2023–24 Brown Bears men's ice hockey season

The 2023–24 Brown Bears Men's ice hockey season was the 106th season of play for the program and the 62nd 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 14th season.
==Season==
Brown's season followed nearly the same path that it had in 2023. The Bears began poorly, losing six of their first nine due mostly to a weak offense. The goaltending dual that arose out of training camp was soon settled in favor of Lawton Zacher. However, in spite of stable goaltending, Brown was unable to capitalize on many resulting opportunities. In the first three months of the season, The Bears managed 3 goals in just four of fourteen games.
When the team started the second half of its season, there was a mild uptick in scoring but that was enough to give the Bears four wins in six games. The mini-streak put Brown in the middle of the conference standings and had them briefly competing for a home site in the conference playoffs. Once February rolled around, all of those gains were washed away. The offense slept-walked through the rest of their schedule and Brown didn't win once in their final nine games. The losing skid sent the team plummeting to the bottom of the standings and they finished just a single point out of last place.
The postseason opened with Union getting off to a quick start and never looking back. Brown was badly outplayed by the Garnet Chargers in the first two periods and found themselves down by three goals entering the third. The Bears were forced to abandon their defensive structure to try and tie the game but all that did was give Union free reign to all to their lead. When the dust settled, Brown was on the wrong end of a 0–6 score and their lackluster season was over.
==Departures==
Luke Albert 	Defenseman		Graduation (retired)
Mathieu Caron 	Goaltender		Transferred to Boston University
Brad Cocca 	Forward 		Graduation (retired)
James Crossman 	Defenseman		Graduate transfer to Michigan State
James Durham 	Goaltender		Left program (retired)
Luke Krys 	Defenseman		Graduate transfer to Providence
Connor Marshall 	Forward 		Graduation (retired)
Samuli Niinisaari	Defenseman		Graduate transfer to Massachusetts
Nathan Plessis 	Forward 		Graduation (retired)
Jonny Russell 	Forward 		Graduation (retired)
==Recruiting==
Griffen Barr 	Defenseman		21	Nanaimo, BC
Matthew Brille 	Forward 		20	Bethesda, MD
Michael Cataldo	Forward 		20	Norfolk, MA
Stephen Chen 	Goaltender		18	Beijing, CHN
Tyler Kopff 	Forward 		20	Ridgewood, NJ
Ethan Mistry 	Forward 		20	Toronto, ON
Alex Pineau 	Defenseman		20	Thunder Bay, ON
Max Scott 	Forward 		20	San Jose, CA
Tyler Shea 	Goaltender		22	Stevenson Ranch, CA; transfer from Michigan
Ryan St. Louis 	Forward 		20	Burlington, VT; transfer from Northeastern
Lawton Zacher 	Goaltender		19	Buffalo, NY
==Roster==
As of July 20, 2023.
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==Standings==
==Schedule and results==
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==Scoring statistics==
 	LW 	30	13	11 	24 	4
 	F 	30	3 	16 	19 	10
 	F 	22	7 	11 	18 	12
 	F 	30	6 	12 	18 	16
 	D 	30	7 	8 	15 	20
 	D 	30	0 	11 	11 	6
 	D 	30	2 	7 	9 	27
 	F 	24	3 	5 	8 	14
 	C/LW	16	3 	4 	7 	8
 	D 	18	2 	4 	6 	10
 	F 	30	3 	2 	5 	4
 	D 	30	2 	3 	5 	6
 	D 	26	3 	1 	4 	12
 	F 	18	2 	1 	3 	4
 	C 	26	2 	1 	3 	8
 	F 	30	1 	2 	3 	6
 	F 	16	0 	3 	3 	14
 	F 	23	0 	2 	2 	8
 	F 	10	1 	0 	1 	0
 	W 	21	1 	0 	1 	6
 	F 	11	0 	1 	1 	0
 	G 	26	0 	1 	1 	0
 	D 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	9 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	10	0 	0 	0 	0
 	F 	18	0 	0 	0 	0
 	F 	26	0 	0 	0 	6
Total	 	 	61	106	167	201
==Goaltending statistics==
 	26	1380:40	6	14	3	67	667	0	.909	2.91
 	10	422:25 	2	5 	0	23	210	0	.901	3.27
Empty Net	- 	21:29 	-	- 	-	8 	- 	-	- 	-
Total 	30	1824:54	8	19	3	98	877	0	.899	3.22
==Rankings==
Poll 	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week 	Week
Poll 	Pre 	1 	2 	3 	4 	5 	6 	7 	8 	9 	10 	11 	12 	13 	14 	15 	16 	17 	18 	19 	20 	21 	22 	23 	24 	25 	26 (Final)	
USCHO.com	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	– 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	– 	NR 	
USA Today	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	– 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	
Note: USCHO did not release a poll in weeks 11 and 25.Note: USA Today did not release a poll in week 12.
==References==
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Category:2023–24 ECAC Hockey men's season
Category:2023–24 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey by team