PROVIDENCE, R.I. and NEW HAVEN, Conn. — In its final road trip of the regular season, Cornell women's hockey will continue to fight for a spot in the ECAC Hockey playoffs. The Big Red is currently three points out of a playoff bid behind Rensselaer in eighth. Yale, which will host Cornell on Saturday, currently holds the seventh spot. In addition to seeking coveted conference points, the Big Red will be looking to continue double-digit unbeaten streaks against Brown and the Bulldogs. Saturday afternoon's game at Yale will be simulcast on the Ivy League Digital Network and ESPN3.
 
GAME 26: Cornell Big Red at Brown Bears
WHEN: Friday, Feb. 12, 2016 — 7 p.m.
WHERE: Meehan Auditorium — Providence, R.I.
2015-16 RECORDS: Cornell 9-12-4 (5-9-4 ECAC Hockey), Brown 3-9-13 (1-14-3 ECAC Hockey)
LIVE STATS:  BrownBears.com
LIVE VIDEO: Ivy League Digital Network
 
GAME 25: Cornell Big Red at Yale Bulldogs
WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016 — 4 p.m.
WHERE: Ingalls Rink — New Haven, Conn.
2015-16 RECORDS: Cornell 9-12-4 (5-9-4 ECAC Hockey), Yale 10-14-1 (9-8-1 ECAC Hockey)*
LIVE STATS: YaleBulldogs.com
LIVE VIDEO: Ivy League Digital Network/ESPN3
*—records do not include Friday's games
 
GAME NOTES:
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ABOUT THE BIG RED
Despite shots on goal being even in both games, the Big Red took two tough losses at the hands of a pair of nationally ranked opponents last weekend, falling to No. 4/4 Quinnipiac, 4-1, and No. 9/9 Princeton after a pair of empty-net goals gave the Tigers a 5-0 win. With just two weeks remaining in the regular season, all four games will be crucial for the Big Red. Junior Hanna Bunton leads the team with 22 points and is tied for the scoring lead with senior Jess Brown with 11 goals. Freshman Micah Hart has posted the most assists on the season with 15.
 
ABOUT BROWN
The Bears once again salvaged a tie after being dramatically outshot, playing Harvard to a 3-3 draw on Friday, Feb. 5, despite shots being 54-30 in the Crimson's favor. The tie was Brown's fifth ECAC Hockey point of the season, leaving them in 11th in the standings heading into this weekend. The Bears have also tied with Union and Cornell, with their lone conference win coming against the Dutchwomen in December. Junior Maddie Woo leads the team with 13 points, while sophomore Sam Donovan is the team's leading goal-scorer with seven tallies. Junior goaltender Monica Elvin stopped 51 shots in the tie with Harvard and currently holds a 3.80 goals-against average and .903 save percentage. Elvin has split time in net relatively evenly with sophomore Julianne Landry, who has a 3.62 goals-against average and .894 save percentage.
 
THE SERIES VS. BROWN
Cornell outshot the Bears, 48-17, when Brown made the trip to Ithaca on Jan. 16, but the Bears found the back of the net twice to tie the Big Red, 2-2. Though not a win, the draw extended Cornell's unbeaten streak against Brown to 18 games, with the Bears' last win against the Big Red coming on Jan. 20, 2007. Cornell holds a 42-34-9 advantage in the all-time series. Last season, on Jan. 17, 2015, Brown jumped out to a 1-0 lead and tied the game at 2-2 before the Big Red scored a pair of power play goals to win, 4-2. When the teams played at Lynah on Nov. 14, 2014, Erin O'Connor set a career high with three assist in the 5-1 victory.
 
ABOUT YALE
The Bulldogs have won five of their last six, with victories over Union, Rensselaer, Brown (2) and an overtime win over Dartmouth before Harvard snapped the streak at five with a 4-1 win in Cambridge on Saturday, Feb. 6. The run of success moved Yale into seventh in the ECAC Hockey standings with 19 points. In addition, the Bulldogs are just one of two teams that can boast a win over No. 4/4 Quinnipiac on the season. Sophomores Mallory Souliotis (4-19–23) and Eden Murray (5-15–20) both have 20-plus points, while senior captain Janelle Ferrara leads the team in goals with 11.  In net, junior Hanna Mandl has posted a 3.06 goals-against average and .893 save percentage.
 
THE SERIES VS. YALE
After Cornell jumped out to a 3-0 first period lead, the Bulldogs battled back with a three-goal second period of their own, but senior Jess Brown's hat trick propelled the Big Red to a 6-4 win on Jan. 15 in Ithaca. The victory pushed Cornell's unbeaten streak against Yale to 14 games and the Big Red's all-time series advantage to 53-13-1. The Bulldogs haven't beaten the Big Red since Jan. 23, 2009. Erin O'Connor had a goal and two assists in Cornell's 6-2 romp over the Bulldogs last season on Nov. 15, 2014, at Lynah, and Caroline DeBruin netted the game-winner in a 2-0 Big Red win on Jan. 16, 2015.
 
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.
 
TWO TO 200
After Cornell's 3-1 win over Union on Jan. 29, head coach Doug Derraugh is now two wins away from 200 career victories. Derraugh is already the winningest coach in Cornell women's hockey history and currently holds a .609 career win percentage.
 
AT THE HART OF IT
Freshman Micah Hart has 16 points (1-15–16) on the season to lead all freshman defensemen in the country with 0.67 points per game. The mark ranks her 16th among all rookies and tie-for-15th among defensemen. The Big Red is 7-0-1 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, with nearly half of its goals on the season coming in the first period. The Big Red has outscored all of its opponents, 25-18 ,in the opening frame and its conference foes 16-11. 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.
 
BEATING THE UNBEATEN
Cornell's thrilling 2-1 win over then-No. 10/10 Princeton was the Tigers' first loss of the season, after going 4-0-0 in their first four games. Princeton was the last team in ECAC Hockey to surrender an unbeaten, untied record. In addition, the Tigers have lost just one game since.
 
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
*Junior Hanna Bunton and senior Jess Brown have both moved into a tie for 17^th in game-winning goals with seven. Senior Taylor Woods is currently tied for the No. 23 spot with six. Bunton and Brown are two game-winners away from being tied for tenth.
*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' short-handed goal against Princeton tied her for 10th all-time with three man-down tallies.
*Bunton and Kaitlin Doering are tied for 12th all-time with two short-handed goals.
*Woods has now taken over the 11^th spot all-time in shots on goal. She needs eight shots to surpass Lauriane Rougeau in 10^th with 333. 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 is in 16^th with 253 shots on goal and needs just four shots to also overtake Gagliardi.
*Jess Brown has moved into 17^th with 233 shots on goal.
*Junior Paula Voorheis sits at No. 6 for most career wins in program history with 29.
*With her blanking of Vermont, Voorheis is now tied for seventh with six shutouts.
*Voorheis has moved into ninth for saves and needs just 15 to overtake Amanda Mazzotta in eighth.
 
UP NEXT
The Big Red plays its final two games of the regular season when Dartmouth and Harvard make the trip to Lynah Rink on Feb. 19 and 20. Cornell will honor its six seniors—Jess Brown, Stefannie Moak, Cassandra Poudrier, Morgan Richardson, Taylor Woods and Anna Zorn—in a Senior Day Ceremony on Feb. 20 against Harvard.