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Cornell Men’s Hockey 2016-17 Game Notes Schedule & Results Cornell Big Red (16-6-3, 11-4-3 ECAC Hockey) October 12/13 17 21 UOIT (exhib.) W, 3-1 Cornell at St. Lawrence 22 BROCK (exhib.) W, 8-1 Friday, February 17, 2017, 7 p.m. EST 28 at Merrimack L, 2-3 Appleton Arena, Canton, N.Y. November St. Lawrence Record: 15-9-6, 11-4-3 ECAC Hockey 4 at Dartmouth * T, 1-1 5 at Harvard * L, 3-4 Live Coverage Where Cornell Stands 11 at Brown * W, 4-2 TV: None RPI: 11 12 at Yale * W, 6-3 Radio: WHCU (870 AM, 95.9 FM) KRACH: 11 18 QUINNIPIAC * L, 1-3 Video: www.saintsathletics.com USCHO.com poll: 12 19 PRINCETON * W, 4-2 Stats: www.sidearmstats.com/stlawu/mhockey Pairwise: 13 26 vs. New Hampshire # W, 3-1 Twitter: @CUBigRedGameday, @CUBigRedHockey USA Hockey/USA Today poll: 13 29 at Colgate * W, 3-2 December What’s on Tap: 2 MIAMI (OHIO) W, 4-3 • Cornell faces off against St. Lawrence tonight in a matchup of contenders for 3 MIAMI (OHIO) W, 2-1 the Cleary Cup, which is awarded annually to ECAC Hockey's regular-season 28 vs. Northern Michigan ~ W, 5-2 champion. The Big Red and Saints enter tonight tied for third place with 25 29 vs. Colorado College ~ L, 1-2 (OT) points — two back of league leader Union and one point behind Harvard. January • Tonight's game will be broadcast through the St. Lawrence website, www. 7 at Merrimack W, 1-0 saintsathletics.com. Jason Weinstein will provide play-by-play that can be 13 at Princeton * W, 5-1 heard in the Ithaca area on WHCU (870 AM, 95.9 FM) and accessed worldwide 14 at Quinnipiac * W, 2-1 via http://player.liquidcompass.net/WHCUAM 20 CLARKSON * T, 3-3 21 ST. LAWRENCE * W, 3-2 Big Red Rewind: 27 HARVARD * L, 1-4 • Cornell is coming off a busy stretch of five ECAC Hockey games in 10 days, 28 DARTMOUTH * L, 2-4 where it took nine of an available 10 points to move up to a tie for third place in February the standings with Friday's opponent, St. Lawrence. 3 at Union * W, 5-3 • Its last time out, the Big Red defeated Brown, 5-3, on a rare Sunday afternoon 4 at Rensselaer * W, 4-3 tilt at Lynah Rink. Anthony Angello scored twice and Mitch Vanderlaan had a 7 COLGATE * W, 4-0 goal and an assist in a game that was pushed back a day due to weather-related 11 YALE * T, 2-2 travel concerns for the weekend's visitors. 12 BROWN * W, 5-3 • Jeff Kubiak and Anthony Angello each had a goal and an assist, but the Big 17 at St. Lawrence * 7:00 p.m. Red couldn't hold on to a two-goal lead in Saturday's 2-2 tie with Yale. Mitch 18 at Clarkson * 7:00 p.m. Gillam made 35 saves — his second-highest total for a single game this season. 24 RENSSELAER * 7:00 p.m. • Mitch Gillam made 28 saves in a 4-0 win over Colgate last Tuesday to record 25 UNION * 7:00 p.m. the 10th shutout of his career. The Big Red had four different goal-scorers. Matt ((( Playoffs TBA ))) Nuttle's two first-period assists resulted in his first career multiple-point game. • Cornell swept Union and Rensselaer on the road Feb. 3-4, scoring winning * ECAC Hockey game goals late in the third period both times. Jake Weidner whipped in a bad-angle # The Frozen Apple power-play goal to give the Big Red a 5-3 win against the Dutchmen, then Yanni at Madison Square Garden (New York) Kaldis scored his first collegiate goal with 24.6 seconds remaining in the 4-3 win ~ Florida College Hockey Classic (Estero, Fla.) over the Engineers. Cornell Quick Facts Who's Who at CU: • Sophomore forward Mitch Vanderlaan (10-10–20) regained the team scoring Location ....................................Ithaca, N.Y. 14853 lead. He broke a string of five straight scoreless games with an assist Tuesday Founded ............................................................ 1865 vs. Colgate, then scored a goal to go with an assist Saturday vs. Brown. Enrollment (undergraduate) ...................14,315 • Junior forward Trevor Yates (10-9–19) typically centers the line with President (interim) .........Hunter R. Rawlings III Vanderlaan on the wing. He leads the team with six power-play goals and 11 Director of Athletics .............J. Andrew Noel, Jr. power-play points, and his goal Sunday gives him six points in his last five. Colors ...........................Carnelian Red and White • Senior forward Matt Buckles (7-6–13), who typically plays on the other Conference..............ECAC Hockey / Ivy League wing of Yates' line, has 11 points in 14 games since returning from an Rink (Capacity) .......................Lynah Rink (4,267) injury-related absence to close out the first semester. Coaching Information • Senior defenseman Patrick McCarron (4-15–19) averages the fifth-most Head Coach ............. Mike Schafer (Cornell ’86) points per game for ECAC Hockey blueliners (0.76). He had an eight-game Career Record .... 