ITHACA, N.Y. — ECAC Hockey announced that Cornell men’s hockey junior Matthew Galajda has been named the MAC Goaltending Goaltender of the Week.
Galajda has continued to backstop the Big Red, which remains the #1-ranked team in both the USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls for a third straight week. He made 20 stops against Dartmouth on Friday, earning the victory after the Big Red rallied for a 3-2 victory. Galajda was even better on Saturday in a heated rivalry game against Harvard. He made 29 saves while yielding just one goal late in the third period of a 1-1 tie to push the Big Red’s current unbeaten streak to eight games.
With the effort, Galajda now ranks second in the nation with a 1.46 goals against average and third with a .940 save percentage.
The Big Red has now won six of the league’s weekly honors this season, with this honor marking Galajda’s second weekly accolade of the season and the ninth of his career. He was also named the league’s top goaltender for the month of November.
Cornell (14-1-4) puts the nation’s best winning percentage on the line this weekend with an ECAC Hockey road trip to Quinnipiac at 7 p.m. Friday and Princeton at 7 p.m. Saturday.
