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Re: 2024-25 MEN'S SCHEDULE - Today
Trotsky MTU, LSSU, and NMU are also great choices. Wait, why do we want schools who will bring approximately zero fans?by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2024 and Beyond - Yesterday
The NHL draft begins Friday. I am going to give arbitrary odds to the following Cornell players/recruits getting drafted: DiGiulian 50% Robertson 33% Major 15% Arsenault 10% Pirtle 10% Most likely outcome: one Cornellian draftedby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 2 days ago
cbuckser BearLover abmarks surprised this hasn't been posted yet. Clarkson Turns to Alum J.F. Houle as Next Coach Seems like a solid hire for Clarkson as they get an alum who's been successful (and had just been extended) as HC with Montreal's AHL affiliate. Also probably good for the ECAC overall to land coaches thatve reached that level. Makes me wonder whether Cam Abbott might getby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 4 days ago
abmarks surprised this hasn't been posted yet. Clarkson Turns to Alum J.F. Houle as Next Coach Seems like a solid hire for Clarkson as they get an alum who's been successful (and had just been extended) as HC with Montreal's AHL affiliate. Also probably good for the ECAC overall to land coaches thatve reached that level. Makes me wonder whether Cam Abbott might get a future sniff withby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2024 and Beyond - 5 days ago
arugula Murray’s dad was an excellent NHLer. Hopefully the apple doesn’t fall far. Major’s uncle was my classmate and nice contributor for four years. Sounds like a good class. Plugs a goalie hole for the future. Obviously didn’t need a ton with all the returnees. Major put up great numbers in the USHL and should be able to contribute from day 1. Wolfenberg is hard to judge because he missed alby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Mike Schafer retiring 2025 - 7 days ago
Cornell vs Clarkson in PWR since Casey has coached Clarkson: 2012: Cornell-13, Clarkson-40 2013: Cornell-24, Clarkson-51 2014: Cornell-17, Clarkson-25 2015: Cornell-36, Clarkson-44 2016: Cornell-15, Clarkson-23 2017: Cornell-11, Clarkson-24 2018: Cornell-3, Clarkson-10 2019: Cornell-11, Clarkson-5 2020: Cornell-3, Clarkson-9 2021: Cornell-DNP, Clarkson-16 2022: Cornell-24, Clarkson-16by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Mike Schafer retiring 2025 - 9 days ago
BearLover Most hockey recruits don’t care about academic prestige, Then in the same post you said BearLover With that said, academic prestige is obviously a major recruiting selling point for all the Ivies Tough to say both of those at the same time. The first statement applies to the full universe of college hockey recruits. The second applies to the Ivies and how they market theby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Mike Schafer retiring 2025 - 11 days ago
Al DeFlorio Troyfan marty Troyfan Clarkson academics are up there with RPI. This is almost as silly a what used to be thrown about in Troy. "RPI is right up there with MIT." I don't buy Clarkson being overall near RPI academically - even after Shirley Jackson jacked off and pissed off the majority of the RPI faculty. I can't say there aren't excellent programs at Clarkson andby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Mike Schafer retiring 2025 - 12 days ago
Swampy I thought of making this a new thread, but decided against it to prevent thread glut. With Casey coming in after having been Clarkson's head coach for 13 years, I'd like to know what mistakes he thinks he made at Clarkson and what he would do at Cornell to avoid repeating them. Similarly, with Mike, I'd like to know the most important things he wants to make sure Casey learns and masby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Mike Schafer retiring 2025 - 12 days ago
The burning question on my mind is: what happened the last two years at Clarkson? The program was on a very nice run under Casey, until the past two years. The talent was there, but the wins were not. Many players transferred into and out of the school during this time (though, maybe that’s just the reality for all the non-Ivies). Hiring Casey would have been a slam dunk in 2022. Two years later,by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Announcement Today, 4:50pm EDT - 13 days ago
