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Vermont completes a five-game road swing this weekend with a two-game series at Agganis Arena against No. 11 Boston University on Friday (Dec. 4) at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday (Dec. 5) at 4 p.m. Pre-game coverage begins 30 minutes prior to faceoff on WVMT 620-AM and SportsJuice.com, and live video is available throughout the weekend at GoTerriers.com. The schools have split their last four overall meetings at Agganis, including a 6-2 UVM victory in the last matchup on Jan. 25, 2014.  

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SCOUTING THE TERRIERS
Boston University, last year's NCAA national runner up, is ranked 11th in the most recent USCHO.com Poll and 12th in the USA Today/USA Hockey Poll. The Terriers battled back from two goals down to tie Cornell 3-3 in Red Hot Hockey at Madison Square Garden last Saturday before winning in a shootout. BU is led offensively by Danny O'Regan with a team-best 17 points and 13 assists, while Ahti Oksanen has tallied a team-high seven goals. Sophomore Connor LaCouvee has started 10 games in net with a 5-2-3 record, 2.65 goals against average and .914 save percentage. Former Colorado Avalanche assistant David Quinn is in his third year as the head coach after replacing Jack Parker.

SERIES HISTORY
Friday night marks the 75th meeting between Vermont and Boston University in the all-time series, which dates back to 1972. Last season, the Terriers swept the Catamounts in Burlington with a 4-2 win and a 2-1 overtime winner from Hobey Baker winner Jack Eichel in late January. UVM has split each of its last two weekend series at Agganis Arena, scoring 11 times in the two wins with 5-goal and 6-goal performances. Only one of the last seven meetings has been decided by a goal or less. Vermont is 6-8-3 all-time at Agganis, which opened in January of 2005.

PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE HOCKEY FACEOFF
Dylan Richard scored twice and Eamon McAdam stopped all 30 shots he faced as 20th-ranked Penn State shut out Vermont 4-0 on Sunday afternoon at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Mike Santaguida finished with a career-high 42 saves in the Vermont net and made at least 13 saves in each period. It marked the first 40-plus save effort by a UVM goaltender since Rob Madore registered 40 saves at Maine on Jan. 4, 2012. Zach Saar's power play goal at 8:20 of the first period proved to be the game-winner, while Chase Berger added a tally for Penn State.

MILESTONE WATCH
Former BU Terrier Alexx Privitera is six assists away from 50 in his career and made his 100th collegiate appearance on Nov. 15. Mario Puskarich is the program's active leading scorer and sits just three points away from 75 for his NCAA career. Juniors Brendan Bradley and Brady Shaw are each just two points from hitting the half-century mark in scoring at Vermont. Six different UVM rookies have posted their first collegiate points this season, including defenseman Mike Lee's first-ever goal on Nov. 6. Head coach Kevin Sneddon is just eight shy of his 200th victory behind the UVM bench and his 250th career NCAA victory.

SHOOTING GALLERY
Vermont is averaging nearly 38 shots per game over its last six contests. The Catamounts have registered at least 30 shots on target in each of their last seven games and rank 24th in the nation in shots on goal per game (31.2). UVM faced the nation's leader in shots on goal per game last Sunday against Penn State, and BU currently ranks fifth in that category (35.9).

WHO'S NEXT
Vermont faces former ECAC rival and 13th-ranked St. Lawrence next weekend in a home-and-home series on Friday (Dec. 11) at 7:05 p.m. at Gutterson Fieldhouse and Saturday (Dec. 12) at 7 p.m. at Appleton Arena. Friday's game will be streamed live for free on CatamounTV.com, and pre-game radio coverage begins each night at 6:30 p.m. on WVMT 620-AM and SportsJuice.com.