Men's Hockey Travels to #15/16 Harvard for Tuesday Night Meeting

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Brown Bears men's hockey team (1-4-0, 1-4-0 ECAC) travels to #15/16 Harvard Crimson (4-2-1, 3-1-1 ECAC) for a Tuesday night showdown at the Bright-Landry Hockey Center.

Tuesday's game is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. and will stream on ESPN+.

SCOUTING THE BEARS (1-2-0, 1-2-0 ECAC)

Brown enters Tuesday's game with a 1-4-0 overall record and the same mark in ECAC conference play. The Bears opened the season with a 2-0 win over Yale before falling to Princeton, 6-3, sixth-ranked Quinnipiac, 1-0, ninth-ranked Cornell, 3-2 in overtime, and Colgate, 6-0.
Mathieu Caron recorded 34 saves in the loss to Quinnipiac, his first collegiate start. To this point of the season, Caron holds a 3.17 goals against average and a .923 save percentage.
Junior forward Nathan Plessis leads the team with two goals in three games. He found the back of the net against Yale (Oct. 30) and Princeton (Nov. 5).
Junior defenseman Samuli Niinisaari and junior forward Cole Quisenberry are tied for the team-lead with two assists.
Brown's scoring defense ranks eighth in the ECAC and 37th in the country, allowing 3.20 goals per game.
On special teams, Brown ranks seventh in the conference and 41st in the country with a 15.8% (3-for-19) success rate on the power play. The Bears lead are third in the ECAC and tied for seventh in the country with an 88.8% (24-for-27) success-rate on the penalty kill.

SCOUTING THE CRIMSON

Harvard enters Tuesday night's contest with a 4-2-1 overall record and 3-1-1 ECAC conference mark.
The Crimson are the 15th-ranked team per the USA Today/USA Hockey poll and the 16th-ranked team per the USCHO.com poll.
Sean Farrell and Alex Laferriere are tied for the team lead with five goals apiece. Farrell leads the team with 11 points.
Henry Thrun leads the Crimson with eight assists through seven games.
Mitchell Gibson has started five of seven games between the pipes. He holds a 2.74 goals against and .884 save percentage.
Derek Mullaly has started the other two games for Harvard and holds a 1.71 goals against and a .929 save percentage.

Brown continues its busy stretch of games on Friday (Nov. 26) at Holy Cross (2-10-1, 2-5-1 Atlantic) at 2 p.m. The game between the Bears and Crusaders will air on NESNPlus. On Saturday (Nov. 27), Brown hosts #11/14 Providence (10-5-0, 6-3-0 HEA) in the annual Mayor's Cup game at Meehan Auditorium. Saturday's game is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. and will stream on ESPN+.