#7 Men’s Hockey Seeks to Keep Undefeated Record Alive Against Dartmouth, Harvard

Mike Schafer '86
The Jay R. Bloom ‘77 Head Coach of Cornell Men’s Ice Hockey

THE PUCK DROP
• The No. 7-ranked Cornell men's hockey team, who enters this weekend as the lone undefeated team in Division I hockey, welcomes Dartmouth and Harvard to Lynah Rink for the Big Red's lone pair of home games in November.

• Puck drop for both contests is scheduled for 7 p.m., with game action broadcast live on ESPN+ and over the airwaves on WHCU (870 AM, 97.7 FM, whcuradio.com).

NONE SHALL PASS…
• Cornell has allowed just three goals over its first four games this season, registering a Division I-leading 0.75 goals allowed per game average. The three goals given up over the first four games are tied for the Big Red's fewest in its modern era, matching the teams from 1965-66, 2002-03, and 2008-09.

• The modern era record for the fewest goals allowed for Cornell's first five games is four, set back during the 2008-09 season. The fewest goals conceded to opponents through the Big Red's first six games is five, also done in 2008-09. Ben Scrivens '10, who ended up appearing in 144 NHL games during a five-year career, was the netminder for the Big Red in 2008-09 before concluding the season with a 22-10-4 record while posting a 1.81 goals-against average and a .931 save percentage.

STARTING STRONG
• Cornell is off to its 19th 4-0-0 start to a season and is the best four-game start since opening the 2019-20 campaign with 10 consecutive wins. Of the 19 four-win starts in program history, 10 have come during Mike Schafer '86's tenure as the Jay R. Bloom '77 Head Coach of Cornell Men's Ice Hockey.

• Should the Big Red defeat Dartmouth on Friday, it would be Cornell's ninth 5-0-0 start in program history, along with teams from 1910-11, 1966-67, 1969-70, 1971-72, 1972-73, 2006-07, 2017-18, and 2019-20.

• With a weekend sweep, Cornell will register its seventh 6-0-0 start in program history, joining the squads from 1910-11, 1966-67, 1969-70, 1971-72, 2017-18, and 2019-20.

SEGER, SHANE EARN WEEKLY AWARDS
• For the second consecutive week, senior forward Gabriel Seger and junior goaltender Ian Shane were recognized by ECAC Hockey on Monday for their performances in last weekend's sweep over Yale and Brown.

• Seger netted an empty-net goal to solidify Cornell's 3-1 victory in its ECAC Hockey and Ivy League opener over the Bulldogs. The following night, Seger had a three-point night, highlighted by recording his second multi-goal game in as many weekends.

• Shane, who received his eighth MAC Goaltending Goaltender of the Week award during his tenure with the Big Red, continued his torrid stretch to open the 2023-24 season by allowing just two goals and making 34 saves in the wins over Yale and Brown.

SPREADING THE WEALTH
• Cornell has received production from nearly every skater who has appeared in at least one game this season, as 18 of the 21 skaters (85.7 percent) have at least one point to their name.

• The Big Red's 10-player freshman class has produced the most early on, leading the program in goals (7), assists (13), and points (20). Cornell's 10-player junior class is behind the first-year players with 13 points (four goals, nine assists).

• Cornell's forwards have dominated the scoresheet early on in the season, netting 16 of the program's 17 goals (94.1 percent) and logging 33 of the 46 points (71.7 percent).

SHANE'S WORLD
• Junior goaltender Ian Shane has excelled inside the blue paint during his time on East Hill, posting a 31-16-4 record with a 1.65 goals-against average and a .925 save percentage in his 54 appearances between the pipes.

• Over Shane's last 12 games, dating back to last season, he has a 9-3-0 record with a 0.83 goals-against average and a .957 save percentage, stopping 226 of 236 shots he has faced. During the span, Shane has allowed one goal or less on 11 occasions.

• Shane's 1.64 career goals-against average paces all active Division I goaltenders with at least 25 games played, and he is one of three goaltenders to have a career goals-against average below 2.00. Minnesota State's Keenan Rancier (1.87) and Quinnipiac's Vinny Duplessis (1.99) are the others.

• Additionally, Shane's goals-against average ranks as the fourth-best by a Cornell netminder in the modern era, trailing Dave LeNeveu (1.29), Ken Dryden (1.60), and Matthew Galajda (guh-LIE-duh) (1.64), whose figure is 18 ten-thousandths of a point better than Shane.

