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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 27 days ago
Per the Q USCHO thread they have only 5 guys left from the title team, despite the 5-year plan. IINM they have lost their top 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 13 scorers from 2024, and their big goalie.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 27 days ago
I knew about the 5th year. But I thought it had to do time lost to COVID. Not counting time played during COVID is seriously weird to me. I may just have mentally blocked it out as absurd, like MLB extra innings and professionals allowed in the Olympics.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 28 days ago
arugula Hopefully Q losing their top guns has the impact Harvard losing theirs did. Watch Rand's head explode...Q can just reload with whatever's available. Harvard has to at least ostensibly pretend to observe admissions requirements (I know, I know).by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 28 days ago
ugarte George64 He played two years at Colorado College (41 games) and two years at St. Cloud State (44 games), isn’t his eligibility used up? I assume he’s a grad student, how much time does he get? Does the odometer turn back to zero?probably still a COVID bonus yearI thought COVID only gave you an extra year to do your 4. I'm at a loss to see how somebody with 4 full years can come back, unby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 28 days ago
Fillion leaves Q, to go with Quillan and soon to be Graf. Rand will just go shopping in the Portal, but still nice to see the volatility. We're stating to look like preseason favorites.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 29 days ago
arugulaLooks like Graf is going to the pros.Wow; he's a FA and it's a bidding war. That offer is going to be pretty close to impossible to resist. If they (Quillan and Graf) both go, I wonder if Lipkin might jump to the Yotes. A girl can dream.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 29 days ago
arugula Trotsky RobbTrotskyThe world needs finance bros too.Needs? What - are the poors hungry again? "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." Fwiw my friend the BC grad is a union organizer. I guess that’s the opposite of a finance bro. A bit closer to the Jesuit tradition.I'm just glad there still are union organiby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 29 days ago
RobbTrotskyThe world needs finance bros too.Needs? What - are the poors hungry again? "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 29 days ago
BearLoverOf course, if you root for a strong ECAC, you would prefer that Martino return for his senior season. Preferring a strong ECAC would also mean rooting for Colin Graf to stay, for Macklin Celebrini to transfer for Harvard for his sophomore season, etc.Players going pro is a tremendous sign of strength. I hope all our opponents get kneecapped by early flight.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 30 days ago
There are two men and four women in the portal who have 4 years of eligibility left. Huh?by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 30 days ago
Players who have entered the portal: 4 Brown 2 Clarkson 6 Colgate 0 Cornell 2 Dartmouth 2 Harvard 5 Princeton 1 Quinnipiac 6 RPI 6 St. Lawrence 3 Union 4 Yale NMU has 11 guys in the portal. Stonehill has 12.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 30 days ago
ECAC Portal pick ups so far: Clarkson: Ethan Langenegger, G, Lake Superior State Quinnipiac: Jack Ricketts, F, Holy Cross St. Lawrence: Dominic Basse, G, St. Cloudby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 30 days ago
BearLover Mid-majors like RIT, Michigan Tech, Army are getting absolutely wrecked in the transfer portal right now.How does it work with the academies? Isn't that a little... complicated?by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 4 weeks ago
DLOne bad penalty and one shitty call while playing a side stuffed with talent is probably all that separates any quality team on any given year from taking the crown. I would add one puck bounce. So many games are decided by fluke events. Great teams can only put themselves into position where those events cut their leads rather than costing them their leads.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 4 weeks ago
ugarteyou have to understand that greg processes the world through a cumulation of prejudices and loathings - no subject too small, no umbrage too large - and has no idea how crazy it sounds to third parties when he turns on the opinion hose. most people just nod as they back away and i do this. the actual hockey, though, he gets right as often as i do.This guy gets it.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 4 weeks ago
arugulaWow. Ad hominem much? My experience on bc’s campus was a good looking group. My experience with people who call others physically unattractive is they generally should buy a mirror. Ad hom is attacking the poster. I was attacking the people of Chestnut Hill. Obviously, any friend or blood relative of yours who has attended BC is stunningly beautiful, and would be a New England 10 andby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 4 weeks ago
Chris '03But BC kids being likely to be local isn't true. I'd bet Cornell has more NYers than BC has kids from Mass. as a point of comparison. Ah, but those are kids who self-selected to go to BC. They were but temporarily exiled from their true home. Essence precedes existence.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 4 weeks ago
Dafatone Trotsky arugula It is? I’ve been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group. 40 years here, too. It is. It's primarily the self-absorption of Bostonians. BC students are likely to be locals. BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted. But BC also carries itseby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 4 weeks ago
Chris '03 Trotsky arugula It is? I’ve been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group. 40 years here, too. It is. It's primarily the self-absorption of Bostonians. BC students are likely to be locals. BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted. But BC also carries itsby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 4 weeks ago
arugula It is? I’ve been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group. 40 years here, too. It is. It's primarily the self-absorption of Bostonians. BC students are likely to be locals. BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted. But BC also carries itself with an inbredby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 4 weeks ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 They always had a "Holier than thou" attitude about not recruiting players from Canada.Why qualify it? Their sanctimony is universal.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 4 weeks ago
That wasn't it at all. The mixed feels was wishing he was still with us, but also being happy for him. There was nothing vituperative. I wouldn't root against a guy who left us either. It wasn't a good fit. But I'm also friends with my exes, so...by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: TBRW Awards 2024 - 4 weeks ago
Scersk '97 Trotsky ugarte Trotsky A dominant PP QB, I guess. My kingdom for a Kaldis! (putting up numbers in the KHL, btw)I was thinking Malinski, but Kaldis, Mark McRae, and Dan Ratushny also came to mind. Robertson is somewhere in that Joakim Ryan / Doug Murray liminal world of aggressive defensemen who need somebody behind them holding down the blueline so they can be, measuredly, irresponsby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: TBRW Awards 2024 - 4 weeks ago
Even though we were outshot in, I think, every one of the last 4 games, I felt like we got the lion's share of the really good, close chances in all of them, and were the better team in all of them. I was fine with not rolling up perimeter shot totals. I just loved the way this team played this season, and especially in March. They found a great balance between creativity and responsibility,by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 4 weeks ago
Robb DU, UMich, BC, BU. Does the blood get any bluer? The two western teams with the most championships and the two eastern teams with the most championships. Yawn.Minnesota for Denver would be bluer. Go Pioneers. Least objectionable of the F4, with a fine Cornell history.by Trotsky - Hockey