ITHACA, N.Y. – Hot off a three-win week on home ice, the No. 4 Cornell women's hockey team brings its eight-game winning streak on the road this weekend for games at Quinnipiac and Princeton. Cornell will be looking to keep pace at the top of the ECAC Hockey standings and extend its winning streak to double digits with victories over the Bobcats and Tigers.

GAME INFORMATION
GAME #24: No. 4 Cornell at Quinnipiac
GAME TIME: Friday, February 8, 7 p.m.
GAME SITE: High Point Solutions Arena (Hamden, Conn.)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads 10-3-5
LAST MEETING: Cornell won 4-3 on Nov. 3, 2012
2012-13 RECORDS: Cornell (19-4, 14-2 ECAC Hockey | 2nd); Quinnipiac (15-9-3, 9-5-2 | 5th)
LIVE STATS: Live Stats
LIVE AUDIO: Redcast
LIVE VIDEO: Quinnipiac Bobcats TV

GAME #25: No. 4 Cornell vs. Princeton
GAME TIME: Saturday, February 9, 4 p.m.
GAME SITE: Hobey Baker Rink (Princeton, N.J.)
SERIES RECORD: Princeton leads 41-34-4
LAST MEETING: Cornell won 4-0 on Nov. 2, 2012
2012-13 RECORDS | LEAGUE STANDINGS: Cornell (19-4, 14-2 ECAC Hockey | 2nd); Princeton (9-12-2, 4-10-2 ECAC Hockey, 8th)
LIVE STATS: Princeton Live Stats
LIVE AUDIO: Redcast
LIVE VIDEO: Princeton Video

ABOUT THE BIG RED
Cornell had a very strong weekend, earning four more points in conference play with victories against Union and Rensselaer. The Big Red had a six-point night from Brianne Jenner against the Dutchwomen, as she scored four goals and tallied two assists for the second time this season. With Jenner's strong play and a stifling defense, Cornell beat Union 9-1. The Big Red then faced off against Rensselaer on Saturday – its fifth game in nine days – and handed the Engineers a 3-1 loss. Cassandra Poudrier tallied points on all three goals, and Lauren Slebodnick picked up another victory. With Harvard tying and Clarkson losing over the weekend, Cornell is now in control of its own postseason fate. The three-time defending ECAC Hockey champions are currently in second place in the league but would surpass Harvard if they win out.

HEAD COACH DOUG DERRAUGH
Now in his eighth season directing the Cornell women's hockey program, Doug Derraugh has quickly brought the Big Red women to their current place among the nation's elite and is the winningest coach in program history. Taking a team that won just four games in the season prior to his arrival, Derraugh guided the Big Red to the national title game in his fifth season and back-to-back-to-back NCAA Frozen Four appearances in 2010, 2011 and 2012, completely turning around the culture of the women's hockey program at Cornell. Derraugh, a 1991 graduate of Cornell, was the last Big Red men's hockey player to score 30 goals in a season. He earned his 136th career win against Mercyhurst last week, breaking the previous school record for victories as a women's hockey coach (Bill Duthie, 135).

ABOUT QUINNIPIAC
The Bobcats, based in Hamden, Conn., are currently fifth in the ECAC Hockey standings with a 9-5-2 record and 20 points. Though Quinnipiac jumped out to an early conference lead, the team fell off the top of the standings as other teams in the league started to play more games. The Bobcats are on a four-game unbeaten streak, tying with Yale and beating Brown last weekend after sweeping Robert Morris the week before. They lost at Harvard and Dartmouth to begin the calendar year. At just 6.1 penalty minutes per game, the Bobcats are the least penalized team in the country. Kelly Babstock is the team's leading scorer with 47 points on 24 goals and 23 assists, nine points ahead of Nicole Kosta's 36 (10 goals, 26 assists). In net, Victoria Vigilanti has a 2.18 goals against average and a .901 save percentage, earning 13 of the team's 15 wins.
Quinnipiac is coached by Rick Seeley, now in his fifth season with the team.

THE SERIES WITH QUINNIPIAC
Cornell and Quinnipiac are among the newest ECAC Hockey rivals, and the Big Red has a 10-3-5 lifetime advantage over the Bobcats. The 10th win in the series for Cornell came in November as the Bobcats took a 3-2 lead into the third period at Lynah Rink thanks to three consecutive goals in the second. Katelyn Pippy came in to play goal in relief and shut out Quinnipiac in the third period as Alyssa Gagliardi had a game-winning power play goal. Cornell has ended the Bobcats' season each of the last two years in the ECAC Hockey Tournament Semifinal. The Big Red has defeated the Bobcats in seven consecutive meetings.

A WIN AGAINST QUINNIPIAC WOULD…
…give Cornell a 20-4 record overall this season…be Cornell's eighth consecutive against the Bobcats…be Cornell's 106th consecutive game with a goal…improve Cornell to 8-4 on the road this season…keep the team at least second in the ECAC Hockey standings…make Cornell 4-0 against opponents from Connecticut.

