RPI 2010-11 Part II: RPI, the Other Team, the Refs -- We're outnumbered 10 to 6.

[AspyDad]

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I'm a bit bored this afternoon (I'm actually watching the Devils game ) so I thought I'd stir the pot a bit with this quote from the Brown thread. I can't agree with this so I'm sure you can't. It includes an invitation to rip on him too. Good luck this afternoon.

"That's a program that can't admit that they were outplayed last year by a Brown team, and they accused Brown ad nauseum on our board of being cheap shot artists. They wer"e sore losers to the max last year, and you can bet they don't want to taste a loss to Bruno again. I fully expect to get ripped on by an RPI guy for making this comment. But the team, too, doesn't want to admit they lost to Brown, so you can bet they're going to come out and have a TON of fire. Verry dangerous game based on revenge alone.

W1 - I agree with one part of this post about being outplayed by them. I think it was the beginning of the present team's work ethic. I would point to you the song of "The Who" entitled "We won't get fooled again". I think SA and the team has taken many lessons from that loss. The Brown team that beat us in the playoffs was inferior to us in skill level but did outplay us. Conditioning was an issue that we have addressed. A team like Brown is infuriating because of the trap and also everyone on the team is 28 years old The conduct of Harry Z at HFH did not help the the love factor of RPI fans. It seems that they are up to their old tricks with the Z man's kneeing penalty at BU. Also, the officiating of Feola and Brown was awful in that series. Plus Hokymom adds to the bitterness that we have towards Brown.

 

[AspyDad]

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This also doesn't help the Brownies case with RPI Faithful. This quote is from the groundbreaking WaP twitter page, "Zolnierczyk trailing Polacek back to the bench and running his mouth after the play. Par for the course."

Z is a class player. This act does not endear the Brownies to the RPI faithful.

BTW - I was impressed with Tom Reale of WaP insightful color commentary on the big broadcast last night. He does an outstanding job and is a great Ambassador for RPI Hockey.

 

[babo]

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I will be there tonight, however, I will not be able to attend the pizza party. Thanks for the invite. I will look for the scarf, I am sure my wife will also be wearing one of those.

Can you please let me know where you're sitting in the future? I am bothered when there are 'friends' close by and I don't even know they're there...

 

[AspyDad]

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Great win!!!!! Nice to see alot of the newbies break the snide on scoring. This win of course reaffirms the existence of God. Now we can put that awful weekend in March behind us. Really glad to see us bounce back, shows the character of this team.

 

[Wicked Slappaahs]

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great win!!!!! ... This win of course reaffirms the existence of god. Now we can put that awful weekend in march behind us. Really glad to see us bounce back, shows the character of this team.

amen! :d

 

[engineerhockeyfan]

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Can you please let me know where you're sitting in the future? I am bothered when there are 'friends' close by and I don't even know they're there...

I would have, but my daughter bought the tickets and I didn't know until I got there. I am sure that we were very close. Section 11 Row D.

 

[hawthr]

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I did not see Cullen grab the face mask. If you saw that it makes sense now. This situation is similar to when ECAC refs call tripping then embellishment on the player that was tripped. That makes no sense whatsoever. Stewart needs to address that issue in particular.

FYI, an embellishment call in conjunction with a penalty on the opposing team is the correct call. I believe you're thinking of diving. The most recent rule guide revised this area for further clarification (see below).

New Rule, Embellishment. Add a new penalty:

―NEW SECTION. b. A player that has been fouled shall not exaggerate the impact of the foul. An embellishment penalty is called in conjunction with an opponent’s penalty.

PENALTY—Minor for embellishment.‖

Rationale (diving and embellishment): The committee is adding clarification that diving is a penalty to be called alone. The new penalty for embellishment will allow officials to correctly identify to players, coaches and fans what action caused a penalty call. This penalty will only be called when an opponent has fouled, but the player fouled exaggerates the penalty.

