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Re: Men's lax: CU-Notre Dame Sunday 4/14/24 - 15 days ago
Refs blew the non-call. The idea that refs should call the game differently in the final minutes is the absolute stupidest notion in sports. Then Cornell blew the pass to the open man. It would be a shame if this costs them the NCAA tournament.by BearLover - Other Sports
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 15 days ago
upprdeck Denver was lucky to win the first 3 games and then played a really nice final game to win it all. They were pretty lucky to win the final too. To win the NCAA tournament, extremely good luck is basically a prerequisite.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2024 and Beyond - 19 days ago
Pghas marty BearLover Pghas My understanding is that Wishart is headed to play at Middlebury. Such a difficult thing to predict who will develop and how. Guys who lit it up in juniors sometimes get to college and are a little fried and maybe don't push as much as they once did. Or maybe they hit a ceiling while other kids really do not. I have a son who is a good player and what they tellby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2024 and Beyond - 20 days ago
Pghas My understanding is that Wishart is headed to play at Middlebury. Such a difficult thing to predict who will develop and how. Guys who lit it up in juniors sometimes get to college and are a little fried and maybe don't push as much as they once did. Or maybe they hit a ceiling while other kids really do not. I have a son who is a good player and what they tell you is that as you movby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 24 days ago
George64 Gabe Seger was a student at Union for three years, before transferring to Cornell for two additional years. - AHCA All-American Scholar (2020-21) - ECAC Hockey All-Rookie Team (2019-20) - ECAC Hockey All-Academic Team (2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22) Union’s 2020-21 season was canceled due to COVID, so he only competed for four years. Could Gabe play another year as a grad student aby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 24 days ago
pjd8 jtwcornell91 Trotsky 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 a d professional allowed in the Olympics. I did not know that either, but then I've paid less attention to college hockey in the past few years. Still, iby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 24 days ago
Trotsky I did not know that. Yikes. Yeah no offense but have you really never clicked the stats page of an opposing player on CHN or a similar site? This has been happening in every college sport, not just hockey, since 2020-21. When Quinnipiac won the title last year, they had like nine players playing the fifth full college hockey season.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 25 days ago
Trotsky 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 comeby BearLover - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 25 days ago
Trotsky 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). Quinnipiac can take anybody out of the portal at any time. Harvard really can’t, whether for admissions reasons or (more often) becauseby BearLover - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 25 days ago
Trotsky 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. I’m still confused, do you want the ECAC to be strong or not? Good Q players transferring out is bad for the strength of the league.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 26 days ago
George64 BearLover I agree. It’s evidence of an honestly run program, plus evidence that the players value the Cornell degree. In the world of the transfer portal, if your school provides a valuable four-year degree, that’s a benefit. And I agree that if we had Malone and Tupker, we’d still be playing. I agree, but Malone and Tupker both graduated. They didn’t just bolt for greener pastuby BearLover - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 26 days ago
Troyfan Trotsky 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. That has to be encouraging for Cornell, that on a roster where there are more good players than playing time, they all want to stay (if I understand portalby BearLover - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 27 days ago
Let’s assume, as has generally been the case the past few seasons, that (1) Cornell doesn’t gain anybody from the portal, (2) Cornell doesn’t lose anyone to the portal, (3) the blue bloods/top power conference schools and Quinnipiac are clear net winners from the portal and (4) most of the rest of the NCAA are clear net losers from the portal. How does this impact: 1. Our odds of winning thby BearLover - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 27 days ago
I am hoping Ayrton Martino of Clarkson signs a pro deal. Third round draft pick of Dallas and one of Clarkson’s leading scorers each of his three college seasons. You’d think he would be a good candidate to sign a pro deal, but maybe the Stars don’t have the space. Given Clarkson’s season ended weeks ago, I guess he’ll unfortunately be back. Of course, if you root for a strong ECAC, you wouldby BearLover - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 28 days ago
arugula Seger still has a grad year? Go to another school? I think both Bancroft and Ondrej would be nuts to go pro now. Their games are nowhere near ready for NHL and do they want to toil away in the ECHL or AHL versus getting coached maximally by Schaf to be as ready as possible. Minor league money is not that good. Seger played 4 years + sat out the COVID year, so his eligibility is exhausby BearLover - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 28 days ago