• Along with Shane's impressive goals-against average, he ranks second among Division I goaltenders in save percentage (.925), trailing Notre Dame's Ryan Bischel by two ten-thousandths of a point.

• Shane is also tied with Bischel for the third-most shutouts by active Division I goaltenders. Shane's nine shutouts — which match Andy Iles '14 for the eighth-most in Cornell program history — trail Michigan Tech's Blake Pietila (19) and Minnesota's Justen Close (11) for the Division I lead in shutouts.

POINT SEGER
• Coming off a stellar junior year in his first season with Cornell in which he posted a 30-point season, senior forward Gabriel Seger has not missed a beat to begin the 2023-24 campaign, registering seven points (5-2—7) in the Big Red's first four games.

• Seger is one of six Cornell players over the last 40 seasons to score five goals in the first four games of a season, joining Geoff Dervin in 1983-84 (5-3—8), Joe Nieuwendyk in 1986-87 (5-3—8), fellow Swede Doug Murray in 2001-02 (5-2—7), Ryan Vesce in 2003-04 (5-6—11) and Morgan Barron in 2019-20 (5-5—10).

• Following his transfer from ECAC Hockey rival Union, Seger posted seven goals and 23 assists last year to become Cornell's first 30-point scorer since Morgan Barron in 2019-20 when he had 32 points (14 goals, 18 assists).

• The 30-point season marked the first time a Big Red player had 30-plus points in their first season at Cornell since Riley Nash (12-20—32) did so in his freshman year in 2007-08. It was also the seventh instance of a Big Red player registering at least 30 points in their first season with Cornell over the last 40 seasons, joining Duanne Moeser (17-17—34 in 1982-83), Joe Nieuwendyk (21-24—45 in 1984-85), Trent Andison (21-17—38 in 1987-88), Doug Derraugh (11-21—32 in 1987-88), Kyle Knopp (11-22—33 in 1995-96), and Nash.

• Although transfers are generally rare at Cornell, Seger became the third player since 1957-58 to record 30-plus points in the season following their transfer to Cornell, joining Tom Whitehead (10-20—30) and Doug Berk (11-21—32), who both accomplished the feat in 1978-79 after transferring from fellow Ivy League institution, Penn, after the Quakers' varsity hockey program was disbanded.

THANKS FOR THE HELP!
• The 23-assist season by Gabriel Seger last year was the most helpers by a Big Red player since defenseman Yanni Kaldis had 24 assists in 2018-19. It was the most helpers recorded by a forward since Greg Miller registered 25 assists during the 2010-11 campaign.

• Over his two seasons at Union and his current tenure with Cornell, Seger has accrued 54 career assists. Entering this week's contests, according to data from College Hockey News, Seger is tied with Denver's Sean Behrens and St. Cloud State's Veeti Miettinen for the 10th-most assists by an active Division I player.

• Seger's 54 assists are the second-most helpers by an ECAC Hockey player, trailing Clarkon's Mathieu Gosselin, who paces the conference with 58 assists.

• Should Seger register at least 20 assists this season, he would become the first Cornell player with consecutive 20-assist seasons since defenseman Yanni Kaldis accomplished the feat in 2018-19 (24) and 2019-20 (20) seasons.

• No Big Red forward has had consecutive 20-assist seasons since Riley Nash did so in each of his three seasons on East Hill (2007-10). Nash had 20 assists in his freshman season before posting 21 and 23 assists in his respective sophomore and junior seasons.

STOUT DEFENSE
• Historically, Cornell has boasted one of the nation’s stingiest defensive units, as the Big Red has ranked in the top 10 in scoring defense in the last six seasons it has competed in.

• So far this season, Cornell has allowed the fewest goals in Division I hockey, with three in four games. Last year, the Big Red yielded 66 goals against, which stood as the second-fewest in Division I, trailing ECAC Hockey counterpart Quinnipiac by just two goals (64).

• Since the 2016-17 season, Cornell has given up 392 goals, which leads all Division I programs that have played at least seven seasons during the span. Harvard assumes second place with its 506 goals allowed.

LOOKING TO PICK IT BACK UP…
• Over its last 12 games, dating back to last year, Cornell has been on a torrid defensive stretch, giving up just 10 goals (0.83 goals per game) and registering a .957 save percentage. All figures above are the best for any Division I programs during the span.

