ITHACA, N.Y. – The Cornell men's ice hockey program has announced nine additions for the 2015-16 season. Mike Schafer, who will return for his 21st season as the Jay R. Bloom '77 Head Coach of Men's Hockey, announced the additions on Thursday as the team attempts to build on a season in which just one team across the Division I landscape surrendered fewer goals. Cornell has earned a spot in the NCAA tournament field seven times in the last 14 years.
 
The team's captains for the 2015-16 season, as well as its schedule, will be released at a later date.
 
Class of 2019 Player Biographies
Anthony Angello
Forward — 6-foot-5, 205 pounds — Manlius, N.Y. — Omaha Lancers (USHL)
Angello was selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins with the 145th pick in the fifth round of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. He returned to the USHL's Omaha Lancers the following season and racked up 19 goals and 16 assists for 35 points in 56 games. He also had two goals and three assists while helping Team USA win the gold medal at the 2014 Junior A World Challenge. Before joining the Lancers, he played for two seasons with the Empire Junior Hockey League's Syracuse Junior Stars, and he was an All-State First Team selection in 2013 after averaging four points per game with Fayetteville-Manlius High School.
 
Luc Lalor
Forward — 5-foot-10, 165 pounds — St. Albert, Alberta — Fort McMurray Oil Barons (AJHL)
Lalor played parts of three seasons for the Fort McMurray Oil Barons, including 21 games last season in which he posted 15 points in 21 games. He also appeared in 13 games with the USHL's Green Bay Gamblers, notching three assists. In his rookie campaign with the Oil Barons, Lalor led the team in scoring with 30 points in 38 games and was named to the AJHL North Division All-Rookie Team.
 
Alec McCrea
Defenseman — 6-foot-3, 210 pounds — El Cajon, Calif. — Waterloo Black Hawks (USHL)
McCrea was a mainstay for USHL's Waterloo Black Hawks for three seasons. He dressed in 158 regular-season games, putting up 46 points and a plus-18 career rating. He also played in 11 games during the Black Hawks' 2014 trip to the Clark Cup Finals, where they eventually fell in a decisive Game 5 to an Indiana Ice team that included future Big Red teammates Hayden Stewart and Dwyer Tschantz. McCrea will become the program's first player to hail from California.
 
Matthew Nuttle
Defenseman — 5-foot-11, 180 pounds — Marilla, N.Y. — Sioux Falls Stampede/Bloomington Thunder (USHL)
Nuttle helped the Sioux Falls Stampede win the USHL's Clark Cup last season, providing four assists and a plus-9 rating in 12 playoff games. He had 17 points in the regular season, joining the Stampede after 27 games with the Bloomington Thunder. He was named to the NAHL All-Rookie First Team in 2014 after scoring 31 points in 60 games with the Wenatchee Wild. Originally from the outskirts of Buffalo, he started his junior career with the Buffalo Junior Sabres.
 
Chad Otterman
Forward — 6-foot-3, 200 pounds — Morristown, N.J. — Philadelphia Flyers (USPHL)
Otterman played last season the USPHL, where he posted 13 points through 32 games with the South Shore Kings and Philadelphia Flyers. He also competed for four seasons with Delbarton School, helping the Green Wave to state championships in 2011 and 2012. He was named first-team all-state and to the New Jersey Devils all-tournament team in 2014. Otterman also had a decorated lacrosse career at Delbarton, where he was an Under Armor All-American and the 2014 MSG Varsity Player of the Year.
 
Trent Shore
Defenseman — 6-foot-3, 205 pounds — Ajax, Ontario — Cumberland Grads (CCHL)
Shore joins the Big Red after one season in the Central Canada Hockey League, where he notched 15 points in 57 games with the Carleton Place Canadians and the Cumberland Grads — serving as an assistant captain at the latter. He earned a spot on the CCHL All-Scholastic Team, was invited to try out for Team Canada East's entry in the 2015 Junior A World Challenge, and he was selected for the 2015 Central Canada Cup All-Star Challenge. In 2013 and 2014, he played for The Hill Academy, amassing a team-leading plus-92 rating over the two seasons.
 
Brendan Smith
Defenseman — 6 feet, 190 pounds — Centennial, Colo. — Omaha Lancers (USHL)
Smith played the previous two seasons with the USHL's Omaha Lancers, accumulating 18 points through three goals and 15 assists during the 2014-15 season. He helped the team to a consecutive five shutouts in 2014. He previously played five seasons with the Colorado Thunderbirds AAA, and won a Tier 1 Elite League championship in 2013 when he led the league for goals among defensemen.
 
Beau Starrett
Forward — 6-foot-5, 223 pounds — Bellingham, Mass. — South Shore Kings (USPHL)
Starrett attended the 2014 NHL Entry Draft combine and was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks in the third round with the 88th overall pick. He played for three seasons with the South Shore Kings and the renowned program at Catholic Memorial High School near Boston. He was a USPHL all-star after scoring 47 points in 48 games with the Kings during the 2013-14 season — his first campaign at that level. An injury limited Starrett to just seven games last season. While competing with Catholic Memorial, he was named to the 2013 Boston Globe All-Scholastic Team.
 
Mitch Vanderlaan
Forward — 5-foot-7, 175 pounds — Hanwell, New Brunswick — Fort McMurray Oil Barons (AJHL)
Vanderlaan spent the last two seasons with the Fort McMurray Oil Barons, where he earned all-rookie honors for the league's North Division with 32 points during the 2013-14 season. He served as an alternate captain during his second season for the Oil Barons, scoring 16 goals and adding 23 assists for 39 points. He represented the AJHL as a member of Team Canada West during the 2014 World Junior A Challenge. Vanderlaan was also presented with the Gas Drive AJHL Scholarship at the conclusion of his final season.