Opponent and other news and results 2025-2026

[stereax]

Cournoyer entering portal. Competing for national titles was fun while it lasted.

siiigh. this too shall pass... but HOLY FUCK is it annoying.

how much money is being thrown at him?

[ursusminor]

Sorry about Cournoyer. Yes, really. Anything bad for a league team is bad for all teams in the league, although I make an exception for Union. They lost their leading scorer whose name I can't spell and am too lazy to look up.

I often get information about RPI players in a do-not-reveal mode. A while back, I heard about a CHL player whom RPI was after. I didn't expect RPI to get him for a reason which would probably reveal who he is. Anyway, he committed to Cornell in the last couple of days. I could not find anything on line yet which is typical. He won't in any way replace Cournoyer, but he should be a significant contributor on offense.

[stereax]

Sorry about Cournoyer. Yes, really. Anything bad for a league team is bad for all teams in the league, although I make an exception for Union. They lost their leading scorer whose name I can't spell and am too lazy to look up.

I often get information about RPI players in a do-not-reveal mode. A while back, I heard about a CHL player whom RPI was after. I didn't expect RPI to get him for a reason which would probably reveal who he is. Anyway, he committed to Cornell in the last couple of days. I could not find anything on line yet which is typical. He won't in any way replace Cournoyer, but he should be a significant contributor on offense.

Oooooh, so you're saying we'll have another new friend next year? 👀

[ursusminor]

Sorry about Cournoyer. Yes, really. Anything bad for a league team is bad for all teams in the league, although I make an exception for Union. They lost their leading scorer whose name I can't spell and am too lazy to look up.

I often get information about RPI players in a do-not-reveal mode. A while back, I heard about a CHL player whom RPI was after. I didn't expect RPI to get him for a reason which would probably reveal who he is. Anyway, he committed to Cornell in the last couple of days. I could not find anything on line yet which is typical. He won't in any way replace Cournoyer, but he should be a significant contributor on offense.

Oooooh, so you're saying we'll have another new friend next year? 👀

I didn't say for which year, but it is for the fall.

[Trotsky]

Sorry about Cournoyer. Yes, really. Anything bad for a league team is bad for all teams in the league, although I make an exception for Union. They lost their leading scorer whose name I can't spell and am too lazy to look up.

I'm not looking it up either but it sounds like the brothers who founded Devo and they were Mothersbaugh.

[marty]

Sorry about Cournoyer. Yes, really. Anything bad for a league team is bad for all teams in the league, although I make an exception for Union. They lost their leading scorer whose name I can't spell and am too lazy to look up.

I often get information about RPI players in a do-not-reveal mode. A while back, I heard about a CHL player whom RPI was after. I didn't expect RPI to get him for a reason which would probably reveal who he is. Anyway, he committed to Cornell in the last couple of days. I could not find anything on line yet which is typical. He won't in any way replace Cournoyer, but he should be a significant contributor on offense.

Mitch Gillam's cousin? 

[Beeeej]

So amid all this doomsaying and speculating over why, am I seriously the only one who's noticed that Courns has not actually yet shown up in the portal? We're taking the word of a tweet over (so far, anyway) the actual facts on the ground. If it happens, well, shit. But I like my garments too much to rend them prematurely, and I look terrible in sackcloth and ashes.

[Dafatone]

Cournoyer entering portal. Competing for national titles was fun while it lasted.

siiigh. this too shall pass... but HOLY FUCK is it annoying.

how much money is being thrown at him?

Not trying to relitigate this but highly doubt it's about money

He's the starter at a good hockey team that makes the NCAAs on the regular. Why would you transfer out if it wasn't scholarship/other money?

Before I read 4 more pages on this... I called it. Oh well. Who's next?

No like - when I saw it I was like "well, of course he got NIL baited to transfer, there's no other reason to leave Cornell, a program that develops good goalies and is always competitive" and literally nothing I have heard since disconceives me of that notion.

And everyone is overlooking the possibility that THIS was the NIL pit-stop for Courns. Some Dough Ray Me for one season with a VERY talented returning core... IDK but it's adieu Mon Amie! I've also said, as have you Stereax, that it might be the school. If he's been in Juniors in Quebec the last 3 years, he hasn't done a lot of homework, outside of RVH training. CHL guys aren't super into books, math or much other than hockey.

edit addition: It could also be his agent or the Canadians. Maybe they want him somewhere else, for any number of reasons. Like, money.

(Academics also makes sense as a contributing factor, but I doubt he'd transfer solely because classes hard. I'm sure they'd put that kid in wine tasting and napkin rolling and call it a day.)

Not at all relevant to the discussion, but about 20 years ago (yikes) a professor told us that Intro to Wines was the most failed class at Cornell.

An engineering friend of mine in the class literally shouted, "lies!" in response to this. Which was pretty entertaining in a huge lecture hall.

