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Quote from: chimpfood on Today at 12:27:20 AMSeason ended tonight for Des Moines. On the team were Ryland Randle and Henry Major.

Randle: 19 y/o defenseman, played on the second pair for Des Moines. 36 points in 62 games, will almost certainly come in this fall and compete for a spot in the lineup.

Major: winger, turned 19 in March, brother of Charlie. 26 points in 57 games. I would actually bet on him to come in this fall as well. He turned it on toward the end of the season, and I would guess he wants more than just 1 year of playing with his brother. Though, another year in the USHL would probably be better for his development.

Additionally, in 3 playoff games, Randle had 2 assists and Major had 2 goals and 1 assist. Weird thing about Henry is that the USHL lists his birthday as April 7 and Elite Prospects gives him a March date. He's 19 either way, just a little unusual to see different dates.

Quote from: ruloffsenjoyer on March 20, 2026, 01:32:45 PMGod. Horrific tournament.

Is it surprising? This seems to have been one of the worst seasons in my recent memory.

Quote from: stereax on February 07, 2026, 09:00:06 PMMajor, on the scoreboard rn: "my sister is the best hockey player in the family"

Bring her here, Charlie, the women's team needs it!

Still 2nd in points for Northwood, which is great for a D. Would like to see her at BK Selects and then Cornell. Maybe a little greedy.

Great reply. Thanks. Sounds more like one of those weekends/years. Also, recruiting seems to be doing just fine.

Rough weekend. Didn't they shut out Columbia last year? Hasn't there also been some lost recruits the last couple of years? I don't follow wrestling like I used to, but is the trend no longer our friend?

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Quote from: ugarte on January 05, 2026, 10:33:07 PMdon't want to start a new thread for this but Harvard's excellent QB transferred to TCU

He graduated from Harvard last month, so he was planning all along on transferring to a big-time football school to improve his NFL prospects.

Cornell has a lot of this year's seniors in the transfer portal.  Unfortunately, they also have what what be a 2026-27 junior LB Keith Williams also in the portal. He's received offers already from the U. of Minnesota and Northwestern.  That's the NIL world we live in today.

Heck, Montana State won the FCS title and they now have 10 or so guys in the transfer portal. Truly a different world....

Their QB spent 2 years at Syracuse, then 2 years at Stanford, and then found his way to Montana. It is a different time. 

Quote from: BearLover on January 11, 2026, 12:08:18 AMHenry Major traded by Chicago to Des Moines (one USHL team to another).

Another recent move is Anthony Dontigny returning to his home province and joining Rimouski in the Q.

Let's hope these are good moves for both young men.

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Quote from: chimpfood on December 06, 2025, 09:40:53 PMDec keeps balling. 4 points tonight

Dec looks good. Overall though the recruits are not producing much. We are on track for 0 or 1 players taken in this year's NHL draft. Given his big numbers in AAA I was hopeful Henry Major would produce like Charlie did with the Chicago Steel but that hasn't happened. Not sure if late CHL recruits like Cournoyer are in the cards but the staff needs to step it up, I'm definitely not content with the pipeline right now.

Henry seems to be doing fine. He's a year ahead of Charlie in his progression. He's on track to double Charlie's production as a comparable 18yo. Charlie blew up as a 19yo; Alex blew up as a 20yo. Of course teams are different, linemates are different, maturity rates are different, so comparing stats isn't going to offer us much more than conversation points.

Is this really the case though? Looks to me like just a 6 month difference, with Henry's birthday in April and Charlie's in September. I'm comparing both in their second year of USHL with the Steel. AFAICT I'm comparing the same year of development. Both would be 19 when their junior career ends/when they matriculate, unless Henry goes back for another year.

I'm looking at it as Henry went from U16 to the USHL while Charlie spent a year at U18 and then went to the USHL. There is no doubt that Charlie's 2nd year with Chicago saw a much bigger jump in production than Henry's has seen so far. Charlie had the benefit of being older and having an extra year of development. It may have benefited Henry more to have spent last year at BK Selects with the U18s where he would have received a lot of ice time, but he stepped up a level and let's hope that pays off for him in the future. I think Charlie was 20 when he first played for Cornell and if Henry comes in next season he would turn 20 at the end of his freshman season, if my math is correct. I don't know if it's a big deal.

Fair enough. It will be interesting to see if he plays another year of junior hockey.

It would be nice to see them play together for a couple years.

Sister Cora looks to be having a strong year at Northwood School. She might be the best of the 3: As a 16yo defenseman, 36-11-26-37.

