No. 12 Women's Hockey Makes Trip to Clarkson & St. Lawrence for Weekend Play

Friday, November 21

Potsdam, N.Y.

6 p.m.

Brown University

Clarkson

Photo by: Jay Ruzicka

No. 12 Women's Hockey Makes Trip to Clarkson & St. Lawrence for Weekend Play

11/20/2025 12:06:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – No. 12/13 Brown women's hockey heads north for games at No. 11 Clarkson and RV St. Lawrence this weekend.

The Bears will start the weekend on Friday (Nov. 21) at Clarkson with puck drop set for 6 p.m. The Bears will then head to St. Lawrence for a Saturday afternoon (Nov. 22) game beginning at 3 p.m.
Both games this weekend will be streamed on ESPN+.

SKATE SHAVINGS
• The Bears are on a four-game win streak after beating Dartmouth and Harvard over the past weekend. Brown won 4-0 against Dartmouth and 4-3 in overtime against Harvard.
• The Bears have moved up to No. 12 in the USCHO poll and are sitting still at No. 13 in the USA Hockey poll. This marks the fourth-straight week Brown has been voted into both polls. Brown was ranked for three weeks last season and the four weeks in the polls are the most since the 2005-06 season.
• Monique Lyons and Anya Zupkofska were awarded their first ECAC weekly honors with Lyons taking home Forward of the Week and Zupkofska being named Goaltender of the Week.

SCOUTING THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS
• Clarkson is 7-5-1 overall and 3-2-1 in ECAC play. The Golden Knights won their last contest but are 1-2-1 in their last four games.
• Clarkson won a non-ECAC game against St. Lawrence the last time on the ice by a score of 6-1. The Golden Knights were shutout in the previous three games with losses to Dartmouth and Princeton and a tie against Quinnipiac.
• The Golden Knights do a lot of damage on the power play as Clarkson is sixth in the NCAA in power play percentage (.265) and second in the NCAA with 13 power play goals.
• Sara Manness is leading the ECAC and is fourth in the NCAA with 1.15 assists per game.

INSIDE THE SERIES
• The Bears are 9-31-3 all-time against Clarkson but broke a 20-game winless streak in the last meeting with a 3-2 overtime win in Potsdam last season.
• The win last season was the first road win for the Bears against the Golden Knights since a 1-0 win on Jan. 13, 2006.
• Brown has earned at least a point in the last two meetings in Potsdam with a win last season and a tie back in 2023.
• Brown has scored three goals in two of the last four meetings against Clarkson. Prior to the 3-3 tie in 2023, Brown last scored three goals against Clarkson on Feb. 3, 2012 (20 games)

SCOUTING THE SAINTS
• St. Lawrence is 6-8-1 on the season and 4-2-0 in ECAC play. The Saints dropped an non-ECAC matchup to Clarkson in their last game and will play Yale on Friday before taking on Brown.
• The Saints have gone 2-2 in their last four ECAC games with wins over Dartmouth and Princeton and losses to Harvard and Quinnipiac.
• St. Lawrence has won of the lowest scoring offenses in the NCAA, sitting 40th in the nation and 11th in the ECAC with 1.53 goals per game. The Saints have scored two goals just once in the last four games.
• The Saints offense has been balanced this year with three players having scored three goals and four having found the net twice.

INSIDE THE SERIES
• Brown is 26-42-6 all-time against St. Lawrence but won the season series against the Saints last year, going 1-0-1.
• The overtime win for Brown in Canton last season was the first win in the series for the Bears since Nov. 1, 2014 (19 games) and the first win at St. Lawrence since the first game of the ECAC quarterfinals series on March 4, 2005 (21 games)
• Brown's four goals in the win last season were the most by the Bears against the Saints since scoirng seven in a 7-4 victory on Nov. 1, 2014.

WEEKLY AWARDS
• Isabella Gratzl was named ECAC Defender of the Week on Nov. 11, the first Bear to pick up a weekly honor this season. Gratzl finished the weekend against Delaware with a goal and two assists.
• Monique Lyons earned her first ECAC Forward of the Week honor on Nov. 18 after helping the Bears going 2-0 on the weekend with wins over Dartmouth and Harvard. Lyons scored on goal against the Big Green before posting a three-point game with two goals, including the overtime game-winner against Harvard.
• Anya Zupkofska was named ECAC Goaltender of the Week on Nov. 18 for the first time after going 2-0 against Dartmouth and Harvard. Zupkofska posted her third shutout of the season against Dartmouth (26 saves) and earned the win with 25 saves against Harvard.

CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN
• The Bears will have two players with the 'C' on their sweaters this season, as seniors Jade Iginla and India McDadi were both voted captains for the season
• Iginla, who served as a captain last season, finished last year with 16 points (6 goals, 10 assists)
• McDadi was an assistant captain a season ago and was third on the team in points (20) and second on the team in assists (14).

DONNING THE 'A'
• Two Bears will be serving as assistant captains this season with seniors Gali Levy and Ellie Gauvin being voted by their teammates.

RETURNING FIREPOWER
• Brown boasts and impressive group of returners as Brown returns 85% (63-74 goals) of its goal scoring from a season-ago.
• The top five goal scorers from last year are back, led by Moniques Lyons (14), Margot Norehad (12), Ava DeCoste (11), India McDadi (6) and Jade Iginla (6).
• The Bears return seven of their eight double-digit points scorers from last season, including Lyons (24), DeCoste (21) and McDadi (20), who all reached the 20-point mark.

BETWEEN THE PIPES
• Brown found its starting goaltender last year in Rory Edwards, the junior returns having played in 25 of the 35 games Brown played last season.
• Edwards finished the year with a 12-8-2 record, including three shutouts. Edwards three shutouts last season are the most by a Bear since Katie Jamieson had three back in the 2009-10 season.
• Edwards has a 2.23 GAA and a .921 save percentage.
• The best stretch of Edwards career came from Jan. 17-Jan. 25 of last season when the Bears went 2-0-2 against St. Lawrence, Clarkson, Princeton and Quinnipiac. Edwards earned wins at both St. Lawrence and Clarkson with both games going into overtime. She followed that up with a tie at Princeton and a 45-save 0-0 tie at Quinnipiac to close the stretch.
• Edwards was twice named ECAC Goaltender of the Week last season.

STRONG START FOR THE BEARS
• Brown began the season 2-0-0 with wins over No. 13 Boston University and Merrimack. It is the second-straight season Brown has started 2-0-0 and the first time Brown has going 2-0-0 to start back-to-back seasons since 2000-01 and 2001-02
• The win at No. 13 Boston University was the first ranked win in a season opener for the Bears since Brown beat No. 2 Minnesota to start the 2000-01 season.
• Brown's 7-2-1 start to the season is the best 10-game start for the Bears since Brown went 8-2-0 to start the 1999-00 season. Brown bested their 6-4-0 start from last season.

HITTING THE WINS IN 2024-25
• With Brown's win over Dartmouth, the Bears reached 14 wins on the year and nine wins in ECAC play. Both of those numbers are the most for Brown since the 2005-06 season.
• The Bears earned their winning record since the 2005-06 season.
• Brown's five Ivy League wins last season are the most since winning five in the 2003-04 season.

ZUPKOFSKA SHUTOUTS
• Sophomore Anya Zupkofska posted her first-career shutout in the 1-0 win over Merrimack on Oct. 19.
• Zupkofska followed that up with her second shutout of the season, putting up a clean sheet against Delaware. Zupkofska finished with 21 saves in the shutout.
• Zupkofska kept the sheet clean with a 26-save shutout against Dartmouth before allowing her first goal of the season 6:26 seconds into the game against Harvard.
• Dating back to last season, Zupkofska had a shutout streak of 188:17. It is the longest streak by a Bear goaltender since Ali Brewer posted a 376:03 streak in 1998-99.
• Zupkofska and Rory Edwards have combined for four shutouts this season through 10 games. The four shutouts match the most in a season for the Bears since 2011-12.

LYONS FLYING HIGH
• Monique Lyons posted her third-career three point game against Harvard with the sophomore collecting two goals (including the overtime game winner) and an assist against Harvard.
• Lyons is on a career-best four-game goal scoring streak and has collected seven points during the Brown's four-game win streak.

