The search committee for the men’s hockey head coaching job at Brown University has narrowed the field of 44 applicants down to four finalists, according to the U.S. Hockey Report.

They are Dartmouth assistant coach Brendan Whittet, a Brown alum; Boston College associate head coach Mike Cavanaugh; UMass-Amherst assistant Red Gendron; and Union College associate head coach Rick Bennett, a former player and coach at Providence College.

More on the finalists:

Whittet: He grew up in Riverside and starred on defense for Mount St. Charles. A 1994 Brown graduate, he later was an assistant at Brown under Bob Gaudet. He joined Gaudet at Dartmouth in 1998.

Bennett: A Hobey Baker Award finalist at PC in 1990, Bennett played pro hockey for a decade before going into coaching. Bennett, who turns 42 later this month, was an assistant on Paul Pooley’s staff at PC before taking a job at Union in 2003.

Cavanaugh: Boston College has won two national championships during his 14 years with the Eagles. He is a Bowdoin grad.

Gendron: While an assistant at the University of Maine in the early 1990s, Gendron, 51, had a hand in recruiting many of the players who led Maine to the 1993 NCAA championship. He was an assistant coach with the Stanley Cup-winning 1995 New Jersey Devils. He was an assistant and head coach of the AHL Albany River Rats, as well as a scout for New Jersey. Gendron has been at UMass for four years.

Brown athletic director Michael Goldberger said last week that he hoped to hire a coach to succeed Roger Grillo, who resigned to take a job with USA Hockey, by the end of July.

The salary for the men’s job is reportedly capped at $85,000, the U.S. Hockey Report said.