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Chris Abbott's name is now on the Stanley Cup, along with owner Tom Dundon's 7 kids.  Chris is the Hurricanes' VP- Pro Player Personnel.   Braden Birch, who was the Panthers' Director of Hockey Operations and Salary Cap Management, also has his name on the Cup from 2024.  He was with the Panthers in 2025, but the Panthers decided to share the cup naming privilege that year with additional front office personnel who didn't make it onto the cup in '24.  Salary cap management was a key to the Panthers cup victories, so much so that they've changed the rules.  Braden has moved on this post-season to became Asst. GM of the Devils.

Here's a video with a lot more of the 1970 NCAA final:
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPYSrAqyRbvWtf7qpbDk_6waPJ4nNiFXK7FnOE0IoQ9WlNd5dx4KcDnykCNAf6CUA/photo/AF1QipNjk-PpPdDLVsAnjYsJ9OH27ThRj-Aune5Bv5le?key=VXFROEh5Q1dZZ3poUjd3c3dCTkVOaU9rVWh6Tlhn
I still have vivid memories of Cornell goals 4 and 5.  I was sitting on the red line on the opposite side from the camera in the linked video  Goal 4: on the PP, Lodboa, without the puck, starts charging in from the left point. McCutcheon in the opposite corner hits Boa with a perfect pass and Boa slams it home.  Goal 5:  Garth Ryan, the lone forward as we are down 2 men, poke checks the puck loose.  Lodboa seems to be shot out of a cannon, somehow comes from D, picks up the puck and scores on a breakaway.

Caton Ryan is attending Buffalo's development camp.
https://www.nhl.com/sabres/news/buffalo-sabres-2026-development-camp-roster-prospects

Making the NCAA's may now come down to either 1) beat Harvard tomorrow or if not 2) Michigan beating Ohio State or Dartmouth winning the ECAC's. 

Need Ohio State losing to put us in a comfortable NCAA position.  Autobids that could bring teams currently below us in the tournament are definite for the AHA and CCHHA, very likely for Hockey East (could be definite as Providence is losing in the 3rd), very possible in the ECAC and possible with Ohio State in the Big Ten.  OSU and MSU tied 2-2 in the 3rd period.

UMass beats BC 2-1.  BC's NPI goes from 54.29 to 53.99. BC goes from #13 to #15.
Wisconsin beats Penn St. 7-3.  Wisconsin's NPI goes from 54.53 to 55.03.

Quote from: TrotskySo if Sam retired in 1971 we have between then and 89 when Grady started unaccounted for.  I know Arthur was color for a while, but IINM not PBP.

Aha, quoting Arthur fronm 2006:

QuoteIn the thread announcing Tom Joseph's passing, Bill Howard suggested:
[q]Some time it would be fun (well, a little) to recall all the Cornell sports announcers and where they've gone on to. It would be boring as hell for eLynah denizens who thank Adam Wodon is an old-timer.[/q]

Here's what I remember ...

I arrived at Cornell as a freshman in the fall of 1967. Sam Woodside announced Cornell hockey (and most other Cornell sports) on WHCU. Sam was occasionally assisted by his son Jim Woodside, but for the most part he did the broadcasts by himself.

Sam retired in the early 1970's, and was succeeded by Jay Levine, who broadcast games for a year, or two at the most. After Jay came Roy Ives, with Tom Joseph as his sidekick.

After the 1980 ECAC championship / NCAA "frozen four" season, Roy left briefly to broadcast minor league hockey, but that didn't work out, and he returned to Ithaca. WHCU hired Chris Moore, a recent Ithaca College graduate, to handle Cornell hockey in Ives' absence. Moore worked first with someone from WVBR (Pat somebody, whose name escapes me now ... sorry, it's been a long time), and when that didn't work out, with the sports columnist from the Ithaca Times, Arthur somebody ... the name's right on the tip of my tongue). More than a thousand people petitioned WHCU to restore Roy Ives to the broadcasts. Playoff games weren't beholden to WHCU's in-season contracts, and the 1981 playoffs featured competing broadcasts between Moore's WHCU team and Ives on WTKO.

