November 5, 2024
by Avash Kalra/Senior Writer (@AvashKalra)
If each college hockey team has a storyline in the 2024-25 season, Cornell’s seems almost too obvious — its quest, with one of its deepest rosters in years, to move past the early rounds of the NCAA tournament, and give legendary head coach Mike Schafer at least a realistic shot at the national championship ahead of his planned retirement next summer.
The reality, though, is that while plot twists are inevitable, nothing is scripted for anyone. And for the Big Red, a prodigious opening weekend matchup against North Dakota represented only its first chapter.
‘Opening weekend’ for Cornell, that is. The Fighting Hawks had played six games already and traveled to Ithaca, New York, on the heels of a loss last Saturday to Boston…
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