#13 Men’s Hockey Set To Welcome St. Lawrence, Clarkson

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

THE PUCK DROP
• Riding an eight-game unbeaten streak, the No. 13-ranked Cornell men's hockey team welcomes Empire State rivals St. Lawrence and Clarkson to Lynah Rink this weekend for a pair of pivotal ECAC Hockey contests.

• Both games are slated for 7 p.m. puck drops and will be broadcast live on ESPN+ and over the airwaves on WHCU (870 AM, 97.7 FM, whcuradio.com).

NO ‘L’ IN BIG RED
• Entering this weekend's series, Cornell is riding an eight-game unbeaten streak (5-0-3), the program's longest span without a loss since going 7-0-1 from Nov. 6, 2021 to Dec. 4, 2021.

• With a win or tie against St. Lawrence, it would be the Big Red's first nine-game unbeaten streak since collecting 11 consecutive wins over the final nine regular-season games in 2019-20 and the first two games in 2021-22.

• Should Cornell not lose this weekend, it would be the Big Red's first 10-game unbeaten streak in a single season since opening the 2019-20 season with 10 consecutive wins.

STARTING THE NEW YEAR STRONG
• Cornell did not lose any of its six games in January, marking the seventh time in program history that it went unbeaten in the first month of the year (minimum five games played). The other instances came in 1910-11 (6-0-0), 1967-68 and 1968-69 (5-0-0), 1969-70 and 1970-71 (6-0-0), and 2017-18 (7-0-1).

• The Big Red's 5-0-1 record in January marked the first time Cornell did not lose a game in a single month, with a minimum of five games played, since February 2020, when the Big Red went 9-0-0.

SHANE, SEGER NAMED HOBEY BAKER NOMINEES
• Senior forward Gabriel Seger and junior goaltender Ian Shane have been nominated for the 2024 Hobey Baker Memorial Award, it was announced last Friday afternoon.

• Voting for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, awarded to college hockey's top player, began earlier today and will run until midnight on Sunday, March 10. Fans can cast their votes online: https://www.hobeybaker.com.

• Currently serving as Cornell's leading scorer, Seger has compiled 22 points (nine goals, 13 assists) across 19 appearances this season.

• Shane's nomination marks the second consecutive season he has been up for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award. He leads all Division I goaltenders in goals-against average with his 1.71 clip, while his .919 save percentage is second among ECAC Hockey netminders.

• The Hobey Baker Memorial Award is the second award Shane is nominated for, as on Jan. 12, Shane was tabbed to the watch list for the Mike Richter Award for a third straight season.

SHANE NAMED TO RICHTER WATCH LIST 
• Junior goaltender Ian Shane was named to the watch list for the 2024 Mike Richter Award, as announced by the American College Hockey Association on Jan. 12.

• Shane is the first Cornell netminder to be named to three watch Mike Richter Award watch lists since Matthew Galajda (2017-18, 2018-19, and 2019-20).

• Mitch Gillam is the other Big Red goaltender named to multiple Richter Award watch lists (2015-16 and 2016-17).

• A total of 32 goaltenders were named to this year's watch list, with five of the nominees playing for ECAC Hockey programs. Joining Shane on the watch list was Dartmouth's Cooper Black, Quinnipiac's Vinny Duplessis, St. Lawrence's Ben Kraws, and Clarkson's Austin Roden.

• Should Shane be named a semifinalist (top 10), he would join Galajda as the lone Big Red goaltenders to reach that stage in Mike Richter Award voting. Galajda finished as a two-time finalist for the award back in 2018 and 2020.

HOCKEY HUMANITARIAN AWARD
• Junior defenseman Hank Kempf was named one of 18 nominees for the 2024 Hockey Humanitarian Award, as announced on Jan. 17 by the Hockey Humanitarian Award Foundation.

• Kempf is the first nominee for the award from Cornell since Morgan Richardson '16 of the Big Red's women's program in 2015-16 and is the first men's hockey player nominated since goaltender Andy Iles '14 in 2013-14.