• Along with its Division I-leading figures, Cornell has allowed the third-fewest shots against dating to this past Feb. 18, trailing fellow Ivy League opponents Princeton (231 shots in eight games) and Dartmouth (232 shots in eight games). The Big Red's 19.6 shots allowed per game ranks as the best by any Division I program in the span, and is 4.0 shots fewer than fellow ECAC Hockey counterpart Quinnipiac, who assumes second place with an average of 23.6 shots against per game.

• Faceoffs have been another strength lately, as the Big Red has won 376 of its 688 draws, posting a win rate of 54.7 percent. Only Minnesota State (56.7%), LIU (56.2%), Quinnipiac (56.1%), St. Cloud State (55.4%), and Air Force (55.0%) have higher conversion rates.

KILL, RED, KILL
• The Big Red concluded the 2022-23 season successfully killing off its opponent's last 18 power-play opportunities. Dating back to Feb. 18, Cornell has successfully killed 34 of its last 36 penalties, good for a .947 conversion rate, which ranks third in the nation during the span.

• Fellow ECAC Hockey programs Union (39-of-40 — .976) and Quinnipiac (61-of-63 — .969) are the teams ahead of the Big Red with higher penalty kill percentages during the timeframe.

• Cornell's two power-play goals allowed over its last 12 games are tied with Quinnipiac, Northeastern, and New Hampshire for the second-fewest by a Division I team, trailing Union, which has allowed just one power-play goal in the span.

ECAC HOCKEY PRESEASON POLL
• Cornell was picked to finish second in the ECAC Hockey Coaches' Preseason Poll, which ECAC Hockey announced on Sept. 27.

• Following a vote among the 12 head coaches in ECAC Hockey, the reigning national champion, Quinnipiac, received 10 of the 12 first-place votes, finishing with a league-leading 120 points. Cornell was right behind the Bobcats as the only other program to garner 100 points with its 108-point total. Harvard (98) and Clarkson (92) finished third and fourth, respectively, while splitting the remaining two first-place votes.

• St. Lawrence (79), Colgate (68), RPI (53), and Union (45) were in the middle of the poll, finishing in positions five through eight. Rounding out the 12-team poll were the other four Ivy League programs in Princeton (44), Yale (35), Dartmouth (30), and Brown (20).

IT'S JUST A NUMBER…
• A number never worn in program history and a digit never donned by a blueliner in 64 years highlight this season's sweater numbers worn by Cornellian players.

• Freshman Jonathan Castagna will be the first player to don a No. 38 sweater for the Cornell men's hockey program and be the first Big Red forward to wear a sweater number north of 30.

• Former Big Red goaltender Eddy Skazyk is the only player to have worn a sweater number higher than Castagna's No. 38 when he wore No. 39 for two seasons from 1994-96.

• Fellow freshman Marian Mosko is the first defenseman to wear No. 13 since the first bearer of the oft-deemed "unlucky" No. 13, Lane Montesano, who split time as both a forward and defenseman from 1957-59.

• Mosko is the first true defenseman in Cornell history to wear No. 13, which has only been worn six times in the modern era of Cornell hockey, dating back to 1957-58. The freshman blueliner is just the second Big Red player to wear No. 13 over the last 57 seasons, joining former Big Red forward Jack Malone, who wore the sweater number for the previous four seasons.

ONE OF THE BEST
• Mike Schafer '86, the Jay R. Bloom '77 Head Coach of Cornell Men's Ice Hockey, is one of 10 active collegiate hockey head coaches with 500 career victories behind the bench.

• Schafer's 524 wins currently rank as the 26th-most by a head coach in college hockey history and is 12 shy of matching former Minnesota State bench boss Don Brose (536) for the 25th-most victories in college hockey history.

• Among active Division I men's head coaches, Schafer has the fourth-most wins, trailing Quinnipiac's Rand Pecknold (620), Mercyhurst's Rick Gotkin (599), and Notre Dame's Jeff Jackson (578). 

• Regardless of level or gender, Schafer's 524 victories are the ninth-most by active college hockey head coaches.

• At Cornell, Schafer's 524 wins are the third-most by any coach with one program, trailing former softball head coach Dick Blood (623) and the late legendary baseball head coach Ted Thoren (541).

