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Season ended tonight for Des Moines. On the team were Ryland Randle and Henry Major.

Randle: 19 y/o defenseman, played on the second pair for Des Moines. 36 points in 62 games, will almost certainly come in this fall and compete for a spot in the lineup.

Major: winger, turned 19 in March, brother of Charlie. 26 points in 57 games. I would actually bet on him to come in this fall as well. He turned it on toward the end of the season, and I would guess he wants more than just 1 year of playing with his brother. Though, another year in the USHL would probably be better for his development.

This year really shows how anyone can win the tourney. Both Wisconsin and Denver weren't one seeds and needed miracle goals at some point to send games to OT and save their seasons. Just keep making the tourney and this will be us one year.

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Quote from: stereax on April 10, 2026, 12:42:08 AMDylan Duke hitting the door to make sure it stays shut. Lmao.

Tyler Duke, Dylan is long gone from college

Fuck, I forgot 😅 you're right

Just wait till you hear about Luca Fantilli

Quote from: stereax on April 10, 2026, 12:42:08 AMDylan Duke hitting the door to make sure it stays shut. Lmao.

Tyler Duke, Dylan is long gone from college

Im so lost... tried looking this up a little while ago and couldn't find anything I could understand. So it's 4 years starting when you enter college? Then why would Castagna/Hoyts rights expire if they didn't leave this year?

Quick lowdown on our prep guys:

Nolan Long: Aiden's brother, at Saint Andrews. Center that put up 52 points in 35 games in his age 17 season this year. Great offensive numbers but doubt we bring him in now. Would guess he spends next year in the OHL and we'll see what he can do there.

Charlie Puglisi: This is an interesting one. Forward, 107 points in 60 games this year in his age 17 season. Plays at the Winchendon school. He is ranked on the NHL draft rankings. Should he go undrafted, I assume we give him a year in his junior league of choice before bringing him in. But, if he is drafted we have a decision to make. Bring him in this year, when I don't think he'll be able to consistently crack the lineup, or give him a year in juniors which leaves him with only 2 years in college before likely leaving to sign with his NHL team. Curious to see what plays out with him.

Jack Broderick: Kent school forward,  97 points in 51 games which is great but he's been 18 all season so a bit old for the level. Should get a year of juniors before coming in as well.

Luca Diplacido: Saint Andrews defenseman. Age 17 season this year, 24 points in 29 games. Will spend at least a year in the O before coming.

Charlie Sullivan: Saint Andrews defenseman. 14 points in 35 games in his age 16 season. Will return to Saint Andrews next year and probably at least a year of juniors after that.

Season over for Maddex Marmulak, Cole Tuminaro, Sam Peckham, and Nick Cirka.

I forgot about Anthony Dontigny last time but his season with Rimouski in the Q ended after the regular season. Forward, Turned 18 in March, scored 1 point in 20 BCHL games and 6 in 26 in the Q. Probably needs two more years at least in juniors.

Marmulak - 18 year old center, 27 points in 64 games which is minimal improvement from last year despite a better team. Needs two more years most likely.

Tuminaro - 19 year old 6 foot 4 D man. 16 points in 57 games but is ranked on the NHL draft list, so presumably uses his size well and is solid defensively. Should come in this summer.

Peckham - 18 year old D man, had a drop off in scoring for Edina High before going scoreless in 4 USHL games. Probably 2 more years.

Cirka - 6 foot 4 goalie, turned 18 in March. Awful .873 save percentage with Halifax this year, but his team sucked. Also on the NHL draft list, so presumably has something more than his size, just haven't seen it yet. Needs at least another year in juniors.

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Quote from: Trotsky on March 27, 2026, 08:36:09 PMA reminder this is the first time Cornell had gone to the NC$$s 4x in a row since 1967-70.

All these underclassmen are a year older next year.

This team is going to get better.

Cornell went to the tournament 4 times in a row from 2017 to 2020 also. They were locked for a 1 seed in 2020.

Next year is going to be very rough if Walsh and Castagna aren't back, and realistically we need both back to be nationally competitive.

I'm hopeful today left a bad enough taste in their mouth that they won't want to go out this way.

We lost a lot more in talent last season than we will this season, even if both Walsh and Castagna go. Kempf, O'Leary, Rego, Bancroft, Kovich, Mack, Robertson, Penney, Psenicka, Suda, Shane.

That's two whole entire lines and d-pairs and a goalie.

We can recover from losing two star centers and a few fringe players (no offense, Keopple, Donaldson, DeSantis, Wallace, and O'Brien).

Do we have centers coming in this year? Hopefully at least one good one.

Gio, Charlie, buds, time to step it up if both Walsh and Casty go.

I don't expect any to come in. Could be Major, DiGiulian, Devlin, Catalano, Arsenault as the center depth next year, which would be rough.

