ITHACA, N.Y. — After two conference wins over Brown and Yale this past weekend, the women's hockey team will now look to continue to move up the ECAC Hockey standings when it heads to No. 8 Quinnipiac on Friday and to Princeton on Saturday.
GAME #8: CORNELL BIG RED at QUINNIPIAC BOBCATS
TIME: 6 p.m.
DATE: Friday, Nov. 18, 2016
PLACE: High Point Solutions Arena — Hamden, Conn.
LIVE VIDEO: QuinnipiacBobcats.com
LIVE STATS: QuinnipiacBobcats.com
GAME #9: CORNELL BIG RED at PRINCETON TIGERS
TIME: 3 p.m.
DATE: Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016
PLACE: Hobey Baker Rink — Princeton, N.J.
LIVE VIDEO: Ivy League Digital Network
LIVE STATS: GoPrincetonTigers.com
RECORDS: Cornell 5-2-0 (3-2-0 ECAC Hockey), Quinnipiac 9-4-1 (4-2-0 ECAC Hockey), Princeton 4-3-1 (2-3-1 ECAC Hockey)*
*-records do not include Friday's results
GAME NOTES:
Cornell | Quinnipiac | Princeton
About the Big Red
Cornell earned four conference points last weekend with wins over Brown (4-0) and Yale (4-2). Senior
Hanna Bunton led the offensive charge with a hat trick against the Bears and then two assists against the Bulldogs. … Cornell opened the season with a two-game sweep of Mercyhurst – the first season sweep of the non-conference rival in program history. In the ECAC Hockey opener, the Big Red dropped a tough 1-0 game to Rensselaer on Oct. 28 but earned the first conference points of the season the next day with a 3-1 win at Union. Sophomore
Lenka Serdar, O'Neill, and senior co-captain
Kaitlin Doering scored the goals. The following Tuesday, the Big Red dropped a tough 2-1 tilt to Colgate. Freshman
Kristin O'Neill broke a deadlock just 27 seconds into the third period with her fourth goal of the season but the Raiders tied the game 13 minutes later and then scored the go-ahead goal with 1:04 left on the clock to get the 2-1 win. Senior goaltender
Paula Voorheis stopped 30 shots in the loss
About Quinnipiac
The Bobcats – currently ranked No. 8 in the nation – are coming off of a four point conference weekend with a pair of 2-1 wins over Dartmouth and Harvard. … Quinnipiac opened the season with four-straight non-conference wins before splitting a pair of close games with Mercyhurst on Oct. 14 and 15, losing the first, 3-2, and winning the second. 1-0. The Bobcats then played a home-and-home series against Boston College, tying in Boston, 0-0, and losing at home, 4-1. The team opened conference play with two big wins over Yale (4-1) and Brown (8-0) before dropping two to Clarkson (4-1) and St. Lawrence (1-0). … The Bobcats are led by preseason All-ECAC forward Taylar Cianfarano, who has 10 goals and five assists for 15 points and also leads the team with 62 shots. Quinnipiac has three other players in double-digit points in Meghan Turner (4-7—10), Melissa Samoskevich (3-7—10), and Emma Woods (3-7—10). … Sydney Rossman has started all 14 games for the Bobcats, going 9-4-1 while posting a 1.36 goals against average, a .929 save percentage and five shutouts. … Quinnipiac boasts the fifth-best power-play in the nation (19.3) and the fifth-best team defense (1.36 goals per game).
The Series with Quinnipiac
Cornell holds an all-time series lead of 12-8-6, but the Bobcats swept the season series last season.
Hanna Bunton opened the scoring in the first meeting last season before the Bobcats scored three goals in the second period to earn a 3-1 win at home and then in the second meeting at Lynah, the Bobcats scored four unanswered to win 4-1.
About Princeton
The Tigers are coming off of a weekend with two overtime tilts. On Nov. 11, Julia Edgar scored in overtime to give Princeton a 2-1 win over Harvard, and then on Nov. 12., it was Dartmouth that found the net in overtime to top the Tigers, 3-2. … Princeton earned two non-conference wins over Providence to start the season before jumping into league play on Oct. 28 and 29 against Brown and Yale. The Tigers were able to get past Brown, 4-0, but tied Yale, 1-1, in overtime. A trip to the North Country saw Princeton drop two games to St. Lawrence (3-1) and Clarkson (4-2).The Tigers are converting on 14.6 percent of their power plays and averaging 2.88 goals per game. … Preseason All-ECAC selection forward Karlie Lund leads the tigers with 10 points on six goals and four assists. Two of Lund's goals have come on the power-play. Cassidy Tucker has seven points (3-4—7) while Molly Contini and Morgan Sly each have six points on three goals and three assists. Kelsey Koelzer, a preseason All-ECAC selection on defense, has one goal and five assists and leads the team with 38 shots on goal.
The Series with Princeton
The Tigers and Big Red split last season's series, with Cornell taking the first game in New Jersey on the strength of two goals from
Taylor Woods in the final 1:16 of play. Princeton won the second game, 5-0, at Lynah. … Princeton holds the 44-39-4 edge in the all-time series but Cornell is 13-9-1 over the Tigers under head coach
Doug Derraugh.
About Head Coach Doug Derraugh '91
Now in 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.
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,
Valérie 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 Oct. 29 against Union with an assist on the game's first goal. ...
Grace Graham scored her first career goal with the game-winning tally against Yale on Nov. 12, the same game in which
Hanna Mutschelknaus earned her first point with an assist.
Saves and Shutouts
Senior goaltender
Paula Voorheis has made a total of 99 saves in her three starts this season, giving her 1,766 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.
Hats Off to Hanna
Senior
Hanna Bunton notched her second career hat trick in the Big Red's 4-0 win over Brown on Nov. 11. She scored all three goals in the third period, including the game-winner just 2:05 into the final frame.
One Goal, Four Straight
Cornell opened the season with four straight games of allowing only one goal, making it the longest one-goal-or-less-streak to start a season in program history. During the 2012-13 season, the team had two streaks in the second half of the season – of four and five games – where it allowed one goal or less in consecutive games.
Century 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 – on Oct. 29 in a 3-1 win over Union. Senior forward
Hanna Bunton creeps closer to the century mark with every game, as she has skated in 98 contests for the Big Red. Alyssa Gagliardi '13 holds the all-time record for career games played in program history with 138.
Weekly Honors
Hanna Bunton was named the ECAC Hockey Player of the Week for Nov. 14 for her five point performance in the Big Red's wins over Brown and Yale. The senior notched a hat trick in the 4-0 win over the Bears and then assisted on two goals, including the game-winner, in a 4-2 win over the Bulldogs.
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.
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.
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,
Valérie 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.
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.
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.
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 542-491-62. 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.
Four Cornellians Win Silver Medal at Four Nations
Laura Fortino '13, Jessica Campbell '14, Rebecca Johnston '12, and Brianne Jenner '15 all represented Canada at the 2016 Four Nations Cup in Vierumaki, Finland Nov. 1-5 and came away with silver medals. After sweeping the pool play round with wins against Finland, Sweden, and the United States, Canada took an early one goal lead over the U.S. in the gold medal game before ultimately, 5-3.
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 next head to Wisconsin to take on the Badgers on Nov. 25 and 26. It will be the first-ever meeting between the two storied programs.
