Men's Hockey Closes Season Series at Yale Friday

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Brown Bears (8-12-2, 6-8-1 ECAC) head to New Haven, Connecticut to close out the season series against the Yale Bulldogs (9-13-1, 6-9-1 ECAC) Friday night at Ingalls Rink.

Tomorrow night's game is slated to begin at 7 p.m. and will stream on ESPN+ in the United States and on Stretch Internet internationally.

SCOUTING THE BEARS

Brown enters Friday with an 8-12-2 overall record and 6-8-1 conference mark. The Bears and Bulldogs are tied in the ECAC standings with 20 points apiece.
Offensively, Brown averages 2.3 goals per game alongside Yale for ninth in the conference.
Ryan St. Louis leads the Bears with 10 goals and 21 points and ranks second on the team with 11 assists alongside Max Scott (7-11-18) and Ethan Mistry (0-11-11). Sophomore Ryan Bottrill leads the Bears with 13 helpers.
Brown's power play has 13 goals in 75 attempts (17.3%) to rank sixth in the conference and 41st in the country.
Defensively, Brown is tied with Yale for fifth in the conference and 31st nationally with 3.0 goals against per game.
Freshman Lawton Zacher holds a 2.56 goals against average and .915 save percentage in 18 starts. He earned a spot on the Tim Taylor Rookie of the Year Watch List alongside Scott.
Brown's penalty kill clicks at 81.4% to rank fourth in the conference and 28th nationally.

SCOUTING THE BULLDOGS

Yale enters the weekend with a 9-13-1 overall record and 6-9-1 ECAC mark.
Offensively, Yale is tied for ninth in the ECAC with Brown with 2.3 goals per game.
David Chen leads the team with eight goals and 16 points while Ryan Conroy leads the team with nine assists.
Five different Bulldogs have reached the double-digit point mark this season.
Yale's power play clicks at 10.8% (7-65) to rank last in the conference and 63rd nationally. The Bulldogs have one power play goal in the last seven games.
Defensively, Yale allows 3.0 goals per game to rank fifth in the ECAC and 31st nationally.
Between the pipes, freshman Jack Stark holds a 2.12 goals against average and .925 save percentage in 14 starts. He is the reigning ECAC Goaltender of the Week.
Yale's penalty kill ranks second in the ECAC and 12th in the NCAA at 84.9% (73-86).

INSIDE THE SERIES

Friday night marks the 194th meeting between Brown and Yale in a series dating back to 1898.
Brown holds a 78-107-8 all-time series record along with a 34-65-4 road record.
Brown and Yale have gone 41 straight meetings without a tie with the last coming on January 14, 2006 in New Haven.

#9 GETS WALTER BROWN NOD

St. Louis added to his in-season accolade collection with a spot as a semifinalist for the 72nd Walter Brown Award.
Given annually to the best American-born Division I player in New England, St. Louis is one of 26 semifinalists for the prestigious award.
He is one of five ECAC players named to the list, joining Collin Graf and Sam Lipkin from Quinnipiac, Cooper Black from Dartmouth, and Joe Miller from Harvard.

BOTTS FINDS TWINE

Sophomore Ryan Bottrill scored a goal added and two assists in Brown's tie against Union (Feb. 3) to cap a four-point weekend.
The Chandler, Arizona native leads the Bears with 13 assists this season and is third on the team with 16 points.
He chipped in two assists against Harvard (Jan. 12) to reach 10 helpers on the season and added the game-winner against the Big Green (Jan. 13) for the three-point weekend.
Brown is 4-0-1 this season when Bottrill records multiple points.

PUCKS ON NET

The Bears posted 30 or more shots in four-of-six games in the month of January and nine times this season.
Brown had 30+ shots in nine games in the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons combined. The Bears have 30+ shots in nine games this season.

THE STANDINGS

Following the home weekend, the Bears are still tied for sixth in the conference standings.
With 20 league points, Brown is even with Yale and just three points out of fourth place.
Conversely, Brown and Yale sit just six points ahead of last-place Princeton.
Quinnipiac continues to pace the conference with 38 league points in 15 games.

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