Ralph Baer
Let's Go 'Tute!
And our coach that year, Garry Kearns, is now in the Ring of Honor. I don't expect Smith to be so honored. :-D
FWIW, the Middlebury loss was 17 days later.
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RPI 2023-24 (Part II): The Search for Special Teams Excellence
- Thread starter Ralph Baer
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And our coach that year, Garry Kearns, is now in the Ring of Honor. I don't expect Smith to be so honored. :-D
FWIW, the Middlebury loss was 17 days later.
Congratulations to Dave smith and co for running the program right into the ground. All fans and alumni should send thank you emails to Dave for doing something that hasn’t been done in 58 years. Truly an amazing achievement
Ralph Good news is we’re at rock bottom so nowhere to go but up. Lol
I bet you can’t wait to watch tonight’s game vs Cornell. Should be a real beauty of a game
11 different players took face offs last night including a D Man. Not putting players in a position to succeed
RPI will surely be a decided underdog no matter which of those three teams they play.
Not that it should affect the way they play in their final regular-season game tonight, but I would assume they would prefer to play Union in the playoff, if only because the bus ride home will be mercifully shorter than if they play in Hanover or Potsdam.
We need a win tonight in regulation to ensure that we finish no lower than eighth place and get home ice for the one-and-done. We also have a chance to jump SLU because they are playing Quinny. So, no worries, we'll take care of business, and you get to avoid last place.
Originally posted by tony/troy View Post
If Brown gets two more points than RPI does on Saturday then RPI will indeed finish last as pointed out above by our esteemed colleague. Should that happen, it will be for the first time in 58 years (57 not counting the year RPI was not allowed to play). Ironically, with the exception of two games the previous season, it was my first full season of attending most of the games. What a start!!!
They were winless in ECAC play that year. Should anyone be wondering where the hell the three non ECAC wins came from, the list is as follows:
1) Opening night against the University of Pennsylvania who were playing their very first varsity game ever as a rebooted program. They were an independent in that very first year and would join the ECAC one year later. Their head coach was Jim Salfi who would later be hired by RPI.
2) Christmas tournament against non Division 1 Middlebury against whom they lost a rematch at Middlebury around a week or so later.
3) Mid week game later that season against non Division 1 Hamilton. Thankfully and fortunately, there was no at Hamilton rematch scheduled.
Ralph: it seems like you have been around long enough to at least have some familiarity with the subject matter.
For amusement purposes only (not to be screaming for anybody's head), I managed to find what I believe is as accurate a reflection of the actual 1965-1966 standings as there is going to be anywhere almost six decades later. It has a Wikipedia page all to itself that comes up by searching ECAC hockey standings 1965 1966. For unknown reasons best left to the geeks of RPI, this site won't let me attach the page.
Note the informality of those times as reflected in the games played column. Not only were you not required to play everyone but you played however many games you cared to play against whom you wanted to play them against!!! In addition and to the best of my memory, if two of these teams were to meet up somewhere along the way in a Holiday tournament or the Beanpot, then what the hell!!! It was counted in the standings too.
Also, as best as I recall, in those days RPI was also a member of a three team conference called the ICAC with Clarkson and SLU. They finished last in that too, obviously!!!
No, we are not at our lowest point ever. Not even a chance. Not even close.
If Brown gets two more points than RPI does on Saturday then RPI will indeed finish last as pointed out above by our esteemed colleague. Should that happen, it will be for the first time in 58 years (57 not counting the year RPI was not allowed to play). Ironically, with the exception of two games the previous season, it was my first full season of attending most of the games. What a start!!!
They were winless in ECAC play that year. Should anyone be wondering where the hell the three non ECAC wins came from, the list is as follows:
1) Opening night against the University of Pennsylvania who were playing their very first varsity game ever as a rebooted program. They were an independent in that very first year and would join the ECAC one year later. Their head coach was Jim Salfi who would later be hired by RPI.
2) Christmas tournament against non Division 1 Middlebury against whom they lost a rematch at Middlebury around a week or so later.
3) Mid week game later that season against non Division 1 Hamilton. Thankfully and fortunately, there was no at Hamilton rematch scheduled.
Ralph: it seems like you have been around long enough to at least have some familiarity with the subject matter.
For amusement purposes only (not to be screaming for anybody's head), I managed to find what I believe is as accurate a reflection of the actual 1965-1966 standings as there is going to be anywhere almost six decades later. It has a Wikipedia page all to itself that comes up by searching ECAC hockey standings 1965 1966. For unknown reasons best left to the geeks of RPI, this site won't let me attach the page.
Note the informality of those times as reflected in the games played column. Not only were you not required to play everyone but you played however many games you cared to play against whom you wanted to play them against!!! In addition and to the best of my memory, if two of these teams were to meet up somewhere along the way in a Holiday tournament or the Beanpot, then what the hell!!! It was counted in the standings too.
Also, as best as I recall, in those days RPI was also a member of a three team conference called the ICAC with Clarkson and SLU. They finished last in that too, obviously!!!
No, we are not at our lowest point ever. Not even a chance. Not even close.
Ralph Baer
Let's Go 'Tute!
RPI fan 4 life
Season Ticket Holder since 1974
Yep. First time in 58 years. A long trip to Potsdam awaits…
Congratulations to Dave smith. Way to really inspire us all to watch this bullshit. Clarkson is hot right now so yeah there’s that.
58 years and this clown shows up
Ralph Baer
Let's Go 'Tute!
Well we did win earlier this year in Potsdam. OTOH, I doubt that we ever won there twice. (I did not check.)
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QuasiCosmos
Member
Tough season for the players and fans. But traveling Engineer fans are great folks -- got to meet some of them this weekend.
engineerhockeyfan
PUCKMAN RULES!!!
We got what we deserved.
Colgate went into this weekend with a .500 record and were locked into a top four position in the standings.
Except for the top two teams, everyone was beatable. We just didn't have the team to beat any of them.
Fortunately, this is college hockey and there will be a big turnover in this team next season. I look forward to the team we put on the ice next season.
RPI fan 4 life
Season Ticket Holder since 1974
I checked. We won there twice in both 2012 and 2015, but both times were best of 3 playoff series. BTW, we lost both times there during the regular season so we never had 3 wins in Potsdam in the same season.
Ralph Baer
Let's Go 'Tute!
OTOH, I did have at least 3 typos in my post. :-D
DavidNardolillo
Member
I agree. I was at Lynah last night. RPI wasn't terrible, but really didn't trouble Cornell other than a few exchanges. A rather boring game from an RPI perspective. Just feels like the team has been out of gas for a few weeks after not being able to click at all this year. Injuries were part of the equation here but the win loss record reflects the performance level of this team.
I would be really interested to hear some interviews with some of the underclassmen about the season. One thing I didn't like at all this season was the lack of communications out of the team this year, compared to past seasons when post-game interviews, etc. were posted in various places. This made it impossible to connect with the team and to try and understand why the performances were so disappointing.
On to Clarkson. I am at least hoping that the full team of players is available and healthy so they can give it a go.
According to the ECAC's website, the Princeton-Harvard and Yale-St. Lawrence playoff games will be on Friday night, while RPI-Clarkson and Brown-Union will be on Saturday.
For whatever small consolation it may be, RPI is assured of not being the first team to begin its offseason.
For whatever small consolation it may be, RPI is assured of not being the first team to begin its offseason.
engineerhockeyfan
PUCKMAN RULES!!!
I'm not sure if that is good news or bad news for me. If they played Friday, I would not have been able to watch the game. But I will be watching on Saturday.
Who knows, maybe they will surprise us.