WOMEN'S HOCKEY NOTEBOOK
Vermont (13-9-2, 10-6-1 HEA) returns home this weekend to host Providence (8-7-5, 5-6-2 HEA) in Hockey East action. The teams will faceoff at 6 p.m. on Friday night and 3 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. Friday night is the return of UVM's Pack the Gut Challenge presented by the Windjammer. Admission is just $2. Help us reset the Hockey East attendance record once again.
 
Friday night's game will air on WYCI in the Burlington area with Rob Ryan on the call. WYCI is available on the following channels Comcast – 712, Burlington Telecom - 284, Dish Network - 34, DirecTV 40, and Spectrum – 706/1230. For fans, outside of the local viewing area the game will still be streamed for free through CollegeSportsLive.
 
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HISTORIC TUESDAY AFTERNOON IN WORCESTER
On Tuesday afternoon with just 16 skates and one goaltender the Catamount routed Holy Cross 9-0. They set a new Division I single game record with their nine goals. Senior defenseman Maude Poulin-Labelle set another new program record for points in a game with four goals and two assists for six points. She also became just the third player in program history to record three hat tricks in her career. The nine-goal win was also the Catamounts largest ever margin in a Hockey East win.
 
POULIN-LABELLE LEADS CATAMOUNTS OFFENSIVE ATTACK
Senior defenseman Maude Poulin-Labelle leads the Catamounts in scoring with 11 goals and 17 assists this season for 28 points. She is second amongst all defenseman in scoring in the NCAA and tied for 18th overall. With one more point she'll tie her own program record for points by a defenseman in a single-season with 29 (2019-20). With 75 career points in 104 games she's UVM's all-time leader in defensive scoring.
 
In conference action, she is the conference's leading scorer with 23 points on 10 goals and 13 assists. She's averaging 1.53 points per game in league play which is third in the conference.
 
FIVE-GAME POINT STREAK FOR SCHAFZAHL
Senior forward Theresa Schafzahl is tied for second in Hockey East scoring with Northeastern's Chloe Aurard, they both have 20 points in league action. Schafzahl is currently on a five-game point streak. She has six goals and four assists over that stretch. UVM is 4-1-0 over that stretch.
 
10 LEAGUE WIN MARK
With 10 games remaining in conference play the Catamounts have already reached the 10-win mark in Hockey East for the second time in program history. The team record for league wins in a season is 13, set by the 2013-14 team which was the first in program history to reach the Hockey East semifinals.
 
PK PROWESS
The Catamounts own the nation's 5th ranked penalty kill this season, boasting an 91.2% success rate. Vermont has only allowed five goals while shorthanded this season, and has scored three times while on the penalty kill with Natálie Mlýnková scoring two of them. The 2018-19 Catamounts finished the season with the nation's top penalty kill at 87.4%. Vermont is one of just eight teams in the country to have allowed five or less goals shorthanded this season.
 
SCOUTING THE FRIARS
The Friars sit in eighth place in Hockey East with 19 points in 13 games. However, they are just three points behind Boston College and Maine who are tied for fifth place with 22 points. Last weekend the Friars were swept in a two-game set at UNH, falling 1-0 on Friday and then 3-1 on Saturday. This season away from home the Friars are just 2-5-3. On the road in league play they do not have a regulation win.
 
Sophomore forward Lindasy Bochna leads the team in scoring with a team-high six goals and eight assists for 14 points. Graduate forward Hayley Lunny also has eight assists this season to go along with four goals.

When leading after the first period and second period the Friars are undefeated this season. After the first period, they're 1-0-1 and after the second period they are 4-0-1. Providence's offense can be slow starting, only four of its 35 goals have come in the opening 20.
 
SERIES HISTORY
Friday night will be the 56th all-time meeting between the two teams. Providence leads the series with a record of 34-17-4. On New Years' Eve, the Friars defeated Vermont 3-1 at home. Evelyne Blais-Savoie scored the Catamounts only goal of the game.

RALLY AROUND MENTAL HEALTH GAME
Saturday is our Rally Around Mental Health Game presented by Inspired Closets. Donations to directly support UVM student-athlete mental health can be made here -  https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1690/19/interior.aspx?sid=1690&gid=2&pgid=1457&cid=2905.
 
FOUR CATAMOUNTS HEADED TO THE 2022 OLYMPICS
Sammy Kolowrat '19, Natálie Mlynková, Tynka Pátková and Sini Karjalainen are headed to the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The 2022 Beijing Olympics will mark the first time UVM has more than one player in action in the tournament. In 2010 Klara Myren '15 represented Sweden finishing fourth overall and at the 2018 Olympics Amanda Pelkey '15 became the first Catamount to earn a medal in women's hockey at the Olympics winning gold with the United States.
 
The Windjammer Inn and Conference Center is the presenting sponsor of the UVM women's hockey program