• Since the introduction of the award for the 1996-97 season, Kempf is the ninth Big Red player nominated for the prestigious award and just the fourth from the men's program, joining Sam Paolini '03 (who won the award in 2003), Topher Scott '08, and Iles.

• Kempf is Cornell's first non-senior nominee for the Hockey Humanitarian Award, as all eight previous nominees were in their senior seasons.

SHANE'S WORLD
• Junior goaltender Ian Shane has excelled inside the blue paint during his time on East Hill, posting a 38-18-8 record with a 1.71 goals-against average and a .922 save percentage in his 68 appearances between the pipes.

• During Cornell's eight-game unbeaten streak, Shane has logged a 5-0-3 record (.813), with a 1.38 goals-against average and a .924 save percentage. In every game during the stretch, Shane has allowed two goals or fewer.

• Shane's 1.71 career goals-against average stands as the fourth-best in NCAA Division I history, trailing former Cornell netminder David LeNeveu (1.29), former Michigan State standout Ryan Miller (1.54), and Cornell Athletics and Hockey Hall of Famer Ken Dryden (1.59). Former Big Red goaltender David McKee is slightly behind Shane by one-thousandths of a point, giving Cornell four of the top five career goals-against averages in NCAA Division I hockey history.

• Among active leaders, Shane is one of two active Division I netminders with a career goals-against average under 2.00, joined by Minnesota State's Keenan Rancier (1.96).

• To go along with Shane's impressive career goals-against average, he ranks fourth among active Division I goaltenders in career save percentage (.922). Only Notre Dame's Ryan Bischel (.926), Wisconsin's Kyle McClellan (.924), and RIT's Tommy Scarfone (.923) have better clips than Shane, who is two ten-thousandths of a point ahead of Minnesota's Justen Close, who also has a .922 save percentage.

• With his shutout of Harvard last Friday, Shane has 10 career shutouts, tied with Laing Kennedy '63 for the seventh-most in Cornell program history. Shane is also tied with Bischel and McClellan for the third-most shutouts by active Division I goaltenders. Michigan Tech's Blake Pietila (20) and Close (11) have more career blankings.

• With his next shutout, Shane would match Dave LeNeveu and Mitch Gillam for the fifth-most shutouts by a Cornell goaltender.

POINT SEGER
• Coming off a stellar junior year in his first season with Cornell in which he posted the first 30-point season since Morgan Barron (14-18—32) in 2019-20, senior forward Gabriel Seger has not missed a beat to open the 2023-24 campaign, registering 22 points (9-13—22) across 19 games.

• Should Seger post eight more points this year, he would be Cornell's first player with consecutive 30-point seasons since Morgan Barron (15-19—34 as a sophomore in 2018-19 and 14-18—32 as a junior in 2019-20). The last Cornell player to have 30-plus points in his first two seasons with the Big Red was Riley Nash (12-20—32 as a freshman in 2007-08 and 13-21—34 as a sophomore in 2008-09).

• With a 30-point season, Seger would become the 26th player in Cornell's modern era (since 1957-58) to have at least 30 points in each of his first two seasons with the Big Red. It would be just the third instance under Mike Schafer '86, joining Kyle Knopp (1995-97) and Riley Nash (2007-09). Seger would be the 11th player since 1975-76 to accomplish the feat, joining Lance Nethery, Brock Tredway, Roy Kerling, John Olds, Gary Cullen, Duanne Moeser, Joe Nieuwendyk, Trent Andison, Knopp, and Nash.

ONE OF THE BEST IN ECAC HOCKEY
• Senior forward Gabriel Seger enters this weekend with 95 career points, on the power of 30 goals and 65 assists, which stands as the 16th-most points by a Division I skater.

