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Re: Recruits 2025 and Beyond - 2 months ago

BearLover Trotsky ugarte Dafatone One player doesn't mean anything, but now is as good as time as any to note that our highest draft pick ever (14th overall), Sasha Pokulok, played two alright-but-not-great seasons for Cornell then never made the NHL.IIRC Pokulok was pretty good at Cornell but had concussion/injury issues in some of his early years in the pros before decamping overseas.I don't re

Re: Recruits 2025 and Beyond - 2 months ago

ugarte Dafatone One player doesn't mean anything, but now is as good as time as any to note that our highest draft pick ever (14th overall), Sasha Pokulok, played two alright-but-not-great seasons for Cornell then never made the NHL.IIRC Pokulok was pretty good at Cornell but had concussion/injury issues in some of his early years in the pros before decamping overseas.I don't remember concussions

Re: Recruits 2025 and Beyond - 2 months ago

BearLover CAS With the addition of Vellieux & Fisher, we should have 7 drafted players on next year’s team. If DiGuilian gets drafted, we will have 8. When was the last year Cornell had 8 or more draftees on the team? Long, Pirtle, & Hiscock all had outstanding years, but assume are too old to be drafted. I think Cornell had 9+ drafted players at points in the mid-2000s. We were recrui

Re: Next Cornell Men's NCAA Tournament appearance - 2 months ago

One thing comes to mind is the CHL treats its players like trash, and hey suddenly there is competition and if you abuse a guy he's gone. That can only be good news for players. More importantly, a choice you make at 15 doesn't preclude getting a degree. I don't know what it will do to us, but I like it in principle. Choices are good.

Re: Next Cornell Men's NCAA Tournament appearance - 2 months ago

617BigRed We make NCAA tourney plenty of times, we should always be in contention via winning at Placid - issue is when will we finally get thru a Regional Final to make the Frozen Four again?We have made it plenty of times, but that is in no way guaranteed. That's the point. Look at the history of all teams in the NC$$. CC, once a regular, hasn't appeared since 2011. Clarkson had a domi

Re: 2025-26 Incoming Freshman and Transfers - 2 months ago

underskill I wonder if Casey is going to try to rebalance the class sizes at some pointIt tends to happen on its own. Large classes have a tail of frosh who never see the ice, hence they never develop, hence they continue to get beat out by incoming guys the next year, and eventually they leave.

Next Cornell Men's NCAA Tournament appearance - 2 months ago

This is a temperature check for the fanbase. Men's team.

Re: Frozen Four - 2 months ago

Iceberg Good for Western Michigan. For a while, they were one and done in the NCAA's and then they go on to have this dominant season almost out of nowhereYes, this was one of the best stories in NCAA hockey of the last several years. Great for them. I would love to see MTU and NMU gets bites at some time, too. And, you know, maybe us?

Re: Recruits 2025 and Beyond - 2 months ago

The Rancor Alex Pelletier - son of JM Pelletier?Alex born Grandy, CT Jun 01, 2005. JHean-Marc was playing for Springfield, MA. Driving distance 24 miles. Let's say 67% chance of yes.

Re: Alumni in the pros 24-25 - 2 months ago

Snowball Yes a beauty by Sam: Oooooh, that's-a nice.

Re: Alumni in the pros 24-25 - 2 months ago

"Abuse of officials."

Re: Recruits 2025 and Beyond - 2 months ago

Jesus. Trotsky realizing he's not the most deeply cynical person in a thread for once: I think the Ivies may eventually "do the right thing after exhausting all other possibilities." The grad student restriction is even more pathetically stupid Dignity Theatre than what we usually do to burnish the Pick Me academia knob, so they may quietly let it expire. That we ever grow up e

Re: 2025-26 Incoming Freshman and Transfers - 2 months ago

That is a great preview, thank you. Are the predictions based on age or perceived progress in Juniors or what? As a naif I just see a menu of 25 possibilities.

Re: Alumni in the pros 24-25 - 2 months ago

ugartei love watching our guys get wow goals in the pros. much more satisfying than when they pop in a grinder rebound. makes me think about what they'd look like if the red had a more free-flowing offense. i know that it is the yin to the yang of having a great defense for the last 30 years but i have to admit if we're going to have an adjustment period that involves more losing (not saying we w

Re: Cornell lacrosse 2025 - 2 months ago

RichH“North Dakota’s ________ Circus” I understood that reference.

Re: Mets - 2 months ago

Re: ECAC 2025 - 2 months ago

Dafatone Quinnipiac are going to be massive favorites next season. They have to get past the ECAC semis to win the ECAC.

Re: Recruits 2025 and Beyond - 2 months ago

Icebergallow grad student athletes What is the given rationale for this Ivy rule, BTW? I mean, I get that everything we do is to polish the snobbery discriminator that makes idiots in Mineola pay 5x the tuition for an undergrad business degree they could get at SUNY, but why do we shoot ourselves in the dick on graduate students of all people? They are, by definition, good scholars. I think

Re: 2024-25 Players Graduating - 2 months ago

Concern about next season: absolutely. We are going to struggle replacing so much talent, and though we knew that was coming Bancroft and Robertson now add another two key slots. We may be looking at a couple seasons in 8th. Concern about immediate recruiting: maybe. It is an enormous coaching change and you know Rand et al. are out there pouring poison into the ears of every parent that Cor

Re: Ben Robertson transfer - 2 months ago

Could be any number of things. Bad news of course, but we'll survive.

2025 TBRW Awards - 2 months ago

All Stars Awards

Re: NCAA basketball 2025 - 2 months ago

"Duke Loses" vs "Hedge Fund Fails," who ya got?

Re: Mets - 3 months ago

We're the Colorado Yankees tonight. Most wins in MLB since 2021: Zach Wheeler. May the Wilpons burn in hell forever.

Re: NCAAs quarterfinal Cornell vs. BU - 3 months ago

After the second intermission, it felt to me like Cole Hutson never left the ice.

Re: Mets - 3 months ago

Tylor Megill: three emergency spot starts in openers, 16 IP, 3 wins, 0 runs allowed.

Re: Recruits 2025 and Beyond - 3 months ago

ithacatGavin Stoick returned to the USHL after his Fr year and then returned.This is who I meant. Thank you. Fun fact: Gavin played for the Vail Yeti this year.

Re: Portal 2025 - 3 months ago

jtwcornell91Wasn't there a similar analysis about going for it on fourth down in football: a riskier strategy would win more games on average, but be more likely to get the coach fired?Yes. If owners were intelligent, it would be the right move for a coach, but the graph of intelligence against wealth is a bell curve.

Re: Mets - 3 months ago

The Mets continue to play their 7th inning stretch song about an insatiable 19th century Italian girl who can't stop fucking every man in town. It's a choice.

Re: Mike Schafer retiring 2025 - 3 months ago

Actually, 8 stripes.

Re: Mets - 3 months ago

Love the BJs logo, hate their font.