ABOUT PRINCETON
The Tigers, based in Princeton, N.J., are on a bit of a hot streak entering this weekend. Princeton is moving up the ECAC Hockey rankings, and currently sits in eighth place just inside the playoff cusp. The Tigers have won three consecutive games, downing Penn State on Jan. 29, Yale 3-1 on Friday and Brown 6-1 on Saturday. Corey Stearns is the team's leading scorer with 26 points, though a large majority (22) of those points come on assists. The team's leading goal scorer is Kelly Cooke with 12. In net, freshman Kimberly Newell has taken over the reins of the program and has a 2.91 goals against average this year to go along with a .914 save percentage.
Princeton is coached by Jeff Kampersal, who has been with the Tigers for 16 years.

THE SERIES WITH PRINCETON
Cornell and Princeton have battled repeatedly throughout the years, and the Tigers have a narrow 41-34-4 lead in the series. Recently, though, the Big Red has been dominating matches between the two sides and is currently on a seven-game winning streak against Princeton. Earlier this year, the Big Red blanked the Tigers 4-0 behind two goals from Jillian Saulnier. Cornell has not lost to them since November 2008.

A WIN AGAINST PRINCETON WOULD…
…be Cornell's eighth consecutive against the Tigers…be Cornell's fourth consecutive win on a Saturday.

DO IT FOR DARON SERIES
Cornell's games last weekend against Rensselaer and Union were played as the “Do It For Daron Series.” Do It For Daron is a charity founded by friends and family of Daron Richardson to raise awareness and inspire conversations about youth mental health. Close to 2,000 Cornell fans came out to the games, many wearing purple to support the charity.

STREAKING
The Big Red, now on an eight-game winning streak, has the third-longest unbeaten streak in the country and the second-longest winning streak in the nation. Boston University, which had a seven-game winning streak, had not lost in 13 games until Tuesday night. Only undefeated, untied Minnesota (28-0) is currently on a longer winning streak than the Big Red.

MOVING UP THE WINS LIST
Goalie Lauren Slebodnick continues to claim victories for the Big Red in net, and she earned her 42nd and 43rd career wins over the weekend. With those wins, she surpassed Alanna Hayes and is now third all-time at Cornell for wins. Slebodnick is only 10 wins away from tying Amanda Mazzotta '12's all-time record of 53 wins and is just four shy of Sarah Mott's second-place 47.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Another terrific week for the Cornell Big Red and Brianne Jenner resulted in the junior receiving the ECAC Hockey Player of the Week Award for the second time this season. Jenner had another double-digit point week, tallying 10 total points in three games against No. 7 Mercyhurst, Union and Rensselaer. She tied a season and career high with six points against the Dutchwomen on Friday night, recording four goals and two assists. Jenner previously won Player of the Week on Jan. 21.  Lauren Slebodnick was named Goaltender of the Week on Jan. 21 as well, while Taylor Woods (Nov. 20) and Cassandra Poudrier (Nov. 6) have each earned an ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week honor this season.

MONTHLY HONORS
The Big Red women's hockey team went 7-1 in January, and ECAC Hockey has recognized two Cornell players as essential to that terrific month by giving them ECAC Hockey Women's Monthly Awards on Thursday night. Brianne Jenner, the team's leading scorer, was named the ECAC Hockey Player of the Month, and goalie Lauren Slebodnick was named the league's Goaltender of the Month. Jenner had a team-high 23 points in the month for Cornell while Slebodnick had seven victories and gave up just three goals in four conference games.

KEEPING THE SCORE
Brianne Jenner is currently on a team-high 11-game scoring streak. She began the year with an eight-game scoring streak, did not score in her next two appearances – both Cornell losses – and has tallied a point in every game since. She has multiple points in her last eight games. She has already tied her point production from her freshman year with 50 points and is just eight shy of her single-season record set last year at 58.

TUESDAY SUCCESS
The Big Red continues to excel on Tuesday nights. With the win over Mercyhurst on Jan. 29, the Big Red has now won its last 10 contests on Tuesdays. Cornell's last loss Tuesday night came on Nov. 2, 2010 against Mercyhurst, 4-3 in overtime.

PENALTY KILLERS
The Big Red has the nation's second-best penalty killing percentage at 91.5 percent. The Big Red is currently on a streak of killing off 35 of its last 37 penalties taken. Considering Cornell has the third-most penalty minutes per game (11.3) of any team in the country, the team's shorthanded efforts are especially important.

TOURNAMENT CLINCHED
The Big Red clinched a berth in this year's ECAC Hockey Tournament two weekends ago with wins over Yale and Brown. With 28 points now in league play, the Big Red can finish no worse than sixth in the conference at the end of the regular season. As the standings are now, Cornell would need 32 points to clinch home-ice advantage in the first round, which goes to the top four seeds. Cornell would reach that number with two wins this weekend.

IVY LEAGUE UPDATE
With Harvard's tie against Dartmouth last weekend, the Big Red is once again in control of its own destiny in the Ivy League race. If Cornell wins out against Princeton, Harvard and Dartmouth, it will finish with at least one point more than the Crimson and win its fourth straight Ivy League title.

