Reading time: about 6 minutesLAKE PLACID, N.Y. — For the first 44 seconds of women’s hockey’s ECAC semifinal matchup against No. 7 Yale, the Red looked like an experienced team, one primed and ready for playoff success. Senior forward Mckenna Van Gelder won the opening faceoff, junior forward Karel Prefontaine found an open senior forward Avi Adam streaking towards the net, and less than a minute into the game, Cornell had a 1-0 lead. “I apologized to them [because] I’m the leader of this team, and I did not feel that I got the best out of this team,” Derraugh said when asked about his message to his squad postgame. After a final Yale goal with five seconds left ensured the five-goal deficit would be the steepest of Cornell’s season, the final horn sounded on the game and the Red’s 2025-2026 campaign.

Source: Daily Sun March 07, 2026 13:56 UTC