Since I was trying to do this all by memory alone I think I passed my cognitive test for this year! i was obviously not at RPI for all those non winning games but clearly can remember many of them. I vividly remember the excitement when we were up by 2 touchdowns against Nichols. The tie was for sure a big let down but we celebrated anyway in our usual fashion which was at the Armory Bar and then over to the Knotty Pine!!
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RPI 2021-22: Picking Up Where We Left Off
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Since I was trying to do this all by memory alone I think I passed my cognitive test for this year! i was obviously not at RPI for all those non winning games but clearly can remember many of them. I vividly remember the excitement when we were up by 2 touchdowns against Nichols. The tie was for sure a big let down but we celebrated anyway in our usual fashion which was at the Armory Bar and then over to the Knotty Pine!!
engineerhockeyfan
PUCKMAN RULES!!!
Sunday's game was very disappointing. I watched the Engineers play the best two periods of the year. Passes were crisp tape to tape. Even cross ice passes were right on the money.
When they made a mistake, which was not very often, Marshall backed them up.
Then the third period started and they gave up an early goal to tie the score.
All the great play of the previous forty minutes went out the window.
Passes were no longer accurate, the team was chasing the puck all over the ice. They just lost their composure. At least that is what I saw.
Hopefully they can learn from that.
i saw it the same for the parts I was able to stay for. Simply put, this team has done a lot of things right and now needs to learn how to win. I think a lot of this i snot talent but mental concentration and focus. If they can do that for the entire game, they will be just fine. This past weekend, a very good Northeastern team with an excellent goaltender did not have an easy time with us.
Not a good omen - latest indication for the football team is that they will be facing a really tough uphill climb. They are 33.5 point underdogs to the defending Division III champion and number 1 ranked team. Can they do it? They will need to get off to a good start and play a perfect error free game for all 4 quarters. Regardless, this has been up to now the most exciting season of RPI football probably ever as most games were not decided until virtually the final seconds and we had a team that seemed to never give up!! Go Red!!
At this time of the year, the weather can play a dominant part in any outcome. The Cortland game was played in bitter cold and on and off snow. We handled that quite well.
At this time of the year, the weather can play a dominant part in any outcome. The Cortland game was played in bitter cold and on and off snow. We handled that quite well.
Wicked Slappaahs
I miss Tie Domi
My take away from the weekend was a very good RPI effort against a very good NE team. Both nights the teams did a good job defending and limiting shots. My one observation was that too many times RPI opted to pass instead of shoot. I realize its a fine line between the two, but against a keeper like Levi I think you need to get more traffic and rubber to the net....again I realize that's easier said than done against a very good team. We knew going in to this season that scoring would be the challenge for this squad and that certainly was true last weekend. If you hold a team to 20-25 shots you should expect to win the game most nights.
Q'Pac will serve as an even stiffer test on Friday night.
DavidNardolillo
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I'm not sure that the RPI football fans realize that there is a USCHO-esque outlet for the well-deserved football chat. d3football.com fan forums are at http://www.d3boards.com/ ;-)
DavidNardolillo
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I agree. We also have to be a bit more ruthless in burying some of the better chances. Levi was a difference maker last weekend, but I think there were one or two times where we let him off the hook. Still, I think there were two encouraging performances. I am also hoping that Marshall built some confidence. Yes, I think one or two of the Northeastern goals could have been stopped, but he also made a larger number of good saves.
DavidNardolillo
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The bigger they come, the harder they fall!
Ralph Baer
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Yes David, I remember the episode with Goliath! Hoping for such a biblical performance by our boys in this upcoming game.
I agree with you about the first two periods. Passing and playmaking looked good. I thought Northeastern came out hungry in the 3rd and seemed to want it more, but the Engineers looked like fatigue started to get to them too. D had trouble containing McDonough, but then again, that's most of Northeastern's opponents these days. I thought Marshall played very well Sunday. Engineers came very close to tying the game in final seconds. Levi made a huge save at the buzzer.
One more comment about Northeastern. Sunday was my first time at Matthews in about 10 years. That barn is 40 years *older* than HFH yet from a fan experience it actually feels more modern. (I have not seen locker rooms, weight rooms, so can't speak to that). The large center ice "video wall" scoreboard or whatever they call these things is nice. One would be a perfect addition for HFH.
It's also time to paint all the HFH seats red (and replace the blue bunting with red). Where did the blue come from anyway? It's not even a school color! Ok, back to football!
It's also time to paint all the HFH seats red (and replace the blue bunting with red). Where did the blue come from anyway? It's not even a school color! Ok, back to football!
Wicked Slappaahs
I miss Tie Domi
It'll be interesting to see how RPI does tonight. Hopefully we'll see the same effort and motivation we saw against NE last weekend. The few close games that Q has had this year have been against teams with solid defensive structure. As Smith mentioned in the preview interview, good teams figure out how to turn close games into ties and wins...which is the next step that RPI needs to take. GO RED !
Ralph Baer
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I haven't been there since it was called the Boston Arena, and I saw us lose to BU in an ECAC playoff game in the spring of 1969.
DavidNardolillo
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Agree with the seat painting; seems like a relatively easy improvement. As for the video board, I'd rather see other improvements first (improved seats in some sections, seating behind the goal at the Zamboni end). RPI's video board is only about 10 years old and is perfectly fine. The only issue with it is really a production issue getting the RPI TV replays a bit better synched. Northeastern also uses Matthews for D1 basketball which I think creates a different equation for them.
In fairness to HFH, it is an old Navy warehouse that was dismantled, shipped to Troy, and repurposed, whereas Matthews was designed specifically for sporting events. There is only so much that can be done for HFH.
I haven't been there since it was called the Boston Arena, and I saw us lose to BU in an ECAC playoff game in the spring of 1969.
Ralph, were you there for the Dick Greenlaw 78-save game vs. BU in '65? (IIRC)
Vicious: I was in Boston for that game. I have mentioned it a few times on various threads. I think truthfully that 78 was a gross underestimation. I thought he made about 35 saves in the first period alone. Could have been more but BU rang about 3 off the post and one off the cross bar. There were some very high scoring games against us that year (Clarkson, Northeastern) but i was always of the opinion that Dick was very good and saved us several times from even worse disasters. We were 3-19 and if you look at the schedule of who we were able to beat, we could easily have been zero wins for the season if not for some soft games.
Ralph Baer
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No, I was not. It was during break, and I was in NYC. I didn't even hear about it until I returned to Troy. Smoke signals didn't travel too well. ;-)
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