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Quote from: The Rancor on July 08, 2026, 12:32:16 PMEvery recruit is a lottery ticket until the skates hit the ice.

A heavily weighted lottery ticket.

Quote from: stereax on July 08, 2026, 11:48:15 AM

Quote from: ursusminor on July 07, 2026, 02:12:46 PMhttps://www.instagram.com/p/DafOjNmCn4B/

  

RPI actually has 9 incoming freshmen.

I'll take fourth! (Especially on a "lighter" year.)

I wouldn't take fourth in the ECAC. Also our number is much lower than most teams in B10, HE, and NCHC. The good news though is that Puck Preps is, I assume, totally unreliable.

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Quote from: BearLover on June 03, 2026, 12:54:04 PMNow that players have five years of eligibility, Goldstein and Firth may be able to skip fall semester in 2026 and 2027 and use all five years of eligibility at Cornell before graduating. Hopefully the coaching staff is talking to them about this option.

I was wrong - this is currently impossible. According to Cornell athletics rules, athletes may only compete for four seasons unless they get a waiver (typically for injury). So you can expect to see Goldstein and Firth on UVA or Duke in a couple of seasons.

Is this a new rule in the wake of the NCAA changes? If it isn't, then I assume the same permission that wrestlers and football players have used in the past will continue to apply.

Not a new rule. But in the past the fifth year waiver was (at least in lacrosse) only used if a player missed a season to injury. So that doesn't help us retain players for a fifth year under the new eligibility rules (unless they missed a year to injury).

This'll help recruiting from the QMJHL

Quote from: BearLover on June 03, 2026, 12:54:04 PMNow that players have five years of eligibility, Goldstein and Firth may be able to skip fall semester in 2026 and 2027 and use all five years of eligibility at Cornell before graduating. Hopefully the coaching staff is talking to them about this option.

I was wrong - this is currently impossible. According to Cornell athletics rules, athletes may only compete for four seasons unless they get a waiver (typically for injury). So you can expect to see Goldstein and Firth on UVA or Duke in a couple of seasons.

Quote from: stereax on June 29, 2026, 09:36:36 PMBancroft (predictably) does not get a qualifying offer from Nashville.

Dude made a big mistake leaving college

Quote from: Cornell troll on June 29, 2026, 01:17:13 AM

Quote from: BearLover on June 29, 2026, 12:23:57 AM

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Quote from: BearLover on June 27, 2026, 10:38:30 PMAdded and 8th pick for PSU and the first pick for Michigan Tech as well.

I'll repeat what I said like 6 months ago that we need to pick up our recruiting. 2ish players per draft was alright before the CHL opened. Now it's too far below par.

Hard to believe that you would ever repeat anything, repeat anything, repeat anything, repeat....

I recently checked your posting history and over half of your last 50 posts were complaining about me

Because you repeat the same crap over and over and have moved this forum toward the mentality of a bad ESPN radio broadcast.

You aren't obliged to fill the entire forum the way a radio broadcaster fills a show.

With the new NCAA five-year eligibility rule, things are looking very grim for Cornell athletics

For youe sake, I implore you to take up more constructive and healthier hobbies than obsessing over cornell athletics 24/7. I used to be like you as well...

You'd be surprised how much my life is rainbows and butterflies outside the six hours a day I spend on ELynah.

Quote from: Trotsky on June 29, 2026, 01:41:48 AM

Quote from: BearLover on June 28, 2026, 09:46:41 AMSetting aside the fact pretty much every statement on a hockey fan forum adds little to nothing, my statement diagnoses a problem.

No.  Your numbers suggest certain things.  Your opinions are just your opinions, and we know them because you repeat them ad nauseum.  When you put down actual facts you're interesting.  You're unfathomably boring when you whine. 

Just.  Post.  Facts.  Your facts are neat.  Your opinions are dandruff.

A forum in which one cannot express his opinions is no forum at all.

Quote from: marty on June 28, 2026, 06:05:21 PM

Quote from: BearLover on June 28, 2026, 01:03:44 PM

Quote from: marty on June 28, 2026, 11:41:03 AM

Quote from: BearLover on June 27, 2026, 10:38:30 PMAdded and 8th pick for PSU and the first pick for Michigan Tech as well.

I'll repeat what I said like 6 months ago that we need to pick up our recruiting. 2ish players per draft was alright before the CHL opened. Now it's too far below par.

Hard to believe that you would ever repeat anything, repeat anything, repeat anything, repeat....

I recently checked your posting history and over half of your last 50 posts were complaining about me

Because you repeat the same crap over and over and have moved this forum toward the mentality of a bad ESPN radio broadcast.

You aren't obliged to fill the entire forum the way a radio broadcaster fills a show.

With the new NCAA five-year eligibility rule, things are looking very grim for Cornell athletics

Quote from: marty on June 28, 2026, 11:41:03 AM

Quote from: BearLover on June 27, 2026, 10:38:30 PMAdded and 8th pick for PSU and the first pick for Michigan Tech as well.

I'll repeat what I said like 6 months ago that we need to pick up our recruiting. 2ish players per draft was alright before the CHL opened. Now it's too far below par.

