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#1
Hockey / Re: Recruits 2026 and Beyond
Today at 06:30:24 AM
Quote from: BearLover on Today at 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.
#2
Hockey / Re: Recruits 2026 and Beyond
December 08, 2025, 01:29:08 PM
Quote from: BearLover on December 07, 2025, 05:07:01 PM
Quote from: ithacat on December 07, 2025, 03:31:49 PM
Quote from: BearLover on December 07, 2025, 01:14:55 PM
Quote from: ithacat on December 07, 2025, 11:46:39 AM
Quote from: BearLover on December 06, 2025, 09:51:06 PM
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.
#3
Hockey / Re: Recruits 2026 and Beyond
December 07, 2025, 03:31:49 PM
Quote from: BearLover on December 07, 2025, 01:14:55 PM
Quote from: ithacat on December 07, 2025, 11:46:39 AM
Quote from: BearLover on December 06, 2025, 09:51:06 PM
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.
#4
Hockey / Re: Recruits 2026 and Beyond
December 07, 2025, 11:46:39 AM
Quote from: BearLover on December 06, 2025, 09:51:06 PM
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.
#5
Hockey / Re: Brown @ Cornell, 11/14/25
November 15, 2025, 06:43:39 AM
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?
#6
Hockey / Re: Women's Team Fall 25
October 25, 2025, 08:33:08 PM
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?
#7
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.
#8
Other Sports / Re: Cornell Soccer 2025
October 01, 2025, 05:56:18 AM
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
#9
Hockey / Re: Recruits 2026 and Beyond
July 19, 2025, 09:32:52 AM
Quote from: stereax
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.
#10
Hockey / Re: Recruits 2026 and Beyond
July 18, 2025, 03:44:54 AM
Fwiw, Heisenberg's list for 2026 & beyond, with updated teams, shows the following number of recruits planning to play in the CHL this season:

Cornell - 7
Harvard - 6
Colgate - 3
Clarkson, QU - 2
Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale - 1
Brown, RPI, SLU, Union - 0
#11
Hockey / Re: Corey Leivermann One and Done
June 12, 2025, 10:34:15 AM
Quote from: margolismLess than 10 months in Ithaca.  Has to be among the shortest coaching tenures for the team.  Wonder if he chose to left or if was asked to choose to leave...

Given how short his time was in Ithaca, I can't imagine there are many recruits he is responsible for, but I could be wrong.

Weren't our first 2 recruits after he was hired from Minnesota (Peckham and Ament)? It'll be interesting to see what they do.
#12
Hockey / Re: Recruits 2025 and Beyond
June 02, 2025, 05:09:38 AM
Quote from: BearLover
Quote from: chimpfoodThat's fucking big time let's go. Wonder if we just let Roest walk because I want this kid in this fall. I could see a world where we leave him in the Q for another year though because he doesn't have much CHL experience still. After all of the short goalies we've had 6 feet 4 inches sounds sweet.
I was really upset with how last season ended and in the aftermath I wanted us to bring in a transfer/CHL goalie for next season, but now that it's been a couple months and I've settled down, I think there's a lot to be said for staying loyal to your players and recruits. Shane was in Roest's position five years ago and if we had "let him walk" we would have missed out on the goalie who led us to our first two ECAC titles in the past 14 seasons. So I'm fine giving this new recruit (who looks great) another year in the CHL and rolling with whoever wins the spot next season among Keopple/Katz/Roest.

Looks like we will find out more soon (does say "former...")). This interview looks like it will go live either noon or 5pm EST. I'm abroad so I'm not sure if it knows what time zone I'm in.


QuotePremieres Jun 2, 2025  Dump N' Chase Podcast
 In this edition of the Dump N' Chase Podcast, Dylan Robillard sits down with former Cape Brenton Eagle, Cornell University commit, 2025 NHL Draft eligible goaltender Alexis Cournoyer in an exclusive one-on-one interview.

https://youtu.be/8beuZ2yyRo0?si=erSFMar5gPog-HUv
#13
Hockey / Re: Recruits 2025 and Beyond
June 01, 2025, 05:53:18 AM
Quote from: chimpfoodGio Digiulian ranked #132 in the NHL draft prospects list.

Cole Tuminaro finished the list with a Limited Viewing note. For local flavor, 2 Ithacan's are on the list: Will Moore #29 and Jack Parsons #10 (NA goalies).
#14
Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82I'm not crying...you're crying.

Damn right...I'm crying.
#15
Hockey / Re: Future Predictions
May 13, 2025, 02:48:52 PM
Does seem Harvard's had a bit of a drop in higher-end kids, yet they have 2 NTDP coming in and another 7 with some U17 or U18 national team representation. Crazy how well he can recruit and how underperforming his teams can be with so much talent.