Game 6: Cornell vs. Harvard
Face Off: Friday, November 5 • 7 p.m.
Site: Lynah Rink • Ithaca, N.Y.
2010-11 Records:
    Cornell - 4-1-0, 2-0-0 ECAC Hockey
    Harvard - 1-0-1, 1-0-1 ECAC Hockey
Series Record: Harvard leads, 50-19-3
Last Meeting: Cornell won, 6-2, on 3/12/10 at Bright Hockey Center (Cambridge, Mass.)
Media Information
Live Video: www.CornellBigRed.com/showcase
Live Stats: sidearmstats.com/cornell/whockey

Game 7: Cornell vs. Dartmouth
Face Off: Saturday, November 6 • 4 p.m.
Site: Lynah Rink • Ithaca, N.Y.
2010-11 Records:
    Cornell - 4-1-0, 2-0-0 ECAC Hockey
    Dartmouth - 2-0-0, 2-0-0 ECAC Hockey
Series Record: Dartmouth leads, 39-22-6
Last Meeting: Cornell won, 3-1 on 1/16/10 at Thompson Arena (Hanover, N.H.)
Media Information
Live Video: www.CornellBigRed.com/showcase
Live Stats: sidearmstats.com/cornell/whockey

Game Notes in PDF Format

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Coming off the first defeat of the season, the Cornell women's hockey team returns to action this weekend when the Big Red plays host to Harvard and Dartmouth at Lynah Rink. Cornell opens the weekend with a 7 p.m. contest against the Crimson on Friday night before battling Dartmouth on Saturday at 4 p.m. Fans can follow the action with live streaming video through the Cornell Redcast subscription service, while live stats will also be provided to follow on computers and mobile devices.

HEAD COACH DOUG DERRAUGH
Now in his sixth season as head coach of the Cornell women's hockey team, Doug Derraugh has turned the program into a contender for the national championship. With a 62-82-15 overall record, Derraugh guided the Big Red to a 21-9-6 record last season and a berth in the national championship game. He led Cornell to its first-ever ECAC Hockey regular season and tournament championships and first appearance in the NCAA tournament, defeating traditional powers Harvard and Mercyhurst on the way to the national title game. He has led the Big Red to double-digit win totals in each of the past three seasons and set a program record for wins in a season with 21 last year. Derraugh took over the program prior to the 2005-06 season after a 13-year professional playing career in Europe and has transformed the Big Red into one of the top young programs in the country. He is assisted by fifth-year assistant coach Danielle Bilodeau, a former Cornell player and 2001 graduate, Edith Zimering, in her second season with the Big Red, and volunteer assistant coach Meredith Roth, in her first year with Cornell.

ABOUT THE BIG RED
Cornell is coming off its first loss of the season, falling by a 4-3 margin in overtime to fourth-ranked Mercyhurst on Tuesday night at Lynah Rink. Brianne Jenner had a huge game for Cornell, scoring a pair of goals and adding in an assist, while fellow freshman Jessica Campbell tallied a pair of assists on the night.
Goaltender Amanda Mazzotta made 24 saves for the Big Red, which went 1-for-5 on the power play in the game. For the year, Jenner leads the team in scoring with five goals and six assists for 11 points in five games, while Campbell and Rebecca Johnston are tied for second with eight points apiece. Mazzotta has played every minute in goal for the Big Red, recordinga  1.79 goals-against average and a .904 save percentage. Cornell's power-play unit has converted on 7-of-22 chances (31.8), good for third in the nation, while killing off penalties at an 88 percent rate (15-of-17), ranking seventh in the country.

ABOUT HARVARD
The Crimson, ranked 10th in the nation in both the USA Today/USA Hockey and USCHO.com polls, opened its season last weekend with a tie against Yale and a win over Brown to stand 1-0-1 on the year both overall and in league play. Harvard's offense is led by Liza Ryabkina, who scored three of the Crimson's seven goals last weekend, while freshman Marissa Gedman has a team-best two assists. In goal, Laura Bellamy has a 2.41 goals-against average and a .821 save percentage. The Crimson have converted on three of their nine power play chances this season to rank tied for first in the nation, while killing off five of the eight penalties against (62.5 percent) to rank last nationally.

