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RPI 2024 Off-Season: Was 2023 – 2024 Just a Bad Dream?

jericho said:
not that I follow basketball, but you might see more upsets by smaller schools, and maybe an eventual NC by one. The more players that are in it for the NIL money, the less they’ll care about winning. This will give the smaller schools the advantage. That being said, the big schools also use the portal as a recruiting tool, so we’ll see.
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Perhaps, but Siena is the cautionary tale to that. They've lost some top players in the last few years and went from a winning program to 4 and 28 this year.
 
Ralph Baer said:
We have a backup goalie for next year, Carson Dorfman of Sioux City (USHL). He played a grand total of 2:24 in one game in February for them. Earlier this season he played for Shreveport and New Hampshire in the NAHL. He is probably Miller's replacement.
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FWIW, the Sioux City's tweet https://twitter.com/Musketeerhockey/...78483699122343 states "A legacy is headed to RPI, congrats to our goaltender Carson Dorfman on his commitment to @RPI_Hockey". There hasn't been a Dorfman playing for RPI at least since I was there. Conceivably his mother played for the women's team, or one of his parents attended RPI but did not play hockey. Does anyone know?
 
DrDemento said:
Not directly RPI related but SLU shut out QU today 3-0!!!!!!! Who would have ever thought that?
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That's the same SLU that allowed RPI to score nine goals in two games.

Union was the only other team to give up as many goals against the Engineers.
 
Ralph Baer said:
FWIW, the Sioux City's tweet https://***********/Musketeerhockey/...78483699122343 states "A legacy is headed to RPI, congrats to our goaltender Carson Dorfman on his commitment to @RPI_Hockey". There hasn't been a Dorfman playing for RPI at least since I was there. Conceivably his mother played for the women's team, or one of his parents attended RPI but did not play hockey. Does anyone know?
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I don't know about an RPI legacy linkage, but Dartmouth has a forward named Braiden Dorfman. He scored two goals against us. Since they are both from Nashville it's likely they are brothers.
 
Today is 23 March 2024. There are 196 days (28 weeks) until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 5 October 2024 for the start of next season.
 
Waite21 said:
That's the same SLU that allowed RPI to score nine goals in two games.

Union was the only other team to give up as many goals against the Engineers.
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DC held a 3-1 lead over Cornell before the third period started but Cornell scored 3 goals ( and then 2 into the empty net) to win 6-3. Would have made for an unusual final if both SLU and DC had both won.
 
Ralph Baer said:
His parents' names on DC's website don't ring any bells. The father played goal for Kent State. https://dartmouthsports.com/sports/m...-dorfman/38491
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An ancient Instagram with four other Dorfmans https://www.instagram.com/p/_uY9HTM67p/. Braiden is on the left and Carson is next to him. Braiden's DC page says he has one brother, so there could still be a cousin relationship. Braiden's mother, like his father, went to Kent State https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-dorfman-28378b24/.
 
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SLU going to the final demonstrates the parity in the league and along those lines the weakness of the ECAC. Not too long ago SLU had upheaval with Morris and even a law firm came in to look at the climate of the program. No reason that shouldn't be us in the Final. I'm starting to think it's a $$$ issue for not making a change.
 
AspyDad said:
SLU going to the final demonstrates the parity in the league and along those lines the weakness of the ECAC. Not too long ago SLU had upheaval with Morris and even a law firm came in to look at the climate of the program. No reason that shouldn't be us in the Final. I'm starting to think it's a $$$ issue for not making a change.
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I had a similar thought. Just suppose we had won just one or two of the last several games and the regular season - perhaps enough to avoid QU and Cornell in the quarters. Our chances of getting to Lake Placid could have been very much enhanced. And as I recall from 1995, anything can happen up there in a single elimination tournament. We got past a highly rated Colgate team while Princeton scored an even bigger upset so we met them in the final. This year, SLU had not won many more games than we did and they are now playing for the championship and a spot int he NCAA tournament. I would think if we were in that position the conversation and the climate on this thread would be quite different.
 
DrDemento said:
I had a similar thought. Just suppose we had won just one or two of the last several games and the regular season - perhaps enough to avoid QU and Cornell in the quarters. Our chances of getting to Lake Placid could have been very much enhanced. And as I recall from 1995, anything can happen up there in a single elimination tournament. We got past a highly rated Colgate team while Princeton scored an even bigger upset so we met them in the final. This year, SLU had not won many more games than we did and they are now playing for the championship and a spot int he NCAA tournament. I would think if we were in that position the conversation and the climate on this thread would be quite different.
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totally agree.
If this team played with the same intensity in the regular season that they did in the playoffs, they worst we would have finished is the middle of the pack.
 
Today is 24 March 2024. There are 195 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 5 October 2024 for the start of next season.
 
I watched the BIG 10 championship game highlights and Nash Nienhuis, the son of 1985 Alum Kraig Nienhuis, is a senior at MSU. Kraig was one of my favorite players on the 85 team. He wasn't afraid to mix it up.
 
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Of the 16 teams invited to the NCAA tournament, RPI went 0-9 against those teams this season:
0-4 vs QU, 0-2 vs Cornell & Maine and 0-1 vs BC. Can’t say we didn’t play against anyone good…
 
RPI fan 4 life said:
Of the 16 teams invited to the NCAA tournament, RPI went 0-9 against those teams this season:
0-4 vs QU, 0-2 vs Cornell & Maine and 0-1 vs BC. Can’t say we didn’t play against anyone good…
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Wake us up when the coaching staff is relieved of their duties. Until then it’s more of the same.
 
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