Recruits 2025 and Beyond

[Trotsky]

[gratuitous and poorly reasoned shot at bearlover's concerns about the shift from schafer to jones that converts his anxiety about change into a moral judgment]

While fair, let's declare Jubilee and give everybody grace for a new year, a new coach, a new era.  "What a difference in this generation!" ::banana::

[Trotsky]

Remember too that while Mike liked to go with a #1, Casey may prefer a platoon, as I do, being highly risk averse.

[chimpfood]

Look no farther than this year's national champ, western Michigan, for evidence that a platoon can work

[CAS]

Cornell may add to the 8 draft picks on its '25-'26 roster with both DiGuilian & Courneyer ranked on the final NHL Central Scouting list.

[Swampy]

[gratuitous and poorly reasoned shot at bearlover's concerns about the shift from schafer to jones that converts his anxiety about change into a moral judgment]

While fair, let's declare Jubilee and give everybody grace for a new year, a new coach, a new era.  "What a difference in this generation!" ::banana::

And now that the men's lacrosse team has gotten that 48-year-old monkey off our back, it's a new era for men's and women's hockey to take care of business!

[stereax]

Also disputing Cournoyer as the favorite. I think Keopple is the favorite, Cournoyer is either 2 or 3 in line depending how the team views Katz. Though I expect to see Cournoyer given the opportunity to seize the net at some point. It's possible they pulled him here with the idea that he'd work at the NCAA level this year and become the starter next year. Not sure if Roest is anything more than a 3 guy at this point.

I hope Keopple wins the starting job because I like when loyal upperclassmen succeed. But Cournoyer's junior numbers and NHL draft prospects are on another level. Keopple may start game 1 but I expect Cournoyer to take over as the season progresses. Again, it would be cool if I'm wrong here. Not sure what the basis is for thinking Katz>Roest, both struggled in juniors but so did Shane, it's not the end of the world and goalies are very hard to project.

I'm guessing Katz over Roest bc Katz has been with the team last year. Also, are we all forgetting Cournoyer's juniors numbers are in a tiny sample size? It feels like we're all forgetting that.

I wouldn't mind a platoon either, but we'll see how things go.

[chimpfood]

Also disputing Cournoyer as the favorite. I think Keopple is the favorite, Cournoyer is either 2 or 3 in line depending how the team views Katz. Though I expect to see Cournoyer given the opportunity to seize the net at some point. It's possible they pulled him here with the idea that he'd work at the NCAA level this year and become the starter next year. Not sure if Roest is anything more than a 3 guy at this point.

I hope Keopple wins the starting job because I like when loyal upperclassmen succeed. But Cournoyer's junior numbers and NHL draft prospects are on another level. Keopple may start game 1 but I expect Cournoyer to take over as the season progresses. Again, it would be cool if I'm wrong here. Not sure what the basis is for thinking Katz>Roest, both struggled in juniors but so did Shane, it's not the end of the world and goalies are very hard to project.

I'm guessing Katz over Roest bc Katz has been with the team last year. Also, are we all forgetting Cournoyer's juniors numbers are in a tiny sample size? It feels like we're all forgetting that.

I wouldn't mind a platoon either, but we'll see how things go.

He had good numbers in the MJAHL prior to the Q as well though. I'm confident that he is better than Katz and roest and that he will end up above them on the depth chart but I also though Joe Howe was the goalie of the future so who knows

[sah67]

Numbers are also shown on the roster. Gorski is 2, Veilleux 4, McCrady 7, Ryan 12, Fisher 16, Long 17, DiGiulian 18, Arsenault 19, Hiscock 21, Pirtle 22, Hamilton 26, Ashton 27, Cournoyer 30, Roest 40.

I can't remember another #40 for Cornell, anyone got one?

Major was 16 last year. Is he changing numbers?

16 to 9

Does the number automatically come with the "Lynah Fan Favorite" title?

[adamw]

Look no farther than this year's national champ, western Michigan, for evidence that a platoon can work

until they decide it doesn't. Slukynsky started the last 10 games of the year. Something 2001-02 Cornell notably did not eventually do with LeNeveu. Actually went the other way, I think.

[Chris '03]

Look no farther than this year's national champ, western Michigan, for evidence that a platoon can work

until they decide it doesn't. Slukynsky started the last 10 games of the year. Something 2001-02 Cornell notably did not eventually do with LeNeveu. Actually went the other way, I think.

My recollection is that Underhill got all the playoff starts. At least the two in Placid and two in Worcester after being the Friday guy most of the year.

[Beeeej]

Look no farther than this year's national champ, western Michigan, for evidence that a platoon can work

until they decide it doesn't. Slukynsky started the last 10 games of the year. Something 2001-02 Cornell notably did not eventually do with LeNeveu. Actually went the other way, I think.

Schafer platooned Underhill and LeNeveu right up until the end of the regular season. But Underhill did start all six playoff games.

[chimpfood]

Look no farther than this year's national champ, western Michigan, for evidence that a platoon can work

until they decide it doesn't. Slukynsky started the last 10 games of the year. Something 2001-02 Cornell notably did not eventually do with LeNeveu. Actually went the other way, I think.

Right, I wasn't suggesting that we run a goalie platoon in the playoffs, I'm just in favor of having both Keopple and Cournoyer get enough run during the regular season that we know what we have. I would love for Keopple to be our Rowe (loyal senior getting rewarded with playing time) and Cournoyer to be our Slukynsky (tall NHL prospect freshman who (hopefully) takes over in the playoffs for the future years). And then we can win a natty and ride off into the sunset.

[stereax]

Look no farther than this year's national champ, western Michigan, for evidence that a platoon can work

until they decide it doesn't. Slukynsky started the last 10 games of the year. Something 2001-02 Cornell notably did not eventually do with LeNeveu. Actually went the other way, I think.

Right, I wasn't suggesting that we run a goalie platoon in the playoffs, I'm just in favor of having both Keopple and Cournoyer get enough run during the regular season that we know what we have. I would love for Keopple to be our Rowe (loyal senior getting rewarded with playing time) and Cournoyer to be our Slukynsky (tall NHL prospect freshman who (hopefully) takes over in the playoffs for the future years). And then we can win a natty and ride off into the sunset.

Mmmm. Winning a natty sounds nice right about now. Still riding the high of the lax natty, I think I might for years.

[Trotsky]

The only strong team I can remember keeping religiously to their platoon in the playoffs was Harvard.  I think in 89 but maybe one (or more) of their other Frozen Four years (83, 86, 87) during that incredible Cleary run.

[Pghas]

So a bit off topic but of definite interest here.  My son is a prep school player and we recently attended this big D1 showcase in Florida - they time it to be held just after the NCAA coaches annual conference and so literally there are either head coaches or assistant coaches from every hockey east and ECAC school there.  Competition is pretty amazing.  Anyway they have a conference portion of it and during that, one of the coaches pointed out that since it was determined  that Canadian juniors players were now NCAA eligible, in those 6 months of 135 players committed 125 of them were from those Canadian juniors leagues.  Now maybe there was a huge backlog of players that were wanted.  But it changes a lot - I think kids will still get signed out of NE prep schools but then they can choose to play in the OHL or the Q instead of just the USHL or NAHL  or BCHL.  And also, I would think, if you're thinking, after graduating from prep school, that you're just going to go and play juniors and get signed out of there, probably the already low odds of that leading to D1 hockey got a ton lower.  I just think it might be real interesting considering Cornell seems to have an edge on recruiting north of the border anyway.