Hard to believe that you would ever repeat anything, repeat anything, repeat anything, repeat....

I recently checked your posting history and over half of your last 50 posts were complaining about me

Quote from: stereax on June 28, 2026, 10:18:53 AM

Quote from: BearLover on June 28, 2026, 09:46:41 AM

Quote from: Trotsky on June 28, 2026, 05:39:22 AM

QuoteI'll repeat what I said like 6 months ago that we need to pick up our recruiting.

This statement adds nothing.

Setting aside the fact pretty much every statement on a hockey fan forum adds little to nothing, my statement diagnoses a problem. You may disagree, but I actually think it's important to state: the bar for recruiting has been raised, but Cornell is largely stuck where we were pre-CHL eligibility. Same goes for the rest of our conference.

So it's an ECAC problem more broadly and not a Cornell one.

How exactly is Cornell meant to rise above being in a "worse" conference?

I don't know, maybe we're screwed. I'm hopeful the other Ivies improve with their new coaches and the conference becomes more competitive. Though, those schools compete with us for recruits so it's a double-edged sword. It is also imperative we keep Quinnipiac in conference (rather than leaving for Hockey East). Unless, of course, you care about ECAC titles more than being nationally competitive, in which case you'd prefer our conference to be as horrible as possible. Personally, my goal is a frozen four/national title.

It is also critical we retain players and not lose them early to the pros/portal, like Dartmouth and Harvard manage to do. That is the Ivies' competitive advantage.

Lastly, I do think we can recruit a bit better even given our constraints. The Castagna/Walsh/Stanley/Fegaras/Robertson/Devlin/Kraft/Catalano class was just a few years ago.

Quote from: Trotsky on June 28, 2026, 05:39:22 AM

QuoteI'll repeat what I said like 6 months ago that we need to pick up our recruiting.

This statement adds nothing.

Setting aside the fact pretty much every statement on a hockey fan forum adds little to nothing, my statement diagnoses a problem. You may disagree, but I actually think it's important to state: the bar for recruiting has been raised, but Cornell is largely stuck where we were pre-CHL eligibility. Same goes for the rest of our conference.

Added another to BU, giving them 8.

Draft picks (first rounders) by league
Big 10: 32 (9)    [7 teams]
NCHC: 30 (6)      [9 teams]
HE: 34 (4)        [12 teams]
ECAC: 9 (0)      [12 teams]
CCHA: 4 (0)      [9 teams]
AH: 0 (0)        [9 teams]
Independent: 1 (0) [5 teams]

Draft picks (first rounders) by league, per teams in league
Big 10: 4.6 (1.3) per team
NCHC: 3.33 (0.67) per team
HE: 2.8 (.33) per team
ECAC: .75 (0.0) per team
CCHA: .44 (0.0) per team
AH: 0.0 (0.0) per team
Independent: .2 (0.0) per team

Quote from: stereax on June 27, 2026, 11:07:43 PM

Quote from: BearLover on June 27, 2026, 10:38:30 PMAdded and 8th pick for PSU and the first pick for Michigan Tech as well.

I'll repeat what I said like 6 months ago that we need to pick up our recruiting. 2ish players per draft was alright before the CHL opened. Now it's too far below par.

Same amount of kids get drafted a year.

Now more of 'em get to go to Denver and MichState.

CHL -> NCAA is becoming somewhat common among draft picks nowadays. Back in The Day, we'd have Canadian guys in the BCHL and shit so they could come play NCAA hockey. Now they can play in the OHL and then go to the NCAA. Which tends to help the rich get richer.

Would be interested in seeing how many NHL picks pre-CHL stuff went the NCAA route and the proportional number of those that went to different schools.

Also, I need to write Tom Fitzgerald vs A Potato.

You might be able to find recaps of past drafts somewhere on the internet or even on this forum, but from memory Harvard was averaging around 4 players per draft, we were averaging around 2, the rest of the ECAC 0-1 except maybe Q or Clarkson with 1-2. Then the very top teams like BU, BC, or Michigan would get around 5-6 with 1-2 first rounders usually. In the late 2010s Harvard was on par with the pure bluebloods and in fact a few years ago Harvard led the entire country in draft picks on its roster with 16.

Now there are way more drafted players in the NCAA in general, but more importantly they are more concentrated on the top teams, especially the first rounders.

We all knew CHL eligibility would increase the talent in college hockey by virtue of a much larger player pool to select from. What I don't think people predicted was the second order effect of this, that better talent begets better talent. Because NCAA hockey is better, now the very best players go to the NCAA for a year or two. They almost all play in the B10, NCHC, or HE because they offer the toughest competition, the best facilities, etc. Now all the North American players whose only goal is to make the NHL are coming to college, and if your only goal is the NHL then it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to play in the ECAC.

Added and 8th pick for PSU and the first pick for Michigan Tech as well.

I'll repeat what I said like 6 months ago that we need to pick up our recruiting. 2ish players per draft was alright before the CHL opened. Now it's too far below par.

Darien Anderson was drafted by the Rangers in the 6th round and is a Clarkson commit. CHN didn't have him on their list that I was referencing so I didn't include him in my post. Adding him now.