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Quote from: stereax on October 07, 2026, 12:59:34 PMPractice lines have Castagna on the 4th centering other call-up Suniev and Adam Klapka.

Nice Castagna shout out on 32 thoughts around 39 minutes in. His nickname in Calgary is George. Think about it.   

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Quote from: BearLover on October 03, 2026, 12:01:54 AMMSU has 17 draft picks including 9 first rounders. Don't know how we're supposed to compete with that. The best players commit/transfer to the top conferences to play against better talent, which creates a vicious cycle of the top conferences perpetually improving and the weaker conferences perpetually getting worse. The CHL opening up to college exacerbated this. We unfortunately need to root for other ECAC teams to improve so that the conference profile improves somewhat.

Anyone remember the last time we played MSU, when they were the 1 seed, and had a bunch of really good players, and everyone expected them to beat us to a pulp?



You have to have the skill AND the process to win in the tourney. Teams like Denver are successful no matter who they have, because they bring in the right guys and they play the right way.

Obviously, the talent gap is increasing, but it also allows us to get better recruits as well. Two-sided coin. And due to our Ivy positioning, we'll always have that advantage - it's not like we're a Lindenwood.

It would be awesome to get top line talent at Cornell. At the same time, Cornell generally expects you to stay at least 3 years, if not 4. Top draft picks aren't going to do that.

If you start taking one-year mercenaries, it waters down your competitive advantages in academics, in the degree, in all of that.

I will take B level 21 year olds who have played together over younger ones who are theoretically better but one and done mercenaries who leave every year.

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Quote from: ugarte on September 21, 2026, 11:46:50 PMMy seats went from A to on the glass in G to D. No bad seats when the place is full tbh.

B to various permutations of D.  When its full and rocking, it really doesn't matter

Should note that we wanted C, but my senior year was the year the cut the student section by sticking the boosters in C to somehow water down the rowdiness.  Didn't work.  Hence, also, for those of you who may recall, my roommates and my creation, Section D Tonite.  Was supposed to be Section C Tonite. 

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Quote from: stereax on October 01, 2026, 09:30:26 AMI'm sure he'll do well with us! I'm not saying he's a midget or a bum. Just that he's shorter than Cournoyer (and short for a goalie) . . .

The goalie for the only undefeated D1 NCAA championship hockey team was 5'6" Brian Cropper.

It was the system.

It was, but also very different times, 6'3" or 4" Dryden notwithstanding.  Even into the 80's NHL goalies like Vanbiesbrouck and Fuhr were well under 6 feet.  Maybe not 5'6" but Eddie Giacomin was 5'8."  People were smaller in those days.  Must've been the smoking and scotch.

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Quote from: chimpfood on October 01, 2026, 02:12:11 AMI think we'll be good this year. I don't know why everyone is acting like Rousseau is some midget who's a total bum. He played for canadas world junior team and is the same height as many goalies who we've made look real good in the past. I think he has a save percentage around .920.

I'm sure he'll do well with us! I'm not saying he's a midget or a bum. Just that he's shorter than Cournoyer (and short for a goalie), and that his results last year were so-so (but part of it can be attributed to the team he was on). I think .910 is a reasonable aspiration; if he hits .920 it's DC season.

You sound like me when I would grouse about Shane's smaller stature.  Then we got a tall one and I missed Shane.  So who knows?

Quote from: ugarte on September 21, 2026, 11:46:50 PMMy seats went from A to on the glass in G to D. No bad seats when the place is full tbh.

B to various permutations of D.  When its full and rocking, it really doesn't matter

Certainly not miffed as t

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Quote from: Old Red on September 18, 2026, 10:26:11 PMstereax you may have something there.  All that new and established talent and Cornell is picked 3rd in the ECAC with no candidates for pre-season All-ECAC team honors . . .
https://ecachockey.com/news/2026/9/14/mens-ice-hockey-quinnipiac-chosen-as-favourite-for-the-second-year-in-a-row-by-league-coaches.aspx

I'm not particularly surprised, as Q and D were both better than us last year.

Who the fuck is Tyler Dunbar, though? (This is gonna bite me in the ass, I can tell.) And do we really think Croteau is that good?

Either way I'm not particularly miffed. Better to be underrated and make heads roll than the alternative.

Certainly not miffed as this stuff is off season filler, but I suspect Walsh and XV will each have something to say about this.

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Quote from: underskill on September 16, 2026, 09:29:30 PMWe had to sleep outside Lynah which was not fun but well worth it.

We had to sleep outside Lynah and it rained and it was wonderful and I made friends that night I still have.  Esprit de corps can't be faked or bought.

