RPI 2013-2014 Season

[hab]

Re: RPI 2013-2014 Season

Good opening weekend for the Engineers. I watched about 1 1/4 of the games and thought the team looked disciplined (as usual), not a lot of offensive flash (hey, it's October!) and solid goaltending. A win and an overtime loss on the road ....I'll take it.

 

[turk181]

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RPI hosts BU Friday night and it's a FREE T-Shirt night..... http://www.rpiathletics.com/splash.aspx?id=splash_89

 

[hab]

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This weekend will be a great early season test for the Engineers against a couple of tough HE opponents. It seems that in the last couple years RPI has looked tougher within the ECAC than against out-of-conference opponents. I'm looking for them to come away with 2 or 3 points this weekend to turn that around, for themselves and for the ECAC.

 

[hab]

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RPI and BU are tied 1-1 after one period, with shots even at 13-13. Unfortunately, the live video (which is usually excellent, courtesy of RPI TV) is scrambled. Anyone else having success watching it?

 

[RKarger]

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RPI and BU are tied 1-1 after one period, with shots even at 13-13. Unfortunately, the live video (which is usually excellent, courtesy of RPI TV) is scrambled. Anyone else having success watching it?

It's not RPITV, it's RPIAthletics, with something called Boxcast(? - not sure of the name) which they run separately.

 

[Ralph Baer]

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RPI and BU are tied 1-1 after one period, with shots even at 13-13. Unfortunately, the live video (which is usually excellent, courtesy of RPI TV) is scrambled. Anyone else having success watching it?

Same here. It doesn't seem to be accessible from the RPITV page, so perhaps they are no covering it and this is what the coaches will be using for game analysis. In any case, it isn't watchable.

Edit: As RKarger said.

 

[hab]

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Same here. It doesn't seem to be accessible from the RPITV page, so perhaps they are no covering it and this is what the coaches will be using for game analysis. In any case, it isn't watchable.

Edit: As RKarger said.

Got a tweet from RPI Athletics saying they are aware of the problem and trying to fix it. Currently 2-1 BU with 3 minutes left in the second. Engineers having trouble staying out of the sin bin.

 

[Ralph Baer]

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Got a tweet from RPI Athletics saying they are aware of the problem and trying to fix it. Currently 2-1 BU with 3 minutes left in the second. Engineers having trouble staying out of the sin bin.

Final 2-2 in OT. Judging purely by the shots, RPI raised their game a notch in the third period and overtime. The tying goal was Mahoney (Marzario, Huhtamaki).

 

[turk181]

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in about 4 years of watching the womens games this was the best game by the Lady Engineers I've seen....including that, oh so close game vs Wisco.

 

[hab]

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Looks like we're getting no coverage of the game against Northeastern today . WRPI is doing the men's game at 1 pm from Sacred Heart (couldn't round up a second crew to do a 4 pm game at HFH, I guess), and for some reason neither RPI TV nor RPI Athletics seem to be providing video. This doesn't bode well for the rest of the season.

 

[hab]

Re: RPI 2013-2014 Season

This weekend will be a great early season test for the Engineers against a couple of tough HE opponents. It seems that in the last couple years RPI has looked tougher within the ECAC than against out-of-conference opponents. I'm looking for them to come away with 2 or 3 points this weekend to turn that around, for themselves and for the ECAC.

Well, it sounds like the Engineers played well on the weekend and another goal thrown into either game would have got them to my expectation of a 2-3 point weekend. However, after falling a little short against a couple of better than average HE teams they now have 3 games against the bottom teams in HE, and I would think that anything less than a sweep would be a bit of a disappointment.

 

[jericho]

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Looks like we're getting no coverage of the game against Northeastern today . WRPI is doing the men's game at 1 pm from Sacred Heart (couldn't round up a second crew to do a 4 pm game at HFH, I guess), and for some reason neither RPI TV nor RPI Athletics seem to be providing video. This doesn't bode well for the rest of the season.

Be patient.

 

[hab]

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Once again it looks like this year the Engineers' inability to put the puck in the net will be their greatest weakness. Today, they outshot Vermont 40-16 and lost the game 3-1 .

