Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025

[dbilmes]

Yale upgrading Ingalls.

https://yalebulldogs.com/news/2025/8/7/general-yale-athletics-unveils-3-million-upgrade-at-ingalls-rink.aspx?fbclid=IwY2xjawMB_S9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFob1BMU2NSZkxZTjg4enVrAR5vyNn6IoZPdSz0TwaL9j200rYnyXR07LNNoQ8TrSp_rsvMeKsN1lrQvaSpJA_aem_KS2k4Oym2FPSyuQ6sUmoew

Their sound system was terrible. This now means, though, that the piped-in music will be louder and played more often.
Too bad Cornell isn't doing anything about its useless video board in Lynah. They should just have it removed.

[ursusminor]

I liked the old clicky-clack board in Frankfurt Airport.  It made the time go by back in the days I didn't have lounge access.

Go to the old TWA Terminal at JFK they turned into a hotel.  The board is glorious!



Note: This is a serious recommendation for everyone in the NYC area, actually.  Go there and get a drink in their Mad Men-like lounge.  The aesthetics of the place are amazing -- you can see how cool public space used to be before The Great Stupefaction.  

But don't stay the night; the rooms suck for the price.

It's JFK.  Everything sucks.

Not as much as if they named an airport after his nephew RFK, Jr.

[Ben Rocky '04]

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/08/08_Allain-Steps-Down-After-19.php

This seems like really strange timing to me.

[Will]

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/08/08_Allain-Steps-Down-After-19.php

This seems like really strange timing to me.

Makes it seem like the Whale upgrade development came with the added question of "What have you done for us lately, coach?"  The national championship is far enough in the past compared to no winning seasons since the return from COVID.

[Ben Rocky '04]

Makes it seem like the Whale upgrade development came with the added question of "What have you done for us lately, coach?"  The national championship is far enough in the past compared to no winning seasons since the return from COVID.

Maybe.... but y'all the time to ask that question was April, not now. The turmoil from having this happen right before freshman arrive on campus will have impact on this season, not that anyone thinks they were going to be good, but it seems oddly callous for any hope of improvement.

[Will]

Makes it seem like the Whale upgrade development came with the added question of "What have you done for us lately, coach?"  The national championship is far enough in the past compared to no winning seasons since the return from COVID.

Maybe.... but y'all the time to ask that question was April, not now. The turmoil from having this happen right before freshman arrive on campus will have impact on this season, not that anyone thinks they were going to be good, but it seems oddly callous for any hope of improvement.

Also could've been a recent health development for Allain personally on top of everything else.  Maybe dealing with the grief of a rink upgrade while trying to fix a team that's been down for four years is too much when he's also just been given a bad medical prognosis.  Complete conjecture on my part, of course.

[stereax]

Yale upgrading Ingalls.

https://yalebulldogs.com/news/2025/8/7/general-yale-athletics-unveils-3-million-upgrade-at-ingalls-rink.aspx?fbclid=IwY2xjawMB_S9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFob1BMU2NSZkxZTjg4enVrAR5vyNn6IoZPdSz0TwaL9j200rYnyXR07LNNoQ8TrSp_rsvMeKsN1lrQvaSpJA_aem_KS2k4Oym2FPSyuQ6sUmoew

Their sound system was terrible. This now means, though, that the piped-in music will be louder and played more often.
Too bad Cornell isn't doing anything about its useless video board in Lynah. They should just have it removed.

But howwwwwww will we watch the Tompkins Trust Shuffle without a video board that barely shows the score, let alone any important replays of what's going on on the ice???

[marty]

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/08/08_Allain-Steps-Down-After-19.php

This seems like really strange timing to me.

Makes it seem like the Whale upgrade development came with the added question of "What have you done for us lately, coach?"  The national championship is far enough in the past compared to no winning seasons since the return from COVID.

He might have been tired of the year long grind like Mike.

There must be some inside Yale source we can tap to find out what really happened.  I don't know why those in the know in New Haven didn't spill the tea here.

What can we do to encourage more inside gossip?  We could lose our cred.

::cry::

[Trotsky]

I just assumed the timing was late enough to trap guys who could not plausibly transfer out this year.  But I have worms in my soul.

[chimpfood]

Joe Howe is the assistant coach that will take the reins as interim.

Speaking of the name, it's crazy to me that Howe seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth after leaving Cornell. He was contending for our starting job as a freshman, surprised no other team thought he was worth taking.

[ugarte]

Speaking of the name, it's crazy to me that Howe seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth after leaving Cornell. He was contending for our starting job as a freshman, surprised no other team thought he was worth taking.

If a profile I found on LinkedIn is to be believed, he's still at Cornell, ILR '26. Maybe not getting the starting spot made him decide to move on from hockey and get going on the rest of his life.

[Trotsky]

"Our Howe's better" (clap) (clap) (clap clap clap)

[ursusminor]

FWIW, RPI has a new logo https://www.alumni.rpi.edu/controls/email_marketing/view_in_browser.aspx?sid=1225&gid=1&sendId=6197984 . I thought it was terrible until it was pointed out that it reads RPI, not Rensselaer, which is a distinct improvement.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

FWIW, RPI has a new logo https://www.alumni.rpi.edu/controls/email_marketing/view_in_browser.aspx?sid=1225&gid=1&sendId=6197984 . I thought it was terrible until it was pointed out that it reads RPI, not Rensselaer, which is a distinct improvement.

It's still better than Cornell's non-descript new logo.

[ursusminor]

If anyone has over an hour to spend, a lengthy interview with RPI's coach Eric Lang. https://www.rpifieldhouse.com/p/interview-with-coach-lang?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=417313&post_id=170946524
New incoming player Matthew Jovanovic, a former Notre Dame recruit on D who has suffered through several injury-riddled seasons. https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/535867/matthew-jovanovic Appears to be great if he has recovered to the degree that Lang states. Being a pessimist, I see the second coming of Kurt Wiesel, brother of Clarkson's Adam.

Now if the RPI women could get Matthew's sister, Sophie, who played goalie for the Toronto Marlboro's 16U boys team last season and had a 1.71 GAA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdoncWmcTIM