Cornell 5 Yale 2, 1/30/26

[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.)

[RichH]

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?"

*cracks knuckles to fact check billhoward*

Modern isn't on Wooster St.

And it's about a 30 minute walk to Ingalls from Wooster St by cutting through the Green. Depends on your tolerance for walking if it's "walking distance."  I've done it.

And I don't know what he's talking about after the word "pudgy." (I once waited in line at Pepe's behind bill, but that was when I considered myself svelte.)

[chimpfood]

The parts of the game I was able to watch seemed pretty dominant. Don't look now but we'd be a 2 seed if the NCAA tourney started today.

[dbilmes]

It was great, as always, to have the pep band at the game, although they arrived much later than they usually do.
After the first few Cornell goals, the Yale PA system started playing loud music each time Cornell scored, in an attempt to drown out the chants of "Sieve" and "It's all your fault."
Sitting right behind the Cornell bench, it was interesting to note that most of the Cornell players on the bench stood the entire time, while most of the Yale players on their bench sat. From a practical standpoint, you would think players would want to take a load off their feet for a few minutes before jumping back on the ice. In the NHL, for example, players usually sit on the bench in between shifts.
I told my son that I thought the Cornell players were standing to show their connection to the Lynah Faithful, who also stand the entire game!
Kudos to Yale for their new scoreboard. It's one of the best I've seen in an ECAC rink. It appears they have a policy, though, of not showing any replays, not even the Yale goals. I continue to consider the Lynah video board useless, due both to its location and the quality of the video.

[adamw]

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.

glad someone said it

We also have a whole dedicated page for this ... https://www.collegehockeynews.com/almanac/funfacts-ageavg.php

The differences may be based on when the cutoff date is, since it's not necessarily "today" for the purpose of determining your hockey age. But the relative number between teams should be the same.

[adamw]

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.

glad someone said it

We also have a whole dedicated page for this ... https://www.collegehockeynews.com/almanac/funfacts-ageavg.php

The differences may be based on when the cutoff date is, since it's not necessarily "today" for the purpose of determining your hockey age. But the relative number between teams should be the same.

For poops and giggles, I just added another column to this page:

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/almanac/funfacts-ageavg.php

It's the age for each player as of today, weighted by the amount of games played. And each column is sortable.

[JasonN95]

Question for someone that was there: About what percentage of the crowd would you guess were Cornell fans?

[stereax]

It was great, as always, to have the pep band at the game, although they arrived much later than they usually do.
After the first few Cornell goals, the Yale PA system started playing loud music each time Cornell scored, in an attempt to drown out the chants of "Sieve" and "It's all your fault."
Sitting right behind the Cornell bench, it was interesting to note that most of the Cornell players on the bench stood the entire time, while most of the Yale players on their bench sat. From a practical standpoint, you would think players would want to take a load off their feet for a few minutes before jumping back on the ice. In the NHL, for example, players usually sit on the bench in between shifts.
I told my son that I thought the Cornell players were standing to show their connection to the Lynah Faithful, who also stand the entire game!
Kudos to Yale for their new scoreboard. It's one of the best I've seen in an ECAC rink. It appears they have a policy, though, of not showing any replays, not even the Yale goals. I continue to consider the Lynah video board useless, due both to its location and the quality of the video.

I could very well be wrong but I believe they stand most of the time every game!

Your behind the tunnel representative - it depends. Some players prefer to sit, the majority tend to stand though. But also, after a long shift players are more prone to sitting. A couple of guys (Hiscock and Castagna, notably) like to sit on the wall and turn their back to the play. Depends.

I think at the NHL level, you're mandated to sit down? Or at least you absolutely shouldn't be sitting on the wall, haha.

[stereax]

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.

glad someone said it

We also have a whole dedicated page for this ... https://www.collegehockeynews.com/almanac/funfacts-ageavg.php

The differences may be based on when the cutoff date is, since it's not necessarily "today" for the purpose of determining your hockey age. But the relative number between teams should be the same.

Makes sense about the cutoff! And ooh, new feature...

(But more generally - stop using the Lie Boxes that are GenAI programs for actual data...)

[Chris '03]

Question for someone that was there: About what percentage of the crowd would you guess were Cornell fans?

Solidly half, possibly more. Though overall attendance was not great. Yale attendance is nothing like what it used to be. Yale bench side was maybe half full. The end zones were essentially empty.

The 7pm starts on Friday are also an issue. Building was *maybe* 20 percent full at 7. Filled in decently by 7:30 by the time folks managed traffic and parking.

[dbilmes]

Question for someone that was there: About what percentage of the crowd would you guess were Cornell fans?

It seemed like there were more Cornell than Yale fans there. In any case, the Cornell fans definitely made more noise, especially since there was no Yale pep band present and the only Yale students in the rink appeared to be the ones on the ice.