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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025 - Today
Quinnipiac’s incoming class of ten players consists of: 7 overagers from the CHL 1 transfer from RPI 1 draft pick (Matthew Lansing) from the USHL 1 goalie from the NAHL The strategy of importing old players continues, now focused on the CHL rather than grad transfers. Of the 10 players in this year’s class, 8 committed since 12/9/24 (i.e. in the last 6.5 months). How many recruits werby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025 - Yesterday
Another example of the silliness of this rule is Cole Tuminaro: he was ranked by NHL Central Scouting before this season. He missed the entire year to injury and wasn’t drafted. If next year he has a strong season and gets drafted in his second year of eligibility, he’ll only have three years at Cornell before getting signed.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025 - Yesterday
Trotsky For the NC$$, unless I am misinterpreting, it introduces greater risk for Q'ing players by delaying their freshman season until their first prostate exam. Younger players are safer from being coaxed away to the pros. Or am I missing something? Neither we nor Quinnipiac are getting the truly high-end players who sign pro after one or two college seasons. Cornell/Q get players taken inby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025 - 2 days ago
abmarks BearLover chimpfood adamw one thing that might happen, is NHL teams will be less likely to take NCAA-bound players in the later rounds.Absolutely, was just thinking that this hurts the chances of DiGiulian and Cournoyer getting drafted (but I guess helps us). Does anyone know if players drafted under the old rules are going to be immediately subject to the new ones or will there be grandfby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025 - 4 days ago
chimpfood adamw one thing that might happen, is NHL teams will be less likely to take NCAA-bound players in the later rounds.Absolutely, was just thinking that this hurts the chances of DiGiulian and Cournoyer getting drafted (but I guess helps us). Does anyone know if players drafted under the old rules are going to be immediately subject to the new ones or will there be grandfathering in? Thisby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025 - 4 days ago
chimpfood Mike McMahon reports that NHL draft rights will expire at 22 for all players now. I’m curious how this will affect us and our tendency to bring in older players. What a stupid rule, and clearly worse than the old one, which was (correct me if I’m wrong) that NHL teams hold a drafted player’s rights for four years *from their freshman year of college.* Now, if you’re drafted at 18by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2026 and Beyond - 14 days ago
Harvard picked up their first commitment from the CHL, Alex Huang of the QMJHL, ‘06 defenseman ranked #77 by NHL Central Scouting for this year’s draft.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Pep Band Should Not Travel - 14 days ago
Facetimer That's right, along with schafer's resignation, the pep band should call it quits. They add nothing to the game-time atmosphere -- they haven't come up with any new chants for the current team (resorting to outdated chants for Bâby, McRae, and Underhill). In the interim, they take the seats allotted to Cornell students who want to support the team and limit the amount of seatby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell Lacrosse legacy started before Richie Moran - 15 days ago
stereax RichH “Big video scoreboard” should be banned in buildings like Lynah and Appleton. Completely glaring, ruining the light & atmosphere, not to mention turning fans into teevee watchers instead of active participants. The annoying thing about the video scoreboard on the A/O side is that it's not big enough or consistent enough to see replays of stuff that's actually useful (if the reby BearLover - Other Sports
Re: Amateur athletic's last veil falls - 17 days ago
Does anybody here understand how NIL or revenue sharing gets taxed?by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell vs Maryland MENS LACROSSE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 5/26/25 1 PM - 17 days ago
BearLover It is impossible to know what Cornell athletics would have achieved if the pandemic had never happened. Maybe men’s hockey, women’s hockey, or men’s lacrosse wins a national title that year or soon after. Perhaps men’s lacrosse wins in 2022 if the pandemic doesn’t lead to Donville transferring to the team that then beat us in the finals. At the time, the way things were proceeding,by BearLover - Other Sports
Re: Ben DeLuca fired - 18 days ago
Ken711 Does really it matter. We have a NCAA Championship coach in Connor Buczek. Go Big Red! It absolutely does not matter. I was just looking back down the long and winding road that we traveled to get here.by BearLover - Other Sports
Re: Corey Leivermann One and Done - 18 days ago
upprdeck People are over thinking this. Why not explain your perspective then?by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Amateur athletic's last veil falls - 18 days ago
adamw TroyfanTo take you Michigan example: Jason Milroe (Alabama) was making $10 million. $20.8 million is not nearly enough to run even a Wisconsin football program let alone a Michigan or Ohio State. Unless I'm way off base, this settlement is going to force some really difficult decisions upon these schools. Which makes me think I probably am way off base. the only part you got wrongby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Corey Leivermann One and Done - 18 days ago
When Leivermann was hired (or at least when his hiring was announced) in August 2024, Casey was already known for several months to be the coach in waiting. It was likely Casey himself who wanted Leivermann. The prior assistant in Leivermann’s position was Ben Russell, who was Cornell assistant coach for one year and director of hockey ops for two before he left for Northern Michigan. With five mby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Corey Leivermann One and Done - 18 days ago
