Recruits 2025 and Beyond

[chimpfood]

Would also be nice to recruit guys from Ithaca better. Jack parsons and cooper Dennis would be really nice to have as recruits but they are headed to providence and Michigan. I can understand losing a guy to Michigan but a good player from Ithaca going to providence instead of Cornell, come on.

Wow, I didn't know about Parsons. Literally from Cortland. It's nuts that Harvard pulls some of the best players from a city as big as Boston, but we can't even get the best players from tiny Ithaca/Cortland.

Losing Dennis really sucked as well. He attended Cornell hockey games as a kid. I believe his family sort of knows Topher as well. Maybe they attended his camp in Ithaca. But we still didn't land him.

Parsons was the one who stood on his head and almost stole the game when we played the USNTDP last year. Elite prospects says he's from Ithaca not cortland.

[RichH]

Would also be nice to recruit guys from Ithaca better. Jack parsons and cooper Dennis would be really nice to have as recruits but they are headed to providence and Michigan. I can understand losing a guy to Michigan but a good player from Ithaca going to providence instead of Cornell, come on.

Wow, I didn't know about Parsons. Literally from Cortland. It's nuts that Harvard pulls some of the best players from a city as big as Boston, but we can't even get the best players from tiny Ithaca/Cortland.

Losing Dennis really sucked as well. He attended Cornell hockey games as a kid. I believe his family sort of knows Topher as well. Maybe they attended his camp in Ithaca. But we still didn't land him.

Having grown up in a tiny town, I can tell you that kids from tiny towns tend to want to leave the tiny town.

Boston people tend to be cult-like in their devotion to all things Boston, even the mediocre things about it.

[BearLover]

One of the issues Cornell and the Ivies have is getting recruits through admissions on short notice. Is there recent precedent for a player committing to Cornell in the spring and arriving on campus the following fall? A billion high scoring CHL players recently committed to Clarkson and Quinnipiac and will be coming in the fall. Is that option even on the table for Cornell? If not, it  would kind of kill their ability to get anybody out of the portal too. Maybe it's not as big an issue as I imagine, though. This team badly needs another player or two for next year, particularly on D.

[Weder]

One of the issues Cornell and the Ivies have is getting recruits through admissions on short notice. Is there recent precedent for a player committing to Cornell in the spring and arriving on campus the following fall? A billion high scoring CHL players recently committed to Clarkson and Quinnipiac and will be coming in the fall. Is that option even on the table for Cornell? If not, it  would kind of kill their ability to get anybody out of the portal too. Maybe it's not as big an issue as I imagine, though. This team badly needs another player or two for next year, particularly on D.

When North Dakota cut its women's team (in late March, I think), Cornell was able to get one of its incoming players into school that fall as a freshman (Willow Slobodzian).

[ugarte]

One player doesn't mean anything, but now is as good as time as any to note that our highest draft pick ever (14th overall), Sasha Pokulok, played two alright-but-not-great seasons for Cornell then never made the NHL.

IIRC Pokulok was pretty good at Cornell but had concussion/injury issues in some of his early years in the pros before decamping overseas.

[Trotsky]

One player doesn't mean anything, but now is as good as time as any to note that our highest draft pick ever (14th overall), Sasha Pokulok, played two alright-but-not-great seasons for Cornell then never made the NHL.

IIRC Pokulok was pretty good at Cornell but had concussion/injury issues in some of his early years in the pros before decamping overseas.

I don't remember concussions, although that would explain things. I remember him never putting it together.  

He felt Fegares-ish -- highly touted, not greatly delivering.

[BearLover]

One player doesn't mean anything, but now is as good as time as any to note that our highest draft pick ever (14th overall), Sasha Pokulok, played two alright-but-not-great seasons for Cornell then never made the NHL.

IIRC Pokulok was pretty good at Cornell but had concussion/injury issues in some of his early years in the pros before decamping overseas.

I don't remember concussions, although that would explain things. I remember him never putting it together.  

He felt Fegares-ish -- highly touted, not greatly delivering.

