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Quote from: JohnF81 on Today at 09:36:48 AMOr a new league commissioner

I met Bettman when I was, like, 5. He was nice. His wife and my mother were sort of friends.

Which means nothing, but it does make all the anti-Bettman vitriol a little funny to me. Not saying it isn't deserved.

Quote from: Trotsky on April 21, 2026, 12:32:31 PMSigh.

As an eye doctor once told me, it can always be worser.

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Quote from: Bluelightning on April 19, 2026, 06:42:41 AMPossibly Rousseau is coming here mainly because he is thinking (or told) he won't have to split  playing time. He had to split time with Albin Boija in Maine. When Boija was on his game, he was better than Rousseau (4 shutouts, 2 decent games at Denver, etc). But when Boija was off it was gross.
    An athlete entering the portal because he wants a better education? That would be refreshing. He has an amazing opportunity presented to him now: start for Cornell hockey and possibly graduate with Ivy League degree. Win-win.
      Amazing how placated I feel getting Rousseau even after comparing game by game stats to Cournoyer. It was our best (and probably only) option and Casey got it done. Hats off to him. He came to Cornell with impossible shoes to fill. Did great job in season 1 but now has lost top goaltender, forward and one of top defensemen before their senior year.

This is a good pick up, but he will have to battle for starts against Roest, and presumably Katz, as well as Cirka who may or may not come this season, but next year for sure.

Quote from: Pghas on April 19, 2026, 06:17:43 AMI have to say I'm pretty unimpressed with Cornoyer's decision and also the way he is handling it.  Maybe he really hated Cornell because kit strikes me as unusual for any player to not at least acknowledge his current team and coaching staff.  I guess the competition in the big ten is better but idk.  I think their coaching staffs are using that idea to poach higher level players from the ECAC. I also don't understand -as far as I can tell Wisconsin just went on a run.  They are not a perennial powerhouse.  Plus as someone mentioned above Cornoyer is going to have to compete for his spot.  I don't know I guess there is lots more behind the scenes that I don't know about. 

Agree with you, seemed really unclassy to make the 'level up comment' when Cornell was 2 games away from losing in the Championship too.
That said, Wisconsin is definitely a perennial powerhouse, the last few seasons they haven't won the big one, but they have 6 times- and 9 for the women.
Yeah the last one was in '06 but I'm not sure we can talk smack on that one. For sure the old WCHA and the Big 10 are tough hockey leagues, but Cornell has held it's own against them. So, yeah something else happened, or maybe it was the plan all along. But it doesn't matter because we have a new set of goalies, an awesome freshman class returning for more as sophomores and (for now) our Captain- and of course our Coach. We skate on.

Wisconsin isn't a perennial powerhouse. They're weird! They've been ass (like, well below .500) several times since the Big 10 started (2013-14). They've had 5 seasons over .500 and 8 below in that stretch.

The good seasons have been very good, and they're certainly a historic contender that doesn't surprise anyone when they're good, but they've also had some awful years recently.

Quote from: BearLover on April 16, 2026, 03:04:53 PM

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Quote from: Trotsky on April 16, 2026, 01:02:36 PMCurrent commits.

Would anybody with some knowledge like to take a stab at predicting the Fall they will enter?  I assume Armstong (F) and Wehmann (F) are a lock for Fall 26.  With Alexis gone (still not official!!!) that probably means Cirka (G) comes in Fall 26 too.  Arend (F), Hughes (F), Randle (D), and Sandruck (F) all turn 20 prior to September.

My list for this fall is Armstrong, Wehmann, Hughes, Dec, Arend, Randle, Tuminaro. Six or seven skaters (depending on Walsh) leave and seven come in.

Cirka needs another year and I wouldn't even wager that he's better than Roest and Katz at this point in his career.

Same list as mine. I'll be honest, I think we're fucked if we don't get a good goalie in the portal. I'm assuming we can't pull off a late recruit due to the timing of Cournoyer's decision.

One way or another, we've had very, very few seasons without a good goalie this century.

