ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell men's hockey team has announced that senior forward Tristan Mullin will serve as captain and senior forwards Kyle Betts and Brenden Locke, and senior defenseman Cody Haiskanen have been named alternate captains for the 2020-21 season.
 
"I am very excited for this group to be named leaders of our program," said Mike Schafer '86, the Jay R. Bloom '77 Head Coach of Men's Hockey. "They all bring a unique approach to the game and pursuing excellence. They play well in big games, have a tremendous work ethic, and they are connected to all four classes."
 
Mullin has played in 89 games over his first three seasons at Cornell, posting 21 goals and 28 assists for 49 points. He was the team's leading produced of power-play goals with seven, which gave him the 11th-highest average of power-play goals on the man advantage across the nation. Sixteen of 22 points came in the season's final 16 games, with his 11 points in nine February games tying for the team lead before the campaign's premature end.
 
But Mullin's contributions go beyond what's visible in a box score. Over the last two seasons in particular, Mullin has routinely been on a line with Betts and Noah Bauld '20 that was charged with playing against the opposition's top forward pairings.
 
In Betts, Haiskanen and Locke, the Big Red will have three players donning an 'A' for the first time since the 2004-05 season.
 
"These four and the senior class as a whole know what it takes to prepare, compete, adapt, and overcome adversity," Schafer added. "That's really helped our team over the last three years."
 
After winning the program's third straight Cleary Cup (ECAC Hockey regular season title) and its 24th Ivy League crown last year, the Big Red finished the pandemic-truncated 2019-20 season ranked atop both major national college hockey polls.