ITHACA, N.Y. - The no. 8-ranked Cornell women's ice hockey team will hit the road to take on the no. 12-ranked Princeton Tigers and the no. 6-ranked Quinnipiac Bobcats.

GAME 20 INFORMATION
#12 Princeton vs #8 Cornell
SITE: Hobey Baker Rink – Princeton, N.J.
RECORDS: Princeton (12-5-3, 5-5-3 ECAC Hockey), #8 Cornell (21-3-1, 10-3-0 ECAC Hockey)
SERIES: 49-50-8
BROADCAST: ESPN+
Stats: goprincetontigers.com

GAME 21 INFORMATION
#6 Quinnipiac vs #8 Cornell
SITE: Lynah Rink – Ithaca, N.Y.
RECORDS: Quinnipiac (21-3-1, 10-3-0 ECAC Hockey), #8 Cornell (12-5-3, 5-5-3 ECAC Hockey)
SERIES: 18-14-7
BROADCAST: ESPN+
Stats: gobobcats.com

Colgate Rewind
Game One
The no. 8-ranked Cornell women's ice hockey team dropped an ECAC Hockey contest to no. 5-ranked Colgate at Lynah Rink on Friday night. The Big Red fell to 13-4-1, while the Raiders improve to 19-3-1 on the year.

Kaitlin Jockims (short-handed), Karel Prefontaine (unassisted), and Lily Delianedis scored Big Red goals on the night. Gabbie Rud collected the lone helper for Cornell in the game.

Game Two
The no. 8-ranked Cornell women's ice hockey team falls 3-0 to the no. 5-ranked Colgate Raiders on Saturday night at Class of 1965 Arena. The Big Red fell to 13-5-1 on the season, while the Raiders improved to 20-3-1.

Grace Dwyer, Karel Prefontaine, and Georgia Schiff registered Big Red goals in the game. Izzy Daniel and Lily Delianedis collected helpers on Prefontaine's goal, while the other two were unassisted. 

The Series
Princeton leads the series with Cornell, 49-50-8. The Tigers took the Big Red down at Lynah Rink in a high-scoring 4-3 contest when the two squads met earlier in the season.

Cornell leads the series with Quinnpiac, 18-14-7. The Bobcats outlasted the Big Red earlier in the season 3-1 at Lynah Rink to hand Cornell its first lost of the season.

Opponents Breakdown
Princeton will enter the weekend with a 12-5-3 record overall. The Tigers have won four of their last six and are coming off of a 4-1 victory over Ivy League rival Harvard.

Sarah Fillier (28- 18g, 10a), Issy Wunder (25- 8g, 17a), Emerson O'Leary (19- 5g, 14a), and Sarah Paul (18- 12g, 6a) are at the top of the team's leader board in points. Uma Corniea has played in 13 games between the pipes, registering 261 saves and a .916 save percentage.

Quinnipiac will enter the weekend with a 21-3-1 record overall. Bobcats have won nine of their last 10 and are coming off of a 5-3 victory over Dartmouth.

Kate Reilly (33- 9g, 24a), Sadie Peart (27- 14g, 13a), Kendall Cooper (27- 10g, 17a), and Kahlen Lamarche (26- 8g, 18a) are at the top of the team's leader board in points. Logan Angers has played in 25 games between the pipes, registering 618 saves and a .942 save percentage.

Potent Top Line
Izzy Daniel, Katie Chan, and Lily Delianedis accounts for 79 Big Red points (34 goals, 45 assists) through the opening 19 games of the season. 

Daniel ranks first in the nation in assists per game with 1.33, fifth in goals per game with .87 per contest, and first in points per game with 2.20. Chan has exploded onto the scene for the Big Red, currently marking 17th in the nation in goals per game with 0.60. Delianedis has been the anchor to those explosive wingers, collecting 166 wins during her faceoff duties, and lighting the lamp three times during Big Red power-play opportunities.

Since joining the top-line as left-wing in place of sidelined skater Chan, first-year forward Karel Prefontaine has registered a handful of points of her own, increasing her total to 11 points on four goals and two assists.

Goalies By Committee
Annelies Bergmann has played in 15 games, earning 327 saves (high - 28) with a .916 save percentage. Deanna Fraser has started five games, earning 71 saves (high - 23) with a .899 save percentage to go along with a shutout victory over Syracuse.

Rory Guilday - IIHF Rivalry Series
During game one of the 2023 USA vs Canada Rivalry Series, Big Red blue-liner Rory Guilday fired a deep shot which was collected on a rebound and led to the game-winning-goal in the United States 3-1 victory over Canada. The U.S. also took game two over the Canadians, winning by a count of 5-2 in front of a sell out crowd at Crypto.com Arena.

Game three and four of the series were split by the Americans and the Canadians at Kitchener Memorial Auditorium. Team USA claimed game three in OT by a score of 3-2. The Canadians took game four 3-2 in shootouts, which was aided by a clutch Kristin O'Neill assist on the game-tying-goal for Canada.

Patty Kaz Watch
Daniel exploded for a six-point weekend in the opener versus no. 13 Penn State, registering her points on one goal and five assists. She eclipsed her 100th-career point in the process of sweeping the Nittany Lions, and has not slowed down since, now having 136. 

Daniel opened the season with a 14-game point-streak, 13 of which the standout Minnesotan scored at least two points. She has earned ECAC Hockey Player of The Week three times this year, as well as ECAC Hockey Player of the Month.

Cornellians in the PWHL
The Premier Women's Hockey League kicked off its inaugural season on New Years 2024. Briane Jenner (Ottawa), Kristin O'Neill (Montreal), Jillian Saulnier (New York), Micah Zandee-Hart (New York), Jaime Bourbannais (New York), Marlene Boissonnault (Montreal), and Lauriane Rougeau (Toronto) have earned their way onto active rosters. Jenner and Zandee-Hart were named captains of Ottawa and New York, respectively.

Follow The Action
The no. 8-ranked Cornell women's ice hockey team will take on no.-12 Princeton and no.-6 Quinnipiac this weekend for an ECAC Hockey series at Hobey Bank Rink and M&T Bank Arena. Puck drop is slated for 6:00 p.m. on Friday, and 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. Game action will be broadcast on ESPN+.