[The Rancor]

(Academics also makes sense as a contributing factor, but I doubt he'd transfer solely because classes hard. I'm sure they'd put that kid in wine tasting and napkin rolling and call it a day.)

Unless he's on the verge of failing out. School probably hasn't been a priority for him for a long time, English isn't his first language, he just wants to play hockey.

If Cornell is a pit stop on the way to the Big 10 then I'd suggest people here figure out something else to do on their Friday and Saturday nights.

Under that argument, expect Veilleux to enter the portal I guess. Also guys like Mosko and Psenicka.

And again - there are plenty of classes at Cornell, from my understanding, you could put someone who isn't "academically talented" just to get them through it for the sake of the hockey team.

That's the Dave McKee curriculum for jocks who can't read good and want to learn to do other stuff good too.

What's the story behind this one..?

He very publicly had a learning disability, ADD and dyslexia. Anyway, they dropped all those messy charges of sexual assault after an 11-1 deadlock and he returned briefly to playing pro hockey.

[scoop85]

also humble request to any cornell hockey affiliated people that may be reading this forum: today (04/15) is my birthday. woot, or something. idk. i'm already in hell with assignments because i have two essays due today that i haven't started yet, plus i've got three hours of makeup classes in the afternoon that ensure i'll get home no earlier than 7 pm, absolutely drained and in no mood to do anything except curl up in bed and cry myself to sleep. and i don't even have a cake or anything like that to "celebrate". AND the devils are bad and got shut out by the boston fucking bruins, but they're not bad enough to be in lottery range. so can you pretty please, with sugar on top, put a leash on any other possible pro signings/transfers out/whatever until tomorrow? because the cournoyer one was already a kick in the balls. please? i don't need any more reasons to be sad. life sucks enough already. thanks for your consideration. <3

Uh, Happy Birthday?

[stereax]

So amid all this doomsaying and speculating over why, am I seriously the only one who's noticed that Courns has not actually yet shown up in the portal? We're taking the word of a tweet over (so far, anyway) the actual facts on the ground. If it happens, well, shit. But I like my garments too much to rend them prematurely, and I look terrible in sackcloth and ashes.

The thing is, McMahon said it on Twitter. McNally reposted and seemed to validate it. Adam here is telling us it looks like Wisconsin is the betting favorite.

If it was some idiot posting it, that's one thing. But those are three relatively reliable sources, all aligned on this.

It's possible Cournoyer isn't officially in the portal yet because he wants to iron out "a deal", as it were, with whoever is taking him before he does. You see guys enter the portal semi-frequently with "do not contact" tags - which essentially means they've already figured out where they're going. Plus, he's got at least a week to figure it out.

Would I love for all of this to be an elaborate April Fool's Day prank? Yes, absolutely. But...

[stereax]

also humble request to any cornell hockey affiliated people that may be reading this forum: today (04/15) is my birthday. woot, or something. idk. i'm already in hell with assignments because i have two essays due today that i haven't started yet, plus i've got three hours of makeup classes in the afternoon that ensure i'll get home no earlier than 7 pm, absolutely drained and in no mood to do anything except curl up in bed and cry myself to sleep. and i don't even have a cake or anything like that to "celebrate". AND the devils are bad and got shut out by the boston fucking bruins, but they're not bad enough to be in lottery range. so can you pretty please, with sugar on top, put a leash on any other possible pro signings/transfers out/whatever until tomorrow? because the cournoyer one was already a kick in the balls. please? i don't need any more reasons to be sad. life sucks enough already. thanks for your consideration. <3

Uh, Happy Birthday?

celebrating by waking up literally 10 minutes before class starts, completely exhausted, and fuzzy in the head. let's do this ig 😭

[adamw]

In hindsight, we shouldn't be surprised that the guy that bailed on his MJAHL team as soon as he got a chance in the Q, and bailed on his Q team as soon as he got a chance in college left for a better opportunity. I'm somewhat hopeful that this first wave of CHL guys will use the portal like crazy but it will wind down a little in the future

Hockey players switch teams all the time. The problem is more that these late-blooming CHL kids probably don't care about education at all, they just want the fastest opportunity to jump up a level in hockey. If a kid commits to an Ivy at a younger age it indicates they and their family are specifically seeking out an education.

This is exactly what I just said - re: Cournoyer - in the other thread. Kumbaya.

[stereax]

Anyway it's official.

Best of luck to him, wherever he lands, and I hope it turns out to be the right decision for him.

[George64]

This from a friend, not about hockey, but speaks to the sorry state of college athletics:
"Don't know if I mentioned this, but the Wall Street Journal had an article a week or so ago about Michigan's basketball program, with the coach saying that he doubts that he will ever again enter the home of a high school recruit, that all of his recruiting will be from the portal and he will have plenty of dollars to do the talking."

Transfer portal

So far, only Cornellian listed is Winter Wallace, who's a grad transfer.