Team Notes: Brown Hosts Harvard in First of Three Straight Home Games
Tonight: Heading into the final
three games of the season, which are all at home for Brown, the
Bears are still alive for one of the two remaining home ice slots
for the ECAC Hockey playoffs, along with Clarkson, Quinnipiac &
St. Lawrence. Brown enters tonight's game against Harvard sitting
in ninth place in the standings - three points behind 7th-place
Clarkson and Quinnipiac and one point ahead of 10th-place St.
Lawrence. With tonight's game in hand, Brown (which can finish
anywhere from 7-12) will be looking to further distance itself from
the Saints and gain valuable ground on both the Golden Knights and
Bobcats. After tonight, all 12 teams in the league will be down to
their final pair of games in the regular season. Tonight's game is
also crucial for the Crimson, who are trying to get out of last
place and jump over Colgate. Harvard is assured to be traveling for
the first round of the playoffs, but can still finish as high as
9th. Full seeding possibilities are listed below:
Union: 1-2
Yale: 1-2
Dartmouth: 3-6
Cornell: 3-6
Rensselaer: 3-6
Princeton: 3-6
Clarkson: 7-9
Quinnipiac: 7-10
Brown: 7-12
St. Lawrence: 8-12
Colgate: 9-12
Harvard: 9-12
This Date Historically
Speaking: All-time, Brown is 8-13-0 in games
played on February 22nd, including a 4-3-0 record at home. The
Bears are 0-4-0 against Harvard in games played on February 22nd,
all of which were on the road, losing 5-1 in 1955, 4-1 in 1961, 6-5
(ot) in 1964, and 3-0 in 2005.
Brown vs. Harvard: Brown and
Harvard have met 157 times, with the Crimson leading the all-time
series, 103-42-12. Brown won the very first meeting between the two
schools in the oldest active collegiate hockey rivalry, winning
6-0, in 1898 on a flooded baseball field in Dorchester, MA. Brown
is 6-2-3 in the past 11 meetings, including a 4-1-2 record in the
last seven meetings. Harvard snapped a five game winless streak
against the Bears, dating back to 2/23/08, when it claimed a 5-2
win in Providence last February. Including Brown's 4-3 win in
Cambridge earlier this season, the Bears have now earned at least
one point against the Crimson in each of the last five seasons with
Harvard's last sweep coming during the 2005-06 campaign. SeniorHarry
Zolnierczyk leads current members of the team against the
Crimson with 4 points (2g, 2a) in 8 games, while four other players
have all posted three career points against Harvard, including
junior Jeff
Buvinow, who has 3 goals in 6 games. JuniorJarred
Smith has 1-2-3 totals in 7 games, while seniors Jeremy
Russell (9 games) and David
Brownschidle (7 games) each add three assists. In all, 14
of Brown's 24 skaters have posted at least one career point against
Harvard.
Scouting Harvard: After winning
just two of its first 12 games after the New Year (2-10-0), Harvard
has gone 2-1-1 in its last four games, including wins over Boston
University (5-4) and Cornell (4-3). The Crimson also tied Princeton
(4-4) on February 11th and finished this past weekend's trip to
Central New York with a 2-1 loss to Colgate. Harvard is led by
junior Alex Killorn (12g, 11a) and sophomore Danny Biega (9g, 14a),
who both have 23 points in 26 games, while senior Michael Biega
adds 19 points (7g, 12a) in 24 games. Killorn also leads the team
with five power play goals and three game-winning goals, while
Danny Biega has four power play goals and two game-winners. All 22
skaters who have played in at least one game have a point this
year. Seniors Kyle Richter and Ryan Carroll have more-or-less split
time in net this season with Richter posting a 2.72 GAA and .909
save percentage in 16 games (3-10-1) and Carroll earning a 3.39 GAA
and .908 save percentage in 12 games (3-8-0).
Last Time Out: The Bears earned one
point at Princeton (L, 7-3) and Quinnipiac (T, 2-2). On Friday
night at Princeton, Brown fell behind, 1-0, just 45 seconds in and
could never recover, as the Tigers built a 3-1 lead by the end of
the first period. Seniors Harry Zolnierczyk and Jesse
Fratkin and junior Bobby
Farnham scored for Brown, while junior Mike
Clemente and freshmanMarco
De Filippo combined to stop 36 shots. The next night
against the Bobcats, Brown allowed two first period power play
goals to Quinnipiac, but fought back with a power play goal by
freshman Dennis
Robertson at the end of the second period. FreshmanMark
Hourihan then scored his second goal in three games four
minutes into the third period to salvage the tie. Two other
freshmen, Matt
Wahl and Mike Juola, also had points in the game with
assists on Hourihan's goal, while Zolnierczyk and Fratkin assisted
the Robertson goal. Clemente recorded 39 saves, including all 27
during the final 45 minutes.
Mike Clemente Named ECAC Hockey/MLX Skates Goalie of
the Week: In Brown's weekend sweep at Colgate
and Cornell, Clemente posted 48 saves, a .923 save percentage, and
a 2.00 GAA, while allowing only one even-strength goal. Clemente
helped lead Brown to its first road sweep over the central-New York
duo since 2/93, its first win over Cornell since 1/07, and its
first regular season road sweep since 1/05. He recorded 28
saves on Friday against the Raiders with 20 the next night against
the Big Red.
Jack
Maclellan and Matt Wahl Earn All-Tournament
Honors: Following Brown's second place finish at
Notre Dame's Shillelagh Tournament (6-1 win over #10 Boston
University; 7-3 loss to Minnesota State), junior Jack Maclellan
(2g, 1a) and freshman Matt Wahl (2a) were both named to the
All-Tournament Team.
Harry Zolnierczyk Named ECAC Hockey/MLX Skates Player
of the Week: Following Brown's split with #1
Yale (L, 5-2; W, 3-2), which snapped Yale's winning streak at 10
games and handed the Bulldogs their first ECAC loss of the season,
senior Harry Zolnierczyk was named ECAC Player of the Week. The
Bears' second leading scorer had 4 points (2g, 2a) in the pair of
games, including a short-handed goal that in the first game, that
tied the score at 2-2, and the game-winning goal with 46 seconds
left in regulation in the come-from-behind win in the second game.
He also had the primary assist on both goals in the victory, and
was +3 for the weekend.
