ITHACA, N.Y. — Coming off its best offensive output and its fourth shutout of the season, the Cornell women's hockey team visits defending CHA regular-season champion Penn State at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Pegula Ice Arena in University Park, Pa. The game will be broadcast through subscription-based B1G+.

Game Information:

Cornell at Penn State
SITE: Pegula Ice Arena — University Park, Pa. 
DATE: 6 p.m. Tuesday, January 11
BROADCAST: B1G+
STATS: GoPSUsports.com
Cornell game notes (PDF)

Big Red Rewind:

•  Cornell endured more schedule changes than goal concessions last week, using quick starts to all three periods to power a 5-0 blanking of Dartmouth on Saturday afternoon at Lynah Rink.
•  The game against the Big Green was pushed back 20 hours from its originally scheduled start time due to COVID-19 concerns within the Colgate and Harvard programs, then Sunday's game between the Big Red and the Crimson was ultimately postponed.
•  Lily Delianedis scored twice — 24 seconds into the first period, then 18 into the second. Gillis Frechette assisted on both of those goals, then scored one of her own (this one just 18 seconds into the third). 
•  Izzy Daniel also had a goal and two assists, joining Delianedis and Frechette on a line that Dartmouth could not neutralize. Along with defenders Ashley Messier and Makenna Chokelal (who both had a pair of assists), the unit of five each posted plus-4 ratings on the day.
•  Lindsay Browning made 20 saves to secure her fourth shutout of the season and the 16th of her collegiate career. That moves her into sole possession of third place for most clean sheets on the program's all-time record list.
•  Gabbie Rud accounted for the Big Red's other goal, giving her two tallies over her last three games. The five goals on Saturday were a season high for the Big Red.

Saturday's Highlights:

The 300 Club:

•  By defeating Dartmouth on Saturday, Doug Derraugh '91 recorded the 300th career victory in his 15-plus seasons behind the Big Red bench as the Everett Family Head Coach of Women's Hockey. In doing so, Derraugh became the 11th active head coach in NCAA Division I women's hockey to reach the 300-win plateau.

By The Numbers:

•  Junior Gillis Frechette (#11, 6-9–15, plus-6) leads the team in scoring and is second in goals to only sophomore linemate Lily Delianedis (#21, 7-5–12). Junior Izzy Daniel (#12, 2-12–14, team-best plus-8), who was the Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2020, is the team's leader in assists.
•  Frechette brings a four-game scoring streak into Tuesday's game, racking up seven points over that span. Her three-point effort against Dartmouth was her first of the season, as Frechette has now posted multiple points in four of her last nine games.
•  Freshman Rory Guilday (#5, 2-5–7) leads the team's blueliners in scoring. She typically plays alongside sophomore Ashley Messier (#8, 1-4–5, team-high 36 blocked shots), giving the Big Red a defensive pairing that features international experience from both the U.S. and Canada — though with only four blueliners suited up, the duo was split up on Saturday against Dartmouth.
•  Graduate student Lindsay Browning (#29, 5-6-1, 2.19, .920, 4 SO) — who, in 2020, became the program's first goaltender to earn All-America honors — returns to anchor the team. As the first goaltender to serve as the team's sole captain, Browning's four shutouts are the most among all ECAC Hockey goaltenders.
•  Four of Cornell's five victories this season have come via shutout, with the lone exception being a 3-2 defeat of Rensselaer on Nov. 13. The Big Red has yet to concede a single goal in any game this season.

Back To Work:

•  More than half of the Big Red's roster is new to college hockey this year after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancelation of the team's 2020-21 season. 
•  Among the incumbents for this year, only nine have played more than 10 collegiate games and the entire group accounted for 33 goals of the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons — 24 of which came from junior forward Gillis Frechette.

About Penn State:

•  The Nittany Lions returned from their semester break with a split of two games at the Battle of the 'Burgh tournament in Pittsburgh. St. Cloud scored three unanswered goals — the last in overtime — to rally for a 4-3 victory over Penn State on Jan. 1, then the Nittany Lions won the consolation game, 3-0, over Boston University.
•  Josie Bothun (#30, 11-7-2, 1.90, .918) has started all 20 of Penn State's games in goal. She made 26 saves against BU to notch her fifth shutout of the season, which had led the nation until over this weekend, when Northeastern's Aerin Frankel posted her sixth. Bothun was also named the Hockey Coaches Association's Co-National Goaltender of the Month for December.
•  Penn State is paced by a line centered by Kiara Zanon (#11, 7-20–27; plus-15) with Natalie Heising (#20, 13-14–27; plus-14), who share the team scoring lead. Most recently, Julie Gough (#14, 9-4–13; team-high 5 PPG) has joined them, though Alyssa Machado (#3, 4-2–6) has also spent time on the right wing of that line.
•  Jeff Kampersal is in his fifth season as the head coach at Penn State.

The Series With Penn State:

•  Tuesday's game will mark the second all-time meeting between the Big Red and Nittany Lions, with neither team having claimed a victory yet. A 1-1 tie on Nov. 21, 2017 in Ithaca was followed by a 3-3 deadlock Jan. 8, 2019 in Happy Valley.
•  Both games featured late Cornell goals to force overtime. Diana Buckley '19 accounted for the lone Big Red goal in the 2017 meeting with 1:28 left in the third period, then Maddie Mills '21 scored the tying goal in 2019 on the power play with just six seconds left in regulation. 

Up Next:

•  Cornell pivots back to Ithaca for two more ECAC Hockey games this weekend — 6 p.m. Friday vs. league-leading Clarkson and 3 p.m. Saturday vs. St. Lawrence.
•  The Big Red then hits the road for its next five straight, starting with a Jan. 21 clash with Brown.