NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Despite erasing a two-goal deficit, the Yale men's hockey team fell to Union, 4-3, at Ingalls Rink. The Bulldogs fell to 3-9-1 overall and 2-5-1 in ECAC Hockey, while the Garnet Chargers improved to 11-7-1 overall and 5-3-0 in the conference.
 
Scoring Summary

• P1, 8:04 | Union was the first team on the scoresheet.
• P1, 15:25 | The Garnet Chargers took a two-goal lead.
• P1, 17:35 | Donovan Frias charged into the right circle and backhanded a shot towards the slot that found Tucker Hartmann crashing the net.
• P2, 5:11 | David Chen did David Chen things on Yale's second goal. He charged through the neutral zone and ripped a wrister from the left faceoff dot that sailed into the back of the goal.
• P2, 8:51 | Micah Berger set up Kalen Szeto to give Yale the lead in the second. Berger entered the zone and sent a diagonal pass to Szeto breaking on the right post for him to pot into the net.
• P3, 11:41 | Union found the answer just after the midway point of the final frame to tie it.
• P3, 18:10 | Both sides found themselves with penalties in the latter half of the period, but Union capitalized on a 4-on-4 situation with just under two minutes left in the game for the game-winner.  

 
Notes

• Tucker Hartmann scored his first career goal for the Bulldogs.
• David Chen and Micah Berger extended their point-streaks to three-games.
• Chen has scored in three-straight games.
• Dylan Herzog had a season-high six blocks. It ties a career-high he set on Nov. 12, 2022, against Quinnipiac.
• Luke Pearson made 31 stops in between the pipes.

 
Looking Ahead
Yale hits the road for a two-game ECAC swing next weekend. The Bulldogs will head to Hanover, N.H. on Friday, Jan. 10 to face Dartmouth before heading to Boston for a tilt against Harvard on Jan. 11.