ITHACA, N.Y. — The women's hockey team will continue with ECAC Hockey play on Tuesday night in a midweek matchup with regional rival Colgate. Both teams opened up conference play this past weekend, with the Raiders beating both Rensselaer and Union while the Big Red topped Union but dropped a 1-0 game to Rensselaer.
GAME #5: CORNELL BIG RED AT #6/7 COLGATE RAIDERS
TIME: 7 p.m.
DATE: Tuesday, Nov. 1
PLACE: Class of 1965 Arena – Hamilton, N.Y.
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RECORDS: Cornell 3-1-0 (1-1-0 ECAC Hockey), Colgate 7-0-1 (2-0-0 ECAC Hockey)
Cornell Game Notes (PDF)
About the Big Red
Cornell earned its first ECAC Hockey points of the season on Saturday afternoon with a 3-1 win on the road at Union and got goals from three different players in the victory. The win came after dropping a 1-0 game to Rensselaer on Friday. The Big Red outshot its opponents, 85-34, on the weekend and is outshooting opponents 134-75 this season. … Cornell opened up the 2016-17 season with a two-game series at Lynah against Merychurst and swept the Lakers by scores of 3-1 and 2-1 to earn the first season sweep of the non-conference rival in program history.
About Colgate
Colgate opened the season with five straight non-conference wins, beginning with two-game sweeps of a pair of Hockey East schools in New Hampshire and Merrimack. The Raiders then topped Syracuse in the first game of a home-and-home on Oct. 21 before being pushed to a 2-2 overtime tie against the Orange the next night. ... The Raiders opened up ECAC Hockey play this past weekend with a 2-0 win at Union and a 4-1 win at Rensselaer. All six Colgate goals on the weekend were scored by different players. … Colgate has outshot its opponent in every game this season and has limited opponents to less than 20 shots in three games and less than 15 shots in two games. … A 93.5 penalty kill rate ranks the Raiders fourth overall in the nation. … Nine different players have at least five points for Colgate through the first eight games of the season. Jessie Eldridge leads the team with 14 points on four goals and 10 assists. Julia Vandyk (6-0-1) has played the majority of the minutes between the pipes and has a stout 1.13 goals against average and a .949 save percentage. ... The Raiders are currently ranked sixth in the USCHO.com poll and seventh in the latest Usa Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll.
The Series with Colgate
Colgate snapped the Big Red's 11-game win streak against the Raiders with a 4-3 win in Hamilton on Jan. 12, 2016, but Cornell still holds an all-time series lead of 35-12-4. Colgate nearly broke Cornell's unbeaten streak in the first meeting of the 2015-16 season at Lynah Rink, but
Jess Brown scored for the Big Red with 17.6 seconds left to tie the game at three and force overtime, where the game ended, 3-3.
About Head Coach Doug Derraugh '91
Now entering his 12th season directing the Cornell women's hockey program in 2016-17,
Doug Derraugh has brought the Big Red women to their place among the nation's elite. He amassed a 202-126-28 record in his first 11 seasons as the head coach of the Big Red, with his 200th win coming in the form of a 4-2 win last year against Yale. Cornell has made the ECAC Hockey Tournament each of the last nine seasons, won the tournament four of the last seven years and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in five of those seasons. 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. He led the team to five consecutive 20-win seasons for the first time in program history in 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-2014.
Meet the Captains
Senior
Kaitlin Doering and sophomore
Micah Hart will be serving as Cornell's captains for the 2016-17 season. Doering is coming off a 2015-16 season in which she set a career high with 18 points on seven goals and 11 assists. Hart led all Big Red defensemen last year with 18 points on one goal and 17 assists, finished the season with six multi-point outings and was second on the team with 56 blocked shots. Hart is just the fourth sophomore to don a letter in program history and the second to serve as a captain.
Freshmen Firsts
In the season-opening series against Mercyhurst, a member of the Class of 2020 played a factor in four of Cornell's five goals. In the first game, Valerie Audet scored the first goal of the season to tie the game in the first period before
Jaime Bourbonnais slotted home the game-winner midway through the second frame. In the second game,
Kristin O'Neill potted both goals for the Big Red, with Bourbonnais earning the primary assist on the first.
Paige Lewis earned her first point of the season on Saturday against Union with an assist on the game's first goal.
The 100 Club
In the second game of the season against Mercyhurst on Oct. 22, senior
Sydney Smith played in her 100th career game in the Cornellian red and white. Senior co-captain
Kaitlin Doering skated in her 100th career game – and scored her first goal of the season – in Saturday's 3-1 win over Union. Senior forward
Hanna Bunton creeps closer to the century mark with every game, as she has skated in 95 contests for the Big Red. Alyssa Gagliardi '13 holds the all-time record for career games played in program history with 138.
Saves and Shutouts
Senior goaltender
Paula Voorheis made a total of 38 saves in her two starts this season, giving her 1,705 saves in her career and placing her third all-time in program history. Alanna Hayes '98 sits first with 2,381 saves while Chantal Toth sits in second with 1,822. Voorheis, who made a career-high 47 saves against Clarkson in Game 2 of the ECAC Hockey quarterfinals last year, made a total of 822 saves during the 2014-15 season, which is tops in single-season history. Voorheis also sits tied for fifth all-time with seven shutouts, two behind Hayes' who sits fourth with nine and 16 behind Amanda Mazzotta '12, who owns the record with 22.
