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RPI 2013/14 Part II: The HFH is Covered with Frozen Drivel

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rvd5star69 said:
When do we change the call to 1 minute and union still sucks
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It's bad enough they now use the call at their games... I had a Union fan literally claim that we copied them. They wonder why some of their fanbase are looked upon as strange people...
 
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turk181 said:
This isn't an incident anyone involved in college hockey is proud of, but let's remember that emotions tend to boil over from time to time in this great game. http://www.sbncollegehockey.com/201...-rivalry-cole-ikkala-brock-higgs-rick-bennett
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I'm not upset that it happened, necessarily, I'm upset that Union fans' perspective is extremely skewed and that the ECAC did essentially nothing where it should have made a real statement.
 
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It's not on the ECAC Hockey website yet, but WaP has tweeted that Scott Diebold was named ECAC Goalie of the Week. :)
 
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ibanezist00 said:
It's bad enough they now use the call at their games... I had a Union fan literally claim that we copied them. They wonder why some of their fanbase are looked upon as strange people...
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Woooow. If a Clarkson fan said that, they'd be mostly right. But Union???
 
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Ralph Baer said:
It's not on the ECAC Hockey website yet, but WaP has tweeted that Scott Diebold was named ECAC Goalie of the Week. :)
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Actually I kinda jumped the gun on that. Ken Schott listed him as his goaltender of the week, I misinterpreted. Leaving it up in the hopes that it's true. It's probably gonna be true.
 
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realet said:
Actually I kinda jumped the gun on that. Ken Schott listed him as his goaltender of the week, I misinterpreted. Leaving it up in the hopes that it's true. It's probably gonna be true.
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That explains why I couldn't find anything official. :)
 
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ibanezist00 said:
I'm not upset that it happened, necessarily, I'm upset that Union fans' perspective is extremely skewed and that the ECAC did essentially nothing where it should have made a real statement.
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After reading the series of articles in today's Schenectady Gazette, I can only conclude that this culture is not confined to the Union hockey team but is a statement of the college as a whole. Many of the writers and people interviewed for the articles/columns seemed to think that the behavior of the coach and Union players was perfectly fine and even justified. One went so far as to say that Appert should have gotten the same suspension as Bennett? Seriously? One writer cited it as a first offense (Bennett) and therefore the penalty was appropriate. How many times should you allow a coach to punch an opposing team's player before he is fired or at least given a lengthy suspension? Bodie says the reason he cross checked Higgs in the head is because he was coming at him. OK! That about says it all. So you have the coach acting like a complete mad man and the captain saying it's pretty much ok to cross check a player in the head if he is skating toward you. Never mind that Higgs was looking away at the time because the game was over, and the puck was safely in the corner.

They talked at length about the apologies. Are you kidding? Of course they apologized. They screwed up big time, and they feared for their jobs/careers/team.

As I said before, Union has been going after our players for years, particularly the high scoring ones, often leading to injuries. I realize good players get more attention from opposing teams, but Union plays about as dirty as they come.

I am not at all surprised that the ECAC found a way to give RPI as many penalties as they did and to let Union off as lightly as they did. What surprises me is that both Union and the ECAC don't seem to care about how bad this makes them look!
 
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Lucky13L said:
After reading the series of articles in today's Schenectady Gazette, I can only conclude that this culture is not confined to the Union hockey team but is a statement of the college as a whole. Many of the writers and people interviewed for the articles/columns seemed to think that the behavior of the coach and Union players was perfectly fine and even justified. One went so far as to say that Appert should have gotten the same suspension as Bennett? Seriously? One writer cited it as a first offense (Bennett) and therefore the penalty was appropriate. How many times should you allow a coach to punch an opposing team's player before he is fired or at least given a lengthy suspension? Bodie says the reason he cross checked Higgs in the head is because he was coming at him. OK! That about says it all. So you have the coach acting like a complete mad man and the captain saying it's pretty much ok to cross check a player in the head if he is skating toward you. Never mind that Higgs was looking away at the time because the game was over, and the puck was safely in the corner.

They talked at length about the apologies. Are you kidding? Of course they apologized. They screwed up big time, and they feared for their jobs/careers/team.

As I said before, Union has been going after our players for years, particularly the high scoring ones, often leading to injuries. I realize good players get more attention from opposing teams, but Union plays about as dirty as they come.

I am not at all surprised that the ECAC found a way to give RPI as many penalties as they did and to let Union off as lightly as they did. What surprises me is that both Union and the ECAC don't seem to care about how bad this makes them look!
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I've been saying it's a Union culture thing for years, and I just get accused of being an "RPI fan".
 
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Lucky13L said:
I forgot to mention that there was one voice of sanity in the paper - Mike MacAdam.
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Lucky-Why should we expect anything else? Society and the media keeps feeding us with how remorseful this criminal was or that perpetrator was after the fact that he killed or raped or robbed or beaten someone to a pulp. And of course every one of them was a choirboy who intended to become a marine or a nurse someday. The only remorse most of the time was they were very sorry-that they got caught or have to pay any sort of penalty. This is the time we live in. I suppose no one should be held accountable-there is always a reason why someone did a bad thing and it is never their own fault. Then of course there is the SODDI defense we get so often-Some Other Dude Did It.
 
supe said:
Disappointed that there is no extra discipline for the coach. I understand he almost surely did not intend to strike a player, but when your defense is basically "I only hit him because I was trying to punch his coach and he got in the way" you really should sit more than 2 games p
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I kinda felt bad for the guy. I thought for sure he was gonna get axed. He really got away with one.
 
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