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Quote from: George64 on August 27, 2026, 10:05:58 PM

Quote from: stereax on August 23, 2026, 05:08:05 PMArizona State men's hockey player collapsed during outdoor exercise Thursday, remains hospitalized.

Matthew Mayich, a 21-year-old defenseman and St. Louis Blues prospect, is hospitalized after collapsing during an outdoor workout at Arizona State University's track facilities on August 20. He suffered a possible cardiac event and was treated for a heat-related illness. Mayich is currently in a coma, and his family has asked for privacy and prayers while he undergoes medical treatment.

The incident occurred during a workout session in extreme heat, with temperatures reaching 114 degrees in the area. Arizona State University is investigating the circumstances surrounding the workout, including whether it was sanctioned by the team. The university has offered support to Mayich and his family during this difficult time.

Mayich's hockey community, including the Ontario Hockey League and the St. Louis Blues, has rallied around him, offering thoughts, prayers, and support. A virtual prayer service was held for Mayich, and an Instagram account has been created to share updates and show support, with a yellow ribbon campaign symbolizing hope for his recovery.

Yesterday the PBS News Hour ran a story about the Phoenix Protocol, described below with AI assist.  This should be standard operating procedure at all outdoor summer training facilities in heat danger zoners.

All Phoenix emergency responders have ice machines on premise and carry bags of ice on responses.

The Phoenix Protocol

The Method: When a patient's core body temperature hits dangerous levels (around 104°F or higher), responders place them inside a specialized blue body bag and fill it with ice and water.

Why It Works: Water has a much higher thermal conductivity than air, meaning it cools the body down significantly faster than traditional methods like ice packs or air conditioning.

The Results: Medical professionals note that this technique can safely drop a patient's core temperature from 110°F down to 101°F or 100°F by the time they arrive at the emergency room, drastically lowering mortality rates. You can watch the full PBS NewsHour Video for more details.

Quote from: marty on August 12, 2026, 03:51:05 AMI'm very confused.  How many coaches,  assistant coaches, associate coaches and ersatz coaches are there on Cornell's staff? Are any of the current staff unpaid?

There are no unpaid positions in D1 hockey, the volunteer coach was eliminated, I believe in 2024.

The NCAA allows four countable coaches:  a head coach (Casey Jones) and three (3) assistant coaches for D1 schools. 

Cornell has three assistant coaches:
Associate Head Coach Sean Flanagan (11th year) -- leads in face offs
Assistant Coach Chris Brown (2nd year) -- leads defense and penalty kill
Assistant Coach Cam Clarke (2nd year) -- leads power play

In addition there is a Director of Hockey Operations, as discussed above.  Lately this role has been goalie coach and is responsible for video including video replay decisions and editing.  I also assume this person is responsible general administrative paper work.

Cornell also has an equipment manager, Sean Schmidt in his 15th year.  The atheltic trainer, Kaitlyn Petryszen, and strength and conditioning coach, Mike Missen, support several programs.  Ms. Petryszen serves the Mens and Womens Polo teams and the Golf team.  Mr. Missen serves softball, golf and equestrian.

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Quote from: BearLover on August 11, 2026, 01:14:12 PMThe lower ranking assistant coaches bounce around constantly. It's not specific to this season nor to Cornell.

Yep, this exactly. And it's not like we lost an coach or staff member who's been with the team for years.

Also possible that they were looking into Kaiser already before Robinson accepted the offer.

I disagree.  The "lesser" coaches are the foundation of the program.  They develop the players and the better their quality, the better the team.  And obviously the better programs will attract better talent at all levels.

Cornell was expecting Robinson to stay because they posted this bio update in early summer, before he left.  It refers to him starting his second year.   https://cornellbigred.com/sports/mens-ice-hockey/roster/coaches/josh-robinson/11947

And if you think the goaltending coach is not important consider this:
Dartmouth  -- Associate Head Coach Jason Tapp
Princeton -- Assistant Coach Shane Talarico (former Cornell Directory of Operations)
Michigan -- Assistant Coach Kevin Reiter

Dartmouth has been attracting great goalies. 

I sense that Cornell undervalues goalie coaches.  That may be why we lost Cournoyer to Wisconsin.

Quote from: ACM on August 10, 2026, 04:21:12 PMhttps://cornellbigred.com/news/2026/8/10/mens-ice-hockey-austin-keiser-hiring-release.aspx

Kaiser replaces Josh Robinson who left for Omaha:  https://omavs.com/news/2026/7/15/omaha-hockey-welcomes-josh-robinson-director-of-player-personnel-and-video.aspx

...see you in January.

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Quote from: The Rancor on July 31, 2026, 08:59:32 AM

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Quote from: Weder on July 30, 2026, 04:13:11 PMFinal piece of the puzzle (well, not counting exhibitions):
vs. Holy Cross on Dec. 8
https://goholycross.com/sports/mens-ice-hockey/schedule/2026-27

A Tuesday game? In this economy?

