipes with a 0.97 goals against average and a .962 save percentage. Hilary Witt is in her fourth season as the head coach at UNH. Last year, New Hampshire went 14-19-2 (11-11-2 HEA) to earn the 6-seed and lost 3-2 in Game 3 of the Hockey East Quarterfinals against No. 3 seed BU. 

SCOUTING BC
The defending league champion Eagles are ranked third nationally in this week's USCHO.com poll. The Eagles are 3-0-0 after home wins over Minnesota Duluth (4-3, 4-1) and Quinnipiac (4-2) and will travel to UConn on Friday night. Freshman Daryl Watts leads the team with nine points through three games on four goals and five assists. Senior Katie Burt has started every game in net, posting a 2.00 goals against average and a .933 save percentage. Katie Crowley is in her 11th season as the head coach of the program and earned her 250th win on Oct. 6. Boston College fell 1-0 in last year's NCAA Semifinal to Wisconsin. 
 
SERIES HISTORY
Vermont and New Hampshire split the regular season series last year 1-1-1, but UVM took three points from a pair of home games in early February. Included that weekend was the annual Pack The Gut game, played in front of a Hockey East regular season record crowd of 2,136. Despite trailing in the all-time series against UNH, Vermont has secured 11 wins against the Wildcats since the 2009-10 campaign, winning the regular season series two years ago 2-1-0.

Sunday against Boston College is a rematch of last year's Hockey East Semifinal, which was the longest in league history. Boston College earned a 4-3 win in double overtime as Andie Anastos clinched the game after 83 minutes at Walter Brown Arena. The Catamounts also nearly upset the Eagles at home on Jan. 20 last season, carrying a 2-1 lead into the final minute of regulation. BC scored with the goalie pulled to force overtime, and found the winner 39 seconds into the extra session.
 
WHO'S NEXT
Vermont hits the road next weekend for a two-game Hockey East series against Merrimack at Lawler Arena. The teams face off on Friday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 28 at 2 p.m. in North Andover, Massachusetts. 

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