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No. 7/6 Women's Hockey Heads to Dartmouth, Harvard This Weekend
February 03, 2026 | Women's Ice Hockey
As the ECAC Hockey season heads into the final two weekends of the regular season, the No. 7/6-ranked Princeton women's hockey team will head to Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend.
at Dartmouth, Friday, 3 p.m. | ESPN+ | Int'l Video | Live Stats
at Harvard, Saturday, 3 p.m. | ESPN+ | Int'l Video | Live Stats
In the rankings: Princeton stands No. 7 in the latest USCHO and tied for No. 6 in the latest USA Hockey/The Rink Live national rankings. ECAC Hockey has five teams ranked in at least one of the two 15-team polls, in No. 7/T6 Princeton, No. 8/T6 Quinnipiac, No. 9/9 Yale, No. 11/11 Clarkson, and No. 12/12 Cornell.
Princeton in the polls: Princeton has been in the top 10 each week since Dec. 8-9, peaking at No. 7 in the USCHO poll on Jan. 19 and Feb. 2, the team's highest ranking in that poll since No. 6 at the end of the 2019-20 season, and peaking at No. 6 in the USA Hockey poll on Feb. 3, also the highest ranking since being No. 6 at the end of the 2019-20 season.
ECAC & Ivy Standings: Princeton returned to the top of the ECAC standings with last weekend's sweep of St. Lawrence and Clarkson, winning a head-to-head matchup with the Golden Knights after both teams entered last Saturday tied for first place. With 12 points left on the table, Princeton (41) has a three-point lead on Clarkson (38) with Yale (36) and Quinnipiac (35.5) in the top four and Brown (32) fifth, the first spot out of a first-round bye and quarterfinal hosting. Princeton's top finish all-time in the ECAC standings has been second, in 2006, 2019 and 2020, and the last time Princeton was home for the quarterfinals was 2020, when it won its only ECAC tournament title. Princeton was also home for best-of-three quarterfinals in 2002 (lost), 2003 (won), 2006 (won), 2007 (lost), 2009 (lost), 2011 (lost), 2016 (lost), 2017 (won) and 2019 (won).
The Ivy League standings show Princeton in fourth place, but still with four games to play and no Ivy-Ivy games left that don't involve Princeton. The Tigers can win the Ivy League title, which would be their first since 2019 and ninth all-time (1982, 1983, 1984, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2016) by getting nine of the final 12 points available, which would push the Tigers (13 points) past Cornell (21), with Cornell having completed its Ivy games. No other Ivy team can get to Cornell's 21, so the Ivy champ will be the Big Red unless the Tigers get those nine points between this weekend and next.
Against Dartmouth and Harvard: Princeton faced the Big Green and Crimson just three weekends ago, sweeping the teams at Baker Rink. The weekend opened with a 3-1 win over Harvard, with Jane Kuehl, Megan Healy and Issy Wunder scoring a goal apiece before Carla McSweeney scored midway through the third. Ainsley Tuffy made 34 saves for Harvard while Uma Corniea made 15. The next day against Dartmouth, five Tigers contributed goals in the 5-0 win, with Wunder, Mackenzie Alexander, Hannah Fetterolf, Katherine Khramtsov and Kuehl scoring. Michaela Hesová made 46 stops to 19 for Corniea. Princeton is 58-33-6 all-time against Dartmouth, with the Big Green leading 20-15-1 in Hanover. The Tigers have won four straight overall against Dartmouth and are unbeaten in 17 straight since a 2016 loss in Hanover. Since, Princeton is 7-0-1 in Hanover with a tie two seasons ago and a win last year. Against Harvard, the Crimson lead 53-42-7 all-time and 32-20-2 in Cambridge. The Tigers have won four straight against Harvard and are unbeaten in eight straight since a 2022 loss at Harvard. Since, Princeton has won the last four visits to the Bright Hockey Center.Â
Stat Rankings: Entering the week, Princeton ranked fourth in the nation in shutouts (seven), fifth in scoring defense (1.60), scoring margin (+1.88) and GAA (1.589), seventh in scoring offense (3.48 goals/gm), ninth in total goals (87), and 10th in assists (138) and points (225). Individually, Issy Wunder is ranked first in game-winning goals (six) and fifth in goals per game (0.84), and Mackenzie Alexander is fifth in goals per game (0.84) and 10th in points per game (1.52).Â