 

[Havasu M]

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Good win today. Although I am not satisfied, a 3-3 ECAC record after 1 home and five away games isn't bad. And two of the losses were to ranked teams on their ice in close games. One of the losses has been corrected in the lone home game. beating Brown on their ice after their ties with BU & UNH has to count for something. Looking forward to moving up the standings with some home cooking.

 

[AspyDad]

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FYI, an embellishment call in conjunction with a penalty on the opposing team is the correct call. I believe you're thinking of diving. The most recent rule guide revised this area for further clarification (see below).

Thanks for the info. That one has been bothering me. I think this rule assists the refs in the old ecac make up call department. Don't think it makes much sense. Thanks for taking the tme to enlighten.

 

[Red Cloud]

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Oop's it appears that your hometown newspaper is using the New Haven Registers reporter as a stringer, sorry for the repost.

The Times-Useless isn't our hometown newspaper, numbnuts.

 

[Beman]

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Seth’s biggest game of his career is BU. Why say you. Its not an EZAC team but it is a traditional rival that is ranked. You beat Cornell so what. Yale has been good for what 2 years. Most people in New Haven know where Louis Lunch is but have no clue where Yale’s rink is. Next year THE BULLDOGS will be fightin with Brown for home ice in the ECAC playoffs
Beating the Terriers is huge for Seth and his Scrapping Apperts
Tell your friends, go to the game. If the Cherry and Red kick *** on the little dogs, a win over the Parkerillas, will put huge swagger in the Engineers motor for the big ECAC home stand coming up

GO TO THE GAME! TELL YOUR FRIENDS! FILL HFH

 

[jmhusker]

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Nice to see the Engineers put a few pucks in the net today. Not too much to say beyond it was thoroughly enjoyable. Some idle comments:
- Was surprised to see the shots totals. Yet more evidence that they don't reflect the game. Other than a couple of lulls we totally outplayed them.
- Don't understand all of the complaints that I see in here about Foss. He is solid and coach clearly has confidence in him as he is always on the ice in key situations (like the PK).
- York was solid again. Nothing he could do on the 1st one as the shot from the point (a weak one) was deflected by Burghdoerfer right to a Brown forward with an empty net. No idea how he missed the second one. Must've been deflected up high or knuckled on him but he wasn't too happy.
- We had some puck luck on a couple of the goals and TH was the beneficiary. Helfrich came so close to turning the 1st one over at the Brown blue line, got a lucky bounce to Higgs into a 2 on 1 down low and goal. On the 3rd goal Polacek whacked the Brown D mans stick pretty hard, it didn't break, he then took the puck and put it out to TH for his 2nd goal. If the Brown D man's stick breaks, as they often do on those plays, it a PP for Brown. The gods of carbon fiber were on our side today.
- Rogic looks much better than he did at the Northeastern game. Like the way he played - he's god in his own end.

Our D is solid and this team will make a lot of noise. Let's take it to the dogs next weekend.

 

[troyboy]

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Just checked out Parting Schotts (Ken Schotts Blog) It appears the area "reporter" didn't stay in the Providence area to cover the RPI v Brown contest or maybe there was nothing interesting enough to post about it....rumor is its a 2 day trip from Providence to New Haven for him and was unable to stay and "report" or he would miss the Union game @ Yale Sunday afternoon.....thats a shame....I say the next time He comes to the Field House we make him buy a ticket.....who knows maybe Nate will buy it for Him !

 

[DrDemento]

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Not entirely sure but i think Chase had 4 assists tonight-not a bad evening. I have to look back because right now I can't recall the last time a forward had 4 assists. No question the D is solid. Held Yale to 1 even strength goal and only gave up 2 tonight. Even though we were ahead all night and up by 4 goals-still got a little nervous in the third when Brown pulled to within 4-2 and was severely outshooting us. We are learning to play with the lead better and closing out games. BU next week will be a tougher test and hoping we come into that game healthier than we were this weekend. It is fun to be an RPI fan again.

