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Quote from: stereax on April 17, 2026, 07:35:59 PM

Quote from: fastforward on April 17, 2026, 07:15:31 PMEmail came out for renewals - they open April 27 in case anyone missed the email.
Not sure what my family plans to do - hopefully they renew! Love Big Red Hockey!

I Will Be Back, barring my untimely death between now and the 27th 💜

Isaac's Crew will return, assuming I'm not too stoned out of my gourd on painkillers when the 27th arrives. Surgery is finally this Friday.

Quote from: stereax on April 17, 2026, 01:52:21 PM

Quote from: Beeeej on April 17, 2026, 01:08:28 PMDana "Ocean" Wallace, Winter's little brother, just entered the transfer portal after two years at St. Cloud State where he got only slightly more ice time than I did. I assume Cornell isn't going to be interested, though maybe he'll end up with Winter at St. Thomas.

I figured when Winter entered the portal that he'd go to SCSU to play with his brother. Maybe they'll reunite.

"Frasier, believe me, no ballplayer is in Seattle because of the Mariners." - Sam Malone

Dana "Ocean" Wallace, Winter's little brother, just entered the transfer portal after two years at St. Cloud State where he got only slightly more ice time than I did. I assume Cornell isn't going to be interested, though maybe he'll end up with Winter at St. Thomas.

Quote from: RichH on April 16, 2026, 04:33:40 PM

Quote from: Trotsky on April 16, 2026, 02:13:26 PM

Quote from: arugula on April 16, 2026, 01:49:48 PMSandruck has played on five teams this year.  What's that about?  Is he committed to another school, sounds like he's got some, ahem, issues

Only 4, the fifth line is aggregate.

He's from just outside Rochester.  Those people are all crazy.

BTW, AI so probably nonsense but:

QuoteMichael Sandruck reportedly decommitted from Cornell due to a lack of expected progress in his development, according to forum discussions. It was suggested that the decision for him to leave the recruiting class may have been initiated by the university.

    Source: eLynah Forum Discussion (November 2025)*
    Reason: Did not progress as hoped, per forum, making it likely a mutual or school-initiated separation.

* We have achieved the Ouroboros.

So the Russian bots posting here were just a diversion to train the AI ubermodels? Oh man, we'll bring down the economy by ourselves, if true.

And how do you feel about So the Russian bots posting here were just a diversion to train the AI ubermodels? Oh man, we'll?

Quote from: The Rancor on April 16, 2026, 11:19:19 AMDoug "Crankshaft" Murray wasn't known as a scorer lol.

Boom

True, yet up until this month he was Cornell's all-time leading scoring d-man in the NHL.

A fond memory of the 2003 Frozen Four team is chatting with Murray about his "playing style" - one of his favorite things to do was finish a hit against an opposing forward by pinning him to the wall and laughing in his ear as loud as he could.

Quote from: BearLover on April 16, 2026, 10:49:35 AM

Quote from: sah67 on April 15, 2026, 12:10:05 PMWith an assist last night, Malinski hits the 40 point mark for the season (8G, 32A). It's especially impressive given that he has gotten almost zero power-play time, except on the rare occasions when Makar and Toews are both out of the lineup.

Is Malinski the first Cornell defensemen to ever hit 40 points in the NHL?

In a season? Yes. Douglas Murray topped out at 17 one season but totaled 64 for his career. No other Cornell d-man has ever even hit 40 points total.

Quote from: The Rancor on April 16, 2026, 10:32:17 AMCoco Armstrong January highlight reel:

Ironworker OTM

That first goal off the steal is glorious.

Love this kid's style and his obvious joy.

Quote from: BearLover on April 16, 2026, 09:44:51 AM

Quote from: stereax on April 16, 2026, 12:11:00 AM

Quote from: stereax on April 15, 2026, 08:43:24 PMTeams potentially interested in Quentin Miller: BC, BU, WMU.

Divver says Cornell recruited Miller before Denver? And that we could get involved.

Casey probably recruited him from Quebec last season when he was looking for a goalie and ended up getting Cournoyer. I'm sure Casey will inquire but I'd be shocked if a 4th round pick were willing to drop from the NCHC to the ECAC.