Quote from: stereax on April 14, 2026, 10:23:59 PM

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Quote from: BearLover on April 14, 2026, 04:14:51 PMCournoyer entering portal. Competing for national titles was fun while it lasted.

siiigh. this too shall pass... but HOLY FUCK is it annoying.

how much money is being thrown at him?

Not trying to relitigate this but highly doubt it's about money

He's the starter at a good hockey team that makes the NCAAs on the regular. Why would you transfer out if it wasn't scholarship/other money?

Before I read 4 more pages on this... I called it. Oh well. Who's next?

No like - when I saw it I was like "well, of course he got NIL baited to transfer, there's no other reason to leave Cornell, a program that develops good goalies and is always competitive" and literally nothing I have heard since disconceives me of that notion.

And everyone is overlooking the possibility that THIS was the NIL pit-stop for Courns. Some Dough Ray Me for one season with a VERY talented returning core... IDK but it's adieu Mon Amie! I've also said, as have you Stereax, that it might be the school. If he's been in Juniors in Quebec the last 3 years, he hasn't done a lot of homework, outside of RVH training. CHL guys aren't super into books, math or much other than hockey.

edit addition: It could also be his agent or the Canadians. Maybe they want him somewhere else, for any number of reasons. Like, money.

(Academics also makes sense as a contributing factor, but I doubt he'd transfer solely because classes hard. I'm sure they'd put that kid in wine tasting and napkin rolling and call it a day.)

Not at all relevant to the discussion, but about 20 years ago (yikes) a professor told us that Intro to Wines was the most failed class at Cornell.

An engineering friend of mine in the class literally shouted, "lies!" in response to this. Which was pretty entertaining in a huge lecture hall.

Quote from: fastforward on April 14, 2026, 05:45:12 PMThis annoys me to no end 😡
I understand he has to do what is best for him but what the heck ever happened to commitment

I'll just say that you never know the circumstances. Maybe he's miserable in Ithaca or has some other reason to want to leave.

Or maybe he's pursuing a big bag of cash. I can't really fault him for that, either.

Quote from: adamw on April 14, 2026, 04:56:07 PM

Quote from: BearLover on April 14, 2026, 04:42:21 PM

Quote from: CornellLonghorn on April 14, 2026, 04:34:03 PMIt's all fun and games until he goes to QPAC because they can pay him. Absolute malpractice at this point by the athletic department that we don't have some sort of NIL/Rev Share program with our players. Absolutely pathetic that we cannot keep a kid who we were the only team to give him a chance and the second he is offered a penny he is on his way out. Meanwhile you see Dartmouth keep all of there kids and hit the portal with the Dman. WAKE UP AND GET WITH THE CHANGING TIMES!

Pretty sure Quinnipiac could barely pay him anything even if they wanted to. Pecknold was just complaining they barely have any money. Dartmouth also cannot pay their players for the same reasons Cornell can't.

You're right about one thing though - Some rich donors are going to have to figure something out soon or we aren't going to be competitive nationally anymore. Not because other schools are buying off our players, but because our players are leaving for various reasons, mostly our shitty conference/academic rigors/lack of scholarships, and we are going to somehow have to incentivize them to stay.

Quinnipiac no money? LOL. I'm so tired of the coaches that cry poverty. I made a post on twitter that "the only ones that say money doesn't matter in hockey are those that have it - and if it doesn't matter, why is every team desperately trying to get it?" - and it got liked by numerous coaches of smaller schools. So what does that tell you?

Cornell will do everything imaginable to keep up that is allowed by Ivy rules. To say there is malpractice there is silly. If Cornell was allowed to opt-in, they would, and they'd have millions lined up tomorrow. There's not much they can do. But they will do the intern/NIL thing as much as possible.

I don't know if Cornell will get another goalie. But I know the staff will be trying their damndest. And probably already is.

It sure would be nice if the Ivy League would drop its various dumb rules in light of the shifting landscape.