407-239-87 (22nd season) points streak earlier this season, which was the first for a Cornellian since Associate Head Coach ...........................Ben Syer Greg Miller from Oct. 29 to Nov. 22, 2011, and the first for a Big Red defense- (Western Ontario ’98) man since Mark McRae from Jan. 25 to Feb. 21, 2003. Assistant Coach ............................Sean Flanagan • The line of senior forward Jeff Kubiak (3-9–12), and sophomore forwards (St. Lawrence ’10) Anthony Angello (10-6–16) and Beau Starrett (2-8–10) posted a combined Director of Hockey Operations ........Joe Palmer 11 points last weekend. Angello has five goals in his last five games. (Ohio State ’13) • Senior Mitch Gillam (16-5-3, 2.16, .917, 2 SO) had the nation's longest active Volunteer Assistant Coach .... Mike McDonagh unbeaten streak for goaltenders snapped Jan. 27, having backstopped the (Penn State ’14) Big Red to a 10-0-1 record over 11 starts. The Big Red's lone nominee for the Team Information Hobey Baker Memorial Award had a 1.63 goals against average and .931 save percentage over that span. Captain ...............................................Jake Weidner Alternate Captains ............................ Jeff Kubiak, Road Warriors: ..................................................Patrick McCarron • Cornell has played just 11 home games this season, which is tied for the 2016-17 Record ..............................................16-6-3 lowest total in the country. The Big Red has a better winning percentage on 2016-17 ECAC Hockey Record ..................11-4-3 the road (.773) than it does at home (.636). 2016-17 Ivy League Record ..........................5-3-2 • Cornell's wins at Union and Rensselaer to start the month marked the first time First Varsity Season ..................................1900-01 the Big Red has swept the Capital District road weekend since Jan. 16-17, 2009. All-Time Record ................ 1,095-710-136 (.599) • This year marks the first time since 2004-05 that the Big Red has swept Record at Lynah Rink ............ 542-215-65 (.699) three ECAC Hockey road weekends in a single season. Since the league NCAA Championships ................2 (1967, 1970) started its travel partner system in 1984-85, Cornell has never had four road NCAA Tournament Appearances ................... 19 sweeps in the same season. Years ...1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, ..............1980, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 1997, ...2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012 ECAC Hockey Championships ECAC Hockey Championships ........................ 12 Cornell has made six treks to the ECAC Hockey’s championship weekend over Years ..............1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, the last 10 years, which is tops among the circuit’s 12 teams. Here is a breakdown ...1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010 of recent ECAC Hockey Championship weekend appearances ... Teams Appearances By Year (Key: Champion, Finalist, Semifinalist) Follow the Big Red CORNELL (6) 2014 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 Website: www.CornellBigRed.com QUINNIPIAC (5) 2016 2015 2014 2013 2007 Facebook: Cornell Athletics ST. LAWRENCE (5) 2016 2015 2010 2009 2007 Twitter: @CornellSports COLGATE (5) 2015 2014 2012 2011 2008 Instagram: @CornellSports HARVARD (4) 2016 2015 2012 2008 YouTube: CornellAthletics UNION (4) 2014 2013 2012 2010 DARTMOUTH (3) 2016 2011 2007 Cornell Men’s Hockey Media Contact YALE (3) 2013 2011 2009 BROWN (2) 2013 2010 Brandon Thomas, Assistant Director of Athletic Communications PRINCETON (2) 2009 2008 Office Phone: (607) 255-5627 CLARKSON (1) 2007 Email: [email protected] RENSSELAER (0) February 17, 2017 ∙ at St. Lawrence - 2 - A Little Perspective: Tale of the Tape • Cornell recently took advantage of the games in hand its held on most ECAC Hockey teams to moved up to a third-place tie with St. Lawrence. That leaves Cornell SLU the Big Red currently aligned for one of the league's coveted first-round byes. Team Offense 3.04 2.90 Fifth-place Quinnipiac is four points behind Cornell and SLU. National Rank 23rd T-29th • Last week's results leave Cornell steady in the Pairwise Rankings at 13th. If Conference Offense 3.22 2.78 Conference Rank 3rd 7th the season ended today and there was one or fewer major upset champion in the Big Ten, Hockey East, ECAC Hockey and NCHC tournaments, Cornell would Team Defense 2.20 2.23 be in line for an at-large berth to the NCAA tournament. National Rank 7th T-8th Conference Defense 2.39 1.61 The Sum of Intangibles Is Tangible: Conference Rank 3rd 1st • A quick glance at Cornell's traditional statistics illustrates some of the PP Pct. 17.9 12.9 team's storylines, though several others fly beneath the radar.