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ITHACA, N.Y.—The No. 3 Cornell women's ice hockey team will close out the regular season at home this weekend when it takes on No. 9/10 Quinnipiac at 7 p.m. Friday and Princeton at 4 p.m. Saturday. The Big Red swept ECAC Hockey competition this past weekend, defeating Union 2-0 and escaping Rensselaer with a 6-5 overtime victory. The shutout over Union was the women's hockey program's 500th win. The four-point weekend helped Cornell remain at No. 3 in the USCHO.com poll behind No. 1 Minnesota and No. 2 Wisconsin.


ABOUT THE NO. 3 BIG RED
This past weekend saw junior forward Jillian Saulnier slip into the Big Red record books when she scored three goals and one assist to give her 137 total career points, good for No. 10 overall. The Big Red scored short-handed goals in both games this past weekend. Also scoring for Cornell was freshman Hanna Bunton with two goals, and Emily Fulton, Cassandra Poudrier and Jessica Campbell each with one goal and one assist. Monika Leck, Taylor Woods, Morgan Richardson and Hayleigh Cudmore each picked up an assist. The Big Red is now 20-3-4 on the season heading into the final weekend of regular-season play.

Cornell is currently atop the Ivy League standings, one point ahead of rival Harvard, and is in first place in the ECAC Hockey standings, just one point ahead of both Clarkson and the Crimson, with 33 points.

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. Derraugh's record at the helm of the program is an impressive 160-97-20 record; 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 NO. 9/10 QUINNIPIAC
Quinnipiac enters the weekend with an overall record of 18-5-9 and is currently eight points behind the Big Red in the ECAC Hockey standings. The Bobcats posted a 1-0-1 record through last weekend's games against Yale and Brown. The team earned a 3-3 tie in overtime last Friday against Yale, and junior forward Morgan Fritz-Ward had two goals to lead the Bobcats past Brown, 5-0, on their senior night. Senior Kelly Babstock has 17 goals and 26 assists on the season for Quinnipiac.

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 11-4-6 advantage in the series with the Bobcats' since the first meeting during 2003-04 season. Earlier this season, the Big Red and the Bobcats tied, 1-1, at Quinnipiac.

ABOUT PRINCETON
Princeton split its last home weekend of the 2013-14 regular season against ECAC Hockey rivals Yale and Brown. On Friday, the Tigers scored three goals in the second period to pick up their 13th win of the season and edge the Bulldogs, 3-0, in Princeton. On Saturday, the team was tied at 3 going into the final period, but just couldn't hold on as it was defeated 5-3 by the Bears at Hobey Baker Rink.

THE SERIES WITH THE TIGERS
Princeton holds a 40-36-4 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. Earlier this season, Cornell escaped with a 5-4 win against the Tigers.

2014 HOCKEY HUMANITARIAN AWARD
Senior defenseman Alyssa Gagliardi has been nominated as one of 18 hockey players, both male and female, for the Hockey Humanitarian Award. The award recognizes hockey's finest citizen and includes players from Division I, II, and III. Finalists will be announced in February and the winner will be named at the Frozen Four in Philadelphia on Friday, April 11. On the men's side, Andy Iles was also nominated. Union College was the only other school to have both a male and female nominee.

500
Cornell picked up its 500th program win Feb. 21 at Union after a 2-0 shutout victory. The Big Red is now 501-461-55 in program history.

NATIONAL POLLS
Cornell rode out the week at No. 3 after handing Union and Rensselaer losses on the weekend. The Big Red is currently behind No. 1 Minnesota and No. 2 Wisconsin.

LAST TIME OUT
The Big Red had eight goals on the weekend, and five different players scored as Cornell beat Union, 2-0, on Feb. 14 and claimed a 6-5 overtime victory over Rensselaer the following night. Jessica Campbell and Jillian Saulnier netted both goals for the Big Red against Union and Saulnier had another two goals and an assist against Rensselaer. Cassandra Poudrier, Emily Fulton, and Hanna Bunton also scored for Cornell that game.