Moore continued to broadcast on WHCU through 1984, with first Howie Borkan and then Kurt Smutko as color commentators. Moore left after the 1984 season for Wisconsin, and eventually the Florida Panthers of the NHL and WFAN in New York). Jim Lester succeeded him, with John Heron and Jim Connors (not the tennis legend) as color men. Ives came back for several years, with Pete Tufford at his side. Grady Whittenburg succeeded Roy, initially with Pete on color, but it was during Grady's tenure that WHCU (which had been taken over by Eagle Broadcasting, along with WTKO) started moving toward a single broadcaster, especially for games outside of Lynah Rink. Grady left for the Binghamton Senators in 2002. Adam Wodon broadcast for two seasons through 2004, and Jason Weinstein succeded him.

[Disclaimer: These are my best recollections as to what happened. I may be off by a year or so about when transitions happened, but I believe that the names, the roles, and the stations are substantially accurate. I welcome corrections to the details. And, obviously, I'm the "Arthur" who worked with Chris Moore, and I also did several games with Grady over the years; you can decide how good a job I did.]

Hockey PBP:Woodside's last hockey season was '68-69, though I think he did football longer. Jay Levine's only season was the glorious '69-'70 year. I can still hear him in my mind saying "Lodboa shoots, he scores." Jay was pretty good, although I didn't hear him often as I think I was at 22 or 23 of the 29 games.
I recall an Andy Andrews doing games in '70-'71 and maybe '71-72, perhaps with Roy Ives.
Woodside was way past his prime when Arthur and I attended school. The call I remember most was the '69 NCAA semi-final where Sam said (perhaps not exactly but pretty close) "Gordie Lowe in the Cornell end, and a goal" and we all turned to each other with a "who scored" question and about 10-15 seconds later Sam explained that Lowe scored and Cornell had won.
Jay Levine and his wife Mary Ann Childers have been TV news anchors and reporters in Chicago for the past 25 years or so.

58-71 Sam Woodside
71-72 Jay Levine
72-80 Roy Ives
80-84 Chris Moore
84-85 Jim Lester
85-89 Roy Ives
89-02 Grady Whittenburg
02-04 Adam Wodon
04-25 Jason Weinstein

Arthur did a great job in the games I heard him do.  He projected slightly less irascibility than what we know and love him for.

Jay Levine's only year was the '69-'70 championship season.  The following is from a post I made in 2006 on this subject:

Quote from: jkahnWoodside's last hockey season was '68-69, though I think he did football longer. Jay Levine's only season was the glorious '69-'70 year. I can still hear him in my mind saying "Lodboa shoots, he scores." Jay was pretty good, although I didn't hear him often as I think I was at 22 or 23 of the 29 games.
I recall an Andy Andrews doing games in '70-'71 and maybe '71-72, perhaps with Roy Ives.
Woodside was way past his prime when Arthur and I attended school. The call I remember most was the '69 NCAA semi-final where Sam said (perhaps not exactly but pretty close) "Gordie Lowe in the Cornell end, and a goal" and we all turned to each other with a "who scored" question and about 10-15 seconds later Sam explained that Lowe scored and Cornell had won.
Jay Levine and his wife Mary Ann Childers have been TV news anchors and reporters in Chicago for the past 25 years or so.

Interesting tribute to Ken Dryden from a Penn State perspective:

statecollege.com/articles/columns/rip-ken-dryden-penn-state-hockey-thanks-you/

Chris Abbott '06 was hired at the beginning of this season by the Carolina Hurricanes as their VP-Pro Player Development.  Twin brother Cam was also hired to coach Carolina's AHL affiliate, the Chicago Wolves.  Also, in June of last year, the Hurricanes promoted Eric Tulsky, a Harvard grad and Berkeley PhD, to GM.  Tulsky was hired about 10 years ago by the Canes (and by then GM Ron Francis) to be the analytics guru for the team.  Bringing in the Abbotts were two of his first moves as GM.  On the other side of that Stanley Cup semi-final, Braden Birch '13 is VP of Hockey Operations & Salary Cap Management for the Florida Panthers. Furthering the Cornell connections, Ron Francis' daughter went to Cornell at the same time as Riley Nash, and Francis, who attend a bunch of games at Lynah when his daughter was there, made a trade to acquire Nash's draft rights from Edmonton.  Also, Francis, who just got let go as GM of the Seattle Kraken, was the one who brought Jessica Campbell '14 into the Kraken organization.

