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I'd heard UMass was supposed to join BU in playing both teams but that obviously fell apart awhile ago.

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Quote from: Weder on June 21, 2026, 07:43:29 PMRIT's schedule lists them at Lynah on Dec. 5.

So Merrimack was wrong? Updating.

I wonder if it's possible that Merrimack is lined up for an exhibition game?

Merrimack bailed out on the game for unclear reasons that didn't make anyone happy. So I doubt they're scheduled for anything at the moment.

So RIT is basically pinch hitting?

Was Merrimack scheduled at Colgate on Dec 4 too?

No it's been RIT at Colgate on that date for awhile.

Schiff to Detroit and Regalado to Toronto. 6 for 5. Not too shabby.

Montreal takes Avi Adam to close out the 2nd round.

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Quote from: stereax on June 03, 2026, 10:34:45 PMGuilday, Jenner, O'Neill, Saulnier, Zandee-Hart, Bourbonnais, Daniel were not protected in Phase 1 of the PWHL expansion. (Neither were Delianedis or Katie Chan.)

Probably likely enough one or more is on a new expansion team by the end of the process.

The process is complicated. I seem to recall players on multi year contracts like Guilday didn't need to be protected. But I could be wrong.

Lot of speculation Jenner will sign with Hamilton and play her final season(s) in her hometown.

Jenner officially became the first player in PWHL Hamilton history today.

And Guilday has reportedly signed in San Jose. (I was wrong about how the protection worked). 

Now official according to the PWHL site. 2-year deal.

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Quote from: chimpfood on April 08, 2026, 09:26:01 AMIm so lost... tried looking this up a little while ago and couldn't find anything I could understand. So it's 4 years starting when you enter college? Then why would Castagna/Hoyts rights expire if they didn't leave this year?

They wouldn't. They would expire at the end of next season.

If a player is drafted at age 18 their rights are held for 4 years. If they're 19 or 20 it's 3 years. That clock starts the moment they're drafted. The clock get's extended if they stay in school.


Here are 4 examples from this year's team (Though given how recent the CBA changes were none of them fall under this criteria, but if they did here's how it works.)

Castagna - Drafted at age 18, matriculated the same year. His clock would expire at the end of his senior year.

Walsh - Drafted at age 19, matriculated the same year. His clock would expire at the end of his junior year, unless he stayed in school, which would extend the clock another year.

Veilleux - Drafted at age 18, matriculated one year later. His clock would expire at the end of his junior year unless he stays in school.

Fisher - Drafted at age 18, matriculated two years later (Technically just one but he played two years of junior post draft). His clock would expire at the end of his sophomore season unless he stays in school.


Now in all practicality this changes very little for us as fans and for Cornell as a program. This mostly about giving the players more options. If Puglisi gets drafted and goes and plays junior, he can still stay at Cornell for 4 years, he just has the option to become a free agent after his junior year if he thinks he's ready and the team who drafted him doesn't want him or he wants to sign somewhere else.

Edit to say: All of our current drafted players fall under the old CBA rules which are practically the same except for the leaving early piece and signing deadline. Plus this change doesn't go into effect until the 2027 draft.

I know this rule was discussed, and perhaps even enacted, as part of the recent CBA, but I was told that it does not apply to kids in college. Which is to say, for kids in college, the drafting team's signing rights still don't expire until 30 days after their senior year, regardless of their age when drafted.

That's the part I'm trying to confirm - does the new CBA rule actually apply to college kids, or or college kids treated the same as they were under the old CBA?

Pretty sure BL is right here.

From my understanding, they changed the CBA rule to apply retroactively. Hence why a guy like Wiebe, if he doesn't sign with CGY after 30 days from NoDak hopefully losing in the Frozen Four, would be a UFA, as he completed his degree in three years and thus "expedited" that process. (You can declare being done with school early, at which point your 30-day clock starts.)

So Casty, Stanley, etc - their teams would still hold their rights after their senior year for those 30 days. It's supposed to incentivize (especially fringe) players to complete their degrees (to help them start their post-hockey careers) and teams to let them do so. Same idea for Walsh and Fegaras.

Fisher is a weird case, because he did play a full season at Northeastern, then dropped back down to the BCHL the next season. I don't know if the clock starts at NEU (and thus San Jose would lose his rights after his junior year) or if it gets "reset" for the BCHL stint and SJ keeps him until after his senior year here.

right but is it going to still work this way going forward? i know castagna and others who were drafted under the prior CBA are grandfathered into the old rules. but going forward, is a different rule now in place? or is it still "nhl team holds draft rights for 30 days past graduation"?

Based on what I've read, the language in the new CBA reads as  "If the player is a bona fide college student, the exclusive rights extend until 30 days after the player notifies the NHL they're leaving college hockey". I'm sure there's more than one way to "leave college hockey"

All this changes is that the rights of the players drafted out of the CHL are held longer, and drafted players who don't enter college at 18 have more options if they want to leave early.

