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Cornell Men’s Hockey 2015-16 Game Notes Cornell Big Red (6-1-1, 4-1-1 ECAC Hockey) Schedule & Results October #15/16 Cornell vs. #11/12 Boston Univ. 24 RYERSON (exhib.) W, 5-2 November 28, 2015, 8 p.m. EST 25 LAURENTIAN (exhib.) W, 6-1 30 at Niagara W, 3-2 (OT) Madison Square Garden, New York, N.Y. 31 NIAGARA W, 4-0 Boston Univ. Record: 7-4-2, 3-2-2 Hockey East November 6 PRINCETON* W, 4-3 7 QUINNIPIAC* L, 4-5 (OT) Live Coverage 13 COLGATE* W, 5-1 14 at Colgate* W, 3-2 (OT) TV: None 20 at Yale* T, 0-0 Radio: WHCU (870 AM, 95.9 FM) 21 at Brown* W, 1-0 Video: IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork.com 28 vs. Boston University# 8 p.m. Live stats: www.goterriers.com December 4 ST. LAWRENCE* 7 p.m. What’s on Tap: 5 CLARKSON* 7 p.m. For the first time since Red Hot Hockey's inauguration in 2007, Cornell and Boston 28 vs. Providence~ 4 p.m. University will both be ranked in the two major national college hockey polls when 29 vs. Boston Coll./Ohio St.~ 4/7:30 p.m. they clash at 8 p.m. Saturday at famed Madison Square Garden in New York. The game January will be broadcast on Ivy League Digital Network. Jason Weinstein will handle play-by- 8 MERRIMACK 7 p.m. play, with Tony Eisenhut provided color commentary. Their call can also be heard in the 9 MERRIMACK 7 p.m. Ithaca area on WHCU (870 AM, 95.9 FM). 15 at Rensselaer* 7 p.m. 16 at Union* 7 p.m. 22 DARTMOUTH* 7 p.m. About Red Hot Hockey: 23 HARVARD* 7 p.m. Cornell and Boston University will play the fifth edition of the biennial Red Hot 29 at Clarkson* 7 p.m. Hockey series tonight. The first four games have sold out The World's Most Famous 30 at St. Lawrence* 7 p.m. Arena in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013. Cornell has also started The Frozen Apple series February in even-numbered years, having defeated Michigan in 2012 and Penn State in 2014. 5 at Quinnipiac* 7 p.m. 6 at Princeton* 7 p.m. About the Big Red: 12 BROWN* 7 p.m. Cornell is coming off consecutive shutouts at #9/10 Yale and Brown last weekend, 13 YALE* 7 p.m. with junior Mitch Gillam stopping all 57 shots he faced to earn ECAC Hockey Player of 19 at Harvard* 7 p.m. the Week honors. The game at Yale finished scoreless, while junior forward Jake Wei- 20 at Dartmouth* 7 p.m. dner set up sophomore forward Trevor Yates for the lone goal at Brown. The Big Red 26 UNION* 7 p.m. is now unbeaten in its last four games. ... Cornell scored at least three goals in its first 27 RENSSELAER* 7 p.m. six games, with junior forward Jeff Kubiak (3-6–9) getting on the scoresheet in each March of those contests. He leads the team in scoring, rating (plus-8) and faceoff percentage 4-6 ECAC Hockey first round (60.2). Freshman forward Anthony Angello (4-3–7) leads the team in goals. ... Gillam 11-13 ECAC Hockey quarterfinals (6-1-1, 1.59, .938, 3 SO) has been the Big Red's exclusive goaltender to date, ranking 18 ECAC Hockey semifinals 19 ECAC Hockey Championship seventh in the country in goals-against average and 10th in save percentage. 25-26 NCAA Regionals 26-27 NCAA Regionals Follow the Big Red Men’s Hockey Media Contact April Website: www.CornellBigRed.com Brandon Thomas, Assistant Director of 7-9 NCAA Frozen Four (Tampa, Fla.) Facebook: Cornell Athletics Athletic Communications * ECAC Hockey game; # Red Hot Hockey Twitter: @CornellSports Office Phone: (607) 255-5627 at Madison Square Garden (New York); Instagram: @CornellSports Email: [email protected] ~ Florida College Hockey Classic YouTube: CornellAthletics About Boston University: Cornell Quick Facts Before Tuesday's 3-0 shutout of Bentley, the Terriers split last weekend with visiting Location ....................................Ithaca, N.Y. 14853 Michigan. BU scored three goals in the final 10 minutes for a wild 3-2 victory on Friday, Founded ............................................................ 1865 which included a Wolverines penalty shot stopped by sophomore Connor LaCouvee Enrollment .....................................................13,700 when the game was tied. Michigan jumped out to an early lead again Saturday en President .................................... Elizbaeth Garrett route to a 4-2 victory. The loss halted a six-game unbeaten streak, which included a Director of Athletics .............J. Andrew Noel, Jr. pair of ties against Providence — the nation's top-ranked team and the squad which Colors ...........................Carnelian Red and White topped the Terriers in last season's national championship game. ... Senior forward Conference..............ECAC Hockey / Ivy League Danny O'Regan (4-13–17, 3 PPGs) leads the team in scoring, with senior forward Ahti Rink (Capacity) .......................Lynah Rink (4,267) Oksanen (7-6–13) leading the way in goals. Freshman forward Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson (4-9–13) is also tied for second on the team in points. ... LaCouvee (5-2-2, Coaching Information 2.63, .917) has started nine of the team's 13 games in goal, though Sean Maguire Head Coach ............. Mike Schafer (Cornell ’86) made 15 saves to post Tuesday's shutout against Bentley. Career Record ...... 