ITHACA, N.Y. - The #4 Cornell women's ice hockey team will host a weekend of awareness games against ECAC Hockey North Country foes. On Friday, Jan. 31, Clarkson will visit for the Headway Foundation game and on Saturday, Feb. 1, St. Lawrence will be at Lynah for the DIFD game.

The Headway Foundation is a charity that aims to promote a safe sports culture, provide resources for patients and enhance concussion evaluation protocols and accessibility.
 
DIFD (Do It For Daron) is about inspiring conversations, raising awareness, and transforming youth mental health. In December 2010, 14-year-old Daron Richardson died by suicide. Her parents turned their grief into the public call-to-action that is DIFD. DIFD supports education, awareness, and research initiatives that encourage young people to talk openly about mental illness and to ask for help when needed. The DIFD movement is especially close to Cornell's hearts. Daron's older sister, Morgan, played for Cornell women's ice hockey team before she graduated in 2016. In honor of Daron and the organization made in her name, the Big Red women's ice hockey team hopes to continue to raise awareness and inspire conversations about mental health in a broader scope within and outside the athletics community. The team is asking everyone to donate to the EARS (Empathy, Assistance, and Referral Service) on campus. EARS is a peer-led counseling and training program open to all members of the Cornell community: anonymous, free, and confidential. Click here to donate to EARS.
 

Game Information

#7 Clarkson at #4 Cornell
DATE: Friday, January 31
TIME: 6:00 PM
SITE: Lynah Rink - Ithaca, N.Y.
RECORD: Cornell 18-1-2, 12-0-2 ECAC Hockey; Clarkson 18-4-4, 9-3-2 ECAC Hockey
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 25-22-4
STREAM (USA): ESPN+
STREAM (INT'L): Stretch Internet
STATS: CornellBigRed.com
TICKETS: CornellBigRedTickets
 
St. Lawrence at #4 Cornell
DATE: Saturday, January 25
TIME: 3:00 PM
SITE: Lynah Rink - Ithaca, N.Y.
RECORD: Cornell 18-1-2, 12-0-2 ECAC Hockey; St. Lawrence 10-10-5, 5-6-2 ECAC Hockey
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 38-34-8
STREAM (USA): ESPN+
STREAM (INT'L): Stretch Internet
STATS: CornellBigRed.com
TICKETS: CornellBigRedTickets
 
*records as of Jan. 28
 
Cornell game notes
Clarkson game notes
 

About the Big Red

• After two big shutout wins against Colgate, Cornell remains ranked fourth in both the USCHO.com poll and the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll. 
• The Big Red is 18-1-2 on the season with a 12-0-2 record in ECAC Hockey. 
• Cornell has earned wins against Quinnipiac (twice), #6 Princeton (twice), St. Lawrence, Yale and Brown in ECAC Hockey and the team tied #6 Clarkson. Outside of the conference, the Big Red beat #8 Robert Morris twice, Syracuse and #6 Ohio State. The one loss came on November 29 at #6 Ohio State. To open 2020, the Big Red swept Mercyhurst with a 6-2 win and a 2-1 victory in overtime on Jan. 4-5 before tying Union (1/10) and beating Rensselaer (1/11) on the road and earning two wins against Dartmouth (1/17) and Harvard (1/18).
• With 21 games under her belt, senior defender Jaime Bourbonnais leads the team with 28 points on five goals and 23 assists. She has earned a point in all but two games (at St. Lawrence and #6 Princeton), including three games with three assists. Her longest, and current, point streak of the season is nine games. She most recently scored a short-handed goal at Colgate (1/25).
• Junior forward Maddie Mills follows with 25 points on 11 goals and 14 assists. Mills has seven multi-point games on the season. Most recently, she assisted two goals at Colgate (1/25).
• Senior forward Kristin O'Neill follows in third place with 24 points on 14 goals and 10 assists.  Along with seven multi-point games on the season, she holds the longest point streak after earning a point in 10-straight games. Most recently, O'Neill notched a hat trick and one assist at Colgate (1/25).
• Lindsay Browning became the first goalie in program history to open the season with three shutouts when the team beat Quinnipiac (11/1), 1-0. After game 21 (at Colgate, 1/25), Browning earned three straight shutouts for the second time in the 2019-20 season. In 21 games, Browning has 374 saves for a .961 save percentage. The junior goalie has let 15 shots past her and into the net for a .72 goals against average. She earned her eighth shutout of the season against Colgate (1/24-25).

