RPI Hockey 2019 - 2020 Part III: Destination: Lake Placid (and Beyond)!!

[Ralph Baer]

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3-3 in a playoff game, eh? So in other words, no spread.

I wonder if the fact that fans won't be there was taken into consideration.

[DavidNardolillo]

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The word is coming out from Amherst that its spring sports season has been suspended (Amherst also announced remote classes for the remainder of the year yesterday). Not sure if any of the Mammoth teams have RPI on the schedule this year, but if other schools follow suit there may be larger impacts on Division III athletics.

[rpi82]

The word is coming out from Amherst that its spring sports season has been suspended (Amherst also announced remote classes for the remainder of the year yesterday). Not sure if any of the Mammoth teams have RPI on the schedule this year, but if other schools follow suit there may be larger impacts on Division III athletics.

I just went to the Quinnipiac ticketing system and it says "No events available."

Both Cornell and Clarkson selling tickets for this weekend.

[Wicked Slappaahs]

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I just went to the Quinnipiac ticketing system and it says "No events available."

Both Cornell and Clarkson selling tickets for this weekend.

Figures... the one year that there's a chance that 3 NY teams make it to Lake Placid, they're won't be any fans !!

[Ralph Baer]

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Concerns over the Coronavirus led RPi to eliminate spectators from this past weekends men hockey series against Harvard.
However, management at the Times Union center says next week’s NCAA men’s basketball will go on as planned with fans. https://t.co/LXWzkfsjQx

— Heather Kovar (@CBS6Heather) March 10, 2020

[DisplacedCornellian]

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I wonder if the fact that fans won't be there was taken into consideration.

That's effectively made this a home series for Harvard. Any chance the RPI band will play from another location and be piped into the rink to provide *some* rink noise?

[RPI fan 4 life]

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Figures... the one year that there's a chance that 3 NY teams make it to Lake Placid, they're won't be any fans !!

That would be the ECAC’s call, not the participating schools.
And as for RB’s post, it’s not surprising considering we’re talking about the NC$$.

[RPI fan 4 life]

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That's effectively made this a home series for Harvard. Any chance the RPI band will play from another location and be piped into the rink to provide *some* rink noise?

Or at least someone to blow off the horn for each RPI goal (or at least a recording of one)?

[jmhusker]

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Harvard has moved all classes to online only.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/...d-19-outbreak/

[engineerhockeyfan]

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Harvard has moved all classes to online only.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/...d-19-outbreak/

I know that our main concern here is RPI hockey and the up coming hockey games. But Italy just shut down its country. I am not sure that we are taking this thing seriously enough.

[Wicked Slappaahs]

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That's effectively made this a home series for Harvard. Any chance the RPI band will play from another location and be piped into the rink to provide *some* rink noise?

Sadly, RPI struggles with even rudimentary off-ice production/promotion/participation.... I don't hold out any hope they'll be that creative. But hopes springs eternal....

[Wicked Slappaahs]

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I know that our main concern here is RPI hockey and the up coming hockey games. But Italy just shut down its country. I am not sure that we are taking this thing seriously enough.

I think that message is sinking it. Re: Italy, they took they step after their earlier warnings to implement " social distancing" were largely ignored.... Once example I read included ski resorts in the north (where the Italian outbreak occurred) advertising to lure students from the cities (whose schools had shut down) to "come skiiing"... Also, Italy has a large segment of their population in the higher risk category, adding to their decision to shut down. Whatever the case, our reality is we need to take precautions and ride this thing out...be it for weeks or months.

[JCrawford]

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They've got 5,000+ students returning from spring break on Sunday. That means every campus gathering will effectively have "outside participation." Are they going to cancel every 300 student lecture in CC308? Every class with more than 50 students? Will they be limiting capacity to the dining halls and the McNeil Room to 50 at a time?

Harvard has moved all classes to online only.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/...d-19-outbreak/

I'm seeing rumblings that RPI will be doing online-only classes for the first two weeks following spring break: https://www.reddit.com/r/RPI/comment..._for_the_next/

[realet]

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Cornell caved.

https://cornellsun.com/2020/03/10/iv...r-limitations/

[lugnut92]

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Cornell also forbidding fans, not just at their ECAC quarterfinal but also the women's NCAA tourney games.

EDIT: tom typed faster.