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RPI 2010 Off-Season Thread IV -- It's Looking Like No "I-V" Is Necessary!

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Ralph Baer said:
Nice dig at the inhabitants of the Troy side. Are they going to be replaced too? ;)
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I was placed there last season with my season ticket package...and let me tell you it was horrible...I marked new seats on my order form this season and hope to heck I get moved over to the other side. I resisted the urge many times to yell "game isnt over yet" when the folks would start to leave during the third period...most times with the game still close. Ugh
 
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The (insert highest donor to RPI) suites at HFH.....because nothing says I made it like having suites named after you because you donated a boat load of cash.
 
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Laylat said:
well, actually, the issue was the Official Feed on rpitv.org. That's what got us into trouble and by us I mean RPITV and RPI. I was not involved in any of the high level meetings with rpi athletics, but i have discussed the issue with those who were. Most of the time, the ustream feed was picked up from the on-campus CATV feed -- not directly from our setup in the HFH.

If I were to independently setup a feed from the cable tv feed in my dorm room. Who exactly would object to a feed with no relationship with rpi athletics or rpitv. B2 isn't smart enough to check ustream for feeds of a college hockey game. Maybe if it was a more popular sport like basketball or football, but it wont check for such a small market like rpi hockey.
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Pretty please. I just graduated and am moving to the hockey black hole that is Indiana. The only game I can travel to all year is in Alabama.
 
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Red Cloud said:
An exclusive at Without a Peer: Pictures of the Houston Field House renovation underway.
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Great to see that, thus far, it still has that "barn" feel. The windows look nice.

As for the townies side, I know the parishioners have promised to make it a very rockin' area, so it may not be all THAT bad sitting over there. Wait, who am I kidding..... :eek: That will probably be the biggest amount of action that side has seen in a while.
 
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Red Cloud said:
An exclusive at Without a Peer: Pictures of the Houston Field House renovation underway.
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At the jersey shore w/ the Mrs. and boys. Just got a chance to see this report. Again, our colleague RC has outdid himself with this terrific report. I am hoping that some of the local CR businesses will support the team and purchase and sponsor the boxes.
 
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yarblockers said:
Pretty please. I just graduated and am moving to the hockey black hole that is Indiana. The only game I can travel to all year is in Alabama.
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The USHL has the Indiana Ice...you can watch Monty's team when they come into town...a small consolation.:)
 
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fishcore12 said:
I was placed there last season with my season ticket package...and let me tell you it was horrible...I marked new seats on my order form this season and hope to heck I get moved over to the other side. I resisted the urge many times to yell "game isnt over yet" when the folks would start to leave during the third period...most times with the game still close. Ugh
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When we on the "horrible" side start seeing the students - and for that matter the Pep Band - actually care enough to stick around for an extra day or come back a day early for a game that occurs at the start of or end of a break, THEN you can whine about the townies.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
When I read that yesterday, I said to myself "Is Wicked going to post that too?" :D
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Hey, you have your method of padding your post tally, I have mine.:D
 
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While the Off Season season is on (and basically closing the barn door after the horse got out...HFH hopefully did this in prep for the renovations)...I would like to hear from this august group their opinions on rinks...the best, the worst, the criteria each of you use to judge a rink? My opinion is very jaded and old fashioned and I think we have enough of a heterogeneous sampling of minds to get a really good snapshot...and I pray the engineers for 'The Engineers' did the same thing before this project...personally, I like to wear my fur at a rink because it's cold and and I want to NEED a hot cocoa...:p

My intention is not to cause an argument...this is very personal ...if you like an opponent's rink, I want to go see that rink and get context...part of my hockey education...
 
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babo said:
While the Off Season season is on (and basically closing the barn door after the horse got out...HFH hopefully did this in prep for the renovations)...I would like to hear from this august group their opinions on rinks...the best, the worst, the criteria each of you use to judge a rink? My opinion is very jaded and old fashioned and I think we have enough of a heterogeneous sampling of minds to get a really good snapshot...and I pray the engineers for 'The Engineers' did the same thing before this project...personally, I like to wear my fur at a rink because it's cold and and I want to NEED a hot cocoa...:p

My intention is not to cause an argument...this is very personal ...if you like an opponent's rink, I want to go see that rink and get context...part of my hockey education...
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Great question Babo. My father was a college ref in the 60-70s and he used to tell us about games at Middlebrury and elsewhere where they'd have the windows wide open in February to make and keep ice...:eek: :D

The Olympic Center in Lake Placid is probably my fave - for all of the obvious reasons. I did attended a game there during the '80 games (Czech vs. Sweden IIRC), but not the game -- as about 500,000 people claim to have done. :p :D T-Bone lives up there and we've got deep family ties to LP, so if you the hubby can make the October game up there, we'll how you around...!

