ITHACA, N.Y. — Reid Irwin and Ryan McGuire scored third-period tallies for Colgate as the visiting Raiders defeated the No. 16-ranked Cornell men's hockey team, 4-2, before a sold-out crowd of 4,316 at Lynah Rink in ECAC Hockey action on Saturday night.
Jake Schneider and Brett Chorske each had three-point nights for the Raiders (6-8-2, 3-4-1 ECAC Hockey), as both players registered a goal and two assists. Carter Gylander made 24 saves between the pipes en route to his fifth win on the season.
Freshman forward
Ryan Walsh and junior forward
Sullivan Mack each found the back of the net in the setback for Cornell (6-4-1, 3-4-1 ECAC Hockey).
"I told the players after the game, it's been so long since I've been this angry and disappointed," stated
Mike Schafer '86, the Jay R. Bloom '77 Head Coach of Cornell Men's Ice Hockey. "We talked about trying to grow as a hockey team, and we've made some good strides, and we reverted to terrible habits tonight."
After the first 18-plus minutes featured no scoring, Schneider gave Colgate the lead with 1:20 remaining in the opening period when his shot split junior goaltender
Ian Shane's legs.
Shane concluded the night with 18 saves on 21 shots faced.
Cornell evened the contest early in the second period when sophomore forward
Dalton Bancroft backhanded a pass from behind Colgate's net toward the middle of the goal crease, where Walsh knocked the puck past Gylander.
Colgate and Cornell swapped goals during a minute-and-a-half span just beyond the game's midway point. Chorske gave Colgate the lead again when he scored at the 11:02 mark. While chasing a loose puck in the Big Red's offensive zone, Irwin upended Mack on a breakaway attempt, setting up a penalty shot.
Mack ended up scoring on his attempt — which also marked his first time scoring on the season — becoming the first Cornell player with a successful penalty shot at Lynah Rink since Cornell Athletics Hall of Famer and Hockey Hall of Famer Joe Nieuwendyk on Feb. 27, 1987, against RPI. It was also Cornell's first penalty shot on home ice since Trevor Yates against Yale on Feb. 11, 2017.
Colgate scored twice in the third, ignited by an early tally by Irwin 1:16 into the stanza. McGuire put the game out of reach when he one-timed a pass from Chorske into an empty net with 14.4 seconds left, increasing Cornell's winless streak on home ice to three games (0-2-1).
GAME NOTES
• Saturday marked the 168th all-time meeting between the two Central New York rivals. Cornell's record is now 89-62-17 against Colgate with the setback.
• Mack's penalty-shot goal was the fifth by a Big Red player at Lynah Rink, joining Carlo Ugolini, Brock Tredway, Len Jankowski, and Nieuwendyk.
CORNELL'S PENALTY-SHOT GOALS AT LYNAH RINK
Cornell Program History
• Carlo Ugolini (1/20/73 vs. Toronto) — 3rd period at 17:12
• Brock Tredway (1/17/79 vs. Clarkson) — 2nd period at 0:25
• Len Jankowski (2/24/79 vs. Northeastern) — 1st period at 9:24
• Joe Nieuwendyk (2/27/87 vs. RPI) — 3rd period at 9:51
• Sullivan Mack (12/2/23 vs. Colgate) — 2nd period at 12:28
• With his 15 faceoff wins, senior forward
Gabriel Seger became the sixth active Division I hockey player with 1,000 career faceoff wins, joining AIC's Dustin Manz, Minnesota's Jaxon Nelson, Air Force's Clayton Cosentino, Vermont's Ryan Miotto, Northern Michigan's Artem Shlaine.
MOST CAREER FACEOFF WINS
Active Division I Players
• Dustin Manz (AIC) — 1404
• Jaxon Nelson (Minnesota) — 1180
• Clayton Cosentino (Air Force) — 1080
• Ryan Miotto (Vermont) — 1050
• Artem Shlaine (Northern Michigan) — 1008
• Gabriel Seger (Cornell) — 1002
UP NEXT
Cornell will have the next three weekends off from competition before returning to action on Friday, Dec. 30, when it faces No. 10-ranked UMass in the opening game of the 2023 Adirondack Winter Invitational in Lake Placid, N.Y. The Big Red and Minutemen will play at 4 p.m. at Herb Brooks Arena — The 1980 Rink, followed by No. 12-ranked Arizona State and Clarkson at 7:30 p.m. Game action will be broadcast on ESPN+ and over the airwaves on WHCU (870 AM, 97.7 FM, whcuradio.com).
BIG RED BLOCKS FOR HEALING
The Cornell men's hockey team has launched a
season-long campaign called "Big Red Blocks for Healing." The campaign will help raise funds for Kesem, an organization that supports children affected by a cancer diagnosis to a parent.
Fans can
join Cornell's team and pledge a determined dollar amount (minimum of $0.10) for each shot Cornell blocks throughout the 2023-24 season. An alternative to the price-per-block, fans are also eligible to make a
one-time donation.
Cornell aims to raise $5,000 for Kesem as a program by the end of the 2023-24 season.
