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Quote from: stereax on May 29, 2026, 09:07:29 PMokay the stanleyagoth spam is getting out of hand. remind me why mods can't ban obvious bots?

Because the admin has never given mods the power to ban, only to delete posts. I've notified Age that the problem is once again out of control and well beyond my capacity to address.

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Quote from: stereax on May 26, 2026, 01:43:26 PMNow who are the As gonna be... I want to say Catalano gets one? And maybe they hit one of our transfer sophomore Dmen (Fisher or Ashton) with one? Rest of the senior class is Kraft, Devlin, Fegaras. Could also see Kraft getting one a la FFJOL.

I'd be cool with that!
Whoever they choose will be a great Assistant!

You can't go wrong!

Not Fegaras. 

Hey, it would be entertaining at least.

But on a realer note, we don't know the locker room dynamics. Could be he'd make a great A, Tkachuk-style.

It would be legal for him to argue with the ref on the way to the box.  That's a win.

As if players don't already do that.

Where's my curious Fegaras drawing...

"Of all the arguments that players have ever had with refs, really, the refs have won the vast majority of them." - Grady

Quote from: ACM on May 26, 2026, 11:17:31 AMCaptain named for 26-27 season

Ha! Love it. Answers so many questions.

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Quote from: The Rancor on May 22, 2026, 02:50:27 PMWisconsin added another goalie, Xander Miceli. Anton Castro apparently out.

The hell are they gonna do with all these goalies?

"I've finally got my band!!"

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Quote from: arugula on May 22, 2026, 12:54:05 PMHopefully a strong Frozen Apple opponent

Nothing on MSG's website yet. Occasionally they have it before anyone else, though probably not intentionally on Cornell's part.

Usually July?

We've heard as early as April in some years. Can never hurt to check.

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Quote from: arugula on May 20, 2026, 04:37:05 PMNot shaping up as strong OOC

I mean so far we have SHU, who are paying us back for our visit in 24-25, and Omaha, who we're paying back for our games last year. Again, I still think Omaha is a sneaky team that would be really good in a weaker conference, they just have the misfortune of playing in the NCHC. :')

I think we'll get one or two good OOC series to make up for it, though.

Hopefully a strong Frozen Apple opponent

Nothing on MSG's website yet. Occasionally they have it before anyone else, though probably not intentionally on Cornell's part.

Quote from: stereax on May 22, 2026, 07:15:37 AMAs per Bucci, trapezoid rule will start next year in Div 1 hockey.

I was pulling for a Buckminsterfullerene rule instead, but this'll do.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.