Providence 5, Maine 2
• PC’s Laura Veharanta took three shots on goal in each period and recorded her fifth two-goal game of the season, third in the month of February. Veharanta has now had a hand in each of her team’s last four game-winning goals, scoring three and assisting on the other.
• A season-high 11 different Friars recorded a point.
• Friars’ defender Christie Jensen re-aggravated an unspecified ailment originally sustained during the last week of January. However, head coach Bob Deraney said, “There’s a really good chance she’ll be back with us next week,” for the semifinals against Boston College.
• Maine’s Myriam Crousette recorded a goal and an assist to finish the season with a 14-12-26 transcript, tied for the team lead with Brittany Dougherty.
• Senior Jennie Gallo led her Black Bears with six shots on goal.
• The teams split the face-offs, winning 38 apiece.
• PC’s Alyse Ruff, who assisted on Corinne Buie’s empty netter with 4.6 seconds left, registered a plus-2 rating, tying her with BC’s Kelli Stack for a league-best plus-25 on the year overall. Two of Ruff’s four shots on goal Saturday came on a shorthanded rush late in the second period.
• Maine defenders Chloe Tinkler and Madelene Ericksson and forward Kristi King were the only three members of their team to finish in the black under Saturday’s plus/minus heading.
• PC goaltender Genevieve Lacasse earned her fifth assist and eighth of her career, setting up the play that culminated in Veharanta’s first strike of the day.
• Six out of Black Bear junior captain Dawn Sullivan’s goals this season were on the power play, including Saturday’s icebreaker.
• PC has now put together its third five-game winning streak of the season, but has yet to record six successive triumphs.
Northeastern 4, Connecticut 0
• With the playmaker hat trick, Northeastern’s sophomore second-line center Rachel Llanes stamped her first three-point performance of the season, second of her career. Llanes also became the first Husky to reach the 30-point plateau in a season since the formation of the WHEA in 2002.
• Llanes won 23 out of her 32 face-offs while Connecticut’s Jennifer Chaisson swiped away 15 out of 21. As a team, NU took 34 of the game’s 65 draws.
• NU’s Casey Pickett, Claire Santostefano, and UConn’s Taylor Gross led all participating skaters with six shots on goal apiece.
• Alyssa Wohlfeiler was credited with her team-leading fourth game-winning goal of the season.
• Connecticut will carry over a five-game home winless streak (0-3-2) into next season. That includes a 2-2 tie with Northeastern at Hartford’s XL Center and a 4-3 loss to Providence at Rentschler Field. UConn’s most recent win at Freitas Ice Forum was a 1-0 triumph over Vermont on Jan. 15.
• In addition to earning her first postseason victory, junior goaltender Florence Schelling set herself a career high with her 12th win of the season.
• UConn was shut out for the sixth time this season, but the first in 15 games.
• By knocking off the team that ended its season in 2009-10, Northeastern will now face Boston University, which eliminated the Huskies from the 2009 playoffs.
• This Saturday will be NU’s first Hockey East semifinal appearance since 2004. The Hub Huskies have never been to the WHEA title game.
Al Daniel is the Hockey East correspondent to Beyond the Dashers
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