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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.

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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.

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Quote from: BearLover on April 09, 2026, 09:29:15 AMThis is not entirely on point, but I saw this online. Assuming it's accurate, it shows the extreme difficulty of revenue sharing for any school that doesn't have big-time football:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HFbbcipWQAAzxO4?format=jpg&name=large

true in one sense - quite the opposite in another.

if a school has no football team at all, and hockey is important to that school, it leaves a bunch of money left over for the hockey program ... see: Denver and Providence.

This graphic is specific to PSU and of course does not apply to every school, but your conclusion definitely can't be drawn from this graphic. It shows that once you subtract football from the equation, PSU athletics are far in the red. Basketball barely breaks even, everything else loses money. Football props up everything else. Schools without football are going to have a much more difficult time finding anything left over to share with athletes.

here we go again my man ... I am telling you factual information. Literally everyone is talking about the landscape in these terms. This is not me making subjective assertions out of thin air. Just for one example -- at the Frozen Four (and not for the first time) College Hockey Inc's director specifically mentioned (again) that the schools that add hockey going forward will be those without football programs. Why? Because of what I said. This is universally understood to be the case within hockey - yet for some reason, you tell me this isn't true. Amazing.

Denver and Providence, specifically -- the only two prominent hockey schools without football -- are going to be dedicating $500,000-plus of rev share money to hockey - which puts them in the upper 10% of hockey-playing schools. Conversely, Arizona State is getting $0 because all of its rev share money is going to football and basketball.

All of that is also in my Special Report, which I know you read.

Yes, I'm familiar with the argument. But you're responding to a chart that shows that, at PSU, football makes a ton of money, basketball breaks even, and every other sport, including hockey, loses a ton of money. Remove football from the equation and the athletic department is massively in the red. So why then are you saying that, "if a school has no football team at all, and hockey is important to that school, it leaves a bunch of money left over for the hockey program?" That's not what this chart shows at all! Sure, are there some special unicorn schools out there for which that's true. Probably North Dakota, uhh Denver hockey probably barely breaks even so I'll give you that one too. But that's not what this graphic shows.

Obvious caveats being this graphic is specifically for PSU and the accountant could have messed with the numbers. However, these numbers are similar to almost every state school's numbers that I've ever looked at.

I think your biggest problematic assumption here is that the economic effect of not having a football program's revenue or expenses at all at a hockey school is somehow the same as the economic effect of subtracting the revenue from the football program at an existing football + hockey school, and there's no reason that has to be true.

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...

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Quote from: Beeeej on April 13, 2026, 03:31:04 PMBeeeej Travelogue

(snipped for everyone's benefit)

Sounds like the three of you had a reasonably great time (all things considered) in Vegas. Very happy to read about it! I can't imagine that sort of trip with my daughter back when she was of a similar age. Closest we came was Disney when she was 3, and we also had grandparents to help out and no injuries to work through.

Let's be clear, btw, there were meltdowns, some screaming, and minor falls and bonks along the way. You can't put a toddler through that sort of experience without consequences. But we think it was worth it, and Isaac came through relatively unscathed. Our other motto where Isaac is concerned is that we're happy to take some credit for his disposition, but also "We got stupid lucky."

Beeeej Travelogue

In order to have any reasonable portion of Wednesday remaining after landing in Vegas, we had to get in an Uber to JFK at two in the morning. Isaac was a champ, wheeling his own carry-on around the airport in his Batman pajamas, but he didn't sleep much more on the flight, instead charming the pants off the entire plane as he walked up and down the aisle to burn energy. We were sharing a hotel suite with an old friend/fraternity brother of mine who was also landing first thing in the morning - so naturally when we arrived after going to the trouble of getting there early, the room wasn't ready yet. But it was ready by the time our take-out lunch was ready at the pool bar. Note to the kitchen: Double cheeseburgers should have their top buns applied before you close the take-out containers (duh). A hot afternoon splashing around in the pool, a shopping trip to Walgreens, additional groceries Uber Eatsed from Target (we always strive for full kitchens in our Vegas hotel rooms so that we can cook our breakfasts instead of spending $50-100 every morning), and Greek food delivered for dinner, and we somehow got a reasonable night's sleep.

A warm morning splashing around in the pool and some time on the phone with Security at T-Mobile Arena to be sure we could bring Isaac's potty backpack in with us, a slightly shorter "recharge" (read: nap) than usual, and we were at the first semifinal. I wish I'd known marty was going to be there, as I could've made a point of saying hi in person, but then again I didn't make much effort myself to ask in this space whether anyone else was going. That said, he was absolutely right - the sound levels were deafeningly insane, and thank goodness we had Isaac's headphones on him (and even then, we ended up supplementing with a pair of actual earplugs underneath, and he still asked to be taken to a quieter space a few times each game). Piped in music at every possible second of game stoppage (with rare interjections by the bands) is bad enough when it's not making your ears bleed - I seriously do not understand why they think it has to be so loud, but if the NCAA is genuinely after a family-friendly atmosphere this was a major failure on their part. (I think people must have complained after Thursday, since the volume was merely obnoxious on Saturday, as opposed to legitimately dangerous.)

