Cornell 5 Yale 2, 1/30/26

[stereax]

Holy short handed chance machine. Casty draws a penalty.

Was that a tackle or a takedown?

He tried to flip Castagna over.

[stereax]

Pecknold mentioned and I audibly went "that asshole"... I fear it is so over.

[stereax]

Sieveless in New Haven.

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4-2.

[marty]

Note to Yale commentators: sometime less is more...

Honestly, these guys aren't too bad.

You're right, they're not. But must there be commentary every single second?

They're just excited to know they actually have an audience tonight.

Empty compared to when we visited in 2003.  Sold out and thus my son drafted my high school aged daughter into the Yale Pep Band so that she wouldn't miss the game.

[stereax]

CASTY FOR TWO!

[stereax]

Wheeeee what a fun win!

[ugarte]

Wheeeee what a fun win!

4-0 night between hoops and hockey including WBB breaking a 16 game losing streak to Penn.

[stereax]

Wheeeee what a fun win!

4-0 night between hoops and hockey including WBB breaking a 16 game losing streak to Penn.

Okay look I'm still gonna be avoiding the eggs from here on out 😂😂😂

[arugula]

Wheeeee what a fun win!

4-0 night between hoops and hockey including WBB breaking a 16 game losing streak to Penn.

Okay look I'm still gonna be avoiding the eggs from here on out 😂😂😂

At the end of the game one of the officials was lecturing Casey and then after handshakes several players from each side were arguing with the officials and seemingly with each other. Any idea why?

[billhoward]

OK. I'm sure this has been asked before. Friday, 19:00, Cornell plays Yale in New Haven. If I arrive in New Haven around 17:00, what's the best place for a pizza?

File this for next year: The pizza you want is on Wooster Street in New Haven, not walking distance to the rink. If it's there it's good. We are partial to Pepe's. Others like Modern. There are others. If you arrive at 6 o'clock on a weekend, it's crowded everywhere. You wind up in line next to a pudgy guy and if he's with a cute woman, you think "he's smart, she knows he's smart" and b) you could say, "If fifteen years, do you think you'll be secretary of the treasury?"

[billhoward]

ECAC after games of Friday January 30 2026
  Team        Pts GP Fri
1  Quinnipiac 31  13 W at SLU
2  Harvard    30  15 W over RPI
3  Dartmouth  30  14 W over Union
4  Cornell    29  13 W @ Yale
5  Princeton  25  13 W @ Clarkson
6  Colgate    20  13 SOW @ Brown
7  Yale       18  13
8  Clarkson   17  15
8  Union      17  14
10 Brown      11  13
11 RPI        10  13
12 StLawrence  8  15 

So the top six teams won Friday though #6 Colgate needed a shootout win over 10th place Brlwn. #4 (going into Saturday's game) Cornell has a game in hand on #3 Harvard and two in hand on #2 Dartmouth, both one point ahead of Cornell. Quinnipiac could stumble but Cornell's safety-school-admission kind of goal is a #2 or #3 finsh and the bracket that wouldn't see Q until the ECAC title game. 
Remaining games are #1 Quinnipiac, #5 Princeton, #6 Colgate 2X, #8T Union, #8T Clarkson, #11 RPI, #12 St Lawrence. The key game is Friday Feb. 20 at Quinnipiac.
I think I have the numbers right. We'll see. I don't know but suspect Cornell has the youngest ECAC team meaning the greatest chance to grow in the final four weeks of the season.

[Chris '03]

Wheeeee what a fun win!

4-0 night between hoops and hockey including WBB breaking a 16 game losing streak to Penn.

Okay look I'm still gonna be avoiding the eggs from here on out 😂😂😂

At the end of the game one of the officials was lecturing Casey and then after handshakes several players from each side were arguing with the officials and seemingly with each other. Any idea why?

Wondering too. On the entry before the ENG there was interference in front of the Cornell bench. Didn't seem like a big deal. After the goal, Casey was chirping about something. The linesman skated over yelling "enough." He and Casey got into it a little then one of the refs came over and looked to be saying something like "complain to me and leave him alone."

After the handshakes there was a long chat with all four officials, Fegaras, Cournoyer, and the Yale captain. Wasn't clear what it was about.

That's all I could see.

