March 13, 2009

Yale Not Taking Brown Lightly

The following article appeared in the March 13 issue of the New Haven Register.

 

By Chip Malafronte
Register Staff

NEW HAVEN — The opponent is unexpected, but the game plan remains unchanged.

Yale, the ECAC Hockey regular season champion, views Brown as a dangerous foe for the best-of-3 quarterfinal series that begins tonight at Ingalls Rink. That Brown won only three of its 29 regular season games and pulled off perhaps the biggest upset in league playoff history to advance means little to the Bulldogs.

“It might have been surprising to some, but we know that in this league, anything can happen,” said Yale captain Matt Nelson after practice Thursday. “Brown is a good team, and we have to be sure we play our style.”

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