 

[kdiff77]

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Congrats to RPI on a solid win; we deserved nothing less than a big loss today. After the past few successful games, Brown simply did not show up to play two ranked teams this weekend. Last night's game was a terrible performance, despite the close score. We were lucky to be in that one, just as we were lucky to sort of be in today's game until fairly late in the third. RPI looked like a Top 20 team today, while Brown looked like the team that won 3 games all year in 09. Frustrating weekend, but perhaps some humble pie was necessary for the Bears to venture forward.

Again, congrats on a well-deserved victory, and kudos to the RPI fans that made the trip- it's always nice to hear something other than the on-ice action in Meehan, even if it's from the visiting fans.

 

[turk181]

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Chase had 3 assists Doc. I believe the 2nd assist put him into 35th place in RPI career scoring. He passed Neil Hernberg & Tim Regan who both had 129 points

 

[Wicked Slappaahs]

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Congrats to RPI on a solid win; we deserved nothing less than a big loss today. After the past few successful games, Brown simply did not show up to play two ranked teams this weekend. Last night's game was a terrible performance, despite the close score. We were lucky to be in that one, just as we were lucky to sort of be in today's game until fairly late in the third. RPI looked like a Top 20 team today, while Brown looked like the team that won 3 games all year in 09. Frustrating weekend, but perhaps some humble pie was necessary for the Bears to venture forward.

Again, congrats on a well-deserved victory, and kudos to the RPI fans that made the trip- it's always nice to hear something other than the on-ice action in Meehan, even if it's from the visiting fans.

Thanks KD - see you down the road. I wouldn't get too down, B is a well coached team, they'll bounce back.

 

[Wicked Slappaahs]

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Just checked out Parting Schotts (Ken Schotts Blog) It appears the area "reporter" didn't stay in the Providence area to cover the RPI ...

Disappointing for sure...no good reason why he couldn't have been there today, then head back to New Haven for tomorrow P.M.

 

[Wicked Slappaahs]

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Nice to see the Engineers put a few pucks in the net today. Not too much to say beyond it was thoroughly enjoyable. Some idle comments:
- Was surprised to see the shots totals. Yet more evidence that they don't reflect the game. Other than a couple of lulls we totally outplayed them.
- Don't understand all of the complaints that I see in here about Foss. He is solid and coach clearly has confidence in him as he is always on the ice in key situations (like the PK).
- York was solid again. Nothing he could do on the 1st one as the shot from the point (a weak one) was deflected by Burghdoerfer right to a Brown forward with an empty net. No idea how he missed the second one. Must've been deflected up high or knuckled on him but he wasn't too happy.
- We had some puck luck on a couple of the goals and TH was the beneficiary. Helfrich came so close to turning the 1st one over at the Brown blue line, got a lucky bounce to Higgs into a 2 on 1 down low and goal. On the 3rd goal Polacek whacked the Brown D mans stick pretty hard, it didn't break, he then took the puck and put it out to TH for his 2nd goal. If the Brown D man's stick breaks, as they often do on those plays, it a PP for Brown. The gods of carbon fiber were on our side today.
- Rogic looks much better than he did at the Northeastern game. Like the way he played - he's god in his own end.

Our D is solid and this team will make a lot of noise. Let's take it to the dogs next weekend.

I think Foss probably had his two best career games this weekend. My comments about him earlier in the year were due his turning the puck over in our end, in bad spots. Same too for Bergin, who clearly had an excellent weekend. After this weekend, I HAPPILY retract my earlier comments regarding these two.

 

[babo]

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I noted Yales lack of physical play against your team and complimented both your team and your goaltenders skill, try getting that from some other opposing fan. The fact that RPI is undisciplined and chippy is the fault of the coach. Less penalties=more wins. Your skin is a little thin there Babo.

...a little confused...how am I thin skinned? I didn't go on Yale's site and whine about your team tossing our salad...I played sports and tip my cap to any opponent who deserves it; so you can get off the self aggrandizement about your sportsmanship...I do take umbrage with your depiction of our coach...he's got the "send to the NHL ASAP" stamp on his forehead so I can understand your inability to comprehend a big boy style of play. I don't go to your thread and B***h like a little girl...not my style...butt into our conversation with accusations that are unfounded and I have every right to respond.