I'm shockingly deficient at visiting ECAC rinks....but thanks to you, this year I did visit Q'pac's ice mountain facility :p (very nice, but zero soul, IMO) but RPi won, the hot dog joint in Hamden is a classic joint, and meeting Babo was more than worth the trip...:p I also visited Colgate's Starr rink (small, but kinda cool as my father officiated the first game when that barn opened) and Niagara as well.

Union is gawd awful--by far the league's worst -- possibly the worst in all of D1. Folks here have been forced to listen to my gripes about "Itza Messa" Rink... In a nutshell -- its a rectangular rink stuffed into round building that closely resembles a DOT road salt bunker. Awful. Gawd awful. Nuff said. :D
 
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Wicked Slappaahs said:
When we on the "horrible" side start seeing the students - and for that matter the Pep Band - actually care enough to stick around for an extra day or come back a day early for a game that occurs at the start of or end of a break, THEN you can whine about the townies.
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I agree the students should stay around for a game that occurs at the start or end of break.

However, I probably should have worded the townie side better than horrible. Not all the townies...myself included (Im a UAlbany grad who cannot stand our BBall team and grew up on RPI hockey) are bad but when you get screamed at for standing up and cheering the team on when there is an empty net and we are down a goal it makes it horrible. Or like I said when you start leaving before a close game is over makes it horrible. But im done talking about the fans on one side of the rink or another, we are all there to watch our team play a full 60 minutes of hockey and skate off the ice in victory.
 
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Wicked Slappaahs said:
In a nutshell -- its a rectangular rink stuffed into round building that closely resembles a DOT road salt bunker.
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I knew that place looked familiar. :p
 
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babo said:
While the Off Season season is on (and basically closing the barn door after the horse got out...HFH hopefully did this in prep for the renovations)...I would like to hear from this august group their opinions on rinks...the best, the worst, the criteria each of you use to judge a rink? My opinion is very jaded and old fashioned and I think we have enough of a heterogeneous sampling of minds to get a really good snapshot...and I pray the engineers for 'The Engineers' did the same thing before this project...personally, I like to wear my fur at a rink because it's cold and and I want to NEED a hot cocoa...:p

My intention is not to cause an argument...this is very personal ...if you like an opponent's rink, I want to go see that rink and get context...part of my hockey education...
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Just from my personal experiences at different rinks around the ECAC and northeast.

Enjoy the Harvard rink because its easy to get tickets on game night, plus cambridge and boston offer so much to do before and after the games.

Lynah Rink- What needs to be said about this place, it is a mad house and do not make the mistake of getting tickets in the student/townie section or else you will hear it the entire game.

Messa Rink- I avoid going to this deathtrap at all costs.

No opinion on Dartmouth rink, take it or leave it.

One rink I enjoy going to is Matthews Arena at Northeastern...loud, and great old barn to watch a game. Cannot wait to make the trip out this season for the RPI/NU game.

I still need to hit the rest of the ECAC rinks to get the real feel of them rather than what I read and hear on these boards and talking to other people.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
I can't vouch for the validity, but a poster on the Clarkson forum stated that the tickets for the games at LP have just gone on sale http://www.letsgotech.com/roundtable/showthread.php?p=30202#post30202.
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The ORDA website has the event listed with instructions to call for tickets.

http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=2439
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
As for the townies side, I know the parishioners have promised to make it a very rockin' area, so it may not be all THAT bad sitting over there.
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I never said we were getting tickets on the South side, just that the First Church was getting alumni tickets for a change. Still unsure where our seats are for next year. Has anyone else heard from the box office for those that sent in forms? They still haven't even cashed my check, which troubles me...
 
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Today is 18 July 2010. There are 82 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 8 October for the start of next season.
 
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babo said:
I would like to hear from this august group their opinions on rinks...the best, the worst, the criteria each of you use to judge a rink?
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You can see from my signature what rinks I have visited. Cheel and Agganis (CCT and BU) were pretty nice. Neither lacked atmosphere, intensity, or the sense of a real arena. Ritter (RIT) had a fantastic atmosphere, but suffered greatly from the fact that is about 15 feet shorter than an NHL rink.

Achilles had a nice student section, but as Wicked said, it's a rectangular rink stuck in a circular building. Add in the fact that there'es only one Zamboni and most of the rest of the building seemed disinterested, I was fairly disappointed with Union's rink.

Magness was beautiful, and if you take the entire complex (rink + basketball arena + swimming pool, etc.) into consideration, it was fantastic. I was only disappointed that there was no student section. But, considering that it was New Years Day (and the day after), I'll make an exception in my grading. I've heard that Magness has nowhere near the quality that DU's old barn had, but it would have been nice to see the student section in action.

All in all, I think that Cheel or Agganis had the best overall experience of the five (six including the HFH) arenas that I have visited. Encouraging student participation, yet allowing for boisterous noise, provides for the best results feasible.

(Sorry for the long, weaving response. I'm fairly buzzed, and it took some effort to put these thoughts into words.)
 
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