 

Work as a Team, Win as a Team

• The Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey team ranks:
  • 1st in the nation in scoring defense (.76 goals per game - 15 in 21 games)
  • 1st in the nation in penalty kills (94.1% - 80/85 penalties killed)
  • 1st in the nation in current unbeaten streak (11 games)
  • 1st in the nation in team winning percentage (.905)
  • 2nd in the nation in scoring margin (3.14 - 3.90 goals for per game, .76 goals against per game)
  • 3rd in combined special teams (58.1% - 97/167)
  • 4th in the nation in scoring offense (3.90 goals per game - 82 in 21 games)
  • 7th in the nation in power plays (20.7% - 17/82)
  • 1st in the ECAC Hockey league in goal against average (.76)
  • 1st in the ECAC Hockey league in winning percentage (.905)
  • 1st in the ECAC Hockey league in goals per game (3.90)
  • 1st in the ECAC Hockey league in penalty kill percentage (.941)
  • 2nd in the ECAC Hockey league in power play percentage (.207)

 

Individuals Ranked Nationally

• Jaime Bourbonnais 
  • 2nd in points per game (defenseman) (1.33)
  • 5th in assists per game (1.10)
  • 11th in short-handed goals per game (.05); tied with 8 other people including Grace Graham
  • 14th in points per game (1.33); tied with Kayla Friesen (Clarkson)
• Lindsay Browning
  • 1st in goals against average (.72)
  • 1st in save percentage (.961)
  • 1st in winning percentage (.905)
  • 1st in shutouts (8); tied with Aerin Frankel (Northeastern)
• Amy Curlew
  • 20th in power-play goals per game (.19); tied with five other people including Maddie Mills
• Izzy Daniel
  • 25th in points per game (freshman) (.59)
• Gillis Frechette
  • 38th in goals per game (.42); tied with Kayla Friesen (Clarkson)
• Grace Graham
  • 11th in short-handed goals per game (.05); tied with 8 other people including Jaime Bourbonnais
• Paige Lewis
  • 25th in assists per game (.71)
  • 38th in points per game (1.05)
• Maddie Mills
  • 20th in power-play goals per game (.19); tied with five other people including Amy Curlew
  • 25th in points per game (1.19)
  • 28th in goals per game (.52)
  • 30th in assists per game (.67); tied with four other people
• Kristin O'Neill
  • 8th in goals per game (.74); tied with Carly Bullock (Princeton)
  • 18th in points per game (1.26)
• Willow Slobodzian
  • 15th in points per game (defenseman) (.79)
  • 28th in assists per game (.68); tied with Carly Bullock (Princeton)
• Micah Zandee-Hart
  • 17th in points per game (defenseman) (.74)

 

