Dustin Traylen Out at Clarkson

[Josh '99]

USCHO Article

[Scersk '97]

Wow.  It's Roll's way or the highway!

I think Morris really left him a bunch of malcontents.

[RatushnyFan]

Has this happened at Cornell since Alex Nikolic in the early '90's (academic reasons)?  I hate seeing this kind of stuff.

[Will]

Too much syphilis?  Or too much baby-eating? :-P

[DisplacedCornellian]

[Q]Will Wrote:

 Too much syphilis?  Or too much baby-eating?[/q]

/Does best RichS imitation:

Classy ::rolleyes:: ::rolleyes::

[Will]

[Q]DisplacedCornellian Wrote:

 [Q2]Will Wrote:

 Too much syphilis?  Or too much baby-eating?[/Q]
/Does best RichS imitation:

Classy   [/q]

No fair...I wanted to evoke the reaction from the real RichS. ;-)

[Greenberg \'97]

So he can't play hockey, but he still gets a free ride?  Sounds fair.

[billhoward]

Traylen's departure might just be a such tipping point even if it seems like the end of the world now. Every time it seems as if the North Country teams are on the ropes and will never come back, they come back and win like two of the next three ECAC playoffs between the two of them.

Playoffs, Rich, we said "playoffs," not RS titles. We know you have a wallfull of them. Like the vice-presidency in the words of John Nance Garner, RS titles "aren't worth a warm bucket of spit." Funny how the quote always says spit, as if those were Garner's original words.  

[Hillel Hoffmann]

Anyone who thinks this is a bad thing for Clarkson is in for a rude surprise. Traylen's lack of focus and discipline -- like many of the Clarkson upperclassmen's -- was obvious. I'm impressed that Roll is laying down the law. Clarkson's recent decline (which I guarantee is temporary) has hurt Cornell, and I welcome Roll's new order.

[KeithK]

[q]Anyone who thinks this is a bad thing for Clarkson is in for a rude surprise.  Traylen's lack of focus and discipline -- like many of the Clarkson upperclassmen's -- was obvious. I'm impressed that Roll is laying down the law. Clarkson's recent decline (which I guarantee is temporary) has hurt Cornell, and I welcome Roll's new order.[/q]Exactly.  No matter how much talent a kid has, you don't want him out there playing if he's not going to work hard and play smart hockey.  Hopefully Roll will clean house, bring in some good players and get Clarkson back to where they should be.  

[Scersk '97]

It's taking Roll longer than I thought it would, but I have every confidence that he's the right guy for Clarkson.

[Rosey]

[Q]Scersk '97 Wrote:

 It's taking Roll longer than I thought it would, but I have every confidence that he's the right guy for Clarkson.[/q]

I look forward to a revival of the Cornell-Clarkson rivalry, which was the hottest one during my years as a student since at the time Clarkson (a) brought a band to our games, (b) brought fans to our games, and (c) was actually a competitive team.  It always seems to go back to Harvard, but I still have a fond place in my heart for some of our games against Clarkson from '95-'98.

Cheers,
Kyle

[billhoward]

[Q]Scersk '97 Wrote: It's taking Roll longer than I thought it would, but I have every confidence that he's the right guy for Clarkson.[/q]These expectations seem to be speeded up, like dog years or Internet time. Roll has only been at the helm last year and this year. True, Mike Schafer took Cornell to the NCAAs his first two years, but most coaches coming in are not going to pull that off, and even in Schafer's case there were four painful building years after that.

We need about five or six NCAA caliber, TUC-worthy teams in the ECACHL if the league is to shed its image as the league in the great no-man's land between real college hockey (HE, WCHA, CCHA) and the currently pretender leagues with the 15 and 16 seeds (CHA, Atlantic Hockey). Clarkson has to be one of the serious ECACHL half-dozen. Cornell and Harvard are two most every year now. Colgate and Darmouth make two more. Clarkson and St. Lawrence can take turns being a serious team and it would be nice if they did it together not in rotation. Then maybe Brown or RPI.

Otherwise our reputation and those RPI-Krach-PWR ratings are going to be based too much on the early season two-game series with a Michigan State caliber team (plus the couple pushovers) and two more games at the Florida Classic. Not doing well enough in those four games (1-2-1) probably helped land us in land of 10,000 hostile fans on a big sheet last week.

[Will]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

even in Schafer's case there were four painful building years after that.[/q]

With all due respect, I wouldn't call the 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 seasons "painful" at all.  Just because we didn't make the NCAAs doesn't mean they were particularly bad seasons.  Lighten up a bit Bill.

[Trotsky]

[Q]RatushnyFan Wrote:

 Has this happened at Cornell since Alex Nikolic in the early '90's (academic reasons)?  I hate seeing this kind of stuff.[/q]

Yes.