• Seger's 95 career points are the third-most for all active players within ECAC Hockey. Only Quinnipiac's Collin Graf (46-67—113) — with whom Seger was teammates at Union during the 2021-22 season — and Clarkson's Mathieu Gosselin (38-67—105) are ahead of the Big Red senior centerman.

LIKE A ROCK AT THE DOT
• Senior forward Gabriel Seger enters this weekend with 1,116 career faceoff wins, ranking as the eighth-highest total among active Division I players.

• Seger is one of eight players with least 1,100 career faceoff wins, joined by AIC's Dustin Manz (1,525), Omaha's Nolan Sullivan (1,421), Minnesota's Jaxon Nelson (1,263), Air Force's Clayton Cosentino (1,242), Vermont's Ryan Miotto (1,173), RIT's Carter Wilkie (1,165), and Wisconsin's David Silye (1,117).

• This season, Seger has won 277 faceoffs, ranked seventh-most nationally, and is one of 12 players with at least 275 draws won. Seger's .602 faceoff win rate also ranks seventh in the nation among players with 200 draws won and leads all ECAC Hockey players with the same criteria by 3.5 points (Union's Ville Immonen — .567).

• Last weekend, Seger won 61.7 percent of his draws (29-of-47), posting a conference-leading 29 wins at the dot. Seger was one of five players in ECAC Hockey to win 20 faceoffs last weekend, joined by Luke Haymes (27) and Sean Chisholm (21) of Dartmouth, St. Lawrence's Max Dorrington (22), and Harvard's Zakary Karpa (21).

THANKS FOR THE HELP!
• Over his two seasons at Union and his current tenure with Cornell, senior forward Gabriel Seger has accrued 65 career assists, standing as the 11th-most helpers by an active Division I player and the ninth-highest by an active forward.

• Last season, Seger had a career-high 23 assists, marking the most helpers in a single season by a Big Red player since defenseman Yanni Kaldis in 2018-19 (24). It was also the most assists by a Cornell forward in a season since Greg Miller had 25 in 2010-11.

• Seger's 65 assists are the third-most by all active ECAC Hockey players, trailing Quinnipiac's Collin Graf — who he was a teammate with at Union during the 2021-22 season — and Clarkson's Mathieu Gosselin, both of whom enter this weekend's slate with 67 helpers.

• Should Seger register seven more assists this season, he would be Cornell's first player with consecutive 20-assist seasons since defenseman Yanni Kaldis in 2018-19 (24) and 2019-20 (20). No Cornell forward has had consecutive 20-assist seasons since Riley Nash went three straight seasons with 20-plus assists from 2007-10.

• Seger would become the 17th player in the program's modern era (since 1957-58) and the seventh player since 1975-76 to notch 20-plus assists in his first two seasons with the Big Red. Before Nash, the most recent player to accomplish the feat was Ryan Vesce from 2000-02.

LENDING A HELPING HAND
• Freshman defenseman Ben Robertson has opened his collegiate career with 12 assists in his first 19 games.

• Robertson is currently situated in a four-way tie with Brendon Nash (2006-07), Alec McCrea (2015-16), and Sam Malinski (2019-20) for the ninth-most assists by a freshman defenseman in Cornell program history, dating back to 1975-76 when first-year players were eligible to play on the Big Red's varsity team.

• With his next assist, Robertson would enter a four-way tie with Dan Ratushny (1988-89), Steve Wilson (1993-94), and Yanni Kaldis (2016-17) for the sixth-most helpers by a first-year blueliner.

• Two assists this weekend would place Robertson in a three-way tie for the fourth-most helpers by a freshman defenseman with Steve Inglehart (1982-83) and Nick D'Agostino (2009-10).

• Robertson's 12 assists rank as tied for the 11th-most by a freshman defenseman in Division I hockey but is tied with Dartmouth forward Nikita Nikora for the most helpers by a first-year player in ECAC Hockey.

CLIMBING THE RANKINGS
• Freshman defenseman Ben Robertson scored his third goal last weekend in the Big Red's 2-2 tie with Dartmouth, increasing his point total to 15.

