ORONO, Maine - The University of Maine men's hockey team will play the nation's lone NCAA men's hockey game on Monday night when it closes out non-conference play with a 7 p.m. tilt at Brown. The call c
an be heard online or on 103.9 WVOM-FM while a stream will also be available online (for a fee) through the Ivy League Network.
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GAME INFORMATION
Game #20: Maine Black Bears at Brown Bears
DATE: Monday, Jan. 8, 2018
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
SITE: Meehan Auditorium - Providence, R.I.
2017-18 RECORDS: Maine 11-7-1 (5-4-1 HEA), Brown 5-8-2 (4-6-0 ECAC Hockey)
Maine game notes
About the Black Bears  Â
• Maine is coming off a 3-0 victory at Boston University on Saturday night that extended its unbeaten streak to eight games (7-0-1).
• Jeremy Swayman made 31 saves for his first career shutout while Nolan Vesey, Ryan Smith and Brendan Robbins each found the back of the net.
• In its first action after the break, the Black Bears swept RPI, earning 3-2 and 5-2 wins on the road, Dec. 29 and 30.
• Vesey scored twice in the first four minutes and Tim Doherty added the game-winner in the second period of the 3-2 win.
• The Black Bears got five goals from five players on Saturday and a 36-save performance from Rob McGovern in the 5-2 win.
• Prior to the two-game set at RPI, Maine had last played on Dec. 8-9, earning 7-4 and 5-3 wins at Quinnipiac.
• On Dec. 8, the Bobcats jumped out to a 3-0 lead before Maine mounted a furious comeback and used four unanswered goals and a 50-save performance from Swayman for a 7-4 win.
• The next night, Maine got a 45-save performance from Swayman while Patrick Shea scored with 24.4 seconds left in the third period and Cedric Lacroix added an empty-net goal for a 5-3 win.
About the Bears
• Brown battled No. 20 New Hampshire to a 4-4 tie on Saturday night, scoring four unanswered goals in the third period to earn the road tie.
• It was Brown's second four-goal comeback of the 2017-18 season, as the Bears also did it in a 5-4 overtime win at RPI on Dec. 2.
• The Bears played No. 11 Providence on Jan. 3, falling 5-0 in its third of four-straight games against Hockey East schools.
• Brent Beaudoin leads the team with 10 points on three goals and a team-high seven assists while Tommy Marchin is second with nine points on a team-leading seven goals and two assists.
• All five of Brown's game-winning goals have come from different players.
The Series with the Bears
• Maine and Brown have squared off 13 times prior to Monday's contest, with Maine holding an edge of 11-2-0 in the all-time series.
• The teams last played on Nov. 26, 2016, with the Black Bears skating to a 5-1 home win on the strength of two goals from Cedric Lacroix and 28 saves from Rob McGovern.
• Maine and Brown first met during the 1979 season, with Maine earning a 5-3 win at home.
• Maine has scored at least five goals in eight of the meetings while Brown has scored at least five goals in three of the games.
About Head Coach Red Gendron
• Red Gendron, who enters his fifth year behind the bench of the Black Bears, has won two NCAA Hockey National Championships and a NHL Stanley Cup as an assistant coach.
• He assisted head coach Shawn Walsh with the UMaine 1993 NCAA Division I National Championship team.
• Before being named the head coach of the Black Bears, Gendron was associate head coach at Yale University; the Bulldogs earned the 2013 NCAA Division I National Championship.
• Prior to Gendron's two seasons at Yale, from 2005-11, he was an assistant coach at the University of Massachusetts.
• Gendron spent 11 seasons in professional hockey with the New Jersey Devils organization.
Blanking BU
• With Maine and Jeremy Swayman shutting out BU, 3-0, on Jan. 6, it marked the fifth-ever shutout for the Black Bears in the 130-game series with the Terriers.
• The only other time a Maine freshman goaltender blanked BU was on Feb. 21, 1997, when now-assistant coach Alfie Michaud made 20 saves in a 3-0 win at Alfond Arena.
• When the Black Bears topped the Terriers, it marked Maine's first win at Agganis Arena since Jan. 28, 2012.
• Also on Jan. 6, the Maine women's team topped BU, 4-1, to earn their first win at BU since Jan. 15, 2012.
Streaks
• Tim Doherty extended his point streak to eight games with an assist on Nolan Vesey's game-winning goal in a 3-0 win at BU on Jan. 6.
• Vesey himself now holds a four-game point streak and has had a hand in the game-winning goal in all four of those games (one game winner, three assists).
• Defenseman Patrick Holway also extended his point streak to a career best six games with an assist against BU.
Five-or-More
• In eight games this season, the Black Bears have scored at least five goals, tied with Providence for the most of any Hockey East school.
• In wins over Vermont (6-2) and Quinnipiac (7-4, 5-3) Maine scored five-or-more goals in three-straight games for the first time since a three-game stretch during the 2006-07 season against Bemidji State (7-1, 6-3) and North Dakota (6-2).
• Northeastern and UMass Lowell have done it six times while UConn, Boston University, New Hampshire and Merrimack have scored five-or-more goals four times this year.
• Three times this season, Maine has responded to a loss or tie on Friday night by scoring six goals the next night to win, doing so against Miami (6-3) on Oct. 21, UMass Lowell (6-2) on Nov. 4 and Vermont (6-2) on Dec. 2.
• The team scored five-or-more goals on six occasions during the 2016-17 season.
League Honors Holway, Doherty
• Defenseman Patrick Holway was named the Hockey East Player of the Month for December while forward Tim Doherty was tabbed as the league's Rookie of the Month.
• Holway led Maine and defensemen nationally - and tied for the league lead - in points in the month, putting up nine points on three goals and six assists.
• The sophomore is the first blue-liner to take home the conference Player of the Month award since Boston University's Colby Cohen did it in January 2010.
• Doherty finished December with eight points on four goals and four assists, with the points placing him tied for third in the league and first among rookies.
• Doherty, who currently has a seven-game point streak, had 40 wins to 26 loses for a .606 win-percentage at the face-off dot.
• Additionally, Jeremy Swayman was runner-up for Goaltender of the Month after going 3-0-1 in four starts and posting a 2.70 goals against average and a .934 save percentage.
Weekly Awards
• Defenseman Brady Keeper was tabbed as the Hockey East Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Week on Jan. 2 after notching the game-winning goal and adding an assist in Maine's 5-2 win at RPI.
• Freshman Jeremy Swayman earned Player of the Week honors on Dec. 11 - after he backstopped the Black Bears to a weekend road sweep of ECAC Hockey foe Quinnipiac with a 95-save weekend - and Rookie of the Week honors on Nov. 20 after his 40-save performance in a 5-2 win over then No.18 BU on Nov. 17.
• Eduards Tralmaks was tabbed as the Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Week on Nov. 6, as announced by the Hockey East Association.
• The freshman earned the honor after notching two goals and one assist in Maine's 6-2 win at UMass Lowell on Nov 4.
Up Next
• Maine will remain on the road next weekend, traveling to Northeastern for two Hockey East games on Friday, Jan. 12 and Saturday, Jan. 13.
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