ITHACA, N.Y. --- Cornell's six seniors will be honored as the Big Red welcomes Dartmouth and Harvard to Lynah Rink for the final games of the regular season. Cornell is currently one of four teams vying for the last three spots in the ECAC Hockey Tournament.
 
GAME 28: Cornell Big Red vs. Dartmouth Big Green
WHEN: Friday, Feb. 19, 2016 — 7 p.m.
WHERE: Lynah Rink — Ithaca, N.Y.
2015-16 RECORDS: Cornell 11-12-4 (7-9-4 ECAC Hockey), Dartmouth 6-17-3 (6-11-3 ECAC Hockey)
LIVE STATS: CornellBigRed.com
LIVE VIDEO: Ivy League Digital Network
 
GAME 29: Cornell Big Red vs. Harvard Crimson
WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 — 4 p.m.
WHERE: Lynah Rink — Ithaca, N.Y.
2015-16 RECORDS: Cornell 11-12-4 (7-9-4 ECAC Hockey), Harvard 15-9-3 (11-6-3ECAC Hockey)*
LIVE STATS:  CornellBigRed.com
LIVE VIDEO: Ivy League Digital Network
*—records do not include Friday's games

GAME NOTES:
Cornell | Dartmouth | Harvard

PLAYOFF SCENARIOS
•If the Big Red earns four points: can finish as high as sixth; will earn playoff spot if Yale earns three points or fewer OR Rensselaer earns one point or fewer OR St. Lawrence earns one point or fewer.
•If the Big Red earns three points: can finish as high as sixth; will earn playoff spot if Yale earns two points or fewer OR Rensselaer earns no points OR St. Lawrence earns no points
•If the Big Red earns two points: can finish as high as eighth; will earn a playoff spot if Yale earns one point or fewer
•If the Big Red earns one point: can finish as high as eighth; will earn playoff spot only if Yale earns no points
•If the Big Red earns no points: eliminated from playoffs
 
ABOUT DARTMOUTH
With its 2-1 loss to Rensselaer last weekend, the Big Green has been officially eliminated from contention for the ECAC Hockey Tournament. Dartmouth had a strong start to the season, beating Harvard and tying Clarkson, but the Big Green fell into a 15-game winless streak spanning over two months. Dartmouth is just 2-9-2 on the road, with its away wins coming to the league's last two teams. Its special teams have been superb though, as the Dartmouth holds the top in-conference power play at 27.4 percent and the nation's 11^th-best penalty kill at 87.1 percent overall. Senior captain Laura Stacey has been a bright spot for the Big Green, leading the way with 23 points (10-13). Junior Robyn Chemago has seen most of the work between the pipes, posting a .917 save and 2.35 goals-against average.
 
THE SERIES VS. DARTMOUTH
Laura Stacey got the Big Green on the board just 30 seconds into the game on Jan. 9 in Hanover, but Cornell answered with two first period goals. Stacey knotted the score at two, but junior Kaitlin Doering netted a shorthanded goal with 16 seconds left in the second to regain the lead. The Big Red added two more in the third to take a 5-3 win, with freshman Christian Higham scoring two goals, junior Brianna Veerman recording three assists and sophomore Erin O'Connor and freshman Micah Hart each posting a pair of helpers. The Cornell victory narrowed the Big Green's all-time series advantage to 42-31-7 dating back to the 1970s. The sides split the season series in 2014-15, with each winning on the other's home ice. Goals from Jess Brown and Sydney Smith lifted Cornell to a 2-1 win on Jan. 23, 2014 before Dartmouth squeaked by with a 3-2 win on Feb. 14, 2014 behind 44 saves from Robyn Chemago. The loss snapped the Big Red's six-game unbeaten streak against the Big Green.
 
