#10 Women's Hockey to Resume ECAC Hockey Play At Yale, Brown

Doug Derraugh '91
The Everett Family Head Coach of Cornell Women's Ice Hockey

PUCK DROP
• The No. 10-ranked Cornell women's hockey team hits the road this weekend to resume ECAC Hockey action against Ivy-League counterparts Yale and Brown. The Big Red look to bounce back into the winning column following a winless three game stretch.

LYNAH FAITHFUL
• Cornell has excelled at playing in front of the fans at Lynah Rink, who are deemed the Lynah Faithful, over the last 12-plus seasons. The Big Red have had at least a .500 win percentage at home in 11 of the past 12-plus seasons of competition, posting an overall record of 160-39-16 in that span.

• Since the 2009-10 season, Cornell's .781 win percentage on home ice ranks as the third-highest by a Division I program in that span. The Big Red trail perennial powers Wisconsin and Minnesota.

• The Big Red's .781 win percentage is the highest by a current ECAC program, with the closest program to Cornell being Clarkson, who ranks fourth nationally with its .775 win percentage (180-43-26).

BIG RED ON THE ROAD
• Cornell split their previous road stand after winning the first game in comeback fashion against Dartmouth but then dropping the next game at Harvard, putting the Big Red at 2-2 (.500) away from Lynah Rink this season.

GUILDAY, DERRAUGH IN RIVALRY SERIES
• Sophomore defenseman Rory Guilday and Doug Derraugh '91, the Everett Family Head Coach of Women's Hockey, faced off each other earlier this month in the Rivalry Series between the Canadian and American Women's National Teams.

• Guilday, who appeared with Team USA in September at the IIHF Women's World Championships in Denmark, was one of six collegiate players on Team USA in this series. Guilday was joined by a handful of players from the collegiate ranks, which included Ohio State's Gabby Rosenthal and Riley Brengman, Minnesota State's Kelsey King, Northeastern's Maureen Murphy, and Clarkson's Haley Winn.

• Derraugh, was named to the Canadian Women's National Team coaching staff on Oct. 19, and held the honor of being behind the bench for Team Canada as they played against Team USA in Kelowna, British Columbia and in Seattle at Climate Pledge Arena, home of the NHL's Seattle Kraken.

ECAC PRESEASON POLL
• During ECAC's annual media day, Cornell was picked to finish sixth in the preseason poll, the conference announced Sept. 14.

• Colgate was selected the preseason favorite after receiving six of the 11 possible first-place votes. The Raiders finished with a conference-best 115 points.

• Yale, who received three first-place votes, was picked second with 98 points, and Princeton ended with 97 points and one first-place selection. Quinnipiac had the fourth-most points (92 points), while Clarkson received the last first-place vote, finishing with 86 points, good for fifth.

• Cornell (73 points), Harvard (67), St. Lawrence (60), Brown (33), RPI (30), Dartmouth (27), and Union (14) rounded out the preseason voting.

GUILDAY NAMED TO ECAC PRESEASON TEAM
• Sophomore Rory Guilday was one of two defensemen named to the All-ECAC Hockey preseason team during the conference's annual media day on Sept. 14.

• Guilday had a strong freshman year for the Big Red last season. In 29 games, the 5-foot-11 defender logged 18 points (seven goals, 11 assists) while blocking 74 shots, which was second on the team, trailing Ashley Messier's team-high 78 blocks.

REPRESENTING ECAC WELL
• After opening the season ranked No. 12 team in the DCU/USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls, Cornell has remained among the top 15 in all seven polls this year.

• In the most recent iteration, Cornell stayed put in the ranking to No. 9 in the DCU/USCHO.com poll, while also remaining steady at No. 9 in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll.

• Cornell is currently one of six ECAC Hockey programs ranked among the top 15 programs in both the DCU/USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls. Harvard and St. Lawrence are ECAC programs currently receiving votes in both polls.

ABOUT YALE
• #3 Yale has gotten off to a blazing 8-0-0 start to the season as they look to continue their undefeated ways.

• Jordan Ray leads the Bulldogs in points with 10 (five goals, five assists), followed by Anna Bargman with eight (four goals, four assist) and Elle Hartje with eight (one goal, seven assists).

• Pia Dukaric has started at goaltender in all of Yale's games on the year, registering three shutouts with a 0.99 goals-against average and a .963 save percentage.

