POTSDAM, N.Y. — In a rematch of a 2018 ECAC Hockey Championship game that deep into overtime, the Cornell men's hockey team takes on Clarkson at 7 p.m. tonight at Cheel Arena.
The game will be broadcast by the host school on ESPN+ in the U.S. (
with an option for international viewers also available through portal.stretchinternet.com).
Jason Weinstein's call of the game can be heard on WHCU (870 AM, 97.7 FM) and worldwide via the station's website.
Game Information:
#3 Cornell at #7 Clarkson
7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, 2019
PLACE: Cheel Arena • Potsdam, N.Y.
RECORDS: Cornell 4-0, 2-0 ECAC Hockey
Clarkson 7-2-1, 2-0 ECAC Hockey
BROADCAST:
ESPN+
RADIO:
WHCU (870 AM, 97.7 FM)
LIVE STATS:
ClarksonAthletics.com
TICKETS:
CornellBigRedTickets.com
GAME NOTES (PDF):
Cornell |
Clarkson
The Big Red Rewind:
• Cornell has risen to a national ranking of No. 3 in the USCHO.com poll while garnering a handful of first-place votes after a 4-0 start to the season.
• The Big Red opened ECAC Hockey and Ivy League play with dominating home victories against Brown, 4-1 on Friday, and Yale, 6-2 on Saturday.
• Last weekend marked the fourth straight season in which Cornell hasn't dropped a home game to Brown or Yale.
• Cornell's power play continued its torrid start to the season, scoring three times on six opportunities to up its season success rate to 40%. That ranks second in the nation behind just Brown (41.7%).
• The Big Red started its season with a road sweep of Michigan State, downing the Spartans 3-2 on Nov. 1 and 6-2 the following night.
• Cornell dressed eight freshmen in its opener for the first time since 1992, making it the first time under 25th-year head coach
Mike Schafer '86.
Honor Roll:
• Junior forward
Morgan Barron was named ECAC Hockey Player of the Week after leading the circuit with six points last weekend, including his first collegiate hat trick in the opening 23 minutes of the game against Yale. Barron added an assist in the victory over the Bulldogs to post Cornell's first four-point game since March 9, 2018.
• Freshman
Sam Malinski was named ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week for a second straight week, having now posted multiple points in three consecutive games. He had the game-winning goal against Brown and sprinkled in three assists throughout the weekend.
By The Numbers:
• Junior forward
Morgan Barron (5-5–10) not only leads the team in scoring, he leads the nation with an average of 2.5 points per game. He's the first Cornell men's hockey player with at least 10 points through four games since Matt Moulson '06 and Ryan Vesce '04 both had 11 to start the 2003-04 campaign. Barron was named to the All-ECAC Hockey first team last season and was tabbed a Preseason All-ECAC Hockey selection in September.
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Sam Malinski (2-6–8) leads both all of the nation's defensemen and all of its freshmen with an average of 2.0 points per game.
• Though overshadowed by Barron's blistering start, sophomore forward
Max Andreev (2-4–6; 2 PPG) has been terrific in the early going. He's been on the ice for seven of the team's 11 even-strength goals to date.
• Senior defenseman
Yanni Kaldis (1-4–5) is the team's leading active scorer with 66 collegiate points. The three-time selection to the All-Ivy League first team was also a Preseason All-ECAC Hockey selection in September.
• Junior goaltender
Matthew Galajda (4-0, 1.75, .921) ranks ninth in the nation in goals against average, having surrendered just three even-strength goals through four games.
Wasting No Time:
• Freshman forward
Jack Malone scored the Big Red's first goal Nov. 1, marking the second straight year that a newcomer has opened the team's scoring for the season. Sophomore forward
Max Andreev got the scoring started last year, which was the first time a freshman did the honors since
Joe Devin '11 in 2007.
Feel The Draft?:
• Cornell has six players on the roster who have been selected in the NHL Entry Draft — at least one in each of the last five drafts. Freshman forward
Matt Stienburg (Colorado Avalanche) was selected earliest in that group, having been taken in the third round with the 63rd overall pick in June.
• Junior defenseman
Matt Cairns (Edmonton Oilers) was also taken in the third round with the 84th overall pick in the 2016 draft. Classmate
Alex Green was taken with an overaged selection by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 2018 draft, and
Misha Song (2015 sixth round, New York Islanders) gives the Big Red blue line three NHL picks.
• Two sixth-round picks also give Cornell three NHL picks when joined by Stienburg. Junior
Morgan Barron, a fellow St. Andrew's graduate, was snagged in the sixth round by the N.Y. Rangers in 2017. Freshman
Jack Malone was taken by the Vancouver Canucks in the sixth round last summer.
