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RPI 2026-27: Houston Field House, We Have Lift-off!

From what I can gather, the odds for our game against Army has not changed at all - probably because of a total lack of interest in betting on an exhibition game. Still almost dead even. What I have found though is very early odds on the Ohio State weekend having us as a 1.5 goal underdog for the first game. Not what I consider great but probably much better and closer than anything we would have seen a year ago.
 
I think these will be the D pairings for the first game. Good mix of offense/defense on each pair.

Michaels/Sobi
Byrz/Hildy
Guo/Klassen
Klassek is playing on the top pairing. No way he’s on the 3rd pairing. Him and sobi are going to play over 20 minutes a game. Motew is likely playing over hildy. I do think hildy will get some playing time though. He’s a solid defender
 
Sorry, I wasn’t putting them in order but I believe these are what they’ve been running with in practice and what we will see to start against Army next weekend. But time will tell.
Klassek is playing on the top pairing. No way he’s on the 3rd pairing. Him and sobi are going to play over 20 minutes a game. Motew is likely playing over hildy. I do think hildy will get some playing time though. He’s a solid defender
 
In honor of Guerin Slezak, today is 28 September 2026. There are 4 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 2 October 2026 for the start of next season.
 
From what I can gather, the odds for our game against Army has not changed at all - probably because of a total lack of interest in betting on an exhibition game. Still almost dead even. What I have found though is very early odds on the Ohio State weekend having us as a 1.5 goal underdog for the first game. Not what I consider great but probably much better and closer than anything we would have seen a year ago.
Thanks for the reminder Doc.... RPI couldn't be bothered to include the Army exhibition in the schedule posted online ....seriously folks, do we even have a sports information official or dept. ? BTW, that's a 6PM start time according to the ARMY website.
 
In looking at the Army roster for the upcoming exhibition game, I find it a little unusual that they have both a large number of very big players and a large number of rather small players. With not a whole lot in between. Several players at 6'2 -6'4 and just as many at 5'9 - 5-10. One thing will be for certain, they will all be in incredible physical shape even this early in the season and play a full 60 minute game as they always seem to do against us.
Also, looking at their roster, the major field of study for many of these boys is rather impressive. Not what you usually see from players at other schools.
 
Thanks for the reminder Doc.... RPI couldn't be bothered to include the Army exhibition in the schedule posted online ....seriously folks, do we even have a sports information official or dept. ? BTW, that's a 6PM start time according to the ARMY website.
lf not for everyone posting here, we would not be getting much information at all. I was not kidding a while back when I posted that we need to have a major in publicity and advertising at RPI. The RPI athletic website does not get updated nearly as it should be. And where is the complete information for each player such as height and weight?? At least we have that for football and we get a team photo to boot!!!
 
Over many years I have to say that we have put some of the most attractive ladies teams on the ice of any program. Competitive, sometimes. But attractive - you bet. I never expected to see that at RPI given the fact that in the 60's we were never sure without a buccal scraping if the so called ladies on campus had 2 XX chromosomes or not. With this group (and as a cosmetic surgeon/dermatologist I have made a detailed examination of the pictures posted for the roster, and going back several years, I wish I was 1/3 my current age and single!! Jenny does not mind this post at all since she realizes most of these young ladies could break me in two if I even tried anything!!!!
What i do miss is previously we posted a total squad picture and that has not been done the last couple years.
this is so odd. some thoughts should not be written out.
 
Thanks for the reminder Doc.... RPI couldn't be bothered to include the Army exhibition in the schedule posted online ....seriously folks, do we even have a sports information official or dept. ? BTW, that's a 6PM start time according to the ARMY website.
It’s really bad! Probably the worst I have ever experienced. Do you know if they mailed out season tickets?
 
In looking at the Army roster for the upcoming exhibition game, I find it a little unusual that they have both a large number of very big players and a large number of rather small players. With not a whole lot in between. Several players at 6'2 -6'4 and just as many at 5'9 - 5-10. One thing will be for certain, they will all be in incredible physical shape even this early in the season and play a full 60 minute game as they always seem to do against us.
Also, looking at their roster, the major field of study for many of these boys is rather impressive. Not what you usually see from players at other schools.
Doc I’ve been to probably 50 Army games over my lifetime and the one thing you can always expect from Army is they play extremely hard and they play a full 60 minutes. It’s been like this for decades. Not the most skilled team but they will outwork you if you come in thinking it’s an easy game against them. The Ivey brothers are very good and forseilus is skilled. Ironically coach lang is modeling his RPI teams after his time at West Point. Hard skill and a full 60 minutes
 
Thanks for the reminder Doc.... RPI couldn't be bothered to include the Army exhibition in the schedule posted online ....seriously folks, do we even have a sports information official or dept. ? BTW, that's a 6PM start time according to the ARMY website.
I think the exhibition was on the page when the schedule was first released, but was taken down as it had the wrong date (AWP hosts Union this Saturday).

It also doesn't look like the Freakout weekend has been officially announced, even though there is only one home weekend in February--unless the month of the event is being changed.
 
I think the exhibition was on the page when the schedule was first released, but was taken down as it had the wrong date (AWP hosts Union this Saturday).

It also doesn't look like the Freakout weekend has been officially announced, even though there is only one home weekend in February--unless the month of the event is being changed.
According to the ticketing site the Freakout is January 30 against SLU.
 
As per Bowers tonight, the ice project is "on schedule"...ha ha. They are slowly lowering the cooling temp of the refrigerant 3 degrees per day as part of tempering the curing of the concrete. Out of an abundance of caution, the former WIH home game vs. Northeastern will be played at Mohawk Harbor.
Unless there is some advertising / notification of the venue change for the women’s game this Friday, how can RPI expect anyone to go?
 
My yearly ECAC preview

A lot to digest here and worth an in depth read. Cannot argue with your conclusions and especially with the final tiers you propose. i do feel that with so many changes this year for all sorts of reasons not the least of which is the abundance of WHL talent arriving all over the place, it is really difficult to make any sort of pin point accurate predictions (other than QU perhaps). I do see us near the top of the tier you placed us in (perhaps as high as 6th or 7th) but only if the chemistry starts to develop early for this large group of new boys in the Lang system. Looking at the schedule there seems to be enough games against beatable teams for them to build some confidence and if that happens;, we might see a little upward surprise when we get to the ECAC part of the season. If not, then 8th or 9th would probably be about what we should expect. Thanks for the incredible work.
 
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Unless there is some advertising / notification of the venue change for the women’s game this Friday, how can RPI expect anyone to go?
That’s a Good question? Maybe the field house will be ready? On a separate note the box office really likes to wait to the last minute to get the season tickets out? Days away and I still have no tickets.
 
That’s a Good question? Maybe the field house will be ready? On a separate note the box office really likes to wait to the last minute to get the season tickets out? Days away and I still have no tickets.
If you want physical tickets, the box office will print them for a charge. But you have to ask them to do so. Otherwise they emailed mobile tickets. Mobile tickets cannot be printed. Nor can they be put into your Apple Wallet. You have to pull up the email for each game. This coming from an engineering school. We got our hanging tag for parking in the mail today.
 
That’s a Good question? Maybe the field house will be ready? On a separate note the box office really likes to wait to the last minute to get the season tickets out? Days away and I still have no tickets.
If you want physical tickets, the box office will print them for a charge. But you have to ask them to do so. Otherwise they emailed mobile tickets. Mobile tickets cannot be printed. Nor can they be put into your Apple Wallet. You have to pull up the email for each game. This coming from an engineering school. We got our hanging tag for parking in the mail today.
 
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