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Huskies Welcome Brown to XL Center Tuesday Night
11/12/2018 4:20:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey
Video: Huskies All-Access
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Ice Chips
- UConn returns home Tuesday night for a non-conference match-up against the Brown Bears at the XL Center in downtown Hartford. The Huskies have won three-straight over the Bears including a 6-4 win on the road last February.
- This is the third match-up this season against a team from the ECAC, losing at Quinnipiac and beating RPI back in October.
- Following Tuesday's non-league tilt, the Huskies will play a Hockey East home-and-home series with UMass Lowell this weekend before departing for Northern Ireland to take part in the Friendship Four with Boston University, Union and Yale. UConn and BU meet in the a league match-up on Friday, November 23 with the winners and losers match-up on Saturday, November 24.
- The Huskies are coming off a 3-2 loss at the hands of No. 15 Northeastern on Friday night. UConn carried a 2-1 lead into the third period but were outshot 19-5 over the final 20 minutes, surrendering a pair of goals including the game-winner with 1:14 left.
- UConn freshman Roman Kinal scored his first collegiate goal in the loss and added an assist for a two-point night. Kinal is the first UConn defenseman to score a goal this season.
- Senior Max Kalter picked-up the other Husky goal, his second of the season, coming off a feed from freshman Ruslan Iskhakov, his second assist of the season.
- Freshman Jachym Kondelik saw his six-game point streak come to an end in the loss at Northeastern. The rookie continues to lead Hockey East newcomers in scoring with 10 points on 10 assists. He has three multi-point games on the year. The UConn freshmen class as a whole leads the team with 24 points (5g/19a) this season.
- Junior goaltender Adam Huska followed up his 39-save shutout performance at Vermont but stopping 36 shots on Friday in the loss at Northeastern. Huska has played in seven games this season, posting a 2.57 goals against average and a .924 save percentage.
- Junior Alexander Payusov is off to a blazing offensive start to the season with a team and Hockey East leading eight goals in nine games. The junior forward has scored eight times on just 19 shots and has picked-up three power play goals as well. Payusov has skated on the same line with senior Karl El-Mir and freshman Jachym Kondelik over the last seven games and the trio has produced 20 points (11/9).
- Senior Karl El-Mir has six points on the season on five goals and one assist, leaving him tied for fourth among Hockey East goal scorers. He has 20 career goals and 21 career assists.
- The Huskies will be road warriors for the first three months of the season, playing just five times at the XL Center in their first 21 games.
Last Meeting vs. Brown
Feb. 3, 2018
The UConn men's hockey team got goals from six different Huskies on the way to a 6-4 win at Brown University last February, running their winning streak to five-straight. The Huskies were led by Benjamin Freeman and Wyatt Newpower who each had a goal and an assist in the win. UConn held one goal leads four times before Freeman buried what would be the game-winner at 12:02 in the third period, coming on the power play. Maxim Letunov put the icing on the win with an empty net goal with 27 seconds left. The Huskies also got goals from Alexander Payusov, Brian Rigali, shorthanded, and Jesse Schwartz. Brown's goals came off the stick of Tommy Marchin and Max Gottlieb in the first on the power play, Zach Giuttari in the second and Tyler Bird in the third. The Huskies held a 34-31 edge on shots with goaltender Tanner Creel making 27 saves in earning the win. Brown netminder Luke Kania stopped 28 in the loss. Both teams were 2-of-5 on the power play.
Scouting the Bears
The Brown Bears come to Hartford off a weekend split, beating Dartmouth, 4-2, for their first win on the season and losing to Harvard, 5-2, both at home. The Bears are 0-1 this season against Hockey East, falling at home to Vermont, 2-1, early in the year. The also have a pair match-ups with cross-town Providence on the slate this season. A trio of freshmen are leading the Bears in scoring this season in Tristan Crozier (3g/2a), Justin Jallen (2g/2a), and Jake Harris (1g/3a). Junior goaltender Gavin Nieto has played in five games this season with a 2.59 goals against average and a .916 save percentage.
Huskies vs. ECAC
- UConn is 19-55-10 all-time against teams from the ECAC.
- This season, the Huskies are 1-1-0 against the league, falling at Quinnipiac 4-2, and winning at RPI, 3-1. UConn will still face Brown and Yale and either Union or the Bulldogs at the Friendship Four in Northern Ireland. The Huskies could also face St. Lawrence as part of the Ice Vegas Invitational.
- The Huskies were 2-1-0 against the ECAC last season, beating Brown 6-4 on the road and beating then No. 16, Colgate, 4-2 and falling to Quinnipiac, 3-0, at home in the XL Center.
- Under head coach Mike Cavanaugh, the Huskies are 6-7-2 against the ECAC.
- The Huskies have faced Brown (4-5-1), Colgate (3-5-0), Dartmouth (0-2-0), Princeton (0-3-0), Quinnipiac (11-19-2), Rensselaer (1-3-2), Union (1-7-4) and Yale (0-12-0) from the league.