SCOUTING DARTMOUTH
• Dartmouth enters its first ECAC Hockey road trip of the 2023-24 season with a 1-1-2 overall record and a 1-0-2 mark in ECAC Hockey play. The Big Green's six points are tied with Cornell for the most in the ECAC Hockey standings entering this weekend's slate of contests.

• Last weekend, Dartmouth recorded five out of a possible six points after winning a shootout over Quinnipiac in a 2-2 tie before defeating its Ivy League rival Princeton, 5-4, last Saturday.

• Braiden Dorfman (2-2—4) and Nikita Nikora (0-4—4) each have four points, which paces the Big Green's offense. Freshman defenseman CJ Foley (2-1—3) recorded all three of his points in Dartmouth's win over Princeton, leading him to be named ECAC Hockey's Defender of the Week on Monday morning.

• Cooper Black, who is the tallest player in Division I hockey at 6-foot-9, has played all the minutes between the pipes for Dartmouth. He has a 2.45 goals-against average and a .919 save percentage. In last weekend's contests, Black made 63 saves, suitable for a .913 save percentage while logging a 2.88 goals-against average.

114 YEARS, 301 MILES, 144 MEETINGS
• Friday will be the 145th meeting between the Ivy League foes. Cornell has the lead in the series, 87-50-7, while being unbeaten in 10 of its last 13 against the Big Green (8-3-2).

• Games have been relatively close between the two Ancient Eight opponents, as the last six games, seven of the previous eight, and 16 of the prior 24 contests have been decided by one goal or less.

CORNELL - DARTMOUTH CONNECTIONS
• Liam Steele was teammates with CJ Foley and Owen Desilets last season on the Salmon Arm Silverbacks. Sullivan Mack played with Nate Morgan on the Silverbacks in 2020-21.

• Luke Devlin and Matt Fusco played together last year on the West Kelowna Warriors.

• Jimmy Rayhill was teammates with Joey Fusco and Cooper Black on the Odessa Jackalopes during the 2020-21 season.

• Hank Kempf and Ryan Sorkin spent time together on the Muskegon Lumberjacks for the 2019-20 season.

• Tim Rego and Steven Townley played at the Williston Northampton School in 2016-17, and Rego was teammates with Sean Chisholm for two years on the Brooks Bandits from 2019-21.

• Cameron McDonald was teammates with Kyler Kovich (Powell River Kings in 2017-18) and Nick DeSantis (Sioux Falls Stampede in 2019-20).

• Black was teammates with Jack O'Brien and Sean Donaldson on the Nanaimo Clippers during the 2021-22 season.

#11 MEN'S HOCKEY OPENS NEW ENGLAND ROAD TRIP WITH WIN OVER DARTMOUTH

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HANOVER, N.H. – The No. 11-ranked Cornell men's hockey team staved off a third-period comeback attempt by Dartmouth, defeating its Ivy League rival, 3-2, at Thompson Arena on Friday night.

Cornell, who opened the contest with the game's first three tallies, recorded two power-play goals on the night against the nation's top penalty kill.

Seniors Sam Malinski and Max Andreev were the beneficiaries of the man advantages, leading the Big Red to its third straight victory and its 11th win over its last 14 contests. Sophomore Kyle Penney also scored for the Big Red (13-6-1, 10-3-0 ECAC).

The Big Red have now scored a power-play goal in each of its last seven contests, converting at over a 52.4 percent clip (11-of-21).

Sean Chisholm and Alex Kraus scored third-period goals for Dartmouth hoping to spark a late-game comeback. Freshman goalkeeper Cooper Black made 35 saves for the Big Green (4-16-1, 3-10-1 ECAC).

SCOUTING HARVARD
• Harvard has opened its season with a 0-1-2 overall record and in ECAC Hockey play. It is the Crimson's worst start to a season since also going 0-1-2 to open the 2018-19 campaign.

• Ryan Healey paces the Crimson offense with his team-leading three assists. Joe Miller has scored two of Harvard's five goals on the season. Derek Mullahy has started two of Harvard's three games on the season, posting a 0-1-1 record with a 3.36 goals-against average and a .896 save percentage.

113 YEARS, 329 MILES, 162 MEETINGS
• Saturday will be the 163rd all-time meeting between the two bitter Ivy League rivals. Cornell leads the series, 79-70-13, but is winless over its last six games against the Crimson (0-4-2). Six of the previous eight meetings between Cornell and Harvard have been decided by one goal or less.