THE SERIES WITH HARVARD
Harvard holds a 50-19-3 lead in the all-time series, though Cornell scored a breakthrough of sorts last season, going 2-0-1 against Harvard in the three meetings. Cornell opened last season's series with a win on Oct. 31, 2009, in Ithaca, a 4-3 victory that snapped a 10-game losing skid to the Crimson. The two teams then played to a 4-4 tie on Jan. 15 at Harvard, with Karlee Overguard scoring a late goal to give Cornell the tie. The biggest game of the series, however, came in the first round of the NCAA tournament when fifth-seeded Cornell scored a 6-2 win over Harvard at the Bright Hockey Center to advance to the NCAA Frozen Four. Since NCAA play began in 2000-01, Cornell is 4-24-1 against the Crimson, with four of those losses for Cornell coming during ECAC Hockey quarterfinal round play in 2008 and 2009.

ABOUT DARTMOUTH
Dartmouth enters the weekend as one of three co-leaders atop ECAC Hockey along with Cornell and Clarkson after scoring a pair of wins last weekend against Brown and Yale. Sophomore Sally Komarek has four assists to lead the Big Green offensively, while senior Amanda Trunzo has a team-best two goals as seven different players scored last weekend. Whitney Woodcox and Linsay Holdcroft split time in goal on the weekend, with Woodcox getting the win against Brown and Holdcroft against Yale. Woodcox has a .857 save percentage and a 2.00 goals-against average, while Holdcroft has posted a 1.00 goals-against average and a .923 save percentage. The Big Green scored on two of its nine power-play chances on the weekend (22.2 percent), good for 13th in the nation, while killing off all five of its opponents' power plays (100.0 percent) to lead the country in that category.

THE SERIES WITH DARTMOUTH
Though Dartmouth leads in the all-time series, 39-22-6, Cornell claimed victory in both of last season's meetings, out-scoring the Big Green by a 6-1 margin in the two contests. Cornell first claimed a 3-0 win on Oct. 30 at Lynah Rink, then scored a 3-1 victory at Thompson Arena on Jan. 16. Dartmouth's last win in the series came on Nov. 21, 2008, a 5-4 win at Thompson Arena in Hanover, N.H., with Cornell on a three-game unbeaten streak against Dartmouth, going 2-0-1 over that span. Prior to the current streak, however, Dartmouth had won each of the previous 19 meetings. Cornell is 2-17-1 against Dartmouth since the start of NCAA play in 2000-01.

FOUR SQUARE
Cornell's wins on Oct. 29-30 at Quinnipiac and Princeton gave the Big Red victories in each of its first four games in a season for the first time since the 1978-79 season. That year, Cornell began the season with five straight wins on its way to a 13-5-1 overall record.

100 AND COUNTING
Senior Karlee Overguard's next game played will be the 100th of her career at Cornell. Overguard is on pace to become the school's career leader in games played, a mark that is currently held by 2010 graduate Laura Danforth. Danforth appeared in 124 games during her four-year career spanning 2006 through 2010. Two of Danforth's classmates, Liz Zorn (121) and Kelly McGinty (116), stand second and tied for third, respectively, in games played at Cornell.

LEAGUE OPENERS
Cornell won its ECAC Hockey opener for the second straight season with a 5-1 win at Quinnipiac on Oct. 29, and opened up 2-0 in league play for the second time in a row when it downed Princeton the following day by the same score. Last season, Cornell won its first five league games before falling to St. Lawrence. Prior to last season, the last time that Cornell won twice to begin the league campaign came during the 1998-98 season.

FRONTRUNNERS
Cornell has spent 73 percent of the total minutes of games this season with a lead, while trailing for just a total of 1:36, or 0.5 percent of the time. Cornell has been tied for 77:48 through five games, or 25.8 percent of the total minutes played.

TEAMMATES, ENEMIES
The Nov. 2 game against Mercyhurst featured a number of players who are teammates on the Canadian National Team that has been selected to play at the 4 Nations Cup from Nov. 9-13 in St. John's, Newfoundland. Cornell players Rebecca Johnston and Brianne Jenner will face off against Mercyhurst's Meghan Agosta and Vicki Bendus on Tuesday before taking off to become teammates for Canada. Agosta and Johnston were teammates last year on the Canadian team that captured the Olympic gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics. Additionally, Bendus was a teammate of the eight Cornell players at the Canadian U22 National Team camp in mid-August.

