ELynah Forum

Quote from: BearLover on August 20, 2026, 02:32:48 PMIn determining how optimistic we should be, for these twins, just like most of our 16- and early-17-year-old commitments, there's no real information to rely on. It's pure wait-and-see. That's just how it is unless the kid is on the USNTDP or was taking in the first round of a junior hockey draft or something to that effect.

My optimism is based on my trust in Casey and his staff to identify talent. While I don't expect blue chippers in this brave new world, our track record remains solid.

Quote from: arugula on August 14, 2026, 11:55:49 AM

Quote from: BearLover on August 14, 2026, 12:30:55 AMThe Ivies had a good season in 2025-26 and I expect them to improve further in the next few years. They're one of the few subsets of schools that isn't in total disarray in the new college hockey environment.

The Ivies are recruiting well, they have young new coaches, and their schools aren't on the verge of going bankrupt like most of the schools playing D1 hockey. Maybe most importantly, almost no one transfers out thanks to the value of the degree.

Whether the other Ivies improving is good for Cornell specifically is hard to say. If Cornell is after the same pool of recruits, then it's probably bad for us.

Sure helps the sos if Brown and Yale get a dead cat bounce out of the cellar.  It's really only those two who have been consistently bad recently, and obviously Yale is historically generally pretty to very good.  Plus the pizza.

While both teams have new coaches, I'd expect Yale to ramp up quicker than Brown based on a better recent history.

Quote from: Chris H82 on August 11, 2026, 06:27:03 PM

Quote from: scoop85 on August 11, 2026, 04:19:11 PM

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on August 11, 2026, 03:48:41 PM

Quote from: stereax on August 11, 2026, 02:51:13 PMCut to me confirming the law school break period is October 12 to 16 - likely have to make the trip to Poland again (dentist stuff) in that timeframe... if I leave Ithaca on the 9th and NJ on the 10th... guh, it's gonna be a HARD sell for my mother to leave me in Ithaca by the 16th...

I don't remember having ever been to a scrimmage - I think it's usually scheduled over my fall break and I get dragged off back to Jersey for those. It's not on the Google calendar though. They are public admission like the other games, right?

Your dentist is in Poland?!?!?  I though I was nuts that mine is 10 miles away in Bethlehem.

A man goes to his dentist in Warsaw. The dentist sits him down, examines his teeth, and says, "Sir, you have a major cavity, and it's going to cost 700 Zloty to fix." The patient looks shocked, jumps up, and yells, "Seven Hundred Zloty for just five minutes of work?!" The dentist calmly replies, "You're right. If it makes you feel better, I can drill very, very slowly."

And unfortunately, he's here all week, folks.    

Well, these are the dog days of summer 

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on August 11, 2026, 03:48:41 PM

Quote from: stereax on August 11, 2026, 02:51:13 PMCut to me confirming the law school break period is October 12 to 16 - likely have to make the trip to Poland again (dentist stuff) in that timeframe... if I leave Ithaca on the 9th and NJ on the 10th... guh, it's gonna be a HARD sell for my mother to leave me in Ithaca by the 16th...

I don't remember having ever been to a scrimmage - I think it's usually scheduled over my fall break and I get dragged off back to Jersey for those. It's not on the Google calendar though. They are public admission like the other games, right?

Your dentist is in Poland?!?!?  I though I was nuts that mine is 10 miles away in Bethlehem.

A man goes to his dentist in Warsaw. The dentist sits him down, examines his teeth, and says, "Sir, you have a major cavity, and it's going to cost 700 Zloty to fix." The patient looks shocked, jumps up, and yells, "Seven Hundred Zloty for just five minutes of work?!" The dentist calmly replies, "You're right. If it makes you feel better, I can drill very, very slowly."

Quote from: BearLover on August 05, 2026, 05:41:28 PM

Quote from: BearLover on August 05, 2026, 05:23:55 PMhttps://x.com/ClankoMedia/status/2084747398400684182

Syer apparently recently decommitted a bunch of '06 Princeton recruits. You can see all the crossed out names on Heisenberg's 2026 spreadsheet. And another crossed out name on the 2027 spreadsheet. Looks like 8 players total with '05 and '06 birth years have been decommitted, though I'm not sure if all were recent.