The Rancor A new broom sweeps clean. Pretty sure this is not what happened. He was watching games from the press box at Cornel. Just a young coach who wants to rise through the ranks.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Amateur athletic's last veil falls - 19 days ago
I’m also curious about BU and Northeastern, they’re relatively serious academic schools with no football team. It seems like it would be very hard for them to find anything substantial to devote to hockey. (Are these schools opting in?)by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Amateur athletic's last veil falls - 19 days ago
stereax BearLover I don’t quite understand the quoted post’s “All the edges I see look like they're cutting in Cornell's favor with regard to men's hockey and maybe lacrosse.” Is the idea that these new rules create so much chaos at other schools, or perhaps fewer resources going towards hockey, that it on net hurts other hockey programs relative to Cornell? As far as I understood it, yes - otherby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Amateur athletic's last veil falls - 19 days ago
Troyfan CU2007 Someone needs to do a Ted Talk on what is happening in college sports. For me at least, it is close to impossible to fully understand or follow without dedicating a non-reasonable amount of time and energy. Many of the athletes don't understand, either. Football and basketball are the drivers of the whole thing, obviously. Everything else and all of women's sports is upby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2025 and Beyond - 21 days ago
Pghas So a bit off topic but of definite interest here. My son is a prep school player and we recently attended this big D1 showcase in Florida - they time it to be held just after the NCAA coaches annual conference and so literally there are either head coaches or assistant coaches from every hockey east and ECAC school there. Competition is pretty amazing. Anyway they have a conference portiby BearLover - Hockey
Re: CORNELL WINS 2025 MENS LACROSSE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP! - 21 days ago
djk26 2009 was...I don't want to say heartbreaking because I was a fan; I'm sure it was heartbreaking for the players and sad for the rest of us. 2022 didn't feel that way because Cornell never led in that game (well, they did lead 1-0, but I mean they didn't surrender a late lead.) In both 2009 and 2022, I thought the team exceeded expectations so to even make the final both years (2022 even moby BearLover - Other Sports
Re: CORNELL WINS 2025 MENS LACROSSE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP! - 22 days ago
CU77 Re the 2022 championship game, and taking off the carnelian tinted glasses: yes, the final score was 9-7, but undefeated #1 seed Maryland led 9-2 late in the first half. It was a hot day, it was the 2nd game in 3 days, and the Terps realized they were in full control. So they let up a bit. Had Cornell made a serious threat to win (they did not), I have no doubt that the Terps would have comeby BearLover - Other Sports
Re: Amateur athletic's last veil falls - 23 days ago
I am hopeful this settlement will have little effect on the sports in which Cornell is nationally relevant, such as hockey, lacrosse, and wrestling. There’s a bit of a catch-22 here: schools are either (1) power 4 football schools, meaning they have a ton of revenue to throw around, but to stay competitive in football (and basketball), they’ll need to spend almost the entirety of the $20.8m oby BearLover - Hockey
Re: CORNELL WINS 2025 MENS LACROSSE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP! - 23 days ago
Swampy mike1960 I still haven't forgiven Donville but I'm glad I gave it a listen. Forgiven him for what? Thanks to COVID and the IV League shutdown, he had one more year of eligibility. But he graduated from Cornell, and IV rules wouldn't let him play as a graduate student. So, he went to Maryland to earn a graduate degree, play lacrosse, and win an NC in 2022. In that championship game,by BearLover - Other Sports
Re: CORNELL WINS 2025 MENS LACROSSE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP! - 24 days ago
mike1960 I’ve been listening to podcasts about championship weekend, and almost universally, commentators have been happy for the Cornell win. Part of the reason is the length of time between championships. Another is the culture and tradition of the program. Also, players they’ve interviewed have given thoughtful and respectful answers to questions. It’s been very satisfying to hear how the progby BearLover - Other Sports
Re: Recruits 2026 and Beyond - 25 days ago
underskill I wonder if any were committed pre-coaching switch If you check Chris Heisenberg’s spreadsheet, it lists when players committed. Casey was announced as the new head coach in June 2024.by BearLover - Hockey
Recruits 2026 and Beyond - 25 days ago
Time for a new thread. I’m bullish on the guys we have in the pipeline. These are the players who could come in 2026-27. 1. Pelletier—good year in the USHL this season, will look to dominate next season. Hopefully will play on the first line/PP. Could have come this year but another year of juniors first is even better assuming he eventually matriculates. 2. Sandruck—physical checking forwardby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2025 and Beyond - 25 days ago
stereax Also disputing Cournoyer as the favorite. I think Keopple is the favorite, Cournoyer is either 2 or 3 in line depending how the team views Katz. Though I expect to see Cournoyer given the opportunity to seize the net at some point. It's possible they pulled him here with the idea that he'd work at the NCAA level this year and become the starter next year. Not sure if Roest is anything morby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2025 and Beyond - 25 days ago
cbuckser BearLover chimpfood Numbers are also shown on the roster. Gorski is 2, Veilleux 4, McCrady 7, Ryan 12, Fisher 16, Long 17, DiGiulian 18, Arsenault 19, Hiscock 21, Pirtle 22, Hamilton 26, Ashton 27, Cournoyer 30, Roest 40. I can’t remember another #40 for Cornell, anyone got one? Major was 16 last year. Is he changing numbers? 16 to 9 Interestingly, Major’s uncle Mark wore #16 when heby BearLover - Hockey