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RPI 2026 Off-Season: Please Pardon Our Appearance As We Upgrade This Area
- Thread starter Ralph Baer
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RPI fan 4 life
Season Ticket Holder since 1974
I would say St. Lawrence. They’ll already get a big crowd for Quinnipiac being senior night (even though they don’t have too many seniors).RPI Instagram post of league schedule
RPI Men's Hockey on Instagram: "🚨 ECAC SCHEDULE RELEASED 🚨 The 2026-27 ECAC Hockey schedule has arrived. Conference battles, rivalry matchups, and another season of RPI Men’s Hockey are on the horizon. #LetsGoRed #ECACHockey"
154 likes, 0 comments - rpi_mhockey on June 11, 2026: "🚨 ECAC SCHEDULE RELEASED 🚨 The 2026-27 ECAC Hockey schedule has arrived. Conference battles, rivalry matchups, and another season of RPI Men’s Hockey are on the horizon. #LetsGoRed #ECACHockey".www.instagram.com
Anyone want to guess Freakout date?
Ralph Baer
Let's Go 'Tute!
Today is 13 June 2026. There are 113 days until RPI's next game.
This is based upon 4 October 2026 for the start of next season.
This is based upon 4 October 2026 for the start of next season.
The chart I posted was from the site for RPI hockey archives - if it is incorrect about a year that could be but the overall conclusion has to be considered the same. Sez, what is our conference won lost record overall since 2001? What is our overall won lost record since 2001? How do those number compare with RPI hockey history? i just got a little tired of all the excuses made for the coaching over the past 25 years (and BTW, even worse for the girls' program.
Ralph Baer
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Today is 14 June 2026. There are 112 days (16 weeks) until RPI's next game.
This is based upon 4 October 2026 for the start of next season.
This is based upon 4 October 2026 for the start of next season.
The past 25 years have been bad no doubt, but Fridgen was a good coach, Appert has had some success since leaving RPI, and Smith had brought up a Canisius program that was renting ice time from a D3 program to an NCAA tournament (where they almost upset Quinnipiac) and a conference regular season title. I don't think any of them all of a sudden were bad coaches here. Far from perfect with plenty of mistakes, yes. But take a look at who became in charge just before 25 years ago. I don't think you can really call it a coincidence.
It's fair to view it as excuses but the reality is the program was never supported as much as it needed to be to cultivate success
Ralph Baer
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Today is 15 June 2026. There are 111 days until RPI's next game.
This is based upon 4 October 2026 for the start of next season.
This is based upon 4 October 2026 for the start of next season.
Sez- you just summed up my entire point better than I could have. It was no coincidence that we had an almost complete collapse of the entire program starting about 25 years ago. We may not have always been a top contender but we were very rarely the doormat and every so often we showed signs of being the Beast of the East. The landscape for all of college hockey has changed so much in those 25 years that it is hard to even recognize. But I am optimistic, perhaps for the first time in 2 decades, that we have entered a recovery period brought about by much needed new leadership both in the program and overall at the Institution.
I'm optimistic too!
Ralph Baer
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Today is 16 June 2026. There are 110 days until RPI's next game.
This is based upon 4 October 2026 for the start of next season.
This is based upon 4 October 2026 for the start of next season.
Wicked Slappaahs
I miss Tie Domi
Mayor's Cup moving to Glens Falls -- Jan. 23, 2027
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Adirondack Thunder | CAPITAL DISTRICT MAYOR’S CUP COMING TO HARDING MAZZOTTI ARENA
GLENS FALLS – The Adirondack Thunder, Union College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) announced today that the 2027 Capital District Mayor’s Cup women’s and men's hockey games will be played at Harding Mazzotti Arena in Glens Falls on Saturday, January 23, 2027, bringing one of...
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Ralph Baer
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Mazzotti, not MuzzattiMayor's Cup moving to Glens Falls -- Jan. 23, 2027
Adirondack Thunder | CAPITAL DISTRICT MAYOR’S CUP COMING TO HARDING MAZZOTTI ARENA
GLENS FALLS – The Adirondack Thunder, Union College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) announced today that the 2027 Capital District Mayor’s Cup women’s and men's hockey games will be played at Harding Mazzotti Arena in Glens Falls on Saturday, January 23, 2027, bringing one of...
Tickets on sale July 1st through GF Arena box office
rvd5star69
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gonna be great sold out house every seat with airhorn unlike albanyMazzotti, not Muzzatti
DavidNardolillo
Well-known member
I actually wondered if Glens Falls could be a temporary home for RPI if they elected to build a new HFH due to the hockey support up there. I think this will work out really well for a one-off game.
Wicked Slappaahs
I miss Tie Domi
Disney on ice is to blame. It will be a raucous sell-out, but far few bodies in attendance due to the building size.
DavidNardolillo
Well-known member
I am interested to see how that trade-off works. The Mayor's Cup atmosphere has been a little uneven for me at MVP lately.
RPI will be the home team for the game. I knew this months ago but was asked not to make anything public until it became official.
Was not at either of the previous two Glens Falls versions of this game which were both in the closing years of the previous century. However, as best as I remember, the first one drew "kind of OK" while the second one was a complete dog that didn't draw flies. Unfortunately, neither school's websites has box scores for these games to verify that for certain.
In addition, a tournament (The Empire Cup) held up there in the 1980's featuring four D1 New York State based programs was also very blah and also did not draw all that much business. Probably didn't help much that Union was not D1 yet and was not a participant.
None the less and based on those two things, it is probably not much of a reach to suspect that the local fans up there could not care less about college hockey and are not very likely to show up this time either.
Relieved that at least it took the likes of Disney On Ice that got Union- RPI tossed to the curb on their ear. Far better and less embarrassing than getting the boot for the likes of a disco nostalgia show "starring" the likes of KC and the Sunshine Band and the Village People. Yes, both of them are still touring.
However, bottom line is that this game in Albany has been "preempted" at least four or five times since the very late 1990's. Two times in those 90's in successive years, at least one more time that got the game moved to Lake Placid and now this time. Not even counting another time the game got moved to a Tuesday (believe it was election day). Appears that the downtown arenas' commitment to this game is limited to whenever they can't get anyone else.
Just my opinion, but, maybe it's time to tell them to get somebody else the other couple dozen times too.
Ralph Baer
Let's Go 'Tute!
Today is 17 June 2026. There are 109 days until RPI's next game.
This is based upon 4 October 2026 for the start of next season.
This is based upon 4 October 2026 for the start of next season.