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Quote from: chimpfoodUnfortunately Barron has fallen to the bottom of the jets lineup after getting a good amount of playing time earlier in the playoffs. Probably due to him being -7 in the last 6 games.

Not to mention Dallas kicking the shit out of Winnipeg in the past few games.  Not exactly productive to use your 4th line when you're two goals behind.

The biggest reason for Barron's decreased time is Mark Scheifele's return to the lineup in Game 4 after having been out with an injury which occurred in Game 5 vs. St. Louis.  In Game 7 vs. St. louis, Barron took almost all of the d-zone faceoffs in the two overtimes with Adam Lowry (brother of alum Joel Lowry) taking most of the o-zone faceoffs.

I received info today from a friend who is a class officer, that the class officers were told today that Red Hot Hockey vs. BU has been finalized for Nov. 29.

Quote from: sah67Malinski draws in for Game 3, "slightly" overshadowed by Landeskog's return.

and Malinski with an assist on the 1st goal of the game, a 4-on-4 goal by Nichushkin

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Quote from: BearLoverWhat the fuck? Is he flunking out of school or something? Does he hate Casey? This is impossible to explain. This team is winning absolutely nothing next season now. 10 players graduate, and then two of the remaining best three players on the team leave (at minimum). Put a fork in them.

it's not impossible to explain any more than it's impossible to explain "NIL" - i think it is much more likely that he is leaving for someplace that will give him a scholarship+$ than that he is dissatisfied with the coach or the program or the ILR curriculum. i suspect he was under-recruited and over-performed expectations.

this feeds into a different one of your fears but i think this is the more founded one: we are going to have a hard time competing in a more professionalized environment. We already have one hand tied behind our back on scholarships, ameliorated a little by the prestige of the degree (though that is crumbling in the market as well); this is definitely going to be a long-term drag on Ivy competitiveness.

There's almost no NIL money in college hockey at the moment.

But yes, the program will no longer be competitive nationally if NIL becomes a thing.

I'm pretty sure NIL is a bigger thing than you realize.  I have a friend who has two baseball-playing sons and is familiar with BIG Ten baseball and NIL - and there's decent (100K ish) money out there for better players.  Also, many high school baseball draft choices that used to turn pro are now going to college so they can make more money than in the low minor leagues.  I suspect if it's true for baseball. it's true for hockey.

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Quote from: upprdeckI didnt really take notes. I could see it live and knew of it happening.

Even Shane was still off it looked.

By overtime it just looked like we were completely gassed and had nothing left in the tank. I was standing there (as I was on the run) watching on my phone like "is Psenicka usually this slow?" A distinct feeling of the magic, so to speak, running dry.

I thought BU looked gassed too, though.  I was shocked when I read about the illness.  I never would have guessed.

Does anyone have the Time On Ice for our players?  By the 3rd period it seemed to me like we were double shifting Bancroft-Walsh-Mack and there were a lot of players that I didn't seem to be seeing as much as usual (perhaps Penney, Kempf, O'Leary -even though he scored, others?)

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Quote from: upprdeckRegional attendance is a hard nut to crack.

Pointing out a small crowd for Albany is wrong


Albany attendance last time was about 2500/3500
Wooster was 6000/2800
Colorado was 2000/5000
allentown was 2000/3000

PSU in Allentown and winning Attendance 7K this year

Teams/locations/ and playing the fri/sat games all help attendance.

So 2500 when Cornell was playing in Albany is good?

cornell was not in Albany in 2022
In 2016 when it was there they had 5500/7500 for the first 2 games with Yale and RIT playing. the biggest crowd of the 4 regions.

Ok. I was there in 2010 with UNH Denver and rit.  Empty.

I was there too, and surprised by the small Cornell contingent.  We had a much smaller block of fans than we did in Minny in '05 or Green Bay in '06.  Perhaps a few relatively down years from '07 to '09 contributed to that.  I don't recall whether it was Spring Break for the students.  The BBall game vs. Ky at Syracuse was the night before the Albany regional.