ITHACA, N.Y. — The #10 women's hockey team will take its five game unbeaten streak to the North Country this weekend for two big ECAC Hockey battles. First up is #3 Clarkson on Friday night – a team with a nation-best 18 game unbeaten streak – followed by #5 St. Lawrence on Saturday afternoon. The Big Red lost the last meeting with the Saints but is 7-1-2 in the last 10 games and the senior class is 5-1-2 overall against St. Lawrence.
 
GAME #20: #10 CORNELL BIG RED at #3 CLARKSON GOLDEN KNIGHTS
TIME: 6 p.m.
DATE: Friday, Jan. 20, 2017
PLACE: Cheel Arena — Potsdam, N.Y.
LIVE VIDEO: ClarksonAthletics.com
LIVE STATS: ClarksonAthletics.com
LIVE UPDATES: @CUBigRedGameDay
 
GAME #20: #10 CORNELL BIG RED at #5 ST. LAWRENCE SAINTS
TIME: 3 p.m.
DATE: Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017
PLACE: Appleton Arena — Canton, N.Y.
LIVE VIDEO: SaintsAthletics.com
LIVE STATS: SaintsAthletics.com
LIVE UPDATES: @CUBigRedGameDay
 
RECORDS: Cornell 12-5-2 (8-2-2 ECAC Hockey), Clarkson 17-3-4 (11-0-1 ECAC Hockey), St. Lawrence 18-2-2 (10-1-1 ECAC Hockey)*
 
*records do not include Friday's games
 
GAME NOTES: Cornell | Clarkson | St. Lawrence
 
About the Big Red
• Cornell escaped Tuesday night's conference battle against Colgate with a 2-1 win on the strength of power-play goals from seniors Kaitlin Doering and Hanna Bunton. The Big Red went 2-of-6 on the man-advantage against a Raiders team that entered the game ranked first in the nation with a 93.1 killing percentage.
• Last weekend, Cornell earned three ECAC Hockey points with a 1-1 overtime tie with Princeton on Jan. 13 and a 3-2 overtime win over Quinnipiac on Jan. 14. In both games, 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 Feb. 2015. 
 • Bunton leads the team in points (7-10—17) while freshman Kristin O'Neill leads the team with nine goals and is second to Bunton in points (9-5—14).
• Senior goaltender Paula Voorheis, who is 6-4-1 in her 10 starts, is second in the nation in both save percentage (.954) and goals against average (1.36) while sophomore Marlène Boissonnault is 10th overall in goals against average (1.73).
 
About Clarkson
• After wins over Yale (4-2) and Brown (8-1) this past weekend, the Golden Knights enter the weekend riding an 18 game unbeaten streak, which is the longest active streak in the nation. The team last loss on Oct. 15 to #1 Wisconsin (4-1) and currently sits first in the conference standings with 23 points.
• Clarkson has both the best conference power-play, converting 32.7 percent of the time, and offense, averaging 5.17 goals per game.
• Cayley mercer leads the team in points (13-20—33) and three other players over the 20 point threshold in Genevieve Bannon (10-18—28), Michaela Pejzlova (9-15—24), and Rhyen McGill (24-6—17).
• Shea Tiley has seen the majority of play in net for the Knights, going 14-3-4 while posting a .920 save percentage, 1.78 goals against and one shutout
 
The Series with Clarkson
• It was Clarkson that knocked Cornell out of the ECAC Hockey quarterfinals last season with a two-game sweep in Potsdam to extend an unbeaten streak against the Big Red to four games. Cornell's last win against the Knights came in an upset win, 3-1, in the 2015 ECAC Hockey semifinal round in Postdam.
• Cornell holds an all-time series lead of 23-15-4.
 
About St. Lawrence
• St. Lawrence earned four points in the ECAC Hockey standings on Friday and Saturday with wins over Brown (7-2) and Yale (4-1), respectively, to take hold of second place in ECAC Hockey with 21 points.
• The Saints opened 2017 on Jan. 7 with 5-2 loss to Merychurst – just the third time all season that the team has allowed more than three goals in a game – before recovering for a 3-2 win the following day.
• Grace Harrison has backstopped St. Lawrence to the second-best team defense in the nation (1.36) and the best in the conference (1.00). The sophomore has gone 15-2-2 while posting a .927 save percentage, 1.47 goals against average and seven shutouts, four of which came in conference play.
• Kennedy Marchment leads the team in points (14-23—37) while Brooke Webster is second (13-22—35) and leads the team in shots on goal (115).
 
The Series with St. Lawrence
• Cornell lost the last meeting between these two teams, 5-1, in Ithaca, but is 7-1-2 in the last 10 meetings and the current group of seniors is 5-1-2 overall against the Saints.
• Cornell holds a slight edge in the all-time series with a 34-33-6 record against St. Lawrence.
 
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.
 
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 ninth and fourth, 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.
 
The Fastest Finish
• Senior Hanna Bunton's goal just 10 seconds into overtime on Jan. 14 against Quinnipiac not only secured Cornell two points but also marked the fastest overtime goal – men's or women's – in all of college hockey this season.
• Bunton's 10 second tally tied for the fastest goal in NCAA Division I women's hockey in the past six seasons, as Brianna Decker scored 10 seconds in overtime for Wisconsin on Nov. 10, 2010.
 
Pushing the Right Bunton(s)
• Hanna Bunton has scored in three-straight games for the Big Red, which matches a career-long goal-streak from last season.
• Bunton has also scored two-straight game-winning goals and now sits in sole possession of eighth all-time in program history with 11 career winning tallies.
• Cornell is 4-0-1 this season when Bunton finds the net.
 
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. 
 
Points at Premium
• Cornell enters the weekend in fifth place in the conference with 18 points and an 8-2-2 record.
• The team sits five points ahead of Colgate (6-5-1) but remains two points out of third place where Princeton (9-4-2) and Quinnipiac (9-4-2) are deadlocked and each one point back from second-place St. Lawrence (10-1-1) and three back from first-place Clarkson (11-0-1).
• The top four teams in the conference will host the best-of-three quarterfinal series in the final weekend of February.

The Kids Are Alright
• The Class of 2020, which makes up 37 percent of the roster, has notched 45 percent of Cornell's goals this year and 35 percent of the team's points.
•  Of the team's 47 goals, 21 have come from a rookie class that has also put up 46 of the team's 119 points and 25 of the team's 72 assists.
 
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.
 
Saves and Shutouts
• Senior goaltender Paula Voorheis is second in the nation in both save percentage (.954) and goals against average (1.36)
• She has made a total of 312 saves in her 11 starts this season, giving her 1,979 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).
 
Blocked Out
• Cornell has registered double-digit blocked shots in 16 of its 19 games this season and has recorded more than 15 on seven occasions and over 20 on three occasions.
• The team is 10-4-2 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.
 
Weekly Honors
• Hanna Bunton was named the ECAC Hockey Player of the Week for Jan. 16 for her heroic two-goal weekend in the Big Red's tie with Princeton and an overtime win over Quinnipiac.
• Bunton scored with 1:02 left on the clock to force overtime against the Tigers on Jan. 13 and then potted a goal just 10 seconds into overtime the next day against the Bobcats.
• The senior also earned the honor for the week of Nov. 14 after she 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.
 
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.
 
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 549-494-64.
• 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 Big Red will take to the road again next weekend, heading to Dartmouth on Friday night and Harvard on Saturday, and look to take the season series against both squads.