If he's looking at three more years of Hicks being Denver's go-to, which is not at all an unreasonable assumption, then he may be looking for a place where he's more likely to be the #1. Cornell has both hockey and goalie bona fides, and as has been suggested here in other contexts, a Cornell degree has significantly more cache than all the other NCHC schools. I'm not saying it'll happen, but it wouldn't surprise me nearly as much as it apparently would you.

Quote from: BearLover on April 15, 2026, 05:32:59 PM

Quote from: ugarte on April 15, 2026, 04:29:28 PMmy feeling about this, as always, is that i share a romantic attachment to college sports (and cornell sports in general) but that it remains improper to pretend that there is a place to regulate a maximum wage to preserve the ability to preserve the number of schools able to compete at the top level. college sports is now a multibillion dollar business. it is effectively a near-free minor league for professional sports. as such, the players should get paid a market wage. NIL is a jury-rigged solution to that conflict.

the place for romantic amateurism is in division iii, which has all of the virtues you seek but (apparently) none of the competition you want to watch.

I'm not interested in arguing about the ethics of paying or not paying athletes, but we're all Cornell fans, so obviously we aren't going to randomly start following D-III sports. I root for Cornell because I went there and loved attending the hockey games (and occasionally other sports like lacrosse).  I would not have had that experience at a D-III school. If athletes getting paid ruins Cornell's ability to compete, then I (and sounds like most others here) will quit following and just do something else with my/our time. That's one of many costs to the end of amateurism even if you happen to think it's a fairer system overall.

I dunno, man, one of my poker buddies went to Oswego and brought us to a game up there several years ago (Saturday night, following him joining us for the Friday night game at Lynah), and he and his fellow alums seemed just about as nuts for their program as we've been for ours. No scholarships, very few possibilities of going pro, but plenty of school spirit and love for the game. Maybe your experience would've been different, no idea - but there definitely isn't an inherent lack of devotion to hockey at D-III schools.

Per the exchange, Keopple is already offering autographs for $20.

But why is Cournoyer in there?

Quote from: scoop85 on April 15, 2026, 01:47:55 PMCoincidence or not, here's Cornell's launch of an NIL initiative:

https://cornellbigred.com/news/2026/4/15/baseball-athletics-launches-big-red-exchange-to-connect-student-athletes-and-businesses-for-nil-opportunities.aspx

"Big Red Exchange also integrates secure payment processing, enabling businesses to compensate student-athletes directly within the platform. The system automatically generates IRS 1099 forms within each student-athlete's Influencer app, simplifying compliance and tax reporting."

Genius.

Hm, maybe the defensive corps can build me a deck.

It's official, Courns is live in the portal. No team listed as the takers yet, though.

Quote from: George64 on April 15, 2026, 10:06:17 AMThis from a friend, not about hockey, but speaks to the sorry state of college athletics:
"Don't know if I mentioned this, but the Wall Street Journal had an article a week or so ago about Michigan's basketball program, with the coach saying that he doubts that he will ever again enter the home of a high school recruit, that all of his recruiting will be from the portal and he will have plenty of dollars to do the talking."

Transfer portal

So far, only Cornellian listed is Winter Wallace, who's a grad transfer.

That's what I'm still seeing, too.

On the other hand, A.J. Lacroix being listed with 21 years of eligibility remaining doesn't exactly lend me confidence in overall accuracy here.

So amid all this doomsaying and speculating over why, am I seriously the only one who's noticed that Courns has not actually yet shown up in the portal? We're taking the word of a tweet over (so far, anyway) the actual facts on the ground. If it happens, well, shit. But I like my garments too much to rend them prematurely, and I look terrible in sackcloth and ashes.

Quote from: stereax on April 13, 2026, 05:53:26 PM

Quote from: Beeeej on April 13, 2026, 04:49:01 PM

Quote from: Trotsky on April 13, 2026, 04:45:25 PMLarry Ellison drops dead tonight and I wake Tuesday to find myself his sole heir due to an incident at the Molly Pitcher rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1983 I had expunged from my memory but which he treasured forever.

I have 200 billion dollars.

Can I just buy us players now?  How would I do that?

First there's the 10 billion dollar research fee to your attorney...

Attorneys! Just wait for me to pass the bar please <3

If someone can endow your position, I'll hire ya.