ugarte pfibiger underskill Meh. Casey Jones is underwhelming Totally disagree. He was a great recruiter at Cornell, has done well with a program in a tough spot at Clarkson. I think he can be great.Plus it screws Clarkson. Clarkson is truly screwed.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Mike Schafer retiring 2025 - 13 days ago
ugarte BearLoverI guess Syer understood he wasn’t going to be the next head coach, and so he left? He wasn't the only one who understood this! This hypothetical person you’re thinking of who posted Syer wouldn’t be the next head coach—such a person would have more credibility if he didn’t, in that very same post, also say Casey wouldn’t be the next head coach!by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Mike Schafer retiring 2025 - 13 days ago
Ben Rocky '04 BearLover So I think this is the best we could have hoped for. Absolutely correct. This seems very cautious, well-considered and yet again I continue to be optimistic about our new AD. To clarify one thing—this is the best we could have hoped for *given Mike retiring*. The true best we could have hoped for was Mike not retiring. But I’m still content with this, overall. It is whby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Mike Schafer retiring 2025 - 13 days ago
billhoward Mike Schafer retiring at the end of 2024-25 season. Hiring Casey Jones to be associate HC, and future head coach. AD Nicki Moore says "We will have one head coach this year." Still, an unusual, probably good, model, transitioning to a new HC over the course of the year. -- 6/13/2024 via Zoom meeting with friends, sponsors, hockey boosters. Schafer's record: Overall 5by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Mike Schafer retiring 2025 - 13 days ago
I’m not sure what to make of this situation. Casey is only 5 years younger than Mike, so it’s not like this change is infusing the program with young blood. Casey was successful at Clarkson with few resources. But not wildly successful. I think the most important thing at this point is retaining our excellent rising sophomore class and recruits through Mike’s retirement and beyond. From that persby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2024 and Beyond - 20 days ago
marty Trotsky The rubber meets the road in the NHL draft. Taking the round, to try to compensate for the larger pool of players by relating it to the larger number of teams: Rd 1 (2) Pokulok, Nash Rd 2 (8) Nieuwendyk, Manderville, Ratushny, Hughes, Belzile, Pelletier, LeNeveu, Sawada Rd 3 (10) Dryden, Lowe, O'Byrne, Hynes, Starrett, Cairns, Stienburg, Ertel, Fegaras, Castagna Morgan Bby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2024 and Beyond - 21 days ago
Trotsky The rubber meets the road in the NHL draft. Taking the round, to try to compensate for the larger pool of players by relating it to the larger number of teams: Rd 1 (2) Pokulok, Nash Rd 2 (8) Nieuwendyk, Manderville, Ratushny, Hughes, Belzile, Pelletier, LeNeveu, Sawada Rd 3 (10) Dryden, Lowe, O'Byrne, Hynes, Starrett, Cairns, Stienburg, Ertel, Fegaras, Castagna Pokuluk and LeNeby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2024 and Beyond - 21 days ago
Trotsky Moving over from the older thread, it would be interesting to note our most-hyped incoming players. I'm not privy to that information, so I have no insight. It's also easy to be polluted by the actual results of careers once here. I do recall Riley Nash as having a "thank god he chose us!" presence in fans' minds before he entered. I seem to recall Ryan Hughes and Dougby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2023 and beyond - 21 days ago
ugarte BearLover Trotsky BearLover Redpucks1! Disappointing to say the least. I really thought there was a decent chance that CU would get at least one of the three with their connections to either Ithaca or St. Andrew’s College. The good news is that Cornell continues to do an incredible job of identifying players that fit their style and culture. This past years freshmen class is a prime exaby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2023 and beyond - 22 days ago
Trotsky BearLover Redpucks1! Disappointing to say the least. I really thought there was a decent chance that CU would get at least one of the three with their connections to either Ithaca or St. Andrew’s College. The good news is that Cornell continues to do an incredible job of identifying players that fit their style and culture. This past years freshmen class is a prime example. As Herb Brby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2023 and beyond - 22 days ago