Quote from: chimpfood on April 08, 2026, 09:26:01 AMIm so lost... tried looking this up a little while ago and couldn't find anything I could understand. So it's 4 years starting when you enter college? Then why would Castagna/Hoyts rights expire if they didn't leave this year?

They wouldn't. They would expire at the end of next season.

If a player is drafted at age 18 their rights are held for 4 years. If they're 19 or 20 it's 3 years. That clock starts the moment they're drafted. The clock get's extended if they stay in school.


Here are 4 examples from this year's team (Though given how recent the CBA changes were none of them fall under this criteria, but if they did here's how it works.)

Castagna - Drafted at age 18, matriculated the same year. His clock would expire at the end of his senior year.

Walsh - Drafted at age 19, matriculated the same year. His clock would expire at the end of his junior year, unless he stayed in school, which would extend the clock another year.

Veilleux - Drafted at age 18, matriculated one year later. His clock would expire at the end of his junior year unless he stays in school.

Fisher - Drafted at age 18, matriculated two years later (Technically just one but he played two years of junior post draft). His clock would expire at the end of his sophomore season unless he stays in school.


Now in all practicality this changes very little for us as fans and for Cornell as a program. This mostly about giving the players more options. If Puglisi gets drafted and goes and plays junior, he can still stay at Cornell for 4 years, he just has the option to become a free agent after his junior year if he thinks he's ready and the team who drafted him doesn't want him or he wants to sign somewhere else.

Edit to say: All of our current drafted players fall under the old CBA rules which are practically the same except for the leaving early piece and signing deadline. Plus this change doesn't go into effect until the 2027 draft.

Natyshak - O'Brien
MacFarlane - Castagna
Gage - Stanley
Shippel - Kraft
Schafer - Walsh
Oates - Syer
Dadswell - Veilleux
Nieuwendyk - Castagna

I think Foley and Cleaves are both gone.

Foley doesn't really have much to prove at the college level. He helped turn Dartmouth around, he put up big numbers, and he came back and got his championship. He's also 22 which is the last age folks can still talk themselves into bigger upside.

Cleaves is a 22 year old sophomore who is one of the top guys in a pretty weak college free agent group. He's a big center who's a decent skater and has some offense, and he can use that to get to the ideal situation. Maybe not a guarantee like Graf got last year but a better shot than someone like Bancroft got.

Sullivan Mack got his first pro goal yesterday.

Hopefully he can gain some momentum and have a good season for Bloomington. Pretty unlikely he gets called up to Hartford unless there's a trade with the amount of NHL contracts in front of him.

Quote from: BearLoverI suggest everyone check out the highlights of the Colgate games from this weekend, available on YouTube. Colgate goalie gave up a goal from the red line in BOTH games. I can't recall ever seeing a (non-EN) goal scored from the red line. Two in consecutive games???

Colgate's goalies are both bad so they've been splitting most weekends so it wasn't the same kid who gave up both. Still crazy.

Quote from: SwampyIzzy Daniel is taken at #18, in the 3rd round, by Toronto in the 2024 PWHL draft.

The link seems to be a list of only college players who were drafted. So, for example, only 3 names are listed for Round 2. But the Pick column consists of consecutive numbers. So, take Izzy's ranking with a grain of salt until someone can clarify things.

The ECACHL did pretty well. tOSU had 8 picks, followed by Toothpaste with 6 and Clarkson with 4. Princeton's Sarah Fillier was the #1 pick.

18th Overall is Correct. Toronto had the last pick of each round as the team with the best regular season record.

Was it a slash? 100% even though from my angle at the opposite end of the rink I couldn't really tell but I'll go with those who had a better angle.

Should it have been called? No shot. There were ample opportunities for these refs to do their jobs and actually enforce the rules all game and they didn't.

A penalty is a penalty and should be called no matter what in my opinion but I'd rather there be consistency within the game rather than a random application of the rules.

Quote from: BearLoverNotably, Gio is our only recruit who was listed in the Central Scouting Midterm Rankings, and I believe that a team must sign a drafted player within four years of the draft or that player becomes a free agent. Which means, if Gio is drafted and he plays a year of junior hockey, and the team that drafts him wants to sign him, there will be tremendous pressure on Gio to sign before his senior year even starts, and we'd potentially lose a year of his services. Someone more knowledgeable about this should let me know if I'm wrong—but if I have this right, then we really should be bringing in drafted players ASAP.

The rule is 2 years or they're eligible to be drafted. For college the rule changes and the team retains a players rights until they've exhausted their eligibility. We've had a few of guys that it's happened to, though most of them haven't signed with their original team. My best example is Steven Fogarty who played a year in the BCHL post draft then spent 4 years at Notre Dame before signing with the Rangers who drafted him and held his rights.

Quote from: Give My RegardsI'd sure like to know where ESPN+ got the idea that Cornell was 11-4 in the ECAC.  The women are 12-5, maybe that sort of explains it.

Every broadcast is school-produced. I won't get into the minutiae but they forgot to change them from last Saturday's women's game.