Men's Hockey Cruises to 5-1 Win and Season Sweep Over Yale

Sunday, February 9

Providence, R.I.

2 p.m.

Brown University

Yale

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Men's Hockey Cruises to 5-1 Win and Season Sweep Over Yale

2/9/2025 5:31:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Brown Bears (11-10-2, 7-8-1 ECAC) took a 5-1 home win and regular season sweep over the Yale Bulldogs (5-16-2, 4-10-2 ECAC) in a Sunday afternoon clash at Meehan Auditorium.

"We have a good hockey team, credit to Yale I thought they came out strong in the first and I didn't think we were mentally ready for the start of the game," said head coach Brendan Whittet '94. "We got a lot better as the game went on and our power play and penalty kill were excellent, which is good to see.

"Those are two areas we definitively need to keep improving to continue to make strides up the standings. All in all, it's been a really good stretch for us the last eight games. The next six games to end the regular season are huge and for us we need to keep playing like we did in the second period; we were excellent in that period."

The Bulldogs struck first as David Chen scored a breakaway goal just 21 seconds into the game off a stretch pass from Briggs Gammill.

Lawton Zacher shut the door on the Bulldogs for the remainder of the game, stopping all 31 shots faced after the Chen goal.

Brendan Clark tied the game with 11 seconds remaining in the first period with his fifth goal of the season. The senior collected a Max Scott rebound below the goal line and beat Jack Stark (25 saves) with a wraparound goal. Ryan St. Louis added the secondary assist on the goal.

Tyler Kopff gave Brown a 2-1 lead six minutes into the second period with a power play goal for his third of the season. Kopff collected a pass from St. Louis and wired a shot past Stark. Brian Nicholas had the secondary assist on the goal.

Kopff added another power play goal 10:46 into the frame, finishing a feed from Nicholas for his second goal of the game. Scott added the secondary assist on the goal.

Alex Pineau tallied Brown's third power play goal of the frame with 6:46 remaining in the period to push Brown's lead to 4-1. Pineau found a loose puck off a point shot from St. Louis and cleaned it up for his sixth goal of the season.

Ethan Mistry tallied his first career goal with 3:48 remaining in the middle frame to extend Brown's lead to 5-1. Mistry hit Kopff with a breakout pass and jumped on the rush, collected a return pass from Kopff before roofing a shot on Stark for the goal. Pineau picked up the secondary assist on the goal.

The Bears and Bulldogs skated to a scoreless third with Brown killing off three penalties in the period.

GAME NOTES

Kopff recorded his fourth multi-point game of the season with the two goals and two assists. It marked his first career two-goal game.
St. Louis recorded his seventh multi-point game of the season and first career three-assist game.
Scott recorded his fifth multi-point game of the season with the two assists.
Pineau recorded his third multi-point game of the season and Clark tallied his second multi-point game of the season.
Yale finished the night with a 32-30 edge in shots on goal. The Bulldogs blocked 21 shots compared to 14 for the Bears.
Brown went 35-for-67 (52.2%) at the faceoff dot with Scott leading all skaters with an 18-for-28 effort (64.3%).
Brown went 3-for-5 on the man-advantage with Yale coming up empty at 0-for-5.
The three power play goals are the most since the Bears had four man-up goals in a 5-1 win over Yale on November 2, 2019 at Meehan Auditorium.
The Bears pick up the regular season sweep over the Bulldogs in 2024-25, the first season sweep over Yale since the 2004-05 season and just the fifth sweep over the Elis since the 1979-80 season.

The Bears remain at Meehan auditorium to host the Cornell Big Red (9-8-6, 6-6-4 ECAC) and Colgate Raiders (15-10-3, 10-4-2 ECAC) in a weekend series. Both games are set to begin at 7 p.m. and will stream on ESPN+ in the United States and on Stretch Internet internationally.

Gallery: (2-9-2025) MHockey vs. Yale (2/9/25)

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