Love a mid week game!

I hope it's during my finals period because otherwise I WILL skip class 😂

I've got one Mon-Tues at 6:00-7:30 pm this semester 😭

You're in the Law School, right?

3 Dec -- instruction ends
4-6 Dec -- reading period
7 Dec -- finals begin

For the rest of the University that is still classes, which end 15 December.  I think there is a rule against playing (any sport) during finals.

Great News! 

Over the Chirstmas [Winter] Break Coach Jones will be Assistant Coach for the U.S. Collegiate Selects in the Spangler Cup in Davos, Switzerland.  (Mike Sousa of UNH is Head Coach and Scott Sandelin of Minnesota Duluth is the other Assistant.)

That's a little tight for the early January Omaha game . . . but maybe promises adding UNH and UMD to the schedule.  I would love to see us play UMD in the Frozen Apple.

Quote from: stereax on August 01, 2026, 08:20:54 PMCornell picks up a goalie recruit - Hagan Bach, G.

From Niskayuna, close to Albany.

Apr 17, 2009. 17yo. 6'2" and 201lbs already.

As per EP spent last year in the OJHL with a .915 and 2.25. Prior to that did two years at Shattuck's.

Likely plays in the OHL with Barrie next year.

EP projects him to come in in 28-29.

Asking my CHL friend about him...
"Is he any good?"
"Maybe? He had a really good triple-A career. He played with Thomas Carbonneau..."

They'll keep an eye on him for me 🥰

Is this a hopeful sign?  Or the exception that proves that Cornell recruiting is in the tank, doomed by the eligibility limitations and revenue sharing?

Is it just his warm-up year before transferring to the B1G?

Quote from: The Rancor on July 22, 2026, 10:35:06 PM

Quote from: Old Red on July 22, 2026, 04:02:23 PMJustin Tavares, son of NLL legend John Tavares and cousin of NHL star John Tavares, is transferring from University of Denver to Cornell for Lacrosse.  Any hopes that he might also play for our hockey team? 

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=justin+tavarres&cvid=6e6ad6d01ed640eda7a208195a7ceb80&gs_lcrp=EgRlZGdlKgYIABBFGDkyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQABhAMgYIAhAAGEAyBggDEAAYQDIGCAQQABhA0gEIMzExM2owajmoAgiwAgE&PC=U531&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3djustin%2btavarres%26cvid%3d6e6ad6d01ed640eda7a208195a7ceb80%26gs_lcrp%3dEgRlZGdlKgYIABBFGDkyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQABhAMgYIAhAAGEAyBggDEAAYQDIGCAQQABhA0gEIMzExM2owajmoAgiwAgE%26FORM%3dANAB01%26PC%3dU531&mmscn=vwrc&mid=6F146CC2AB557D7A8C706F146CC2AB557D7A8C70&FORM=WRVORC&ntb=1&msockid=1aeffa66860711f191447b85964baa0d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7mQHtVYPVk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qotXbqY5vKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aeMA0Duawo

Does he play hockey too?


Edit: Looked up his Hockey DB/Elite Prospect page. He had good numbers at Deerfield. 5'10" 170- maybe a little undersized. Maybe he's a practice squad guy with some upside?

If you watched the recordings you would see that Number 9 was Captain at Deerfield and a bit of a sniper. 

He entered recruitment for ice hockey.

Ned Harkness would have taken him for both, but I am not sure in this day you can play two sports.

Justin Tavares, son of NLL legend John Tavares and cousin of NHL star John Tavares, is transferring from University of Denver to Cornell for Lacrosse.  Any hopes that he might also play for our hockey team? 

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=justin+tavarres&cvid=6e6ad6d01ed640eda7a208195a7ceb80&gs_lcrp=EgRlZGdlKgYIABBFGDkyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQABhAMgYIAhAAGEAyBggDEAAYQDIGCAQQABhA0gEIMzExM2owajmoAgiwAgE&PC=U531&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3djustin%2btavarres%26cvid%3d6e6ad6d01ed640eda7a208195a7ceb80%26gs_lcrp%3dEgRlZGdlKgYIABBFGDkyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQABhAMgYIAhAAGEAyBggDEAAYQDIGCAQQABhA0gEIMzExM2owajmoAgiwAgE%26FORM%3dANAB01%26PC%3dU531&mmscn=vwrc&mid=6F146CC2AB557D7A8C706F146CC2AB557D7A8C70&FORM=WRVORC&ntb=1&msockid=1aeffa66860711f191447b85964baa0d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7mQHtVYPVk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qotXbqY5vKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aeMA0Duawo

Quote from: dbilmes on June 19, 2026, 06:24:11 PMI didn't think this warranted a new thread, but it's worth noting that a donor has given Richmond $10 million to build a dedicated lacrosse facility. That program has already become an established national power. This promises to keep it up there.

