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GAME 3: #5/6 CORNELL at COLGATE
DATES: Friday, Nov. 2, 2012
TIME: 7 p.m.
SITE: Starr Rink ? Hamilton, N.Y.
2012-13 RECORDS: Cornell 2-0-0, 0-0-0 ECAC Hockey; Colgate 4-3-0, 0-0-0 ECAC Hockey
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 75-56-12
LAST MEETING: Cornell won, 3-0, on March 17, 2012 in Atlantic City, N.J.
RADIO: WHCU 870 AM (Jason Weinstein)
LIVE STATS: http://sidearmstats.com/colgate/mhockey/scoreboard.aspx
LIVE VIDEO: www.gocolgateraiders.com/showcase
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GAME 4: COLGATE at #5/6 CORNELL
DATES: Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012
TIME: 7 p.m.
SITE: Lynah Rink ? Ithaca, N.Y.
RADIO: WHCU 870 AM (Jason Weinstein)
LIVE STATS: http://sidearmstats.com/cornell/mhockey/scoreboard.aspx
LIVE VIDEO: www.cornellbigred.com/showcase
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Cornell game notes (PDF)
Colgate game notes (PDF)
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ABOUT THE BIG RED
Cornell started its season off with two non-league victories for the first time since 2006, handing Colorado College 2-0 and 3-2 losses last weekend at Lynah Rink. All five Big Red goals were scored on the power play, including one on a two-man advantage. Senior forward John Esposito and sophomore forward Joel Lowry had two goals apiece, and junior forward Armand de Swardt notched the other one in his first game of the season. Forward Cole Bardreau, and defensemen Nick D'Agostino and Joakim Ryan also have a pair of assists in the early going. Junior goalie Andy Iles locked? down his seventh career shutout by making 19 saves in the opener on his way to winning ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week honors. It was the eighth time in program history that the Big Red started its season by holding its opposition scoreless, and the first time since a 1-0 victory over Princeton in 2008. The two wins bumped the Big Red up one spot to sixth in the USCHO.com polls and two spots to fifith in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll. That's higher than Cornell was in both polls since 2010.?
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ABOUT COLGATE
The Raiders are a very different team than they were less than eight months ago when the Big Red saw them last. Colgate turned over 11 players on its roster, including Hobey Baker Award finalist Austin Smith (36 goals-21 assists?57 points) and linemate Chris Wagner. In all, players who accounted for 78 of the team's 121 goals last year are gone. All of that said, the Raiders are carrying a 4-3 record and a modest three-game winning streak into this weekend after a 6-3 victory over RIT and 5-1 win over Quinnipiac last weekend. Colgate has scored a whopping 25 goals in its four wins, but just twice in its three losses. ... Freshman center Tylor Spink (3-5?8) leads the team in scoring, followed by nine players with five or six pounts apiece. One of them is Spink's twin brother, Tyson (2-3?5), who plays on the opposite side off an all-freshman line filled out by right winger Kyle Baun (3-3?6). Senior center Kurtis Bartliff (4-1?5) and freshman left winger Darcy Murphy (4-1?5), who led the OJHL in scoring last season, are tied for the team lead in goals. ... Senior defensemen Jeremy Price (Vancouver) and Thomas Larkin (Columbus) are the team's lone NHL draft picks. ... Junior Eric Mihalik has returned for his third season as the starting goalie, posting a 4-2 record, 2.82 goals-against average and .894 save percentage to date.
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THE SERIES WITH COLGATE
This weekend's games will mark the 144th and 145th all-time meetings between the two Central New York rivals dating back to 1921, but it's the first time the schools have opened up their league schedules against each other. The Big Red holds a 75-56-12 lead in the series entering this weekend. The Raiders ended an 11-game Big Red unbeaten streak in the series by sweeping the regular-season meetings last year, but Cornell responded with a 3-0 victory in the ECAC Hockey third-place game on March 17 to secure an at-large bid into the NCAA tournament. Cornell head coach Mike Schafer holds a 25-12-7 lead over the Raiders during his tenure behind the bench.
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AFTER FURTHER REVIEW ...