Rare Territory:
• Freshman forward
Jack Malone will be doing something this season that no Cornell men's hockey player has done in more than 50 years — wear number 13. The perceived unluckiest of numbers has only been donned by five previous members of the Big Red, all in the first nine years of the program's resurrection in 1957. The last to wear 13 was James Wallace during the 1965-66 season.
No Sophomore Slump Here:
• An all-sophomore line headlined the Big Red attack last year, with
Brenden Locke centering
Morgan Barron and
Cam Donaldson. But the class' contributions didn't stop there — the group averaged 1.36 goals per game for the season, which is highest in ECAC Hockey and fourth-highest in the nation.
The Twin Tradition:
• The arrival of freshmen Ben and
Zach Tupker give the Big Red its fourth pair of twins in
Mike Schafer's 25-year tenure as the program's head coach. The others were the Devins (Joe and Mike, 2007-11), the Abbotts (Chris and Cam, 2001-06), and the McRaes (Mark and Matt, 1999-2003).
Scouting Clarkson:
• The Golden Knights joined Cornell and Harvard in enjoying sweeps in the league's first full weekend of games. Clarkson used a pair of late goals Friday to pull away from Union, 5-1, then it got a pair of goals in the opening 13 minutes of Saturday's game at Rensselaer before holding on to win, 2-1.
• Last weekend's victories pushed Clarkson's winning streak to four and moved its record to 7-2-1 overall. The Golden Knights have moved up to seventh in both national polls.
• The Golden Knights once again have all three of their top scorers on the same line, with sophomore Josh Dunne (5-6–11; 3 PPGs) flanked by seniors Devin Brosseau (4-7–11) and Haralds Egle (3-5–8).
• Clarkson's penalty kill has been impeccable in the early going, ranking third in the nation at 95.5%.
• Graduate transfer Frank Marotte (7-2-1, 1.88, .938, SO) has logged all of the team's goaltending minutes after starting for Robert Morris in each of the last three seasons.
• Casey Jones '90 is in his ninth season as the head coach at Clarkson after serving as the associate head coach at Cornell from 2008-11.
• The Golden Knights were selected to finish second in ECAC Hockey's preseason media association poll and third in the coaches poll.
The Series Against Clarkson:
• The Big Red owns a 66-56-19 record against the Golden Knights after the teams split three games against each last season — though Clarkson got the biggest win, 3-2 in overtime, in the ECAC Hockey Championship game.
• Cornell won last season's first meeting on Feb. 8, 5-0, behind two goals from
Jeff Malott and a stellar defensive effort that meant
Matthew Galajda needed to make just 17 saves for his third shutout of the season.
• Clarkson then largely outplayed Cornell in the rematch at Cheel Arena on March 2, but goals from
Mitch Vanderlaan '19 and
Michael Regush allowed the Big Red to take an improbable 2-1 lead before Josh Dunne's extra-attacker goal for Clarkson in the final minute of the third period forced a tie.
• Cornell is 11-7-6 against Clarkson since Casey Jones '90 became head coach.
What Happens In The North Country ...:
• Historically one of the most challenging road trips in ECAC Hockey play, Cornell has mustered three out of the available four points on its swing through Clarkson and St. Lawrence in each of the last three seasons. It's been a while since the Big Red has done better than that. Cornell's last weekend sweep in the North Country came Feb. 25-26, 2005.
First Ivy Coach To 400:
• Already the winningest coach in program history and in Ivy League history,
Mike Schafer ranks fifth among active coaches with 460 victories at the Division I level. He also leads all actives coaches of Cornell's 37 varsity teams in career victories.
Two Crowns Down:
• Cornell won the program's 23rd Ivy League championship, marking the Big Red's second straight Ivy crown and its 19th outright title. Cornell is 17-2-3 in its last 22 Ivy League contests.
• In winning the Cleary Cup for a second straight year (though shared this time around), the Big Red has won the ECAC Hockey's regular-season title in consecutive seasons for the first time since 2002 and 2003.
Up Next:
• Cornell returns wraps up its weekend trip with a 7 p.m. clash against St. Lawrence at Roos House Ice Arena in Canton before heading home next weekend for two more ECAC Hockey games when it hosts Quinnipiac at 7 p.m. Friday and Princeton at 7 p.m. Saturday.
• The Big Red then turns its attention to the Big Apple, where it will play in the biennial Red Hot Hockey event with a game against Boston University at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
