# 2017–18 Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey season

The Cornell Big Red represented Cornell University in ECAC women's ice hockey during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey season.
In the offseason, Cornell hired Dean Jackson as an assistant coach, who had led nearby Elmira College to a Division III national championship in 2013, and had most recently been interim head coach for Penn State.
Canadian Cornell skaters were well represented in international play over the spring and summer. During the IIHF World Championships in Plymouth, Michigan, four Big Red alumni, Laura Fortino (2013), Lauriane Rougeau (2013), Brianne Jenner (2015) and Rebecca Johnston (2012), skated for the silver-medal Canadians. In May, Team Canada named 28 players to the centralization roster, including five alumni: Fortino, Rogeau, Jenner, Johnston and Jillian Saulnier (2015), and one current player, Micah Hart. Twenty-three of the 28 will be named to the roster for the 2018 Olympics.
Following a 2017 NCAA Tournament appearance, the Big Red began the season ranked seventh in both national polls.

## Recruiting

Source:
| Player | Position | Nationality | Notes |
| Lindsay Browning | Goaltender | United States | Minded the net for the Buffalo Bisons |
| Devon Facchinato | Defense | Canada | Chosen for Team Ontario |
| Finley Frechette | Forward | United States | Attended St. Paul's School |
| Madlynne Mills | Forward | United States | Attended Shattuck-St. Mary's |
| Kendra Nealy | Defense | United States | Blueliner for the Chicago Mission |
| Joie Phelps | Forward | United States | Named to Minnesota All-State team |
| Willow Slobodzian | Defense | Canada | Member of Team Canada U18 |

## 2017–18 roster

Source:

## Standings

2017–18 ECAC Hockey standingsvte :
| | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall |
| | GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA |
| #1 Clarkson†* | 22 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 90 | 29 | 41 | 36 | 4 | 1 | 158 | 48 |
| #2 Colgate† | 22 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 80 | 35 | 41 | 34 | 6 | 1 | 150 | 70 |
| #7 Cornell | 22 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 32 | 66 | 42 | 33 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 100 | 65 |
| #8 St. Lawrence | 22 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 30 | 67 | 40 | 35 | 20 | 11 | 4 | 96 | 73 |
| Quinnipiac | 22 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 25 | 41 | 40 | 36 | 16 | 17 | 3 | 65 | 71 |
| Princeton | 22 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 60 | 43 | 32 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 79 | 64 |
| Harvard | 22 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 22 | 52 | 48 | 31 | 13 | 16 | 2 | 31 | 79 |
| Yale | 22 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 18 | 43 | 53 | 31 | 10 | 17 | 4 | 59 | 83 |
| RPI | 22 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 15 | 35 | 50 | 34 | 9 | 19 | 6 | 54 | 78 |
| Union | 22 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 12 | 45 | 78 | 34 | 7 | 22 | 5 | 65 | 121 |
| Dartmouth | 22 | 3 | 16 | 3 | 9 | 25 | 77 | 27 | 5 | 19 | 3 | 37 | 98 |
| Brown | 22 | 1 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 77 | 29 | 2 | 27 | 0 | 46 | 134 |
| Championship: March 10, 2018 † indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com |||||||||||||||

## 2017–18 schedule

Source:
| Date | Opponent$^#$ | Site | Result |
| Regular season |||||||
| October 27 | at St. Lawrence | Appleton Arena • Canton, NY | 0–0–0 (0–0–0) |
| October 28 | at Clarkson | Cheel Arena • Potsdam, NY | |
| November 3 | Quinnipiac | Lynah Rink • Ithaca, NY | |
| November 4 | Princeton | Lynah Rink • Ithaca, NY | |
| November 10 | Wisconsin* | Lynah Rink • Ithaca, NY | |
| November 11 | Wisconsin* | Lynah Rink • Ithaca, NY | |
| November 17 | at Brown | Meehan Auditorium • Providence, RI | |
| November 18 | at Yale | Ingalls Rink • New Haven, CT | |
| November 21 | Penn State* | Lynah Rink • Ithaca, NY | |
| November 25 | at Providence* | Schneider Arena • Providence, RI | |
| November 26 | at Providence* | Schneider Arena • Providence, RI | |
| December 1 | Colgate | Lynah Rink • Ithaca, NY | |
| December 2 | at Colgate | Class of 1965 Arena • Hamilton, NY | |
| January 5, 2018 | at Princeton | Hobey Baker Memorial Rink • Princeton, NJ | |
| January 6 | at Quinnipiac | High Point Solutions Arena • Hamden, CT | |
| January 9 | at Syracuse* | Tennity Ice Skating Pavilion • Syracuse, NY | |
| January 12 | Dartmouth | Lynah Rink • Ithaca, NY | |
| January 13 | Harvard | Lynah Rink • Ithaca, NY | |
| January 19 | Rensselaer | Lynah Rink • Ithaca, NY | |
| January 20 | Union | Lynah Rink • Ithaca, NY | |
| January 26 | Clarkson | Lynah Rink • Ithaca, NY | |
| January 27 | St. Lawrence | Lynah Rink • Ithaca, NY | |
| February 2 | at Harvard | Bright-Landry Hockey Center • Allston, MA | |
| February 3 | at Dartmouth | Thompson Arena • Hanover, NH | |
| February 6 | Syracuse* | Lynah Rink • Ithaca, NY | |
| February 9 | Yale | Lynah Rink • Ithaca, NY | |
| February 10 | Brown | Lynah Rink • Ithaca, NY | |
| February 16 | at Union | Achilles Center • Schenectady, NY | |
| February 17 | at Rensselaer | Houston Field House • Troy, NY | |
| *Non-conference game. $^#$Rankings from USCHO.com Poll. |||||||

## Awards and honors

* Kristin O'Neill, Ivy League Player of the Year
* Maddie Mills, Ivy League Rookie of the Year
* Doug Derraugh, Ivy League Coach of the Year
* Kristin O'Neill, First Team All-Ivy
* Maddie Mills, First Team All-Ivy
* Jaime Bourbonnais, First Team All-Ivy
* Marlène Boissonnault, First Team All-Ivy
* Lenka Serdar, Honorable Mention All-Ivy