BALANCING ACT
Through the first four games, despite the Big Red having scored 25 goals, only Rebecca Johnston has collected at least one point in every game. Johnston has eight points this season on three goals and five assists, with two multi-point games on the year. Three other players have scored in four of the five games, including Brianne Jenner, Catherine White, and Chelsea Karpenko.

OFFENSE FROM DEFENSE
Despite the Big Red having a pair of All-Americans on the blue line, it's junior Amanda Young who is leading the way among Cornell's defensemen in scoring this season. Young has five points on a goal and four assists, good enough to rank her tied for second in the nation in points per game among defensemen. She is also nearly halfway to her career best for points in a season, set as a freshman when she recorded 11 points on 11 assists. As a unit, the Big Red defense has 16 points through five games this season, having scored two goals and 14 assists.

AND THE WINNER IS...
Freshman Jessica Campbell scored four goals for the Big Red in a 9-1 victory against Robert Morris on Oct. 23, enough to earn her the ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week award in her first weekend. Campbell scored once in both the first and second periods and finished off her four-goal performance with a pair in the third period. Campbell's four-goal outburst was the first for a Big Red player since Colette Bredin scored five against Colby on Feb. 28, 1998, in a 9-3 Cornell victory.

SAVING MORE HONORS
Amanda Mazzotta was named the ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week after backstopping the Big Red to a pair of wins to open league play on Oct. 29-30. She stopped 42 of 44 shots on the weekend at Quinnipiac and Princeton to claim her first league award of the season.

ANOTHER QUICK START
Brianne Jenner made the Big Red two-for-two this season when it comes to ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week honors when she claimed the league's award after her play on Oct. 29-30. Jenner scored six points in the two games on two goals and four assists, scoring three assists against Quinnipiac and tallying two goals and an assist at Princeton.

EVERYONE IN THE ACT
Cornell's 9-1 victory against Robert Morris on Oct. 23 came as a total team effort. Indeed, of the 15 skaters to dress for that contest, 14 of them recorded at least one point, with only freshman defenseman Alyssa Gagliardi not picking up a point. Gagliardi didn't finish the weekend empty-handed, however, as she picked up an assist in the season opener on Oct. 22.

GOOD GIRLS
Cornell ranks second in the nation in fewest penalty minutes per game, averaging just 6.8 minutes in the box per contest. Only Dartmouth (5.0 minutes per game) is spending less time in the penalty box than the Big Red.

ON THE BOARD
When junior Jenna Paulson recorded an assist on Oct. 23 against Robert Morris, it marked the first career point for the Toronto native. Paulson had played in 56 games through her first two seasons with the Big Red before collecting her first career point with an assist against the Colonials.

FROM THE START
The five skaters in Cornell's six-player freshman class each made their collegiate debut against Robert Morris on Oct. 22-23, with all five of them recording their first career points. Jessica Campbell picked up four goals on the weekend and leads the team in scoring, while Brianne Jenner tallied a goal and an assist and Hayley Cudmore picked up a pair of assists. The other two newcomers, Olivia Cook and Alyssa Gagliardi, both recorded one assist on the weekend. Through two weekends, Cornell's freshman class has contributed 20 points on nine goals and 11 assists.

GETTING THE CALL
When Cornell faces Harvard and Dartmouth on Nov. 5-6 at Lynah Rink, it will do so without junior Rebecca Johnston and freshman Brianne Jenner. Both players have been called up to the Canadian National Team for the 4 Nations Cup, taking place from Nov. 9-13 in St. John's, Newfoundland. Canada will take on teams from the United States, Finland and Sweden at the tournament that brings together the top four finishers from last winter's Vancouver Olympics. Cornell's duo are among the 11 players attending U.S. colleges to be named to Canada's roster. Boston University has three players on Canada's roster, while Cornell's fellow 2010 Frozen Four participants Minnesota-Duluth and Mercyhurst both have a pair of players who will be playing for Team Canada. Ohio State and New Hampshire have one player each on the team.

OH CANADA!
Of the 20 members of the Cornell roster in 2010-11, nine were selected to participate in the Canadian U22 National Team Selection Camp in early August, with eight of those players being named to the select team that faced the United States in a three-game series later that month. The eight included goaltender Amanda Mazzotta, defensemen Laura Fortino and Lauriane Rougeau, and forwards Jessica Campbell, Brianne Jenner, Rebecca Johnston, Chelsea Karpenko and Catherine White. Also invited to the camp but not named to the select team was defenseman Hayleigh Cudmore. The nine players invited to the camp far surpassed any other collegiate program, with Boston University placing four players in the initial camp and Mercyhurst placing three.

