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Gardiner looks like an impact player from day 1 who will fit in well with our style of play

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Quote from: jeff '84 on May 25, 2026, 02:17:51 PMNotre Dame led Princeton 3-0 five minutes into the game. It is now 11-3 Princeton at halftime. WOW they are good.
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Quote from: jeff '84 on May 25, 2026, 02:17:51 PMNotre Dame led Princeton 3-0 five minutes into the game. It is now 11-3 Princeton at halftime. WOW they are good.

Maybe don't feel so bad about that ILT championship game now.

I'm more worried about how we're supposed to stay competitive in recruiting with a program that has far better facilities and far more money. They've been lapping us in recruiting.

Princeton's been lapping everyone in recruiting along with UNC, Notre Dame, and Duke (Virginia had an off year recruiting and now has the coaching controversy). Our 2027 class appears stronger than the 2026 class, and the new fieldhouse will be a plus. So long as Buczek is provided sufficient administrative support I'm confident he and his staff will keep us competitive with the top programs. But the other Ivies are all putting emphasis on lacrosse as a showcase sport, so we can't slack off.

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Quote from: BearLover on May 24, 2026, 11:15:34 AMSeems like on the average day this forum has somewhere between 2 and 10 Russian bots signing up for accounts.

After reading any interesting threads, the "Mark Read" button is a pretty quick way to keep the site current.  That is a simple thing we can do between the times the Mods have a chance to eliminate Spam threads and update security.

Bingo

Quote from: stereax on May 23, 2026, 04:21:44 AM

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Quote from: BearLover on May 21, 2026, 06:12:17 PMApparently hockey (like all of hockey...the NCAA hockey programs, junior leagues, NHL, etc.) is lobbying the NCAA to push back the start of 5-year eligibility by one season. Per Mike McMahon: "In its place, hockey's brass offered a counter-proposal: start the eligibility clock the season following an athlete's 19th birthday, or upon college enrollment—whichever comes first." If this happens, scratch what I said about the Ivies being well positioned, and flip that on its head--the Ivies, which are among the very few schools that don't permit grad students, would be uniquely poorly positioned in such a world.

I mean, does that change a lot? Eligibility clock starts in your 20yo season. That's when a lot of our guys come in anyway. It's 5 years, okay, more grad transfers maybe, but I'd say for the most part in a post-pandemic world, grad transfers aren't that important. Q's run excepted.

More of our players come in at 18 or 19. Now those players will play a grad year at Q or Duluth or something. So will other teams' players. Or Q's players will stay at Q for five years. Fifth year seniors were a big factor in the post-COVID years so I don't see why it would be any different if the rule becomes permanent.

It seems probably moot anyway since I don't really see why the NCAA would go along with hockey's proposal. So many more kids in other sports would do post-grad years. It would significantly increase the number of 19-y/o freshmen in other sports. One of the purposes of the rule change was to bring down the age of college athletes so I don't know why the NCAA would agree to hockey's proposal.

why would so many kids in other sports do post-grad years when they don't do so now?

Competition will force them to do post-grad years: it's a way to get a leg up on the competition. There will be even fewer roster spots per student when the same kid can occupy a spot for 5 years rather than 4, and it will be even harder for kids who skip the post-grad year to compete with kids who have that extra year of training/experience.

You're forgetting one thing: who's doing 5 years?

Mack Celebrini isn't doing 5 years. Gavin McKenna isn't doing 5 years. Porter Martone isn't doing 5 years.

The guys who are doing 5 years are overwhelmingly going to be guys who end up as minor league/Euro league lifers.

Or finance bros

Quote from: The Rancor on May 22, 2026, 02:54:12 PMI feel like there can't be many 5th year graduate school hockey players, now or in the future. I could be wrong. Mitch Gilliam was one at Notre Dame, right?

Galadja

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Quote from: stereax on May 15, 2026, 01:25:49 PMMcNally's final article for the Sun.

It's an awful piece, but she is entitled to one stinker.

