GAME NOTES (PDF)

PRINCETON, N.J. / HAMDEN, Conn. – After sweeping its ECAC Hockey-opening series at home, the Big Red women's hockey team heads to Princeton and No. 9/10 Quinnipiac for its first road games  of the 2013-14 season.
 
ABOUT THE BIG RED
    Cornell swept its fifth straight ECAC Hockey-opening weekend – dating back to the 20009-10 season – and saw a number of milestones at Lynah Rink last weekend against Clarkson and St. Lawrence: Lauren Slebodnick picked up wins number 54 and 55 of her career, Doug Derraugh earned his 150th victory behind the Cornell bench with a 6-4 win over the Saints, Jillian Saulnier earned her 100th point, and several players recorded their first goals or assists as a member of the Big Red.

    A balanced attack helped the Big Red get out to a 2-0 start in conference play, and the team started to see production from the group of newcomers whom Derraugh indicated (in preseason interviews) would need to contribute right out of the gate.         
 
HEAD COACH DOUG DERRAUGH '91
    Derraugh returned to his alma mater before the 2005-06 campaign to coach a team that the season before had tallied only four victories. Now in his ninth season, Derraugh has transformed the women's hockey program at Cornell into one that continues to be ranked among the nation's elite year after year. After the team's wins over ECAC Hockey rivals Clarkson and St. Lawrence last weekend, Derraugh's record at the helm of the program is an impressive 150-95-17; every ECAC championship and NCAA tournament appearance Big Red women's hockey has to its credit has come during his tenure. He earned his second ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year honor after leading the team to both a regular season and tournament championship in 2012-13.

    Returning as his assistants this season are Danielle Bilodeau '01 (eighth season) and Edith Racine (fifth season).
 
ABOUT PRINCETON
    Princeton split its first weekend of the 2013-14 season against ECAC Hockey rivals Dartmouth and Harvard. On Friday, the Tigers scored two goals in the third period to come from behind and edge the Big Green, 3-2, in Hanover.  On Saturday, the team was shut out, 4-0, by Harvard and its ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week, Emerance Maschmeyer, at the Bright-Landry Hockey Center.
 
THE SERIES WITH THE TIGERS
    Princeton holds a 40-35-4 advantage in the all-time series against Cornell since the teams first met in the 1974-75 campaign. Princeton won every meeting from January 2001 to February 2007 - a 14-game winning-streak - while Cornell has won eight straight meetings, dating back to November 2009. Last season, Cornell shut out the Tigers in Ithaca, 4-0, and skated to a 4-1 win in Princeton.
 
AT HOBEY BAKER RINK
Princeton is 21-12-3 against Cornell on its home ice in Hobey Baker Rink. However, Cornell has won each of the last four showdowns at Hobey, outscoring the Tigers 13-3 in those contests.
   
ABOUT NO. 9/10 QUINNIPIAC
    Quinnipiac enters the weekend with an overall record of 6-1-1. The Bobcats posted a 5-0-1 record through three weekends against non-conference opponents before taking on Harvard and Dartmouth to open ECAC Hockey play last weekend.  The team rebounded from a 4-2 loss at Harvard to earn the split, downing Dartmouth by the same score. Senior Kelly Babstock leads Quinnipiac with 13 points on six goals and seven assists and freshman Emma Woods isn't far behind with 10 points (4 goals, 6 assists). Babstock was named to ECAC Hockey's Preseason All-Conference team and already has a Player of the Week honor to her credit this season, while Woods has garnered two Rookie of the Week awards.
 
THE SERIES WITH THE BOBCATS
    Cornell has seen less of Quinnipiac than any other conference opponent, as the first season of women's hockey for the Bobcats was 2001-02, and the team was not a member of ECAC Hockey until 2005-06. The Big Red holds an 11-4-5 advantage in the series with the Bobcats' since the first meeting during 2003-04 season.  The team's split the series last season, with each claiming a victory at home.       
 
AT TD BANKNORTH SPORTS CENTER
    The Big Red is 5-1-3 against the Bobcats on the road, with a 4-1-2 record at the TD Banknorth Sports Center, which opened in January 2007.

#IVYDIGITAL
    Friday's game at Princeton will be streamed lived on the new Ivy League Digital Network, as will most road matchups with Ivy League teams this season.

    Every women's hockey home game for 2013-14 will be available on the network as well. The link to the game feed will be accessible in the minutes leading up to the scheduled start time. To purchase an Ivy League Digital Network pass go to http://www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com/packages and select the package of your choice.
 
CORNELL ON THE ROAD
    Since Doug Derraugh took over women's hockey at Cornell prior to the 2005-06 season, the Big Red has posted a 60-49-9 record on the road and is 49-30-9 against league opponents away from Lynah Rink.
 
55 & COUNTING...
    After earning two wins last weekend, senior Lauren Slebodnick is now the winningest goaltender in Cornell history. She passed former teammate Amanda Mazzotta's previous record of 53 wins with Friday's 6-3 victory over No. 5 Clarkson. Saturday's win against St. Lawrence was number 55.
 
100-POINT CLUB
    Junior forward Jillian Saulnier finished Friday's game against Clarkson firmly at the 100-point plateau for her career thanks to a two-goal, one-assist effort. She added another goal on Saturday and currently sits at 101 points.
 
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
    Emily Fulton's nine-point weekend helped her to earn the first ECAC Hockey Player of the Week Award of her career, and first for Cornell this season. She posted a career-high five assists against Clarkson; playing a part in all but one of the team's six goals, and added a goal and three assists the following afternoon against St. Lawrence. She now has a team-leading 12 points on the season.
 
