Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025

[BearLover]

Another '04 with big numbers in the CHL commits to Quinnipiac. Quinnipiac and Clarkson are each slated to have about six of those on their rosters next year.

[chimpfood]

Another '04 with big numbers in the CHL commits to Quinnipiac. Quinnipiac and Clarkson are each slated to have about six of those on their rosters next year.

Luckily all of these guys are 5 foot 9 or less or have some other issue that is making it so they have no NHL/AHL interest. Those issues will probably make them far from dominant in college but even if they do end up being outstanding, they'll probably leave as soon as they have a good year

[Trotsky]

If Clarkson can get them, we can get them.

Q has ceased even the pretension of being a university so that's a different story.  No desire to follow that lead, I for one welcome their inevitable jump to the Big Ten.

[Trotsky]

Another '04 with big numbers in the CHL commits to Quinnipiac. Quinnipiac and Clarkson are each slated to have about six of those on their rosters next year.

Luckily all of these guys are 5 foot 9 or less or have some other issue that is making it so they have no NHL/AHL interest. Those issues will probably make them far from dominant in college but even if they do end up being outstanding, they'll probably leave as soon as they have a good year

^ ^ ^

This puts the CHL issue to bed AFAIC.  Like every other existential threat to Cornell hockey, it's a chimera.

People like to doom; the Post sells for a reason.

[BearLover]

If Clarkson can get them, we can get them.

Q has ceased even the pretension of being a university so that's a different story.  No desire to follow that lead, I for one welcome their inevitable jump to the Big Ten.

Quinnipiac acceptance rate: 84%
Clarkson acceptance rate: 78%
Cornell acceptance rate: 7%

I really do not understand the view held by many on this forum that Quinnipiac is a uniquely unserious academic school. While Quinnipiac is probably an unserious academic school, this is NOT unique. It seems extremely unlikely that any of the kids who get into Quinnipiac for hockey wouldn't also get into Clarkson, or dozens of other D-1 hockey programs.

[BearLover]

Another '04 with big numbers in the CHL commits to Quinnipiac. Quinnipiac and Clarkson are each slated to have about six of those on their rosters next year.

Luckily all of these guys are 5 foot 9 or less or have some other issue that is making it so they have no NHL/AHL interest. Those issues will probably make them far from dominant in college but even if they do end up being outstanding, they'll probably leave as soon as they have a good year

^ ^ ^

This puts the CHL issue to bed AFAIC.  Like every other existential threat to Cornell hockey, it's a chimera.

People like to doom; the Post sells for a reason.

Come on, man. chimpfood makes reasonable points but it does not "put the CHL issue to bed." Not a single one of these kids has played a single minute of NCAA hockey yet. Nobody knows how this is going to turn out.

Also, I did not say anything about it being an existential threat to Cornell. I was merely pointing out that two of our conference rivals have loaded up on CHL players for next year. I don't know how that's going to turn out, nor does anybody else.

But given that hockey coaches are rational actors, and they've decided to recruit from the CHL rather other leagues to fill these roster spots, we can infer that these coaches believe that recruiting from the CHL gives them a better chance to win than recruiting from other leagues. Ergo, CHL players becoming NCAA eligible has improved recruit quality for these schools.

Cornell's incoming recruits look good. But now our competition has likely upgraded their recruits. The standard that we are up against has improved. (Unless the Quinnipiac and Clarkson coaching staffs have no idea what they're doing.)

[ursusminor]

FWIW, RPI supposedly has 20 new players for 2025-6, 12 of whom are from the portal. Of the first-year players, three played major juniors. This agrees with my best guess.

[stereax]

FWIW, RPI supposedly has 20 new players for 2025-6, 12 of whom are from the portal. Of the first-year players, three played major juniors. This agrees with my best guess.

Oh hey, Jack Gorton. I've heard tales of his stupidity before LOL.

[The Rancor]

FWIW, RPI supposedly has 20 new players for 2025-6, 12 of whom are from the portal. Of the first-year players, three played major juniors. This agrees with my best guess.

That's bonkers!

[ursusminor]

FWIW, RPI supposedly has 20 new players for 2025-6, 12 of whom are from the portal. Of the first-year players, three played major juniors. This agrees with my best guess.

Oh hey, Jack Gorton. I've heard tales of his stupidity before LOL.

Are you saying that he is just stupid or stupid for picking RPI? As was pointed out on the RPI thread on USCHO, he majored in advertising at BU, which may mean that a lot of his credits won't transfer. The closest RPI has is a school of Management and a Communications major in the School of History, Art, and Social Sciences.

[ursusminor]

FWIW, RPI supposedly has 20 new players for 2025-6, 12 of whom are from the portal. Of the first-year players, three played major juniors. This agrees with my best guess.

That's bonkers!

Considering RPI's performance last season, it makes sense. They did lose five players to the portal whom I would have liked to see back.

[ugarte]

FWIW, RPI supposedly has 20 new players for 2025-6, 12 of whom are from the portal. Of the first-year players, three played major juniors. This agrees with my best guess.

Oh hey, Jack Gorton. I've heard tales of his stupidity before LOL.

Are you saying that he is just stupid or stupid for picking RPI? As was pointed out on the RPI thread on USCHO, he majored in advertising at BU, which may mean that a lot of his credits won't transfer. The closest RPI has is a school of Management and a Communications major in the School of History, Art, and Social Sciences.

sorry for the drift but... really? i have a hard time believing that RPI wouldn't give credit towards a degree for classes taken at BU. BU is not the University of Phoenix, even if nobody at RPI studies advertising under that name.

[ursusminor]

FWIW, RPI supposedly has 20 new players for 2025-6, 12 of whom are from the portal. Of the first-year players, three played major juniors. This agrees with my best guess.

Oh hey, Jack Gorton. I've heard tales of his stupidity before LOL.

Are you saying that he is just stupid or stupid for picking RPI? As was pointed out on the RPI thread on USCHO, he majored in advertising at BU, which may mean that a lot of his credits won't transfer. The closest RPI has is a school of Management and a Communications major in the School of History, Art, and Social Sciences.

sorry for the drift but... really? i have a hard time believing that RPI wouldn't give credit towards a degree for classes taken at BU. BU is not the University of Phoenix, even if nobody at RPI studies advertising under that name.

Whatever he majors in at RPI will have certain course requirements. After two years at BU, there may not be enough slots to put the courses which he has already passed into.

[stereax]

FWIW, RPI supposedly has 20 new players for 2025-6, 12 of whom are from the portal. Of the first-year players, three played major juniors. This agrees with my best guess.

Oh hey, Jack Gorton. I've heard tales of his stupidity before LOL.

Are you saying that he is just stupid or stupid for picking RPI? As was pointed out on the RPI thread on USCHO, he majored in advertising at BU, which may mean that a lot of his credits won't transfer. The closest RPI has is a school of Management and a Communications major in the School of History, Art, and Social Sciences.

Considering I have heard from BU Friend that Gorton was yelled at by the team captain (Lachance) that a signature was not just "writing out his full name" at the team signing event... I'm gonna say just stupid.

[Iceberg]

Speaking of BU, Jack Parker gets inducted into the Hockey HOF. Well deserved.