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    RPI Recruit Thread 2025-2026

    Interesting. We are now heavily right shot centric on D and left shot up front. It would be ideal to add a couple of freshmen, RW and LD.
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    RPI 2026 Off-Season: Please Pardon Our Appearance As We Upgrade This Area

    A number of players that used up their eligibility have entered. I presume it is to position themselves in case the NCAA approves the 5 years to play 5 proposal (as opposed to the current 5 to play 4) that is on the table.
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    RPI 2026 Off-Season: Please Pardon Our Appearance As We Upgrade This Area

    Is that true? The stage has been gone for over a decade. I thought the temporary system was put in a handful of years back, when they started making the visitors do that awkward climb out of their bench to the walkway level.
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    RPI Recruit Thread 2025-2026

    You are correct. I plotted them in my head and I forgot that we added a second forward from the portal. Matthews may be #8 on the backline, but if that's the case I wish we had tried to keep Lemieux (maybe we did and he just wanted to spend his time at a secondary campus while skating in a...
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    RPI Recruit Thread 2025-2026

    We definitely need another defenseman or two, but with Sobieski, Klassek and Hillditch plus the 3 major junior guys and Motew I think we are in pretty good shape. My ideal roster has 15 forwards, 9 defensemen and 3 goalies. I believe we have 14 forwards plus the upcoming addition, 7 defensemen...
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    RPI 2026 Off-Season: Please Pardon Our Appearance As We Upgrade This Area

    When I was in ROTC we used to have the color guard present the flags, which was by marching in on the east end. I think they only changed directions when they created the multi-flag display (one representing every nation on RPI's men's and women's hockey teams) that hangs above Shirley's...
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    RPI Recruit Thread 2025-2026

    Please tell us it's someone that knows how to hit a 4x6 target.......frequently
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    RPI 2026 Off-Season: Please Pardon Our Appearance As We Upgrade This Area

    Motew is an interesting case. He was a multi-year regular in the OHL who was in and out of the Black Bear lineup until January 10. Ben didn't play him after that. I don't know if he was injured or just out of favor.
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    RPI 2026 Off-Season: Please Pardon Our Appearance As We Upgrade This Area

    Interesting dynamic for Wallace to finish out the rest of the semester with everyone knowing he's leaving for a rival. The odd thing with our early portal results is that Wallace and Ross were teammates on the Blackfalds Bulldogs with extremely close size and stats. Wallace ran up bigger...
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    RPI 2026 Off-Season: Please Pardon Our Appearance As We Upgrade This Area

    After the absurd number of empty nets we've missed over the years that's an important skill. However, if he goes to Clarkson (I saw the same rumor on their Round Table site) he's dead to me. On an unrelated note and not to get into a debate, since I've never seen the kid play so for all I know...
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    RPI 2026 Off-Season: Please Pardon Our Appearance As We Upgrade This Area

    I don't disagree that his pedigree raises questions, but it's not as if there aren't some D1 players coming out of that league. Our leading goal scorer two years ago was an AJHL grad with similar junior stats. I'm not sure what happened in Fairbanks (where he was a top 5 points guy as a...
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    RPI 2026 Off-Season: Please Pardon Our Appearance As We Upgrade This Area

    In other words, his contract wasn't renewed. Coach Lang recruited one of his teammates in junior at Blackfalds. Ross was the team's top player and 2nd in the league in scoring despite playing far fewer games (that was the year Blackfalds and other teams announced they were leaving the league...
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    RPI 2026 Off-Season: Please Pardon Our Appearance As We Upgrade This Area

    https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/2026-mens-college-hockey-transfer-portal-tracker BTW, I see that Joey Henneberry, who left us at the altar last spring to run off with Merrimack, apparently didn't find true love in North Andover and is back on the market.
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    RPI 2026 Off-Season: Please Pardon Our Appearance As We Upgrade This Area

    Although the only true disappointment for me is Wallace (and to a lesser degree Lemieux), I am a little concerned that we are, when all is said and done, apparently going to have nearly as much turnover as last year. With the 4 from senior night plus these nine, and I presume a goaltender to...
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    RPI Recruit Thread 2025-2026

    Although I'm not familiar with that player, I have been wondering about that very recruitment path. With teams having taken on a batchful of major junior "commits", there must be a lot of players that are getting deferred or dropped outright. In the extreme, Maine and UMass each have 35 or so...
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    St. Lawrence U.

    If true that's very interesting. In the past that would have been the kiss of death for a coach. Other teams would kill him with it in recruiting. However, in the modern era of college hockey players and coaches may look at everything one year at a time. Players are essentially free agents...
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    RPI Recruit Thread 2025-2026

    That probably was him on medication - the DIY kind.
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    UMaine 25-26: Marques My Word: Back to the Big Time

    All the players mentioned in that piece had exhausted their college eligibility. The discussion here was regarding players leaving school early for minor league contracts, which are still rare because the organization is making far less of a commitment to the player than under an NHL contract...
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    UMaine 25-26: Marques My Word: Back to the Big Time

    The new CBA raised the minimum AHL salary from a bit over $50K to $60K by 2030. That's hardly a major increase. Even veterans on AHL contracts (as opposed to NHL 2-way contracts) generally earn $70K-$80K. A player signing a rookie AHL contract takes a development back seat to players from the...
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    RPI Recruit Thread 2025-2026

    I'm looking forward to this class just to see Lodewyk take face-offs. It seems as he wins at least 2/3 of those he takes.
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