BOSTON — Northeastern's women's hockey team hasn't dropped a game since Nov. 15 — and in that span, their top right winger, Maureen Murphy, has tallied 24 points. The Buffalo native is now sitting at 199 in her NCAA career, with the 200-point milestone imminent.

What You Need To Know

  • Mauren Murphy grew up in Buffalo, NY before heading west to play hockey at esteemed prep school Shattuck-St. Mary's
  • Murphy led the NCAA last season in goals (30), PPG (13) and hat tricks (4) and currently leads the Huskies with 18 goals
  • Murphy has represented USA Hockey on the international stage, recently playing in the 2022-23 Rivalry Series and 2022 Collegiate Series vs Canada

“It’s definitely not something that I ever thought was realistic, honestly, so I don’t think too much about it," Murphy told Spectrum News 1 on Wednesday after notching the game-winning goal in the Beanpot championship the night before. "Obviously I was super happy for Alina Mueller when she hit 200 earlier in the year, and I couldn’t do it without her or Chloe. So honestly it's like a testament to them, not so much as it is me, because they just give me the puck and sometimes it goes in. Sometimes I give it back.”

With three goals in the Beanpot tournament to solidify Northeastern's sixth-ever sweep of the event between the mens and womens teams, Murphy was named Beanpot MVP.

"I was definitely surprised. I definitely think that a couple people on our team deserved it, for sure, over me," the graduate student said. "We had a lot of people step up, like Gwen, our goalie, played awesome, and I think if she gets a shutout, then she's definitely getting that and she still deserves it for sure ... I couldn't have done it without any of them. I think you could have given it to a handful of people on our team and nobody would have been surprised."

The program's 18th Beanpot championship is just another thing to cross off on the redhot huskies to-do list as they race toward their possible sixth-straight Hockey East title and third-straight Frozen Four appearance.

"I have moments of, like aw, it's ending, like how many more practices do I have? How many more games?" Murphy asked herself. "But I found that if I try to focus too much on that, that I’m not going to enjoy it. So I think my biggest thing has been trying to make people around me better — whether it’s freshmen, sophomores — to just leave the program in a better place than I found it."