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RPI 2011-12 Season: Posts on a Message Board

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would that be post #511 in this thread?
So it would. Sorry, my brain's a little fried and I've been having a hard time remembering which of the eight bazillion threads that address Notre Dame, the NCHC, and HEA have which posts.
 
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I plan on going to the RPI game at Notre Dame on October 21st. Is anyone else going? I believe this is the first ever game at ND's new arena, and so I was also wondering if there is a certain section that those who are going are getting tickets in.

I will be there. WS might be as well (hope I'm not speaking for you, WS...). When tix go on sale, I plan on getting into a corner (anyone at the exhibition game saw that I ended up in the corner during the 'puck throw back' incident (which I will repeat if a puck ever enters my hands again...Turk thinks I'm gonna' stay with the norm and keep the puck for posterity :p. The hubster will break my thumb if I ever try again but I'll make a run for it...). Most folks try to get behind the RPI bench (or as close as possible)
 
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I believe I read on the ND thread that the RPI game will be the inaugural event. Fans were annoyed because it was announced more or less last minute and is also USC weekend and flights, hotels, car rentals and the like are jacked up and scarce, so if you are planning to attend you might want to keep that in mind. Is it possible that hockey is not the no. 1 sport on that campus? ;)

There is a school here hockey is not the #1 sport? Blasphemy! ;)
 
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I will be there. WS might be as well (hope I'm not speaking for you, WS...). When tix go on sale, I plan on getting into a corner (anyone at the exhibition game saw that I ended up in the corner during the 'puck throw back' incident (which I will repeat if a puck ever enters my hands again...Turk thinks I'm gonna' stay with the norm and keep the puck for posterity :p. The hubster will break my thumb if I ever try again but I'll make a run for it...). Most folks try to get behind the RPI bench (or as close as possible)

Neither of what you mentioned is the norm. You say five words: "Hey kid, here you go", and then hand it off. We'd understand if you wanted to keep it or do as you please if it was your son that shot it out, but other than that, thou shalt giveth the puck to the kid.
 
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one more offering on the move to HE from Julie Robyenhymer.... Finally, in some college hockey related news, it looks like Notre Dame will announce on Wednesday that they will join Hockey East and presumably bring RPI as a 12th team with them (RIT would fill the subsequent void in the ECAC). Yesterday, the National Collegiate Hockey Conference announced that they would start their inaugural season in 2013-14 with eight members - North Dakota, Denver, Minnesota-Duluth, St Cloud, Colorado College, Nebraska-Omaha, Miami and Western Michigan. The Irish have spent the summer debating on whether to join the NCHC, Hockey East or go as an independent. Of course they could always join the Big Ten, but that means all of their other sports would have to do the same and as you probably know, the Notre Dame football team, which is independent, has their own, very lucrative, TV contract with NBC that they would have to forfeit (or at the very least share) should they join a conference and if you join the Big Ten it's all sports or nothing. Weighing heavy on Notre Dame's decision was a TV schedule and interestingly enough in a press release from last week about their games that would be televised this year, they noted that Versus, a member of the NBC Sports network, had yet to announce their college hockey schedule for this season. The plot thickens.....

Link: http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog/Julie-Robenhymer/News--Notes---Saad-Europe-Notre-Dame/99/38548

One wonders what is based upon hearsay and what is based upon facts. This is the first time that anyone has said that RIT would go to the ECAC as opposed to just concluding that it is the most likely suspect.
 
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USCHO HE preview http://www.uscho.com/2011/10/03/early-exits-last-season-fuel-hockey-east-teams-for-2011-12/ which seems to be new.

There have been a lot of rumors that Hockey East will face changes as well. Notre Dame has made it clear that it is interested in joining either Hockey East or the NCHC. The NCHC announced Sunday that it will begin play in 2013 without Notre Dame, meaning it is likely Hockey East will become the home of the Irish.

For that to happen, there will likely have to be another team to take the league from 10 to 12 teams and avoid the undesirable 11-team schedule. That team could be Rensselaer, and the announcement could come as early as this week.
 
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Link: http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog/Julie-Robenhymer/News--Notes---Saad-Europe-Notre-Dame/99/38548

One wonders what is based upon hearsay and what is based upon facts. This is the first time that anyone has said that RIT would go to the ECAC as opposed to just concluding that it is the most likely suspect.
I am also skeptical of the certainty of the "facts" listed in that article. For example,
They have until Friday to accept an invitation to join the WCHA, but have been in talks with some of the schools from Atlantic Hockey - Niagara, Mercyhurst, Robert Morris, Canisius - as well as Buffalo State, who is interested in starting a DI program, about reviving the CCHA.
Now, I understand that it's easy to confuse UB and Buff State. For example, one is D-III in all sports and the other is D-I. One already has a college hockey team and one is just exploring interest. One hasn't received any press (especially not national) for its hockey team this off-season and the other has had numerous articles and blog posts. The article seems to be taking rumors and presumptions and making them facts.
 
