Men's Hockey Begins ECAC Play With Trip To Brown & Yale

Friday, November 7

Providence, R.I.

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Jake Manfre Celebrates Goal Against Alaska Fairbanks

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Men's Hockey Begins ECAC Play With Trip To Brown & Yale

November 05, 2025 | Men's Ice Hockey

Princeton at Brown | November 7 | 7 p.m.
Meehan Auditorium
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Princeton at Yale | November 8 | 7 p.m.
Ingalls Rink
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LOOSE ENDS
Princeton enters the weekend with a 78-94-12 record all-time against Brown in a series dating back to 1901. Last year, the two teams met three times and Princeton (0-2-1) was unable to secure a win in any of the meetings. The final meeting was a 3-2 Brown in at Meehan Auditorium in the first round of the ECAC Playoffs.

On Saturday, Princeton takes a 115-144-12 record into its game at Yale. Last year, the Tigers secured a 4-1 win at The Whale for Ben Syer's first win as head coach. Later in the season, the two teams skated to a 2-2 tie before Princeton claimed an extra point in the shootout. Princeton's last two trips to New Haven have resulted in 4-1 Princeton wins.

The two wins last weekend to open the 2025-26 season mark the first time since 1955-56 that the Tigers swept both games at Baker Rink to open a season. Princeton's last three-game win streak to open a season came in 2007-08

Princeton's 11 goals scored last weekend were the most in one weekend since scoring 12 against Brown/Yale (11/5-11/6) during the 2021-22 season.

HOT HANDS
Jaxson Ezman enters the weekend riding a five-game point streak dating back to the end of the 2024-25 season. After connecting for four points (3g, 1a) over two games last weekend, Ezman now has eight points (4g, 4a) over his last five games.

Other Tigers riding point streaks into the weekend include Miles Gunty (three games; 2g, 1a) and Ian Devlin (three games; 3a) as well as Kai Daniells (2g, 2a), Brendan Gorman (2g, 2a), Jake Manfre (2g, 1a), Kai Greaves (3a) and David Jacobs (3a) who all had points in both games last weekend.

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. 41 in scoring by a Princeton men's hockey player with 73 points (26g, 47a) in 92 games. He is one point away from tying for the No. 39 spot and two away from moving inside the 37th.

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.

JACOB'S 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. 75 in Princeton's all-time scoring list with 56 points on 15 goals and 41 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.

THE ARTY PARTY
Arthur Smith was named honorable mention All-Ivy as a freshman in 2023-24 bolstered by a 5-1-0 record against Ivy opponents with a 2.26 GAA and a .926 save percentage. Over his career, Smith has earned two ECAC Goaltender of the Month awards, doing so in December of both 2023 and 2024. He is Princeton's most experienced netminder entering the season, with 33 career games played with a 12-14-3 record, two shutouts, a 2.99 GAA and a .896 save percentage.

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. He closed his rookie season with three points (2g, 1a) in his final four games and now has a three-game point streak (2g, 1a) overall.

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 this past weekend with three assists in two games.

NORWAY'S FINEST
Freshman Hans Martin Ulvbene 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. Ulvbene 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.