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Quote from: BearLover on January 06, 2026, 01:17:25 PM"Then you get the right people," Jones said. "And you know, some guys you lose might be for the right reasons. They might not be the person that fits into our culture, fits into our program. And that's a big part of the long history of Cornell. As you get the right people here, you get good people, hard-working people."

Casey throwing shade at Robertson and Pelletier. Nice!

Maybe, maybe not. I think Casey is too diplomatic to say anything other than, effectively, "I got the guys that I want on the team right now."  He'd never come out and complain, "Those guys who left early for the pros or the transfer portal? Eff 'em."

Quote from: Trotsky on December 10, 2025, 01:54:52 PMThe sport has its own beautiful grassroots traditions.  It doesn't need geegaws and gimmicks.  Just let it bloom.

Traditions mean nothing if you can't get new people in the door to help keep those traditions going.  So, maybe a few gimmicks make for a necessary evil.  Something less than what's happening currently, but not zero either.

Quote from: Trotsky on December 01, 2025, 11:26:46 AMThey could chance it coming back from Canton.  It's the second night with a month until the next game.

I know it's the North Country, but I would hope the team would be able to find a better dining option than Pizza Hut, irrespective of what happened two decades ago.

Quote from: Beeeej on December 01, 2025, 09:52:12 AMBy the second intermission he was dancing and singing along with the pep band directly behind and above us instead of cringing at how loud it was, and chanted "Let's Go Red" every chance he got. He was legit sad to leave and talked about hockeyball the whole way home. Warmed the f out of my heart, and gives us great hope for future good experiences at Lynah.

That's adorable. Please get him to Lynah as soon as you can!

Quote from: BearLover on September 29, 2025, 04:46:58 PMRemoving the .500 threshold is weird. Has that ever even been relevant?

As I recall, there was one season when Wisconsin made it into the NCAAs as an at-large with a sub-.500 record, to the complaint of many.  I want to say it was 2007-2008 (https://www.collegehockeynews.com/schedules/team/Wisconsin/58/20072008) but I'm not 100% certain.  I think the win percentage rule came about as a result of that originally.

Quote from: TrotskyCan I choose 20 in 2525?  I want to see how this ends but I don't want to live through it.

Bold of you to assume we'll last that long.

Quote from: TrotskyThis also means the AD encouraging the students and not getting in their way.  Don't overwhelm them with loud piped in garbage and ads and gimmickry.  This is Cornell.  The fans lead the rink, the band supports.

I think the ads are sadly unavoidable.  Nobody really likes them; we just learn to tolerate them.  And, personally, I agree with you.  But I can only really speak for myself.  I wonder if it's possible that the current students and maybe even some townies like myself genuinely like the "garbage" and gimmickry.  I really don't know.  All I know is that, while I could live without it, I do chuckle a bit every time they play the meme video with the pika scatting like Freddie Mercury.

Quote from: BearLover(But I'm not sure this really helps Cornell win a national title, which is what I care about the most.)

The more games Cornell gets to play at Lynah, the better.  Obviously there's no guarantee Cornell will be in the top 8 or top 4 to guarantee postseason home games, but the risk seems worth it if Cornell can even get a postseason berth.

Quote from: hypotenuseThe one I miss most is the cheer after we score, which went ONE! WE WANT MORE, hopefully followed by ONE! TWO! WE WANT MORE,, etc. This was done slowly and deliberately, so the full impact of our scoring prowess could be absorbed by our adversary.
Over the last decade(?), the words are said,  but without any understanding why, IMHO.

The Lynah Faithful haven't done the slow post-goal count in at least a quarter century.  When I arrived in 1999, we were already doing the quick count, followed by "WE WANT MORE!", "SIEVE!" (x8), and "IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" (x4) all in rapid succession.

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Quote from: WillMakes it seem like the Whale upgrade development came with the added question of "What have you done for us lately, coach?"  The national championship is far enough in the past compared to no winning seasons since the return from COVID.

Maybe.... but y'all the time to ask that question was April, not now. The turmoil from having this happen right before freshman arrive on campus will have impact on this season, not that anyone thinks they were going to be good, but it seems oddly callous for any hope of improvement.

Also could've been a recent health development for Allain personally on top of everything else.  Maybe dealing with the grief of a rink upgrade while trying to fix a team that's been down for four years is too much when he's also just been given a bad medical prognosis.  Complete conjecture on my part, of course.

Quote from: Ben Rocky '04https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/08/08_Allain-Steps-Down-After-19.php

This seems like really strange timing to me.

Makes it seem like the Whale upgrade development came with the added question of "What have you done for us lately, coach?"  The national championship is far enough in the past compared to no winning seasons since the return from COVID.

Quote from: The RancorLooking forward to the extra 2 games in 26-27 (assuming we travel to Alaska next year)

The NCAA will permit the bonus two games, but I doubt the Ivy League will.

Quote from: 617BigRedUgh saw new post on this thread hoped to see who our last two OOC games are against - what can be taking so long to confirm until can announce?

I don't know, but Cornell isn't the only one.  I tried poking around other teams' websites to see if I could narrow down the possibilities for what I assume is the January 9-10 weekend and it looks like there are a lot of other schools who haven't yet released official 2025-26 schedules.  So your guess is as good as mine at this point.

Thanks for tending to this Beeeej!

Quote from: 617BigRed10th anniversary of Red Hot Hockey officially confirmed:

https://cornellbigred.com/news/2025/6/2/mens-ice-hockey-2025-red-hot-hockey-release.aspx

10th edition, not 10th anniversary.  (This game against BU is held every other year, with the off years having different opponents for the Frozen Apple games.)