Just as with MSG back in November, it took Isaac over a period to really warm up, but once he did, he was bouncing, dancing, chanting - definitely loving the fact that we were watching another team whose fans yell, "Let's Go Red!" But he also switched to "Let's Go Blue!" for the second semi, even adding "Let's Go Yellow!" of his own accord. I was really proud of myself when I grabbed sixth-row seats on the goal line back in October, but that was before I knew I was going to need the Revision surgery rather than having fully recovered from the original Knee Replacement - let's just say that was a fuckload of stairs to climb and descend several times a game with a knee in pain, a cane, and a toddler. Luckily the people in our section were patient with our comings and goings with Isaac (it helped that he charmed the pants off of most of them, too). And thank goodness for having a Family restroom mere yards away from the top of our section - but last week's Jackhole of the Week award goes collectively to every drunk asshole who decided that the Family restroom was a good way to skip the line and made me wait with my toddler to get in there while he somehow held his pee better than grown men.

The first semi was a fun game to watch, I just wish North Dakota had shown up to enjoy it as well. Wisco continued a great Cinderella story that began with them ungratefully spanking their NPI benefactors in the first round. NoDak barely made it interesting with the EAG, they really just were never in it. Isaac kept seeing NoDak's "fighting hawk" mascot then looking around a few minutes later and asking, "Where the pigeon go??" 

We spent the time between games hanging out in the vomitorium, partly because it was quieter, partly to meet up with another friend. One of dss28's closest friends, her roommate when she and I met, lives with her husband and daughter (almost exactly a year older than Isaac) in Medellín, but her husband still attends the Frozen Four every year with his father and brother, and the three of them graciously made their way all the way around from the other side (next to the NoDak band) to say hi and get photos. Friend and husband also still have a house in Baltimore, though - so we're subtly working on them to bring the whole family to the Frozen Four in DC next year instead of just the husband.

The second semi was more fun to watch in some ways but also tougher on Isaac because of the cumulative effect of the insane noise levels, the sort of sitting still, and the rapidly advancing hour. That said, he also enjoyed popcorn for the first time and got to talk about the puck going in the goal more times than in the first game. Honestly, dss28 and I were blown away by him making it all the way through two full games and the time in between - then somehow he also made it through the first OT, at least more or less. At that point we just couldn't do it to him anymore, and dss28 graciously took the hit to bring him back to the hotel. They turned on the TV literally thirty seconds before the GWG, so Isaac was happy he got to see it before night-night.

Friday was lots more time at the pool, Masters golf on TV, late lunch at Beer Park on the roof at Paris (again, very loud music - outdoors, in the middle of the day, while people are supposedly trying to eat, drink, and converse - did I really spend so little time away from the poker tables on my past trips, or has the atmosphere in Vegas just gotten that much more obnoxious?), hanging out with an old friend who now runs a sports massage business in the area and lives in Henderson with his wife and daughter.

Saturday morning brunch at Bardot Brasserie in the Aria, with another friend/fraternity brother who's been in Vegas for the better part of forty years, except for Cornell and law school in the middle, and is lead labor counsel for the Wynn organization. Met his girlfriend of three years for the first time (like other area friends, the last we'd seen him was Cornell hockey at T-Mobile in January, 2020), we highly approve, and we had lots of recommendations for their upcoming river cruise from Amsterdam to Basel since we did a similar cruise in the reverse direction with my parents almost seven years ago. Back to the hotel for another abbreviated recharge, and off to the natty, where we ran into adamw on our way from the merch table (Michigan shirt for my brother) to our seats and got to catch up with him for a few minutes - again, for the first time in person since the last Cornell hockey at T-Mobile.

It seemed like Wisco was controlling play again for most of the game, but Denver managed to show up for an entire period at the end instead of a few minutes, and that seems to have been the difference. Like I said it wasn't AS loud as the semis, but it was still pretty bad, and Isaac had to take a few breaks. He appreciated the teams saying "night night" to each other at the end, and how many fans stuck around to say their goodbyes to their teams as well. With as many people as there were pouring out of the arena afterward there's no way we were going to get a cab or an Uber, so we walked, and took advantage of stumbling across an Earl of Sandwich in the Miracle Mile shops for dinner. We thought we were getting together that night with yet another old friend (we met her and her then-husband on our honeymoon cruise), but her evening just got too complicated.

Sort of same plan in reverse for Sunday - we didn't want to lose the entire day, so we booked a later flight even though we knew we'd get home extremely late. I spent a lot of the morning in the pool with Isaac while dss28 started the packing process, we had an easy, breezy experience at the airport (I'm told that the hotels/casinos heavily subsidized the local TSA agents while they weren't being paid, in order to ensure LAS wouldn't have the same problems other airports were having), and there were "equipment problems" that delayed the start of our boarding until - miraculously - a few minutes after we'd watched Rory McIlroy close out his Masters repeat live. JFK is an absolute mess during construction - we had a LOT of crap with us including car seat and collapsible (but heavy) stroller, and we had to walk the better part of a mile to get to the taxi line on the ground level of the parking garage for terminal 5. In order to get an Uber, we'd have had to take the AirTrain to the Howard Beach stop, and at 1am and with a toddler there's no way in hell we're attempting that, much less spending the extra money on it. It also took three cabs before we found one with a deep enough back seat to accommodate our car seat, which was frustrating for all involved - luckily, the driver of that cab understood the assignment and activated the flux capacitor on his way to Brooklyn. Arrival at home, 2am today. Our motto on Monday mornings after Isaac's had his schedule upended over the weekend? "It's daycare's problem."