Not that surprising. Richmond is a wealthy private university with a top 30 [29th] endowment and pays a 4% endowment excise tax.  (For comparison Princeton has a beautiful dedicated lacrosse field, is 4th and pays an 8% endowment excise tax.  Cornell is 14th, also pays 8% and sadly we do not have a dedicated lacrosse facility.) 

Quote from: scoop85 on June 19, 2026, 08:48:29 AMCorey Pronman of The Athletic did a 7-round draft and "selected" 3 of our recruits: Charlie Puglisi to Nashville at pick 179, Cole Tuminaro to Detroit at 196, and Daniel Walters to San Jose at 201.

For anyone tracking their ages all three future stars will be under 20 when the puck drops next year.  Two are 18 with spring birthdays, the third is 19 born in the winter months.

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Quote from: billhoward on June 12, 2026, 11:51:17 AMIn favor of there being a 2026 Frozen Apple (ie even-year) MSG game: There is nothing else scheduled at MSG for Thanksgiving Saturday (if you see the Rockettes, unclick all the MSG properties until you only have the MSG main arena). Google says the Cornell-Quinnipiac 3-3 tie drew 16,593, the largest attendence for 2024-25 college hockey.

That season's national championship game beat that by a few hundred (https://www.collegehockeynews.com/box/final/20250412/wmu/bu_/) but it's still an impressive number.

The Rangers are pretty likely to have an afternoon game that day once the NHL schedule comes out.

True but that's usually the case.  Ranger game in the afternoon, Cornell game at night.  Of course it's happening.

I can confirm from a reliable UMaine hockey source that they will play in the Frozen Apple this year.  Although I do not have a date I assume the traditional...

Quote from: stereax on June 14, 2026, 05:21:48 PMif the rule change does not benefit us why was casey going so hard for it

Because it is the right thing to do.  Once back in the mythos that was the purpose of a classical, Ivy League, liberal education, to give us an understanding of the world and of ourselves to enable us to do and live a life of right and avoid what is wrong.

But today it is all fie on goodness, fie.

Quote from: stereax on May 12, 2026, 01:55:22 PMI'm gonna take a wild guess and say Walsh is staying for his senior year.

Could always still be wrong, but caption + comments makes me think he's made his decision to come back.

Does Coach know?

Quote from: BearLover on April 18, 2026, 10:47:30 PM

Quote from: Old Red on April 18, 2026, 10:41:38 PM

Quote from: imafrshmn on April 18, 2026, 08:58:23 PMRousseau could prove to be be an upgrade on Courns. Good to see our Quebec pipeline is still running strong.

Maybe he just wanted to "jump to the next level" academically.  Maine may be the lowest ranked D1 college playing hockey today.

Umm. That does not sound right.

I used AI, but it does feel in the ball park.

Schools with Lower General Academic Rankings
Based on the 2026 National University Rankings, some schools playing D1 hockey are ranked in the lower tiers of major publications like U.S. News & World Report and the NCSA Power Rankings.
University of Maine: Ranked #257 nationally, making it one of the lower-ranked public institutions in the competitive Hockey East conference.
Bemidji State University: Often ranks in the regional categories rather than the national university tier, typically placing it lower in overall academic prestige compared to national research universities.
Augustana University (SD): As a newer D1 program, it is generally ranked in the Regional Universities (Midwest) category (#11) rather than the national tier.
NCSA
NCSA
Team Academic Performance (APR)
The Academic Progress Rate (APR) measures real-time academic success and retention specifically for the hockey team. While hockey consistently has some of the highest APR scores in the NCAA (average above 980), some programs have historically lower margins.
College Hockey, Inc.
College Hockey, Inc.
Lowest Historically: While most programs maintain high scores, schools in the Atlantic Hockey America (AHA) conference sometimes show more fluctuation in APR compared to the perfect 1000 scores seen at Penn State or Notre Dame.
Academic Attrition: Schools like Stonehill College and Lindenwood University, which are relatively new to the Division I level, are still establishing their long-term academic data profiles compared to legacy programs.
College Hockey News
College Hockey News
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Summary of Lower-Tier Academic Schools in D1 Hockey
School    Conference    General Academic Context
University of Maine    Hockey East    Ranked #257 National Universities.
Bemidji State    CCHA    Ranked in Regional (Midwest) categories.
Augustana (SD)    CCHA    New D1 program; Regional Mid-tier prestige.
Lindenwood    Independent    New D1 program with evolving academic metrics.
Would you like a comparison of admissions requirements (SAT/GPA) for these schools to see which has the most accessible entry standards.