Men's Hockey Beats Brown In Overtime, 5-4

Sunday, December 28

Princeton, N.J.

2:00 PM

Princeton University

8-4-0

Brown

3-11-0

OT 1

Brown

Princeton

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

December 28, 2025 | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

It took extra time, but Princeton closed out the 2025 portion of its 25-26 season with a victory as the Tigers knocked off Brown, 5-4, in overtime of a non-conference game at Hobey Baker Rink.

The game-winner went in off the shin of Jaxson Ezman with 0:53 to play in overtime, as his net drive redirected a Kai Greaves wrister for Princeton's second power-play goal of the night.

And Ezman calls game!

Jackson Ezman with an OT goal to give the Tigs the win over Brown!@ecachockey | @NCAAIceHockey | @TeamECH pic.twitter.com/8P0v9qlwU6
— Princeton Men's Ice Hockey (@princetonhockey) December 28, 2025

The Tigers are now 6-0-0 at home this season, the longest home winning streak to start a season by a Princeton team since the 2008-09 team also went 6-0-0 to begin a season at Hobey Baker Rink.

Princeton's six game winning streak on home ice is tied for the longest active home-ice win streak in the nation alongside Cornell and RIT.

Kai Daniells had a three-point night for the Tigers, scoring twice and adding an assist on the game-winner.

Double it up for Daniells!!

Kai Daniells with not 1, but 2 goals to give the Tigs their first lead of the game!@ecachockey | @NCAAIceHockey | @TeamECH pic.twitter.com/7eroSNImxs
— Princeton Men's Ice Hockey (@princetonhockey) December 28, 2025

Ezman (1g, 1a) and Jake Manfre (1g, 1a) each had a two-point afternoon while Tyler Rubin (two assists) also had a multi-point game.

Tyler Shea made 46 saves in goal for the Bears as Princeton landed 51 total shots on goal – its most in a game since a similar 51-shot output on 2/16/18 against RPI in a 7-2 win.

The Tigers were 2-for-6 on the power play, scoring twice on the man advantage for the first time this season

The Bears opened the scoring 12:46 into the game when Mike Cataldo deflected home an Owen Dyer shot.

Princeton answered with 3:03 to play in the opening period when Jake Manfre found himself open in front for a close-range flip home after a fantastic solo effort from David Jacobs to work the puck from behind the Brown net away from defenders before quickly changing direction and sending a pass through to Manfre for his seventh goal of the season.

Tied up in the 1st!

Manfre gets the Tigs on the board! @ecachockey | @NCAAIceHockey | @TeamECH pic.twitter.com/XAZLfIPf0X
— Princeton Men's Ice Hockey (@princetonhockey) December 28, 2025

Brown would sneak home a second goal in the first period when Brendan Tighe tucked in a loose puck with 41.1 seconds left in the period after an initial Andrew King shot was saved.

A back-and-forth second period saw the two teams combine for four goals, three of which came from Princeton players as the Tigers clawed their way to a 4-3 lead after two periods of play.

Brendan Gorman struck first in the middle frame, finishing off a pretty power-play rush with his sixth goal of the season 2:53 into the period off a pass from Jaxson Ezman.

Goal for Gorman!

A quick get away in Power Play and we're tied up again! @ecachockey | @NCAAIceHockey | @TeamECH pic.twitter.com/sHGdoiGB5x
— Princeton Men's Ice Hockey (@princetonhockey) December 28, 2025

The game stayed tied at 2-2 for the next 12 minutes of play before the Bears regained the lead via an Ivan Zadvernyuk goal with 5:09 left in the second. Just after the Tigers had killed off a Brown power play, a loose puck found the stick of Zadvernyuk who banked a shot from even with the goal line off Callaghan and in.

Princeton countered quickly with two Kai Daniells goals 0:48 apart. The first came in transition when Tyler Rubin funneled a pass to a charging Jake Manfre who fed a pass cross-ice to Daniells at the far post with 4:00 to play in the second.

Less than a minute later, Daniells deftly redirected a Nick Marciano shot over Shea's left shoulder for his second of the game and Princeton's first lead of the afternoon.

Brown levelled the game at 4-4 with 6:20 to play via a Ben Poitras goal which threaded its way through traffic and inside the right post.

As time was winding down, Princeton called for a video review of a play deep in the Brown end and the ensuing review resulted in a five-minute major being assessed to Brown's Zadvernyuk for spearing. The Tigers were unable to score in the final 0:48 of regulation, and needed almost all of the power play time in overtime before Greaves sent a last-ditch shot on the power play to net that clanged off Ezman's shin and in for the win.

Princeton will return to ECAC play on January 2 and 3, hosting Dartmouth and Harvard at Hobey Baker Rink for 7 p.m. faceoffs.