ITHACA, N.Y. — After closing out non-conference play on Tuesday, the women's hockey team will begin the ECAC Hockey gauntlet this weekend when it welcomes Princeton on Friday and #9/8 Quinnipiac on Saturday. Against the Tigers, the Class of 2017 will try to do something it has never done and sweep the season-series and on Saturday, the Big Red will look to end Quinnipiac's eight-game unbeaten streak.
 
Friday's game against the Tigers will be streamed live on ESPN3.
 
GAME 17: CORNELL BIG RED vs. PRINCETON TIGERS
TIME: 6 p.m.
DATE: Friday, Jan. 13, 2017
PLACE: Lynah Rink — Ithaca, N.Y.
LIVE VIDEO: Ivy League Digital Network | ESPN3
LIVE STATS: CornellBigRed.com
LIVE UPDATES: @CUBigRedGameDay
 
GAME 18: CORNELL BIG RED vs. #9/8 QUINNIPIAC BOBCATS
TIME: 3 p.m.
DATE: Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017
PLACE: Lynah Rink — Ithaca, N.Y.
LIVE VIDEO: Ivy League Digital Network
LIVE STATS: CornellBigRed.com
LIVE UPDATES: @CUBigRedGameDay
 
RECORDS: Cornell 10-5-1 (6-2-1 ECAC Hockey), Princeton 12-6-2 (8-4-1 ECAC Hockey) Quinnipiac 15-5-4 (8-3-2 ECAC Hockey)*
 *-records do not include Friday's results
 
Game Notes: Cornell | Princeton | Quinnipiac

About the Big Red
• Cornell came out of its final non-conference matchup of the year on Tuesday night with a 7-2 win over Syracuse – a team that came into the game tied for 10th in the country in goals allowed per game (2.00). 
• In its last dance in conference play, Cornell came up with wins over Harvard (3-0) on Dec. 2 and Dartmouth (2-1) on Dec. 3. It was the second two-win conference weekend of the season for the Big Red, as the team topped Brown (4-0) on Nov. 11 and Yale (4-2) on Nov. 12. 
• Senior forward Hanna Bunton leads the team in points (4-10—14) and power-play goals (3) while freshman Kristin O'Neill is second (7-5—12) and sophomore Pippy Gerace is third (4-6—10).
• Senior goaltender Paula Voorheis, who is 5-4-0 in her nine starts, is second in the nation in save percentage (.951) and third overall in goals against average (1.46).

About Princeton
• The Tigers, unbeaten in the last eight games and receiving votes in both polls, come into the game on Friday sitting tied for third in the league standings after going 8-3-2 in its first 13 conference games. This past weekend, the team extended its conference win streak to five-straight with 4-0 and 2-1 wins over Dartmouth and Harvard, respectively, with the team's last loss coming against Cornell on Nov. 19 (2-1). 
• Princeton has one of the hottest goaltenders in the nation, as Steph Neatby has gone 6-1-0 and posted a 1.48 goals against average and .947 save percentage since missing the first 10 games of the season due to injury. The freshman has won four-straight ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Week honors.
• Karlie Lund leads the Tigers – and the league – in scoring (16-16—32) while Cassidy Tucker (8-11—19) and Kelsey Koelzer (5-14—19) are tied for second. Carly Bullock is second on the team in goals (11), with five coming on the power-play.
• The team is averaging 3.45 goals per game, sixth in the country.
  
The Series with Princeton
• On Nov. 19, Cornell used goals from freshman Grace Graham and sophomore Pippy Gerace and 38 saves from senior goaltender Paula Voorheis to gut out a 2-1 win in New Jersey.
• Princeton holds an all-time series lead of 44-40-4 but Cornell is 14-9-1 over the Tigers under head coach Doug Derraugh.
• A Cornell team has not swept the season series against Princeton since the 2012-13 season. 

About Quinnipiac
• The Bobcats are coming off of a three-point ECAC Hockey weekend after tying Harvard, 2-2, on Friday night and topping Dartmouth, 3-1, on Saturday to take hold of second place in the conference. The team has yet to drop out of the polls this season abd has gone 6-1-3 in the last 10 games, with the lone loss coming at Princeton (3-2) on New Year's Day. 
• Taylar Cianfarano leads the team in points (11-8—19)  and  has six power-play goals for a unit converting 19.3 percent of the time.
• Sydney Rossman continues to play the majority of the minutes in goal, going 13-5-3 while posting a .917 save percentage, a 1.54 goals against average and five shutouts. 

The Series with Quinnipiac
• The game ended in a 3-3 tie when the teams met on Nov. 18, as Cornell jumped out to a 3-0 lead halfway through the second period only to have the Bobcats return with three unanswered goals of their own to force overtime.
• Cornell still holds an all-time series lead of 12-8-7, despite the Bobcats sweeping the season series during the 2015-16 season (3-1, 4-1). 

About Head Coach Doug Derraugh '91
• Now in his 12th season directing the Cornell women's hockey program in 2016-17, Doug Derraugh 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.

Many Goals, Many Scorers
• It has been a team effort in the Big Red's last two wins, with five different players notching goals in Saturday's 5-1 win over Providence and seven different players finding the net in Tuesday's 7-2 win over Syracuse.
• The last time five different players scored in a game was on Jan. 13, 2015, in a 6-2 win over Boston University. 
• The last time seven different players scored in a game came on Nov. 1, 2011 during a 9-2 win over Syracuse. 

