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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.)

Quote from: billhowardSince he has the very first post of this thread, it would be nice of Wammer to post the known game dates-opponents in that very first post.

If Wammer is unable or unwilling to update the first post with the known schedule so far, and keep updating as they become known, we may need a more frequent poster to post a new thread for the 25-26 schedule.  Then an admin can pin that thread to the top of the forum.

Quote from: DafatoneHere I am, all excited to see Harvard's roster get shredded by an apparent ban on international students (look, you gotta take joy in what you can), and all but seven guys on their roster are American.

And only two on their women's roster.

Everything is the worst.

Are you really that surprised? I don't recall Harvard ever being quite as dependent on Canadian players as Cornell has been historically.  It's been closer to 50/50 US/Canada (plus the odd Eastern European here and there) in recent years but it wasn't that long ago that we had some recruiting classes almost entirely from Canada.

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Quote from: chimpfoodI think Caron Ryan might come in a year early. We need a center and I don't think any of our other recruits coming this year are, and he's put up good numbers in the BCHL. By the way, where did you guys hear about fisher?

The Vees posted about it here.

Weird ass development path tho. Full year at Northeastern and then full year in the BCHL.

It's unusual, but not unheard of. Sometimes players do a year in Division I, but something isn't quite right (maybe he thought he should be doing better than 1-1-2 in 29 games at Northeastern?) so they return to juniors for a year before coming back to Division I, often at a different school.  I would say this path was more common before the transfer portal, as back then players would have to sit for a year if they wanted to transfer schools.

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Quote from: arugulaOk. 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.

The 2010 regional was at the tail end of Spring Break that year.  It might have affected attendance.  Then again, at that point in time, I think Cornell's Spring Break week was always bookended by the ECAC Final 4/5 and the NCAA regionals, so it didn't affect 2005 or 2006 in the same way.  (Spring Break week has since been pushed back to the first week of April, basically right now.)