RPI Recruit Thread 2012-13

[turk181]

Re: RPI Recruit Thread 2012-13

Ralph-Don't try to read between the lines-I never complained about anything. I merely pointed out a statistic that was fairly obvious. Our list of recruits consisted of much smaller players than that of Cornell and Princeton. Nothing more and nothing less. i just wondered why when we seem to be scouting the same kids at the same places?

Agreed Doc. These are merely observations....nothing more. In keeping with that I see Cornell just received a commit for 2015 from Donovan Ott (F) out of Selects Academy (6'1 200). Again, just an observation.

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI Recruit Thread 2012-13

Ralph-Don't try to read between the lines-I never complained about anything. I merely pointed out a statistic that was fairly obvious. Our list of recruits consisted of much smaller players than that of Cornell and Princeton. Nothing more and nothing less. i just wondered why when we seem to be scouting the same kids at the same places?

I will retract that statement.

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI Recruit Thread 2012-13

Agreed Doc. These are merely observations....nothing more. In keeping with that I see Cornell just received a commit for 2015 from Donovan Ott (F) out of Selects Academy (6'1 200). Again, just an observation.

Probably another pylon.

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: RPI Recruit Thread 2012-13

Probably another pylon.

Cornell are now the Protoss? All the reason to bring back the (Zerg) Swarm!

[DrDemento]

Re: RPI Recruit Thread 2012-13

I will retract that statement.

No need to-just take a couple of valium and mellow out. There is plenty of time to get ourselves all upset in 32+ days or so.

[DrDemento]

Re: RPI Recruit Thread 2012-13

Cornell are now the Protoss? All the reason to bring back the (Zerg) Swarm!

I miss the BEE!!!

[DrDemento]

Re: RPI Recruit Thread 2012-13

Agreed Doc. These are merely observations....nothing more. In keeping with that I see Cornell just received a commit for 2015 from Donovan Ott (F) out of Selects Academy (6'1 200). Again, just an observation.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Princeton is making a concerted effort to be a bigger more physical team over the next few years. Whther the other Ivies and ECAC teams do the same or not I just don't know. Obviously Cornell has lived and died with size for years. Ralph is absolutely correct, however-size can only help if the talent level is there.

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI Recruit Thread 2012-13

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Princeton is making a concerted effort to be a bigger more physical team over the next few years. Whther the other Ivies and ECAC teams do the same or not I just don't know. Obviously Cornell has lived and died with size for years. Ralph is absolutely correct, however-size can only help if the talent level is there.

BC has been living off of a lot of very short players for years.

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI Recruit Thread 2012-13

I miss the BEE!!!

I also miss Puckman having a more prominent role. That is, it should be used as the logo and on the uniforms.

[DrDemento]

Re: RPI Recruit Thread 2012-13

BC has been living off of a lot of very short players for years.

They usually have a nice mix-lots of smallish quick forwards and a couple of big bangers. And they can roll out 3-4-5 lines of them anytime they want. I wish we could do that and reload every couple years like they can. Just not possible for lots of recruiting reasons at this time. I actually think we have a bit of that mix for this year-with some real talent and size on defense. Not yet ready to predict win totals but i suspect we will do a lot better than many suspect.

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI Recruit Thread 2012-13

They usually have a nice mix-lots of smallish quick forwards and a couple of big bangers. And they can roll out 3-4-5 lines of them anytime they want. I wish we could do that and reload every couple years like they can. Just not possible for lots of recruiting reasons at this time. I actually think we have a bit of that mix for this year-with some real talent and size on defense. Not yet ready to predict win totals but i suspect we will do a lot better than many suspect.

I think this year the offensive talent in our freshman class forwards is mainly in the bigger guys.

[DrDemento]

Re: RPI Recruit Thread 2012-13

I think this year the offensive talent in our freshman class forwards is mainly in the bigger guys.

Agreed-but i think we have more depth all over the place than we have had in some time. Not the superstar 2nd and 3rd round draft choices-but just pretty solid from top to bottom. I think we will just be trying to succeed by committee-and some times that works out really well.

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI Recruit Thread 2012-13

Agreed-but i think we have more depth all over the place than we have had in some time. Not the superstar 2nd and 3rd round draft choices-but just pretty solid from top to bottom. I think we will just be trying to succeed by committee-and some times that works out really well.

Hopefully this will be one of those times.

[Wicked Slappaahs]

Re: RPI Recruit Thread 2012-13

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Princeton is making a concerted effort to be a bigger more physical team over the next few years. Whther the other Ivies and ECAC teams do the same or not I just don't know. Obviously Cornell has lived and died with size for years. Ralph is absolutely correct, however-size can only help if the talent level is there.

I think key ingredients for recruiting "smaller" guys is brains, grit and attitude. Take Bailen for instance - he might be small in stature, but he never misses an opportunity to blow a guy up. He plays like a guy who is 4" taller and 50 lbs. heavier. The opposite is also true. You can recruit a big kid who plays "soft" i.e. who doesn't use the physical attributes that the good lord gave him. I'll take a Bailen type kid any day, over a big kid who doesn't command respect on the ice.

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI Recruit Thread 2012-13

I think key ingredients for recruiting "smaller" guys is brains, grit and attitude. Take Bailen for instance - he might be small in stature, but he never misses an opportunity to blow a guy up. He plays like a guy who is 4" taller and 50 lbs. heavier. The opposite is also true. You can recruit a big kid who plays "soft" i.e. who doesn't use the physical attributes that the good lord gave him. I'll take a Bailen type kid any day, over a big kid who doesn't command respect on the ice.

I agree about Bailen, but you can't have a defense with only Bailens. A matter of fact, I wouldn't play two dmen like him in the same pairing even on the powerplay (except perhaps when needing a goal or two to tie at the end of the game).