EARLY PICKS
When the ECAC Hockey preseason coaches poll was released, it was no surprise to see the Big Red standing as the favorite among league coaches to repeat as champions. Cornell received all 11 possible first-place votes with Clarkson gaining the final vote, with coaches unable to vote for their own teams.

THE FIRST SIX
Along with the preseason coaches poll, the ECAC Hockey bench bosses selected the preseason all-league team, with four Big Red players named among the six spots. The Big Red placed defensemen Laura Fortino and Lauriane Rougeau and forwards Rebecca Johnston and Catherine White among the top six, with Quinnipiac goaltender Victoria Vigilanti and Harvard forward Kate Buesser rounding out the league's preseason selections.

EVERYBODY'S ALL-AMERICAN
Cornell returns four players who have previously earned AHCA All-America honors during their career, including the program's first First-Team selection in sophomore defenseman Laura Fortino, who was selected to the nation's top six in her freshman season. Joining in that group are 2010 second-team selections Catherine White and Lauriane Rougeau and 2009 second-team pick Rebecca Johnston.

GO FOR THE GOLD
Rebecca Johnston returns to the Big Red for her junior season after sitting out the 2009-10 campaign while centralized with the Canadian senior national team. Johnston was named to the Canadian team that captured the gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, playing in five of Canada's six games and scoring one goal with five assists and a +9 rating.

WORLD CHAMPIONS
Cornell's roster includes a pair of players who were a part of the Canadian team that won the IIHF U18 World Championship last spring. Freshmen Jessica Campbell and Hayleigh Cudmore were both members of that squad, with Campbell being named the most valuable player of the tournament for her play.

DRAWING A BLANK
Last season, opponents found it exceptionally hard to score on Cornell goaltender Amanda Mazzotta. The junior netminder set a Cornell record – men's and women's – by posting 11 shutouts last year, surpassing the total of 10 set by men's goaltender David McKee during the 2004-05 season. The previous best by a women's goaltender was six, set by Kathryn LoPresti in the 1988-89 season.

GOING STREAKING
Last season, Cornell goaltender Amanda Mazzotta recorded the fourth-longest shutout streak in NCAA history, recording four straight shutouts from Feb. 5 through Feb. 13. Her total time stretched for 286:54, the longest streak in ECAC Hockey history and fourth-longest all-time in NCAA history. Wisconsin alumna Jessie Vetter owns two of the three longest streaks in NCAA history, including the record of 448:39.

TREATY OF NEUTRALITY
Cornell's two games at the NCAA Frozen Four last season marked the 42nd and 43rd games the Big Red has played on neutral ice. Cornell holds a 23-17-3 record all-time when playing at a neutral venue. Prior to last season's national championship weekend, the Big Red's last neutral site game came on Jan. 21, 2001, when it lost to St. Lawrence, 4-1, at Lake Placid, N.Y. The Big Red is not scheduled to play any neutral site contests this season, but could potentially play as many as four, should Cornell advance in postseason play.

PENALTY KILLING? NO PROBLEM
Cornell was exceptional at staying out of the penalty box last season, ranking 33rd among the 35 teams in Division I in penalty minutes per game. Even when the Big Red found itself shorthanded, however, Cornell still played outstanding defense. The Big Red ranked first in the nation in penalty-killing percentage, allowing just 10 goals in 131 opponents' power plays (92.4 percent). Cornell's 2009-10 percentage ranked eighth all-time in NCAA history.

TWO-WAY PLAYER
Sophomore forward Xandra Hompe gives new meaning to that term, as the New Cannan, Conn., native is a dual-sport athlete. Hompe spends her fall season with the Cornell women's soccer team, where she is tied for third on the team in scoring and shares the team lead in assists with four.

LYNAH LOCKDOWN
Cornell went 4-0 in postseason games at Lynah Rink last season. Prior to thiat, the Big Red had never won a postseason game, and had never played a postseason game at home.

UP NEXT
Cornell takes a weekend off next week and returns to action on Friday, Nov. 19, when it plays host to Princeton in a 3 p.m. contest at Lynah Rink. The Big Red then closes out the season series against Quinnipiac on Saturday with a 3 p.m. contest against the Bobcats at Lynah.