Time to start looking ahead to 2027-28?

Nah, the centers will be by far our weakest position group (assuming Walsh and Castagna go) but everything else should be improved from this year.

I know you said that in jest but I just want to say that I am pretty optimistic about next year.

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Quote from: Trotsky on March 27, 2026, 08:36:09 PMA reminder this is the first time Cornell had gone to the NC$$s 4x in a row since 1967-70.

All these underclassmen are a year older next year.

This team is going to get better.

Cornell went to the tournament 4 times in a row from 2017 to 2020 also. They were locked for a 1 seed in 2020.

Next year is going to be very rough if Walsh and Castagna aren't back, and realistically we need both back to be nationally competitive.

I'm hopeful today left a bad enough taste in their mouth that they won't want to go out this way.

We lost a lot more in talent last season than we will this season, even if both Walsh and Castagna go. Kempf, O'Leary, Rego, Bancroft, Kovich, Mack, Robertson, Penney, Psenicka, Suda, Shane.

That's two whole entire lines and d-pairs and a goalie.

We can recover from losing two star centers and a few fringe players (no offense, Keopple, Donaldson, DeSantis, Wallace, and O'Brien).

Do we have centers coming in this year? Hopefully at least one good one.

Gio, Charlie, buds, time to step it up if both Walsh and Casty go.

I don't expect any to come in. Could be Major, DiGiulian, Devlin, Catalano, Arsenault as the center depth next year, which would be rough.

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Quote from: stereax on March 27, 2026, 06:44:43 PMDo my eyes deceive me or did Denver score again

Right off the faceoff. Not good

Deflection.  I do not blame Alexi for either.

you can't let in every deflection. Those were both very savable, the first one with better positioning and the second with a quicker reaction. But yeah everyone is playing like shit it's not just Alexis.

Alexis gotta have one of those. Shit man

Horrendous decision making from Wyttenbach leads to Providence goal. I want the ECAC to win generally but it would be hilarious if they choke this.

Haven't seen anyone mention it: it's our Ithaca boy in net for Providence. The one that gave us a good game with the USNTDP 2 years ago.

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Quote from: chimpfood on March 23, 2026, 12:25:37 AMMichael Dec and Cal Hughes finish their season with the dreadful Erie Otters. Dec closes at 68 points in 62 games this season behind 3 tonight. Hughes ends with 23 points in 58 games. Both should come in for us next year.

Also coming to a merciful end is Baie Como Drakkar's season. Aiden Kirkwood (just turned 18) posted 10 points in 60 games, and Declan Wotton (still 16) put up 6 points in 28 games.

All are forwards.

Defenseman Sam Peckham finished up his high school career at Edina and is now with Waterloo in the USHL. Three games (as the seventh defenseman) so far no points.

I'll try to post stuff for our other juniors guys when their seasons end, but everyone else in the CHL is on to playoffs, USHL still has a few more regular season games.

Dec appears to be a very good recruit. We have an extremely good hit rate with our St. Andrews pipeline...hopefully Syer at Princeton doesn't eat into it too much.

I think recruiting is a bit lacking otherwise, given that the bar has been raised with the pool of players massively expanding.  We'll see.   

To be fair, our senior class is tiny and only 2 of them are daily lineup players - DeSantis and O'Brien, both of whom you can replace with, say, Arseneault/Murray (or Dec/Hughes) and Gorski/Wolfenberg/whatever other dmen we have because we have like 5 extra. The more pressing concern from a "next year recruit" standpoint is the center depth if either of Walsh or Casty (or both) go. In either case, I'm sure we'll figure it out.

Our recruiting seems to signal that Castagna and Walsh both might go. We have three senior forwards but at least four forward recruits coming in. And we already have a big roster so unlikely we're adding extra guys just for the hell of it.

I hate to say it, but I also wouldn't be surprised if we lose one or two defensemen that we're expecting to stay too. We lose one to graduation, and look poised bring in two, even though we already have Gorski and Wolfenberg as solid depth. I'm not sure we would add Randle last minute unless there was word of a new departure, but we'll see.

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Quote from: Trotsky on March 24, 2026, 04:23:48 AMCongratulations to Dartmouth, winners of as many ECAC championships as Northeastern, UNH, and Quinnipiac.

Man, Rand Pecknold is such a choker.

Choker in the ECAC, yet consistently meets or exceeds expectations in the NCAA. Three finals appearances in a 10-year span is incredible for an ECAC school.

Could be a sample size thing, could be that teams who have already locked up an NCAA birth don't play with the same edge in their conference tournament.

But Rand's choking is specific to the ECAC tournament. Which makes it even stranger.

Inverse Schafer.

We had a very long stretch of not winning the ECAC before 24