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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    The most interesting thing wasn't that Maine outbid his major junior team, it's not hard for a school with deep pocketed backers to do so I'd already guessed that, but that Carolina was behind it. They signed Bradly Nadeau from Maine after his freshman year and they obviously thought Ben Barr...
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    I see they are playing Union on Friday night. I wonder if they are doing a travel pair thing where we have Merrimack on Friday. Then the Capital District teams can return the weekend set in Lowell/ North Andover next season.
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    I saw them a couple of times last season and most of their high draft picks weren't that impressive. The two best players were a couple of Bruins prospects, Walsh (a late draft pick) and Bancroft (signed as a FA after the season with Boston). Walsh will be back and I understand they have a...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Interesting choice by BU as LIU is in a similar situation to us. I would say the same thing about Riley as I did about Lang. It takes guts to bring what amounts to a completely new team to Agganis. That AIC staff was pretty fearless. It will be an interesting two night test of the viability...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    It certainly could be either. Last year we opened on that weekend with an exhibition against UMass, but BU opened at home on October 5 with an official game against Holy Cross. It doesn't really matter to me. Regardless of whether it's a real game or exhibition, it's an aggressive move to...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Is that a carryover from Dave Smith's/Kristie Bowers' plans or is this new under Coach Lang? Even if it was the former, Lang keeping the game would certainly show a willingness to jump into the deep end of the pool right away. An overwhelmingly new roster learning a new system playing a top 5...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    True. The most insidious thing is not CHL eligibility or the transfer portal, it's the same thing as always - money. I'll bet the farm that a primary motivation for the recruit I talked about earlier to replace a final year of major junior with a year in college is NIL and standard of living...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    I was wondering about that. It seems that next to the last home weekend (mid-February) has become the expected date, but this past season they moved it up to the beginning of February. I presume that was to try and use it to generate momentum for the last month of the season (yes, I'm probably...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    They added another yesterday so, depending on whether you use Heisenberg or their fan site, they have either 40 or 41 still active commitments. This one is an '06 that was a mid-round draft pick last year. I think college hockey may become increasingly like basketball with one-and-dones...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    I still wonder whether Lang is holding back giving final commitments for this year to some of Dave's recruits in order to see who is going to be kicked loose by top 15 teams. Recruiting has become completely insane. Look at Maine. They've added a boatload of CHL guys. They now have 47 (yes...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    That budget seems awfully low, particularly in greater Boston. Q's building, which is clean and modern but pretty basic, is a bit larger (3K in each arena) and cost $52M 20 years ago. It would probably be closer to $100M today. The three newest buildings I know, all just hockey arenas, are...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    That was 20 years ago. She’s been politically irrelevant for decades and out of Troy for 3 years.
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Fortunately, I doubt anyone in the Trump Administration has a clue about Shirley Jackson, honorable or otherwise. She’s yesterday’s news.
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    I wonder if he’s the first example of a guy we got because he was over-recruited in favor of CHL grads. After he committed Miami added 2 centers from the OHL, one an ‘04 so he has to enter this year. Miami may have wanted Scherzer to push out enrollment for a year so his advisors picked up the...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Good pickup. I like any player that’s listed as both “physical” and a “speedster.” Too often we get kids that are one or the other but not both. The only problem may be ECAC ref’s’ tendency to call penalties based on the violence of the collision rather than the legality of the technique...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Don’t even think about the possibility of losing foreign students. Not only wouldn’t we be able to field (ice?) a hockey team, but I’d imagine recitation sections would disappear in many disciplines.
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Pro sports pre-free agency were nothing like they are today. The owners controlled everything. One reason that Carl Yastrzemski, a Long Island kid that grew up a Yankee fan, ended up in Boston is that he had the temerity to ask for a $100K signing bonus. They certainly could afford it, but...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    True, but I'm also wondering how much that really benefits us in the short run. I had hoped we'd see more CHL players in recruiting (to date really 1, Krawchuk, as Ziliotto only went to the OHL from the BCHL after committing and the eligibility rules were changed), but that may have been...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    I don’t think that’s true for us. Schools opting into the new NIL and revenue sharing system system (the big boys with athletic departments “sharing” tens of millions in athletic revenues with athletes, i.e. professional college “students”) are limited to 26 but can give them all scholarships...
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    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Yup - and the truth of the matter is we have no real insight into any of these guys. The guy Bruno split time with (Bruveris actually played a bit more) and had similar stats is going to Minnesota - Duluth. That's a respected program that saw Miami up close and obviously felt the goaltenders...
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