Individuals Ranked in ECAC Hockey

• Jaime Bourbonnais
  • 2nd in assists per game (1.10)
  • 3rd in plus/minus (+25)
  • 6th in power-play assists per game (.29)
  • 6th in points per game (1.33); tied with Kayla Friesen (Clarkson)
  • 7th in short-handed goals per game (.05); tied with CC Bowlby (Dartmouth) and Grace Graham
  • 13th in power-play points per game (.29); tied with CC Bowlby (Dartmouth) and Kayla Friesen (Clarkson)
• Lindsay Browning
  • 1st in goals against average (.72)
  • 1st in save percentage (.961)
  • 1st in shutouts (8)
  • 1st in win percentage (.905)
• Amy Curlew
  • 4th in power-play goals per game (.19); tied with Maddie Mills
  • 10th in plus/minus (+21); tied with Kristin O'Neill
  • 19th in goals per game (.43); tied with Grace Graham
  • 20th in power-play points per game (.24)
• Izzy Daniel
  • 11th in power-play points per game (.29); tied with Claire Thompson (Princeton)
  • 14th in power-play goals per game (.12); tied with Mariah Keopple (Princeton)
  • 18th in power-play assists per game (.18)
• Devon Facchinato 
  • 11th in power-play assists per game (.21); tied with Carly Bullock (Princeton)
• Gillis Frechette
  • 4th in plus/minus (+24); tied with Sarah Filler (Princeton)
  • 10th in goals per game (.48); tied with Kayla Friesen (Clarkson)
  • 20th in points per game (.90)
• Grace Graham
  • 6th in plus/minus (+23); tied with Paige Lewis
  • 7th in short-handed goals per game (.05); tied with CC Bowlby (Dartmouth) and Jaime Bourbonnais
  • 19th in goals per game (.43); tied with Amy Curlew
• Paige Lewis
  • 6th in plus/minus (+23); tied with Grace Graham
  • 9th in assists per game (.71)
  • 12th in points per game (1.05)
• Maddie Mills
  • 4th in power-play goals per game (.19); tied with Amy Curlew
  • 8th in power-play points per game (.38)
  • 8th in plus/minus (+22); tied with Micah Zandee-Hart
  • 8th in goals per game (.52)
  • 9th in points per game (1.19)
  • 12th in assists per game (.67)
  • 16th in power-play assists per game (.19); tied with CC Bowlby (Dartmouth)
• Kristin O'Neill
  • 2nd in face-off percentage (.620)
  • 5th in game-winning goals per game (.16); tied with Carly Bullock (Princeton)
  • 5th in goals per game (.74); tied with Carly Bullock (Princeton)
  • 8th in points per game (1.26)
  • 10th in plus/minus (+21); tied with Amy Curlew
• Willow Slobodzian 
  • 2nd in plus/minus (+26)
  • 10th in assists per game (.68); tied with Carly Bullock (Princeton)
• Micah Zandee-Hart
  • 3rd in power-play assists per game (.32); tied with Maggie Connors (Princeton)
  • 5th in power-play points per game (.42); tied with Maggie Connors (Princeton)
  • 8th in plus/minus (+22); tied with Maddie Mills
  • 18th in blocks per game (1.68)
  • 18th in power-play goals per game (.11); tied with Maggie Connors (Princeton)

 

Cornell Career Records

• Kristin O'Neill
  • Ranks 1st in short-handed goals (10)
  • Ranks 2nd in game-winning goals (19) … Needs two more to pass Brianne Jenner (2010-12, 14).
  • Ranks 4th in shots on goal (502) … Needs 32 more to pass Chelsea Karpenko (2008-11)
  • Ranks 10th in goals (70) … Needs six more to pass Sunshine Lorenz (1974-77)
  • Ranks 10th in plus/minus (+75) … Needs +2 to pass Jaime Bourbonnais.
  • Needs one more power-play goal to be tied for eighth in PPGs (16) with Laura Fortino (2009-12), Colette Bredin (1996-98) and Digit Degidio (1979-82).
  • Needs 15 points to be tied for tenth in points (144) with Diane Dillon (1979-82)
• Maddie Mills
  • Ranks 4th in power-play goals (19); tied with Emily Fulton (2011-14) and Catherine White (2008-11) … Needs one more to be tied with Brianne Jenner (2010-12, 14) and Rebecca Johnston (2007-08, 10-11) for second place.
  • Ranks 10th in game-winning goals (11) … Needs one more game-winning goal to be tied for fifth with five other people
  • Needs one more short-handed goal to be tied for seventh in short-handed goals (4) with Taylor Woods (2012-15), Jessica Campbell (2010-13), Janna Dewar (1994), Linda Campbell (2010-13) and Digit Degidio (1979-82)
• Lindsay Browning
  • Ranks 5th in shutouts (9); tied with Paula Voorheis (2013-16) and Alanna Hayes (1995-98) … Needs three more to tie Kathryn LoPresti (1985-88) for fourth place
  • Ranks 8th in goalie wins (22); tied with Chantal Toth (1989-92) … Needs one more to hold eighth to herself, or 15 more to tie Kathryn LoPresti (1985-88) for seventh place
• Jaime Bourbonnais
  • Ranks 9th in plus/minus (+76) … Needs +5 to pass Catherine White (2008-11)
  • Needs 14 more assists to be tied for tenth in assists (89) with Laurianne Rougeau (2009-12)

