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Somehow "we lost to the champ" is less consoling when it was a 5-0 woodshedding.....

Is double-bagel for a quarter as unusual as I'm thinking it is?

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Quote from: fastforward on March 16, 2026, 08:45:43 AMMaybe he really has taken over for O'Leary in the FF department!

unfortunately I think there's someone else who the Faithful have appointed as their new Fan Favorite...

The Faithful or Stereax?? 😆😆

The Faithful.

As evidenced by their many, many chants about Hiscock.

(Who, for the record, is also one of my favorite guys of the class, but not because of the last name.)

My favorite happened in game 2, I'm pretty sure.  Forgot who the other player was, but Jason essentially said, "Pirtle brings it across the line, looks for the pass, but can't find Hiscock..."

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Quote from: BearLover on March 16, 2026, 08:39:19 AMI believe Castagna has 4 ENG this season. Is that the Cornell record for most ENG in a season?

Veilleux has 6 goals and 26 points so far. How does that stack up historically among Cornell freshmen defensemen?

Ryan has 11 goals and 30 points so far. Where does he rank historically among freshmen?

Lastly, CHN's FO% leaders page doesn't work (it lists all the people at 100% who have taken like one single faceoff all year). The NCAA page also doesn't work (it randomly lists absolute numbers for FOs won/lost but not FO percentage). Thus I presume Castagna has the best FOW% in the country, but can't confirm this. My question is whether his percentage this season also ranks #1 in Cornell history (among players with a minimum number of attempts).

Just for you - because you are my buddy, of course - the site now weeds out the 100%'ers - and this link will also load sorted by FO% right off the bat ...

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/stats/overall.php#FOPCT

Thanks. Incredible, Castagna at 65.5% and second place at 61.1%.

Holy shit that's crazy.

Without doing the math, it looks like he is also head and shoulders above the rest of the faceoff leaders in points per game - not just a "FOGO."

Quote from: andyw2100 on March 15, 2026, 06:49:56 PMAny word yet on which section(s) will be the Cornell sections and when the sale that uses that code will start tomorrow?

Princeton? Dartmouth?

Sit where you want.

Piling on....

Q went 0 for 12, -2 on the powerplay vs Clarkson.

When they finally play an NCAA game on March 26 or 27, it will have been almost exactly 4 weeks since they won a hockey game (Feb 28 at Harvard).  In the 6 weeks leading up to that NCAA game, they finished 2-4, with a -6 goal differential,

Quote from: Trotsky on March 14, 2026, 10:15:07 PMAdded the round in which the Pecknold Cup was awarded.

Clarkson holds the ignominious honor of being the sole #1 to lose the First Round, when there were 5 games among the top 10, prior to byes.

4* of Rand's 9 Cups are from the QF on home ice.  No other coach has more than one.  The man is a living legend.

*However, in 2021 the ECAC Tournament was played in Hamden.  As only 3 teams made the COVID tournament, Rand lost the first game his team competed in (the final) so he has lost on home ice 5 times. 

Also notable that Q has awarded the cup to 6 different teams in their 9 occasions, with only Cornell, Harvard, and, improbably, Brown claiming 2 each. Gotta spread the love.

Quote from: imafrshmn on March 14, 2026, 06:40:35 PMThe 2026 Pecknold Cup has been claimed! Congratulations to the Clarkson Golden Knights!

There should be a double-cup awarded when the loss is in the *quarterfinals*.

Quote from: stereax on February 20, 2026, 08:11:10 PM"Hiscock hammering Gilson"...

We have three more years of this 😂

Q announcer came so, so close, but went for the poetic inversion:

"In deep is Hiscock...."

It's a game of inches.

Quote from: Trotsky on February 08, 2026, 11:32:52 AMTo all you bettors, there is no surer thing than Harvard in a consolation game.

??  They've actually done okay in consolation games: 20-25, by my tally.  It's the fact that they've *played* in 45 consolation games that is eye-catching: 27-45 in the first round, with a significant amount of their success was stacked in the early years.

They are 3-17 in the first round over the last 20 years.

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Quote from: Trotsky on February 08, 2026, 12:02:30 PMThat's nice.  TBF the way he played last night, well, he was a strong Dyck.  Dyck really stood up.  Dyck pounded us.  Dyck showed us who our daddy was.  & etc.

If they missed the opportunity to do "Dyck! Hiscock!" to goalie-drive, then Lynah is slipping.

My favorite rendition was (Ryan) Smart-(Alex) Dumas, a Dartmouth sieve, circa 1997.

They missed it. We did get one or two Hiscock chants going, but nobody connected those two dots together.

Well, maybe we'll see them again in the playoffs.....but god I hope not!

Quote from: Trotsky on February 08, 2026, 12:02:30 PMThat's nice.  TBF the way he played last night, well, he was a strong Dyck.  Dyck really stood up.  Dyck pounded us.  Dyck showed us who our daddy was.  & etc.

If they missed the opportunity to do "Dyck! Hiscock!" to goalie-drive, then Lynah is slipping.

My favorite rendition was (Ryan) Smart-(Alex) Dumas, a Dartmouth sieve, circa 1997.

As big of a travesty as the name of the award is, it's worse that Galajda (1.56, .931, 23-2-4) lost out in 2019-2020 in favor of Jeremy Swayman of Maine (2.07, .939, 18-11-5).

C'mon, man.

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Quote from: Trotsky on February 03, 2026, 05:18:39 PMEthan Wyttenbach of Q is 15-26-41. He leads the conference among all skaters in Pts/GP.  He's going to be the FOTY and will make the All Conference team outright.  Freshmen Antonin Verreault and Markus Vidicek of Q also have eye-popping numbers.

After that come Ryan and XV.  Owen Van Steensel of Clarkson, who sounds like a Venture Brothers henchman, is not far behind.

We could get 3 freshmen: Ryan, XV, Alexi.  That would be terrific.

I think we have a run at 3 for all-ECAC: Walshy, Casty, and Alexi.

We should dominate the Ivy All Freshman team.  That's where we could see 4 or more.  And I think we get at least 3 on the All Ivy team outright, though sometimes things are weird because they only count the play within conference and guys have explosive games.

Fun fact: in 1968 we had 4 of the 6 members of the All-American team!  http://www.tbrw.info/?/ncaa_History/all_Americans_Teams.htm

Liked for the Venture Bros reference.

Dryden is one of two goalies to earn 1st Team AA three times (Tony Esposito at MTU the other). And Dryden McKay (2x) was named after Ken, so that's 5x. So why is the top goaltender award named after zero-time AA Mike Richter??

It's always going to burn me.

Well, you see, Richter went on to have an amazing NHL career (did you know he won a Stanley Cup one time?) while Dryen just focused on being a lawyer, author, and politician...

 

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Quote from: Iceberg on February 03, 2026, 11:15:04 PMI find it hard to believe that Donato is one of the longer tenured coaches in the league and has even more wins than Cleary now. Aside from the FF year when they had one of the best defensemen the league has ever seen in the past 25 years, it's been mostly a record of impressive underachievement

As long as Bill Cleary walks this earth Teddy is safe.

Iceman to Donato's Maverick?