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RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

Pretty challenging schedule. Probably won't be looking at too many non-conference wins. Weird that most of the Saturday games are at 4pm. They've never done that before and I don't understand why they're changing it
 
Ralph Baer said:
The entire RPI schedule is now up.

2025-26 Men's Hockey Schedule - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Athletics

The official 2025-26 Men's Hockey schedule for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Engineers
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I will hopefully remember to use 10/5 tomorrow as the next game. The BU game looks like an exhibition, but is the next game.
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I like it. My first reaction is that it's a very balanced schedule. Given that there are 34 other games on the schedule it appears you are correct about the BU game (last season's HE #3). We have 5 HE regular season games (1, 5, 7, 10 and 11), 2 CCHA games against that league's best team, 2 Atlantic Hockey games (#4 from last year). It will be challenging with a virtually all new team, but there are winnable games in there along with some tough matchups.

One oddity: the BRFO and Senior Day are the same game - versus Harvard on February 21. Has that ever happened before?

Edit: I just noticed Sezenack's post. I hadn't paid attention to the game times. I'm not a fan of afternoon starts on Saturday. What is the logic behind it? Is the theory that the noon and evening timeslots are taken by the prime football games and more people will go if it's opposite the late afternoon time slot? Note that the late season (post football) Saturday games are back to the evening. So, that may be the logic, but, if so, I'm not buying it. Strange move.
 
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sezenack said:
Pretty challenging schedule. Probably won't be looking at too many non-conference wins. Weird that most of the Saturday games are at 4pm. They've never done that before and I don't understand why they're changing it
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Perhaps, so it will be more convenient for the families of all of our European players to watch. ;)
 
Ralph Baer said:
Perhaps, so it will be more convenient for the families of all of our European players to watch. ;)
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Clever.

Now for a non-hockey note. I was just looking at our football schedule. There is a road game against Hilbert College. I've never heard of that school, but it's apparently outside Buffalo. Our schedule doesn't show it as a league game, but the Liberty League website says they are a new associate member for football only (they are shown as a league game on Union's schedule). I know the league really wanted to get back to at least 8 teams, but a quick scan of Hilbert's website shows that they are 0-25 over the last 3 seasons. A couple of years ago they played Union and lost 65-0. Last season they were 0-10 and were outscored 484-47. What possible good will come from adding them to the league?
 
Ralph Baer said:
The women's league schedule was posted as an Insta-Story. I posted it on their thread.
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sezenack said:
Pretty challenging schedule. Probably won't be looking at too many non-conference wins. Weird that most of the Saturday games are at 4pm. They've never done that before and I don't understand why they're changing it
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That’s a tough schedule. Not sure how many wins we get vs hockey East schools but I’m sure we won’t be losing by 6-8 goals like we were under smith. I don’t understand the 4pm Saturday games either? Very odd
 
rpi82 said:
Clever.

Now for a non-hockey note. I was just looking at our football schedule. There is a road game against Hilbert College. I've never heard of that school, but it's apparently outside Buffalo. Our schedule doesn't show it as a league game, but the Liberty League website says they are a new associate member for football only (they are shown as a league game on Union's schedule). I know the league really wanted to get back to at least 8 teams, but a quick scan of Hilbert's website shows that they are 0-25 over the last 3 seasons. A couple of years ago they played Union and lost 65-0. Last season they were 0-10 and were outscored 484-47. What possible good will come from adding them to the league?
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Sounds like RPI in the early 1960's. (That's Hilbert's Conjecture. ;) )
 
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That’s a tough schedule. Not sure how many wins we get vs hockey East schools but I’m sure we won’t be losing by 6-8 goals like we were under smith. I don’t understand the 4pm Saturday games either? Very odd
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Maybe so the visiting teams get back to their campus at a more reasonable hour.
 
Ralph Baer said:
That sounds good, but it doesn't explain the 11/1 home game vs. Union. :D
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It also doesn't explain why the late season Saturday home games revert to 7:00 or our Saturday road game against St. Lawrence, arguably the most difficult late night mid-winter bus trip, is at 7:00. I'm sure we'd only make such a move to help road teams if it was a standard league-wide practice the way it is for the women.
 
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fr. joe said:
Not apparent to me that a late afternoon starting time will be more convenient for fans. Will this help or hurt attendance?
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its tough i kinda like it the games are cold and at night they have been going longer almost 2 and a half hours getting home at 10 pm with kids so you never know
 
rpi82 said:
Clever.

Now for a non-hockey note. I was just looking at our football schedule. There is a road game against Hilbert College. I've never heard of that school, but it's apparently outside Buffalo. Our schedule doesn't show it as a league game, but the Liberty League website says they are a new associate member for football only (they are shown as a league game on Union's schedule). I know the league really wanted to get back to at least 8 teams, but a quick scan of Hilbert's website shows that they are 0-25 over the last 3 seasons. A couple of years ago they played Union and lost 65-0. Last season they were 0-10 and were outscored 484-47. What possible good will come from adding them to the league?
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I believe that is what's referred to as a tune-up game. LOL. Similar to when Alabama football plays against a multi-directional state school victim of the week in the early going of their fall schedule.
 
Will be curious to see if any of them change. I also spotted at least one inconsistency already: RPI v Clarkson in Troy on November 8 is listed as 4pm on our schedule but 7pm on their schedule.

Personally I don't like a 4pm start, and I would think it's less appealing to students (though maybe Saturday night fun is not about hockey!), but the combination of families, competitive entertainment environment and making Saturday travel easier might make it logical.
 
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rpi82 said:
Clever.

Now for a non-hockey note. I was just looking at our football schedule. There is a road game against Hilbert College. I've never heard of that school, but it's apparently outside Buffalo. Our schedule doesn't show it as a league game, but the Liberty League website says they are a new associate member for football only (they are shown as a league game on Union's schedule). I know the league really wanted to get back to at least 8 teams, but a quick scan of Hilbert's website shows that they are 0-25 over the last 3 seasons. A couple of years ago they played Union and lost 65-0. Last season they were 0-10 and were outscored 484-47. What possible good will come from adding them to the league?
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I believe that is what's referred to as a tune-up game. LOL. Similar to when Alabama football plays against multi-directional state school victim of the week in the early going of their schedule.
sezenack said:
Pretty challenging schedule. Probably won't be looking at too many non-conference wins. Weird that most of the Saturday games are at 4pm. They've never done that before and I don't understand why they're changing it
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I don't understand or like the 4PM start times....but we're just lowly season ticket holders, why ask us ?? Ha ha....
Perhaps its as simple as a formatting error when they were inputting the info. Perhaps not.
 
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