The best thing about McNally is she has never written a piece like this before and never will again.  While mawkish blowhards  and talentless typists like Dan Shaughnessy and Mitch Albom reel them out weekly over 40-year careers, McNally never takes the easy way or the cheap derpy angle when she writes a real column.  She's a great analyst and a compelling writer, and she is worth reading.

Hopefully she'll keep doing that, and there will be a market for it.  1% of sportswriting is worth more than monitor toilet paper, and her work is in that category over half the time.  I cannot think of another sportswriter, ever, who fits this description. 

She's allowed her victory lap; it probably felt icky writing it but the pigs expect, and monetize, their slop.  Now, go out into the world and make sports journalism more than just the lazy, cliche mixture of sports marketing and overheated soap opera it has been for a century.

Sorry, hard disagree from me.

Quote from: stereax on May 15, 2026, 01:25:49 PMMcNally's final article for the Sun.

Terrific, as expected.

Quote from: stereax on May 12, 2026, 01:55:22 PMI'm gonna take a wild guess and say Walsh is staying for his senior year.

Could always still be wrong, but caption + comments makes me think he's made his decision to come back.

Did you notice that Robertson posted a comment?

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Quote from: nshapiro on May 05, 2026, 11:18:37 PMI was also at Rutgers in 1987.  I seem to remember Cornell going a man up in the last minute and failing to score.

Yes, here's the video of the game.  Goldstein was amazing, as usual.  Kessenich was pretty good too.

I was there, and while I don't remember a lot of the specific action it was clear in my mind that Quint was the difference maker.

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Quote from: nshapiro on May 05, 2026, 10:52:05 PMCommentator said earlier today that Malinski is a great find for the Avs.  Undrafted out of Lakeville MN and Cornell, but plays like a first round pick

Not just any commentator either: it was Erik Johnson, former #1 overall pick and Sam's teammate (and fellow Minnesotan and d-man) on Colorado last season.

I heard that too. High praise indeed.

Shout out to Cornell Tennis, which defeated Arkansas in the 1st round of the NCAA tournament in what is probably Arkansas last match. Last week Arkansas announced they are dropping men's and women's tennis after this season. Another casualty of the big money enviroment. After this year Arkansas will have just seven men's varsity sports, which is an embarrassment for a large state university in the SEC.

Last weekend Cornell upset Columbia 4-3 to win a share of the Ivy Title. In both matches, our No. 1 player, Rodrigo Fernandes, beat top 20 NCAA players to clinch the match. Against Columbia, Fernandes upset the 2-time defending NCAA singles champ, Michael Zheng, who has played in several professional tournaments and is ranked in the top 155 in the world. Quite a week for Fernandes. We now move on to likely play host TCU, which is ranked #2 nationally.

Yale famously took TD Ierlan as a transfer for lacrosse. I don't recall Princeton having brought in any athletes as transfers other than the Garretts years ago

Quote from: Al DeFlorio on April 28, 2026, 07:12:05 AMWay back, when the NHL had six teams, the playoffs opened with two series:  #1 vs. #3 and #2 vs. #4.  As the season drew to a close, the #3 and #4 teams could jockey for fourth place and the more desirable first-round opponent, while making sure they didn't slip down to 5th place and miss the playoffs.  Very strange way of doing things.

Yeah, that setup made about as much sense as the NHL's current ridiculous playoff format

Some Cornell on Cornell violence (or crimebaggery if you prefer) last night as Malott checked Malinski hard into the boards, leaving Sam with a cut above his eye that required stitches.

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Quote from: scoop85 on April 22, 2026, 08:57:32 AMFor those who aren't aware, Christian Swezey, who a few years ago wrote a fantastic book about Cornell's legendary 1970's teams, has just released a chronicle of last year's championship run:

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501790881/the-long-red-line/#bookTabs=1

It's also available through Amazon and most likely other outlets.

Quint wrote a nice blurb for the book. I'm surprised.

I think Quint's been pretty fair to our program in recent years.