• Robertson's point total currently has him in a five-way tie for the ninth-most points by a first-year blueliner, along with Dan Ratushny (2-13—15 in 1988-89), Larry Pierce (4-11—15 in 1997-98), Mike Devin (4-11—15 in 2007-08), and Alec McCrae (3-12—15 in 2015-16).

• Should Robertson register a point this weekend, he would enter a three-way tie with Steve Wilson (3-13—16 in 1993-94) and Sam Malinski (4-12—16 in 2019-20) for the seventh-most points in a season by a freshman defenseman.

• A two-point weekend would supplant Robertson into the top five along with Steve Inglehart (3-14—17 in 1982-83) and Joakim Ryan (7-10—17 in 2011-12), while a three-point weekend would equal Nick D'Agostino (4-14—18 in 2009-10) for the fourth-most points by a freshman defenseman in Cornell program history.

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.

• Cornell has allowed the fewest goals in Division I hockey this season, surrendering just 38 goals against across its 19 games. Quinnipiac and Wisconsin are tied for the second-most goals allowed with 49. The Big Red's 2.00 goals allowed per game ranks third nationally in Division I hockey, trailing Wisconsin (1.88) and Quinnipiac (1.96).

• During its eight-game unbeaten streak, Cornell has averaged 1.63 goals allowed per game, tied with Minnesota State for the best average since Dec. 29, with at least five games played.

• Since 2016-17, Cornell has allowed 427 goals, leading all Division I programs by 134 goals (Minnesota State — 561) that have played at least seven seasons during the span. The Big Red has averaged 1.96 goals allowed per game over its last six-plus seasons, making Cornell one of two programs (Minnesota State — 1.90) in the country to yield two goals or less per game.

CORNELL'S MELTING POT
• This year's roster of 28 players features six countries (United States, Canada, Czechia, England, Slovakia, and Sweden), 13 states (New York, Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin), and three Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Ontario, and Nova Scotia) represented.

• Freshman forward Luke Devlin is one of nine Division I players to call Tennessee home, joined by his brother, Ian, at Princeton, Air Force's Luke Robinson, Army's Evan Szary, Dartmouth's Braiden Dorfman, Ferris State's Ben Schultheis, Miami's Dylan Moulton, Michigan Tech's Trevor Russell, and Ohio State's Cam Thiesing.

• Junior forward Ondrej Psenicka is one of six players to hail from Czechia. The other Czech players in Division I hockey include Providence's Jaroslav Chmelar, UMass' Michael Hrabal, St. Lawrence's Tomáš Mazura, Niagara's Josef Mysak, and Ferris State's Stepan Pokorny.

• Freshman defenseman Liam Steele is one of two Division I hockey players from England, joined by Alaska sophomore forward Cade Neilsen, whose hometown is in Nottingham.

ONE OF THE BEST
• Mike Schafer '86, the Jay R. Bloom '77 Head Coach of Cornell Men's Ice Hockey, is one of 11 active collegiate hockey head coaches with 500 career victories behind the bench.

• Schafer's 531 wins rank as the 26th-most by a head coach in college hockey history, five shy of matching former Minnesota State bench boss Don Brose (536) for 25th in college hockey history.

• Regardless of level or gender, Schafer's 531 victories are the ninth-most by active college hockey head coaches. Among active Division I men's head coaches, Schafer has the fourth-most wins, trailing Quinnipiac's Rand Pecknold (632), Mercyhurst's Rick Gotkin (605), and Notre Dame's Jeff Jackson (587).

SCOUTING ST. LAWRENCE
• St. Lawrence enters this weekend with an overall record of 8-13-3 and a 6-5-1 mark in ECAC Hockey contests. The Saints have struggled away from Appleton Arena this season, compiling a 1-9-2 road record, which includes going winless in its last 10 road contests (0-8-2). Despite its road struggles, St. Lawrence is unbeaten in four of its previous five games (4-1-1).

