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Quote from: stereax on May 22, 2026, 07:15:37 AMAs per Bucci, trapezoid rule will start next year in Div 1 hockey.

Apparently they are also removing the mandated shootout for the women. The ECAC used shootouts only for tiebreaking purposes anyway, so I wonder if it'll go away right away.
https://www.ncaa.org/news/2026/5/21/media-center-cut-resistant-equipment-proposed-in-mens-and-womens-ice-hockey.aspx

Quote from: stereax on May 21, 2026, 03:04:56 PMNote that my "count" has 29 games already, not counting exhibition or scrimmage. I truthfully can't recall how many regular season games the Ivies are allowed to play - I think we upped it to 30? Maybe? With exhibition?

It's 30 regular season, but was part of the deal that you are limited to no more than 1 exhibition? (I think that was the speculation on why Cornell played 29 last season -- because they wanted the 2nd exhibition?)

Quote from: fastforward on May 21, 2026, 03:00:24 PMIt looks hot as he$$ there too

h-e-double hockey sticks was right there

Quote from: stereax on May 20, 2026, 11:15:56 AM

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Quote from: Weder on May 20, 2026, 10:27:40 AMHarvard faculty vote to put a cap on the number of A's given out

QuoteStudents overwhelmingly disapproved of the proposal. Nearly 85 percent of respondents to a February survey administered by the Harvard Undergraduate Association said they disapproved of the proposal

How many of these students will use the Portal to make their way to Quinnipiac?

Next stop on the road to Cambridge.

The hell do they mean, they took unproctored tests?

It would be uncouth to suggest that Bradford P. Worthington IV was not succeeding academically on his own merits.

Harvard faculty vote to put a cap on the number of A's given out

Quote from: stereax on May 20, 2026, 12:12:37 AMNews that absolutely nobody asked for: looks like part of the team is doing their biannual Dominican Republic service trip. McInchak, Castagna, Stanley all part of it despite being graduates. Also featuring Walsh, Kraft, Catalano, Fegaras, Devlin, Wolfenberg, I think that's Parker Murray in a few of the photos. Pretty sure Schafer is also there? But my facial recognition is pretty shot. They tagged most of 'em in their stories though.

Schafer posted something awhile ago saying he was going to be down there, I think. Not surprised that he's continuing to go on the trip.

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Quote from: arugula on May 16, 2026, 12:21:37 PMVgk!?!?  Now you lost me.  Pure evil.

Tawdry, but not evil.

The only evil in the NHL is the Slave States. FLA, TB, NSH, CAR, DAL. 

I can't abide any team south of the line connecting DC and St. Louis. L.A. Kings get the exception for longevity.

Given the Bay Area's hockey history, are you OK with the Sharks? Fun fact: San Jose is south of St. Louis.

Quote from: stereax on May 17, 2026, 01:26:34 PM

Quote from: Weder on May 17, 2026, 12:09:55 PMThis is beside the point, but the traditional "farewell column" at many college papers is a no-win situation. Either they come across as navel-gazing or you don't do one and everyone who expected to be thanked feels slighted.

This one didn't even seem that navel-gaze-y to me. Can't win.

Oh, definitely. This is on the very high end of the range for this type of column. Way better than whatever I churned out when I wrote for the Sun.

I happened to go to a Vegas game early in their first season when it was starting to look like they might be really good. They came back from a 3-0 deficit to beat Tampa -- a lot of sad Lightning fans leaving that game. As for the experience, I don't have a problem with maximum circus in Vegas. It was also very reasonably priced in that first season, but I assume that's no longer the case.

This is beside the point, but the traditional "farewell column" at many college papers is a no-win situation. Either they come across as navel-gazing or you don't do one and everyone who expected to be thanked feels slighted.

Quote from: Chris '03 on May 13, 2026, 07:58:15 AM

Quote from: imafrshmn on May 12, 2026, 01:32:26 PMBrianne Jenner and Rory Guilday advanced to the PWHL championship series (Walter Cup) with Ottawa Charge after downing Jill Saulnier and the Boston Fleet in front of a healthy 13,000+ fans in 2OT in Ottawa.

Montreal won last night and will host games one and two Thursday and Saturday.

PWHL draft list is also out and includes a couple familiar names: https://www.thepwhl.com/en/news/2026/may/12/2026-pwhl-draft-eligibility-list-features-record-number-of-player-declarations

League is expected to go from 8 to 12 teams next year. Detroit is official. Vegas and Hamilton strongly rumored to be announced shortly. Vegas probably today.

Just did a quick scan:
Avi Adam
Georgia Schiff
Mckenna Van Gelder
Alexa Davis (played at St. Lawrence last season)
Grace Dwyer
Laura Fortino (played in Italy the past couple seasons)
Ashley Messier (played at Minnesota-Duluth last season)
Alyssa Regalado

EDIT: Vegas and Hamilton both announced today. Fortino is from Hamilton, so she may be hoping she winds up there.

Quote from: adamw on April 30, 2026, 04:52:55 PMStill following this story and waiting for more info - but at the annual coaches meetings in Florida this week, the only thing of substance the coaches agreed on -- almost universally -- was an increase of the games limit to 40.

Needless to say which schools did not agree.

A 10-game gap between Ivies and others is quite brutal.

Still subject to approval by a few levels through the NCAA food chain.

Death by a thousand cuts.

So would this mean the elimination of the December pause, or would they start the season a lot earlier? Or both?

Quote from: JasonN95 on April 29, 2026, 10:24:18 AM

Quote from: BearLover on April 28, 2026, 03:18:03 PMOn net, it is true that the bigger conference schools on average benefit more from the portal than do the Ivies, but the Ivies are barely hurt at all. And Cornell, Dartmouth, and Brown have brought in some pretty good transfers themselves (whereas HYP cannot bring in transfers).

Maybe said earlier and I didn't pick up on it, but is there a policy at HYP that proscribes inbound transfers for athletics, or do you mean that the student transfer bar is so high at those schools that in practice the hockey programs cannot expect to bring in players via the portal?

HYP accept very few transfers -- Harvard says the average is 12 a year -- so those spots aren't going to athletes.

Quote from: stereax on April 27, 2026, 04:42:19 PM

Quote from: Chris '03 on April 27, 2026, 04:24:07 PMMontreal is top seed in PWHL playoffs.  They chose to play 3 seed Minnesota in the semis.  The other best of five semi is (4) Ottawa and (2) Boston.

OTT/BOS features three Cornellians (and both Team USA goalies) and kicks off Thursday night and Saturday night in Lowell. Both games on NESN and YouTube in the states.

Montreal choosing to play Minnesota over Ottawa? Is there something I'm missing about why they'd want to play MIN and not OTT? I thought OTT just snuck in...

Stat I just read: Every PWHL playoff series (there have been six) has been won by the team without home-ice advantage.

CBS did a piece about the PWHL earlier this month that just scratches the surface, but Micah Zandee-Hart was interviewed.
https://youtu.be/tXWbYSKo1pw?si=ChTIy1_q4SNMyx3v