Men's Hockey Returns Home To Host Stonehill November 15

Saturday, November 15

Princeton, N.J.

7:00 PM

Princeton University

Stonehill

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Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

Men's Hockey Returns Home To Host Stonehill November 15

November 14, 2025 | Men's Ice Hockey

Princeton vs. Stonehill | November 15 | 7 p.m. -- Teddy Bear Toss
Hobey Baker Rink
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LOOSE ENDS
The Tigers and Skyhawks are meeting for the first time after Stonehill moved up to Division I for the 2022-23 season.

This will mark Princeton's third consecutive home game against a team competing as an independent program after opening 2025-26 with a sweep of Alaska-Fairbanks.

Princeton is looking for its first three-game home winning streak to open a season since the Tigers won three in a row at Hobey Baker Rink to begin the 1979-80 season.

As a team, Princeton ranks No. 7 in the country in faceoff win percentage (55%). Luc Pelletier (63.6%), Brendan Gorman (55.7%), and Drew Garzone (50.0%) are all winning draws at a high clip for the Tigers.

The Tigers rank No. 13 in the nation in Scoring Defense (2.25 goals allowed-per-game) through four games.

STAYING ALIVE 5-ON-5
Princeton has not given up a 5-on-5 goal since Alaska-Fairbanks scored with 9:12 remaining in the third period of the season opener on October 31. Since then, Princeton has conceded seven goals -- 5 on the power play, 1 short-handed, and 1 in overtime.

Princeton has stopped its last 53 shots faced during 5-on-5 play.

HOT HANDS
Jaxson Ezman had a six-game point streak snapped last Saturday at Yale. He has recorded nine points (4g, 5a) over his last seven games dating back to the final three games of last season.

Brendan Gorman (2g, 3a), David Jacobs (4a) and Jake Manfre (3g, 1a) each have points in three of four games this season.

TIGERS RETURN CORE FROM 24-25
Last year, Princeton's senior class included just four players which was the second-smallest group of seniors in all of Division I men's hockey. The Tigers return 23 players from last year's team, including a group of nine seniors which comprises the third-largest senior class in all of Division I men's hockey behind only Ferris State (12) and Canisius (11).

Consistency is key for the Tigers as they return 163 of 184 points from last year to lead the country with 89% of their total points from last year returning. Princeton also brings back 64 of its 71 goals from last year, which accounts for 90% of goals scored during 2024-25 to rank No. 2 in the nation behind only Harvard (93%).

GO-GO GORMAN
Brendan Gorman had 13 total points (6g, 7a) over his last 13 games of the 2024-25 season and posted eight total multi-point games last year. He led Princeton in goals (12), assists (14), points (26), and faceoff wins (285). His 0.4 goals-per-game was No. 11 among all ECAC players and his two short-handed goals last year were No. 2 in the ECAC and No. 8 in the country.

Growth has been consistent for Gorman over his three previous seasons his point totals have increased from 19 as a freshmen to 24 as a sophomore before reaching the 26-point mark last year as a junior.

All-time, Gorman now ranks No. 39 in scoring by a Princeton men's hockey player with 74 points (26g, 48a) in 94 games. He is one point away from tying for the No. 37 spot and two away from No. 36.

Last season, Gorman was named third-team All-ECAC and he was a first-team All-Ivy selection.

MAN AT THE TOP
Jake Manfre was the man at the top of the Princeton rookie scoring race in 2024-25 with 8-9-17 totals through 30 games. A four-point weekend against Ohio State last November earned him ECAC Rookie of the Week honors and ECAC Rookie of the Month honors for November. Manfre's three PPGs last season led the Tigers and were No. 16 overall in the ECAC and No. 5 among ECAC rookies. His two game-winning goals last campaign were No. 4 among ECAC rookies, and No. 11 by a freshman in all of Division I hockey.

Manfre had two goals on Nov. 1 against Alaska-Fairbanks, netting the game-winner in the third before tacking on an ENG to close the game.

