Women’s Hockey to host RPI for Two Games in Return from Break

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Following a 28-day layoff for the holiday break, the Brown women's hockey team will hit the ice on Friday evening at 6 p.m. to open up a two-game homestand against Rensselaer. The games start a stretch of 14 consecutive ECAC games to close out the regular season.

The Bears were originally scheduled to play Union on Saturday, but that game was postponed earlier in the week due to health and safety concerns within the Union program. Instead, Brown and RPI will play each other for a second time in as many days on Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m. Both of this weekend's games will be streamed live on ESPN+, and internationally on Stretch.

SCOUTING BROWN (1-12-2, 1-6-1 ECAC)

Brown enters the contest averaging 1.7 goals per game and is allowing 3.5 goals per contest. This marks an improvement of 0.6 more goals per game offensively, and 0.6 fewer goals allowed per game from the 2019-20 season.
The Bears have scored first in four of their last six games.
Brown has recorded two of their three highest shot totals of the season in each of the last two games, firing a season-high 40 shots on target at Saint Anselm and totaling 31 at Holy Cross. The Bears also allowed just 22 shots on goal – a season low – at Saint Anselm.
Senior forward Shay Maloney leads the team with six goals and nine points this season, and has found the back of the net three times in the last three games.
Freshman forward Anna Hurd has three goals and is tied for the team lead with five assists. She was named the ECAC Rookie of the Month for October.
Sophomore Maya Mangiafico has posted six points so far this season with three goals and three assists, and has one point in each of the last two games – an assist at Saint Anselm and a goal against Holy Cross.

SCOUTING RPI (6-13, 3-7 ECAC)

Due to the cancellation of their New Year's weekend series vs. Merrimack, the Engineers are coming off a longer break than Brown - having last taken the ice on December 4 in a 4-3 overtime defeat at No. 9 Harvard.
RPI has one top 10 win to its credit this season, defeating then-No. 9 Providence 2-0 on Oct. 23.
RPI holds the best penalty kill in ECAC Hockey, killing off 95.3 percent of their penalties and having allowed just three power play goals this season.
Junior forward Marah Wagner leads the squad with 14 points, leading the team with eight assists and tying for the team lead with six goals.
Freshman forward Audrey McCutcheon has 10 points, and is tied with Wagner for a team-high six goals.
Senior defenseman Delaney Weiss and senior forward Lilli Friis-Hansen have six assists each.
Junior Amanda Rampado has appeared in all 19 games between the pipes, holding a .928 save percentage and a 2.40 GAA.

ON DECK
The Bears are scheduled to play at Harvard on Friday, Jan. 14 and at Dartmouth on Saturday, Jan. 15.

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