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Not sure where else to put this. . .

I was reading this weeks Sports Illustrated (Nov. 7 issue) and there's a big collage of college athletes that goes with a feature on the feasibility of paying D1 players. Anyway, the collage features a CU hockey player; I think it's Vince Mihalek.

Brian Ferlin: Boston (4th rd / 121st overall)

Joel Lowry: LA Kings (5th Round / 140th Overall)

Philippe Hudon: DET (5th Round / 145th Overall)

Quote from: phillysportsfanWell I guess enjoy this tournament for what it is because next year they are going to screw it up by going to 96 teams

I know that a lot of people are stuck in their ways, and like the tournament just fine the way it is, but I can think of a whole lot of things worse than more March Madness. 9-16 seeds never win anyway, so its not like expansion is ruining the tourney from a competition standpoint. If anything, this will allow for more upsets because good mid-majors (seeds 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) will have a tune-up game before they play a 'real' tourney team. The sweet 16 will still be just as impressive for the mid-majors. The final 4 will still be a great accomplishment. And the nat'l champ will still be the team that manages to string together 6 wins in a row.

Quote from: TrotskyI'm sorry if this was covered in a link but, what's Brendon's plan?  Does he stay in Ithaca until he graduates, or is he already off to Copps Coliseum?

I saw him on campus today.

Quote from: RobinAnyone hitting up the Cornell at Brown basketball game tomorrow night?

The pepband will be there.

Quote from: ebilmesThis is essentially what we mock Colgate for printing each year.

Exactly right. I like to think we're better than this.

What year are you?

I ask because when I bought my jersey, I made sure to pick a 2010 graduate, like me. Now that I remember, for me it was between #27 (Gallagher) and #24 (BNash). #15 (Greening) was already taken. I went with the red #27.

I was wondering when someone would start this thread. . .

I think he's gone. The title asked for odds. . . I'd say %70 chance he walks for a low-end Big10 (Penn St?) or BigEast (St. Johns? Rutgers?) school. I agree that he'd like to go back to Philly, but he's not going to be able to, IMO, if he wants to try his hand at the best place available.

During the second half of last year, Schafer used 4 forwards and 1 defenseman on the 1st PP line. It was Gallagher, RNash, Greening, Barlow/MKennedy and BNash.

Is there any reason to think he won't use just 1 dman on the 1st PP line?

Assuming he does, I think the most likely line will be Gallagher, RNash, Greening, BNash and Jillson/JDevin/PKennedy.

I don't think Whitney has a chance to be on the 1st PP line. He only played 14 games last year and, if memory serves me correctly, was very rarely (if ever) on the ice on the PP.

Birch and D'Agostino played well. They're both pretty quick for big guys. Based on one scrimmage, they seem very comfortable with the puck and were able to break out of the defensive zone easily.

In my mind, I kept comparing them to someone like Berk or freshmen M. Devin or Taylor Davenport. Berk and Devin and Davenport were very robotic and unsure with the puck, and it seemed that the lack of puck handling defensemen in general was leading to some problems on the breakout. Anyway, BB and (especially) D'Agostino were NOT like that. Encouraging sign.

And I loved the little kids. Freakin hilarious.

Nice article on Riley.


"We don't want to turn him pro when he's not ready to turn pro," [Asst. GM] Prendergast emphasizes. "We'll have our prospect camp in July and we'll have a pretty good idea of where he is at that point. If we feel he's getting stronger, that's great and we'll think about it at the end of next hockey season, and if not, then we'll wait the four years."


Um, so is that the end of next season? As in spring 2010?


Sounds to me like if it's up to Kevin Prendergast, Riley will be back for his junior year.



Oops, already been posted. pfibiger gets the credit for this article. . .

It seems the oilers just change the date on old articles and repost them.

Riley is camping this week as well.

Oilers set to host Development Camp


And Braden Birch.

And Sean Collins.

So, this kid's been drafted by a team in the KHL. What does that mean for his time at Cornell? Are they gonna put pressure on him to leave early? (The above link says "Teams will retain rights on the Russian players until they turn 22, and on non-Russian players until they turn 28.")

More importantly, what if he gets drafted by an NHL team too? Is there an agreement between the KHL and the NHL concerning draftees?

[quote Jim Hyla]I hate to ask, worried about a negative outcome, what about the Pep Band?[/quote]

The pep band will be there.

I would guess that every member of the band would still want to play at the games even if we weren't allowed to play Gary Glitter. Let's be serious, this is a song. Band members aren't gonna give up their tickets to hockey games over a song. I certainly won't.

But you're missing the point, cth95. My point was that athletics holds significant power over the band, whether we care to admit it or not. In this situation, athletics is choosing to use the band as a tool to help cut down on profanity at Lynah. What athletics doesn't realize is that the majority of the potty-mouthed students at the games are going to curse regardless of whether the band plays Gary Glitter.

But I agree with Lauren. It is unlikely that athletics will ask the band to stop playing the song.