ITHACA, N.Y. — The No. 11-ranked Cornell men's hockey team scored six power-play goals to lift the Big Red past Union, 10-1, at Lynah Rink on Saturday night.
 
Cornell's six power-play goals are the most in a game since Boston University had the same total against UMass on Jan. 30, 2015.
 
Five of the six power-play goals by the Big Red came in the first period with the latter four coming during a five-minute major penalty against Union. The final three goals during the major penalty came in a 23-second span, which is a Cornell program record for the quickest trio of goals.
 
Of the 13 Cornell players who registered a point on Saturday, nine had multi-point nights. Senior defenseman Sam Malinski paced Cornell's offense with a team-high four points, scoring twice and assisting on two others.
 
Malinski now owns a 10-game point streak, becoming the third Cornell player under Mike Schafer '86 to have a point streak of at least 10 games. Matt Stienburg (11 games in 2021-22) and Matt Moulson (10 games in 2005-06) were the other players to accomplish the feat.
 
Fellow senior defenseman Travis Mitchell and junior forward Gabriel Seger each registered three-assist nights, while freshman forward Dalton Bancroft (two goals, one assist) and senior forward Max Andreev (goal, two assists) also had three points apiece for the Big Red (15-7-1, 12-4-0 ECAC).
 
Freshman forward Nick DeSantis joined Malinski and Bancroft with two-goal nights.

How It Happened

Cornell scored six goals in the opening 20 minutes of play, five of which came on the power play.
 
Senior forward Jack Malone opened the scoring with a power-play marker 2:42 into the contest following a Union hooking penalty.
 
After a successful Cornell challenge for a major penalty, the Big Red took advantage of the five-minute power play by scoring four times with the man advantage.
 
Andreev, Bancroft, sophomore forward Ondrej Psenicka, and DeSantis were credited with the markers. Bancroft, Psenicka, and DeSantis were those who scored in the 23-second stretch.
 
Bancroft added Cornell's sixth goal of the period while at even strength. Along with the final three goals from the major penalty, the Big Red ended up scoring four times over 54 seconds.
 
Malinski scored the Big Red's seventh unanswered goal of the night at the 6:35 mark of the second period before Union scored its lone tally of the night with 4:30 left in the frame. Chaz Smesrud was credited with the goal for the Dutchmen, scoring with 10 seconds left on a power play.
 
Cornell ended the night scoring three more times with sophomore forward Kyle Penney scoring late in the second period to give the Big Red an 8-1 advantage heading into the second intermission. Malinski and DeSantis scored their second goals of the night in the third period to round out the scoring.

Game Notes

• Saturday was the 80th all-time meeting between the Big Red and Dutchmen. Cornell improved to 48-22-10 against Union, and is unbeaten in its last eight games (7-0-1) against its Empire State foe.
 
• The 10 goals against Union is tied for most against the Dutchmen, matching the previous high from a Feb. 11, 1942 meeting on Beebe Lake in Ithaca, with the Big Red winning by an identical 10-1 score.
 
• Cornell's nine-goal margin of victory was the Big Red's largest since defeating Dartmouth at home, 12-2, also on Feb. 4 in 1978. Each of the last nine times Cornell has won by at least nine goals have come at Lynah Rink.
 
• The six-goal first period marked the second time Cornell has scored at least five goals in one period this season, joined by a five-goal second period in an 8-4 win over AIC on Dec. 29. It was the program's first six-goal period since March 9, 2018, when it scored six times in the second period against Quinnipiac in the first game of a best-of-three series in the quarterfinal round of the 2018 ECAC Hockey Championships.

• Scoring three goals in 23 seconds is a new program record for the quickest trio of goals scored. The previous record was 24 seconds, set on Feb. 28, 1976, against Princeton. The four goals in 54 seconds is also the quickest in program history, besting the previous mark of 1:34 coming on March 4, 1961, against Penn in a 13-1 victory. 
 
• Six power-play goals were the most by a Cornell team in a game since registering a program-record seven against Canadian-based York University on Nov. 18, 1977. It was the Big Red's first time scoring at least four power-play goals in a game since doing so on Oct. 26, 2013, on the road against Omaha.
 
• Malinski extended his point streak to 10 games thanks to his pair of first-period assists. His 10-game point streak is tied for the second-longest active streak with Boston University freshman defenseman Lane Hutson. Colgate's Alex Young has a Division I-leading 12-game point streak after Bowling Green's Austen Swankler failed to extend his 19-game point streak on Saturday.
 
• The four-point game and two-goal performance for Malinski are both career highs for the senior blueliner.
 
• With Bancroft, DeSantis, and Malinski each scoring twice, it was the first time a trio of Cornell players scored at least twice in a game since March 9, 2018 against Quinnipiac (Alex Rauter, Beau Starrett, and Mitch Vanderlaan).
 
• Mitchell and Seger's three-assist games matched their respective career highs, both of which came against St. Lawrence. Mitchell's was on Dec. 3, 2021, while Seger's was on Jan. 3, 2020 while playing for Union.
 
• Bancroft logged his second career three-point game, joined by his hat trick on Nov. 26 against UConn at The Frozen Apple in Madison Square Garden.
 
• DeSantis recorded his second career multi-point game, joined by his two-goal effort against AIC on Dec. 30.

Looking Ahead

Cornell will conclude its three-game homestand next Friday when it welcomes Central New York rival Colgate to Lynah Rink to begin a home-and-home series with the Raiders. Puck drop is slated for 7 p.m. Game action will be broadcast on ESPN+ and on WHCU (870 AM, 97.7 FM).