[Snowball]

ECAC after games of Friday January 30 2026
  Team        Pts GP Fri
1  Quinnipiac 31  13 W at SLU
2  Harvard    30  15 W over RPI
3  Dartmouth  30  14 W over Union
4  Cornell    29  13 W @ Yale
5  Princeton  25  13 W @ Clarkson
6  Colgate    20  13 SOW @ Brown
7  Yale      18  13
8  Clarkson  17  15
8  Union      17  14
10 Brown      11  13
11 RPI        10  13
12 StLawrence  8  15 

So the top six teams won Friday though #6 Colgate needed a shootout win over 10th place Brlwn. #4 (going into Saturday's game) Cornell has a game in hand on #3 Harvard and two in hand on #2 Dartmouth, both one point ahead of Cornell. Quinnipiac could stumble but Cornell's safety-school-admission kind of goal is a #2 or #3 finsh and the bracket that wouldn't see Q until the ECAC title game. 
Remaining games are #1 Quinnipiac, #5 Princeton, #6 Colgate 2X, #8T Union, #8T Clarkson, #11 RPI, #12 St Lawrence. The key game is Friday Feb. 20 at Quinnipiac.
I think I have the numbers right. We'll see. I don't know but suspect Cornell has the youngest ECAC team meaning the greatest chance to grow in the final four weeks of the season.

Gemini generated this for me:

ECAC Men's Hockey Average Ages (2025-26)
• Union: 22.50
• Colgate: 22.38
• St. Lawrence: 21.90
• Brown: 21.86
• RPI: 21.82
• Clarkson: 21.71
• Dartmouth: 21.63
• Princeton: 21.60
• Yale: 21.40
• Quinnipiac: 21.35
• Cornell: 20.97
• Harvard: 20.72

Conference Average: 21.65

[stereax]

ECAC after games of Friday January 30 2026
  Team        Pts GP Fri
1  Quinnipiac 31  13 W at SLU
2  Harvard    30  15 W over RPI
3  Dartmouth  30  14 W over Union
4  Cornell    29  13 W @ Yale
5  Princeton  25  13 W @ Clarkson
6  Colgate    20  13 SOW @ Brown
7  Yale      18  13
8  Clarkson  17  15
8  Union      17  14
10 Brown      11  13
11 RPI        10  13
12 StLawrence  8  15 

So the top six teams won Friday though #6 Colgate needed a shootout win over 10th place Brlwn. #4 (going into Saturday's game) Cornell has a game in hand on #3 Harvard and two in hand on #2 Dartmouth, both one point ahead of Cornell. Quinnipiac could stumble but Cornell's safety-school-admission kind of goal is a #2 or #3 finsh and the bracket that wouldn't see Q until the ECAC title game. 
Remaining games are #1 Quinnipiac, #5 Princeton, #6 Colgate 2X, #8T Union, #8T Clarkson, #11 RPI, #12 St Lawrence. The key game is Friday Feb. 20 at Quinnipiac.
I think I have the numbers right. We'll see. I don't know but suspect Cornell has the youngest ECAC team meaning the greatest chance to grow in the final four weeks of the season.

Gemini generated this for me:

ECAC Men's Hockey Average Ages (2025-26)
• Union: 22.50
• Colgate: 22.38
• St. Lawrence: 21.90
• Brown: 21.86
• RPI: 21.82
• Clarkson: 21.71
• Dartmouth: 21.63
• Princeton: 21.60
• Yale: 21.40
• Quinnipiac: 21.35
• Cornell: 20.97
• Harvard: 20.72

Conference Average: 21.65

Can we stop using AI for shit that CHN has on its website?

Union - 22.8
Colgate - 22.8
St. Lawrence - 22.3
Brown - 22.3
RPI - 22.2
Clarkson - 22.2
Yale - 22.2
Dartmouth - 22.0
Princeton - 22.0
Quinnipiac - 21.9
Cornell - 21.5
Harvard - 21.1

Though the number on CHN vs the one on EP is different - EP's gives that 20.97 number, and lines up with Gemini on most - but not all - numbers.

As per EP -

Colgate - 22.38
Union - 22.22
St. Lawrence - 21.90
Brown - 21.86
RPI - 21.82
Clarkson - 21.71
Yale - 21.69
Dartmouth - 21.63
Princeton - 21.60
Quinnipiac - 21.35
Cornell - 20.97
Harvard - 20.72

I'll mention here that I know for a fact that EP has some birthdates wrong. Idk if any of the ECAC players' birthdates are involved, but I know a few non-ECAC college players whose birthdates are inaccurate.

Also important to note - age does not necessarily correlate with experience, even at the college hockey level. Here I'll drop one of my favorite fun facts, which is that Reegan Hiscock is almost a full year older than Jonathan Castagna. (July '04 vs April '05, as per EP.) It's the fact that we have such a huge freshman class, more than the years on them, that gives us a larger growth runway. (And that's discounting the upperclassmen who also have a runway - Kraft has finally found his touch again, for instance.)