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RPI got a commitment from Leo Serlin of the Guelph Storm (OHL). This happened so fast that the 'Tute must have known for a while that Evaschesen wasn't coming.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcecRWcKeX-/

Free Neutral Zone post including short evaluations of the Collins twins.

https://neutralzone.com/2026/08/24/ncaa-commitments-august-17-august-23/

Quote from: stereax on August 22, 2026, 02:17:42 AM

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Quote from: BearLover on August 20, 2026, 04:52:36 PMRPI student season tickets cost $50, or $3.30 per game. How many more students would attend Cornell hockey games if they were that cheap?

RPI, famously a really good team right now,

As far as I know, student tickets have never been expensive at RPI.
I don't know if you are being sarcastic, but losing Shane Smith and Josh Evaschesen really hurts RPI. RPI still will be better than last year, but I now think that the 'Tute will be lucky to get a home game in the playoffs. A bye looks unlikely.

Mildly so - RPI hasn't had a ton of success lately. As such, the tickets are probably not going to be super expensive. Sorry for pouring salt in the wound, Ursus 😅

Quote from: ursusminor on August 14, 2026, 04:49:26 PMCornell has two first team and one second team College Puck NXT Preseason ECAC Rookie Team selections.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcB18GAEUDN/?img_index=1

For what it is worth (very little I think), RPI's Grayson Burzynski made that US ECAC team as well as well as their Canada ECAC team https://www.instagram.com/p/DcTlPEAETjL/?img_index=2 . It pays to be dual citizen.

Quote from: stereax on August 20, 2026, 11:46:13 PM

Quote from: BearLover on August 20, 2026, 04:52:36 PMRPI student season tickets cost $50, or $3.30 per game. How many more students would attend Cornell hockey games if they were that cheap?

RPI, famously a really good team right now,

I don't know if you are being sarcastic, but losing Shane Smith and Josh Evaschesen really hurts RPI. RPI still will be better than last year, but I now think that the 'Tute will be lucky to get a home game in the playoffs. A bye looks unlikely.

Quote from: chimpfood on August 20, 2026, 02:00:41 PMAt least we know we have first dibs on recruits from Tennessee

RPI had 2 on last year's roster, Trevor Russell and Carson Dorfman.

RPI has lost incoming forward Josh Evaschesen who decided to stay in the WHL for his overage season after he was traded to his hometown team Medicine Hat. https://cfjctoday.com/2026/08/19/blazers-trade-departing-forward-evaschesen-to-hometown-tigers-for-trio-of-draft-picks/ 

https://x.com/JonKeenNLSports/status/2090141068427952362?s=20
Spoke to Josh Evaschesen this AM... he was set to jump on a flight to RPI today before the trade.
"It's been a pretty stressful 24 hours here but ultimately I felt I couldn't pass up the opportunity to play in my hometown for my last year of junior."

There are two more posts from the same source below it and several official posts.

Quote from: marty on August 13, 2026, 05:41:25 PMToday 8/13/2026 at Houston Field House



Please excuse the portrait view - this is through a door on the east side of Houston - area of the old stage.  I will try to get closer next time.

Part 3 from RPI Men's Hockey Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DcJwo2qPfX1/

Quote from: BearLover on August 14, 2026, 04:58:54 PM

Quote from: ursusminor on August 14, 2026, 04:49:26 PMCornell has two first team and one second team College Puck NXT Preseason ECAC Rookie Team selections.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcB18GAEUDN/?img_index=1

Among US players. No idea why they break it down this way, other than tho get more content out of it. Also, anybody know why College Hockey NXT should be regarded as a reputable source?

I missed that since RPI's player, Grayson Burzynski, is from Winnipeg. However, he is a dual citizen, born in Iowa.

Cornell has two first team and one second team College Puck NXT Preseason ECAC Rookie Team selections.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcB18GAEUDN/?img_index=1

Quote from: marty on August 12, 2026, 02:14:46 PM

Quote from: ursusminor on August 12, 2026, 01:02:16 PM

Quote from: marty on August 12, 2026, 07:51:12 AM

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

Quote from: marty on August 12, 2026, 03:51:05 AMI'm very confused.  How many coaches,  assistant coaches, associate coaches and ersatz coaches are there on Cornell's staff? Are any of the current staff unpaid?

There are no unpaid positions in D1 hockey, the volunteer coach was eliminated, I believe in 2024.

The NCAA allows four countable coaches:  a head coach (Casey Jones) and three (3) assistant coaches for D1 schools. 

