Matt Brown

Matthew Brown (born August 9, 1999) is an American collegiate ice hockey left winger at Boston University. He was an All-American for BU in 2023. Playing career Born in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, Brown played junior hockey in and around his home town of Tenafly, graduating from Tenafly High School in 2017. Afterwards, he travelled west and joined the Dubuque Fighting Saints but lased just 6 scoreless games before changing leagues and finishing out the year with the Odessa Jackalopes. For his final season of juniors, Brown gave the USHL one more try and saw much greater success with the Des Moines Buccaneers. He led the club in scoring and was a point per game player, helping the team reach the second round of the playoffs. The following fall, Brown began attending the University of Massachusetts Lowell and led the team in scoring as a freshman. While his overall total was unremarkable, Brown helped to put the club in position for a potential NCAA tournament berth. Lowell finished the 3rd in the Hockey East standings that season and were preparing for their postseason run, however, before any games could be played the remainder of the campaign was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Brown returned for the abbreviated Covid season in 2021 but neither he nor the River Hawks were quite up to the standards set before the pandemic. That summer, Brown decided to use the new NCAA transfer rules and switched to Boston University. Hopes were high for Brown but he got off to a slow start and then sat out for over a month and didn't return until after Thanksgiving. His scoring increased afterwards and he appeared to be rounding into form, however, his life changed on January 30 when his mother, Debbie, died at the age of 51. Brown was able to collect himself long enough to score the deciding goal in the Beanpot semifinal against Harvard.