ABOUT HARVARD
The Crimson fell out of the national polls in mid-January after dropping games to St. Lawrence and Clarkson. Since then, Harvard has lost to No. 1/1 Boston College twice—though by two very different scores: 2-0 and then 8-0 in the Beanpot semifinal. The Crimson beat travel partner Dartmouth, 2-0, and posted a convincing 4-1 win over Princeton, while holding No. 4/4 Quinnipiac to a single goal in a 1-0 loss. In the Beanpot consolation game, Harvard rallied to beat Boston University, 5-3. The Crimson also has recently tied Brown and Rensselaer. Senior Miye D'Oench continues to lead the team in points with 32 on 13 goals and 19 assists, while junior Sydney Daniels leads in goals with 15. Senior goaltender Emercance Maschmeyer has remained solid in net, posting a .944 save percentage and 1.71 goals-against average.
 
THE SERIES VS. HARVARD
The Crimson blanked the Big Red, 2-0, behind a goal and an assist from Lexie Laing and 23 saves from Emerance Maschmeyer on the first ECAC Hockey weekend of 2016. Harvard's win pushed its all-time advantage over Cornell to 56-26-4, including four consecutive Crimson victories. Cornell's last win over Harvard came in the 2014 ECAC Hockey Semifinal when the Big Red defeated the Crimson 6-4 en route to a conference championship.
 
ABOUT HEAD COACH DOUG DERRAUGH '91
Entering his 11th season directing Cornell women's hockey, Derraugh has brought the program to national prominence. He amassed a 189-112-24 record in his first ten seasons with the Big Red and has led the team to four ECAC Hockey Tournament Championships, four Ivy League Championships and five NCAA tournament appearances, including three trips to the Frozen Four. From 2009-10 to 2013-14, his teams notched five consecutive 20-win seasons for the first time in program history.
 
200 WINS
Cornell's 4-2 win over Yale on Feb. 13 marked head coach Doug Derraugh's 200^th career win. Already the winningest coach in Cornell women's hockey history, Derraugh currently holds a .645 win percentage.
 
OUT OF THE WOODS
Senior Taylor Woods has scored a number of key goals for the Big Red this season. She posted a four-point weekend at Brown and Yale, including two goals and an assist against the Bears to help Cornell earn four important conference points. She also scored the team's only goal at Rensselaer two weeks earlier and netted a pair of tallies in the final 1:16 to top then-No. 10/10 Princeton in November.
 
QUICK RELEASE
Just 15 seconds after Yale had taken a 2-1 third-period lead on Feb. 13, junior Hanna Bunton scored the game-tying goal. Bunton then added the game-winner just 69 seconds later.
 
AT THE HART OF IT
Freshman Micah Hart has 17 points (1-16–16) on the season to lead all freshman defensemen in the country with 0.65 points per game. The mark ranks her 17th among all rookies and 16th among defensemen. The Big Red is 8-0-1 when Hart records an assist.
 
JESS "CLUTCH" BROWN
Senior Jess Brown has had a knack for scoring goals at the right time this season. Her first goal of the year was the game-tying mark with 17.6 seconds remaining in regulation against Colgate on Nov. 17. She has also netted a pair of hat tricks, each time including the game-winner, in a 4-3 win over St. Lawrence on Dec. 4, and a 6-4 win against Yale on Jan. 15. On Jan. 22, she tallied another game-tying goal in the third period to give Cornell an important 2-2 draw with No. 5/5 Clarkson, and on Jan. 29, she netted two in the first 5:04 to lift the Big Red to a 3-1 win over Union. Cornell is 4-0-2 when Brown scores.
 
RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE
Cornell has a penchant for scoring early, outscoring all of its opponents, 27-19, in the first period and its conference foes 18-12. Senior Cassandra Poudrier has Cornell's earliest goal of the season, scoring 1:08 into the Big Red's 5-2 win over Syracuse on Nov. 14. On five occasions, Cornell has scored within the first four minutes of a game.
 
