Men's Hockey Drops Season-Opener at Yale

Saturday, October 29

New Haven, Conn.

7 p.m.

Brown University

0-1-0, 0-1-0

Yale

1-0-0, 1-0-0

Brown

Yale

10/29/2022 10:25:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Brown Bears (0-1-0, 0-1-0 ECAC) surrendered two goals in the second period as the Yale Bulldogs (1-0-0, 1-0-0 ECAC) opened the 2022-23 season with a 2-0 win Saturday night at Ingalls Rink.

"The guys had a great week of preparation in terms of practice and how we wanted to play in terms of our identity and then the puck dropped and we got away from certain aspects of how we wanted to play," said head coach Brendan Whittet '94. "We were very, very undisciplined and we were short a full period of hockey. Ten penalties usually doesn't lead to anything good. We need to be much more disciplined and then we need to understand we have to play a certain way to be successful."

"The positive is I know we can play a lot better because I've seen it in practice. I know that there are going to be setbacks in a season, you're going to have good games and bad games, but the main thing I want the guys to control is their effort, their intelligence, and I want them to play Brown Hockey, which to me is fast, heavy, and detailed. I thought we got away from that identity and we won't tomorrow."

Brown and Yale went scoreless in the opening 20 minutes with both Mathieu Caron (33 saves) and Nathan Reid (22 saves) making early saves. Brown killed off a pair of hooking penalties in the early part of the period with Yale killing off a tripping penalty halfway through the frame.

The Bulldogs broke the scoreless deadlock at 7:15 of the second as Niklas Allain found the back of the net on Yale's fourth power play chance of the game.

Six minutes and a pair of Brown penalties later, Briggs Gammill doubled Yale's lead with another power play tally.

The Bears had an early power play chance in the third period to cut into Yale's lead, but Bruno shots were blocked and stopped by Reid to end the scoring threat.

Brown killed 1:50 of a 5-on-3 Yale power play halfway through the second to remain within striking distance of the Bulldogs.

GAME NOTES

Ryan Bottrill and Ryan Shostak both made their collegiate debuts at Ingalls Rink. Gavin Puskar made his Brown debut after spending two seasons at UConn.
Samuli Niinisaari and Luke Krys led the Bears with four and two blocked shots, respectively.
Brown was assessed 10 minor penalties compared to six against Yale. The Bulldogs struck for two power play goals to finish the night 2-for-8 with Brown finishing 0-for-5 on the man-advantage.
Yale dominated the faceoff circle, winning more than 70% of the total faceoffs.
Brown and Yale have skated in 2-0 games to open each of the last two seasons. The home team has won both contests.

Brown and Yale close the 2022-23 regular season series tomorrow afternoon at Meehan Auditorium. Sunday's game is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. and will stream on ESPN+. Click here to purchase tickets.

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