ORONO, Maine - With its final non-conference game of the season behind it, the No. 20/RV University of Maine men's hockey team will turn its focus to Hockey East play for the remainder of the regular season, beginning with a two-game set on Friday and Saturday at No. 10/9 Northeastern. The call of both games can be heard online or on 103.9 WVOM-FM while a stream will also be available online both nights and Saturday's game being shown on NESNPlus.
 

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GAME INFORMATION
Game #21: Maine Black Bears at Northeastern Huskies
DATE: Friday, Jan. 12, 2018
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
SITE: Matthews Arena - Boston, Mass.
2017-18 RECORDS: Maine 11-7-2 (5-4-1 HEA), Northeastern 12-5-3 (8-3-1 HEA)
Game #22: Maine Black Bears at Northeastern Huskies
DATE: Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018
TIME: 5:00 p.m.
SITE: Matthews Arena - Boston, Mass.

Maine game notes

About the Black Bears    
• Maine is coming off a 3-0 victory at Boston University on Saturday and a 4-4 overtime tilt at Brown on Monday.
• The win and tie extended Maine's unbeaten streak to nine games (7-0-2).
• Jeremy Swayman made 31-saves for his first career shutout while Nolan Vesey, Ryan Smith and Brendan Robbins each found the back of the net in the win at BU.
• Chase Pearson tallied two goals and one assist in Monday's win while Eduards Tralmaks had two assist to extend his point streak to three games.
• In its first action after the break, Maine swept RPI, Dec. 29-30, earning 3-2 and 5-2 wins on the road.
• Vesey scored twice in the first four minutes and Tim Doherty added the game-winner in the second period of the 3-2 win.
• The Black Bears got five goals from five players on Saturday and a 36-save performance from Rob McGovern in the 5-2 win.
• Prior to the two-game set at RPI, Maine had last played on Dec. 8-9, earning 7-4 and 5-3 wins at Quinnipiac.

About the Huskies
• Northeastern played a two-game, home-and-home series with Bentley last weekend, tying, 3-3, in Friday night's road contest before grabbing a 6-1 win at Matthews Arena on Saturday.
• Adam Gaudette, who leads the Huskies in scoring (15-15-30), tallied four points with two goals and two assists in Saturday's win and now holds a six-game point streak.
• Cayden Primeau made 12 saves in his seventh-straight decision and now sits at 8-3-3 on the year; his .924 save percentage is 10th in the nation and his 1.90 goals against average is sixth.
• Dylan Sikura, who is second on the team in scoring (10-16-26) is fourth overall in the country with 90 shots on goal and leads the nation with his 1.53 points per game average.
• The Huskies, who have six players in double-digit scoring, enter the weekend on a seven-game unbeaten streak (5-0-2).

The Series with the Huskies
• Maine and Northeastern have squared off 122 times prior to Friday's game, with Maine holding an edge of 55-48-19 the all-time series.
• The teams played in the final weekend of the regular season last year, with Maine dropping the first contest in overtime, 5-4, before earning a 5-4 win the next night.
• Nolan Vesey tallied three goals in the Friday night contest while Chase Pearson had one goal and one assist; Blaine Byron '17 had four points (1-3-4).
• Mark Hamilton (1-1-2) and Brendan Robbins (1-2-3) had multi-point nights for Maine in the win.
• Three of the last five meetings and four of the last 10 have been decided in overtime.

About Head Coach Red Gendron
• Red Gendron, who enters his fifth year behind the bench of the Black Bears, has won two NCAA Hockey National Championships and a NHL Stanley Cup as an assistant coach.
• He assisted head coach Shawn Walsh with the UMaine 1993 NCAA Division I National Championship team.
• Before being named the head coach of the Black Bears, Gendron was associate head coach at Yale University; the Bulldogs earned the 2013 NCAA Division I National Championship.
• Prior to Gendron's two seasons at Yale, from 2005-11, he was an assistant coach at the University of Massachusetts.
• Gendron spent 11 seasons in professional hockey with the New Jersey Devils organization.

Second Period Streak
• The Black Bears have scored a goal in the second period in seven straight contests and in 15 out of 20 games played this season.
• Maine's 28 second period scores is tied with Northeastern for tops in Hockey East, with the two squads sitting tied for fifth in the nation in that category with Northern Michigan.
• The team has scored 18 second period goals in road contests, which leads the league and is tied for second nationally with Penn State.

League Honors Holway, Doherty
• Defenseman Patrick Holway was named the Hockey East Player of the Month for December while forward Tim Doherty was tabbed as the league's Rookie of the Month.
• Holway led Maine and defensemen nationally - and tied for the league lead - in points in the month, putting up nine points on three goals and six assists.
• The sophomore is the first blue-liner to take home the conference Player of the Month award since Boston University's Colby Cohen did it in January 2010.
• Doherty finished December with eight points on four goals and four assists, with the points placing him tied for third in the league and first among rookies.
• Doherty, who currently has a seven-game point streak, had 40 wins to 26 loses for a .606 win-percentage at the face-off dot.
• Additionally, Jeremy Swayman was runner-up for Goaltender of the Month after going 3-0-1 in four starts and posting a 2.70 goals against average and a .934 save percentage.

Blocked Out
• Maine's team average of 14.50 blocks per game is tied for eighth overall in the country and first overall in the league in that category.
• The Black Bears have blocked at least 12 shots in 18 of 10 games played, with a season-high 24 coming in a 7-4 win at Quinnipiac on Dec. 8.
• Defenseman Mark Hamilton is ninth in the country with an average of 2.38 blocks per game – a number that leads the league.
• Forward Cedric Lacroix is tops among Hockey East forwards and 16th in the nation with 1.11 blocks per game

Weekly Awards
• Defenseman Brady Keeper was tabbed as the Hockey East Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Week on Jan. 2 after notching the game-winning goal and adding an assist in Maine's 5-2 win at RPI.
• Freshman Jeremy Swayman earned Player of the Week honors on Dec. 11 after he backstopped the Black Bears to a weekend road sweep of ECAC Hockey foe Quinnipiac with a 95-save weekend.
• Swayman also had two ROW honors this season earning one on Nov. 20 after his 40-save performance in a 5-2 win over then No.18 BU on Nov. 17 and then on Jan. 8 after a 31-save shutout performance in a 3-0 win at BU.
• Eduards Tralmaks was tabbed as the Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Week on Nov. 6, as announced by the Hockey East Association.
• The freshman earned the honor after notching two goals and one assist in Maine's 6-2 win at UMass Lowell on Nov 4.

Up Next
• Maine returns home on Tuesday, Jan. 16, to take on UMass.
• The team remains at home the weekend of Jan. 19-20, hosting rival New Hampshire on what will be the 40th Anniversary Weekend of Alfond Arena and Maine hockey.

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