ITHACA, N.Y. — The women's hockey team will look to even the season series against Colgate on Tuesday night when the Raiders visit Lynah Rink for a 7 p.m. ECAC Hockey matchup. Cornell, which appeared in the rankings for the first time this season at #10 in Monday's USCHO.com Division I Women's Poll, currently sits in fifth place in the conference standings, three points ahead of Colgate. 
 
 
GAME #19: #10 CORNELL BIG RED vs. COLGATE RAIDERS
TIME: 7 p.m.
DATE: Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017
PLACE: Lynah Rink — Ithaca, N.Y.
LIVE VIDEO: Ivy League Digital Network
LIVE STATS: CornellBigRed.com
LIVE UPDATES: @CUBigRedGameDay
 
RECORDS: Cornell 11-5-2 (7-2-2 ECAC Hockey), Colgate 15-5-3 (6-4-1 ECAC Hockey)
 
GAME NOTES: Cornell | Colgate

About the Big Red
• Cornell is coming off of a three-point ECAC Hockey weekend after a 1-1 overtime tie with Princeton on Friday night and a 3-2 overtime win over Quinnipiac on Saturday. 
• In both games, senior Hanna Bunton played the role of hero, pulling the Big Red even against the Tigers with 1:02 to play and then scoring the game-winner against the Bobcats just 10 seconds into overtime.
• The three points in the season series with Princeton marks the most since the 2012-13 season and the win over Quinnipiac – ranked #9/8 at the time of the game – was the first win over the Bobcats since February 2015.  
• On Tuesday, Jan. 10, Cornell earned a 7-2 win over Syracuse in the final non-conference game of the year. 
• Bunton leads the team in points (6-10—16) while freshman Kristin O'Neill scored two goals against Quinnipiac and now leads the team with nine and is second to Bunton in points (9-5—14). 
• Senior goaltender Paula Voorheis, who is 5-4-1 in her 10 starts, is second in the nation in save percentage (.954) and third overall in goals against average (1.40) while sophomore Marlène Boissonnault is 10th overall in goals against average (1.73).

About Colgate
• The Raiders are coming off of the first two games of 2017, with both ending in losses. First was a shutout loss, 2-0, to Quinnipiac on Friday and then, despite outshooting the Tigers in all three periods, a 5-1 game on Saturday.
• After going 5-0 in the first five conference games, Colgate is 1-4-1 in its last six, with losses coming against Princeton (7-2, 5-1) and Quinnipiac (3-1, 2-0) and sits in sixth place in the standings, three points back from Cornell.
• The Raiders have the best penalty-kill unit in the nation with a 93.1 kill percentage and the third-best power-play unit, with a 19.3 conversion rate.
• Jessie Eldridge leads the Raiders in points (9-20—29) while five other skaters have at least 15 points each.
• Julia Vandyk has played all but three games in goal, posting a 13-5-2 record on the strength of a .923 save percentage, a 1.95 goals against average, and three shutouts. 

The Series with Colgate
• When the teams met on Nov. 1, they played two scoreless periods before combining for three goals in the final frame. Kristin O'Neill put Cornell up 1-0 just 27 seconds into the third only to see Lauren Wildfang tie the game with under seven minutes to play and then Cat Quirion scored the game-winner with 1:04 left on the clock. 
• It was just Colgate's second win against Cornell in the last 20 games. The Big Red still holds an overall series lead of 35-13-4 (and is 16-3-2 in the last 20 games). 

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.

The Fastest Finish
• Senior Hanna Bunton's goal just 10 seconds into overtime on Saturday against Quinnipiac not only secured Cornell two points but also marked the fastest overtime goal cross all divisions of men's and women's college hockey this season.
 
Freshmen Finesse
• When Kristin O'Neill scored her first goal of the game against Quinnipiac on Jan. 14, she was assisted on the goal by classmates Amy Curlew and Jaime Bourbonnais.
• It marked the first time this season that one of the Big Red's goals featured three points by three rookies. 

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. 
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 fifth and seventh, 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 on Jan. 10 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 multiple power-play goals against Cornell since the beginning of the 2015-16 season.

Home, Sweet Home
• The game against Colgate – Cornell's sixth in 11 days – marks the end of an eight-game home stand for the Big Red, which is the longest stretch of games played at Lynah in program history.
• The Big Red is 9-1-1 at Lynah Rink this year and is 119-67-16 at home all-time under head coach Doug Derraugh.

Many Goals, Many Scorers
• It was truly a team effort in the Big Red's wins over Providence and Syracuse, with five different players notching goals in the 5-1 win over Providence on Jan. 7 and seven different players finding the net in the 7-2 win over Syracuse on Jan. 10.
• 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 had 13 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.  

Don't Fall Behind the Big Red
•  Cornell is 7-0-1 this season when leading after one period and 9-0-1 when leading after two periods.
•  The team has scored first in 12 games this season, going 10-1-1 in those contests. 

Points at Premium
• Cornell came out of this past weekend with three conference points, which moved the team up to fifth overall in the conference with 16 points and a 7-2-2 record.
• The team sits three points ahead of Colgate (6-4-1) but remains four points out of third place where Princeton (9-4-2) and Quinnipiac (9-4-2) are deadlocked, six back from second-place St. Lawrence (10-1-1) and seven back from first-place Clarkson (11-0-1).
• Cornell still has two games to play against Clarkson and St. Lawrence.
• The top four teams in the conference will host the best-of-three quarterfinal series in the final weekend of February.

Saves and Shutouts
• Senior goaltender Paula Voorheis is second in the nation in save percentage (.954) and third overall in goals against average (1.40).
• She has made a total of 291 saves in her 10 starts this season, giving her 1,952 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 7-0-1 when freshman Jaime Bourbonnais notches a point and 5-0-0 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 nine (4-5—9).

The Kids Are Alright
• The Class of 2020, which makes up 37 percent of the roster, has notched 47 percent of Cornell's goals this year and 39 percent of the team's points.
•  Of the team's 45 goals, 21 have come from a rookie class that has also put up 45 of the team's 114 points and 24 of the team's 69 assists. 

Blocked Out
• Cornell has registered double-digit blocked shots in 15 of its 18 games this season and has recorded more than 15 on six occasions and over 20 on three occasions. 
• The team is 9-4-2 when it registers at least 10 blocks in a game.

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. 

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.

The 45th Season
• With the start of the 2016-17 season, the women's hockey program embarked on its 45th season of intercollegiate play, and  the Big Red currently holds an all-time record of 548-494-64. 
• 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.

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 Canada's 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
• The team will head to the North Country this weekend to take on St. Lawrence on Friday night and Clarkson on Saturday afternoon.