HAMILTON — The Cornell men's hockey team will make its first trip to Class of 1965 Arena for a midweek ECAC Hockey matchup against regional rival Colgate. The game will be broadcast for free on the Patriot League Network. Additionally, Jason Weinstein will handle play-by-play and Tony Eisenhut will provide color commentary that can be heard in the Ithaca area on WHCU-AM (870 AM, 95.9 FM) and around the world via the station's website.

GAME #9: CORNELL at COLGATE
TIME: 7:05 p.m.
DATES: Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016
PLACE: Class of 1965 Arena · Hamilton
RECORDS: Cornell 4-3-1, 3-2-1 ECAC Hockey · Colgate 3-7-4, 2-3-1 ECAC Hockey
TV: None
RADIO: WHCU-AM (95.9 FM, 870 AM)
WEBCAST: Patriot League Network
LIVE STATS: GoColgateRaiders.com

Cornell game notes (PDF)
Colgate game notes (coming soon)

Big Red Rewind:
Cornell is coming off an exhilarating 3-1 victory over New Hampshire on Saturday night at the third biennial Frozen Apple at Madison Square Garden in New York. Junior forward Trevor Yates scored his third power-play goal of the year, then freshman forward Noah Bauld's first collegiate goal proved to be the winner on a marvelous redirection of a point shot from sophomore defenseman Matt Nuttle. Junior forward Alex Rauter put the icing on the cake with the Big Red's first penalty-shot goal in nearly 20 years — all coming in front of senior Mitch Gillam's first-star, 29-save performance in goal. The Big Red was a perfect 7-for-7 on the penalty kill against a potent UNH power play.
 
Who's Who at CU:
Even with Jeff Kubiak — the Big Red's leading scorer last season — out of the lineup for the last eight games, the other members of the vaunted 'JAM' line from a year ago, sophomore forwards Mitch Vanderlaan (7-1–8) and Anthony Angello (3-3–6) are off to productive starts. ... Junior forward Trevor Yates (4-3–7) has scored three of the Big Red's six power-play goals to date. ... Typically paired together on defense, freshman Yanni Kaldis (0-6–6) and senior Patrick McCarron (0-6–6) are among the team's scoring leaders. McCarron comes into tonight's game with assists in six straight games. ... Senior goaltender Mitch Gillam (4-3-1, 2.52, .911) has started the last 42 games for the Big Red. His seven shutouts last year were tied for the third-most in the country.

Highlights From Saturday's 3-1 Win vs. New Hampshire


An Empire State of Mind:
The Big Red's stars in Saturday's win over New Hampshire at The Frozen Apple all had ties to New York. Junior forward Alex Rauter, who scored on a penalty shot in the third period, is from nearby Chatham, N.J., and once played youth hockey on MSG ice in between periods of a New York Rangers game. Freshman forward Noah Bauld, who scored the game-winner, was actually born in New York before moving to his hometown of Halifax, Nova Scotia when he was a toddler, and senior goaltender Mitch Gillam once attended the New York Islanders' prospect camp.
 
The Streak Is Over!
Junior forward Alex Rauter's penalty-shot goal in the third period of Saturday's game ended a fairly remarkable string of futility on such plays for the Big Red. Rauter became the first Cornell player to score on a penalty shot since Feb. 27, 1987 — a span of 949 games since Joe Nieuwendyk scored on a penalty shot against Rensselaer.
 
Turning The Trick:
Mitch Vanderlaan's hat trick Nov. 12 at Yale was Cornell's first since Jan. 22, 2011, when Tyler Roeszler scored three times against Colgate. Subsequently, Vanderlaan was named the ECAC Hockey Player of the Week on Nov. 15. The Big Red's leading scorer to date potted a couple more goals Nov. 19 against Princeton to become the first player from Cornell with seven goals in the first seven games of the season since Blake Gallagher did so at the start of the 2009-10 campaign.
 
Road Warriors:
The history of Cornell hockey dates all the way back to 1900-01, but this year was the first time the Big Red has ever started its season with five consecutive road games — and all three of the trips over that stretch were lengthy. The Big Red traversed approximately 2,450 miles over a 17-day span (Oct. 27 to Nov. 13), amounting to about 44 hours on the bus. Some of the places within 2,450 miles of Cornell's campus as the crow flies include Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (2,060 miles), the Atlantic Ocean's entrance to the Panama Canal (2,293 miles) and sophomore defensman Alec McCrea's hometown of El Cajon, Calif. (2,290 miles).
 
What, Me Worry?:
Three of Cornell's four victories so far this season have come in games in which the Big Red has surrendered the first goal. The Big Red's resilience from an early deficit has become somewhat of a trend, with the team sporting a very respectable 8-10-3 record when conceding the game's first strike since the beginning of the 2015-16 campaign. That's a stark turnaround from the team's 14-34-5 record when yielding the game's first goal from the previous three seasons (2012-15).
 
Apple Harvest:
Freshman Yanni Kaldis is tied for the team lead with six assists and ranks third in the country in assists per game for first-year defensemen (0.75). Kaldis' passes set up the shots resulting in all three of the Big Red's power-play goals Nov. 5 at Harvard, making him the first Big Red player to record three power-play assists in a single game since Byron Bitz on Jan. 7, 2006 (in a 3-1 win vs. RIT). Subsequently, Kaldis was named the ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week on Nov. 8.
 
Face Off Frenzy:
Senior Jake Weidner has been the Big Red's leading faceoff man for three years now, but Jeff Kubiak's early-season injury has pushed Cornell's captain into even more draws this year. In fact, Weidner enters the weekend ranked second in the nation in average faceoffs per game (27.9) — trailing only Bentley's Max French (28.6).
 