My thoughts on this:
Cornell never really does this at a large scale, even with recruits who don't pan out. Some of these kids committed under the old coach, but why wait over two years to decommit them? Could ostensibly be due to the new "start before your 20th birthday, else you lose a year" rule, but even in that case, they'd still get 3 years of eligibility. And there isn't much downside to keeping them on the roster even if they aren't good, since Princeton isn't subject to roster caps.

No roster caps, but an Ivy coach only gets so many slots with admissions, so it behooves them to make each of them count.

Quote from: ugarte on August 05, 2026, 04:05:14 PM

Quote from: scoop85 on August 05, 2026, 01:16:05 PMPer Verbal Commits, Cornell picked up 2027 6'5" shooting guard Caden Ivory out of Columbus, OH. Ivory had offers from Brown, BU, Air Force, Canisius, and Western Michigan. He's rated a 3* recruit and a top 30 combo guard nationally by 247 Sports, so looks like an excellent get for us.

class of?

Entering fall of 2027.

Per Verbal Commits, Cornell picked up 2027 6'5" shooting guard Caden Ivory out of Columbus, OH. Ivory had offers from Brown, BU, Air Force, Canisius, and Western Michigan. He's rated a 3* recruit and a top 30 combo guard nationally by 247 Sports, so looks like an excellent get for us.

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on August 01, 2026, 12:19:39 PM

Quote from: Weder on August 01, 2026, 11:00:06 AMIncoming class officially announced. Looks like the roster should be at 24 this year -- 3 G, 7 D, 14 F

Good.  Looks like we'll have a bit more depth this year.

As has been mentioned plenty, lack of depth was our Achilles heal last season.

Quote from: Old Red on July 23, 2026, 05:36:57 AM

Quote from: The Rancor on July 22, 2026, 10:35:06 PM

Quote from: Old Red on July 22, 2026, 04:02:23 PMJustin Tavares, son of NLL legend John Tavares and cousin of NHL star John Tavares, is transferring from University of Denver to Cornell for Lacrosse.  Any hopes that he might also play for our hockey team? 

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=justin+tavarres&cvid=6e6ad6d01ed640eda7a208195a7ceb80&gs_lcrp=EgRlZGdlKgYIABBFGDkyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQABhAMgYIAhAAGEAyBggDEAAYQDIGCAQQABhA0gEIMzExM2owajmoAgiwAgE&PC=U531&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3djustin%2btavarres%26cvid%3d6e6ad6d01ed640eda7a208195a7ceb80%26gs_lcrp%3dEgRlZGdlKgYIABBFGDkyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQABhAMgYIAhAAGEAyBggDEAAYQDIGCAQQABhA0gEIMzExM2owajmoAgiwAgE%26FORM%3dANAB01%26PC%3dU531&mmscn=vwrc&mid=6F146CC2AB557D7A8C706F146CC2AB557D7A8C70&FORM=WRVORC&ntb=1&msockid=1aeffa66860711f191447b85964baa0d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7mQHtVYPVk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qotXbqY5vKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aeMA0Duawo

Does he play hockey too?


Edit: Looked up his Hockey DB/Elite Prospect page. He had good numbers at Deerfield. 5'10" 170- maybe a little undersized. Maybe he's a practice squad guy with some upside?

If you watched the recordings you would see that Number 9 was Captain at Deerfield and a bit of a sniper. 

He entered recruitment for ice hockey.

Ned Harkness would have taken him for both, but I am not sure in this day you can play two sports.

The seasons overlap too much I think.

Quote from: Ken711 on July 22, 2026, 05:26:35 PMCornell's TE Ryder Kurst named to 1st Team on the FCS Preseason All-American Team.

https://cornellbigred.com/news/2026/7/22/kurtz-named-fcs-football-central-preseason-all-american.aspx

https://www.si.com/college/fcs/2026-fcs-football-central-preseason-all-american-team

That's quite an accolade. He's a terrific player.

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.

Quote from: stereax on June 27, 2026, 04:24:27 PM

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.

Sam Malinski entered the chat

Quote from: stereax on June 27, 2026, 02:44:07 PM

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.

Quote from: Cornell troll on June 15, 2026, 08:31:32 PM

Quote from: stereax on June 15, 2026, 02:07:19 PM

Quote from: Cornell troll on June 15, 2026, 12:07:07 PM

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