ITHACA, N.Y. — The #8 women's hockey team will make its longest road trip of the season this weekend when it heads to Dartmouth and Harvard for two ECAC Hockey contests on Friday and Saturday, respectively. The Big Red is coming off of a weekend in which it went 1-1 in ECAC Hockey play and jumped into a three-way tie for third place. 

Cornell has a chance to sweep the season series against both the Big Green and the Crimson – which is something the program has not done against Harvard since the 2011-12 season.

GAME #22: #8 CORNELL BIG RED at DARTMOUTH BIG GREEN
TIME: 6 p.m.
DATE: Friday, Jan. 27, 2017
PLACE: Thompson Arena — Hanover, N.H.
LIVE VIDEO: Ivy League Digital Network
LIVE STATS: DartmouthSports.com
LIVE UPDATES: @CUBigRedGameDay
 
GAME #23: #8 CORNELL BIG RED at HARVARD CRIMSON
TIME: 3 p.m.
DATE: Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017
PLACE: Bright-Landry Hockey Center — Cambridge, Mass.
LIVE VIDEO: Ivy League Digital Network
LIVE STATS: GoCrimson.com
LIVE UPDATES: @CUBigRedGameDay
 
RECORDS: Cornell 13-6-2 (9-3-2 ECAC Hockey), Dartmouth 5-15-0 (3-11-0 ECAC Hockey), Harvard 3-14-2 (3-9-2 ECAC Hockey)*
 
*records do not include Friday's games
 
GAME NOTES: Cornell | Dartmouth | Harvard

About the Big Red
• Cornell earned two conference points with a 2-1 win over #3 Clarkson on Friday night, snapping the Golden Knights 18-game unbeaten streak and earning the program's 550th win. Sophomore Marlène Boissonnault made a career-high 29 saves and Clarkson was held scoreless through two periods for the first time all year.
• On Saturday, #5 St. Lawrence came out on the right end of a 5-2 win but freshman Kristin O'Neill scored her nation-leading and program-record fourth short-handed goal of the season and senior goaltender Paula Voorheis made her 2,000th career save.
• Cornell escaped an ECAC battle against Colgate on Jan. 17 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 squad that had entered the game with the top-ranked penalty-killing unit in the nation.
• Bunton leads the team in points (7-12—19) while O'Neill leads the team with 10 goals and is second to Bunton in points (10-7—17). 
• Voorheis is ranked fourth overall in the nation in save percentage (.946) and seventh in goals against average (1.59) while Boissonnault is also among the best, coming in at ninth in goals against average (1.65) and tied for second in winning-percentage (7-1-1, .833). 

About Dartmouth
• The Big Green dropped games to Yale (3-0) and Brown (1-0) this past weekend and a close 2-1 battle with Harvard on Jan. 17. Of the last six games that the Big Green has played, five have been decided by one goal. Dartmouth earned its first four-point conference weekend of the season on Jan. 13 and 14 with a pair of 2-1 wins over Union and Rensselaer – both of which came after a 2-1 non-conference win over New Hampshire on Jan. 10.
• Kennedy Ottenbreit (6-4—10) and Eleni Tebano (4-6—10) are tied for the team lead in points while Alyssa Baker leads the squad with seven helpers. 
• Robyn Chemago has played the majority of the time between the pipes for Dartmouth, putting up a .926 save percentage and a 2.46 goals against average. Her overall record of 4-11-0 includes one shutout.

The Series with Dartmouth
• The Big Red won the first meeting between the teams in the final game before the winter break, getting a power-play tally from Micah Hart and an empty-net goal from Diana Buckley to secure the 2-1 score.
• Cornell swept the series last season in 5-3 and 1-0 wins that both included a short-handed goal from Kaitlin Doering. 
• Dartmouth holds an overall series lead of 42-33-7 but Cornell is 13-10-2 in the series under head coach Doug Derraugh. 