NON-CONFERENCE SEASON COMPLETE
With the victory against Mercyhurst on Jan. 29, the Big Red concluded its non-conference schedule for 2012-13 with a 4-2 record. The Big Red split a season-opening series with Boston University, defeated Northeastern, Syracuse and Mercyhurst while also losing to Boston College. The Big Red has not had a losing out-of-conference record since the 2008-09 campaign.

CENTURY MARK
The Big Red's streak of scoring at least one goal in a game is now 105 games long, dating back all the way to a 0-0 tie against Quinnipiac on Feb. 5, 2010. Cornell scored a goal in every game last year, something only it can say. This season, only six teams in the country have not been shut out in a game: Boston College, Clarkson, Cornell, Harvard, Minnesota and North Dakota.13.419.45

HOME-ICE ADVANTAGE
The Big Red, in its 12 home games this season, is averaging nearly four points per game as a team more than it is averaging on the road. Offensive leader Brianne Jenner is earning 2.67 points per game in Lynah Rink as opposed to 1.63 points per game away from home. The Big Red has scored 161 points in its 12 home contests but just 104 in 11 games away from Lynah. In home games, all players on the roster are at least a +1, and Jenner leads that category with +27. On the road, though, three Big Red players have minus ratings and the team high is Lauriane Rougeau's +10.

NATIONAL POLLS
Cornell moved up a spot in the USCHO.com national poll this week, jumping ahead of Harvard to claim the No. 4 position. Harvard is down to No. 5, while Minnesota remains undefeated at 28-0 and is still the unanimous No. 1. ECAC Hockey rival Clarkson comes in at No. 6 this week, while St. Lawrence is receiving votes.

MECO CUP
Seven Big Red players won the Gold with the Canada Under-22 roster for the Meco Cup in January. Laura Fortino, Lauriane Rougeau, Hayleigh Cudmore, Cassandra Poudrier, Jillian Saulnier, Brianne Jenner and Jessica Campbell all traveled Germany to compete for their country and came away with Canada's ninth gold in 11 years.

USA CAMP
Cornell junior alternate captain Alyssa Gagliardi spent some of her winter break participating in the 2012 U.S. Women's National Team Winter Camp in Blaine, Minn. Thirty-six total players were selected for the Winter Camp, and they were divided into two teams of 18 for three intrasquad scrimmages. Gagliardi was on the camp's White Team with three other current ECAC Hockey rivals.

MARKERS FOR MADISON
Brianne Jenner is participating in a goal drive this year for a young girl with brain cancer, Madison Primeau. For every goal Jenner scores, Jenner's sponsors will donate money to a charity to help pay Madison's medical bills. Jenner, now with 26 goals on the season, has raised more than $1,500 for Primeau plus more than $250 in extra donations. To sponsor Jenner's charity, e-mail her at bj72@cornell.edu.

NATIONAL NUMBERS
Cornell has multiple players near the top of the country in many categories. Brianne Jenner has the nation's third-best points per game total with 2.38, while Jillian Saulnier sits in 11th with her 1.70 points per game. Jenner's 1.24 goals per game put her second in the country in that category. Saulnier is fourth and Jenner is sixth in the nation with 1.30 and 1.14 assists per game, respectively. Lauriane Rougeau and Hayleigh Cudmore are tied for 15th in points per game by defenseman (0.74). Lauren Slebodnick has the country's sixth-best goals against average (1.50) its ninth-highest save percentage (.927) and its seventh-best winning percentage (.800).

As a team, the Big Red's 4.26 goals per game ranks it third in the country, and its 1.52 goals allowed per game is also third-best. Cornell has the nation's second-best penalty kill (91.5 percent).

CAREER NUMBERS WATCH
Against Union and RPI:
• Lauren Slebodnick earned into sole possession of third place in team history with her 42nd win.
• Brianne Jenner shot up to seventh in team history in points (158) and eighth in goals and assists (69, 89).
• Emily Fulton got her 20th assist.
• Jillian Saulnier reached 90 career points and 60 assists.
Approaching career numbers:
• Brianne Jenner needs one assist and Lauriane Rougeau needs six to tie for seventh all-time in school history. Jenner would also move into sole possession of sixth with three more assists.
• Jessica Campbell's next assist will be her 30th and she is two goals away from 30.

REPRESENTING HER COUNTRY
Brianne Jenner missed the Princeton and Quinnipiac games in November as she competed with the Canadian National Women's Team at the 4 Nations Cup in Finland. Jenner and Rebecca Johnston '12 each had an assist in Canada's four games as the Canadians wound up losing 3-0 to the United States in the gold medal game. Jenner returns to Ithaca with a silver medal from one of the top women's hockey competitions in the world.

OUTRANKING THE COMPETITION
In its last 30 games against ranked opponents from the start of the 2009-10 season until now, the Big Red holds a 19-11 record. Cornell was a very impressive 9-3 against ranked opponents in 2011-12.

UP NEXT
Cornell returns home for what might be the biggest regular-season game of the year as it takes on No. 5 Harvard as well as Dartmouth. The Crimson and Big Red drop the puck on Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. with first place in ECAC Hockey potentially on the line.