WOMEN'S HOCKEY NOTEBOOK
After a weekend split, Vermont travels to 12^th ranked Northeastern for the final two games of the regular season. Friday's game is set for a 6 p.m. puck drop from Matthews Arena and will be streamed live on ESPN+. Saturday's season finale is slated for 7:30 p.m. from Boston and it will air on NESN+ and ESPN+.
  
RELATED LINKS
CatamounTV Weekly Press Conference: Coach Plumer  
ESPN+ Broadcast: Friday | Saturday
International Streaming ($)
Live Stats
 
PLAYOFF PICTURE
The Catamounts enter the final weekend of the season in seventh place in Hockey East with 34 points. If the playoffs started today, they would host Holy Cross on Wednesday, February 28 in the Opening Round. However, things are so tight in the league UVM can still finish as high as fifth or sixth and earn a first round bye, or as low as eighth. This weekends' matchups loom large with Vermont trailing the sixth-place team by just two points.
 
In the current playoff format the top six teams (with the top-four hosting) on the women's side receive a bye to the quarterfinals on March 2. The seven-seed hosts the 10-seed and the eight-seed hosts the nine-seed in the Opening Round of the playoffs.
 
The Opening Round, Quarterfinals and Semifinals will air exclusively on ESPN+. The Championship game will air on ESPNU on Saturday, March 9 at noon.
 
CATAMOUNTS REWRITE RECORD BOOKS
Following her shutout performance in Vermont's 3-0 win against 11^th-ranked UConn last weekend, Jessie McPherson earned her 50^th all-time win as a Catamount. McPherson complied 33 saves to propel Vermont to the victory and add to her all-time program-leading win total.
 
Natalie Mlynkova has continued to shine for the Catamounts with 17 goals and 15 assists to land her second in points in Hockey East. With the scores, Mlynkova's career total now sits at 48 goals, just one behind UVM's second all-time leading scorer, Amanda Pelkey '15.

WCAX FEATURES CATAMOUNTS CLINIC IN ST. ALBANS | FULL VIDEO
Last month the Catamounts visited St. Albans for a series of youth clinics presented by Handy Toyota. Vermont's trip to the Rail City was featured on this month's Catamount Corner on WCAX. Check out the feature by clicking here.

STARTING WITH POSSESSION
The Catamounts have continued to dominate the faceoff circle this season, leading the Nation in faceoff percentage with a 58.3% success rate. Last season, Vermont's 54.7% faceoff win percentage also ranked first in the conference. Mlýnková is at the forefront of these wins for UVM with 300 on the season with Evelyne Blais-Savoie close behind with 281.
 
ATTENDANCE RECORD RESET
Vermont broke the Hockey East home attendance record for the second straight year on November 10, smashing the previous record of 2,210. A whopping 2,705 fans attended Saturday's Pack the Gut Challenge game presented by the Windjammer against 15th ranked Boston College.
 
SCOUTING THE HUSKIES
Northeastern enters the weekend with 50 points landing them second in Hockey East. On the year, the Huskies are 23-9-2 (16-7-2 HEA) and are coming off a weekend sweep of Boston College.
 
Northeastern has four different skaters with 10 or more goals on the season with Graduate Student Peyton Anderson leading in scoring (14). Junior Forward Skylar Irving leads the team in points (30) and is first in Hockey East in assists (20). Reigning Goaltender of the Week, Gwyneth Philips, guards the net for Northeastern. On the season, Philips is allowing just 1.22 goals per contest while saving an impressive .952 percent of shot and delivering six shutouts.
 
SERIES HISTORY
All-time, Vermont trails the all-time series with Northeastern 10-48-4, but defeated the Huskies 3-2 earlier this season. Mlynkova and Alaina Tanski scored in the first and second periods, respectively, before Anderson netted the equalizing goal late in the second on the power play. Marie-Rose Borchu tallied the game-winning goal midway through the third period to deliver the victory for Vermont.

CATAMOUNTS LEADERSHIP GROUP 
Head Coach Jim Plumer has selected five student-athletes to lead the Catamounts during the 2023-24 campaign. 2023 World Championship bronze medalist Mlýnková will serve as captain for Vermont. The Catamounts will have four alternates this season with Hailey Burns, Sara Levesque, Maddy Skelton and Alaina Tanski. Skelton served as an alternate captain last season as well. 
  
CZECH CAPTAIN IS BACK FOR MORE 
Senior captain Mlýnková is the top returning scorer in Hockey East this season. She set new career highs in goals (23), assists (19) and points (42) last year. 
  
OFFENSIVE TOUCH KEY TO HISTORIC CAMPAIGNS 
Vermont scored over 100 goals in each of the last two years for the first time in program history on their way to back-to-back second place finishes in Hockey East with a program record of 22 wins in each campaign. Vermont returns 56.1% of its scoring from a year ago. 

The Windjammer Inn and Conference Center is the presenting sponsor of the UVM women's hockey program