Balancing Act
• Cornell had13 different players earn at least one point in its 7-2 win over Syracuse, marking the first time since an Oct. 28, 2011 9-0 win over Yale that the team had at least 13 different players contribute to the scoresheet. 
• Earning her first career point in the game was senior goaltender Paula Voorheis, who tallied an assist on the Big Red's second goal of the game.
• It was the first time that a Cornell goaltender earned a point since Lauren Slebodnick '15 assisted on a goal in the last game of the 2013-14 season, a 3-2 loss to Mercyhurst in the NCAA Quarterfinal.  

Power-Play Prowess 
• Against Providence on Jan. 7, Cornell's final three goals came on the power-play and the Big Red finished the game 3-of-7 on the man-advantage. 
• The only other game on record in program history in which Cornell scored three-straight power-play goals came last year in a 4-0 win over Vermont and in both instances, sophomore Pippy Gerace tallied the third goal. 
• Since going 5-for-38 on the man-advantage in the first 10 games of the season, Cornell has gone 7-for-29 in the six games since.  

Truly Special Teams
• Cornell is one of four teams in that country that ranks in the top 10 in both penalty-kill rate and power-play conversion, with the Big Red sitting eighth and 10th, respectively, in both categories with Colgate, Boston College, and Minnesota being the other three schools. 
• The Big Red penalty-kill unit had a 19-straight penalty-kill streak snapped in the first period against Syracuse but has yet to give up multiple power-play goals in a game this year.
• Colgate and Boston College are the only two teams to tally two or more power-play goals against Cornell since the beginning of the 2015-16 season.

Points at a Premium
• After navigating the first  nine conference games with a 6-2-1 record, Cornell sits tied with Colgate for fifth-place in the ECAC Hockey standings with 13 points, four back from the deadlocked St. Lawrence and Princeton in third, five back from second-place Quinnipiac and six back from first-place Clarkson.
• Cornell still has two games to play against Clarkson and St. Lawrence and a final date with Colgate on Tuesday evening. 
• The top four teams in the conference will host the best-of-three quarterfinal series in the final weekend of February.

Home, Sweet Home
• Cornell is in the midst of an eight-game home stand, which is the longest stretch of games played at Lynah in program history.
• The Big Red is 8-1-0 at Lynah Rink this year and is 118-67-15 at home all-time under head coach Doug Derraugh.

Saves and Shutouts
• Senior goaltender Paula Voorheis is second in the nation in save percentage (.951) and third overall in goals against average (1.46).
• She has made a total of 254 saves in her nine starts this season, giving her 1,921 saves in her career and placing her second all-time in program history. 
• Alanna Hayes sits first with 2,381 saves. 
• Voorheis made a total of 822 saves during the 2014-15 season, which is tops in single-season history. 

Brilliant Bourbonnais
• Cornell is 6-0-1 when freshman Jaime Bourbonnais notches a point and 4-0-0 when she has an assist. 
• She has had two multi-point games this season, notching a  goal and an assist against both Mercyhurst and Harvard.
• The defenseman is currently fourth on the team in points with eight (4-4—8).

The Kids Are Alright
• The Class of 2020, which makes up 37 percent of the roster, has notched 46 percent of Cornell's goals this year and 38 percent of the team's points.
• Of the team's 41 goals, 19 have come from a rookie class that also has 40 of the team's 104 points.

Short-handed Success 
• Freshman Kristin O'Neill tallied her third short-handed goal of the season on Nov. 18 against Quinnipiac, tying a program season record and putting her in a three-way tie for the national lead. 
• She is the first freshman to record three short-handed tallies in a season since Northeastern's Kendall Coyne, Boston College's Alex Carpenter and Boston University's Kayla Tutino each had three in their 2011-12 freshman seasons. 

Blocked Out
• Cornell blocked 24 shots against Wisconsin on Nov. 25 and then blocked another 21 shots on Nov. 26, making it the third and fourth time, respectively, that the Big Red has recorded at least 15 blocked shots in a game this year. 
• The Big Red has registered double-digit shot blocks in 13 of its 16 games this season.

Century Club
• A trio of Big Red players eclipsed the 100 career games played mark in the first nine games of the 2016-17 season. 
• 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 on Oct. 29 against Union. 
• Senior forward Hanna Bunton played her 100th career game on Nov. 19 against Princeton. 
• 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 her second career 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.

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. 

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.

Nations Cup
• Sophomore co-captain Micah Hart and freshmen Jaime Bourbonnais and Kristin O'Neill along with Jillian Saulnier '15 were all part of the Canada National Women's Development Team that took home a silver medal from the Nations Cup, played Jan. 4-7 in Fussen, Germany and Telfs, Austria
• Saulnier captained the squad – with Hart serving as an assistant captain – which went undefeated in the preliminary round to get to the gold medal game.
• All four Big Red players appeared on the score sheet, with Bourbonnais finishing tied for second with four points. 

December Series Sextet
• Sophomore co-captain Micah Hart made her Canadian National Women's team debut in the inaugural two-game December Series against the United States. 
• Joining Hart on that 22-player roster were five former Cornellians in Laura Fortino '13, Brianne Jenner '15, Rebecca Johnston '12, Lauriane Rougeau '13 and Jillian Saulnier '15. 

Up Next
• Cornell will welcome Colgate to Lynah Rink on Tuesday night for a 7 p.m. matchup before hitting the road for two-straight weekends with trips to Clarkson, St. Lawrence, Dartmouth and Harvard.