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I will be there. WS might be as well (hope I'm not speaking for you, WS...). When tix go on sale, I plan on getting into a corner (anyone at the exhibition game saw that I ended up in the corner during the 'puck throw back' incident (which I will repeat if a puck ever enters my hands again...Turk thinks I'm gonna' stay with the norm and keep the puck for posterity :p. The hubster will break my thumb if I ever try again but I'll make a run for it...). Most folks try to get behind the RPI bench (or as close as possible)

I was one of the people (along with my 2 boys) sitting at the top of Section 17 who all yelled in good fun at the puck toss....kinda like what I would imagine a Cubs fan doing if you threw back a homer hit by the Cubs. What I didnt notice, and im sure none of us knew, that you were Babo....and that the BRO was on the bench committing faces to memory. I guarantee that if anyone knew of the relationship, we all would have sat there, mouths closed, and listened to the crickets. :) Did love the one play where Luke had the puck and a certain section was making some kind of gutteral sound in cheering for your son. He already is a fan favorite and we are going to love having him (and you !) around for years to come.
 
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Neither of what you mentioned is the norm. You say five words: "Hey kid, here you go", and then hand it off. We'd understand if you wanted to keep it or do as you please if it was your son that shot it out, but other than that, thou shalt giveth the puck to the kid.

I've been to my share of sporting events in my life and I know that little kids are eager for the puck/ball. If I'd been in a crowd with a bunch of kids, I wouldn't have even gone for the puck...as it turns out, I was in the first row of section 20 with no one but 2 men (one of whom was blind and in a wheel chair, the other of whom was not going to pick it up.) It landed on the rubber next to the boards. The refs were able to get the game going right off. I'd do it again (and now since some think I've made a faux pas, I'm gonna' tackle the next little bastard that gets a puck, yank it from him and hurl it into the rafters :eek::p:D
 
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(and now since some think I've made a faux pas, I'm gonna' tackle the next little bastard that gets a puck, yank it from him and hurl it into the rafters :eek::p:D

Like mother, like son? This is going to be a fun four years. Just don't yank it from the kids that are around Section 22. :D;)
 
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I was one of the people (along with my 2 boys) sitting at the top of Section 17 who all yelled in good fun at the puck toss....kinda like what I would imagine a Cubs fan doing if you threw back a homer hit by the Cubs. What I didnt notice, and im sure none of us knew, that you were Babo....and that the BRO was on the bench committing faces to memory. I guarantee that if anyone knew of the relationship, we all would have sat there, mouths closed, and listened to the crickets. :) Did love the one play where Luke had the puck and a certain section was making some kind of gutteral sound in cheering for your son. He already is a fan favorite and we are going to love having him (and you !) around for years to come.
HAHHA! That 'guttural' sound you mention is a natural offshoot from being named "Luke" ...it has followed him everywhere and sounds like a boo combined with a cheer but is, in essence, his name hollered in a deep low long yell...I'm used to it. He didn't become tough just because of the Hubster tho...folks can rib me a plenty and I'll keep doing what I do...btw... he probably would have booed me too so you're welcomed to give me the business whenever you want...:)
 
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USCHO HE preview http://www.uscho.com/2011/10/03/early-exits-last-season-fuel-hockey-east-teams-for-2011-12/ which seems to be new.

For that to happen, there will likely have to be another team to take the league from 10 to 12 teams and avoid the undesirable 11-team schedule. That team could be Rensselaer, and the announcement could come as early as this week.
I was thinking the week of the Notre Dame game would a good time for RPI to make an announcement, but this week works fine for me! :D
 
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HAHHA! That 'guttural' sound you mention is a natural offshoot from being named "Luke" ...it has followed him everywhere and sounds like a boo combined with a cheer but is, in essence, his name hollered in a deep low long yell...I'm used to it. He didn't become tough just because of the Hubster tho...folks can rib me a plenty and I'll keep doing what I do...btw... he probably would have booed me too so you're welcomed to give me the business whenever you want...:)

We're already used to it, what with the recent graduation of Brian Brutlag. ;)
 
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The Hubster already says I'm a ninny for doing what I did...besides, YOU picked one up in Row 2 of Section 20!!!

There's only two pucks that I've collected: one that went into the Pep Band area back when we were on the stage behind where we shoot twice (there weren't any kids around), and one from a Yale game that caused a battle bruise.
 
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Giving the pucks to kids must be a relatively new development. Of course, years ago, the north side of the field house was entirely populated by students and there weren't any kids around on that side as far as I can recall. People just kept them. The only puck that i ever got was given to me by a member of the pep band. Several went on the stage every game (especially when Gerry Beauclair was on the team).
 
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Giving the pucks to kids must be a relatively new development.

Ralph, I know you're old, but 20 years can't be considered recent, considering that I remember the crowd booing a guy near me who caught the puck and wouldn't hand it to the roughly 8 or 9 year old me.

Give it to a **** kid. They'll be psyched about it for a week. You'll forget about it before the game's over.
 
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