BIG RED SPECIAL TEAMS
The Big Red sits behind No. 1 Minnesota, No. 2 Wisconsin, and Holy Cross on the national leaderboard at 24.2 percent conversion rate on the power play. The combined special teams' average of 58.6 percent is good for third in the country, behind ECAC Hockey and Ivy League rival Harvard and Holy Cross.

NUMBERS TO WATCH
NATIONAL NUMBERS
*Jillian Saulnier is fourth in the nation for goals per game (0.78), fifth for points per game (1.56), and tied for 10th for assists per game (0.78).
*Emily Fulton is eighth in the nation for points per game (1.37) and tied for 10th for assists per game (0.78).
*Paula Voorheis is sixth in the nation for save percentage (.941) and eighth for goals-against average (1.53).
*Lauren Slebodnick is ranked third for winning percentage with .868 and a record of 15-1-3.
*As a team, Cornell has the number three scoring offense averaging 3.70 goals per game.
*The Big Red is second in the country behind No. 1 Minnesota for team winning percentage with .815.
CAREER NUMBERS
*Saulnier has 53 goals, is tenth on the all-time career record list for assists (84) and currently No. 10 on the top ten list in Cornell history for points (137).
*Fulton has 77 points and is three games short of 90.
*Jessica Campbell has 92 points, has 50 assists, and is one game shy of 125.
*Alyssa Gagliardi has 80 points, is fifth on the all-time list for plus/minus (+84) and has played in 131 games.
*Hayleigh Cudmore has71 points and is one game shy of 130.
*Slebodnick has 66 total wins and is No. 4 on the Big Red all-time list for save percentage with .925.
*The Big Red has 501 program wins.

65 & COUNTING...
After earning two wins in Cornell's ECAC Hockey opening 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 a 6-3 victory over No. 5 Clarkson. The win against St. Lawrence the following afternoon was number 55. Heading into this weekend's series, Slebodnick has a career record of 66-9-5.

100-POINT CLUB
Junior forward Jillian Saulnier reached the 100-point mark with two goals and one assist against Clarkson on Oct. 25. She is the only player on the Big Red roster this season with more than 100 points (53-84--137). Saulnier is currently No. 10 on the Big Red's all-time list for most points scored in a career.

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.

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Throughout this season, several Cornell players have earned the ECAC Hockey Player of the Week, Rookie of the Week, and Goaltender of the Week honors. Most recently, junior forward Jillian Saulnier received Player of the Week (Feb. 10). Others include junior forward Emily Fulton as both Player of the Week (Oct. 29) and the October Player of the Month, freshman forward Hanna Bunton as Rookie of the Week (Nov. 19), freshman goaltender Paula Voorheis as Rookie of the Week (Jan. 7), and senior goaltender Lauren Slebodnick received Goaltender of the Week (Feb.3).

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.

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 entered her senior campaign as Cornell's program leader in both categories and is currently the program leader in wins (66).

CORNELL IN THE OLYMPICS
The last time the Winter Olympics were held in 2010 in Vancouver, one member of the Cornell women's hockey team won a gold medal with Team Canada. But in 2014 in Sochi, there could be as many as four members of the Big Red with Olympic medals around their necks with Rebecca Johnston '12, Laura Fortino '13, Lauriane Rougeau '13 and senior Brianne Jenner. All four were on Canada's centralization roster, which was trimmed from 27 to the final 21 who made the trip to Sochi, Russia. Olympic play began Feb. 8 with a win against Switzerland, 5-0, followed by a Feb. 10 victory against Finland, 3-0. Team Canada finished off group play with a 3-2 win on Feb. 12 agaisnt the U.S. Rebecca Johnston '12 scored two goals in round-robin play, one against Finland and one against Switzerland.

THE NEWCOMERS
The class of 2017 is forward heavy, as four of the six have made 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 play host for the best-of-three ECAC Hockey quarterfinals series next weekend, with the opponent and game times yet to be determined.