The 2024–25 Brown Bears Men's ice hockey season was the 107th season of play for the program and the 63rd in the ECAC Hockey conference. The Bears represented Brown University, played their home games at the Meehan Auditorium and were coached by Brendan Whittet in his 15th season.

Season Throughout the season, Brown was essentially average. Their pedestrian offense was a marked improvement from the year before scoring nearly an extra goal every other game. Additionally, the defense saw a better performance as well with Lawton Zacher making a tremendous stride in his sophomore campaign. Playing better on both sides of the puck led to the Bears alternating winning and losing streaks for most of the year. In every month the team played, Brown finished with the exact same number of wins and losses, a rather extraordinary achievement considering the Bears lost their first 5 games in January only to finish on a 5-game winning streak. Continuing the theme of even play, Brown also finished their schedule with the exact same number of goals scored and goals allowed, 75.

By the end of the regular season, the team sat eighth in the standings, just good enough to earn its first postseason home game in six years. Coincidentally, they met the same team when they kicked off their playoff run against Princeton. After falling down in the first period, Brown rode a 3-point effort from Ryan St. Louis to victory and advance to the quarterfinals for the first time since that auspicious year in 2019. Next on their slate was league champion Quinnipiac who gave the Bears very little room to maneuver. In the two games, Brown was only able to score a single goal when they were playing at 6-on-4. After being outclassed in the series, the two losses dropped Brown to below .500 for the season, however, the team was still able to post its best result in six years.

Departures Ryan Bottrill Forward Transferred to Clarkson Stephen Chen Goaltender Left program (joined national team) Gavin Puskar Forward Graduation (retired) Matt Sutton Forward Graduation (retired) Jordan Tonelli Forward Graduate transfer to Rensselaer Jacob Zacharewicz Goaltender Transferred to Western Michigan

Recruiting Charlie Gollob Forward 20 Toronto, ON Tanner Hartman Forward 22 Chicago, IL; transfer from Hobart Jack Hewitt Defenseman 21 Toronto, ON Ryan Kazmouz Goaltender 21 Livonia, MI; already completed one year of classes Andrew King Goaltender 21 Dubuque, IA Brian Nicholas Forward 19 Scarsdale, NY Leo Schwartz Defenseman 19 New York, NY Ivan Zadvernyuk Forward 20 Moscow, RUS Tristan Zarsky Defenseman 21 Edmonton, AB

Roster As of July 30, 2024.

Standings

Schedule and results

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Scoring statistics LW 32 11 18 29 2 F 32 9 19 28 12 F 32 12 14 26 21 F 28 11 14 25 10 D 32 7 9 16 14 F 31 6 6 12 30 D 32 2 10 12 6 F 32 3 7 10 33 C 27 4 5 9 29 D 32 1 6 7 6 F 32 3 3 6 14 D 31 1 4 5 10 D 26 1 3 4 10 W 18 3 0 3 19 F 23 1 2 3 6 C 28 1 2 3 4 F 25 2 0 2 6 D 20 0 2 2 6 F 20 1 0 1 4 W 7 0 1 1 0 D 12 0 1 1 2 F 14 0 1 1 0 F 2 0 0 0 0 F 4 0 0 0 2 F 11 0 0 0 2 D 13 0 0 0 2 D 20 0 0 0 6 G 6 0 0 0 0 G 28 0 0 0 0 Bench – – – – – 18 Total 79 127 206 276

Goaltending statistics 6 297:03 0 4 1 10 146 0 .936 2.02 26 1618:00 14 11 2 67 745 2 .917 2.48 Empty Net - 26:12 - - - 8 - - - - Total 32 1941:15 14 15 3 85 891 2 .913 2.63

Rankings

PollWeekPre 1 23456789101112131415161718192021222324252627 (Final) USCHO.comNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNR–NRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNR–NR USA HockeyNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNR–NRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNRNR Note: USCHO did not release a poll in week 12 or 26.Note: USA Hockey did not release a poll in week 12.

Awards and honors Lawton Zacher All-ECAC Hockey Second Team Tyler Kopff All-ECAC Hockey Third Team Brian Nicholas ECAC Hockey All-Rookie Team

References