2025-26 Men's Schedule

[Beeeej]

We host Alaska January 9-10. Hell yeah. My only gripe now is that 6 of our 13 home games are over winter break. I'll be here but it won't make for an electric student section.

https://alaskananooks.com/sports/mens-ice-hockey/schedule/2025-26

Looking forward to the extra 2 games in 26-27 (assuming we travel to Alaska next year)

Alaska has a bonkers schedule. Are they playing Anchorage... 8 times?

This is the first year in my fading memory that Cornell has not been in a mid-season tournament. What's up with that?

Pretty sure we didn't play one in 2022-23.

[BearLover]

The fact there are only 9 home games during classes is nuts. The Cornell ticket office should package the ECAC playoff home games together with the regular season home games and refund people if they don't occur.

[grandpa voice] In my day we had 0-2 games during intersession, not 6.

[Weder]

Looking forward to the extra 2 games in 26-27 (assuming we travel to Alaska next year)

The NCAA will permit the bonus two games, but I doubt the Ivy League will.

It looks like Harvard (played in the Belfast tournament) had 30 games last season, so either the Ivies allow one extra game for playing in an exempt tournament or Harvard decided to schedule only one extra game.

[The Rancor]

We host Alaska January 9-10. Hell yeah. My only gripe now is that 6 of our 13 home games are over winter break. I'll be here but it won't make for an electric student section.

https://alaskananooks.com/sports/mens-ice-hockey/schedule/2025-26

Looking forward to the extra 2 games in 26-27 (assuming we travel to Alaska next year)

Alaska has a bonkers schedule. Are they playing Anchorage... 8 times?

This is the first year in my fading memory that Cornell has not been in a mid-season tournament. What's up with that?

Pretty sure we didn't play one in 2022-23.

Among the things I forgot about 22-23 was that and 2 home games against Alaska (Thank you Arugula). There is a Clarkson connection to Alaska in their new Associate Coach, but I don't believe there was overlap with Coach Jones.

[CU2007]

Another possible problem would be if some set of the kids notice that so many of the home games are over break, and thus don't bother buying season tickets. Could affect the atmosphere all season.

[Trotsky]

Looking forward to the extra 2 games in 26-27 (assuming we travel to Alaska next year)

The NCAA will permit the bonus two games, but I doubt the Ivy League will.

My admittedly not great and getting progressively worse brain tells me Princeton visited them in the last decade and was granted the 2 extra games.  Or maybe it was Europe.  Fuck aging.

[BearLover]

Another possible problem would be if some set of the kids notice that so many of the home games are over break, and thus don't bother buying season tickets. Could affect the atmosphere all season.

I could be mistaken, but aren't intersession games usually removed from student season ticket packages?

[Give My Regards]

Looking forward to the extra 2 games in 26-27 (assuming we travel to Alaska next year)

The NCAA will permit the bonus two games, but I doubt the Ivy League will.

My admittedly not great and getting progressively worse brain tells me Princeton visited them in the last decade and was granted the 2 extra games.  Or maybe it was Europe.  Fuck aging.

The Alaska site seems to think they've never played Princeton before, but they did host Yale for a tournament back in 92-93.  It was a three-game tournament and that season, Yale played 29 regular-season games, above the then-Ivy limit of 26.

I recall hearing third-hand that Alaska had originally intended to invite a non-Ivy ECAC team (I think RPI?), and the extra games would have put them over the then-ECAC limit of 30 but not the NCAA limit of 34 (and the NCAA would have exempted the games anyway).  Whoever it was had to petition the ECAC to allow the extra games, and with the six Ivies voting against it, they didn't get the exemption.  Then Yale was invited, petitioned the league for the exemption, and they got it.  I have no way of confirming or disproving this story, but I do remember hearing it.

[stereax]

Another possible problem would be if some set of the kids notice that so many of the home games are over break, and thus don't bother buying season tickets. Could affect the atmosphere all season.

I could be mistaken, but aren't intersession games usually removed from student season ticket packages?

They better not.

[stereax]

Alaska has a bonkers schedule. Are they playing Anchorage... 8 times?

I mean, consider the travel to/from literally anywhere else...

[BearLover]

Another possible problem would be if some set of the kids notice that so many of the home games are over break, and thus don't bother buying season tickets. Could affect the atmosphere all season.

I could be mistaken, but aren't intersession games usually removed from student season ticket packages?

They better not.

You can just buy them separately.

Including them in the student ticket package will turn off students from buying season tickets. Who wants to pay for 15 tickets when you can't even use 6 of them?

[The Rancor]

Alaska has a bonkers schedule. Are they playing Anchorage... 8 times?

I mean, consider the travel to/from literally anywhere else...

Totally. It goes to show how hard it is to both travel to and entice a team to play Alaska. I live in Mid Major City and it's a minimum of 10 hours of flights and 2 stops. I looked at past schedules and it seems like 4-6 games is pretty normal for them.

[stereax]

Another possible problem would be if some set of the kids notice that so many of the home games are over break, and thus don't bother buying season tickets. Could affect the atmosphere all season.

I could be mistaken, but aren't intersession games usually removed from student season ticket packages?

They better not.

You can just buy them separately.

Including them in the student ticket package will turn off students from buying season tickets. Who wants to pay for 15 tickets when you can't even use 6 of them?

My worry is that they're going to charge $200 or so for the "season" ticket and then have you buy the extras on top of that. And given how they jacked up the concessions prices last year mid season...

[BearLover]

Another possible problem would be if some set of the kids notice that so many of the home games are over break, and thus don't bother buying season tickets. Could affect the atmosphere all season.

I could be mistaken, but aren't intersession games usually removed from student season ticket packages?

They better not.

You can just buy them separately.

Including them in the student ticket package will turn off students from buying season tickets. Who wants to pay for 15 tickets when you can't even use 6 of them?

My worry is that they're going to charge $200 or so for the "season" ticket and then have you buy the extras on top of that. And given how they jacked up the concessions prices last year mid season...

Oh I think/hope they would adjust the prices downwards to account for fewer games.

My suggestion to the ticket office would be to package the ECAC home playoff round together with student season tickets. That would make season tickets consist of 11-12 games assuming Cornell finishes top 4 in the league. They should also remove the 6 intersession games from the package and reduce prices accordingly.

[upprdeck]

Another possible problem would be if some set of the kids notice that so many of the home games are over break, and thus don't bother buying season tickets. Could affect the atmosphere all season.

I could be mistaken, but aren't intersession games usually removed from student season ticket packages?

They better not.

You can just buy them separately.

Including them in the student ticket package will turn off students from buying season tickets. Who wants to pay for 15 tickets when you can't even use 6 of them?

My worry is that they're going to charge $200 or so for the "season" ticket and then have you buy the extras on top of that. And given how they jacked up the concessions prices last year mid season...

Once concessions stopped selling the cookies and brownies a few years ago they lost value to me. Then they stopped with the no sugar options.  What do they want me to do, drink water?