Women's Hockey Plays Home and Home with Yale this Weekend

Saturday, December 6

Providence, R.I.

3 p.m.

Brown University

Yale

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Women's Hockey Plays Home and Home with Yale this Weekend

12/5/2025 10:00:00 AM | Women's Ice Hockey

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – No. 13 Brown women's hockey will play an ECAC home and home series with Yale this weekend. The Bears will host the Bulldogs on Saturday (Dec. 6) before making the trip to New Haven on Sunday (Dec. 7).
Puck drop on Saturday is set for 3 p.m. with the game on Sunday beginning at 4 p.m. Both games will be streamed on ESPN+.

SKATE SHAVINGS
• Brown dropped its matchup against Providence in the 30th Mayor's Cup game, falling in overtime by a score of 3-2. The Bears lost their first overtime game in their last nine games. They were previously 4-0-4 before Saturday's game with the last loss being on Nov. 8, 2024 against Colgate.
• Brown dropped back-to-back games for the first time this season with the 4-1 loss to New Hampshire. Brown had not lost back-to-back home games since Nov. 17 & 22 of last season. a
• Brown's eight wins were tied for the most through 12 games since the 2004-05 season. Brown started that season 8-4-0.

LEADING THE BEARS
• Monique Lyons is leading Brown with eight goals and is tied with India McDadi for the team lead with 11 points.
• Sam Broz is tops on the squad with eight assists.
• In net, Anya Zupkofska is leading Brown with five wins, a 1.33 goals against average and an 0.948 save percentage. Zupkofska's save percentage is second in the NCAA and her goals against average is third in the nation.

SCOUTING THE BULLDOGS
• Yale comes into the weekend with an 8-60 overall record and is 4-4-0 in ECAC play.
• The Bulldogs split games in the Nutmeg Classic over last weekend, beating Sacred Heart and falling to UConn.
• In Yale's last ECAC weekend, the Bulldogs went 1-1 up North with an overtime win over St. Lawrence and a loss at Clarkson.
• Yale has scored at least two goals in each of their last six games, hitting the five-goal mark twice. Yale last scored one goal against Harvard on Nov. 14 and was last shutout against Cornell on Oct. 31.
• Yale ranks No. 4 in the nation with four shutouts on the season. The Bulldogs are No. 5 in the NCAA with a .294 power play percentage.

INSIDE THE SERIES
• The Bears are 62-32-3 all-time against Yale but the series has been dominated by the Bulldogs recently.
• Yale has won the last seven meetings in the series and has won 18 of the last 19 games. The lone win for the Bears during that stretch was a 4-1 win by Brown at home.
• Brown has only scored more than one goal in one of the last seven games against the Bulldogs. Yale has scored at least three goals in all seven games.
• The last win for Brown at Yale was a 4-1 win on Jan. 4, 2012. Brown tied Yale in Ingalls Rink on Jan. 24, 2014 but has lost the last 10 meetings in New Haven.

GRATZL HAD A MONTH
• Isabella Gratzl was named ECAC Defender of the Month for the month of November. Gratzl finished the month with four goals and four assists, to be second on the team in points with eight.
• Gratzl had a five-game point streak during the month and had a goal in three-straight games from Nov. 14-21
• The first year was also named a runner up for AHCA National Defender of the Month.
• Gratzl is the first Bear to win an ECAC monthy award since Anna Hurd was named ECAC Rookie of the month on Nov. 2, 2021.

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.

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.
• With one more win, Brown would have its most wins before the winter break (9) since the Bears won nine games in the 2004-05 season, that year the Bears started the season 9-4-0.

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 had a career-best six game point streak and the Bears went 5-1-0 during the streak.

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 Shay Maloney earned a roster spot with the Boston Fleet, Kaley Doyle was in camp with the New York Sirens, and Cam Sikich was 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.
• Brown was ranked 11th in both the USCHO poll and the USA Hockey poll for the week of Nov. 25.
• The five weeks being ranked are the most in a season since being ranked for 19 weeks in the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons. The No. 11 ranking is also the highest in a season for the Bears since 2005-06, when the Bears were ranked 10th at one point.
• The five-straight weeks of being ranked are the longest since a 15-week stretch from Feb. 10, 2004 to Nov. 16, 2004.
• Brown earned a No. 13 ranking in the USA Hockey Poll for the week of Dec. 2.

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 20 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 33-straight regular seasons contests.

KILLING THE PENALTIES
• On the season, Brown has now killed off 31 of 36 penalties, including six penalties against Dartmouth (Nov. 14).
• Last season, Brown allowed 22 power play goals on just 66 penalties (33.3%).
• 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
• Prior to the loss to Providence, Brown was 4-0-4 in its last eight overtime games, dating back to Nov. 8 of last season, when the Bears lost to Colgate.
• Brown had gone 2-0-1 this season in overtime with wins against Delaware and Harvard.
• 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.

EARLY SEASON SCORING
• Monique Lyons had eight goals through Brown's first 12 games. Lyons passed Jade Iginla, who had seven goals through Brown's first 12 games when she was a freshman in the 2022-23 season.
• The last Bear to have more goals through the first 12 games in a season was Sena Hanson, who scored nine goals in Brown's first 12 games. Hanson's 10th goal of the season came in Brown's 14 game of the year.
• If Lyons scores before the game against Yale on Dec. 7, she will pass Ava DeCoast, who had eight goals before the winter break last season.

GETTING IGINLA GOING
• Jade Iginla has scored a goal in two of Brown's last three games. The senior had been held without a goal for the first 11 games of the season

DUECES WILD
• In Brown's contest against Providence, both Olivia Fantino and Ava DeCoste collected their first two-point games of the season. Both players finished with a goal and an assist.

SCORING EARLY...
• Against Providence, Brown scored at the 1:43 mark in the first period. It was the fastest Brown goal in a game since Oct. 25, 2022 against Harvard.
• The Bears followed that up with a goal just 2:47 into the game against New Hampshire. Iginla's goal against the Wildcats was the second-fastest goal of the season.

...BUT NOT OFTEN
• Despite scoring within the first three minutes in each of the last two games, Brown only scored one goal in the remaning 115+ minutes of gametime.
• The Bears have not scored more than two goals in any of their last four games. In the four games prior to the streak, Brown had scored at least three goals in all contests.

GIVING IT UP LATE
• Brown's games against Providence and New Hampshire were the first games all season that Brown had lost when having the lead after the first period.
• When leading after the first 20 minutes Brown came into the weekend 2-0-1.
• Brown was 6-1-0 last season when leading after the first period and have already matched the loss mark from a season ago.

MAGIC NUMBER THREE
• Under head coach Melanie Ruzzi, Brown's magic number has been three goals. The Bears are 32-5-5 when they can put three goals on the scoreboard. Brown is just 15-66-8 when scoring less than three goals.

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