Senior year, we arrived Wednesday afternoon and were second in line.  We were bougie.  Had tents and a generator and watched movies. Very comfy.

Now I see I got an email last week.  Shite!

I happened to stumble over to Princeton's hockey website and noted that single game tickets are already onsale and Cornell is nearly sold out.  I never got a notification or saw anything here.  Did you all know?

Appears that he is signed with Worcester.  Rangers have a lot of young, mostly not great defense so who knows.

Back to the thread topic.  Michael Suda in rookie camp with the Rangers.  Had a very good year at ECHL Worcester last season.  Maybe has a shot at AHL this year, or perhaps ECHL is as high as it gets.

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Quote from: stereax on August 22, 2026, 02:22:48 AMDoubled numbers are always acceptable for dmen.

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Quote from: stereax on August 22, 2026, 02:22:48 AM7 is a dman number which is why I'm annoyed a forward has it.

Two words:  Brock Tredway

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Quote from: stereax on August 22, 2026, 02:22:48 AM7 is a dman number which is why I'm annoyed a forward has it.

Two words:  Brock Tredway

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Quote from: stereax on August 22, 2026, 02:22:48 AMDoubled numbers are always acceptable for dmen.

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Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on August 22, 2026, 05:16:57 PMTwo words:  Brock Tredway

Doug Ferguson

Doug, Brock - not bad company!  But how would a 20-something know?

7 is not a forward's number it's a defenseman's number no amount of counterexamples will make me change my mind

Let's go pro:

Phil Esposito
Bill Barber
Ted Lindsay
Brady Tkachuk
Rod Gilbert
Rick Martin
Lanny McDonald
Joe Mullen
Red Berenson

I rest my case.

Bro snuck Brady Tkachuk in there 💀

Yep.  One for you young bucks.   

Hahahaha. Fair.

I still maintain it's a bad look to be under 8 as a forward. And 8 is only acceptable because Ovechkin. I don't particularly like 9 on forwards either ngl. At least it's not 2, like a bunch of the young buck forwards are wearing nowadays. I want to throttle them.

D-men:      2-6, 26-29
Fwds:       7-25
Goalies:    1, 30-35

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Quote from: Al DeFlorio on August 23, 2026, 04:51:49 AM

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on August 22, 2026, 05:16:57 PMTwo words:  Brock Tredway

Doug Ferguson

Doug, Brock - not bad company!  But how would a 20-something know?

7 is not a forward's number it's a defenseman's number no amount of counterexamples will make me change my mind

Let's go pro:

Phil Esposito
Bill Barber
Ted Lindsay
Brady Tkachuk
Rod Gilbert
Rick Martin
Lanny McDonald
Joe Mullen
Red Berenson

I rest my case.

Bro snuck Brady Tkachuk in there 💀

Yep.  One for you young bucks.   

Hahahaha. Fair.

I still maintain it's a bad look to be under 8 as a forward. And 8 is only acceptable because Ovechkin. I don't particularly like 9 on forwards either ngl. At least it's not 2, like a bunch of the young buck forwards are wearing nowadays. I want to throttle them.

D-men:      2-6, 26-29
Fwds:       7-25
Goalies:    1, 30-35

Yup. As to 11 for defense, Mr. messier would like a word.  As to 7 for defense, see above. The numbers actually have, as in futbol, football, and baseball, historical and positional significance going back to the early days of the game(s).  Four for a center-Beleveau, Lecavalier-was shocking. Schaf's approach to uniform numbers was an acknowledgement of and respect for the history.

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Quote from: BearLover on June 26, 2026, 10:52:10 PMWho changed their number besides DiGiulian?

Hiscock took DiGiulian's number.

Also, 60. I want to vomit. Like Castagna, Rousseau better be worth it 😭

Ashton also moved to 11.

This amount of number changing should be illegal.

Numbers ought to be proportional to name length.  Zadvernyuk getting 7 is visually criminal

Defenders simply cannot wear number 11

Quote from: BearLover on August 14, 2026, 12:30:55 AMThe Ivies had a good season in 2025-26 and I expect them to improve further in the next few years. They're one of the few subsets of schools that isn't in total disarray in the new college hockey environment.

The Ivies are recruiting well, they have young new coaches, and their schools aren't on the verge of going bankrupt like most of the schools playing D1 hockey. Maybe most importantly, almost no one transfers out thanks to the value of the degree.

Whether the other Ivies improving is good for Cornell specifically is hard to say. If Cornell is after the same pool of recruits, then it's probably bad for us.

Sure helps the sos if Brown and Yale get a dead cat bounce out of the cellar.  It's really only those two who have been consistently bad recently, and obviously Yale is historically generally pretty to very good.  Plus the pizza.