 

Cornell Seasonal Records

• Lindsay Browning
  • Ranks 2nd in shutouts (8) … Needs two more to tie the record, or three to break the season record
  • Ranks 5th in wins (18) … Needs two more to be tied for fourth with Marlene Boissonnault's 2018 season, or seven more to break the season record
• Grace Graham
  • Needs one more short-handed goal to enter the top-10 and be tied for seventh with two short-handed goals in a season

 

Last Week in Review

• Cornell held its home and home with Colgate on Jan. 24-25.
• At Lynah, the Big Red defeated the Saints, 2-0. The senior class shined in the Friday afternoon game. Seniors Grace Graham and Paige Lewis each scored one goal and earned one assist while senior Jaime Bourbonnais made one assist.
• At Colgate, the Big Red scored five goals for a 5-0 win. Senior Kristin O'Neill notched her second career hat trick with Bourbonnais and junior Finley Frechette scoring the first and final goals, respectively. 

 

About Clarkson

• Clarkson is ranked #7 by both the USCHO.com and the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine.
• Overall, the Golden Knights are 18-4-4 on the season, with an ECAC Hockey record of 9-3-2. Within the conference, Clarkson fell to Princeton (11/22), Yale (1/10) and St. Lawrence (1/18) and found victory over Union (11/1 & 12/6), Rensselaer (11/2 & 12/7), Colgate (11/8), Brown (1/11), St. Lawrence (1/17), Harvard (1/24) and Dartmouth (1/25) with ties against Cornell (11/9) and Quinnipiac (11/23).
• Junior forward Elizabeth Giguere leads the team with 47 points on 25 goals and 22 assists. She has 14 multi-point games on the season. Most recently, Giguere notched two goals and two assists against Dartmouth before assisting on two goals against Harvard.
• Freshman forward Gabrielle David follows with 30 points on 11 goals and 19 assists. With 10 multi-point games under her wing, David's last goal and assist came against Harvard.
• Sophomore goalie Marie-Pier Coulombe has spent 1328:19 in goal with 464 saves and 28 goals against for five shutouts, a 1.26 goals against average and a .943 save percentage.

 

The Series vs Clarkson

• The series between Cornell and Princeton has been alive since the 1974-75 season with the Big Red holding a 25-22-4 advantage.
• Earlier in the season (2019-20), the Big Red tied the Golden Knights, 1-1, on November 9. Freshman Izzy Daniel scored her first collegiate goal as Cornell's lone goal.
• Last year, the team and the Golden Knights met on three separate occasions, splitting the regular season with Cornell taking a 3-1 decision in Ithaca on Dec. 1, 2018. 
• The Golden Knights won the second game of the regular season, 4-0, in Potsdam on Feb. 8, 2019, before defeating the Big Red for the ECAC Hockey Championship title, 4-1, at Lynah Rink.

 

About St. Lawrence

• After 25 games, the Saints are 10-10-5 overall with a 5-6-2 ECAC Hockey record. During the first half of the season, St. Lawrence beat New Hampshire (10/3), Holy Cross (10/19-20), Rensselaer (twice) (11/1 & 12/7) and Syracuse (11/16) for its first six wins. Since the start of the new year, the Saints have beaten Syracuse (1/7), Brown (1/10), #7 Clarkson (1/18) and Dartmouth (1/25).
• Kayla Vespa leads the team with 26 points on 11 goals and 15 assists. The senior forward has notched 10 multi-point games on the season, including her most recent against Dartmouth (two assists).
• Freshman forward Anna Segedi follows with 21 points on 11 goals and 10 assists. Segedi had her biggest weekend against New Hampshire with five goals and two assists. Most recently, she assisted two goals against Dartmouth (1/25).
• Lucy Morgan leads the goalies with a .941 save percentage on 397 saves and a 1.50 goals against average in 998:34. With a 1-0 shutout win against Clarkson on Jan. 18, Morgan became just the second goalie in program history to shutout the Golden Knights.