I spotted a few other Cornell jerseys in the crowd, but this has to be the first time I didn't run into any Cornellians I actually know. Maybe there were some in other sections, but I didn't hear from anyone else beforehand this year either. I also spotted fewer other schools' jerseys this year; not sure what that's about. A handful of them didn't happen until the walk out of the arena after the title game. Spotted this year (other than the four participating schools):

• Alaska-Anchorage
• Alaska-Fairbanks
• BC
• BU
• Bowling Green
• Brown
• Clarkson
• Colgate
• Cornell
• Maine
• Mass
• Mass-Lowell
• Merrimack
• Miami
• Michigan State
• Michigan Tech
• Minnesota
• Minnesota-Duluth
• Minnesota State
• New Hampshire
• Penn State
• Princeton
• Providence
• RIT
• RPI
• St. Cloud State
• Western Michigan
• (Div. III: Utica)

...and of course the obligatory Hanson trio in Chiefs jerseys. dss28 got many positive notices for her Kevin Dineen Whalers jersey, and Isaac looked very sharp in his red Cornell jacket.

I have photos, but our policy is not to share photos with Isaac's face in them on public fora or social media. Feel free to DM me with your mobile # if you feel you know me well enough and you're really interested, and I'll shoot a few good ones your way.

Next year in Jerusalem!

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Quote from: chimpfood on April 12, 2026, 12:27:20 AMSeason 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.

Additionally, in 3 playoff games, Randle had 2 assists and Major had 2 goals and 1 assist. Weird thing about Henry is that the USHL lists his birthday as April 7 and Elite Prospects gives him a March date. He's 19 either way, just a little unusual to see different dates.

That happens. One of my favorite guys in the world (Luke Woodworth) is listed as April 1st on EP but March 1st everywhere else. Also have a fun anecdote that the BU Dogpound, in I think Northeastern's old rink, put up a happy birthday message for their backup goalie, going off EP... and then got a DM thanking them, but his birthday was a few days later 😂

All this to say, don't trust EP with exact birthdays.

The BU Dogpound has social media accounts to which you can send DMs...?

Quote from: ugarte on April 03, 2026, 02:43:13 PMCorrie D'Alessio meeting with the Whalers GM.

Actual footage from Corrie D'Alessio's final appearance in goal.

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Quote from: adamw on April 03, 2026, 11:33:32 AMThis might help

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/reports/team-nhl/Cornell/18

did d'alessio get injured? wild that he got a cup of coffee in '92-93 then played a single AHL game the next season and then fell off the planet.

Not sure where you got single AHL game - the same season as his cup of coffee with the Whalers (literally less than a game), he played 23 games in the AHL (Springfield), then the following season played one game in the IHL. I think the 4.13 GAA and .853 save % for Springfield might have had something to do with why his career ended.

yes, that's what i meant. a cup of coffee amid the 92-93 season *then* only one game the following year. i can understand why he might have bounced around after the bad year in springfield but to have one (pretty good!) game in LV and then never again is a pattern that suggests an injury. i (we!) overlapped with him at cornell and he was a very highly regarded prospect (on campus) even though he shared time with Crozier who was far less heralded.

Got it - your notion of one game specifically in the AHL, rather than IHL, was what confused me. Anyway, I found this from the amusingly named "Hartford Whalers Legends" blog:

https://whalerslegends.blogspot.com/2011/03/corrie-dalessio.html

No injury is mentioned, just minor league struggles leading to his exit for greener pastures. Could be just speculation, of course. But remember IHL teams weren't affiliated with NHL teams and the entire league was already struggling in 1994, so it's not shocking that Corrie might have thought continuing with Las Vegas wasn't his best option, if it was even an option open to him.

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Quote from: adamw on April 03, 2026, 11:33:32 AMThis might help

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/reports/team-nhl/Cornell/18

did d'alessio get injured? wild that he got a cup of coffee in '92-93 then played a single AHL game the next season and then fell off the planet.

Not sure where you got single AHL game - the same season as his cup of coffee with the Whalers (literally less than a game), he played 23 games in the AHL (Springfield), then the following season played one game in the IHL. I think the 4.13 GAA and .853 save % for Springfield might have had something to do with why his career ended.

Quote from: sah67 on April 01, 2026, 11:11:13 PMMalinski has 2 goals in a wild one against the lowly Canucks, where the Avs climbed back from a 6-2 deficit to tie it at 6 (Malinski's second), only to go down 7-6 again with a few mins left now.

https://www.nhl.com/video/van-col-malinski-scores-goal-against-kevin-lankinen-6392404651112
and
https://www.nhl.com/video/van-col-malinski-scores-goal-against-kevin-lankinen-6392408299112