WEEKEND OF FIRSTS
    In addition to playing its first conference games of the 2013-2014 season, Cornell saw a few other first last weekend.
·         Sophomore defenseman Kelly Murray scored her first career goal - a game-winning, power-play score in the third period against St. Lawrence.
·         Freshman Caroline DeBruin was credited with her first career goal and point in Big Red uniform in the first period against Clarkson.
·         DeBruin's classmate and linemate, Kaitlin Doering, picked up her first career points, recording an assist in each game.
 
NATIONAL NUMBERS
    Emily Fulton and Jessica Campbell are currently ranked one and two in both the points per game and assists per game categories among all Division I women's programs. Fulton is averaging 3.00 points and 2.00 assists per game, while Campbell is averaging 2.50 points and 1.75 assists. Fulton is also among national leaders in goals per game, as she and linemate Jillian Saulnier are tied with Boston College's Haley Skarupa for second; each averaging 1.00 goals per game. Hayleigh Cudmore dropped one spot on the points per game list for defensemen and is currently second with an average of 1.50.

    As a team, Cornell has the top-ranked scoring offense – producing 5.25 goals per game – and is tied with Harvard for the top scoring margin at 3.00. The team also boasts the fifth-ranked power play (29.2%) and ninth-ranked penalty kill (89.5%) units.
 
PRESEASON HONORS
    Junior forward Jillian Saulnier was the lone Big Red player named to ECAC Hockey's preseason All-League team.  In addition to her ECAC Hockey Second Team honors last season, the Halifax, Nova Scotia native dished out a career-high 33 assists. Four of her 10 goals were game-winners, and she finished the season 14th in the country in points per game (1.43) and fifth in the nation in assists per game (1.10). She was also a Patty Kazmaier Award nominee last season.
 
ALL-LEAGUE RETURNERS
    In addition to her ECAC Hockey Second Team honors, Jillian Saulnier was also named to the All-Ivy League First Team following last season. She is joined by goaltender Lauren Slebodnick (ECAC Third Team) and defenseman Cassandra Poudrier (ECAC All-Rookie Team) as Cornell's all-league returning cast for 2013-2014.
 
CORNELL IN THE POLLS
    The Big Red is third in both the USCHO.com poll and the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll this week, moving up a spot from fourth in latter. The team has been consistently ranked in both polls since the preseason when it started at number four and six, respectively. Cornell is the highest-ranked ECAC Hockey team in the polls this week, ahead of Clarkson (5), Harvard (7) and Quinnipiac (9/10).  The Minnesota Golden Gophers have been the number one pick for 32 weeks running.
 
SHARING RESPONSIBILITIES
    Seniors Jessica Campbell and Alyssa Gagliardi – who was an alternate captain for Cornell in 2012-13 – will   serve as co-captains for the Big Red this season. Cornell's captain last season was senior Lauriane Rougeau, while her classmate Laura Fortino joined Gagliardi as an alternate.

    The last time the Big Red had co-captains without alternates was in the 2009-10 season with Liz Zorn and Kelly McGinty both wearing the C. Liz Zorn is the older sister of current Big Red sophomore Anna Zorn.
 
BETWEEN THE PIPES
    After serving as a primary backup to former netminder Amanda Mazzotta, senior Lauren Slebodnick found a home in the paint for the Big Red last season. She started 31 games for Cornell, posting a 24-6-1 record with 1.55 goals-against average and .927 save percentage. She enters her senior campaign as Cornell's program leader in both categories and is also the program lead in wins (55). Backing up Slebodnick this season will be sophomore Stefannie Moak and freshman Paula Voorheis.
 
CAREER NUMBERS WATCH
·         Alyssa Gagliardi is three points away from 65; her next assist with be the 50th of her career.
·         Jillian Saulnier needs 14 helpers to crack the program's top 10 for most career assists.
·         Cassandra Poudrier's next point will be her 20th.
·         Monika Leck is two points away from 30.
 
CORNELL IN THE OLYMPICS
    The Big Red are notably without leading scorer Brianne Jenner this season, who has taken the year off from Cornell to compete as a member of Team Canada in hopes of joining her native country in Sochi, Russia for the 2014 winter games. Jenner, along with former Big Red teammates Laura Fortino, Lauriane Rougeau and Rebecca Johnston, was named to Canada's centralization roster in April. The final nominations for the Olympic squad are set to take place in December.
 
THE NEWCOMERS
    The class of 2017 is forward heavy, as four of the six will be expected to make immediate contributions on offense for the Big Red. The remaining two, defender Sydney Smith and goaltender Paula Voorheis, will be guided by the standout seniors in their respective positions so that they can play important roles for the Big Red in the years to come. Voorheis and classmates Caroline DeBruin and Brianna Veerman all come to East Hill from the Aurora Junior Panthers.
 
THE BREAKDOWN
    The Big Red roster is made up of four seniors, three juniors, eight sophomores and six freshmen. Seventeen of the 21 active players are Canadian and represent six provinces: Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan. The four remaining players are Americans, hailing from North Carolina, New Hampshire, New York and Ohio.
 
UP NEXT
    The Big Red will continue its ECAC Hockey schedule at home and play host to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Union. The Engineers come to Lynah for a 7 p.m. faceoff on Friday, Nov. 8, while a 4 p.m. puck drop is scheduled for the game against the Dutchwomen on Saturday, Nov. 9.