Cornell has three assistant coaches:
Associate Head Coach Sean Flanagan (11th year) -- leads in face offs
Assistant Coach Chris Brown (2nd year) -- leads defense and penalty kill
Assistant Coach Cam Clarke (2nd year) -- leads power play

In addition there is a Director of Hockey Operations, as discussed above.  Lately this role has been goalie coach and is responsible for video including video replay decisions and editing.  I also assume this person is responsible general administrative paper work.

Cornell 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.

In addition to a head coach who had played goalie (Seth Brylcreem Appert Coaching RPI - 2006-2017, Ferris State 1992-1996), RPI had at least one former Engineer goalie fill the roll of goalie coach - Ursus Minor may be able to fill us in on the assistant coach alums who held the position. The goalie coach at the "Tute" was unpaid IIRC.  This strategy helped Seth advance to get booted from RPI into his current gig with the Sabres by way of the Rochester Americans.

My daughter's 3 year old son's paternal grandfather is an RPI/Albany Med grad and thus when my wife and I passed through RPI on our morning babysitting pickup run she often pointed out "Grampy's college".  After a few weeks of this I started to correct her with "INSTITUTE!!".  This went on for a few weeks until my grandson and I began a now cemented routine of yelling "COLLEGE" "INSTITUTE" back and forth each time we pass through the campus.

I am only mentioning this aside intentionally drifting this thread because......August!

Current AC Mathias Lange was a goalie at RPI.

I remember a prior goalie coach but I guess I could say I almost remember. At the time I was a bit worried that RPI had an ace unpaid goalie coach but that's all I can pull up.

Error due to floppy disk failure or mushy disk.  Haven't had a chance to check under the dome.

There probably have been others, but I don't remember.

Former RPI 2006 recruit Shane Smith has decided to go to the AHL.

https://www.hendersonsilverknights.com/silver-knights-sign-forward-shane-smith/

This and other changes drop RPI from #10 to #18 on Neutral Zone's list of incoming classes. Still #1 in the ECAC, but barely over Clarkson.

Quote from: marty on August 12, 2026, 07:51:12 AM

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

Quote from: marty on August 12, 2026, 03:51:05 AMI'm very confused.  How many coaches,  assistant coaches, associate coaches and ersatz coaches are there on Cornell's staff? Are any of the current staff unpaid?

There are no unpaid positions in D1 hockey, the volunteer coach was eliminated, I believe in 2024.

The NCAA allows four countable coaches:  a head coach (Casey Jones) and three (3) assistant coaches for D1 schools. 

Cornell has three assistant coaches:
Associate Head Coach Sean Flanagan (11th year) -- leads in face offs
Assistant Coach Chris Brown (2nd year) -- leads defense and penalty kill
Assistant Coach Cam Clarke (2nd year) -- leads power play

In addition there is a Director of Hockey Operations, as discussed above.  Lately this role has been goalie coach and is responsible for video including video replay decisions and editing.  I also assume this person is responsible general administrative paper work.

Cornell 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.

In addition to a head coach who had played goalie (Seth Brylcreem Appert Coaching RPI - 2006-2017, Ferris State 1992-1996), RPI had at least one former Engineer goalie fill the roll of goalie coach - Ursus Minor may be able to fill us in on the assistant coach alums who held the position. The goalie coach at the "Tute" was unpaid IIRC.  This strategy helped Seth advance to get booted from RPI into his current gig with the Sabres by way of the Rochester Americans.

My daughter's 3 year old son's paternal grandfather is an RPI/Albany Med grad and thus when my wife and I passed through RPI on our morning babysitting pickup run she often pointed out "Grampy's college".  After a few weeks of this I started to correct her with "INSTITUTE!!".  This went on for a few weeks until my grandson and I began a now cemented routine of yelling "COLLEGE" "INSTITUTE" back and forth each time we pass through the campus.

I am only mentioning this aside intentionally drifting this thread because......August!

Current AC Mathias Lange was a goalie at RPI.

Women's recruit for 2028 Sydney Boss Krohn

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbWMCz6Ri05/

I assume that AI information is putting her in a Cornell uniform.

Quote from: stereax on August 01, 2026, 08:20:54 PMCornell picks up a goalie recruit - Hagan Bach, G.

FWIW, the wife of one of my great-granduncles was born in 1865 in Hagenbach in the present-day Landkreis Forchheim (Forchheim county) in Bavaria. She perished in 1943 in Theresienstadt.