• Felikss Gavars (9-8—17) leads the Saints in goals and points, while Mason Waite (2-10—12) is the lone St. Lawrence player with a double-digit assist total.

• Ben Kraws (8-12-3, 2.51, .916) has been St. Lawrence's go-to netminder this season, registering over 1360 minutes of ice time. Grant Adams (0-1-0, 4.12, .844) is the only other Saint with action in between the pipes.

• The Saints have struggled to score this season, scoring 50 goals in 24 games (2.08 goals per game), ranking as the third-worst average in Division I hockey. Stonehill (1.68) and Alaska Anchorage (2.00) have worse per-game clips than St. Lawrence.

96 YEARS, 184 MILES, 123 MEETINGS
• Cornell leads the all-time series against St. Lawrence, 68-47-8, which includes the Big Red winning 10 of its last 12 against the Saints since the 2016-17 season.

• St. Lawrence has claimed victory in its last two trips to Lynah Rink, holding the Big Red to just one goal during the stretch. Former Saints goaltender Emil Zetterquist stopped 47 of 48 shots (.979 save percentage) in the pair of victories for St. Lawrence.

• The Big Red has scored at least three goals in nine of its last 12 games against St. Lawrence, averaging 3.50 goals per game during the stretch. Defensively, Cornell has not given up three goals to the Saints in its last 14 meetings, averaging 1.21 goals allowed per game. St. Lawrence's last time scoring three goals on Cornell came in a 3-1 victory at Appleton Arena on Jan. 9, 2015.

CORNELL - ST. LAWRENCE CONNECTIONS
• St. Lawrence head coach Brent Brekke spent nine seasons as an assistant coach under Mike Schafer '86 at Cornell from 1999-08. During Brekke's time on East Hill, Cornell recorded a 185-90-30 (.656) record, including four NCAA Tournament appearances, three ECAC Hockey regular-season titles, two ECAC Hockey Championships, and a trip to the 2003 NCAA Frozen Four in Buffalo, N.Y.

• Ryan McInchak and Anthony Mollica spent the 2019-20 season together on the Lincoln Stars ... Tomáš Mazura played at Kimball Union Academy with Kyle Penney (2016-19) and Sullivan Mack (2017-20) ... Penney was teammates with Tyler Cristall for the 2019-20 season on the Chilliwack Chiefs ... Mack and Logan Ritchie played on the Kenai River Brown Bears during the 2019-20 season ... Gabriel Seger and Nicholas Trela played on the Amarillo Bulls during the 2018-19 campaign ... Jake Lammens was teammates with Liam Steele on last year's Salmon Arm Silverbacks and with Ryan Walsh at the Salisbury School for the 2020-21 season ... Mason Kucenski played in the USHL with Nick DeSantis (2021-22 Madison Capitols) and Ben Robertson (2021-22 Omaha Lancers) ... DeSantis also played with Grant Adams on the 2019-20 Madison Capitols ... Hank Kempf and Jan Lasak spent time together on the 2019-20 Muskegon Lumberjacks.

ST. LAWRENCE SHUTS OUT #11 MEN'S HOCKEY ON SENIOR NIGHT

BOX SCORE I  RECAP

ITHACA, N.Y. (FEB. 18, 2023) — Aleksi Peltonen's goal with 2:45 remaining in regulation, and Emil Zetterquist's 28-save shutout, proved to be the difference in St. Lawrence's 1-0 shutout over the No. 11-ranked Cornell men's hockey team at a sold-out Lynah Rink on Saturday night.

Zetterquist earned a secondary assist on Peltonen's game-winning marker after saving a shot from the right point by senior defenseman Sam Malinski. Jan Lasak had the primary assist for the Skating Saints.

Sophomore goaltender Ian Shane made 16 saves between the pipes in the setback for the Big Red.

Cornell generated majority of the offense in the contest with its 66 shot attempts compared to St. Lawrence's 32. The Big Red also had the 28-17 edge in shots on goal.

