Team Notes: Bears Resume Action at Dartmouth

The following article appeared January 7 on the Brown Web site.

Having closed out the non-league portion of their schedule with a pair of games at St. Cloud, the Bears resume ECAC Hockey action this weekend with a single game at Dartmouth on Friday night. Friday's contest marks a homecoming of sorts for Brown head coach Brendan Whittet '94, who was an assistant for the Big Green for 11 years prior to his appointment at Brown. Whittet will be facing off against his former coach and mentor, Bob Gaudet when the Bears and Big Green take the ice Friday night. The game is the third straight road contest for Brown, which is in the midst of playing six straight road games. The Bears will look to get back to their winning ways, as their five-game winning streak was snapped last weekend against the Huskies.

Last Time Out: Brown dropped a pair of games to St. Cloud State, falling 5-1 on Saturday and 5-3 on Sunday. The Bears were within one goal after two periods on both nights, but the Huskies were able to pull away with the wins with decisive goals in the third period. After falling behind, 2-0, on Saturday night, sophomore Jeff Buvinow scored for the third straight game to bring Brown to within 2-1 after two periods. However, the Huskies struck for three goals in the third to pull away with the win. On Sunday, Brown faced a familiar deficit, but junior Jesse Fratkin and sophomore Jarred Smith scored goals 46 seconds apart to tie the score at 2-2. After St. Cloud went up, 4-2, senior Devin Timberlake netted his second goal of the year with sophomore goalie Mike Clemente looking on from the bench with under three minutes remaining. Brown pulled Clemente a second time and St. Cloud added an empty net score with 1:04 remaining for the 5-3 final. Clemente stopped a total of 60 shots over the weekend, with 30 saves in each game.

Coming Up: Brown is off for the next seven days and returns to action for a single game at Yale on Saturday, January 16th. The Bears will close out their six-game road swing with a trip to the North Country on January 22nd and 23rd, before returning home for a League weekend against RPI and Union at the end of the month.

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