Team Notes: Playoff Hockey Arrives as Rensselaer Visits Lynah
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The following article appeared March 11 on the Cornell Web site.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- A pair of surprise upsets in the first round of
the ECAC Hockey playoffs have the Cornell men’s hockey team
facing off against one of those suprise squads, Rensselaer, in the
quarterfinal round of the league tournament this weekend. The Big
Red and Engineers will open the best-of-three series on Friday,
with each game being contested at 7 p.m. at Lynah Rink. Each game
of the series can be heard in the Ithaca area on WHCU 870 AM, with
Jason Weinstein on the play-by-play, while live streaming audio of
the contests will be available through the Cornell RedCast
subscription service. Additionally, live video of the series is
being provided through B2 Networks.
Cornell, the second-seed in the ECAC Hockey playoffs, closed out
the season with wins in three of its last four games, including
closing out the regular season with a thrilling 3-2
come-from-behind overtime win at Brown on Feb. 28. The win over the
Bears, coupled with Princeton being swept at Dartmouth and Harvard
that weekend, was enough for the Big Red to leapfrog the Tigers
into the second seed in the tournament. Junior Blake Gallagher had
a pair of assists on Feb. 27 in a 4-2 loss at Yale, then scored the
overtime game-winner the following night at Brown. Fellow junior
Colin Greening also had a three-point weekend, scoring a goal
against the Bulldogs and tallying a goal and an assist against
Brown.
Sophomore Riley Nash leads the Big Red offense, scoring 11 goals
and 18 assists for 29 points in 29 games. Greening has a team-best
12 goals to go along with 14 assists for 26 points, while Gallagher
has team-high honors with 19 assists to match his six goals for 25
points. Senior Evan Barlow has also reached the 20-point mark with
seven goals and 13 assists on the year. Goaltender Ben Scrivens has
a .937 save percentage and a 1.72 goals-against average on the year
to go along with six shutouts. The Big Red has scored 26 power-play
goals in 159 chances for a 16.4 percent conversion rate, while
Cornell’s penalty killers have been successful in 85.0
percent of their chances, killing off 130-of-153 opponents’
power plays.
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