GRATZL GETTING GOING
• First year defender Isabella Gratzl is on a roll having scored seven points in her last four games, including two points in each of the last three games.
• Gratzl started the streak with a goal against Delaware and two assists in the following game against the Blue Hens
• The Chicago, Ill., native had a goal and an assist in wins over both Dartmouth and Harvard.

WHO NEEDS SHOTS
• Brown beat No. 13 Boston University despite finishing the game with just 18 shots on goal. Brown had not won a game in the last two seasons (0-17-0) when registering less than 20 shots.
• Brown completed the comeback with a third period goal, a period in which the Bears had just four shots. the fewest in the game.

I GUESS SHOTS DO WORK
• In the win over Merrimack Brown flipped the script, peppering Merrimack with 43 shots. It was the most shots for the Bears in a game since firing 47 against Harvard on Feb. 7, 2025.
• Brown outshot Merrimack 43-10, matching the largest discrepancy since that Harvard game (47-14).
• Brown's 43 shots netting just one goal are the most shots in a game with one goal or fewer since the Bears were shutout despite 47 shots in a loss against Union in 2010.
• In Brown's win over Delaware, the Bears tallied 54 shots, the most shots by a Bears team since the season opener against Franklin Pierce last season (56 shots).

BEARS IN THE PWHL
• Brown had three former players earn spots on training camp rosters in the PWHL. Former goalie Kaley Doyle is in camp with the New York Sirens, Shay Maloney is in camp with the Boston Fleet and Cam Sikich is in camp with the Minnesota Frost.

TAKING DOWN THE BOBCATS
• Brown shutout Quinnipiac for a win over the No. 7 ranked Bobcats on Oct. 25. In a series that has been dominated by the Bobcats, Brown is now 3-0-1 in the last four meetings.
• It is the first time Brown has gone unbeaten against Quinnipiac in four-straight games since the first four games the two teams ever played from 2002-06.
• In the win, Brown shutdown an offense that had been averaging 4.50 goals per game. It is the second-straight game Brown has shutout Quinnipiac. The last time a non-Brown team had shutout Quinnipiac was Cornell on March 2, 2024.

SEEING THE POLLS
• Brown was ranked No. 15 in both the USCHO and USA Hockey polls on Monday, Oct. 24, earning a spot in the polls for the first time this season.
• The Bears remained at No. 15 in both polls for the second week of the year.
• Brown is ranked for the third-straight week, moving up to No. 13 in both polls.
• The Bears are ranked No. 12 in the USCHO poll and No. 13 in the USA Hockey poll for the week of Nov. 17.
• The four weeks being ranked are the most in a season since the 2005-06 season. The No. 12 ranking is also the highest in a season for the Bears since 2005-06.

THE WRONG FIVE
• Brown allowed five goals against Cornell in the first meeting with the Big Red this season. Over the last two seasons, Brown has allowed five goals in just two ECAC games. Both of those occurrences have been against Cornell.

SAYING NO TO SHUTOUTS
• The Bears avoided a shutout against Cornell and have now stretched their streak of regular season games without being shutout to 16 games.
• The last time Brown was shutout in a regular season game was a 0-0 tied against Quinnipiac on Jan. 25, 2025.
• The last time Brown was shutout in a loss was a 0-3 defeat to Yale on Nov. 17. That is a stretch of 29-straight regular seasons contests.

KILLING THE PENALTIES
• The Bears have allowed a power play goal in just one game this season (at Cornell - Nov. 1, 2025). The Bears gave up three power play goals against the Big Red.
• Outside of the game against Cornell Brown has now killed off 27 penalties in nine games, including six penalties against Dartmouth (Nov. 14).
• The six penalties for the Bears against the Big Green were the most whistled on Brown since committing six at St. Lawrence on Nov. 20, 2021.

ENJOYING PLAYING MORE
• The Bears are 4-0-4 in their last eight overtime games, including going 2-0-1 this season with wins against Delaware and Harvard.
• Brown has not lost an overtime game since Nov. 8 of last season against Colgate.
• The Bears played overtime games in both contests up North last year with wins against Clarkson and St. Lawrence.
• Brown followed that up with two ties at Quinnipiac and Princeton.

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