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Cornell Men’s Hockey 2018-19 Game Notes Schedule & Results Cornell Big Red (2-2, 2-0 ECAC Hockey, 2-0 Ivy League) October 17 13 LAURENTIAN (exhib.) W, 6-1 Cornell at Northern Michigan 21 GUELPH (exhib.) W, 7-0 Friday, November 9, 2018, 7:07 p.m. EST 26 MICHIGAN STATE L, 2-5 Berry Events Center, Marquette, Mich. 27 MICHIGAN STATE L, 3-4 Northern Michigan Record: 3-5, 2-2 WCHA November Live Coverage 2 YALE * W, 4-2 3 BROWN * W, 3-2 Video: FloHockey.tv 9 at Northern Michigan 7:07 p.m. Radio: WHCU (870 AM, 97.7 FM) 10 at Northern Michigan 7:07 p.m. Audio: http://player.listenlive.co/41391 Stats: www.NMUwildcats.com 16 QUINNIPIAC * 7:00 p.m. Twitter: @CUBigRedGameday, @CUBigRedHockey 17 PRINCETON * 7:00 p.m. 24 vs. Harvard # 7:00 p.m. What’s on Tap: 30 at Dartmouth * 7:00 p.m. • Cornell hits the road for the first time this season, shifting back to December non-league play for the start of a two-game series Friday and Saturday at 1 at Harvard * 7:00 p.m. Northern Michigan. January • The series can be seen on FloHockey.tv, which streams all games from 4 at Princeton * 7:00 p.m. WCHA venues. The games can also be heard on WHCU (870 AM, 97.7 FM) 5 at Quinnipiac * 7:00 p.m. with play-by-play from Jason Weinstein. 11 ARIZONA STATE 7:00 p.m. 12 ARIZONA STATE 7:00 p.m. The Big Red Rewind: 18 HARVARD * 7:00 p.m. • Cornell is coming off a four-point weekend at Lynah Rink in its ECAC Hockey 19 DARTMOUTH * 7:00 p.m. and Ivy League debut via victories of 4-2 over Yale and 3-2 over Brown. The Big 25 at Colgate * 7:00 p.m. Red never trailed in either game before holding off rallies from both visitors. 26 COLGATE * 7:00 p.m. • Morgan Barron scored twice, and Yanni Kaldis had a goal and an assist in the February victory over the Bulldogs. Cam Donaldson opened the scoring on the power 1 at Union * 7:00 p.m. play, and Barron's first goal gave the Big Red a 3-0 lead inside 22 minutes. 2 at Rensselaer * 7:00 p.m. • The Bulldogs scored twice on the power play to cut their deficit to one in the 8 CLARKSON * 7:00 p.m. third period before Barron's empty-netter iced the game. It marked his first 9 ST. LAWRENCE * 7:00 p.m. collegiate multi-goal game. 15 at Brown * 7:00 p.m. • Matt Nuttle opened the scoring in the second period against the Bears, 16 at Yale * 7:00 p.m. then Michael Regush's first collegiate goal gave the BIg Red the lead for good. 22 RENSSELAER * 7:00 p.m. Barron's last of three goals on the weekend capped the three-goal middle 23 UNION * 7:00 p.m. frame for Cornell, and it gave him game-winners in consecutive games. • Matthew Galajda needed to make just 39 saves over the two games, March 1 at St. Lawrence * 7:00 p.m. perhaps none bigger than a stop on a breakaway by Yale's first-team 2 at Clarkson * 7:00 p.m. all-league forward Joe Snively in the fifth minute of a scoreless game Friday. • With the Ivy League's late start, Cornell's regular season didn't commence until Oct. 26-27. Michigan State swept the non-league series at Lynah Rink, * ECAC Hockey game handing Cornell its first 0-2 start since 2010-11 (which ended with an ECAC # at Madison Square Garden (New York) Hockey championship game berth). Cornell Quick Facts About The Big Red: • Junior Yanni Kaldis (3-2–5; 2 PPG), a two-time All-Ivy League first-team Location ....................................Ithaca, N.Y. 14853 defenseman, holds the early team lead in scoring. Kaldis was also named to Founded ............................................................ 1865 the All-ECAC Hockey third team last year. Enrollment (undergraduate) ...................14,315 • Sophomore forward New York Rangers draft pick Morgan Barron (3-1–4) President ....................................Martha E. Pollack has scored all of his goals in the last two games and has a whopping 25 Director of Athletics .............J. Andrew Noel, Jr. shots on goal through four contests. Colors ...........................Carnelian Red and White • Senior forward and two-time captain Mitch Vanderlaan (0-4–4) has the Conference..............ECAC Hockey / Ivy League early lead in assists and is tied with Barron for second in team scoring Rink (Capacity) .......................Lynah Rink (4,267) entering the weekend. The Big Red's second-year captain is far and away Coaching Information the team's active leading scorer over his collegiate career with 71 points in Head Coach ............. Mike Schafer (Cornell ’86) 100 games (Kaldis ranks second at 38). Career Record ..... 