381-223-78 (21st season) Associate Head Coach ...........................Ben Syer The Series Against Boston University: (Western Ontario ’98) Two longtime rivals, Cornell and Boston University have met 44 times, with the Big Assistant Coach .......Topher Scott (Cornell ’08) Red holding a 23-19-2 lead in the all-time series. The two programs have combined Volunteer Assistant Coach ................Joe Palmer to win seven NCAA championships, with the Big Red defeating the Terriers for the (Ohio State ’13) title in 1967, Cornell’s first national championship. Moving to recent times, Boston Director of Operations ..........Brennen McHugh University has won three of the first four versions of Red Hot Hockey, with the 2009 (Campbell ’11) meeting ending in a 3-3 tie. The last time the teams met in 2013 at Madison Square Garden, the Big Red dominated territorially only to come up on the short end of a Team Information 3-2 score. The Terriers also won the first incarnation of Red Hot Hockey at Madison Captains ......... Christian Hilbrich, John Knisley Square Garden in 2007, 6-3, snapping a three-game Cornell winning streak in the ......................... Teemu Tiitinen, Reece Willcox series. Under Cornell head coach Mike Schafer, the Big Red is 3-5-1 against BU. 2015-16 Record .................................................6-1-1 2015-16 ECAC Hockey Record .....................4-1-1 Gillam In A Groove: 2015-16 Ivy League Record ..........................2-0-1 Junior goaltender Mitch Gillam was named the ECAC Hockey Player of the Week First Varsity Season ..................................1900-01 on Tuesday after he stopped all 57 shots he saw last weekend in games at Yale and All-Time Record ................ 1,068-692-126 (.600) Brown in which the opponents outshot the Big Red. Gillam became the first Cornell Record at Lynah Rink ............ 528-202-60 (.703) goalie to post consecutive shutouts since Andy Iles did so Dec. 2-3, 2011 against NCAA Championships ................2 (1967, 1970) St. Lawrence and Clarkson, and these were the Big Red's first consecutive road NCAA Tournament Appearances ................... 19 shutouts since Ben Scrivens blanked Princeton and Quinnipiac from Nov. 7-8, 2008. All-time: 1131/1886 Years ...1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, Named to the Mike Richter Award Watch List before the season, Gillam's shutout Lynah: 555.5/790 ..............1980, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 1997, streak has now reached 167 minutes, 41 seconds, which is a career-best and the ...2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012 sixth-best in program history (see table on opposite page). An odd twist on Gillam's ECAC Hockey Championships ........................ 12 four career shutouts is that he's only won two of them — Dec. 28, 2014 against Lake Years ..............1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, Superior State and last Friday against Yale were both scoreless ties. ...1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010 ECAC Hockey Championships Tale of the Tape Cornell has made seven treks to the ECAC Hockey’s championship weekend over Cornell BU the last 10 years, which is tops among the circuit’s 12 teams. Here is a breakdown Team Offense 3.00 3.23 of recent ECAC Hockey Championship weekend appearances ... National Rank T-21st T-16th Conference Offense 2.83 3.14 Teams Appearances By Year (Key: Champion, Finalist, Semifinalist) Conference Rank 5th 3rd CORNELL (7) 2014 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2006 Team Defense 1.62 2.77 COLGATE (6) 2015 2014 2012 2011 2008 2006 National Rank 5th T-29th UNION (4) 2014 2013 2012 2010 Conference Defense 1.83 2.86 HARVARD (4) 2015 2012 2008 2006 Conference Rank 5th 8th QUINNIPIAC (4) 2015 2014 2013 2007 PP Pct. 21.7 21.6 YALE (3) 2013 2011 2009 National Rank T-18th 21st DARTMOUTH (3) 2011 2007 2006 Conference PP Pct. 25.0 23.3 Conference Rank 2nd 2nd ST. LAWRENCE (4) 2015 2010 2009 2007 BROWN (2) 2013 2010 PK Pct. 86.2 81.0 National Rank T-18th 33rd PRINCETON (2) 2009 2008 Conference PK Pct. 83.3 78.9 CLARKSON (1) 2007 Conference Rank T-7th 9th RENSSELAER (0) Nov. 28, 2015 ∙ Red Hot Hockey - 2 - Wasting No Time: ECAC Hockey Standings & Results Junior forward Jeff Kubiak entered the season with 17 career points through his first two seasons, but he followed that up with nine points in the first six games this year.