RPI 2025-2026

[sezenack]

anyone who has followed my posts here over the years will know that I have a reputation for being overly optimistic about the prospects for the Engineers. I am well beyond that now. We lost today 7-1 to Clarkson, at home, and outshot 57-10. This is no longer the competitive D1 team that it was a few years ago. We keep lowering our ambitions, and now it seems that the ambition is to avoid 12th place in the ECAC. Can we all please stop defending the status quo and start talking about how to turn things around....or...let's just go back to being a top ten D3 team.

Appreciate your thoughts. I don't think there's anything wrong with being overly optimistic. Unfortunately, it is hard to do so with the women's program now. Good thing we gave Vines a multiyear extension before the season even started for some reason

 

[sezenack]

Didn't watch the games this weekend but looks like we had an exciting comeback against Princeton to force OT before getting destroyed by Quinnipiac. Maybe they can use that comeback as a momentum boost (although given the quinnipiac game that seems unlikely)

 

[DrDemento]

Sez- We were at the Princeton game and agree with you totally. One of the most exciting come back efforts ever. The game tied by a goal scored with 0.1 seconds left (they had to review the time several times to be sure). Losing in OT was just an after event the did not dim what the girls did. Princeton is a very good team with one exceptional player in Izzy Wunder up front. We simply could not handle either her size or talent level and were indeed fortunate that she did not score more as it seemed she could get several goals.
The game against QU was just trying to play against a powerhouse team that has it all. Talent and incredible speed that comes at you in waves. They control the puck and fore check mercilessly. We were down by 3 or 4 goals within a few minutes. I must say we did get our usual horrible official call though. The major and misconduct called against Toye was for boarding. it was if anything a simple elbow thrown at least 4 feet from the boards and totally from the side (not a hit in the back). It did not look in any way worth 5 minutes and actually probably not worth even a 2 minute minor. What was more bothersome than the call was the total lack of reaction from our bench. Not a peep of protest. If this was an obvious intent to injure, or a hit from behind, or a true boarding call, I could understand it. Part of a coaches job is to protect or defend his players and I did not see that at all. Perhaps i missed it because after all it was a QU broadcast and it was their announcers talking about the play. If you get that type of submissiveness from the bench, how can you expect to keep your skaters motivated???

 

[Close Call]

Did anyone see the Woman’s game Friday night.

 

[DrDemento]

Saw a good portion of it Friday afternoon. Really a pretty physical interesting game in front of virtually no crowd considering both teams very local rivals.

 

[Close Call]

The Women’s team sweeps Robert Morris and no comments.

 

[DrDemento]

The Women’s team sweeps Robert Morris and no comments.

Sort of expected - this team has some energy and some talent. Not so sure we can expect anything like this against the two teams coming to Troy this weekend. But it will be a little physical.