Welcome back to The Mack Report.
In today’s daily update:
We preview tomorrow’s men’s hockey game between Merrimack and Holy Cross at Lawler Arena. We have notes, plus a rundown of the numbers.
Nick Pierre and Seamus Powell were both named Hockey East monthly award winners for October.
Football is heading to Wake Forest on Saturday for its second FBS opponent of the season. We’ll preview the numbers, and talk a little about what they might get for a guarantee, based on previous data.
In the notebook, you’ll be able to watch former Merrimack defenseman Declan Carlile if you’re local in the Boston TV market tonight, and Ernest Shelton made his Boston College debut.
Preview: Merrimack looks to keep winning ways going against Holy Cross
When: Friday, 7 p.m.
Arena: Lawler Arena
Where: North Andover, Mass.
Watch: ESPN+
Tickets: Click here to buy tickets from the Merrimack box office
Student Tickets: Available at the Merrimack box office or through the distributed email
Merrimack hosts Holy Cross on Friday night at Lawler Arena in a nonconference game, the Warriors’ only game of the weekend.
The Warriors are coming off a 1-0-1 weekend against UConn that extended their unbeaten streak to seven games. Holy Cross split its series with Bentley.
It’s Merrimack’s longest unbeaten streak since last spring, when the Warriors capped a seven-game run with the Hockey East championship.
Merrimack has put together several seven-game unbeaten streaks in recent years, including two in 2022-23. But the Warriors haven’t gone unbeaten in eight straight since 2016-17, when they went 5-0-3 from Jan. 24 to Feb. 18, 2017.
They also haven’t opened a season with an unbeaten streak of at least eight games since 2011-12, when they started 9-0-1.
