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RPI 2009-10 Part IV: The Boys are Back in Town

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GreatLakerMohawk said:
If they were trying to win now, they'd have loaded up on forward depth. Instead they've traded all of their high scorers (aside from Kessel of course) away to Calgary. Instead, look for young guys like Tyler Bozak and Viktor Stalberg and Christian Hanson to get called on more from the AHL to carry the weight up front and gain experience.

Yes, they're more than loaded in goal and on defense, but they're very young up front and are taking their very best out of the AHL to play in the NHL. One way or another, they're going to refill their ranks in the AHL - let's just hope Burke doesn't sweeten the pot for Jerry D'Amigo to leave now to help a woefully thin farm team.
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As RB has pointed, this assumes that Burke will survive to run the org. in the off season... I think he probably will though.
 
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GRussinko said:
Ed Weaver's article in the Record about the Yale game: http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2010/02/01/sports/doc4b6660b9f40b2171238057.txt
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The Madmen (with help) strike again.

“Some of the greatest fans”: Congrats to Rensselaer’s traveling fans who were at Yale’s Ingalls Rink on Saturday night.

The way they cheered when Jerry D’Amigo returned from being shaken up by a hard -- and clean -- hit by Yale’s Jeff Anderson after just few minutes, fired up the Engineers just as much as D’Amigo himself did.

To anyone listening to the game, Engineers backers made it sound as if Yale had just scored each time RPI found the net.

That’s profound.

“It was great,” Appert said of the road fan support. “I spoke at an alumni function of about 150 and it seemed like there were at least 300 at the game. That’s part of what makes playing at and coaching at RPI so special. Our fans can take over a (an opposing) rink. We have some of the best fans in college hockey.”

“They were great,” Kennedy said of the RPI fans. “There were a lot of alumni there whom we don’t usually see at Houston Field House who were able to make it there. We kind of felt like we were still at the Field House. We had a little RPI corner there.”
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Red Cloud said:
The Madmen (with help) strike again.
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I know that I felt like it was an RPI home game. We made a lot of noise.
Now, did the noise affect the play or did the play affect the noise?
Either way, it was a great game.
Is it just me, or is Pirri's 33 points under appreciated? I guess it is just that so many points are assists that make it feel like he shouldn't have that many points to me. :confused:
 
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engineerhockeyfan said:
Now, did the noise affect the play or did the play affect the noise?
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The Madmen were making noise from the opening puck drop. If the game hadn't gone the Engineers' way the noise probably wouldn't have kept up but it sorta seemed like one fed off the other.
 
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Red Cloud said:
The Madmen were making noise from the opening puck drop. If the game hadn't gone the Engineers' way the noise probably wouldn't have kept up but it sorta seemed like one fed off the other.
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I am guessing that the madmen were the group in the middle of section 11? If I had known that you were part of that group, I would have come up and said hello. I was sitting in row b just below you.
They certainly set the tone for the rest of us engineer fans.
Thank you
 
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engineerhockeyfan said:
I am guessing that the madmen were the group in the middle of section 11? If I had known that you were part of that group, I would have come up and said hello. I was sitting in row b just below you.
They certainly set the tone for the rest of us engineer fans.
Thank you
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That was us.
 
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engineerhockeyfan said:
I know that I felt like it was an RPI home game. We made a lot of noise.
Now, did the noise affect the play or did the play affect the noise?
Either way, it was a great game.
Is it just me, or is Pirri's 33 points under appreciated? I guess it is just that so many points are assists that make it feel like he shouldn't have that many points to me. :confused:
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I agree he hasn't gotten the accolades that he deserves. (Then again, #21's antics have drawn a lot of deserved atttention.:) )

If anyone had suggested that Pirri would have a close to a 40 pt. season as freshman, I think we'd all have signed up for that! I for one hope his goal at Yale means the floodgates have opened for a serious scoring streak. If Pirri gets it going in the goal dept., our opponents are gonna be in a lot of trouble.:eek: :D
 
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