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Quote from: chimpfood on December 06, 2025, 09:40:53 PMDec keeps balling. 4 points tonight

Dec looks good. Overall though the recruits are not producing much. We are on track for 0 or 1 players taken in this year's NHL draft. Given his big numbers in AAA I was hopeful Henry Major would produce like Charlie did with the Chicago Steel but that hasn't happened. Not sure if late CHL recruits like Cournoyer are in the cards but the staff needs to step it up, I'm definitely not content with the pipeline right now.

Henry seems to be doing fine. He's a year ahead of Charlie in his progression. He's on track to double Charlie's production as a comparable 18yo. Charlie blew up as a 19yo; Alex blew up as a 20yo. Of course teams are different, linemates are different, maturity rates are different, so comparing stats isn't going to offer us much more than conversation points.

Is this really the case though? Looks to me like just a 6 month difference, with Henry's birthday in April and Charlie's in September. I'm comparing both in their second year of USHL with the Steel. AFAICT I'm comparing the same year of development. Both would be 19 when their junior career ends/when they matriculate, unless Henry goes back for another year.

I'm looking at it as Henry went from U16 to the USHL while Charlie spent a year at U18 and then went to the USHL. There is no doubt that Charlie's 2nd year with Chicago saw a much bigger jump in production than Henry's has seen so far. Charlie had the benefit of being older and having an extra year of development. It may have benefited Henry more to have spent last year at BK Selects with the U18s where he would have received a lot of ice time, but he stepped up a level and let's hope that pays off for him in the future. I think Charlie was 20 when he first played for Cornell and if Henry comes in next season he would turn 20 at the end of his freshman season, if my math is correct. I don't know if it's a big deal.

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Quote from: chimpfood on December 06, 2025, 09:40:53 PMDec keeps balling. 4 points tonight

Dec looks good. Overall though the recruits are not producing much. We are on track for 0 or 1 players taken in this year's NHL draft. Given his big numbers in AAA I was hopeful Henry Major would produce like Charlie did with the Chicago Steel but that hasn't happened. Not sure if late CHL recruits like Cournoyer are in the cards but the staff needs to step it up, I'm definitely not content with the pipeline right now.

Henry seems to be doing fine. He's a year ahead of Charlie in his progression. He's on track to double Charlie's production as a comparable 18yo. Charlie blew up as a 19yo; Alex blew up as a 20yo. Of course teams are different, linemates are different, maturity rates are different, so comparing stats isn't going to offer us much more than conversation points.

Watching the replay...loved the pregame ceremonial puck drop between the two goalies. Nice. #KenDryden

What is going on with the ice? Is it weird shadowy film noir or does it look that bad in-person?

Quote from: RichH on October 25, 2025, 06:10:22 PMBergmann with 17 saves for her 2nd clean slate in 4 games. 5-0 Red over Green in Hanover. Nora Curtis with two PPG.

Curtis vs Major. Who wins this year's Skaneateles Scoring Cup?

Quote from: BearLover on September 17, 2025, 06:48:35 PMAs far as I can tell, Peckham and Broderick are headed back to high school and will not play junior hockey this season. Meanwhile, despite dressing
 almost all of last season for them, Sandruck apparently did not make the Lincoln Stars roster this year. He was on the preseason roster, but is not on the current roster. Best of luck to him wherever he ends up. Heisenberg seems to expect him to play in the NAHL.

Sandruck is back with the Jr. Amerks in the NAHL.

Quote from: chimpfood on September 30, 2025, 09:45:06 PMDidn't watch because I was too busy stressing over the Red Sox but we had an absolutely dominant 5-0 win over Binghamton today. We really look like one of the better teams in the country right now, it's a shame our schedule has been so weak that our chances of getting an at large bid are seriously hurt. The committee doesn't rely on the RPI as strictly as in hockey but it still would be nice to be able to drop "bad wins" in the soccer RPI. I believe we have dropped from about #40 to #90 over the course of our 4 game win streak. That's just silly.

From the NCAA's RPI, the remaining schedule looks like this (by rank):
1. Princeton
20. Akron
47. Harvard
51. Brown
76. Syracuse
89. Penn
97. Colgate
99. Cornell
111. Dartmouth
161. Columbia

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Quote from: ithacatFwiw, Heisenberg's list for 2026 & beyond, with updated teams, shows the following number of recruits planning to play in the CHL this season:

(Q/O/W)
Cornell - 7 (3-2-2)
Harvard - 6 (2-3-1)
Colgate - 3 (0-2-1)
Clarkson, QU - 2 (1-1-0) (0-1-1)
Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale - 1 (Q), (W), (W)
Brown, RPI, SLU, Union - 0

But I was told Cornell was going to have problems recruiting from the CHL...

Genuine question tho, can you break it down by league? It feels like most of our recruits stem from the Q, would be interested to know if other ECAC teams are pulling from the O and W or if we're all mostly dealing with the closest league.

Updated. I don't know if there's any discussion around changing the territorial rights for the CHL.