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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...

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?

Difficult to attract top recruits on a consistent basis like princeton when lacking prestige and being in the middle of nowhere.

Might as well root for vegas now

Quote from: dbilmes on May 09, 2026, 08:45:50 PMHopkins shut us down even though it was missing one of its top defenders, who was in crutches on sidelines.
Cornell had chances to blow the game open in first half when we were winning every faceoff. But too many turnovers and poor offensive possessions. It's not like we ran into a hot goalie.

If anything, our goalie was playing lights out

What happened to cascadden? Stopped winninf fos altogether

We are getting shafted

Im scared of princeton

https://x.com/russbites/status/2045298327080612033?s=20

Will karma bite us?

Quote from: stereax on April 17, 2026, 08:45:38 PMNo, but what the fuck does he mean by next level??? Did he watch that stupid McKenna Hobey video on loop and get convinced that the ECAC isn't real NCAA hockey?

well if you put it that way, he may have a point 😁.jk a former yale goalie doing very well with the sabres. Ezac teams can def produce good goalies.

wow fuck this dude

Quote from: BearLover on April 17, 2026, 02:25:07 PM

Quote from: Cornell troll on April 17, 2026, 02:23:44 PMI wish him all the worst

careful, if you say stuff like this a bunch of folks on here are going to stalk your elynah posts for the next 15 years

ngl I thought this courn guy was the start of something beautiful akin to dryden but man it sucks. I hope the McNally report shows some kind of academic struggle or financial issues having forced him to look elsewhere (I doubt any of these could have been the cause though).

I wish him all the worst

I need to learn not to be too attached to individual players. It sucks. Almost like I want the team to be mediocre filled with mediocre players in the hopes that no one leaves and everyone finishes their degrees.

Quote from: BearLover on March 31, 2026, 05:44:38 PM

Quote from: Pghas on March 31, 2026, 05:24:06 PMThere are 2 sides to this coin.  Yers, it would be nice to keep great players for 4 years.  On the other hand, for Cornell to take the next steps towards a frozen four berth, they probably need to recruit some players who are first round or high first-round draft picks.  They need that level of speed and skill, and those guys will leave after a year or two.  But for those elite players, thats the pathway now.  Harvard had Laferriere and Coronado a few years back.  Everyone knew those guys weren't playing 4 years.  Now the money issue has reared its head so it remains to be seen how Cornell will be able to pull it off. Say you are Cornell and you are recruiting Gavin McKenna.  What do you offer him?  we will compete for ECAC and national championships, you will play in front of  the Lynah Faithful, but we cannot offer you 700K and probably, since you'll only be here a year, cannot offer you a Cornell degree, though you can always come back here and finish it in a decade or so.  Something will have to give - either schools won't want to waste energy and money recruiting guys who will only be in college for a year and dont have any sense at all of being part of the program long-term, or the schools with more cash to throw around - and the willingness to do it - will win out.  Maybe it becomes a thing where you catch lightning in a bottle and a few guys you dont expect to light it up do.  Or if it comes down to Gavin McKenna for a year, you pony up the $ for that kid and go for it that year.

It's really not college sports in many ways anymore.  Like sports at all levels it is so much about the $. 

For Cornell to make a frozen four, they'll either need to recruit better talent OR get their existing talent to stay four years. We get good talent currently. Compared to the best teams in the country, our talent this season was probably on par with the talent of our 2003 frozen four team. A key difference was that our best players on that team stayed all four years. If Castagna, Walsh, Stanley, et al came back next season, we would have had one of our best chances at a frozen four in decades.

One competitive advantage Cornell has over the other top programs is that our degree is worth much more. We should retain players at a much higher rate than other schools. This is our best chance at success.

We are not competitive for the Gavin McKennas and do not even attempt to recruit them.

I'm not naive enough to expect every Castagna to stay four years, but we should be keeping the Stanleys at least. And if a Moulson/Greening/Ryan-level star  comes along who has clear NHL potential but wants to stay through graduation, then we've got a real shot. That sort of thing is probably our best bet to getting back to the frozen four. We can't beat the top programs in talent, but we can at least try to beat them in experience and development.

If players find graduating important, they always have the option of finishing it by taking courses remotely throughout their careers or returning to campus upon retirement.

Even the Harvard degree won't keep players from leaving earlier to maximize their probability of success at pro hockey. I think you are overestimating the value of cornell degree