Men’s Hockey Set to Host No. 13 Harvard, Dartmouth

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Brown men's hockey team will kick off a four-game homestand this weekend when the Bears host No. 13 Harvard (11/15) and Dartmouth (11/16) at Meehan Auditorium. Both games will be broadcast on ESPN+.

Matchup: Harvard (3-0-0, 3-0-0) at Brown (2-2-0, 2-2-0)
Date: Friday, November 15
Time: 7 PM
Venue: Meehan Auditorium (Providence, R.I.)
Stream: ESPN+

Matchup: Dartmouth (1-2-1, 1-1-1) at Brown (2-2-0, 2-2-0)
Date: Saturday, November 16
Time: 7 PM
Venue: Meehan Auditorium (Providence, R.I.)
Stream: ESPN+

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Last Time Out
Brown split a pair of conference road games last weekend, falling at Cornell before earning a win at Colgate. Luke Kania made 42 saves against the Raiders, highlighted by 23 stops in the opening period to earn the victory in his first start of the season. Justin Jallen added a pair of goals, while Tristan Crozier and Michael Maloney also found the back of the net, as the Bears scored three goals in the middle frame. Brent Beaudoin picked up the team's lone goal in the loss at Cornell.

Scouting Harvard
No. 13 Harvard is 3-0-0 to open the season with a combined score of 17-5 in a trio of league games. Sophomore defenseman John Rathbone leads the team with three goals, one of six skaters with multiple goals on the season, while Casey Dornbach has a team-high five assists. The Crimson have two power play goals (15.4 percent) and rank fourth in the ECAC on the penalty kill. Mitchell Gibson has started two out of the three games in net and heads into the weekend with a 1.00 GAA and a .969 save percentage. Harvard reached the ECAC Tournament semifinals last season and earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament, falling in the regional semifinal.

Brown vs. Harvard All-Time
Brown and Harvard have met 176 times, with the Crimson leading the all-time series, 116-47-13. Brown won the very first meeting between the two schools in the oldest active collegiate hockey rivalry, winning 6-0, in 1898 on a flooded baseball field in Dorchester, Mass. Harvard swept the season series last winter.

Scouting Dartmouth
Dartmouth (1-2-1, 1-1-1) defeated Princeton last weekend for its first win of the season and will face Yale on Friday before making the trip to Providence. Dartmouth is averaging 3.00 goals per game, checking in at 11.1 percent on the power play, and allowing 3.75 goals per contest. Senior forward Daniel Warpecha leads the team with three goals and Jeffrey Losurdo has four assists and five points. Senior Adrian Clark is 1-1-1 with three starts in net and enters the weekend with a 2.53 GAA and a .906 save percentage. The Big Green finished tied for fifth in the ECAC standings last season and fell to Harvard in the ECAC Tournament quarterfinals.

Brown vs. Dartmouth All-Time
When Brown plays Dartmouth on Saturday, it will mark the 161st meeting in the rivalry between the two teams, dating back to 1927-28. Dartmouth leads the all-time series by an 83-69-8 margin. Brown won both meetings last season for the first season sweep over the Big Green since the 2007-08 campaign.

Jallen Starts Strong
Sophomore Justin Jallen has scored five goals in four games to start the season, including three times against Yale (11/2) for his first career hat trick. He is tied for first in the nation in goal scoring, along with Cornell's Morgan Barron, with 1.25 goals per game.

Sophomore Scoring
The sophomore class is responsible for 44 percent of the point scoring and 54 percent of the goal scoring through four games of the season.

Kania Steps Up
Luke Kania made 42 saves at Colgate (11/9) to pick up a win in his first start of the season. He stopped all 23 shots he faced in the first period to help pave the way for Brown's three-goal middle frame and eventual win. It was his first 40-plus save effort of the season and first by a Brown goalie since Feb. 9, 2019 when he stopped 47 shots at Quinnipiac.

Up Next
Brown will continue its four-game homestand next weekend when the Bears host Clarkson and St. Lawrence.

Men’s Hockey Set to Host No. 13 Harvard, Dartmouth

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Brent Beaudoin

Tristan Crozier

Justin Jallen

Luke Kania

Michael Maloney

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