THE SERIES
• Cornell leads the series against Yale, 63-15-2, with Cornell winning seven out of the last 10 matchups.

• The winner of this matchup has scored four or more goals in 17 of the previous 22 contests between these two high-octane teams.

LAST TIME OUT WITH YALE
 RECAP | BOX SCORE

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (January 22, 2022) — Sophomore forward Lily Delianedis scored her team-leading ninth goal of the season to help the Cornell women's hockey team jump out to a first-period lead against a nationally-ranked opponent, but Yale responded with four unanswered goals to secure a 4-1 victory at Ingalls Rink.

ABOUT BROWN
• Brown looks to catch their rhythm back, after starting the season with a 3-0-1, but dropping five of its last six.

• Jade Iginla leads the way for the Bears with eight points (five goals, three assists), followed by India McDadi who has accounted for five points (two goals, three assists) so far on the year.

• Kaley Doyle has started eight out of 10 games at goaltender, posting a 3-4-1 record with a 2.10 goals-against average and a .925 save percentage. She has notched one shutout so far this year that came against Holy Cross.

THE SERIES
• Cornell leads the all-time series with Brown, 54-35-10. The Big Red has the advantage over the last 10 matchups, going 8-1-1 versus the Bears.

• Last year, Cornell outscored Princeton 5-4 in the pair of games, in which resulted in a win for the Big Red and a tie between the Ivy League foes.

LAST TIME OUT WITH BROWN
RECAP | BOX SCORE

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (January 21, 2022)– Junior forward Gillis Frechette scored on a rebound with 2 minutes, 26 seconds left in the third period to lift the Cornell women's hockey team to a 2-1 victory over Brown on Friday night at Meehan Auditorium.

PREVIOUSLY ON ICE
SATURDAY RECAP | SATURDAY BOX SCORE

• The Cornell women's ice hockey team surrendered three first period goals and couldn't claw its way back, dropping the opener of the Smashville Women's Collegiate Showcase to Northeastern 5-1 on Saturday afternoon at the Ford Ice Center Bellevue.

• Kaitlyn Isaac scored her first goal of the season 6:39 into the second period to cut into Northeastern's 3-0 lead, but two third period goals put the game on ice for the Huskies. 

• Alina Mueller scored twice in the opening 10 minutes and Skylar Irving netted a pair of goals for Northeastern, good for the team's fourth consecutive win.

• Everything but the  scoreboard looked even, as the Huskies held a narrow 26-25 shot advantage and both teams attempted just two power plays, with Northeastern capitalizing on one in the third.

• Deanna Fraser made 21 saves while playing all 60 minutes between the pipes for the Big Red, but was outdueled by Gwyneth Phillips with 24 stops in improving to 16-2-1.

SUNDAY RECAP | SUNDAY BOX SCORE

• The Big Red and the Tigers went goal for goal throughout regulation, ultimately leading to a defensive battle in overtime where neither team notched a point, resulting in a shootout.

• Lily Delianedis opened up the scoring for the Big Red five minutes into the first period. Katherine Khramtsov responded with a goal of her own later in the period, to knot the game up at 1-1.

• Sarah Fillier put the Tigers ahead with a goal seven minutes into the third period. Delianedis registered her second goal of the contest with seven minutes left to even the score at 2-2 and send it to overtime.

• Overtime proved to not be enough, as the Big Red and the Tigers fought defensively, holding each other from netting any goals in the extra period.

• The Big Red were outscored four to three by the Tigers in a seven-round shootout from the likes of Solveig Neunzert, Emerson O'Leary, Issy Wunder and Catherine Kerin. Frechette, Mckenna Van Gelder, and Kaitlin Jockims netted the puck for the Big Red during the shootout.

2022-23 Roster

If you’ve never been to a Big Red hockey game at Cornell’s James Lynah Rink, there are quite a few things you’ve never experienced. You’ve never camped out in line just to get season tickets and ensure your spot as one of the raucous and devoted "Lynah Faithful." But most importantly, if you’ve never been to Lynah, you’ve never really experienced all the best that college hockey has to offer.

Lynah Rink, which turned 65 years old in 2022, is the home of Big Red hockey. The rink, which was dedicated April 6, 1957, was named in honor of the late James Lynah (class of 1905), director of athletics at Cornell from 1935-43.