 

The Series vs St. Lawrence

• Cornell and St. Lawrence first met during the 1976-77 season with the Big Red leading the all-time series, 38-34-8.
• Earlier this year, the Big Red defeated the Saints, 4-1. Seniors Amy Curlew and Grace Graham each scored two goals.
• During the 2018-19 season, the Big Red went 1-0-1 against the Saints. At Lynah Rink, Cornell beat St. Lawrence, 4-0, in November before tying the Saints 1-1 in Canton, N.Y. in February.
• The tie earlier in 2019 closed a Big Red four-game winning streak against St. Lawrence. 

 

Two Peas in a Pod

• Micah Zandee-Hart and Kristin O'Neill will be serving as the team's captains for the second year.
• Zandee-Hart led the 2018-19 squad with 55 blocks, while also finishing third with 17 assists and sixth with 21 points.
• O'Neill led last year's team with 22 goals while finishing second in points (38) and tying for first in power-play goals (7).

 

Border Battle

• Out of the 28 players on the roster, 17 are from the United States while nine call Canada home. 
• The Americans have representatives from Minnesota (4), Massachusetts (3), California (2), New York (2), Michigan (1), Iowa (1), Illinois (1), Pennsylvania (1), Virginia (1) and Connecticut (1).
• The Canadians on the roster come from five different provinces: Ontario (5), New Brunswick (1), Saskatchewan (1), British Columbia (1) and Newfoundland and Labrador (1).

 

About Head Coach Doug Derraugh

• Now entering his 15th season directing the Cornell women's ice hockey program in 2019-20, Doug Derraugh has brought the Big Red women to their place among the nation's elite.
• Derraugh has a 267-150-42 record in his first 14 seasons as the head coach of the Big Red, with his 200th coming in the form of a 4-2 win against Yale in 2016.
• Cornell has made the ECAC Hockey Tournament each of the last 12 seasons, won the tournament four of the last 10 years and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in seven of those seasons.
• The 2019 American Hockey Coaches Association National Coach of the Year 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. Cornell returned to the NCAA Frozen Four in 2019 after finishing as National Quarter Finalists in 2013, 2014 and 2017.
• 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 2013-14.

 

About Associate Head Coach Edith Racine

• Edith Racine enters her first season as the associate head coach after serving as an assistant coach for 10 years prior. 
• Under her direction, the Big Red has seen vast improvement among its goaltenders. During her time at Lynah, Racine has most notably coached Amanda Mazzota, Lauren Slebodnick, Paula Voorheis and Marlene Boissonnault.
• During her first season with the Big Red, Racine coached Mazzota to finish as the national leader in shutouts (11) in the 2009-10 season, breaking the Cornell single season record for both men's and women's ice hockey. Mazzota was also the national leader for goals against average (1.11) after the close of the 2010-11 season, as well as the runner-up in save percentage. 
• Slebodnick finished her career with the top spot in Cornell history for career wins (68) and sixth-best goals against average in the nation during the 2012-13 season.
• Voorheis was named to the ECAC Hockey All-Rookie Team in 2013-14. She finished her career after the 2016-17 campaign ranked second all-time in save percentage (.925) and saves (2,238) and third in goals against average (2.14). 
• Most recently, Racine has coached Marlene Boissonnault to national success. Boissonnault finished her senior season (2018-19) ranked second in the nation, and first in the ECAC, in goals against average (1.64). Boissonnault was named ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week six times in her career (2x in 2018-19 and 4x in 2017-18). She finished the second-winningest goalie in program history with 56 wins. 

 

Up Next

• Following a weekend at home, the Big Red will travel for the first of its final two weekends on the road in regular season. On Friday (Feb. 7), Cornell will play Harvard before heading to New Hampshire to play Dartmouth on Saturday, Feb. 8.