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CORNELL HOCKEY Contact: Kevin Zeise, Assistant Director of Athletic Communications ph. 607.255.5627 • cell 603.748.1268 • fax 607.255.9791 • email [email protected] THIS WEEK IN CORNELL HOCKEY CORNELL MEN’S ICE HOCKEY GAME 14: Cornell at Rensselaer 2007-08 SEASON SchEDULE FACEOff: Friday, January 11, 2008, at 7 p.m. ET October SITE: Houston Fieldhouse (5,150) - Troy, N.Y. 13 Red and White Scrimmage RECORDS: Cornell (6-5-2, 4-2-0 ECAC Hockey) 19 Trois-Rivieres (exhibition) T, 0-0 (ot) 21 Ottawa (exhibition) W, 8-0 Rensselaer (8-10-3, 3-2-2 ECAC Hockey) 27 at Rochester Inst. of Technology~ L, 1-4 SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 50-30-5 LAST MEETING: Cornell won, 6-1, on Feb. 10, 2007, in Troy, N.Y. November RADIO: WHCU 870 AM • Jason Weinstein (play-by-play) 2 Princeton* L, 2-3 TV: Time Warner Sports (Albany & Central NY) 3 Quinnipiac* W, 5-3 9 at Yale* W, 2-1 John Hennessy (PBP) and Kevin Broad (Color) 10 at Brown* W, 4-1 LIVE VIDEO: B2 Networks (subscription required) 16 at Harvard* L, 1-2 LIVE StATS: http://livestats.internetconsult.com/rpi/mhockey/xlive.htm 17 at Dartmouth* W, 4-1 TICKETS: (607) 254-BEAR 24 vs. Boston University^ L, 3-6 30 Massachusetts T, 0-0 (ot) GAME 15: Cornell at Union December FACEOff: Saturday, January 12, 2008, at 7 p.m. ET Florida College Classic - Estero, Fla. SITE: Messa Rink at Achilles Center (2,225) - Schenectady, N.Y. 28 UMass-Lowell L, 2-3 RECORDS: Cornell (6-5-2, 4-2-0 ECAC Hockey) 29 Clarkson T, 3-3 (ot) Union (6-8-3, 1-3-2 ECAC Hockey) January SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 23-10-5 4 Niagara W, 6-0 LAST MEETING: Tied, 3-3, on Feb. 9, 2007, in Schenectady, N.Y. 5 Niagara W, 4-3 RADIO: WHCU 870 AM • Jason Weinstein (play-by-play) 11 at Rensselaer* 7 pm 12 at Union* 7 pm TV: Time Warner Sports (Albany & Central NY) 18 St. Lawrence* 7 pm Matt DuBrey (PBP) and Dan Fridgen (Color) 20 Clarkson* 4 pm LIVE VIDEO: www.UnionAthletics.com (subscription required) 25 Brown* 7 pm LIVE StATS: http://livestats.prestosports.com/union/ 26 Yale* 7 pm TICKETS: (607) 254-BEAR February 1 Colgate* 7 pm ITHACA, N.Y. -- With the non-conference portion of the schedule complete, the Cornell men’s 2 at Colgate* 7 pm hockey team returns to the road to begin the stretch run of the ECAC Hockey season. Cornell 8 at Clarkson* 7 pm opens the second half of the league slate in the Albany area, taking on Rensselaer on Friday 9 at St. Lawrence* 7 pm before moving on to play Union in a Saturday night contest. Both games will be televised in 15 Union* 7 pm both the Capital District and in central New York by Timer Warner Sports. Fans not near a tele- 16 Rensselaer 7 pm vision can still catch the games on WHCU 870 AM, with Jason Weinstein calling the action. 22 at Quinnipiac* 7 pm 23 at Princeton* 7 pm About the Big Red 29 Dartmouth* 7 pm Cornell is coming off its second weekend sweep of the year after defeating Niagara in a pair of March games at Lynah Rink last weekend. The Big Red opened the 2008 calendar year with a 6-0 win 1 Harvard* 7 pm over the Purple Eagles, then took the series with a 4-3 victory on Saturday night. Junior Mi- chael Kennedy led the way for the Big Red, scoring six points on three goals and three assists ECAC Hockey First Round • March 7-9 on the weekend. Senior Raymond Sawada and junior Evan Barlow both added four points On Campus at Higher Seed in the two games, with Sawada collecting four assists - three in Saturday night’s game alone ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals • March 14-16 - and Barlow tallying two goals and two assists. Sophomore goalie Ben Scrivens earned the On Campus at Higher Seed win in goal both nights, stopping 17 shots for the shutout victory on Friday before stopping 26 shots on Saturday night. For the season, freshman Riley Nash leads the team in scoring ECAC Hockey Championship Finals • March 21-22 with 12 points on five goals and seven assists, while