• Cornell is seeking its first win over Harvard since recording a 3-1 victory on Dec. 6, 2019, in Cambridge. The last win at Lynah Rink came in a 2-0 triumph on Jan. 18, 2019.

CORNELL - HARVARD CONNECTIONS
• Ryan McInchak, Hank Kempf, Alex Gaffney, and Kyle Aucoin were all members on the Muskegon Lumberjacks in 2018-19. Kempf also played with Gaffney and Aucoin on the Lumberjacks in 2019-20. Kempf and Gaffney also played at the 2019 Hlinka-Gretzky Cup for Team USA. Kempf, Luke Devlin, and Philip Tresca were teammates in Muskegon in 2020-21.

• Michael Suda, Jack O'Leary, and Derek Mullahy played for the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders in 2019-20.

• Kyle Penney (Chilliwack Chiefs) and Nick DeSantis (Sioux Falls Stampede) played with Tommy Lyons in 2019-20. Penney also played with Cam Johnson on the Chiefs in 2020-21. 

• Ondrej Psenicka and Ryan Drkulec played on the Waterloo Black Hawks in 2019-20.

• Ian Shane was teammates with Ian Moore, Joe Miller, and Jack Bar on Chicago Steel in 2020-21.

• Remington Keopple, Derek Mullahy, and Zakary Karpa were teammates on the Des Moines Buccaneers in 2020-21.

• Sean Donaldson and Ryan Healey spent two years together on the Sioux Falls Stampede from 2020-22.

• Luke Devlin and Matthew Morden played at St. Andrew's College from 2020-22. Jonathan Castagna joined Devlin and Morden at St. Andrew's in 2021-22.

• Ben Robertson played on the U.S. NTDP Under-17 Team in 2020-21 with Ryan Healey, Marek Hejduk, Michael Callow, and Salvatore Guzzo.

• Luke Devlin and Ryan Healey represented Team USA at the Hlinka-Gretzky Cup in 2021.

• Remington Keopple and Ian Moore played in the 2021 World Juniors for Team USA.

• Nick DeSantis and Casey Severo played on the Madison Capitols in 2021-22.

• Luke Devlin and Ryan Fine played on the 2021-22 U.S. NTDP Under-17 Team. Devlin and Marek Hejduk also played on the U.S. NTDP Juniors team in 2021-22.

• George Fegaras was teammates with Matthew Morden and Michael Callow on the Muskegon Lumberjacks last year.

• Luke Devlin and Ben MacDonald played on the West Kelowna Warriors last season.

LAFERRIERE'S GAME-WINNER LIFTS #6 HARVARD OVER #10 MEN'S HOCKEY

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LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — In a battle between two top-10 defenses nationally, both Cornell and Harvard's men's hockey teams were held scoreless over the 60-minute regulation period thanks to strong goaltending by Big Red sophomore netminder Ian Shane and the Crimson's Mitchell Gibson.

One team had to come out victorious, however, and Harvard's Alex Laferriere scored the game's lone goal 4:28 into overtime to lift the No. 2-seeded, and No. 6-ranked, Crimson to a 1-0 victory over the No. 3 seed, and No. 10-ranked, Cornell at the 1980 Rink — Herb Brooks Arena on Friday night.

Laferriere's golden goal ensures the Crimson's spot to potentially claim its second consecutive Whitelaw Cup when it squares off against the No. 5 seed Colgate on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Shane made 24 saves in the setback for Cornell (20-10-2), while Gibson stopped all 15 shots he faced to earn his third shutout of the season for Harvard (24-6-2).

#10 MEN'S HOCKEY EDGES YALE IN ECAC HOCKEY OPENER

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Freshmen Luke Devlin and Ryan Walsh and senior forward Gabriel Seger chipped in one goal apiece as the No. 10-ranked Cornell men's hockey team defeated Yale, 3-1, at Ingalls Rink on Friday night.

Junior goaltender Ian Shane made 19 saves in the winning effort for the Big Red, who improved its record to 3-0-0 on the season and won its first ECAC Hockey contest.

Seger and Robertson, along with sophmore forward Dalton Bancroft and junior captain Kyle Penney, all extended their season-opening point streaks to three games on Friday night.

