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Quote from: stereax on August 21, 2026, 01:58:16 AMThis is GREAT news ngl and I'm now strongly considering skipping Frozen Apple entirely - Maine is a fun team but not a team that I'd be willing to brave Penn Station at 3 AM for... Plus, not only does noon puck drop really suck to get to and back from, there's effectively no ability to hang out pregame. And after it, well, if we get our asses kicked nobody's going to want to do anything. And after 3-4 PM on a Saturday the museums and shit will be closed (yes I am secretly Dougie Hamilton) so the only stuff left is clubbing (no) or tourist traps like Times Square (also no).

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is famously open late Saturday nights. But I don't think that was actually your main point. 

Quote from: upprdeck on August 17, 2026, 10:52:55 AMThe Big Apple game not being in primetime kinda sucks after selling so many tickets promoting it as such.

Pretty sure that the game time was announced before any tickets were sold, but willing to be shown I'm wrong.

Quote from: BearLover on August 12, 2026, 04:26:06 PM

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Quote from: BearLover on August 12, 2026, 12:07:34 PMThere are a couple of months before the hockey year begins. Here is what I'd like to see on this forum before the start of the season. I believe these are reasonable asks.

1. Sign-ups open and operational. A forum needs new members to survive, and it's important to grow the community.
2. A way to weed out spammers. Two options: (i) a multi-step verification signup process; or (2) the ability for mods to ban spammers.
3. Periodic updates from the site owner and/or mods as to progress on the above.

Thank you in advance to Age and the mods for your consideration.

#1 and #2, and therefore functionally #3, are currently only within the admin's purview. I assume you've said this to him as well as posting it.

I haven't, since I assume he doesn't check this forum, so I was hoping someone with a line of contact would communicate it to him. But I'm happy to try DMing him.

DMing him is what I meant.

Quote from: BearLover on August 12, 2026, 12:07:34 PMThere are a couple of months before the hockey year begins. Here is what I'd like to see on this forum before the start of the season. I believe these are reasonable asks.

1. Sign-ups open and operational. A forum needs new members to survive, and it's important to grow the community.
2. A way to weed out spammers. Two options: (i) a multi-step verification signup process; or (2) the ability for mods to ban spammers.
3. Periodic updates from the site owner and/or mods as to progress on the above.

Thank you in advance to Age and the mods for your consideration.

#1 and #2, and therefore functionally #3, are currently only within the admin's purview. I assume you've said this to him as well as posting it.

Quote from: Old Red on August 12, 2026, 05:58:24 AMCornell 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.

When did Ed Kelly (who's now in something like his 30th year with Cornell Athletics) switch away from men's hockey as its primary athletic trainer? That's honestly news to me.

Quote from: Trotsky on August 05, 2026, 07:42:27 AM

Quote from: stereax on August 04, 2026, 08:34:10 PMMark Divver:

Providence College freshman goalie Ben Hrebik, who played for OHL Barrie the last two years, recently became academically ineligible because he failed a class

Friars looking to add a goalie before start of season and already have a few targets

Hrebik had been on campus at PC for month of July going to summer school

My wife was going to fail Joey Harrington when he was taking her class at UOregon.  That's when she got a visit.  Her doctoral candidacy was mentioned.

He got a D.

Kudos to PC.  There may not be another school in all D-1 that would do that.

The question for me is whether PC would've done the same thing prior to the existence of the transfer portal.

I have no philosophical objection to a student-athlete getting a disproportionate amount of tutoring or other help in order to be able to pass a class they otherwise might not, and I think that's where Cornell's stance lies as well, but it sure does help that they try not to admit kids who aren't capable of the work in the first place.

Quote from: David HardingPassenger train service ended in 1959.  It was a big deal in its day. 

Not quite. The "Black Diamond" route and all other Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western routes that had served Ithaca off and on ended in May, 1959. Two weeks after the last Black Diamond, the "Maple Leaf," a nighttime Toronto-NYC route that was a Lehigh Valley Railroad / Canadian National Railway joint venture, added Ithaca as a stop to absorb the demand. The Maple Leaf discontinued in February, 1961, finally ending passenger train service in Ithaca.

(ETA: I only knew the basics of the above because my Mom & Dad, Helen '62 and Paul '60 - Brooklynites both - each traveled to Cornell and back by train on a regular basis for most of their time as undergrads.)

Quote from: stereax on July 01, 2026, 03:48:00 PM

Quote from: stereax on July 01, 2026, 03:28:42 PMJeff Malott is going to the Ducks.

3 years, 1.85M AAV, apparently.

Not bad for a journey of less than thirty miles.

