North Andover, MA-- Merrimack returns home for the first of the home and set with Boston University after they split their road trip to Orono last weekend as they shutout Maine 2-0 on Friday before falling 4-2 the next day, The first game will be at 2:00 and can be seen on ESPN Plus, while the second game will be played on the road at 4 PM on ESPN Plus and NESN.
Emma Pfeffer reached a milestone last weekend as she reached double digit goals for the first time in her career as she scored the tying goal on Saturday. Pfeffer has been the offensive catalyst for the Warriors lately as she has scored in five of her last six games played.
Merrimack captain
Solveig Gisler marked her return to the lineup with the game winning goal against Maine on Friday.
Kerttu Lehmus had two points this past weekend with the opening goal in Saturday's game as well as causing a takeaway allowing Pfeffer to score tying that game late.
McKenzie Cerrato was the other Merrimack player who had a multi point weekend, notching primary assists on both opening goals in each game this weekend.
If she plays in both games, Junior
Maria Lindberg will reached 100 games in her career, the forward from Jonstorp, Sweden has 98 games played thus far with 42 career points.
Adreanna Doucette followed up her Hockey East Goalie of the Week win with another solid weekend, making 33 saves in the 2-0 shutout, her second of her career and she made 31 saves the next night for 64 in total. Doucette has a .923 save percentage amd a 2.65 goals against average so far this season.
The Warriors snapped a five game losing streak against BU the last time they faced off as they played to a 3-3 tie. Players who have had success recently in the matchup are
Maria Lindberg and
Emma Pfeffer who have scored against the Terriers while
Maggie Kime and
Solveig Gisler have picked up assists as well.
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