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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    I'm actually more optimistic regarding the two players. McMahon is a reliable source so I do believe they committed. It would also make no sense at this late time for them to decommit without another option. When a player decommits in favor of another program or a professional contract word...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    I was working on Long Island not far from the Nassau Coliseum (while living in CT for the ultimate commuting hell) when the Islanders made the change. The fans I knew hated those unis, but I think it was largely the embarrassment that came from being a knockoff of the Gorton logo. If the...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    They were late adds. Let's hope they are still formalizing their admission. It seems pretty clear that the staff thought they were committed since someone on the inside told McMahon we have 20 newcomers and there are only 18 on the released roster. Edit: It could be worse. Clarkson has their...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    I suspect a lot of teams haven't posted rosters yet. Between CHL eligibility and yesterday's deadline to join the House Settlement (with new roster and scholarship limits) many are still in flux. We are seeing teams add players every day, which in come cases may also mean dropping or pushing...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    I'm surprised we've heard nothing about the HFH plans. While it was an off-season with surprisingly few coaching jobs available, I'm sure a highly qualified candidate like Eric Lang didn't sign on without getting an acceptable answer from Kristie and Marty on facility upgrades**. I'm hearing...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    From his public interactions I liked Dave Smith and wish him well. However, it tells us all we need to know about our recent history that this is the only citation in the press release, "He most recently served as Head Coach at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York for the last eight...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Looking at the roster I like the depth. I don't think we'll be skating someone like Lucas Matta at forward or Brody Maguire on D (both hard-working guys that I'll bet were good teammates, but not truly competitive at this level). The unanswered question is in goal. We're dependent on the new...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    So Lang will be able to look recruits in the eye and say with total honesty that all of our games are scouted by the NHL?
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Pretty impressive. Lang certainly has been busy. I'm looking forward to seeing our new 5'8" 187 lb (stocky build?) defenseman. With this it appears we have the 20 new players McMahon referenced and only 5 of the new guys are Smith recruits. Is this our roster?: Forwards Tinling - returning...
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    RPI Recruit Thread 2024-2025

    My point was that McMahon's "Eric Lang is wasting no time reshaping the roster" was kind of silly. He had at least 16 holes to fill whether he wanted to or not. Furthermore, I don't know whether I would term these "his own guys." I don't think that characterization is fair to Lang because...
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    RPI Recruit Thread 2024-2025

    What choice did Lang have? When he was hired he looked at a roster with 10 graduating players and at least a half-dozen in the portal (some already committed to other schools). Several more entered the portal afterward, presumably with Lang's encouragement, but the major roster rebuild was...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Frankly, I doubt there’s much NIL money floating around RPI. I’m sure we didn’t sign up for the House settlement, which permits schools to pay players directly. So, any NIL would have to come from third parties. My understanding is that any agreement over $600 must be approved by some NCAA...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Quinny likes beating Yale and consistently being at the top of the ECAC. They also have spent a lot of money over the last 30 years expanding and improving academics. It’s not Harvard or Yale (or Colgate or RPI), but it’s become a pretty good school by investing in infrastructure, expanding...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    This chaos is just beginning. How interesting it would be to be a fly on the wall of the AD’s office at Michigan, Ohio State or Penn State. They’ve got $20M to spend per the House settlement and the football coach wants $30M. They’d have NFL payrolls if they could. The men’s hoop coach wants...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    It was the opener when Union won 65-0 so that makes sense, but now that they are a league member it is game 7 for us. That must be the 30K mile tune-up.
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    University of Maine 2024–2025: Freel-ing good

    I find your discussion very interesting. It's my understanding that outside NIL deals over $600 must be reported and there is some sort of approval process to ensure that they meet "fair market" criteria. What does that mean? Is "fair market" determined by what players at other schools are...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    It also doesn't explain why the late season Saturday home games revert to 7:00 or our Saturday road game against St. Lawrence, arguably the most difficult late night mid-winter bus trip, is at 7:00. I'm sure we'd only make such a move to help road teams if it was a standard league-wide practice...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Clever. Now for a non-hockey note. I was just looking at our football schedule. There is a road game against Hilbert College. I've never heard of that school, but it's apparently outside Buffalo. Our schedule doesn't show it as a league game, but the Liberty League website says they are a...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    I like it. My first reaction is that it's a very balanced schedule. Given that there are 34 other games on the schedule it appears you are correct about the BU game (last season's HE #3). We have 5 HE regular season games (1, 5, 7, 10 and 11), 2 CCHA games against that league's best team, 2...
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    RPI Off season 2025

    That site also lists a transfer from Merrimack, Michaela Littlewood. She's a 5'4" F with a 4-2-6-2 line last season. She also attended the Brooks prep school, which is right down the street from Merrimack. She'll have 2 years of eligibility.
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