Team Notes: Cornell Battles RPI, Union on Senior Weekend
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The following article appeared February 18 on the Cornell Web site.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The final home weekend of the regular season has
arrived, only to find the Cornell men’s hockey team having
dropped three straight contests and needing a lift over the final
two weekends. Cornell will hope to start the final few games
strongly with a pair of contests against Capital District foes
Rensselaer and Union this weekend at Lynah Rink. Friday
night’s game will feature the Big Red turning in its
traditional red and white jerseys for those of the black and pink
variety as part of ECAC Hockey’s Pink at the Rink campaign to
raise money and awareness for cancer research. On Saturday, Cornell
will be back in the red and white for Senior Day festivities as the
Big Red says farewell to the eight-member class of 2009. Both games
can be heard in the Ithaca area on WHCU 870 AM, with Jason
Weinstein on the play-by-play. Live streaming video of both games
will also be available through the Cornell RedCast subscription
service.
Cornell was a hard-luck loser in two contests last weekend on the
road, falling in overtime, 5-4, on Friday at Dartmouth and dropping
a 4-2 contest at Harvard on Saturday. The Big Red has fallen in
three straight games, the first losing streak of three games in
exactly one year.Colin Greening had an outstanding weekend against
Dartmouth and Harvard, collecting a goal and an assist against the
Big Green and tallying both Cornell goals against Harvard to take
the team scoring lead with 10 goals and 13 assists in 25 games. Ben
Scrivens stopped 26 shots on Friday night and 20 on Saturday night
in taking the loss both evenings.
On the year, Riley Nash trails Greening’s total by just one
goal, while Blake Gallagher has a team-best 15 assists to slide
into third in overall scoring. Scrivens has a .940 save percentage
on the year to go along with a 1.63 goals-against average.
Cornell’s power play has converted on 20-of-135 opportunities
(14.8 percent) while killing off 113-of-131 penalties against (86.3
percent).
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