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Seems like a fairly typical schedule for us -- Georgetown, PSU, and Syracuse are the notable out of conference games that will provide the greatest tests.

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Quote from: stereax on June 27, 2026, 03:56:51 PM202 - Charlie Puglisi to Nashville!

Only two Cornellians drafted. Caton Ryan didn't make the cut; neither did Daniel Walters.

This, of course, proves that you can be very Good At Hockey without being drafted.

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Quote from: stereax on June 27, 2026, 01:08:36 PMCleaves (Dartmouth) at 93 to MIN. No Cornellians taken yet.

Tuminaro to COL with 140. (...Which the Devils traded away for 149 and 222.) First Cornellian off the board!

Especially nice for a player when a team trades up to pick you.

Corey Pronman of The Athletic did a 7-round draft and "selected" 3 of our recruits: Charlie Puglisi to Nashville at pick 179, Cole Tuminaro to Detroit at 196, and Daniel Walters to San Jose at 201.

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Quote from: stereax on June 14, 2026, 11:54:25 PMI will be in mourning for the next 3 to 5 business days, do not talk to me 💜

What happened?

I have to watch the fuckass Canes paraded around the entire Internet with their cupcake Cup win.

I've already muted Twitter notifications. Will probably unmute them in like 3-5 days once things start turning to prospect/draft stuff instead.

so this was a lose lose for you? Since you said you would never cheer for vegas...

You're confusing her with someone else. She likes Vegas although the Devils are 1st

Quote from: Snowball on June 08, 2026, 03:43:14 PMNo, sorry to disappoint you but no Deep Throat in the hockey office. Coach Casey couldn't pick me out of a lineup. My daughter's at Cornell for an MEng, and I did run into Casey during Reunion weekend and chatted with him for a bit. Super friendly guy and so upbeat. That Canadian charm...

That said, I do have a friend-of-a-friend local connection to the program, so every now and then a small nugget of information drifts my way.

Actually I just remembered an interesting thing he told a group of us - hockey practice was changed to the mornings before classes, I think he said 7. He says it works much better for the team with their academics. Oh yeah and he or Schaefer said that they thought the team with the new additions was going to be deeper than last year. So a lot to look forward to! Go Big Red.

I met Casey at last year's reunion, and he couldn't have been nicer or more upbeat. A great man to lead our program.

Article about QB recruit Dax Labrum's commitment. Note that seeing the new field house during his visit made a big impression on him.

https://www.si.com/college/fcs/ivy/california-qb-dax-labrum-commits-to-cornell-football-after-all-league-season

Quote from: chimpfood on June 05, 2026, 10:44:18 PMThey posted pictures on Instagram and my lord do these kids look like scrubs. I don't have high hopes for next year but hopefully a couple of them pop and we can build around them

On paper Williams looks like the best of the bunch, but it often doesn't play out that way.

Quote from: stereax on June 03, 2026, 02:44:08 PMI have happened upon a copy of the EP draft guide.

Nick Cirka, Cole Emerton, Cole Tuminaro, Daniel Walters are in it. Anyone want their writeups?

(Charlie Puglisi isn't in it, mildly surprising to me. Neither is Caton Ryan, for those wondering, though Cooper Cleaves is.)

Of course we want the write ups (thanks in advance)

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

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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.