ITHACA, N.Y. — ECAC Hockey announced Monday that Cornell men’s hockey junior forward Matt Stienburg has been named the league’s Player of the Week.
The latest chapter of Stienburg’s voracious start to the season saw him post five points over the Big Red’s trip through the league’s North Country schools last weekend. He factored into all of the Big Red’s scoring in Friday’s 4-1 win at St. Lawrence, posting the Big Red’s third hat trick in just 10 games. He added an assist Saturday at Clarkson.
With the helper on senior forward Max Andreev’s first goal of the night against the Golden Knights, Stienburg pushed his active scoring streak to 10 games – the longest such streak for the program since Matt Moulson did it from Nov. 5 to Dec. 27, 2005. He also matched Moulson in becoming the first Big Red player to record 18 points in the first 11 games of the season, with the former NHLer Moulson having done it to start the 2003-04 campaign.
Stienburg becomes the third Cornell forward to earn league player of the week honors in just the last four weeks, joining classmate Ben Berard (Nov. 8) and Andreev (No. 15).
The Big Red hits the intersession break with a 9-1-1 record overall and in solo possession of first place in ECAC Hockey with 18 points (6-1-2). Cornell returns to action with its final four non-league games of the regular season — two at Arizona State (Jan. 1-2) and two at North Dakota (Jan. 7-8).
(Cornell Men’s Hockey Photo)