His 0.75 gpg rank No. 9 in the nation.

JACOBS LADDER
David Jacobs was limited to 24 games last season, his lowest total over his first three seasons with the Tigers. That resulted in his lowest point total in his three seasons (3g, 11a) for 14 points after posting 24 points (7g, 17a) in 30 games the year before. Now in his second year as a captain, Jacobs enters the weekend No. 73 in Princeton's all-time scoring list with 57 points on 15 goals and 42 assists.

E-Z MONEY
Jaxson Ezman set a new career high in points last year with 15 -- including 10 points (5g, 5a) in his last 14 games to close the season. Fully healthy for the first time as a Tiger, he set career highs in games played (30), goals (7), assists (8) and points (15) while netting the game-winning goals against Bentley (1/25) and Dartmouth (2/1).

Ezman had a stellar start to 2025-26, tallying four points (3g, 1a) over two games including the GWG on opening night. His play earned ECAC Forward of the Week honors and his 0.75 goals-per-game rank No. 9 in the country.

KD, ARE YOU WITH ME?
The Tigers are glad Kai Daniells is with them in 2025-26 as the junior opened the season with four points (2g, 2a) in a sweep of Alaska-Fairbanks. Those four points in two games matched his entire output over 17 games during an injury-riddled 2024-25 season and perhaps hearken back to his rookie season in 2023-24 where Daniells had 19 points (8g, 11a) including five PPGs.

MA MAN
David Ma was fully healthy for the first time last season, playing in all 30 games and tallying 13 points (6g, 7a) with a pair of power-play goals to earn honorable mention All-Ivy honors. This came after missing all of 2023-24 with injury and parts of the previous two seasons as well. His 13 points in 30 games last year surpassed the 11 points he had in 35 games over parts of the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons. A puck-moving defenseman, Ma won a Clark Cup with the Chicago Steel in 2021 and played for Team USA at the 2019 Hlinka-Gretzky Cup.

MARCIANO MAGIC
After tallying four total points (3g, 1a) in 48 games over his first two seasons, Nick Marciano set a career high in points last year with 14 (4g, 10a) in 30 games.

SMILES FOR MILES
Miles Gunty played three seasons with the Youngstown Phantoms of the USHL, winning a championship in 2023 and serving as alternate captain during the 2023-24 season. He reached double digits in points as a rookie last season, registering 10 points (3g, 7a) in 29 games. Three of those points were assists in wins over Union and RPI in December earn ECAC Rookie of the Week honors.

GET TO KNOW GREAVO
Sophomore Kai Greaves is the younger brother of Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Jet Greaves who has played in 25 career games in goal with the Blue Jackets and another 158 with Cleveland of the AHL. Greaves played in all but one game last year, and had two goals and an assist.

Greaves matched his point total from all of last year on opening weekend with three assists in two games.

NORWAY'S FINEST
Freshman Hans Martin Ulvebne is one of six players in Division I men's college hockey who hail from Norway. He spent time on the U16 and U18 Norwegian national teams before skating with Cedar Rapids in the USHL the last two seasons. Ulvebne is likely looking forward to Princeton's two games at Bentley in January as the Falcons have two of the other five Norwegians in college hockey in Oskar Bakkevig and Tobias Larsen.

FROM GRIZZLIES TO TIGERS
Newcomers Malcolm Green and Seamus Latta were teammates last year with the Victoria Grizzlies in the BCHL, where they reached the conference finals. Two years ago, Green was a member of the Grizzlies alongside sophomore Luc Pelletier.

CAREER YEARS
Last season, Nick Marciano (+12), Jaxson Ezman (+8), Alex Konovalov (+7), David Ma (+6), Kevin Anderson (+6), Ian Devlin (+3), Brendan Gorman (+2), Carson Buydens (+1) and Brendan Wang (+1) all set a new career high in points. Eight of those nine players return this season for the Tigers.