ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell men's hockey team will look to push its winning streak to five games on Saturday, when it wraps up a four-game home stand against Yale at 7 p.m.

Game Information:

Yale at #10 Cornell
SITE: Lynah Rink — Ithaca, N.Y. 
TIME: 7 p.m. Saturday, November 20 
BROADCAST: ESPN+
RADIO: WHCU (870 AM, 97.7 FM)
TICKETS: Cornell Athletic Tickets
STATS: CornellBigRed.com
CORNELL GAME NOTES (PDF):  Full Midweek  |  Saturday Supplement

How To Watch:

•  Featuring the call of Grady Whittenburg and color commentary from Tim Vanini '91, the game will be broadcast on ESPN+ in the U.S. (with an option for international viewers also available through Stretch Internet). 
•  The game can also be heard on WHCU (870 AM, 97.7 FM) with Jason Weinstein in his 17th season on play-by-play and Tony Eisenhut '88 on color commentary.

Friday Night Redux:

•  Junior forward Matt Stienburg book-ended the scoring of Cornell's 3-2 victory over Brown on Friday, including the winner in overtime to help the Big Red improve to 3-0 in extra frames since the NCAA adopted a universal three-on-three format.
•  For the full recap of Friday's game, click here.
•  After Stienburg opened the scoring with a minute left in the first period, sophomore forward Kyle Penney's third goal of the season doubled Cornell's lead just 21 seconds into the second.
•  The Big Red was then whistled for 11 minutes of penalties over a span of just under 25 minutes, which helped the Bears climb back into the game. Cole Quisenberry scored on the man advantage to rejuvenate Brown, which then equalized early in the third on a goal-mouth conversion by Michael Maloney.
•  Cornell then made a stand in the third period, killing off a five-minute major. Senior goaltender Nate McDonald made three of his career-high 30 saves on that particular penalty kill, which set the stage for Stienburg's heroics.
•  "I was disappointed with the way our guys played tonight after the first period," said Mike Schafer '86, the Jay R. Bloom '77 Head Coach of Men's Hockey at Cornell. "I thought it was pretty reminiscent of the Union game (on Nov. 12) – we came out and were awful on the power play after we scored the second goal. … I think we thought it was going to be easier than it was going to be."
•  Senior forward Max Andreev assisted on both of Stienburg's goals to now push his point total over just the last three games to a whopping 10 points. Stienburg extended his scoring streak to six games, which consists of 11 points over that span. The duo has continued to play on a line with freshman Ondrej Psenicka.
•  With the win, Cornell pulled even with Harvard for first place in ECAC Hockey. 

Friday's Highlights:

About Yale:

•  The Bulldogs are winless in their first five games after a 3-0 setback last night at Colgate. The Raiders provided all of the offense inside the game's first 10 minutes, and the Bulldogs only mustered 14 shots on goal throughout the game.
•  Yale has been shut out three times in five games, with all five of the team's goals coming in the two games prior to last night against Quinnipiac and Army West Point. 
•  All of the team's four goals from forwards have come from a line centered by sophomore Niklas Allain (#11, 2-2–4), son of 15th-year head coach Keith Allain. Junior Cole Donhauser (#23, 1-0–1) and sophomore Teddy Wooding (#16, 1-0–1) have typically flanked the younger Allain.
•  One of just three seniors on the team, defenseman Graham Lillibridge (#24, 1-0–1) has Yale's other goal. Another one of the elder statesmen, forward Justin Pearson (#18, 0-1–1) leads the team in shots on goal with 19. He ranked second in the team in scoring during the 2019-20 season with 24 points.
•  All three goaltenders on Yale's roster of a scant 24 players have started games already. Sophomore Nathan Reid (#47, 0-2, 4.04, .869) started the games against Quinnipiac and Princeton, while junior Connor Hopkins (#1, 0-2, 3.52, .899) got the start last night and made 21 saves in taking the loss.
•  In addition to its five regular-season games, Yale played nearby Sacred Heart to a 3-1 exhibition loss last Saturday. Freshman forward William Dineen (#17, 0-0–0) scored Yale's goal in that contest.

The Series With Yale:

•  The teams have tangled 154 times since the series started in 1902, with the Cornell holding a 87-61-8 lead. The Big Red is 8-3-3 in its last 14 games against the Bulldogs.
•  Cornell swept the season series in 2019-20 by a cumulative score of 10-2. A hat trick from Morgan Barron '20 inside 23 minutes plus the first collegiate goal in the career of junior forward Zach Tupker highlighted a 6-2 Big Red victory in the Bulldogs' last visit to Ithaca on Nov. 9, 2019. Cornell then rolled to a 4-0 win in the rematch on Feb. 21, 2020 in New Haven.

PDF Game Notes:

•  For the Saturday supplement package, click here.
•  For full game notes prepared in advance of the weekend's games, click here.