The Cornell women's ice hockey opens the ECAC Hockey Tournament as it hosts St. Lawrence for the quarterfinal three-game series.

 

About St. Lawrence

• Following the conclusion of the regular season, the Saints are 13-14-7 overall with an 8-10-4 ECAC Hockey record. 
• As the eighth-ranked team in the ECAC Hockey League, St. Lawrence will visit first-place Cornell. According to the Pairwise Rankings, the Saints are ranked 22nd in the nation.
• Within the ECACHL, St. Lawrence found victories over Rensselaer (11/1 & 12/7), Brown (1/10), Clarkson (1/18), Dartmouth (1/25 & 2/21), Union (1/28) and Quinnipiac (2/15) with ties against Colgate (11/9 & 1/31), Union (12/6) and Brown (2/8).
• Outside of the conference, the Saints beat New Hampshire (10/3), Holy Cross (10/19-20), Syracuse (11/16 & 1/7). 
• Most recently, St. Lawrence split the weekend against Dartmouth and Harvard. On Friday, February 21, the Saints beat Dartmouth, 3-2, and on Saturday, February 22, the Saints fell to Harvard, 3-0.
• Kayla Vespa leads the team with 32 points on 12 goals and 20 assists. The senior forward has notched 11 multi-point games on the season, including her most recent at Cornell (2/1) (two assists). Vespa's last goal was scored against Quinnipiac (2/15).
• The four-year Saint is 47th in the nation with 0.94 points per game. She is tied for 73rd in goals per game (0.35) and tied for 44th in assists per game (0.59).
• Freshmen forwards Anna Segedi and Shailynn Snow follow with 22 points. 
• Segedi notched an even split with 11 goals and 11 assists. She last earned an assist at Cornell.
• The freshman is tied for 85th in the nation in goals per game (0.32).
• Segedi is tied for 20th among the nation's rookies with 0.65 points per game.
• Snow owns six goals and 16 assists on the season. Most recently, Snow notched one goal and one assist against Dartmouth (2/21).
• The rookie is 83rd in the nation with 0.79 points per game and 49th in assists per game (0.57).
• Snow is 12th amongst all the freshmen in the nation with her 0.79 points per game.
• Freshman defender Rachel Teslak leads the team with four power-play goals.
• Segedi and junior forward Charlea Pederson have scored the team's two short-handed goals.
• Freshman forward has scored a team-leading three game-winning goals.
• Lucy Morgan leads the goalies with 23 starts for 567 saves and 40 goals against in 1441:58. 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. She totals four shutouts. 
• Her .934 save percentage is good for eighth in the nation while her 1.66 goals against average is ninth among all Division I goalies.
• As a team, the Saints are 29th in the nation in scoring offense (2.03), 13th in scoring defense (2.15) and 25th in scoring margin (-.12).
• St. Lawrence's power-play team is ranked 29th in the nation (13.4%) and the penalty kill team is 20th with an 84.6% kill rate.

 

Saints History in the ECAC Hockey Tournament

• St. Lawrence has made it to the ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals since the second year of the tournament, 1999-2000 season.
• During the 2019 ECAC Hockey Tournament, the Saints fell to Princeton with two losses during the quarterfinal games.
• St. Lawrence has made it to the ECAC Hockey Championships on three occasions, with one champion title following the 2011-12 season.
• Throughout the tournament's history, the Big Red and the Saints have played each other on five different occasions. Most recently, Cornell defeated St. Lawrence in the semifinals of the 2016-17 season. The Saints also fell in its last quarterfinal series against the Big Red. Cornell won in two games in 2015.
• After defeating the Big Red for the 2012 Championship, Cornell beat St. Lawrence to make it to the 2013 championship game. The Big Red and the Saints first met at the 2001-02 ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals, where Cornell took the victory in two games. 

 

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, 40-34-8.
• In November, the Big Red defeated the Saints, 4-1. Seniors Amy Curlew and Grace Graham each scored two goals. 
• Earlier in February, Cornell earned its second win against the Saints with a 3-2 victory. Senior Jaime Bourbonnais opened the game with a power-play goal. Graham scored a second goal in the first period before sophomore Gillis Frechette tallied the Big Red's third, and eventual game-winning, goal in the second period.
• 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.  

 

2019-20 St. Lawrence Women's Ice Hockey Head Coach

Head Coach: Chris Wells (St. Lawrence '92)
            Record at St. Lawrence: 220-159-57
            Overall Record: 220-159-57
 

2019-20 St. Lawrence Women's Ice Hockey Information

2018-19 Record: 14-15-7
            Home / Away / Neutral: 7-2-6 / 5-12-1 / 2-1-0
2018-2019 ECAC Hockey Record / Finish: 9-7-6 / 5th
 

St. Lawrence Women's Ice Hockey Historical Information

First Year of Women's Ice Hockey: 1978-79
First Year of Division I: 1997-98
Overall All-Time Record: 646-458-100
Overall Division I Record: 469-275-86
Overall ECAC Hockey Record: 278-130-50
NCAA Tournament Appearances: 9 (last in 2017)
Frozen Four Appearances: 5 (last in 2006)
NCAA Titles: 0