SCOUTING CLARKSON
• Clarkson holds an overall record of 13-10-1 and a 7-4-1 mark in ECAC Hockey action, which is good for second in the ECAC Hockey standings. The Golden Knights are situated two points ahead of the Big Red before this weekend's slate.

• Ayrton Martino (6-11—17) paces the Golden Knights' offense in points and is tied with Mathieu Gosselin (5-11—16) and Trey Taylor (2-11—13) for the team lead in assists. Eric Ciccolini (8-7—15), the reigning ECAC Hockey Forward of the Week, and Ryan Taylor (8-6—14) are tied for the most goals scored by Clarkson this season. Three of Ryan Taylor's eight goals have been game-winning markers, placing him in a five-way tie for the most game-winners by players in ECAC Hockey this season.

• Austin Roden (8-7-1, 2.37, .908) has started 16 of Clarkson's 24 games this season, while all five appearances for Brady Parker (4-1-0, 2.02, .919) this season have come in Clarkson's last seven contests. Emmett Croteau (1-2-0, 2.75, .871) started in all three appearances in late October and early November.

101 YEARS, 195 MILES, 149 MEETINGS
• Cornell leads the all-time series over Clarkson, 72-58-19, which includes the Big Red having a 5-2-1 record (.688) over the last eight. 

• The Big Red has won five of its last six and is 23-5-2 (.800) over its previous 30 against the Golden Knights at Lynah Rink, dating back to 2004-05.

• Contests between Cornell and Clarkson have generally been high-scoring affairs, as 14 of the last 18 meetings have featured the teams combining for at least four goals.

CORNELL - CLARKSON CONNECTIONS
• Clarkson head coach Casey Jones played on the Big Red from 1986-90 before earning his bachelor of arts degree in 1990. During his playing days at Cornell, Jones averaged just over a point per game, logging 112 points (30 goals, 82 assists) in 110 contests. Jones had two stints on the Big Red coaching staff, serving as an assistant coach from 1991-93 under Brian McCutcheon before returning to Cornell (2008-11), serving as an associate head coach under Mike Schafer '86 after a 13-year coaching tenure at Ohio State (1995-2008).

• Charlie Russell is the son of former Cornell assistant coach Jamie Russell (1999-03) and is the younger brother of Cornell's director of hockey operations/assistant coach Ben Russell. Charlie was also teammates with Marian Mosko on the Fargo Force last year.

• Ben Robertson and Emmett Croteau spent the last two seasons together on the Waterloo Black Hawks. Robertson also played with Daimon Gardner on the 2021-22 Omaha Lancers ... Trey Taylor was teammates with Jimmy Rayhill on the 2019-20 Alberni Valley Bulldogs ... Carter Rose was teammates with Winter Wallace and Tyler Catalano from 2020-22 on the Youngstown Phantoms and was joined by Taylor in 2021-22 ... Michael Suda was teammates with Erik Bargholtz, Cody Monds, and Ryan Richardson on the 2020-21 Fargo Force ... Hoyt Stanley and Ellis Rickwood played on the 2021-22 Victoria Grizzlies ... Ian Shane played with George Grannis and Ryan Taylor on the 2020-21 Bismarck Bobcats. Ryan Taylor played on the 2019-20 Cedar Rapids RoughRiders with Suda and Jack O'Leary ... Nick DeSantis and Anthony Romano played on the 2018-19 Sioux Falls Stampede.

LAKE PLACID BOUND: #12 MEN'S HOCKEY BESTS CLARKSON, SWEEPS BEST-OF-THREE SERIES 

BOX SCORE I RECAP | HIGHLIGHTS

ITHACA, N.Y. — For the 39th time in program history, the Cornell men's hockey team is headed to the semifinals of the ECAC Hockey Championship.