Fegaras is pretty good. Breaks it out well, plays on the second PP. Will have a much bigger role next season.

[Trotsky]

One player doesn't mean anything, but now is as good as time as any to note that our highest draft pick ever (14th overall), Sasha Pokulok, played two alright-but-not-great seasons for Cornell then never made the NHL.

IIRC Pokulok was pretty good at Cornell but had concussion/injury issues in some of his early years in the pros before decamping overseas.

I don't remember concussions, although that would explain things. I remember him never putting it together.  

He felt Fegares-ish -- highly touted, not greatly delivering.

Fegaras is pretty good. Breaks it out well, plays on the second PP. Will have a much bigger role next season.

I hope so.  He certainly has the opportunity now.

I did read someplace the incoming NU D was the PP anchor at his last team, but I could also see Fegares challenge for that role.

[scoop85]

One player doesn't mean anything, but now is as good as time as any to note that our highest draft pick ever (14th overall), Sasha Pokulok, played two alright-but-not-great seasons for Cornell then never made the NHL.

IIRC Pokulok was pretty good at Cornell but had concussion/injury issues in some of his early years in the pros before decamping overseas.

I don't remember concussions, although that would explain things. I remember him never putting it together.  

He felt Fegares-ish -- highly touted, not greatly delivering.

Fegaras is pretty good. Breaks it out well, plays on the second PP. Will have a much bigger role next season.

I hope so.  He certainly has the opportunity now.

I did read someplace the incoming NU D was the PP anchor at his last team, but I could also see Fegares challenge for that role.

Seems Vellieux may be our next PP guy from the blueline.

[Trotsky]

One player doesn't mean anything, but now is as good as time as any to note that our highest draft pick ever (14th overall), Sasha Pokulok, played two alright-but-not-great seasons for Cornell then never made the NHL.

IIRC Pokulok was pretty good at Cornell but had concussion/injury issues in some of his early years in the pros before decamping overseas.

I don't remember concussions, although that would explain things. I remember him never putting it together.  

He felt Fegares-ish -- highly touted, not greatly delivering.

Fegaras is pretty good. Breaks it out well, plays on the second PP. Will have a much bigger role next season.

I hope so.  He certainly has the opportunity now.

I did read someplace the incoming NU D was the PP anchor at his last team, but I could also see Fegares challenge for that role.

Seems Vellieux may be our next PP guy from the blueline.

Maybe it was him.

[VIEWfromK]

Fegaras is pretty good. Breaks it out well, plays on the second PP. Will have a much bigger role next season.

I think his thumb injury lingered through the whole season.

[The Rancor]

One player doesn't mean anything, but now is as good as time as any to note that our highest draft pick ever (14th overall), Sasha Pokulok, played two alright-but-not-great seasons for Cornell then never made the NHL.

IIRC Pokulok was pretty good at Cornell but had concussion/injury issues in some of his early years in the pros before decamping overseas.

He got his head rung in his first or second game as a pro- might have even been in the pre-season. He's still playing in the LNAH I believe.

[ugarte]

One player doesn't mean anything, but now is as good as time as any to note that our highest draft pick ever (14th overall), Sasha Pokulok, played two alright-but-not-great seasons for Cornell then never made the NHL.

IIRC Pokulok was pretty good at Cornell but had concussion/injury issues in some of his early years in the pros before decamping overseas.

He got his head rung in his first or second game as a pro- might have even been in the pre-season. He's still playing in the LNAH I believe.

hockey db doesn't have anything after 2023

[Snowball]

Fegaras is pretty good. Breaks it out well, plays on the second PP. Will have a much bigger role next season.

I think his thumb injury lingered through the whole season.

He's a terrific skater and had nearly 1/2 a point a game in the 30 games he did play. Also no stats but it feels like a lot of his assists were primary: he got the puck to the net for a tip-in or it went off a body. Looking forward to seeing what he can do next year.

[chimpfood]

Veilleux scores to help Muskegon to the second round. Our PP should be fine with him and Fegaras on the blue line.