SIOUX CITY MUSKETEERS: The Under-17 Team plays host to the Sioux City Musketeers for a pair of contests on home ice at USA Hockey Arena this weekend.

Sioux City comes into the weekend sitting in fourth place in the league's Western Conference, playing to a 2-1-3-0 record through six games. Last weekend, they hosted Waterloo in a 5-2 win and traveled to Fargo the next night, where they fell 5-4 in overtime.

The Musketeers are led offensively by Kaden Shahan, who has five goals on the year, the only Sioux City player with more than a pair. The second-year forward has six total points for an even point-per-game pace thus far. Ethan Gardula and Hagen Burrows have each added five poitns for the visiting team. Cobly Saganiuk, who played the last three seasons with the OHL's Erie Otters, will make his return to USA Hockey Arena after skating with the NTDP during the 2019-20 campaign.

Between the pipes, Samuel Urban has taken four of the six starts for Sioux City. The native of Slovakia has posted a 1-1-2-0 record with a 3.21 GAA and .870 SV%. Jakub Krbecek has a win in backup duty to go along with a 3.41 GAA and .865 SV%.

The two games this weekend are the only contests between Sioux City and the NTDP this year.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY: The U18s continue their 23-24 Kroger College Series with a two-game trip to the East Coast that begins Saturday evening in Boston.

The Terriers got their season started last week with a 3-2 overtime win over Bentley, capped off by the game-winning score from NTDP alum Lane Hutson (Barrington, Ill. / NTDP 2020-22). Their first goal of the game came from defenseman Case McCarthy (Clarence Center, N.Y. / NTDP 2017-19), another alumni of the program. Freshman phenom Macklin Celebrini recorded multiple points (1g-1a) in his NCAA debut.

Hutson is the team's leading returning scorer from last season, when he accumulated 48 points (15g-33a) in 39 games on his way to being named a Hobey Baker Top 10 Finalist.

The Terriers roster eight total NTDP alums, placing them third among all NCAA programs.

This will be the 13th career matchup between BU and the NTDP dating back to 2005; the Terriers have been the dominant party, posting an 8-3-1 record in the dozen previous games. Team USA does come in riding a two-game winning streak in the series after Oliver Moore (Mounds View, Minn. / NTDP 2021-23) scored the overtime game winner in last year's 6-5 NTDP victory.

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: The U18s weekend trip takes them to Hanover, New Hampshire for a Sunday evening game against the Big Green.

Dartmouth scrimmaged UMass last weekend in a game the Minutemen took, 5-1, but the exhibition against Team USA will be their first true game action of the season.

The Big Green finished last season with a 5-24-1 record, with four of those wins coming in conference play.

The NTDP comes into the game on a three-game series winning streak, and leads the overall series by a 3-2-0 margin.