About Harvard
• The Crimson went 2-1-0 in ECAC Hockey play last week, posting two-straight wins over Dartmouth (2-1) on Tuesday and Brown (3-1) on Friday before dropping a game to Yale (3-2) on Saturday.
• Harvard has eight losses of one goal, four of which went to overtime and hasn't given up more than four goals in a game since a 4-1 loss to Minnesota-Duluth on Nov. 25. 
• Lexie Laing's 11 points (4-7—11) lead the team while Sydney Daniels (8-2—10) and Kat Hughes (5-5—10) are both up in the double-digits. Daniels also leads the team in shots on goal with 84.
• In goal, Molly Tissenbaum and Brianna Laing continue to split time, with Laing going 3-5-0 and Tissenbaum 0-8-0. Laing has posted a .917 save percentage and a 2.38 goals against average while Tissenbaum has put up a .920 save percentage and a 2.82 goals against average.

The Series with Harvard
• Cornell shutout Harvard, 3-0, in the first meeting of the season back on Dec. 2 at Lynah Rink. Three freshmen in Valerie Audet, Amy Curlew and Jaime Bourbonnais did the scoring for the Big Red while Paula Voorheis earned her eighth career shutout with a 21-save performance. 
• Cornell has not swept the season series with Harvard since posting 5-3 and 2-0 wins in the 2011-12 season. 
• Harvard still maintains a 56-28-4 edge in the overall series.

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.

Paula2K
• With her 21st save of the game on Saturday against St. Lawrence, senior Paula Voorheis became the second goaltender in program history to reach 2,000 career saves.
• Alanna Hayes sits in first place all-time in program history with 2,381.
• Voorheis made a total of 822 saves during the 2014-15 season, which is tops in single-season history, and has made 333 this season in her 12 starts. 

O'Neill Sets Record
• With her short-handed goal on Saturday against St. Lawrence, freshman Kristin O'Neill set a program record for short-handed goals in a season with four.
• O'Neill, who leads the nation in man-down goals, is the first freshman to notch four short-handed goals in a season since Monique Lamoreux recorded five during her 2008-09 freshman season at Minnesota. 

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.

Truly Special Teams
• Cornell is one of five teams in that country that ranks in the top 10 in both power-play conversion and penalty-kill rate, with the Big Red sitting fourth and ninth, respectively, in both categories (Wisconsin, Colgate, Boston College, and Minnesota are the other 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  score multiple power-play goals against Cornell since the beginning of the 2015-16 season.

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. 
• In both games, sophomore Pippy Gerace tallied the third goal. 

The Tallest of Teams
• The Big Red roster has an average height of 5'7.89", making it the tallest in the NCAA, with Maine coming in a close second at 5'7.82".
•  Cornell's two-member junior class has an average height of 5'11.5", making it both the tallest junior class of any team in the NCAA and the tallest class overall as it stands 2.5 inches over the next closest average in Ohio State's junior class.

Points at a Premium
• Cornell enters the weekend in a three-way tie for third place in the conference with 20 points and a 9-3-2 record but holds the tie-break over the other two squads, Princeton and Quinnipiac.
• The team remains three points back of second-place St. Lawrence (11-2-1) and five back from first-place Clarkson (12-1-1).
• The top four teams in the conference will host the best-of-three quarterfinal series in the final weekend of February.

Eye On the Ivy
• The Big Red currently sits in first place in the Ivy League standings with 11 points and a 5-0-1 record and four Ancient Eight games left on the slate. 
• Cornell needs three points out of this weekend – including a win over Harvard - to eliminate Princeton and Harvard from title contention and three wins in the last four to ensure that the trophy returns to East Hill.

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. 

Brilliant Bourbonnais
• Cornell is 8-0-1 when freshman Jaime Bourbonnais notches a point and 6-0-0 when she has an assist. 
• She has had three multi-point games this season.
• The defenseman is currently tied for third on the team in points with 11 (4-7—11).

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 13 games this season, going 11-1-1 in those contests. 

The Kids Are Alright
• The Class of 2020, which makes up 37 percent of the roster, has notched 43 percent of Cornell's goals this year and 39 percent of the team's total points.
• Of the team's 51 goals, 22 have come from a rookie class that has also put up 50 of the team's 129 points and 28 of the team's 78 assists. 

Blocked Out
• Cornell has registered double-digit blocked shots in 17 of its 21 games this season and has recorded more than 15 on seven occasions and over 20 on three occasions. 
• The team is 11-4-2 when it registers at least 10 blocks in a game.

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 550-495-64.
• 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.

Up Next
• Cornell will welcome Union and Rensselaer to Lynah Rink on Feb. 3 and 4 to wrap-up the season series for both opponents.