ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell women's hockey team starts a stretch of six home games over a 12-day span at 7 p.m. Tuesday when it hosts St. Lawrence in an ECAC Hockey game. Featuring play-by-play from 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). 

Game Information:

St. Lawrence at Cornell
SITE: Lynah Rink — Ithaca, N.Y. 
DATE: 7 p.m. Tuesday, February 1
BROADCAST (U.S.): ESPN+
BROADCAST (International): Stretch Internet
STATS: CornellBigRed.com
Cornell game notes (PDF)

Making Up For Lost Time:

•  Tuesday's game is the second of three Cornell home contests that were originally postponed from dates in January. Cornell and St. Lawrence were originally slated to meet on Jan. 15 before health and safety protocols forced the rescheduling. The next rescheduled date is Friday's visit from Harvard, which also led to a shuffling of the games against Colgate (now Sunday and Tuesday, Feb. 15).

Big Red Rewind:

•  Cornell remains tied for seventh in the ECAC Hockey standings after a 2-2 tie with Princeton on Friday and 3-0 loss to seventh-ranked Quinnipiac on Sunday. The Big Red has a five-point cushion and a game in hand on Rensselaer for one of the final playoff berths with eight league contests remaining.
•  The Big Red scored twice on the power play against the Tigers, the latter coming off the backhand of Kaitlin Jockims to give the visitors a lead with 6:04 remaining. But Princeton drew a penalty and pulled its goaltender for an extra attacker to set the stage for Dominique Cormier's game-tying six-on-four goal with 1:56 left.
•  Cornell then engaged in a physical track meet with Quinnipiac on Sunday, featuring 39 saves from Lindsay Browning. Unfortunately for the Big Red, it wasn't the only team to get strong goaltending on the day. The Bobcats' Logan Anders made 26 saves for her fourth shutout of the season. It marked the first time Cornell has been shut out since its previous meeting against Quinnipiac on Nov. 19.
•  The Big Red was 4-2-1 in January, outscoring opponents by a 20-11 margin.

By The Numbers:

•  Junior Gillis Frechette (#11, 8-15–23, plus-11) leads the team in scoring and is second in goals to only sophomore linemate Lily Delianedis (#21, 10-8–18). Junior Izzy Daniel (#12, 5-16–21, team-best plus-12), the team's leader in assists, typically plays on the other wing of that line. Frechette had a nine-game scoring streak snapped in Saturday's game against Quinnipiac, while Daniel similarly was held off the score sheet for the first time in eight games.
•  With a pair of assists Friday at Princeton, freshman Rory Guilday (#5, 4-7–11) continues to lead the team's blueliners in scoring. She typically plays alongside sophomore Ashley Messier (#8, 2-6–8, team-high 52 blocked shots), giving the Big Red a defensive pairing that features international experience from both the U.S. and Canada.
•  Graduate student Lindsay Browning (#29, 7-8-2, 2.00, .928, 5 SO) — who, in 2020, became the program's first goaltender to earn All-America honors — is now the first goaltender to serve as the team's sole captain. Browning's five shutouts are tied for the most among all ECAC Hockey goaltenders, and her 17 career shutouts rank third-most in program history. With her next shutout, Browning would climb into a tie for second at 18 with Lauren Slebodnick '13.

Big Red In Beijing:

•  Hockey Canada announced Jan. 12 that four Cornell women's hockey alumnae are among the final roster of 23 that will compete in the upcoming Beijing Winter Games. The group is comprised of forwards Rebecca Johnston '12 (fourth Olympics), Brianne Jenner '15 (third) and Jillian Saulnier '15 (second), and defender Micah Zandee-Hart '20 (first). 
•  Doug Derraugh '91 will also be in Beijing with Team Canada, where he will again serve as an assistant coach with the women's national team.
•  Lenka Serdar '19 is also ticketed for Beijing after helping the Czech Republic qualify for its first qualification into the Olympics in national team history.

The 300 Club:

•  By defeating Dartmouth on Jan. 8, 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.
•  Derraugh earned his 303rd win last Tuesday against Clarkson — though he was not on the bench. With Derraugh having departed the Big Red temporarily to coach in the Olympics, Associate Head Coach Edith Racine will continue as Cornell's acting head coach.

Back To Work:

•  The Big Red continues to see growth throughout this season, which it entered with more than half of its roster being new to college hockey after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancelation of the team's 2020-21 season. 
•  Among the incumbents for this year, only nine had 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 St. Lawrence:

•  The Saints were 5-2-2 on Halloween, but then 2-6-3 leading up to the originally-scheduled date at Lynah on Jan. 15. But since then, St. Lawrence has again found its stride with an overtime loss to nationally-ranked Colgate before four straight victories heading into the game against Cornell.
•  Abby Hustler (#74, 7-11–19, plus-11) leads the team in scoring, rating and shots on goal (85). She is tied for the team lead in assists with Rachel Teslak (#16, 4-11–15). 
•  Aly McLeod (#24, 9-6–15) leads in total goals, and her three power-play goals are tied for most on the squad with Nara Elia (#27, 8-8–16) and Kristen Guerriero (#26, 3-4–7). 
•  While the Saints rank 20th of 41 Division I teams in total offense (2.52 goals per game), they have manufactured 19 goals over their last four games. The power play also ranks ninth nationally with a 20.0% success rate.
•  Lucy Morgan (#32, 9-9-5, 1.60, .943, 4 SO) has started 23 of the team's 25 games in goal. Goaltender Grace Smith (#1, no appearances) hails from Ithaca.

The Series With St. Lawrence:

•  Cornell is undefeated in its last 10 meetings with St. Lawrence (8-0-2) dating back to Jan. 21, 2017. The Big Red now leads the all-time series, 42-34-8.

Up Next:

•  Cornell continues its home stand with a pair of matinees this weekend, hosting Harvard at 2 p.m. Saturday before taking on Colgate at 2 p.m. Sunday.