Wisconsin is having a very good year. They also had very good years in 2020-21 and 2023-24.

In 2019-20, 21-22, 22-23, and 24-25, they were complete ass.

Pick a lane, Wisconsin.

Quote from: BearLover on April 08, 2026, 11:32:07 PMhttps://x.com/SchlossmanGF/status/2042064017284595917?s=20

More crap from the modern NCAA. This doesn't help us at all. We already beat Brown by 3 goals every time we play them.

Unless he transfers here.

Quote from: adamw on April 03, 2026, 11:33:32 AMThis might help

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/reports/team-nhl/Cornell/18

Thanks! Naturally, Ryan O'Byrne the only one over 1 PIM/game.

God I loved him.

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Quote from: CU2007 on April 02, 2026, 10:48:22 PMMalinski is going to end up very high on the list of most successful NHL careers by a Cornellian.

damn near impossible to get higher than three

Who is #3 right now anyway?

Matt Moulson, most likely.  Brian Hayward and Douglas Murray are in the discussion.

Riley Nash had a much longer NHL career than I realized.

https://www.hockey-reference.com/amateurs/team.cgi?t=cor01

Quote from: BearLover on April 01, 2026, 12:35:47 PMhttps://x.com/SchlossmanGF/status/2039356887250964661?s=20

This is bad. It is bad when the weaker members of our conference get even worse.

Given that Colgate gave us trouble and was the gooniest team we saw this season, I support all their players leaving.

That being said, I get your larger point.

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Quote from: BearLover on March 30, 2026, 05:58:55 PMY'all thought this year was the rebuilding year?

We lost more than half our active roster last offseason.

Yes, meaning that next year an overwhelming majority of our team is going to be underclassmen.

Maybe we're working with different definitions of rebuilding? I think replacing all those players from last year to this year was tougher than replacing a few top players from this year to the next. Especially given how good our freshman class looked this season.

Now, if you're looking for pessimism, I don't think there's been enough talk about the possibility that some players leave unexpectedly via transfer portal.

Fair enough - I guess I'm using "rebuilding year" as a euphemism for "down year," which I expect next year to be even more so than I did this past season.

As for possible transfers, well, yeah, that's always been a possibility. Given no one has transferred other than Robertson I'd think it's unlikely we lose any impact players that way, but obviously no one can say.

I'm more optimistic about next year than I was this year. Fewer guys to replace, and Casey is less of a question mark in my mind (if he ever was one).

Quote from: BearLover on March 30, 2026, 06:38:34 PM

Quote from: Dafatone on March 30, 2026, 06:34:47 PM

Quote from: BearLover on March 30, 2026, 05:58:55 PMY'all thought this year was the rebuilding year?

We lost more than half our active roster last offseason.

Yes, meaning that next year an overwhelming majority of our team is going to be underclassmen.

Maybe we're working with different definitions of rebuilding? I think replacing all those players from last year to this year was tougher than replacing a few top players from this year to the next. Especially given how good our freshman class looked this season.

Now, if you're looking for pessimism, I don't think there's been enough talk about the possibility that some players leave unexpectedly via transfer portal.

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Quote from: BearLover on March 30, 2026, 05:58:55 PMY'all thought this year was the rebuilding year?

EVERY year is a rebuilding year. Get used to it - or drive yourself insane.

This is not remotely true in recent Cornell history. For example, going into 2024-25 we lost one player who was in the lineup (to graduation). No one left early, no one transferred.

That team had exactly 1 drafted player that wasn't a Freshman ... Hank Kempf, a 7th rounder. This year's team has 7 drafted players that aren't freshman, and 2 that are.

OK, but my point is that not every year need be a rebuilding year. In recent Cornell history, most years have not been. 22-23 another good example. Stienburg (third round pick, over a point per game) returned, and so did everyone else. We've had very few early departures over the years. Until now, I guess.

That's not true at all. Dating back to Hynes Pokulok O'Byrne etc.

I will forever cite Pokulok to argue that draft position isn't everything.