MEN'S HOCKEY NOTEBOOK
Vermont travels to Matthews Arena on Friday (Nov. 17) for a single Hockey East contest against the 12th-ranked Northeastern Huskies at 7 p.m. The game will be televised live on NESN in New England, and a free live stream is available outside New England via GoNU.com. Pre-game radio coverage on WVMT 620-AM and CatamounTV.com begins at 6:30 p.m. with Alastair Ingram and USCHO's Jim Connelly on the call from Boston. 

RELATED LINKS
Video (Outside New England) | Audio | Live Stats | CatamounTV Preview | Game Notes (.pdf)

MOVEMBER CAMPAIGN | Donate
The men's hockey team has launched a Movember campaign, growing mustaches for the month of November to raise money and awareness for men's health issues such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention. To donate online to the team or to an individual player, please visit go.uvm.edu/movember.

Fans who donate at least $25 and use the phrase "Go Cats Go" in the "include a message with your donation" section will be entered to win four (4) tickets to the Brown game on Saturday, Dec. 9 at 7:05 p.m. or a stick signed by the entire team. 

COACHES SHOW PRESENTED BY MILTON CAT
The Kevin Sneddon Coaches Show Presented by Milton Cat airs every Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. this season on the flagship station for Catamount men's hockey, WVMT 620-AM. Tonight's episode airs with Sneddon and rookie forward Ace Cowans in Chat With The Cats. Eighth-year radio play-by-play voice Alastair Ingram serves as the host of the weekly show throughout the season.

SCOUTING THE HUSKIES
Northeastern blew out Boston University 6-1 at home last Friday to extend its winning streak to four games but fell on the road 4-2 to UMass Lowell on Saturday to see the streak end. NU owns the nation's top scoring offense with 4.30 goals per game and the fifth-best power play nationally at 27.5%.

Junior Adam Gaudette leads the Huskies with 17 points and eight goals, while he and Dylan Sikura both rank top-5 nationally in scoring. Underclassmen Zach Solow and Jeremy Davies have each tallied 10 assists on the year to lead the squad. Veteran Ryan Ruck (4-1-0, 2.60 GAA, .910 SV%) and rookie Cayden Primeau (2-2-1, 2.35, .908) have each started five games in net.

NU alum Jim Madigan is in his seventh season as the NU head coach, and in 2016 he led the program to its first Hockey East Championship since 1998 with a 3-2 victory over UMass Lowell at TD Garden in Boston. 

SERIES HISTORY
Friday marks the 63rd all-time meeting between Vermont and Northeastern in the series, which dates back to 1969. Vermont has a five-game unbeaten streak (3-0-2) against the Huskies and has lost just once in the last eight meetings (5-1-2). The last five contests have been decided by a total of three goals.

Vermont has won the last two games at Matthews Arena 3-2, while the schools have tied the last two matchups at Gutterson. UVM is 18-10-1 all-time at Matthews against the Huskies, which includes an active four-game winning streak in Boston.

RED HOT ROSS
Sophomore Ross Colton is tied with NU's Gaudette for the Hockey East lead in goals (8) and he is already within four of his rookie total. Colton is tied for fifth nationally in goal scoring and is one of only 11 players in the country with at least eight tallies. The forward is also currently tied for the national lead in power play goals (5) with Miami's Grant Hutton and ranks tied for fifth in the country in total shots on goal (48).

WHO'S NEXT
UVM returns to Gutterson to host UConn on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving (Nov. 21) at 7:05 p.m. to complete the three-game regular season series with the Huskies. Tickets are still available by logging on to UVMathletics.com/Tickets or by calling 802-656-4410.

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