Iisai Pesonen netted the lone marker for Yale, who also had a 20-save performance from Nathan Reid between the pipes for the Bulldogs (1-1-0, 1-1-0 ECAC).

Cornell killed all six of its penalties on the night to increase its streak of consecutive successful penalty kills to 10. One of the six infractions was a major penalty late in the opening frame. Despite the major penalty, Yale spent 80 seconds of its five-minute power play opportunity with a man advantage as the Bulldogs were assessed a pair of minor penalties.

OFFENSE SHINES AS #10 MEN'S HOCKEY DEFEATS BROWN

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A four-goal second period helped break open a scoreless game and aid the No. 10-ranked Cornell men's hockey team to a 7-1 victory over Brown, ensuring the Big Red leaves southern New England with a weekend sweep.

Cornell's seven goals were the most by the Big Red in a game away from Lynah Rink since blanking Princeton, 7-0, on Nov. 8, 2003 at Hobey Baker Memorial Rink.

Four Big Red players posted multi-point nights on Saturday as the Big Red had 13 players register at least one point. Senior forward Gabriel Seger had a team-high three points, highlighted by his second multi-goal game in as many weekends. Junior forward Kyle Penney, freshman forward Jonathan Castagna, and defenseman George Fegaras each logged a goal and an assist.

All four players who had multi-point nights lit the lamp in the middle frame for Cornell before Seger and freshmen Luke Devlin and Ryan Walsh scored over the final 7:29 to solidify the victory for the Big Red (4-0-0, 2-0-0 ECAC Hockey).

Junior goaltender Ian Shane stopped 15 shots between the pipes for Cornell.

Ryan St. Louis recorded the lone goal for Brown, who is now 2-2-0 overall and 2-1-0 in ECAC Hockey play following the setback. Tyler Shea made his first collegiate start for the Bears in goal, stopping 26 Big Red shots.

2023-24 Roster

If you’ve never been to a Big Red hockey game at Cornell’s Lynah Rink, there are quite a few things you’ve never experienced. You’ve never camped in line 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 experienced all the best that college hockey offers.

Lynah Rink, which enters its 67th year of being the home of Big Red hockey this season, was dedicated on April 6, 1957, in honor of the late James Lynah '05, who served as the director of athletics at Cornell from 1935-43.

Cornell began sponsoring a hockey team in the 1900-01 season, which featured all Big Red home games played on the university’s outdoor rink on Beebe Lake. Due to a series of abnormally mild winters, the program was left on "thin ice," causing Cornell to drop the program entirely after the 1947-48 campaign.

Fortunately, the construction of Lynah Rink gave Cornell hockey a new home, ensuring ice hockey would return as a varsity sport beginning with the 1957-58 season.

The facility has received numerous face-lifts since hosting its inaugural game on March 21, 1957, between the New York Rangers and the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League (AHL).

Cornell spent nearly $1 million renovating Lynah in the summer of 2000, replacing the rink floor, drainage system, frost protection and refrigeration piping, and adding new boards and seamless glass.

During the summer of 2006, a 16,700-square-foot expansion added new locker rooms, coaches offices, study lounges, new athletic training space, and approximately 450 new seats in the seating bowl.

Though many physical aspects of Lynah Rink have changed over time, the crowd remains constant. Lynah Rink can hold 4,267 boisterous Cornell hockey fans who provide unwavering support for the Big Red while creating an unparalleled atmosphere in college hockey.

Although many rinks in the nation are bigger in capacity, few are known to be louder. The Cornell fans, aptly named the "Lynah Faithful," stream into every home contest, making themselves as much a part of the game as the players do. Whether they’re cheering for the Big Red or joining the pep band in their rendition of "Give My Regards to Davy," the Lynah Faithful reaffirms the old saying, "There’s no place like home."

Since the doors opened on Lynah Rink, the Cornell men's hockey program has won a pair of NCAA Division I men’s hockey championships in 1967 and 1970, garnering an ECAC Hockey-record 12 tournament championships (1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010) and 25 Ivy League titles, 21 of which have been won outright.

• Cornell will travel to No. 10-ranked Quinnipiac and Princeton next weekend for the first two games of a stretch that will have Cornell playing eight of its next nine contests away from Lynah Rink. Puck drop for both contests is scheduled for 7 p.m. and game action will be broadcast on ESPN+ and on WHCU (870 AM, 97.7 FM, whcuradio.com).