Preseason Honor
Sophomore defenseman
Micah Hart was named to the preseason All-ECAC team. Cornell last had a representative on the preseason all-conference team prior to the 2014-15 season when both Jill Saulnier and Brianne Jenner were selected.
And Then There Were Five
When Cornell heads out west the day after Thanksgiving to play Wisconsin, it will be the first-ever meeting between the two storied programs. It will also drop the number of teams in Division I NCAA hockey that Cornell has never played down to five. The Big Red has yet to take the ice against two other WCHA teams in Minnesota State and North Dakota as well as two CHA teams in Lindenwood and Penn State. Merrimack, which joined Division I play in Hockey East at the beginning of the 2015-16 season, is the fifth team that Cornell has not played.
Meet the New Kids
The Class of 2020 makes up 37 percent of the Big Red roster this year and consists of six forwards and one defenseman.
Grace Graham,
Hanna Mutschelknaus, Valerie Audet,
Paige Lewis,
Kristin O'Neill and
Amy Curlew will play up front, while
Jaime Bourbonnais will patrol the blue line. Graham, Audet, O'Neill, Curlew and Bourbonnais all hail from Canada while Mutschelknaus and Lewis come from South Dakota and Connecticut, respectively.
Five Players, Six Medals
Entering the 2016-17 season, the Big Red has five players on the roster who have earned a collective six medals for Team Canada at the IIHF U-18 World Championships.
Hanna Bunton assisted on the game-winning goal in overtime of the 2013 gold medal game.
Micah Hart captained a 2015 squad that included Marlene Boissonnault and
Kristin O'Neill to a silver medal, while O'Neill and
Jaime Bourbonnais earned silver medals at the 2016 competition.
23 and Counting…
With the arrival of South Dakota native
Hanna Mutschelknaus on East Hill, the number of states from which Cornell players have hailed since the inaugural 1972-73 season rises to 23. Alaska, Colorado, Maryland, Georgia, Nevada, Texas, and Wisconsin can all lay claim to one Big Red player.
New Newfoundlander
Freshman forward
Amy Curlew is the first player to come to Ithaca by way of Newfoundland and Labrador. Curlew's arrival leaves just Prince Edward Island as the only Canadian province without a player listed on a Big Red roster. Of the three Canadian territories, Yukon and Nunavut haven't been represented, but Allison Simpson '04 hailed from the Northwest Territories capital of Yellowknife.
The 45th Season
With the start of the 2016-17 season, the women's hockey program is embarking on its 45th season of intercollegiate play and currently holds an all-time record of 540-490-62. Cornell, which began play with the 1972-73 season, is the second-oldest Division I women's program in the country still in existence. Brown began play in 1967-68.
Big Red Rewind
Cornell finished the 2015-16 season with a 13-14-4 record, which was good enough to make the ECAC Hockey tournament for the ninth straight year, but the team bowed out in the quarterfinal round to an eventual Frozen Four team in Clarkson.
Hanna Bunton led the Big Red in scoring with 13 goals and 14 assists for 27 points while
Jess Brown and
Kaitlin Doering finshed second and third, respectively.
Paula Voorheis went 8-12-3 between the pipes and posted a 2.38 goals against average and a .915 save percentage. In six decisions, Marlene Boissonnault went 5-1 with a 3.02 goals against average and a .882 save percentage.
Four Cornellians Headed to Four Nations
Five former Big Red standouts were named to Canada's roster for the upcoming Four Nations Cup. Laura Fortino '13 will be joined by forwards Jessica Campbell '14, Rebecca Johnston '12, and Brianne Jenner '15. Defenseman Lauriane Rougeau '13 was named to the squad but replaced prior to the tournament due to injury. The 21-player squad kicks off the tournament in Vierumaki, Finland on Nov. 1 against Finland. Canada will also play Sweden on Nov. 2 and then wrap up the preliminary round against the United States on Nov. 4. Fortino, Jenner, Johnston, and Rougeau were members of the silver medal-winning squad at the 2016 IIHF Women's World Championship. Fortino, Jenner, Johnston and Rougeau were members of the gold medal-winning squad at the 2014 Winter Olympics, while Campbell, Fortino, and Rougeau, won silver medals at the 2015 Four Nations Cup in Switzerland.
Pro Pipeline
Between both the Canadian Women's Hockey League and the National Women's Hockey League, 10 Cornellians appeared on a professional opening night roster. In the CWHL, the 2016 Clarkson Cup-winning Calgary Inferno boasts five former Big Red skaters in Brianne Jenner, Hayleigh Cudmore, Jessica Campbell, and Rebecca Johnston. Emily Fulton is the lone Cornell graduate skating for the Toronto Furies.
Cassandra Poudrier joins Lauriane Rougeau on the Montreal Les Canadiennes roster and
Taylor Woods has reunited with former teammate Laura Fortino on the Brampton Thunder. In the NWHL, both Alyssa Gagliardi and Lauren Slebodnick are attempting to win their second-straight Isobel Cup with the Boston Pride.
Up Next
Cornell will have the next 10 days off before welcoming Brown and Yale to Lynah Rink the weekend of Nov. 11. The Big Red hosts the Bears at 6 p.m. on Friday night and then the Bulldogs at 3 p.m. on Saturday afternoon.
