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Pecknold blames the home-ice loss to Cornell for starting his team on its late-season slide:
"Congrats to Clarkson, they played great both nights," Pecknold said. "They battled, their goalie played well, they found a way to win on the road so I give them credit. Our buy-in has been sporadic, we had a really good run until the Cornell game and then we went off the rails a bit, the buy-in has not been good."

More from Pecknold after Saturday's loss:
"It's ridiculous, it really is. I don't wanna use the term embarrassing, ridiculous is the better word."

More from Pecknold after Friday's loss:
"It was bad, we stunk," head coach Rand Pecknold said.

"I think some guys didn't wanna play hockey tonight, they thought it was gonna be easy and it wasn't," Pecknold said. "It just perplexes me, that we have this really good team, high character kids, and that in a home playoff game, we can be that bad."

Pecknold also said Silverstein played "the best game he had all year" on Friday night, and then blamed him for Clarkson's tying goal on Saturday.

Kudos to the Quinnipiac Chronicle for covering Q's weekend debacle:
https://quchronicle.com/92993/featured/late-game-stumble-costs-quinnipiac-a-trip-to-lake-placid-for-first-time-in-six-years-falls-to-clarkson-4-3/

https://quchronicle.com/92981/featured/bobcats-outshot-shut-out-by-clarkson-3-0-in-opening-game-of-ecac-quarterfinals/

First shutout for Cournoyer!

Quote from: Noah '27 on March 12, 2026, 09:47:22 AMHey everyone, I don't usually post on here, but I am a lifelong fan of Cornell Hockey and have been a part of the Big Red Pep Band. Please consider supporting the band so that we can go on away trips and bring the Lynah faithful energy anywhere the team goes. The link to my page is attached below

https://givingday.cornell.edu/p2p/630133/noah-kaplan-2600ecdf-9213-4a23-abd6-bec55717a9c5

I just made my annual donation to the Big Red Band!

I remember Wayne as a solid player for us. His senior year was my sophomore year.
He is mentioned in the description of the annual Bill Doran Sportsmanship Award:

Presented to the Cornell player combining all the best attributes that mean sportsmanship, both on and off the ice, as well as being an excellent competitive player
Doran helped Coach Dick Bertrand recruit more than a dozen members to Cornell most of whom were Canadian and predominantly from the Toronto area. Those included Wayne Stokes and the brothers Dick and Bill Weber. Doran's son, Mike '67, played on the Cornell 1967 national championship team.

I love the way Barron just pushes the Anaheim player out of the way when he parks himself in front of the goal.

Quote from: Trotsky on March 07, 2026, 09:46:40 PMFirst Round
#5 Union 9 #12 Brown 0
#6 Harvard 4 #11 St. Lawrence 3 (ot)
#7 Colgate 3 #10 Yale 2
#8 Clarkson 2 #9 RPI 1

Quarterfinals
#1 Quinnipiac vs #8 Clarkson
#2 Dartmouth vs #7Colgate
#3 Cornell vs #6 Harvard
#4 Princeton vs #5 Union

Three one-goal games, and one blowout. No upsets this year, although St. Lawrence came closest.

Fun fact about St. Lawrence: they won one road game all season. They were 4 minutes away from doubling that total Friday night against Harvard, but couldn't seal the deal.

Quote from: stereax on March 05, 2026, 04:42:15 PMFlames article on Casty after the trade!

Here's a link that takes you directly to story if you want to avoid going through Elon Musk's shitshow.

Quote from: stereax on March 05, 2026, 09:58:07 PMAlso, that brings Denver up to 7th in the NPI, somehow.

The more Penn State chokes the better for us.

I just saw a bracket prediction that had us playing Denver in first round in Colorado, where Michigan is No. 1 seed. Not a great draw if it pans out!

It was nice to see Nurry score two goals against Denver. I had a brief chat with his mom right before the start of the Albany game and told her I was looking forward to watching her son play. She told me she hoped that he would get into the game. He didn't start that day, and didn't do much in his limited action. Hopefully, he'll continue to start and play well.

Quote from: jjanow99 on February 21, 2026, 04:19:51 PMCornell 8 for 8 in 4th period faceoffs. Not sure what the breakdown was between our 2 face-off guys.

We were 7-for-7 in 4th period faceoffs against Albany. Through two games, we have yet to lose a fourth-quarter faceoff. That would be a nice trend to keep going throughout the season!

6-1. Don't shortchange us!

From what I read before the game, Q has been alternating goalies the past few weekends with Silverstein starting on Saturday night. It was Pecknold's decision to play him on Friday night this weekend, so he should get some of the blame as well!

Quote from: Jim Hyla on February 20, 2026, 02:39:38 PM

Quote from: Trotsky on February 20, 2026, 12:59:55 PMOur recent history against these fuckers has been solid.

Thanks for putting that up.

I was the 10-0 and the 9-1 games in person. I still remember them well for different reasons!

In the fall of '74 my roommate, who was from Darien, CT, tried out for the freshman/JV team (whatever it was back then) as a walk-on. Not surprisingly, the Canadian players who had been recruited all made the team. He did not.