A two-point night by senior Jack Malone, and goals by sophomore Ondrej Psenicka and senior Max Andreev, aided the No. 12-ranked Cornell men's hockey team to a 3-1 victory over No. 6-seeded Clarkson before 3,935 at Lynah Rink on Saturday night, sweeping the best-of-three quarterfinal round.

The No. 3-seeded Big Red, with its quarterfinal victory, will travel to Lake Placid next weekend to play in the ECAC semifinals for the first time since the 2018-19 season.

Sophomore goaltender Ian Shane made 22 saves to guide Cornell to its 13th 20-win season under head coach Schafer.

Saturday's win solidified Cornell's first time reaching the 20-win plateau since 2019-20, when the Big Red finished with a 23-2-4 overall record before the season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Clarkson's Tommy Pasanen scored with 21 seconds left to thwart Cornell of its fifth shutout of the season. Ethan Haider made 19 saves for the Golden Knights, who finished the campaign with a 16-17-4 record.

PENNEY, SHANE SHINE IN #13 MEN'S HOCKEY'S SHUTOUT OF HARVARD

BOX SCORE | RECAP | HIGHLIGHTS

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (JAN. 26, 2024) — Junior forward Kyle Penney recorded two assists, and junior goaltender Ian Shane made 17 saves to aid the No. 13-ranked Cornell men's hockey team to a 2-0 shutout over Harvard at Bright-Landry Hockey Center on Friday night.

Shane's shutout was the 10th of his collegiate career, tying Wisconsin's Kyle McLellan and Notre Dame's Ryan Bischel for the third-most by all active Division I goaltenders. The shutout also tied Shane with Laing Kennedy '63 for the seventh-most in Cornell history.

Junior forward Jack O'Leary and junior defenseman Tim Rego scored first-period tallies for Cornell, extending its unbeaten streak to seven games (5-0-2).

Harvard goaltender Derek Mullahy concluded the night with 21 saves between the pipes for the Crimson.

#13 MEN'S HOCKEY TIES WITH DARTMOUTH, BIG GREEN TAKE SHOOTOUT

BOX SCORE | RECAP | HIGHLIGHTS

HANOVER, N.H. (JAN. 27, 2024) — The No. 13-ranked Cornell men's hockey team and Dartmouth played to a 2-2 tie at Thompson Arena on Saturday night, and the Big Green took the extra point in the shootout for ECAC Hockey standings purposes.

Freshmen Ryan Walsh and Ben Robertson scored the goals in regulation for Cornell (11-4-4, 6-4-2 ECAC) as the Big Red saw its five-game win streak snapped, but its unbeaten streak extended to eight games (5-0-3).

CJ Foley and Sean Chisholm scored in regulation for Dartmouth (5-8-7, 3-5-5 ECAC).

Junior goaltender Ian Shane made 29 saves between the pipes for the Big Red while his counterpart, Cooper Black, shoved aside 20 Cornell 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.

Over this past winter break, updated Cornell branding on the façade and south concourse brought a more modern look to the facility. 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 the Capital Region for its annual trip to RPI and Union. The Big Red will face RPI first on Friday, Feb. 9, before heading to Schenectady to face Union the following night. Both games are scheduled for 7 p.m. puck drops, with game action broadcast on ESPN+ and over the airwaves on WHCU (870 AM, 97.7 FM, whcuradio.com).

• The meeting between Cornell and RPI will be the first of two meetings between the Empire State programs in a four-week stretch. They will meet again at Lynah Rink on Saturday, March 2, in the Big Red's annual Senior Night contest.

• Over its last 13 meetings with RPI, Cornell has posted a 8-3-2 record while averaging 3.54 goals per game. Three of the last four meetings have featured one side scoring at least six goals.

• Cornell enters its meeting with Union next weekend on an eight-game unbeaten streak and is 14-2-2 over its last 18 against the Garnet Chargers. During its current unbeaten streak, Cornell has scored at least four goals in seven of the eight games, which includes its 10-1 victory in the last meeting last Feb. 4 at Lynah Rink.