Junior forward Armand de Swardt was awarded his second career collegiate goal on Saturday through a post-game scoring change. Video review revealed de Swardt deflected a shot by Brian Ferlin past Colorado College goalie Josh Thorimbert for a power-play goal to kick off the scoring in a 3-2 victory. It was de Swardt's first goal since he scored against Dartmouth in the ECAC Hockey semifinals in March 2011.
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LET'S GET IT STARTED
Cornell has won nine of its last 11 league openers, including last year's convincing 6-2 victory at Yale against the defending champions. The Big Red recently improved its all-time record in season debuts to 56-32-6. By also winning Saturday's rematch with Colorado College, Cornell won its first two non-league games for the first time since 2006.
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BLANK YOU VERY MUCH
With its season-opening 2-0 victory over Colorado College, Cornell has recorded at least one shutout in each of the last 18 seasons. The last time the Big Red went a full schedule without posting a shutout came during the 1994-95 season under former coach Brian McCutcheon, as Cornell finished that year 11-15-4. The following year marked the first season for current head coach Mike Schafer, and his clubs have never gone a full year without recording a shutout.
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WHO NEEDS FIVE-ON-FIVE GOALS?
All five of the Big Red's goals in its two victories over Colorado College last weekend came on the man advantage, including one strike on a five-on-three. It was the first time since 2000 that Cornell opened the season without scoring a five-on-five goal. The last time the team scored as many as five power-play goals in its first two games actually wasn't that long ago ? 2009, when it racked up six against Niagara and Dartmouth.
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EXHIBITIONS IN NAME ONLY
Just because exhibition games don't count in the standings doesn't mean the Big Red takes a soft approach to them. Cornell has posted a 16-1-3 record in exhibitions since 2000, and even that one loss came at the hands of a future Big Red player. Andy Iles made 39 saves for the U.S. Under-18 team in a 3-2 victory over the Big Red at Lynah on Oct. 24, 2009. The average margin of victory for Cornell's 15 wins is a whopping 4.5 goals.
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CLIMBING THE CHARTS
Cornell head coach Mike Schafer is quickly moving up the ranks of the coaching fraternity in his win totals. Now in his 18th season, Schafer has 334 career victories, ranking him second in ECAC Hockey. Schafer trails only Quinnipiac's Rand Pecknold by one game. Schafer is tops among Ivy League coaches, with Dartmouth's Bob Gaudet entering this season with 315 career victories in his 23 seasons at the helm of the Big Green.
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ILES FILES
Andy Iles is the only goalie in Division I this season who was used exclusively by his team last season. By playing all of the Big Red's games in 2011-12, Iles became the first goalie at Cornell to accomplish that feat since Darren Eliot in 1982-83, and the first Cornell sophomore to do so since Laing Kennedy in 1960-61 ? when the season was just 19 games long.
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FOR THE RECORD
With three consecutive shutouts last November, Andy Iles recorded the second-longest shutout streak in program history, spanning 213 minutes, 35 seconds over a five-game span. The only Cornell shutout streak that went longer was posted by Toronto Maple Leafs goalie Ben Scrivens, who held the opposition scoreless for 267:11 during the 2010 playoffs. But Iles wasn't done there ? he posted back-to-back shutouts against St. Lawrence and Clarkson on Dec. 2 and Dec. 3, respectively, spurring another lengthy shutout streak of 152:36 that ranks ninth all-time in Big Red history. His success has stretched into the postseason, as evidenced by a career-high 46 saves in a March 9 double-overtime victory against Dartmouth. Iles was third in the nation with six shutouts and 10th in goal-against average (2.12). He also set a record for longest streak in ECAC Hockey play of 286:54 from November to January.
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THE OFFENSIVE DEFENSE
The Big Red scored six shorthanded goals last season, its highest total since the 2005-06 season. Sophomore defenseman Joakim Ryan had two of those goals on the penalty kill, with the second coming in an NCAA tournament victory over Michigan. Other returning players who scored shorthanded goals last season include sophomore forward Joel Lowry and senior forward Vince Mihalek.