Between the pipes: Entering the week, Uma Corniea ranked eighth in the nation in shutouts (four) and 10th in goalie winning percentage (.667). Corniea has played 1,078 of the team's 1,510 minutes, with Taylor Hyland playing 302 and Lia Nevo 120.Â
On offense: Heading into last weekend, Issy Wunder and Mackenzie Alexander accounted for 34.3 percent of the team's points on the season overall, but in last weekend's sweep of St. Lawrence and Clarkson, the first time Princeton swept the North Country trip since 2011, the scoring diversified, with Wunder and Alexander accounting for 16.7 of the points as 12 Tigers had at least one point in at least one of the two games.Â
100-point scorer: Senior Emerson O'Leary reached the career 100-point mark with two assists at Clarkson last Saturday, becoming the sixth Tiger in the last decade to reach 100. Issy Wunder as the only other active Tiger with 100 (Wunder enters the weekend at 139). The next-closest Tiger is Mackenzie Alexander, who's got 84 career points and is only in her sophomore season. The five past-decade Tigers O'Leary joined in the 100-point club are: Sarah Fillier '24 (194), Carly Bullock '20 (159), Maggie Connors '23 (145), Wunder, and Karlie Lund '19 (131).
Team records in sight: At 19 wins, this is already the eighth-winningest season in program history. There have been seven 20-win seasons in program history, and there's been one season with more than 22 wins, when the Tigers won 26 in 2019-20. The team has allowed 40 goals this season, and while the program record is 39, set in 1979-80, the team's low goals allowed going back to 2000 has been 57 in 2019-20 and 2005-06. The team already has seven shutouts, and the record is eight, set in 2002-03.Â
Wunder climbs the list: WIth 64 career goals, Issy Wunder is 16th on Princeton's career list. Immediately ahead of her are Mandy Pfeiffer '97 and Alison Coughlin '99 at 69 goals. Among those to play for the Tigers since 2000, Wunder has the fifth-highest total, behind Carly Bullock '20 (95), Sarah Fillier '24 (93), Gretchen Anderson '04 (87) and Maggie Connors '23 (78). There have been only 16 25-goal seasons in program history and only seven of those have come since 2000, with Wunder already having one of those, with last year's 26-goal season. Wunder has 21 goals this season, and only three players in program history have two 25-goal seasons, with none of those players having played since 2000. Kelly O'Dell '84, Karen Chernisky '95, and Mollie Marcoux '91 are the three players with at least two 25-goal seasons. Wunder's 75 career assists have her tied for 11th on Princeton's career list with just five of those in front of her having played since 2000 in Fillier (101), Andrea Kilbourne '03 (94), Kim Pearce '07 (77), teammate Emerson O'Leary (77) Karlie Lund '19 (76). Immediately in front of her are O'Leary (77) and Lund (76). O'Leary is tied for eighth, and immediately in front of her is Laura Halldorson '85 at 83.
Picard at U-18 Worlds: Princeton assistant coach Shelly Picard was on the Team USA staff at the U-18 World Championships in Nova Scotia that wrapped up Jan. 18 with Team USA winning gold. The team went 3-0 in group play, defeating Slovakia, Czechia and Finland by a combined 36-1. The quarterfinals saw Team USA rout Hungary 9-0, followed by a 9-1 win over Sweden in the semis. setting up the gold-medal game against Canada, which Team USA won 2-0. Picard was an assistant coach with Team USA at the event in 2024 and 2025, helping the U.S. to gold in '24 and silver in '25. As a player, Picard helped Team USA to gold in 2011 as team captain and silver in 2010. While the U.S. and Canada have combined to win 33 of the 36 gold and silver medals since the event began in 2008, the three other occasions have been in recent years, when Sweden won silver in 2018 and 2023, and Czechia won silver in 2024.
What's next: The final weekend of the regular season will bring Yale and Brown to Baker Rink.
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