Goalie Vincenzo Marozzi comes to Cornell after backstopping the Alberta Junior Hockey League's Spruce Grove Saints to the league championship series three years in a row. If there's one thing he knows, it's winning — in three seasons with the Saints, he lost a total of nine games. He talks about the gaudy numbers he posted there, and what it's like to follow the footsteps of Ben Scrivens '10 from Spruce Grove to Cornell.

Q: You join the Big Red after two seasons in the AJHL with the Spruce Grove Saints and made it to back-to-back league championships in 2010 and 2011. What was that like?
A: It was an awesome experience. Being with the Saints for three years and making it to the finals every year, being able to pull it off for two consecutive years was a pretty awesome opportunity not just for me, but for the guys I played with. It was unbelievable. I wouldn't change a thing about playing juniors for four years. I've been lucky enough to get an opportunity to play here, because of that.

Q: Especially given that you made it to the finals in 2009 as well, but lost in the finals. How sweet was it to pull out the win in 2010 and then follow up with it again last year?
A: Well, I mean we should have won in '09 but we were a really young team then so we learned from it and then obviously winning the playoff back-to-back years was pretty special.

Q: You hold season and career records for shut outs for the franchise with 7 shutouts in 2010-2011 and 21 career shutouts and a career GAA of 1.80. How did it feel to break your own records last year?
A: It's definitely something that will stay with me for the rest of my life. The community in Spruce Grove is unbelievable and for them to actually know who I am a little bit and getting to know people in the community was definitely different than most other junior teams. I love Spruce Grove and playing there for three years, they've been great to me so to leave that legacy was pretty nice.

Q: What's it like coming from the same junior team as former CU All-American Ben Scrivens? Do you feel like you have big shoes to fill?
A: (Laughs) Well, I'm wearing his number, too. I actually got to know Ben a little bit this summer training with him and he actually helped me with the recruiting process and for me to come here. And he was a heck of a player here at Cornell.

Q: He even tweeted about your commitment to the Big Red last year. Did you hear about that?
A: I saw it not too long ago. I thought that was kind of funny.

Q: What made you choose Cornell?
A: The history here is a pretty big part. Hearing what Ben went through in winning the ECACs in 2010 and then academics is another huge reason. My parents have always been preaching to my education and academics so Cornell is a rich tradition here and I'm looking forward to being a part of it.  

Q: How has your adjustment been to life on East Hill? Especially now that the season has started.
A: Pretty good. It's a little different than junior obviously, I mean only playing on weekends and practicing all the week, but given that we've had some time to adjust now I'm finally starting to get the hang of it. Balancing schoolwork and practice and games and that kind of thing so the adjustment is going well.

Q: You've had some pretty exciting games thus far; do you have a favorite collegiate moment at this point in the season?  
A: I think the weekend when we won both games at Harvard and Dartmouth. I thought it was actually pretty weird that we had chicken thrown at us at Harvard. I had never experienced that before so I'd say the Harvard game was pretty awesome.

Q: What are you looking forward to most this season?
A: Ha, winning. I mean coming from Spruce Grove, we only lost four games in back-to-back years so coming to Cornell there's a pretty rich tradition of winning, that's the mean reason why I came here so I'm looking forward to having a great year with the guys and hopefully we'll be able to get a lot of wins.