Boston College Women's Hockey Goalie Named National Goalie of the Month

After entering November with a losing record, Boston College won five of eight games in November, including going 4-1-1 against Hockey East opponents due to the performance of the Eagles’ veteran net-minder.
Boston College's Grace Campbell prepares in net ahead of a road matchup.
Boston College's Grace Campbell prepares in net ahead of a road matchup. | John Sexton / Boston College Eagles On SI

After being named Hockey East Goaltender of the Month on Wednesday, the honors continued to pour in for Boston College’s goaltender Grace Campbell who was named Hockey Commissioner's Association Goalie of the Month for the first time in her collegiate career. In November, the senior recorded a 1.49 goals against average and a .957 save percentage across eight games.

Campbell has helped lead the Eagles to a 5-2-1 record over the course of November, including a pair of shutouts in a shootout win over Vermont and a regulation victory over Merrimack. The win over Merrimack was part of a five game win streak for Boston College that featured a road victory over then No. 8 Connecticut, with Campbell saving 47 of 48 shots faced, and a home-and-home sweep of rival Boston University.

The Shattuck-St. Mary's grad posted a nation-best 269 saves in November, helping her place second in the nation and lead the conference for the season with 559 saves, trailing only Saint Anselm’s Kayla Czukoski in the category. Campbell is well on pace to lead Hockey East goaltenders in saves for the third consecutive season, she currently has a lead of 75 saves on the next closest netminder.

Perhaps more impressive than her save percentage or goals against average, Campbell has shown the durability to carry the entirety of the workload in net for the Eagles. After logging just under 2,000 minutes in net a year ago, she has started all 17 games this season for Boston College and has sat for sixteen minutes all season, including time pulled for an extra attacker.

Campbell and the Eagles look to follow up on a productive November in a short December of action, with just two games before a four-week break. Those two games come against Hockey East leading No. 6 Northeastern. A six-point weekend would give Boston College first place in Hockey East ahead of the break and likely see the Eagles break into the national rankings for the first time this season.

The series gets under way at Conte Forum at 6:00 p.m. ET on Friday December 5th and continues at Matthews Arena the following afternoon at 1:30 p.m. in what will be the final women' s hockey game played in the nation’s oldest arena. The series features a highly anticipated goaltender matchup between Campbell and Northeastern’s sophomore Lisa Jönsson, who was named to the All-USCHO Rookie Team last year.

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Chris Vogel
CHRIS VOGEL

Chris Vogel has spent the last five years in sports media; including as a play-by-play broadcaster for ACC Network Extra and Hockey East on ESPN. He’s a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and in his final year as a graduate student at Boston College, where he serves as the radio voice of Boston College Women’s Hockey on WZBC 90.3; the flagship radio network of Boston College Women’s Athletics. He’s the host of the “All Things Hockey” podcast, and cover women’s college hockey for College Hockey On SI.

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