 

[Eeyore]

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Once again it looks like this year the Engineers' inability to put the puck in the net will be their greatest weakness. Today, they outshot Vermont 40-16 and lost the game 3-1 .

Though those totals could equally be interpreted as an inability to keep the puck out of the net.

 

[hab]

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Same old story for the Engineers, in their 3-2 OT loss to Connecticut: lots of shots on goal (40 this time) but precious little to show for it. Here is RPI's scoring / shots percentage trend for the 6 games so far this season: 15%; 8.7; 5.6; 2.9; 2.5; 5.0. Maybe we can take comfort in the fact that 2 goals on 40 shots has reversed the downward trend . And I suspect that Eeyore may also correctly point out that our trend in keeping the puck out of the net doesn't look healthy either.

 

[rpi82]

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87? It just depresses me that the women's team just knocked off the #7 team in the country with what sounds like a great effort and excellent goal-tending before an announced crowd of 87 fans. I see them play down here against Yale and Quinnipiac (even used to go when they played Sacred Heart during the transitional days) and it's entertaining hockey. The few times I've been back in Troy and caught a game they've had similarly small crowds. It's not just an RPI problem as other teams (such as the ones I mentioned above) don't draw better. How sad.......

 

[RKarger]

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87? It just depresses me that the women's team just knocked off the #7 team in the country with what sounds like a great effort and excellent goal-tending before an announced crowd of 87 fans. I see them play down here against Yale and Quinnipiac (even used to go when they played Sacred Heart during the transitional days) and it's entertaining hockey. The few times I've been back in Troy and caught a game they've had similarly small crowds. It's not just an RPI problem as other teams (such as the ones I mentioned above) don't draw better. How sad.......

I wish there were more people there. I'm in the band and it's always so quiet at women's games. I'd love for the women to get to play even just once in front of a packed field house, it would be amazing for them. Unfortunately even on Pack the House night the Field House feels empty because of how big it is.

 

[hab]

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87? It just depresses me that the women's team just knocked off the #7 team in the country with what sounds like a great effort and excellent goal-tending before an announced crowd of 87 fans. I see them play down here against Yale and Quinnipiac (even used to go when they played Sacred Heart during the transitional days) and it's entertaining hockey. The few times I've been back in Troy and caught a game they've had similarly small crowds. It's not just an RPI problem as other teams (such as the ones I mentioned above) don't draw better. How sad.......

The worse than normal attendance might have been due, in part, to the team's dismal performance in non-conference games to start the season. It seems that RPI usually plays tough enough within the ECAC to make the playoffs but usually disappoints in games outside the conference. I hope the team has higher objectives for itself than just making the playoffs (top 8 in a 12 team league) each year.

Today's game against Dartmouth (4 pm ET) will be carried on the always excellent RPI TV.

 

[hab]

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I wish that I had seen yesterday's win against Harvard. If I had, I would probably be in a better mood, because today's 3-1 loss to Dartmouth was another frustrating example of how this team has played in most games this year. This looks like the most talented group of forwards (certainly the fastest) that RPI has had, and they totally dominated play again today (at least 5 on 5), outshooting Dartmouth 34-11. After today's game I suspect that their save percentage might be the lowest in the NCAA and their scoring percentage must be near the bottom as well. A low save percentage usually gets blamed on weak goaltending but that's not always fair. The two biggest problems I saw in today's game: 1) the team is just not very tough in front of the net at either end of the ice; and 2) on the PK they collapse back too far and give the other team too much time and space on the points. The highlight (in addition to the obvious speed and work ethic of this team) was the way that Smelker drove hard to the net on a couple of occasions. If she can keep doing that, and if her line-mates can follow up on the loose pucks, we should see more goals from their top line.

 

[GRussinko]

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Jumping back to Friday, 87 is inaccurate. There were 75, 20 minutes before the game started then besides stragglers, several junior girls' teams were in attendance as there was a tournament going on at HFH this weekend. I would say there were 150-200 there in total. Still not great, but not 87 either.