Alumni in the pros 23-24

[ugarte]

Does this count?  One that got away.


https://www.prohockeyrumors.com/2024/03/stars-sign-justin-ertel-to-entry-level-contract.html

pretty sure he got kicked out for doing some not so great stuff so I'm not too heart broken.

huh. i thought he was unhappy with his ice time.

[BearLover]

Does this count?  One that got away.


https://www.prohockeyrumors.com/2024/03/stars-sign-justin-ertel-to-entry-level-contract.html

pretty sure he got kicked out for doing some not so great stuff so I'm not too heart broken.

Kicked off the hockey team or expelled from Cornell?

[chimpfood]

Does this count?  One that got away.


https://www.prohockeyrumors.com/2024/03/stars-sign-justin-ertel-to-entry-level-contract.html

pretty sure he got kicked out for doing some not so great stuff so I'm not too heart broken.

huh. i thought he was unhappy with his ice time.

could be, I don't know for sure but the fact that he left at the same time as joe Howe and Ben Tupker backs up what I've heard.

[chimpfood]

Does this count?  One that got away.


https://www.prohockeyrumors.com/2024/03/stars-sign-justin-ertel-to-entry-level-contract.html

pretty sure he got kicked out for doing some not so great stuff so I'm not too heart broken.

Kicked off the hockey team or expelled from Cornell?

I would assume just kicked off the team but it's all rumors really. Only reason that I believe them is because it explains joe Howe leaving after his freshman year and not joining another team, ertel leaving after his freshman year despite playing almost every day, and ben tupker leaving a better team where he played everyday with his brother to go to union.

[BearLover]

Does this count?  One that got away.


https://www.prohockeyrumors.com/2024/03/stars-sign-justin-ertel-to-entry-level-contract.html

pretty sure he got kicked out for doing some not so great stuff so I'm not too heart broken.

Kicked off the hockey team or expelled from Cornell?

I would assume just kicked off the team but it's all rumors really. Only reason that I believe them is because it explains joe Howe leaving after his freshman year and not joining another team, ertel leaving after his freshman year despite playing almost every day, and ben tupker leaving a better team where he played everyday with his brother to go to union.

This post doesn't make any sense without explaining what the rumor is ...

[CAS]

Ben Tupker graduated from Cornell & is playing as a graduate student at Union.

[blackwidow]

And hes their captain. I doubt they would've made him their captain if his character was in doubt

[chimpfood]

I heard that some guys were kicked off for doing coke at a party, tupker transferred after his junior year, hence Zach being here alone for a season.

[CAS]

Ben Tupker graduated with honors from ILR

[scoop85]

I heard that some guys were kicked off for doing coke at a party, tupker transferred after his junior year, hence Zach being here alone for a season.

Hey Chimbrain, enough with your uninformed nonsense. Ever hear of defamation of character?

[BearLover]

I heard that some guys were kicked off for doing coke at a party, tupker transferred after his junior year, hence Zach being here alone for a season.

Hey Chimbrain, enough with your uninformed nonsense. Ever hear of defamation of character?

Probably 10-20% of Cornell students, and 75+% of members of certain frats/sororities, "do coke at a party" at some point. Also, a number of players leave the hockey team/graduate early every year, for a variety of reasons. Unless chimp has information that is a bit less, ahem, circumstantial than what he has offered up, I will consider this pure speculation. Tupker in particular likely had nothing to do with it, even if it were true—and the fact chimp is citing Tupker's situation as related calls into question the whole thing, IMO. BTW, Schafer praised Tupker as a great kid after he was at Union.

[chimpfood]

Again, not saying it's true, it just explains things that I didn't have an explanation for otherwise. And I would say there is a difference between just doing coke at a party and getting caught doing coke at a party when you are the most recognizable students on campus, it would be a terrible look for the team. Obviously I hope that this is not the reason that these guys left but does anyone know if howes departure was ever explained? Not saying that with lack of another explanation that he did coke or anything, just curious.

[Dafatone]

I figured Howe wanted to play and realized Shane had usurped him.

[chimpfood]

I figured Howe wanted to play and realized Shane had usurped him.

yeah, just strikes me as a strange move to leave a team because you want to play and then never join another team.

[Iceberg]

I don't think chimpfood's post is totally without merit, although I won't comment on whether the drug story is true or not. I meant to post about this at some point and the mention of Howe jogged my memory.

Within the past year, I met a recent alumnus who was on one of the other athletic teams on campus and was somewhat close with enough of the guys on the hockey team in the 2021-22 season. Now as some of you probably know, athletes have plenty of mixers and other social events together during the academic year so I'd say this person was credible and he/she had no reason to lie or make up stories.

We were talking about the performance of the hockey team this season and the topic of Shane came up. I commented how it's amazing that Shane, who had been the third string goaltender his first year, rose to become the starter due to injuries and the poor performance of the two guys ahead of him. When I mentioned Howe in particular, this person quickly responded that it wasn't just injuries but also something he did off the ice that violated school policy or local laws (he/she didn't elaborate) that resulted in his being kicked off the team along with at least one other player at the time.

Regardless of the circumstances, I'm glad we've had Shane in net for the better part of the past three seasons