Preview: Maine is set to the northeast of the Hockey East Tournament semi -final

Orono, Maine, the second placed University of Maine Men's ice hockey team will be confronted with the ninth -placed northeastern northeastern in the 2025 Hockey East Tournament Semifinal Round on Thursday 20 March in TD Garden in Boston.

The game with one elimination between the Black Bears and Huskies is planned for a puck drop of 7.30 pm, after the 4 p.m. Boston University-catch semi-final game. The winners of each semifinal will continue to the Hockey East title match for Friday, March 21 at 7:30 PM, to determine the winner of the Lamoriello trophy and the automatic qualification of the competition in the NCAA Tournament.

The semi -final will be broadcast live on NESN+ together with ESPN+ and an international stream that is available via Hockey East/Stretch Internet. The game of Maine-Northeartn can also be listened to via 92.9 FM in Oost-Maine, 100.5 FM in South Maine or Online on Goblackbears.com/mihradio.

Game 36 | #4/5 Maine vs Northeastern
Thursday, March 20, 2025 | 7:30 PM
TD Garden | Boston
Hockey East Tournament Semi -Final

What's on tap

Second placed University of Maine will be confronted in the Hockey East Tournament in the Hockey East Tournament in TD Garden on Thursday evening in the semi -final round.
Maine makes its second consecutive semi -final performance and the 22nd general of the program.
This will be the 12th encounter between Maine and Northeastern in the Hockey East Tournament and the third semifinal ever.
The teams met three times during the regular season, with Maine with a 2-0-1 with a victory and draw in Matthews Arena and a victory in Alfond Arena.

A victory on Thursday. . .

Move Maine to 23-7-6 in the year.
Promote the Black Bears to the first Hockey East Tournament Championship game of the program since 2011-12.
Move Maine to 59-48 all time in the conference tournament, including a 7-5 figure against northeastern.
Boot the black bears to 61-59-21 in the all time with the huskies.
Move Maine to 16-6 of all time in semi-final.

Series History versus Northeast

Maine has a general record of 60-59-21 in the all-time series with Northeastern, including a figure of 6-5 in the Hockey East Tournament.
Northeastern and Maine are finished twice before in the semi-final, with the Black Bears gaining a 4-3 overtime victory in 1991 and a 3-2 Overtime victory in 1989.
Maine had a 2-0-1 Mark against Northeastern during the regular season 2024-25, won 4-1 and tied 2-2 on the road in October and took a 3-1 victory at home in January … It was the first regular season series of Maine since the 2011-12 season.
The victory of October 25, 2024 broke a 16-game Winless Streak in Matthews Arena (last victory: 25 February 2012).
The very first meeting in the series was on December 1, 1977 in the then Arena … Northeastern won, 7-4.
Fifteen current black bears have at least one point against the Husky's … Josh Nadeau (1-5-6) is the active score leader of Maine against Northeast Nolan Renwick (2-2-4) and Thomas Freel (1-3-4) each have four points … Taylor Makar Always has three goals against the huskies.

About Northeast

The Huskies became the very first nine seed ever to continue to the semi-final with a 3-1 upset at top-ranking and top-ranked Boston College on Saturday evening, the Huskies also went on the road and won in the opening round of the play-offs, Merrimack 3-2 beat the extension.
NORTHEESTERN is 14-9-3 in general in the year and went 7-14-3 in Hockey East matches De Huskies have six victories on ranked opponents this season, including two above-3 teams.
Jack Williams leads the team with 41 points of 16 goals and 25 assists Cam Lund (17-21-38) and Dylan Hryckowian (16-19-35) give the Huskies three double digits goals.
Cam Whitehead played between the pipes for most of the minutes, with 13-16-1 with a 2.74 goals against average .910 savings percentage and one shutout.

Maine in the Hockey East Tournament

This season, Maine plays in his 38th Hockey East Tournament … That connects with New Hampshire for the third most performances in the competition history behind Boston College (40) and Boston University (40).
The Black Bears have won five titles, the most in third place behind BC (12) and BU (10).
Maine is 58-48 of all time in the Hockey East Tournament … The Black Bears hold a record of 15-6 in the semi-final, with a 2-0 mark against northeastern.
This is the eighth time that Maine is the number 2 in the conference tournament, with an 18-5 record record while he is sown second … The black bears went to the title game four times when the number 2 seeds.
De Zwarte Beren are now for the first time since 2004-05 and 2005-06 to the semi-final round in Back-to-back seasons.

Looking for the sixth

Maine is looking for his sixth Hockey East Tournament title.
Maine won his first championship in 1989 when the Boston College, 5-4, beat Boston College in a title competition.
Maine appeared in his first title match in 1987 and then appeared in seven consecutive champion matches.
Maine's last tournament title came in 2004 when the Umass defeated 2-1 in three Overtimes.
The five titles of Maine are third place after BC (12) and BU (10).

Top-3 finish

The Black Bears finished second or higher in the Hockey East Regular classification for the first time since the second ended during the 2005-06 season.
In addition, after the end for the third last season, this marks the first back-to-back top-3 finishes for the Black Bears since 2002-03 and 2003-04.
Maine is the first Hockey East program since 2012-2013 that ends in the top three of the regular season classification, while he has fewer than three drawing choices on the Roster and does it last year and this year.
In 2023-24, the Black Bears were only the second team in 25 years to be chosen to finish ninth or lower, which then achieved a top 3 finish (at the Umass Lowell team 2011-12 that was led by the head coach of the year, standard boss).

Next

With a victory, Maine would continue on Friday, March 21 to the Hockey East-title match of 7.30 p.m.
With a loss, Maine would wait to learn his NCAA tournament -Lot from 2025 at the selection show on Sunday 23 March.