Team Notes: Final Month of Regular Season for Big Red Begins at Quinnipiac, Princeton
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The following article appeared February 3 on the Cornell Web site.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell men’s hockey team looks to
keep rolling this weekend, taking to the road for a pair of games
against Quinnipiac and Princeton. The Big Red and Bobcats will face
off on Friday at 8 p.m., a special start time with the game being
televised nationally on CBS College Sports. Saturday, Cornell and
Princeton will do battle in a 7 p.m. start at Princeton’s
Hobey Baker Rink, a game that can be seen in the metropolitan New
York City area on Verizon FiOS1. For fans in Ithaca, Jason
Weinstein will have the call on WHCU 870 AM, with live streaming
audio of both games available through the Cornell Redcast
subscription service.
ABOUT THE BIG RED
Cornell closed out the month of January with a 5-1-1 mark after
pulling off its second four-point weekend of the season, downing
St. Lawrence and Clarkson at Lynah Rink. Cornell first earned a
hard-fought victory against St. Lawrence by a 2-1 margin with
junior Patrick Kennedy scoring the game-winner with 1:37 to play in
regulation. On Saturday, the Big Red struck for four goals in the
second period, including three of those on the power play, to claim
a 5-3 victory over Clarkson. Senior Blake Gallagher led the way
against the Golden Knights with a goal and three assists for his
first career four-point game, while sophomore Locke Jillson scored
his first career multi-point game with two goals and one assist.
Senior goaltender Ben Scrivens was solid once again on the weekend,
posting 33 saves and allowing four goals. The Big Red
penalty-killing unit was also solid, allowing one goal on eight
chances on the weekend, while the power-play unit snapped an
0-for-30 skid with three goals against Clarkson to finish 3-for-9
on the weekend. On the year, Gallagher leads the Cornell offense
with 25 points through 20 games on a team-best 13 goals and 12
assists. Fellow senior Colin Greening is also averaging better than
a point per game, tallying seven goals and a team-high 14 assists
for 21 points in 20 games. Also in double figures on the season are
juniors Joe Devin (5-11--16) and Riley Nash (5-9--14), senior
Brendon Nash (2-9--11) and freshman Nick D’Agostino
(2-8--10). In goal, Scrivens has played every minute, posting a
1.94 goals-against average and a .929 save percentage with a pair
of shutouts. Cornell’s power play has converted on 21-of-95
power play chances (22.1 percent) and has killed off penalties at a
88.9 percent rate (88-of-99).
ABOUT QUINNIPIAC
The Bobcats, once the biggest story of the year after opening the
season at 12-1, have faltered since December, going just 1-10-2
since and have fallen into seventh place in the ECAC Hockey
standings. The Bobcats have not won since a Dec. 12 win over
American International, and the team, which was at one point ranked
as high as fourth in the nation, is no longer receiving votes in
the national polls. In spite of their struggles, Quinnipiac remains
a dangerous squad, led by senior Brandon Wong’s 28 points on
14 goals and 14 assists in 26 games. Four of Quinnipiac’s
top-five scorers are seniors, with the lone outlier being sophomore
Scott Zurevinski, who ranks third with 24 points on 11 goals and 13
assists. Nine players are in double digits in scoring on the
season. Sophomore goaltender Dan Clarke has seen the majority of
time in between the pipes for Quinnipiac, posting a .909 save
percentage and a 2.72 goals-against average. The Bobcats have
converted on 28-of-134 power-play chances (20.9 percent) while
killing off 105-of-124 opponents’ power plays (84.7 percent).
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