CANTON, N.Y. —  The Cornell men's hockey team wraps up its annual trip to the North Country when it takes on St. Lawrence at 7 p.m. Saturday at Roos House Ice 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 St. Lawrence
7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019
PLACE: Roos House Ice Arena  •  Canton, N.Y.
RECORDS: Cornell 5-0, 3-0 ECAC Hockey
                    St. Lawrence 3-7-1, 1-2 ECAC Hockey
BROADCAST: ESPN+
RADIO: WHCU (870 AM, 97.7 FM)
LIVE STATS: SaintsAthletics.com
TICKETS: CornellBigRedTickets.com
GAME NOTES (PDF): Cornell | St. Lawrence

Friday Night Redux:

•  In the night's only matchup of top-10 teams in the USCHO.com poll, Cornell never trailed in a 4-2 victory at Clarkson last night at Cheel Arena. Three players scored their respective first goals of the season and junior goaltender Matthew Galajda made 15 of his 29 saves in the first period.
•  Junior forward Cam Donaldson scored the game-winner on the Big Red's lone power play of the night midway through the third period. He also assisted on freshman defenseman Travis Mitchell's first collegiate goal.
•  Senior forward Jeff Malott also had a goal and an assist for Cornell, scoring to give Cornell a 2-0 lead in the second before getting the lone helper on sophomore forward Michael Regush's empty-net goal late in the third.
•  By scoring on its lone opportunity of the night, Cornell's power play has improved to 9-for-21 on the season. That works out to a 42.9% success rate, which leads the country heading into tonight's game.
•  Junior forward Morgan Barron drew an assist on Mitchell's goal to extend his point-scoring streak to five games to start the season.
•  Cornell remains one of just two undefeated teams in the country. Harvard (4-0) is other.

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 (5-6–11) not only leads the team in scoring, he ranks second in the nation with an average of 2.2 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.
•  Sam Malinski (2-6–8) ranks second among the nation's defensemen and all of its freshmen with an average of 1.6 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 eight of the team's 14 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 (5-0, 1.80, .925) ranks seventh in the nation in goals against average, having surrendered just four even-strength goals through five 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 St. Lawrence:

•  The Saints scored first in their game against Colgate last night, but the Raiders rattled off four unanswered goals for a 4-1 victory at Roos House Ice Arena on the campus of SUNY Canton.
•  Ted McGeen scored 5:44 into the game for St. Lawrence and Emil Zetterquist made 31 saves as the squad fell to 3-7-1 overall and 1-2 in ECAC Hockey.
•  The Saints negated a two-goal deficit to win in overtime, 3-2, last Saturday at Union. Sophomore forward Zach Risteau assisted on the first two goals before scoring the winner a minute in the extra session.
•  St. Lawrence started ECAC Hockey play with a 6-2 last Friday at Rensselaer. A pair of overtime losses in non-conference games against Clarkson came the weekend prior, with now four of the Saints' last seven games going to OT.
•  Risteau (5-9–14) leads the team in scoring by a wide margin, leading the team with a plus-4 rating and scoring all three of the team's game-winning goals. He was moved to a new line with sophomore David Jankowski (0-4–4) at center and sophomore Kaden Pickering (3-1–4) on the opposite wing for the game at Union, and stayed there last night against Colgate.
•  All three of the Saints' goaltenders have played at least four games. Senior Daniel Mannella (2-1-1, 2.41, .932, SO) leads the group, but has not returned since suffering an injury two weeks ago. Freshman Francis Boisvert (0-3, 3.80, .893) and sophomore Emil Zetterquist (1-3, 2.69, .905) split starts last weekend before the latter got the call last night.
•  Brent Brekke is in his first year as head coach at St. Lawrence after spending one season as an assistant at Clarkson. He was an assistant coach at Cornell from 1999-2008.
•  The Saints were selected 12th in both the ECAC Hockey preseason coaches poll and media association poll.

The Series Against St. Lawrence:

•  In a series that began during the 1926-27 campaign, Cornell holds a 64-45-8 all-time lead and enters Saturday on a six-game winning streak and an 12-4-1 record over the last 17 in the series.
•  The Big Red won, 3-1, in last season's first meeting Feb. 9 at Lynah Rink. Michael Regush and Morgan Barron scored power-play goals in the first period for Cornell.
•  Last year's matchup at Appleton Arena on March 1 was the teams' penultimate game of the season, with Cornell getting two first-period goals from Regush in a 4-2 victory. Cam Donaldson also scored.

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 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.