sophomore Colin Greening is second Times Union Center - Albany, N.Y. with 11 points (3-8-11) and Michael Kennedy has 10 points (5-5-10). Scrivens has been solid NCAA Regionals • March 28-30 in goal, posting a 2.06 goals-against average and a .933 save percentage in 12 games. The Big Site TBA Red power play has 12 goals in 67 chances (17.9 percent), while Cornell has killed off 44-of-54 NCAA Frozen Four • April 10-12 opponents’ power play opportunities (81.5 percent). Pepsi Center - Denver, Colo. Head Coach Mike Schafer `86 * ECAC Hockey Game Mike Schafer, the Jay R. Bloom ‘77 Head Coach of Men’s Ice Hockey, is in his 13th season at the ~ at Blue Cross Arena (Rochester, N.Y.) ^ at Madison Square Garden (New York, N.Y.) helm of the Big Red. Schafer has a 241-130-44 career record and has guided the Big Red to six 1 NCAA tournament appearances. The 12th coach in Cornell men’s hockey ECAC Hockey Standings history, he has won four ECAC Hockey League tournament titles, three (as of Jan. 8) league regular-season championships and is a three-time ECAC Hockey League Overall League Coach of the Year. Schafer, with 241 career wins to his credit, is Team Pts GP W L T GF GA GP W L T GF GA the winningest coach in Cornell history, passing Dick Bertrand’s 230 on 1 Clarkson 12 8 6 2 0 26 19 18 11 6 1 51 44 Jan. 27, 2007, against Colgate at Lynah Rink. He also ranks sixth among Princeton 12 10 6 4 0 30 29 16 8 8 0 44 55 active Division I coaches in winning percentage, leading the Big Red to Harvard 12 11 5 4 2 27 18 16 6 7 3 36 36 victory in 63.7 percent of Cornell’s games. He is assisted by Brent Brekke 4 Yale 11 9 4 2 3 22 19 14 7 4 3 42 33 and Scott Garrow, both in their ninth seasons with the Big Red. Quinnipiac 11 10 4 3 3 30 28 19 11 5 3 57 42 6 Cornell 8 6 4 2 0 18 11 13 6 5 2 37 30 About Rensselaer Rensselaer 8 7 3 2 2 20 18 21 8 10 3 50 56 After a hot start that saw the Engineers sprint out to a 6-3-2 record in 8 St. Lawrence 6 8 2 4 2 22 27 19 7 9 3 55 56 mid-November, the Engineers have seen their record come back down 9 Brown 5 8 1 4 3 19 23 14 1 9 4 26 45 to earth at the hands of several nationally ranked opponents. RPI has Dartmouth 5 9 2 6 1 22 30 13 5 7 1 38 39 lost five straight games, including four to ranked teams. Renssleaer’s 11 Colgate 4 6 1 3 2 12 18 18 7 8 3 50 46 last win came on Dec. 4, a 4-2 home win over Harvard, but since then, Union 4 6 1 3 2 12 20 17 6 8 3 37 48 the Engineers have dropped five straight. Included in that span were Ivy League Hockey Standings two losses to then-top-ranked Miami to go along with losses in Florida (as of Jan. 4) to Colorado College and Notre Dame. Freshman Tyler Helfrich leads the League Overall Engineers in scoring with 17 points on three goals and 14 assists, while Team Pts GP W L T GF GA GP W L T GF GA five other players are in double figures in points. The two-headed goalie 1 Princeton 6 3 0 0 0 10 5 16 8 8 0 44 55 combination of Mathias Lange and Jordan Alford has split time in net Cornell 6 5 3 2 0 13 8 13 6 5 2 37 30 nearly evenly, with Lange posting a .927 save percentage and a 2.16 3 Harvard 5 4 2 1 1 7 6 16 6 7 3 36 36 goals-against average. Alford, meanwhile, has a .902 save percentage Yale 5 4 2 1 1 9 8 14 7 4 3 42 33 and a 2.72 goals-against average. Where RPI has struggled on the sea- 5 Brown 0 3 0 3 0 4 9 14 1 9 4 26 45 son is on the power play, scoring just seven goals in 101 chances (6.9 Dartmouth 0 3 0 3 0 3 10 13 5 7 1 38 39 percent). The penalty killing unit has been much better, killing off 91- of-108 opponents’ power plays (84.3 percent). Recent Results/Upcoming Contests Wednesday, Jan. 2 The Series With Rensselaer Connecticut 1, Yale 9 Cornell won the last meeting between the two teams, a 6-1 rout in Troy Friday, Jan. 4 on Feb. 10, 2007, to grab a 50-30-5 lead in the all-time series. Cornell Dartmouth 2, Princeton 5 has a 12-3-2 mark in the series since the 2000-01 season, and a 21-17-0 Connecticut 1, Union 4 advantage in games played at the Houston Field House.