439-250-91 (24th season) • Matt Nuttle (1-1–2), one of three senior pillars on defense, is off to a quick Associate Head Coach ...........................Ben Syer start with a plus-5 rating. He was second in the nation last year at plus-23. (Western Ontario ’98) • Sophomore goaltender Matthew Galajda (2-2, 3.38, .860) rebounded from Assistant Coach ............................Sean Flanagan a rough series against Michigan State to post a pair of victories against Yale (St. Lawrence ’10) and Brown. Three of the four goals conceded in those games came on the Director of Hockey Operations ........Joe Palmer opposition's power play. (Ohio State ’13) • Special teams have been a struggle in the early going, with Cornell Volunteer Assistant Coach .....Mitch Stephens entering the weekend ranked last in the nation in combined special teams (Geneseo ’07) (32.4%). • After turning in the program’s first 25-win season in 13 years, Cornell Team Information entered this season as the media and coaches favorite in ECAC Hockey and Captain ......................................Mitch Vanderlaan ranked eighth in the nation in both national preseason polls. Alternate Captains ....................................................... ................................. Alec McCrea & Matt Nuttle The Year That Was: 2018-19 Record .....................................................2-2 • The 2017-18 season was memorable for the Big Red, which earned an 2018-19 ECAC Hockey Record .........................2-0 at-large bid to the NCAA tournament for a second straight year and the 21st 2018-19 Ivy League Record ..............................2-0 time in program history. First Varsity Season ..................................1900-01 • While also leading the nation in winning percentage (.788) and team All-Time Record ................ 1,128-721-140 (.602) defense (1.58), Cornell won the Cleary Cup (ECAC Hockey regular season Record at Lynah Rink ............ 562-220-66 (.702) championship) for the ninth time and its 22nd Ivy League championship . NCAA Championships ................2 (1967, 1970) • The Big Red is the first team to lead the nation in team defense, then NCAA Tournament Appearances ................... 21 return its entire blue line corps and starting goaltender since Michigan State Years ................ 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, in 2001-02. ........................... 1973, 1980, 1981, 1986, 1991, ........................... 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2005, Perennial Contention ................ 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2017, 2018 ECAC Hockey Championships ........................ 12 Last season marked Cornell's seventh trek to ECAC Hockey’s championship weekend over the last 10 years, which is tops among the circuit’s 12 teams. Here is a Years ..............1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, breakdown of recent ECAC Hockey Championship weekend appearances ... ...1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010 Teams Appearances By Year (Key: Champion, Finalist, Semifinalist) Follow the Big Red CORNELL (7) 2018 2017 2014 2012 2011 2010 2009 HARVARD (5) 2018 2017 2016 2015 2012 Website: www.CornellBigRed.com QUINNIPIAC (5) 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 Facebook: Cornell Sports Twitter: @CornellSports UNION (5) 2017 2014 2013 2012 2010 Instagram: @CornellSports ST. LAWRENCE (4) 2016 2015 2010 2009 YouTube: CornellAthletics COLGATE (4) 2015 2014 2012 2011 YALE (3) 2013 2011 2009 Cornell Men’s Hockey Media Contact PRINCETON (2) 2018 2009 DARTMOUTH (2) 2016 2011 Brandon Thomas, Assistant Director of Athletic Communications BROWN (2) 2013 2010 Office Phone: (607) 255-5627 CLARKSON (1) 2018 Email: [email protected] RENSSELAER (0) November 9, 2018 ∙ at Northern Michigan - 2 - The Offensive Defense: Tale of the Tape • One of the keys to Cornell’s success last season was an increase in offensive production from its defensemen. After receiving 13 goals from blueliners Cornell NMU in each of the previous two seasons, the Big Red had 21 goals from Team Offense 3.00 1.75 defensemen last year. National Rank T-26th T-52nd • That trend has continued again early this year, with five of the Big Red's 12 Conf. Offense 3.50 1.75 goals entering this weekend coming from defensemen (Kaldis 3; Nuttle and Conf. Rank 5th T-5th Cairns 1 each). Team Defense 3.25 2.62 National Rank T-40th T-24th Conf. Defense 2.00 1.25 Wasting No Time: Conf. Rank 2nd T-4th • Max Andreev scored the Big Red’s first goal last Friday against Michigan State, making the program’s first native of Russia also the first freshman to Power Play Pct. 13.0 16.7 score the team’s first goal of a season since Joe Devin ’11 did so against RIT National Rank 51st T-37th Conf. PP Pct. 10.0 15.8 on Oct. 27, 2007. Conf. Rank 11th 6th Feel The Draft?: Penalty Kill Pct. 64.3 82.9 • Cornell has five players on the roster who have been selected in the NHL National Rank 58th 25th Conf. PK Pct. 62.5 18-for-18 Entry Draft — one in each of the last five drafts.