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COLLECTING HARDWARE
Andy Iles became the first Cornell hockey player to earn a medal for the United States at the IIHF World Junior Championships when he was part of Team USA that claimed bronze at the 2011 tournament in Buffalo, N.Y. Iles is just the second Cornell player to be a member of the United States team, joining Jean-Marc Pelletier in 1998. The last Cornell player to earn a medal for any nation at the IIHF World Junior Championships was Sasha Pokulok, who claimed gold with Canada in 2006. The bronze medal won by Iles is the first bronze of the seven medals claimed by Cornellians at the world's most prestigious junior hockey tournament.
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MAKING THE CUT
Sophomore forward Cole Bardreau competed for the U.S. throughout the USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp over the summer in Lake Placid, N.Y. Bardreau,? who was a member of the U.S. team that captured the gold medal at the IIHF Under-18 World Championship in April 2011, was one of the 34 players that survived a mid-camp cut during evaluation for a possible spot on the national team for the IIHF World Junior Championships in December and January. Sophomore defenseman Joakim Ryan was also among the 45 players who started the camp with the U.S. before the roster was trimmed.
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INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE
Junior Kirill Gotovets got a taste of the big time when he was selected to represent his native Belarus in the 2010 IIHF World Championships ? not an age group World Championships (though he did play for Belarus at the U20 World Championship as well) ? playing against some of the best players the world has to offer. He played in three of Belarus' eight games at the World Championships, recording two shots and two minutes in penalties, helping his nation to a 10th-place finish.
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FEEL THE DRAFT?
Cornell has eight players on the roster who have been selected in the NHL Entry Draft, including three picks from last June. Freshman defenseman Reece Willcox was selected in the fifth round by the Philadelphia Flyers, then sophomore forward John McCarron was snagged in the sixth round by the Edmonton Oilers. The San Jose Sharks then selected sophomore defenseman Joakim Ryan in the seventh round, giving the Big Red its most NHL draft picks entering a season since it had eight in the 2006-07 campaign. Other NHL draft picks on this year's team include sophomore forwards Brian Ferlin (Boston Bruins) and Joel Lowry (Los Angeles Kings), senior defensemen Braden Birch (Chicago Blackhawks) and Nick D'Agostino (Pittsburgh Penguins), and junior defenseman Kirill Gotovets (Tampa Bay Lightning).
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FIRST 1,000 DOWN
The Big Red's 2-1 win over Quinnipiac in game one of the ECAC Hockey quarterfinals last season marked the 1,000th victory all-time for the Cornell men's hockey program. Cornell became the 17th program to reach that milestone.
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GLOBAL INFLUENCE
The Big Red has 11 players on the roster born in the United States, the second-highest total for a Mike Schafer-coached team at Cornell (trailing only the 12 it had last season). The Big Red also now has players native to seven different countries on its squad. Aside from the bulk of its roster hailing from the United States and Canada, Cornell also has a player from Belarus (Kirill Gotovets), Denmark (Christian Hilbrich), Finland (Teemu Tiitinen), Singapore (Dustin Mowrey) and South Africa (Armand de Swardt).
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CLOSER TO HOME
Hometown fans of the Big Red got a rare treat when goalie Andy Iles became the first Ithaca native to play for the team since Mike Tallman in 1988-89. Sophomore forward Kevin Cole then made his collegiate debut last season, marking the first time in at least 50 years ? and perhaps the first time in program history ? that two Ithaca natives have played for the Big Red in the same season. Cole was born in Ithaca and raised in nearby Lansing before heading off to junior programs in Syracuse and Cornwall, Ontario. His father, Dave, lettered for the Big Red in the 1981-82 season. Yet another Ithaca area connection came on board this season when the Big Red added junior defenseman Craig Esposito, who is also from Lansing and serves as one of the tri-captains on Cornell's men's golf team. Freshman forward John Knisley, who calls Pittsford, N.Y. home, also joins the Big Red this season to give Cornell five players that call Upstate New York home for the first time since 1963-64.
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UP NEXT
The Big Red will make its first two-game road trip of the season with a Nov. 9 visit to Princeton and a Nov. 10 trip to Quinnipiac before Cornell returns home for a highly anticipated showdown with Harvard on Nov. 16. That game will be featured on NBC Sports Network.
Source: http://www.cornellbigred.com/news/2012/11/1/MICE_1101125417.aspx
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