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RPI 2023-24: In Our 200th Year, We're Getting It Right

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In honor of Nick Ardanaz and MJ Alexander, today is 26 September 2023. There are 11 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 7 October 2023 for the start of next season.
 
Wicked Slappaahs said:
RB, I think this is when you sternly advise them to take it to the football forum ...HA LOL...
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I gave up on that on this thread years ago especially with regard to football. I, for one, think winning football games is not the proper thing for Engineers to do. :-D

It's only the recruit thread that I try to keep pure now, and recently I have ignored some transgressions there. :-)
 
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Ralph Baer said:
I gave up on that on this thread years ago especially WGT football. I, for one, think winning football games is not the proper think for Engineers to do. :-D

It's only the recruit thread that I try to keep pure now, and recently I have ignored some transgressions there. :-)
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Ha ha. Understood.
 
In honor of Dylan Davies and Ellie Kaiser, today is 27 September 2023. There are 10 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 7 October 2023 for the start of next season.
 
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In honor of Dylan Davies and Ellie Kaiser, today is 27 September 2023. There are 19 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 7 October 2023 for the start of next season.
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Hate to correct you Ralph, but there are only 10 days until RPI’s next game. I don’t want to wait 9 more days… :-)
 
In honor of Ryan Brushett and Magdalena Erbenova, today is 28 September 2023. There are 9 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 7 October 2023 for the start of next season.
 
In honor of CJ Regula and Mika Jahnke, today is 29 September 2023. There are 8 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 7 October 2023 for the start of next season.
 
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In honor of Max Smolinski and Nyah Philip, today is 30 September 2023. There are 7 days (1 week) until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 7 October 2023 for the start of next season.
 
In honor of Jack Agnew and Sophia Jones, today is 1 October 2023. There are 6 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 7 October 2023 for the start of next season.
 
I live about an hour from Troy and plan to kick off the RPI hockey season by taking a drive over next week to catch one of the games. Which one do you think would be the better game to watch? The scrimmage against Union or the Exhibition against U of Guelph (never heard of them). It'd be nice to see as many different players on the ice as possible (which I'm sure I'd see in either game) and always nice to drive home with a Win. Thoughts?
 
Puckfan90 said:
I live about an hour from Troy and plan to kick off the RPI hockey season by taking a drive over next week to catch one of the games. Which one do you think would be the better game to watch? The scrimmage against Union or the Exhibition against U of Guelph (never heard of them). It'd be nice to see as many different players on the ice as possible (which I'm sure I'd see in either game) and always nice to drive home with a Win. Thoughts?
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The Canadian teams tend to have a lot of undrafted former major junior players that either didn't get a pro contract or decided that after essentially playing semi-pro for several years that it would be better to get a degree than spending several more on overnight bus trips in the ECHL or SPHL. The roster is usually filled out with graduates of eastern Canadian junior leagues. The teams tend to be older, bigger and more physical than we usually play, but Division I teams generally win about 80% of those games. They've also played 4 games so they should have less early season sloppiness.

The Union game will be interesting just to see whether their coach can get them to take a step forward in year 2. Looking at their recruits there aren't any that jump out as difference makers but perhaps a year in his system will start to gel in year 2. Obviously any game against a rival, even an exhibition game, will have greater intensity, but the quality of play may be spotty as they've only had intra-squad scrimmages to date.

I'd probably go with the Union game unless you plan on attending one of the league games or the Mayor's Cup against them, in which case Guelph might be a good change of pace.
 
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The Canadian teams tend to have a lot of undrafted former major junior players that either didn't get a pro contract or decided that after essentially playing semi-pro for several years that it would be better to get a degree than spending several more on overnight bus trips in the ECHL or SPHL. The roster is usually filled out with graduates of eastern Canadian junior leagues. The teams tend to be older, bigger and more physical than we usually play, but Division I teams generally win about 80% of those games. They've also played 4 games so they should have less early season sloppiness.

The Union game will be interesting just to see whether their coach can get them to take a step forward in year 2. Looking at their recruits there aren't any that jump out as difference makers but perhaps a year in his system will start to gel in year 2. Obviously any game against a rival, even an exhibition game, will have greater intensity, but the quality of play may be spotty as they've only had intra-squad scrimmages to date.

I'd probably go with the Union game unless you plan on attending one of the league games or the Mayor's Cup against them, in which case Guelph might be a good change of pace.
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Perhaps a silly reason for my pick but I would go with the game against Guelph. We get to see Union 3 other times this year and a scrimmage is still a scrimmage even if it is against a nearby rival. You might not get to see Guelph again in Troy for some time and as mentioned by rpi82, they will have some older, bigger, physical players with some experience which could make for a more exciting game to watch and a better measure of how we might do this season.
 
In honor of Taylor Zahirnyi, today is 2 October 2023. There are 5 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 7 October 2023 for the start of next season.
 
rpi82 said:
The Canadian teams tend to have a lot of undrafted former major junior players that either didn't get a pro contract ......... The teams tend to be older, bigger and more physical than we usually play, but Division I teams generally win about 80% of those games. They've also played 4 games so they should have less early season sloppiness......
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Yup. Or as my dad used to say, " A bunch of crooked nosed 24 year old freshmen...." Ha ha
 
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