NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Cornell men's ice hockey team will battle the University of Connecticut in the fifth annual Frozen Apple game on Saturday, Nov. 26 at 8 p.m. at Madison Square Garden, Cornell University's Meakem*Smith Director of Athletics and Physical Education Andy Noel announced Thursday. The first-ever matchup between the teams will take place on the grandest of stages – The World's Most Famous Arena.
 
Tickets for The Frozen Apple will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 23 directly through Cornell's athletic ticketing site, CornellBigRedTickets.com. Fans will be able to choose a section and seats will be assigned best available at time of purchase by the Cornell Athletic Ticketing Office.
 
The game will mark the second consecutive season and the 13th time in the past 16 years that Cornell has played on the storied ice in Manhattan.
 
This will be Cornell's fourth appearance in The Frozen Apple, following victories against Michigan in 2012, Penn State in 2014, New Hampshire in 2016 and Harvard in 2018. The Big Red has also competed in eight Red Hot Hockey matchups with Boston University in odd-numbered years starting in 2007, which ignited a renaissance for college hockey at Madison Square Garden.
 
Cornell has claimed two national championships (1967, 1970), 12 ECAC Hockey championships and nine NCAA tournament appearances in the last 16 years. Many members of the Big Red have gone on to forge careers in the National Hockey League, including the likes of Hall of Fame inductees Ken Dryden and Joe Nieuwendyk, plus five recent grads that earned NHL time this past year in Riley Nash (Arizona Coyotes), Jacob MacDonald (Colorado Avalanche), Morgan Barron (Winnipeg Jets), Anthony Angello (St. Louis Blues) and Jeff Mallott '15 (Winnipeg Jets), and 2018 Olympian Ben Scrivens '10 (Canada).