Boston College’s Hockey East schedule arrives this weekend with a familiar matchup waiting at Kelley Rink: Northeastern.
The Eagles will host the Huskies for a two-game series Friday and Saturday at 7:00 p.m., with both games streaming on ESPN+ and airing on WEEI 850 AM. Saturday’s game will also be shown regionally on NESN.
BC comes into league play at 1-3-1 after a road trip out west that produced a 5-2 loss to No. 4 Denver on Friday and a 2-2 tie the following night.
In the opener, Will Vote and Dean Letourneau found the net. A night later, Matias Vanhanen posted a goal and an assist, while Teddy Stiga pulled the Eagles level with 46 seconds left to force overtime.
Letourneau also handed out two assists in the second game.
Letourneau has been BC’s most productive player so far, leading the team with seven points on three goals and four assists. Oscar Hemming, Stiga and Vanhanen each have two goals, while Luka Radivojevic and Vanhanen share the team lead with four assists apiece. Radivojevic has also piled up a team-high seven blocked shots, with Kristian Kostadinski and Carson Woodall right behind him at six each.
In goal, Louka Cloutier has appeared in four games and owns a 2.25 goals against average along with a .919 save percentage.
The Eagles were picked fourth in the Hockey East preseason poll with 86 points. Providence was chosen first with eight first-place votes and 106 points, followed by UMass with 98 and Boston University with 87. UConn landed fifth with 73 points, Merrimack sixth with 68, and the rest of the poll ran Maine (57), Northeastern (52), New Hampshire (35), UMass Lowell (31), and Vermont (22).
Northeastern enters the weekend at 2-1-0 overall and 0-1-0 in the league. The Huskies dropped an exhibition game to Harvard last weekend, falling 4-1 to the Crimson, and split the previous weekend with UMass. They lost the opener 4-1 before bouncing back for a 4-1 win the next night.
Miguel Marques leads Northeastern with five points on two goals and three assists, while Tyler Fukakusa has a team-high four assists. In net, Lawton Zacher has handled most of the workload, posting a 2.28 goals against average and a .897 save percentage over 105 minutes. Sam Caulfield has appeared in the last two games, with one start, and has a .952 save percentage and a 1.60 goals against average.
Boston College is 177-65-18 all-time against Northeastern, but the Huskies have won the last four meetings, including all three during the 2025-26 season. The Eagles are still chasing their first win over Northeastern since an 8-2 Beanpot victory on Feb. 3, 2025.
After this weekend, BC will host Vermont next week, with games set for Thursday and Friday at 7:00 p.m.
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