MAN DOWN
Junior Kaitlin Doering scored a shorthanded goal in back-to-back games, netting her first career man-down goal on Jan. 9 at Dartmouth before adding another on Jan. 12 at Colgate. The last Cornell women's hockey player to score a shorthanded goal in consecutive games was Rebecca Johnston on Jan. 21 and 22, 2011, both against Colgate.
 
NATIONS CUP
Senior captain Cassandra Poudrier, junior Hanna Bunton and freshman Micah Hart competed with the Canadian Women's National Development Team this week in the 2016 Nations Cup in Germany. Team Canada defeated Sweden, 2-1, in a shootout on Monday in the first game of the preliminary round. Poudrier, who was serving as one of Canada's assistant captains, assisted on the team's first goal in a 4-2 preliminary-round win over Russia on Tuesday to earn Canada a spot in the gold medal game.
 
HATS OFF
*Senior Jess Brown has a pair of hat tricks on the season, scoring three in Cornell's 4-3 win at St. Lawrence on Dec. 4 and in the team's 6-4 win over Yale on Jan. 15. Brown now has three career hat tricks.
*Junior Hanna Bunton notched her first career hat trick, part of a four-point outing, in the Big Red's 6-1 rout of Mercyhurst on Nov. 21. The final of her three goals on the afternoon was her eighth of the season, a career high just 10 games into the year.
 
WINDJAMMER WINNERS
The Big Red won the Windjammer Classic hosted by Vermont the weekend of Nov. 28-29, beating Boston University, 4-2, and Vermont, 4-0, for the team's first weekend sweep of the season. Senior captain Cassandra Poudrier was named the tournament MVP and earned All-Tournament honors after a five-point weekend. Forwards freshman Pippy Gerace and senior Taylor Woods and freshman goaltender Marlene Boissonnault were also named to the All-Tournament Team.
 
WEEKLY HONORS
Poudrier was named ECAC Hockey Player of the Week and Gerace earned Rookie of the Week honors the week of Nov. 30 for their performances in the Windjammer Classic. Poudrier posted two goals and three assists in the tournament while Gerace added two goals, including the game-winner against Boston University, and an assist.
 
SHUTOUT STREAK SNAPPERS (x3)
*Taylor Woods' first goal at Princeton snapped Tigers goalie Alysia Dasilva's shutout streak of 118 minutes, 44 seconds.
*Junior Hanna Bunton scored the Big Red's first goal of the season 4:50 into the third period on Oct. 24 against No. 2/2 Boston College, marking the first time BC goaltender Katie Burt had let a puck past her in over 150 minutes of play.
*Quinnipiac goaltender junior Sydney Rossman hadn't surrendered a goal in 81:28 when Bunton netted the first goal of the game at 12:29 of the first period on Nov. 7, an eventual 3-1 Bobcats victory.

RECORDS WATCH
*With her game-winner at Yale on Feb. 13, junior Hanna Bunton has moved into a tie for 12^th all-time with eight game-winning goals.
*Woods is tied for 12th all-time with 12 career power-play goals. She is three power-play goals away from knocking Jeri Maerz out of 10th.
*Woods' second shorthanded goal of the season on Feb. 12 tied her for sixth all time with four shorthanded goals.
*Bunton and Kaitlin Doering are tied for 12th all-time with two shorthanded goals.
*Woods has now taken over the 10^th spot all-time in shots on goal. She needs 15 shots to surpass Karlee Overguard in 9^th with 355. Woods was also No. 13 for shots per game with 2.69 entering her senior season.
*With eight shots on goal against Princeton on Feb. 6, Bunton jumped over Alyssa Gagliardi into 14^th.
*Cassandra Poudrier has also moved ahead of Gagliardi and now has 257 shots on goal.
*Jess Brown has moved into 17^th with 240 shots on goal.
*Junior Paula Voorheis sits at No. 6 for most career wins in program history with 30.
*With her blanking of Vermont, Voorheis is now tied for seventh with six shutouts.
*Voorheis has moved into eighth for saves and needs 18 to overtake Elizabeth Connelly in seventh.