Quote from: sah67 on June 29, 2026, 09:26:09 AMPenn State commit, Alexander Karmanov, who is currently listed at 7'1" tall and 280 lbs. was taken in the 6th round by San Jose. According to this profile from the NYT, his custom stick is 2 inches taller than Jake Kraft:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6560201/2025/08/21/biggest-tallest-hockey-player-zdeno-chara-alexander-karmanov/?unlocked_article_code=1.t1A.uulO.ynSq7v1vZ3Cq&source=athletic_user_shared_gift_article_copylink&smid=url-share-ta

Can't wait to hear how he's "still growing into his frame."

And now, Jonah
Didn't fool with no itty-bitty fish
He picked him out a whale
And Daniel
Bless his heart, he chose the den
'Stead of the cozy jail
Don't ever conclude you're whipped for sure
Try some more
Tie the score
So what if the odds are lookin' long?
The fight is yours if you sing this song
The bigger they are (the bigger)
The harder they fall (harder)
The tougher they talk (tougher)
The quicker they crawl

Quote from: BearLover on June 27, 2026, 05:02:11 PMHarvard 2

Oh no! However will we know how deeply below potential they're performing??

Quote from: ugarte on June 26, 2026, 05:29:11 PM

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Quote from: ugarte on June 26, 2026, 01:17:02 PMI can't believe I didn't know that Ryan Hughes' son was on the incoming roster. I saw Ryan score four goals in a 5-4 loss to BC at Lynah.

"Hughes your Daddy!" clap-clap-clap-clap-clap

As a freshman in 1992, the first semester after he left, several Lynah vets told me how much they missed screaming "HUUUUUUUUUUUUGHES" when he got the puck at key moments.

Similarly, if you want your athletic kids to be popular with fans, name them something with an "oooo" sound: Lou, Mookie, Raoul, Boo-urns, etc

Pretty sure that Hughes played his senior year ('92-93), though he may have wished he hadn't. That was a rough time to be a fan and it can't have been easy to be on the ice, either.

what a sophomore year and then never quite had the same touch. got a cup of coffee in boston but then washed out (or bailed) fairly quickly. +/- not great in the IHL and i wonder if he wasn't enough help on defense to be worth the almost a point a game you got from him.

Watching the "HAD" line skate and score - Hughes, Andison, Derraugh - was among the few truly sublime experiences available to us during the stretch between ECAC titles prior to Schafer's return. But hey, Hughes's son is on the way, current women's coach Derraugh has three kids of his own; anybody want to try to get ahold of Trent Andison up in Ontario to ask what he can contribute? (Trent, btw, spent all of a single season playing after Cornell, in the now-kaput English League, while Doug had a really solid European career almost right up until arriving in his current job in 2005.)

Quote from: RichH on June 26, 2026, 02:58:41 PM

Quote from: Beeeej on June 26, 2026, 02:37:08 PM

Quote from: ugarte on June 26, 2026, 01:17:02 PMI can't believe I didn't know that Ryan Hughes' son was on the incoming roster. I saw Ryan score four goals in a 5-4 loss to BC at Lynah.

"Hughes your Daddy!" clap-clap-clap-clap-clap

As a freshman in 1992, the first semester after he left, several Lynah vets told me how much they missed screaming "HUUUUUUUUUUUUGHES" when he got the puck at key moments.

Similarly, if you want your athletic kids to be popular with fans, name them something with an "oooo" sound: Lou, Mookie, Raoul, Boo-urns, etc

Pretty sure that Hughes played his senior year ('92-93), though he may have wished he hadn't. That was a rough time to be a fan and it can't have been easy to be on the ice, either.

Quote from: ugarte on June 26, 2026, 01:17:02 PMI can't believe I didn't know that Ryan Hughes' son was on the incoming roster. I saw Ryan score four goals in a 5-4 loss to BC at Lynah.

"Hughes your Daddy!" clap-clap-clap-clap-clap

Quote from: jtwcornell91 on June 19, 2026, 09:53:16 PM

Quote from: Weder on June 18, 2026, 03:11:45 PM

Quote from: stereax on June 18, 2026, 02:33:47 PMBU at Lynah Dec 4 confirmed.

Wrong link  Did you mean this one?

Cool.  Maybe I'll try to drag the fam down for that one, since Union for senior night doesn't sound that exciting.

Keep us posted; dss28 and I renewed and that's high on my list as well.

Quote from: Weder on June 19, 2026, 09:33:41 PM

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Quote from: Trotsky on June 19, 2026, 03:26:26 PMGoalie for the USMNT at the World Cup is a Harvard alumnus.

Go USA but, as you know, Harvard sucks.

spent 1 year there, don't know about alumnus. But pretty cool to say we got to see him playing in Ithaca

He got his degree.

Even so, alumnus merely means former student; without the degree, "graduate" would've been improper, but not alumnus. Hahvahd in particular may not love people without degrees holding themselves out as Hahvahd alumni, but they certainly don't mind Bill Gates's and Mark Zuckerberg's donated millions.