Mike Schafer

Mike Schafer
Current position
Sport(s)	Ice hockey
Title	Head Coach
Team	Cornell
Biographical details
Born	Durham, Ontario
Playing career
1982–1986	Cornell
Position(s)	Defenseman
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1986–1990	Cornell (assistant)
1990–1995	Western Michigan (assistant)
1995–present	Cornell
Head coaching record
Overall	364–208–71
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
ECAC Regular Season Championship (2002, 2003, 2005) ECAC Tournament Championship (1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010)
Awards
2002 ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year 2003 ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year 2005 ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year

Mike Schafer is the Men's Ice Hockey Coach at Cornell. He graduated from Cornell in 1986 with a degree in business management after leading the team to its first conference tournament championship in six years.^[1] Schafer retired as a player after his senior season and immediately became an assistant with the Big Red. Schafer left his alma mater after the 1989–90 season, taking a similar position with the Western Michigan Broncos of the WCHA. Five years later, after a downturn in the program that saw three consecutive losing seasons (including back-to-back single digit-win years) Cornell replaced Brian McCutcheon with Schafer as head coach. Schafer quickly returned the Big Red to prominence, winning the ECAC Hockey conference tournament his first two season back in Ithaca. Schafer has remained with Cornell ever since, becoming the second-longest tenured head coach (behind only Nick Bawlf) and the winningest (364) in team history.^[2]

Schafer has been credited as one of college hockey's premier defensive coaches as his teams consistently produce among the lowest goals allowed annually. Two of Schafer's goaltenders (David LeNeveu in 2003 and David McKee in 2005) hold the second and third lowest goals against averages in NCAA history for one season^[3] with the former backstopping the Big Red to their first frozen four since 1980 and first overall seed in 2003 (a rarity for ECAC programs). Schafer has made more appearances in the ECAC tournament championship game than any other head coach with 10 and is tied (with Joe Marsh) for the most victories at 5. Schafer's 2003 team is thus far the only one to reach 30 wins in Cornell's history (though the 1970 championship team is close with 29 victories).

NCAA Head Coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Cornell (ECAC Hockey) (1995–96–present)
1995–96	Cornell	21–9–4	14–4–4	4th	NCAA Regional Quarterfinals
1996–97	Cornell	21–9–5	14–6–2	2nd	NCAA Regional Semifinals
1997–98	Cornell	15–16–2	9–12–1	8th	ECAC Four vs. Five
1998–99	Cornell	12–15–4	9–10–3	7th	ECAC Quarterfinals
1999-00	Cornell	16–14–2	10–9–1	t–4th	ECAC Third Place (Loss)
2000–01	Cornell	16–12–5	11–8–3	4th	ECAC Championship
2001–02	Cornell	25–8–2	17–3–2	1st	NCAA Regional Semifinals
2002–03	Cornell	30–5–1	19–2–1	1st	NCAA Frozen Four
2003–04	Cornell	16–10–6	13–6–3	2nd	ECAC Quarterfinals
2004–05	Cornell	27–5–3	18–2–2	1st	NCAA Regional Finals
2005–06	Cornell	22–9–4	13–6–3	3rd	NCAA Regional Finals
2006–07	Cornell	14–13–4	10–8–4	t–4th	ECAC Quarterfinals
2007–08	Cornell	19–14–3	12–9–1	t–4th	ECAC Third Place (Win)
2009-09	Cornell	22–10–4	13–6–3	2nd	NCAA Regional Finals
2009–10	Cornell	21–9–4	14–5–3	2nd	NCAA Regional Semifinals
2010–11	Cornell	16–15–3	11–9–2	t–4th	ECAC Championship (Loss)
2011–12	Cornell	19–9–7	12–4–6	2nd	NCAA Regional Finals
2012–13	Cornell	15–16–3	8–11–3	t–9th	ECAC Quarterfinals
2013–14	Cornell	17–10–5	11–7–4	4th	ECAC Semifinals
2014–15	Cornell	11–14–6	9–9–4	7th	ECAC First Round
Cornell:		375–222–77	247–156–55
Total:		375–222–77
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

References

↑ "ECAC Tournament". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
↑ "Cornell Men's Ice Hockey Coaching Staff". Cornell Big Red. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
↑ http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_icehockey_rb/2009/MIH%20DI%202009.pdf

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Awards and achievements
Preceded by Mark Morris Stan Moore	Tim Taylor Award 2001–02 2002–03 2004–05	Succeeded by Stan Moore Bob Gaudet

Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey

Playing venues	Beebe Lake (1900–1948) Lynah Rink (1957–present)

Head coaches	G.A. Smith (1900–1901) Talbot Hunter (1909–1912, 1914–1916) Edmund Magner (1912–1913) E.J. Sawyer (1913–1914) Nick Bawlf (1920–1947) Arthur Boeringer (1947–1948) Paul Patten (1957–1963) Ned Harkness (1963–1970) Dick Bertrand (1970–1982) Lou Reycroft (1982–1987) Brian McCutcheon (1987–1995) Mike Schafer (1995–present)

Conference affiliations	ECAC Hockey (1961–present)

Rivalries	Harvard

Culture & lore	Florida College Hockey Classic

All-time leaders	Lance Nethery (271 Points) Brock Tredway (113 Goals) Ken Dryden (76 Wins)

Retired numbers	Ken Dryden (1) Joe Nieuwendyk (25)

National championships	1967 1970

Frozen Four appearances	1967 1968 1969 1970 1972 1973 1980 2003

NCAA Tournament appearances	1967 1968 1969 1970 1972 1973 1980 1981 1986 1991 1996 1997 2002 2003 2005 2006 2009 2010 2012

Conference Tournament champions	ECAC: 1967 1968 1969 1970 1973 1980 1986 1996 1997 2003 2005 2010

Cornell University Ithaca, NY

Current men's head coaches of ECAC Hockey

Brendan Whittet (Brown) Casey Jones (Clarkson) Don Vaughan (Colgate) Mike Schafer (Cornell) Bob Gaudet (Dartmouth) Ted Donato (Harvard) Ron Fogarty (Princeton) Rand Pecknold (Quinnipiac) Seth Appert (RPI) Greg Carvel (St. Lawrence) Rick Bennett (Union) Keith Allain (Yale)

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