Milestone Watch:
Already the winningest coach in program history and in Ivy League history, Mike Schafer is closing in on another milestone this season. After Saturday's win against New Hampshire, Schafer is now just five victories short of 400 career victories. He became the 35th coach all-time to rack up 350 victories across all NCAA divisions, and he is also just the third coach to pass 350 victories with Ivy League tenure, joining Ned Harkness (Cornell, Union and Rensselaer) and Tim Taylor (Yale).
 
About Colgate:
The Raiders fell to 3-7-4 with a 3-2 loss Saturday at Providence. Senior defenseman Jake Kulevich (2-7–9) and junior forward Sebastian Weberg (3-2–5) scored goals on the power play, which is now 7-for-20 over the team's last five games. ... Kulevich is tied for the team scoring lead with sophomore forward Adam Dauda (3-6–9). All of Dauda's and Weberg's goals have come on the man advantage. Seven players are tied for the team lead in goal-scoring with three. ... Senior Charlie Finn (3-5-3, 3.06, .907) has started 11 of the team's 14 games in goal, but freshman Colton Point (0-1-1, 3.42, .900) got the nod against Providence in his return to the lineup after a lengthy absence. ... Don Vaughan is in his 24th season as the head coach at Colgate.
 
The Series Against Colgate:
Cornell holds a 79-57-15 lead in the all-time series, which dates back to 1921, after sweeping the home-and-home series last year. The Big Red scored three first-period goals and won the opener last year, 5-1, at Lynah Rink, then rallied to win the rematch, 3-2. Anthony Angello scored the winner in overtime in Cornell's last visit to Starr Rink. The Big Red has now lost only four times in the last 29 meetings between the teams.
 
Gillam's Groove:
Senior goaltender Mitch Gillam posted the third-longest shutout streak in program history last season, spanning 213 minutes, 17 seconds over four games in November 2015 — including consecutive shutouts in the Big Red's last trip to this weekend's opponents, Yale and Brown. That marked the Big Red's first back-to-back shutouts since Andy Iles did so Dec. 2-3, 2011 against St. Lawrence and Clarkson, and it was the Big Red's first consecutive road shutouts since Ben Scrivens blanked Princeton and Quinnipiac from Nov. 7-8, 2008. An odd twist on Gillam's eight career shutouts is that he's only won six of them — Dec. 28, 2014 against Lake Superior State and Nov. 20, 2015 against Yale were both scoreless ties.
 
Freshman Force:
The jump to college hockey can be a big one for newcomers, but forward Anthony Angello — a 2014 draft pick of the Pittsburgh Penguins — clearly felt right at home as a freshman last season. Angello was the Big Red's first player to have points in his first four collegiate games since Ryan Moynihan from Nov. 8-16, 1996 — which was Mike Schafer's second season as head coach of his alma mater. Angello then scored the overtime winner Nov. 14 at Colgate and was been named ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week twice (Jan. 12 and March 1) on his way to posting a team-high 11 goals.
 
Feel The Draft?:
Cornell has five players on the roster who have been selected in the NHL Entry Draft, including four from 2014. Sophomore forward Beau Starrett (Chicago Blackhawks) was selected earliest in the group, having been taken in the third round with the 88th overall pick. Classmate Anthony Angello, also a forward, was selected in the fifth round by the Pittsburgh Penguins. Junior forwards Jared Fiegl (Arizona Coyotes) and Dwyer Tschantz (St. Louis Blues) were then picked in the seventh round. Senior forward Matt Buckles was taken by the Florida Panthers in the fourth round of the 2013 draft.

Helping Out:
Members and friends of the Cornell men's hockey program embarked on another mission trip to the Dominican Republic through the Portal de Belén Foundation over the summer. It was the fourth time the program has participated, following trips in 2009, 2012 and 2014. Current members of the team Ryan Bliss, Alec McCrea, Anthony Angello, Dan Wedman, Alex Rauter, Hayden Stewart, Trent Shore, Jared Fiegl and Dwyer Tschantz were on this year's trip, as well as Mike Schafer, the Jay R. Bloom '77 Head Coach of Men's Hockey.
  

Binational Interests:
Cornell has the unique distinction of having exactly 14 players hailing from both the U.S. and Canada. The Big Red joins just two other teams — Robert Morris and Michigan Tech — with an even split on their respective rosters.
 
Never Too Close For Comfort:
The Big Red had four 1-0 victories last season for the first time in program history. Cornell also set a team record by going to overtime in 14 of its 34 games last year. The previous record was 12, set in 1985-86, then matched in 2010-11 and 2011-12. Cornell went to overtime in seven of its final 15 games, with a 4-3-7 record in those games.
 
Anniversary Season:
There are some significant milestones in Cornell hockey history that have happened in years ending with a '7', so this season will feature a couple noteworthy anniversaries. This is the 60th year of hockey in Lynah Rink, since the facility was dedicated April 6, 1957. This season also marks the 50th anniversary of Cornell's first national championship team in 1967. There will be a special ceremony to honor that team Jan. 27-28 during home games against Dartmouth and Harvard.
 
Up Next:
Cornell returns home to wrap up the fall semester portion of its schedule with a pair of non-league games Dec. 2-3 against Miami. The Big Red will then regroup after the holiday break to compete Dec. 28-29 in the Florida College Classic in Estero, Fla., where it will take on Northern Michigan in the first round and either Colorado College or Merrimack on the second day.