Leneveu signs with Phoenix?

[Roy \'98]

it looks official, according to two sources....uscho.com and the phoenix coyotes site.  so now they have two former big red goalies.  interesting.....chances are better that there will be a cornell goalie in the nhl's.

[Robb Newman]

Doh.  Looks like I missed my chance to check out the next great Cornell goalie.  Or is "great Cornell goalie" a bit too redundant?  :-P

[Jim Hyla]

[Q]Robb wrote:

Hmmm. David McKee's team, the NAHL Texas Tornado plays their home games about 15 miles from my house. Perhaps I'd better check out a game or two next year, unless he decides to jump to Cornell early. If I don't join the boosters for next year, I could even take him out to dinner, right? [/Q]WRONG I don't know if you were kidding or not, but just by posting here, it could be taken that you are a friend (booster) of the university. As such, it could be a recruiting violation. Never do anything like that without checking with the hockey office first.

Even if you were just kidding, I couln't let a statement like that go unchecked.:-)

[ursusminor]

Cornell has indeed signed McKee: http://www.nahl.com/releases/index.asp?RELEASE_ID=1553

[Robb]

Jim - definitely kidding.  If I were actually "up to something" (a la the emoticon I used), I certainly wouldn't be posting it on a public message board!  Thanks for taking the opportunity to remind us all how serious that kind of thing can be, though!

And, it turns out I'd have been too late anyway:

http://www.nahl.com/releases/index.asp?RELEASE_ID=1553

So we're back to 3 goalies.  Welcome, David!

[Greg Berge]

About time something useful came out of Texas.

McKee brings in strong creds: NAHL First team.  Very good news for Cornell.



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[rhovorka]

[Q] A spot on the Cornell roster for McKee became available when All-American goaltender and Hobey Baker finalist DAVE LEVENEU left school early and signed with the Phoenix Coyotes of the NHL on Wednesday, July 2nd. [/Q]

I think Dave replaces Jason Elliott as the goaltender with the most often misspelled name, since the media continues to butcher it.  (this link gives 2 spellings in the same article: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/sports/s_141331.html )

In another random thought, since April, I've had trouble pronouncing the word "revenue" correctly.  Thanks a lot, Lenny.  :-)

[KeithK]

OK, I'll eat my words.  I hope, for the sake of academic integrity, that McKee had already been admitted to Cornell and had been deferring unless and until Lenny went pro.  I'll assume that's the case in the absence of any evidence to the contrary (evidence which I doubt I'd ever see anyway...).  It would definitely bother me if the team could admit someone in June/July for August, hockey needs ba damned.

[rhovorka]

Keith K '93 wrote:

OK, I'll eat my words.  I hope, for the sake of academic integrity, that McKee had already been admitted to Cornell and had been deferring unless and until Lenny went pro.

I spoke with someone in the hockey office last week, and that is indeed the case.

[ugarte]

Greg wrote:

Lenny . . . [will] be more valuable to us as a billboard for Goaltender U. then he would have been in a sweater for one more year.

I am very happy for David, and I am looking forward to this season regardless of who our goalie is.  But  . . .

there is no way that I believe he is more valuable to us RIGHT NOW as a goalie-ad than as a goalie.  I wish he were staying.

And I don't care if Mike is a kid.  He is a jerk.  Even if LeNeveu had a weak moment and told a cheering throng that he was coming back, he owed you nothing, Mike.  And you should be glad that he didn't ruin your party by implying that he was going to leave.

[DeltaOne81]

Btw, I don't remember Lenny saying anything of the sort. I'm fairly sure Lenny didn't actually say a word, of any kind, at the celebration.

[Section A]

That's exactly right - Lenny did not speak at the hockey celebration in Lynah at the end of the year (the one when they raised the banners).

Now, moving on...

http://www.nahl.com/releases/index.asp?RELEASE_ID=1553

...the picture of McKee suggests we've replaced one butterfly goalie with another

I wonder if other schools were as interested in McKee as Cornell seems to have been, and, if so, which schools....

[el barto]

For how many years will O'Byrne stay at Cornell?  Here's from The Hockey News:

The Canadiens hope they selected the sleeper of this year's draft in the third round, Nanaimo defenseman Ryan O'Byrne.  The 6-foot-5, 210-pounder is headed to Cornell University.  "He's a very good skater and you don't find that in a player his size," Timmins [Canadiens director of player personnel] said.

Also, over the weekend, The Montreal Gazette gave O'Byrne high praises for his rookie camp performance.  Sounds very promising, now if he could only stay in school for four years...

PS  Also in The Hockey News, "...the Ducks are high on right winger Shane Hynes..."

[Lowell '99]

Keith, I definitely agree with you, but did this already happen with Ian Burt in the summer of 1997?  After Pelletier left, we were down to ONE goalie (albeit a good one!) in Jason Elliott.  Maybe it was the same situation (earlier admission, possibly deferred), but I'd never heard of it.

[jtwcornell91]

Lowell Frank '99, '03 wrote:
did this already happen with Ian Burt in the summer of 1997?  After Pelletier left, we were down to ONE goalie (albeit a good one!) in Jason Elliott.  Maybe it was the same situation (earlier admission, possibly deferred), but I'd never heard of it.

That was indeed the situation with Burt.  (And possibly also Skazyk.)