Redpucks1! Disappointing to say the least. I really thought there was a decent chance that CU would get at least one of the three with their connections to either Ithaca or St. Andrew’s College. The good news is that Cornell continues to do an incredible job of identifying players that fit their style and culture. This past years freshmen class is a prime example. As Herb Brooks said, “we’reby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2023 and beyond - 23 days ago
Redpucks1! Redpucks1! Tomorrow is a big day on the college hockey recruiting calendar - 8/1 is the first day that '07 birth years can commit. (First day they could be contacted by schools was 1/1/23). I have no inside connection to Cornell Hockey, just a fan, but I'm really hoping they are in on these 3 players. In no particular order they are: 1. Cooper Dennis - Ithaca, NY!! On the smallby BearLover - Hockey
Re: NCAA ruling impact on hockey - 25 days ago
Trotsky chimpfood If anything this should help us no? I could see teams like Harvard struggle as the super talented players that they usually recruit will just go elsewhere but our team is always built around players staying all four years and those types of players don’t typically get recruited by many, if any, better colleges.The blue chip factory players may stay longer if they are getting paiby BearLover - Hockey
Re: NCAA ruling impact on hockey - 27 days ago
upprdeck If hockey players want money they get paid and go play in the minors and take the signing bonus now for the most part. This is the scary part. It’s the one thing that separates hockey from most of the other non-revenue sports: outside monetary pressure from a professional league. While under the current rules a school doesn’t have much of an option when its player is weighing taking theby BearLover - Hockey
Re: NCAA ruling impact on hockey - 28 days ago
Trotsky In hockey I don't think there will be a big difference from now. Minnesota and Michigan will be able to pay their players ahem I mean students, but that's probably no different from now. There may be bidding wars for the very best, but those guys were going to distribute among the same schools anyway. That would be a difference from now, though. I don’t think NCAA hockey players arby BearLover - Hockey
Re: NCAA NIL/Subdivision Proposal - 28 days ago
Swampy BearLover Swampy abmarks Swampy And so it begins.... So they built a software platform. Doesn't mean that there are any athletes at Brown worth more than the price of a big Mac a month. You may be right. But I see Brown as a harbinger of the remaining 7 Ivies getting into the NIL game. All you would need is a player like Adam Fox choosing Brown over Harvard because of the potentiby BearLover - Other Sports
Re: NCAA NIL/Subdivision Proposal - 28 days ago
Swampy abmarks Swampy And so it begins.... So they built a software platform. Doesn't mean that there are any athletes at Brown worth more than the price of a big Mac a month. You may be right. But I see Brown as a harbinger of the remaining 7 Ivies getting into the NIL game. All you would need is a player like Adam Fox choosing Brown over Harvard because of the potential NIL $, and Harby BearLover - Other Sports
Re: NCAA ruling impact on hockey - 28 days ago
RichH BearLover Troyfan BearLover Troyfan Cutting sports that aren't profitable might prove to be a backdoor benefit for Cornell. The $$$ to compete in football and basketball might get to be so huge that programs like Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin will be forced to choose between them and minor sports. Even schools like Minnesota-Duluth and Denver might get squeezed. Women's sports willby BearLover - Hockey
Re: NCAA ruling impact on hockey - 28 days ago
Troyfan BearLover Troyfan Cutting sports that aren't profitable might prove to be a backdoor benefit for Cornell. The $$$ to compete in football and basketball might get to be so huge that programs like Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin will be forced to choose between them and minor sports. Even schools like Minnesota-Duluth and Denver might get squeezed. Women's sports will have to be reckoby BearLover - Hockey
Re: NCAA ruling impact on hockey - 29 days ago
Troyfan Cutting sports that aren't profitable might prove to be a backdoor benefit for Cornell. The $$$ to compete in football and basketball might get to be so huge that programs like Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin will be forced to choose between them and minor sports. Even schools like Minnesota-Duluth and Denver might get squeezed. Women's sports will have to be reckoned with, too. Itby BearLover - Hockey