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RPI 2009 - 2010 Part II: I Believe in Seth Appert

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DrDemento said:
GLM-Appreciate the stats that help back up my assertion-The potential was there! I do not claim to be a goalie expert but I have seen them all at RPI going back to Bill Sack.
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Apparently some folks thought it was more important to play a Fairfield transfer instead of a highly touted goalie.

Fortunately, those folks aren't in Troy now to ruin Allen York.
 
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Wicked Slappaahs said:
God knows I supported the guy and respect the heck out of him as man, but his incessant need to yank goalies mid-game/mid-period trashed the psyches of both Mathias and Jordan long before Seth took over the ruins.
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Sorry to muddle your weak arguments with fact.
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It is not fact that Fridgen "trashed" both their psyches before Appert took over.
 
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Hey, if the late Siren could be successful on American Gladiators, why can't this player? And to go to a highly touted women's program, I know she will do well.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Speaking of goalies, I just read on the women's recruit thread that SLU has received a commitment from a deaf goalie. That would present some additional complications for a goalie coach.
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Unfair advantage. How is she supposed to hear us sieving her?
 
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GreatLakerMohawk said:
Apparently some folks thought it was more important to play a Fairfield transfer instead of a highly touted goalie.

Fortunately, those folks aren't in Troy now to ruin Allen York.
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I never did understand that at the time. People on this board said that Fridgen was trying to win more games to get better position in the standings.
That never materialized and the best goalie we had sat on the bench.
Alford was very nervous at the start of games, but if he got past the first five minutes, he settled down and was very difficult to beat.
If he would have gotten a few more starts in his first two years, he might have reached his potential.
And we might have won a few more games.
 
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GreatLakerMohawk said:
Apparently some folks thought it was more important to play a Fairfield transfer instead of a highly touted goalie.

Unfortunately, those folks should have brought in another goalie along with Alford that year!
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....there.
 
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hockeymascot said:
....there.
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Good call.

Andrew Martin in Alford's freshman season got a time split similar to what Lange and York had last year. That's sort of, semi-fair, but to that end... Really? A Fairfield pick off the scrap heap when they folded gets to carry the load? Dumb.

Then, yes, the following year Alford was supplanted by freshman Lange with Lange playing 35 out of 40 games.

Inexcusable.
 
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According to some dope called HockeyJockey on RPISPORT-L, Bentley beat Brown tonight 3-2, the insinuation being that we should all loosen our bowels now.

I jumped onto that list for the first time in almost a decade a couple of weeks ago. Think that might have been a mistake?
 
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Alford had some great games. I recall listening to a game at Yale a couple of years ago where he stood on his head and served coffee during a six on three for end of the game. I think he got first and second star that game. But he had a tendency to give up a soft goal at the most inopportune time (RPI just tied the game or came within a goal) so much so that I think Fridge and the team lost confidence in him. Lange had a tough time with no D AND no O to keep the puck out of the zone at least part of the game.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
IIRC, JA won the top goalie award in the AJHL. York didn't. York, however, probably had tougher competition in Brad Eidsness.
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I, like others, continue to nurse a bit of a sore spot over how RPI dropped the ball on Alford. I am confidant that York is going to get a much better shot. I had the pleasure of watching them both play in the AJHL. They were both great goalies but for two diffferent teams. York played in front of a very successfu team but was probably never given enough credit for how key he was to that success. Alford played for a weak team and, night after night, kept them in the game against much better teams. Still think he could have done that for the Engineers.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Actually, I read it wrong. :o She is a forward which may make it even a bigger accomplishment.
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Wow, obviously need some good peripheral vision for that. However, my point from before stands. If she's getting picked up by SLU, she's gotta be a good player.
 
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Red Cloud said:
According to some dope called HockeyJockey on RPISPORT-L, Bentley beat Brown tonight 3-2, the insinuation being that we should all loosen our bowels now.

I jumped onto that list for the first time in almost a decade a couple of weeks ago. Think that might have been a mistake?
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I think that I am very glad my participation in RPISPORT-L went at the same time my traditional .edu address did.
 
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