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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.

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

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.

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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

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).

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82I'm not crying...you're crying.

Damn right...I'm crying.

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.

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Quote from: IcebergGood for Western Michigan. For a while, they were one and done in the NCAA's and then they go on to have this dominant season almost out of nowhere

Agreed. Probably not on most fans radar in the preseason. 5 grad students, 9 transfers...but only 6 NHL draft picks. They do have more flexibility when rebuilding a roster.

I'm seeing 8 draft picks. I don't like the teams that build through transfers and grad students. WMU is basically Quinnipiac. But I'd still rather them win than BU.

Thanks for the correction.

Quote from: IcebergGood for Western Michigan. For a while, they were one and done in the NCAA's and then they go on to have this dominant season almost out of nowhere

Agreed. Probably not on most fans radar in the preseason. 5 grad students, 9 transfers...but only 6 NHL draft picks. They do have more flexibility when rebuilding a roster.

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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.

We had somebody go back.  Cairns?  I can't remember.

Gavin Stoick returned to the USHL after his Fr year and then returned.

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Quote from: stereaxAs per BU friend, Rayhill and Kovich are in the transfer portal. Going to shake him for a verification.

https://gopherpucklive.com/transfer-portal/

Both are listed with today's date (3/20/25). the first day most can enter the portal.

Over 100 players already entered. Not many goalies, though Gibson Homer (kept a clean sheet against us this year) is going to be a big addition for someone.

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Woody Hayes play without the punch.

What happened? No tv for me, and I doubt whatever it was will be on the highlights (assuming they get posted.)

It wasn't included in the ECAC package I watched on YouTube this morning. Just highlighted the refs awarding a goal to Cornell.

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Quote from: IcebergI was in a hotel in Syracuse and there were a lot of kids and parents in town for NYS wrestling championships (I assume middle school) this weekend. I imagine quite a few of them will be at Cornell in 5-10 years if that's the natural order of things

More Jersey guys these days, but we'll probably see a few of the NY kids.

When we do take a New York kid it tends to work out very well. Dake (4x champ), Yianni (4x champ), Vito (2x champ, 4x AA), Nickerson (1x champ, 4x AA). And Hunter Richard came to Cornell from a lower NY division (IIRC) and came so close to AA his senior year. I'm sure I'm forgetting others.

Speaking of Syracuse, Ben Honis would be another one. After losing his appeal for a 5th year he went to SU and played football.

Quote from: stereaxwhere do you find the list of commits? I need to keep tabs on our Little Red

https://www.eliteprospects.com/team/5692/ithaca-high