RPI 2010 Off-season thread V: Captain Kennedy and the A-Team

[Wicked Slappaahs]

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After the World Junior performance he had where he went point for point with the best players in the world at his age, and given the fact he's now over 200 lbs, this signing should not come as a great surprise. He will develop no mattter where he plays, and this is a nice recruiting tool for the RPI progam. The Maple Leafs are the most followed hockey team in the world, and when he makes an impact at the NHL level, he will be taking the RPI name to the center of the hockey world.

Good points as usual Swami. I know Jerry was working out with Zach Parise this summer, so I have a feeling his speed/burst (once thought a weakness) is even better.

[Wicked Slappaahs]

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We had 106 posts yesterday (using eastern time). That may be an off-season record.

Gotta be

[turk181]

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...onto the positive...looking at possible line combos; Kennedy/ Bergin...Foss/Leboeuf or Koudys...Bailen/Dolan....Polacek/Brutlag/Cullen or Tinordi...Pirri/O'Grady/Rogic...Goulet or Higgs/Tinordi or Cullen/ Malchuck...Helfrich/Burgdoerfer/Lee....leaving; Halpern, Smith, Rabbani, Watts, Beauregard. Still seems to be an awfully good squad

[Ralph Baer]

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The Kitchener-Waterloo record? Last time I checked, Waterloo, NY was a ways from Kitchener, Ontario.

This was the only one when I posted. Now there are a total of 13.

August 10th 2010, 7:06am
Well it seems that I really am an idiot.

After railing about getting rid of picks from the draft and beating that dead horse in every discussion since it happened, Burke went and showed why he manages a professional hockey team and I never could.

I kept moaning that they could have had a Taylor Hall, blah, blah, blah. Now they are poised to nab a young guy with a really similar skill set.

Proving that the draft is not the only way to build a team. This absolutely makes the Kessel deal less of a concern. Anyone else who made a big deal of it should feel dumb the day we get D'Amigo.

And finally proving that I really am a fool who knows not of what he speaks. Guess you don't have to read anything I write ever again.

[Ralph Baer]

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RC - I haven't heard anyone talk about player attendance yesterday. Were Jerry and Pirri the only ones missing?

Not to be an alarmist but captains practices have begun. If Pirri isn't local, then I think we've got more than just Jerry to worry about.

I agree, but there is nothing new on the net about anything happening to Pirri.

[Red Cloud]

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...onto the positive...looking at possible line combos; Kennedy/ Bergin...Foss/Leboeuf or Koudys...Bailen/Dolan....Polacek/Brutlag/Cullen or Tinordi...Pirri/O'Grady/Rogic...Goulet or Higgs/Tinordi or Cullen/ Malchuck...Helfrich/Burgdoerfer/Lee....leaving; Halpern, Smith, Rabbani, Watts, Beauregard. Still seems to be an awfully good squad

Exactly. It would be better if we have Jerry, but to me this hurts RPI less than the Nash signing hurt Cornell or the Leblanc signing hurt Harvard.

[Ralph Baer]

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Good points as usual Swami. I know Jerry was working out with Zach Parise this summer, so I have a feeling his speed/burst (once thought a weakness) is even better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKRCO_ahFGs

[rvd5star69]

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yes only two missing

[Red Cloud]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKRCO_ahFGs

Jeez. He is jacked compared to last year.

[Ralph Baer]

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yes only two missing

[Wicked Slappaahs]

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I agree, but there is nothing new on the net about anything happening to Pirri.

Hopefully, he's not apartment shopping in Rockford.

[Ralph Baer]

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Jeez. He is jacked compared to last year.

I am surprised that no one linked that video earlier, at least I don't recall seeing it. I found it linked on the HF thread which is now well past 300 posts.

[Wicked Slappaahs]

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Oh boy, that can't be good....Seth's gonna need more Pepto.

[Ralph Baer]

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Hopefully, he's not apartment shopping in Rockford.

Or Saginaw.

[FlagDUDE08]

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Also, should D'Amigo be leaving, remember that we also played against BU, Michigan, State, AND Q-Pac without him (while he was away at WJC). We won 3 out of 4. I'm not going to speculate outcomes had he been there because it's moot. What I am saying, though, is that even with a couple of star players, we still have a lot of depth. Should Jerry choose to wave the pen, I'll be very happy that he is advancing in the ranks, but I think we'll be OK. We have a lot of good depth, with much more coming in.

Also, who knows? Western Canada may also produce a few draft picks in the future for us.