CU2007 Yea sorry but he loses a lot of credibility saying Psenicka is a flight risk, barring something unknown (grades, off-ice issue, etc etc). I think he picked two big wingers in the lineup with decent numbers and just threw it on a page for clicks. I mean, I doubt Psenicka leaves but he and Bancroft are the two biggest flight risks on the team this year I think. Psenicka was indeed getting soby BearLover - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 28 days ago
VIEWfromK This didn’t mention the guy I was expecting to see. Seger not on the list and I sure hope the two that are aren’t thinking about leaving. This article is specifically about wingers. It links to another one about centers which lists Seger. Idk if the author is reputable but despite what he says, Bancroft was not a bottom 6 forward last year.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 28 days ago
Mid-majors like RIT, Michigan Tech, Army are getting absolutely wrecked in the transfer portal right now.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2024 and Beyond - 28 days ago
Swampy scoop85 Swampy Scersk '97 scoop85 With no more games to focus on here’s a late season update for our listed recruits. We have plenty of talent in the pipeline: I have never seen us line up the talent at center that we seem to have and are bringing in. I have to assume some of those guys are going to be converted to wing, but my god. IIRC, Dan Lodboa was a forward when he came to Coby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 28 days ago
ugarte Trotsky Dunc MALONEEEEEEBoy were those mixed feels. No need to have mixed emotions about a grad transfer. Player transfers from Cornell prior to graduating—>actively root against them Player transfers from Cornell after playing four years here—>don’t root for or against them, but generally would prefer they don’t succeed on their new team to make me feel less bad about the Ivy’sby BearLover - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 29 days 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. Take a look at what’s going on in the transfer portal right now and you’ll see where all the parity went.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 29 days ago
arugula So for whom to root today? Jack or Zach? This is why we needed Wisconsin to win last round.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2024 and Beyond - 29 days ago
I think Walsh was a fairly unique case. It’s possible, though. One analog to Robertson is Alex Green, another puck moving D who was drafted in the fourth round in 2018 after his freshman season at Cornell. Green had several inches on Robertson but nowhere near Robertson’s level of production in either juniors or during freshman year.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2024 and Beyond - 29 days ago
scoop85 BearLover I just got scooped…by scoop! Seriously, I was in the middle of typing out a very similar post. I agree with much of what you said. I’m not sure how it would work regarding the goalie situation—will the Cornell coaches hold one of them back in juniors? Frankly, whoever comes next year will just be waiting behind Shane anyway, so I don’t think it makes much sense from either Corneby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2024 and Beyond - 29 days ago
Trotsky If it's possible to hold guys for another year of USCHO seasoning, now would be when to do it. 17 Forwards and 11 Defenseman fighting for 12 / 6 / +1 slots, respectively, is 9 guys sitting, not including 3 goalies not named Ian Shane. Since all 14 returning F seem to be keepers, I wonder if we will see one or more drop back? I could see Wallace on the blue line. If Rayhill has bby BearLover - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 29 days ago
Beeeej ugarte "Can't we pull one damn upset" just doesn't rock my world the way "Clemsoning" became a synonym for choking until they finally won one. Yes, I want to win a championship but there have been two teams in my life that I thought were actually reasonably capable of it. One lost in the semifinals and one was taken away BY THE GLOBALISTS. This is pretty much where Iby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2024 and Beyond - 29 days ago
I just got scooped…by scoop! Seriously, I was in the middle of typing out a very similar post. I agree with much of what you said. I’m not sure how it would work regarding the goalie situation—will the Cornell coaches hold one of them back in juniors? Frankly, whoever comes next year will just be waiting behind Shane anyway, so I don’t think it makes much sense from either Cornell’s or Katz’s/Roeby BearLover - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 29 days ago
Scersk '97 BearLover Somebody just needs to do the math: What percentage of the time does a 2 beat a 1? What percentage of the time does a 3 beat a 1? Etc. Then, you can calculate Cornell’s expected win percentage in the NCAA quarterfinals over the years. That will show you how lucky or unlucky we’ve gotten (hint: extremely unlucky). Because it's a day off, I have no interest in doing theby BearLover - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 29 days ago
scoop85 Dafatone BearLover I guess I’m just kind of tired of it. “The future is bright.” “This freshman class is gonna be really special.” “Cornell will be the favorite in the ECAC next season.” That’s all well and good but at some point you actually have to win. It took a crazy series of events for us to end up in the NCAA quarterfinals with a great chance to win, but we DID end up there, and weby BearLover - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 29 days ago
abmarks BearLover Dafatone BearLover I guess I’m just kind of tired of it. “The future is bright.” “This freshman class is gonna be really special.” “Cornell will be the favorite in the ECAC next season.” That’s all well and good but at some point you actually have to win. It took a crazy series of events for us to end up in the NCAA quarterfinals with a great chance to win, but we DID end up theby BearLover - Hockey