RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

[MikeMidd]

Very glad to see the full transition from Rensselaer to RPI - historic name of the Institute, differentiates from county and city, etc.

The visual brand is unexciting in isolation, but the images throughout the brand site that use it in context work pretty well. When put together with other elements, it does feel technical and scientific, and there's a bit of a retro vibe that is quite interesting.

The brand site indicates that sports and "spirit" applications will still use the RPI diagonal format. I think that's a real positive. Though they're also still using the "Rensselaer" and "Engineers" blocky, italicized font, which now feels out of place and a bit out of date.

In the end, people get excited and angry about these things, and bar major catastrophes like the Gap rebrand, tend to then just move on with life.

 

[rpi82]

Now if they could add the new coach's name to the website and perhaps add a new roster.....we'll be all set. I will be interested to see if RPI's sweaters this season incorporate the new logo. Given the lead time on those orders, they'd have needed to supply that artwork to the manufacturer months ago....

I hope not.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Today is 14 August 2025. There are 52 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 5 October 2025 for the start of next season.

 

[rpi82]

Listening to The Field House interview with Coach Lang. I believe he mentioned there are 22 new players. Even Ralph hasn’t identified that many. RB, you have some work to do.

I’ve got to take a break for a business call, but I’m looking forward to the rest. Great job guys!

Interview with Coach Lang

We sat down with new head coach Eric Lang to talk about this upcoming season and his vision for the program in general.

www.rpifieldhouse.com

 

[DrDemento]

Listening to The Field House interview with Coach Lang. I believe he mentioned there are 22 new players. Even Ralph hasn’t identified that many. RB, you have some work to do.

I’ve got to take a break for a business call, but I’m looking forward to the rest. Great job guys!

Back in mid July I had posted that i was given a list that showed us as having 16 freshmen coming. Ralph corrected me quickly and posted he had only 8 showing. Perhaps the list i had seen included some of the new players (not all of whom were freshmen). In any case, sure looks like an incredible turnover from last year. Makes it very difficult to make any sort of predictions about what we have and what we will see on the ice this coming season. Very excited about getting this season started! Go Red!!

 

[Wicked Slappaahs]

Very glad to see the full transition from Rensselaer to RPI - historic name of the Institute, differentiates from county and city, etc.

The visual brand is unexciting in isolation, but the images throughout the brand site that use it in context work pretty well. When put together with other elements, it does feel technical and scientific, and there's a bit of a retro vibe that is quite interesting.

The brand site indicates that sports and "spirit" applications will still use the RPI diagonal format. I think that's a real positive. Though they're also still using the "Rensselaer" and "Engineers" blocky, italicized font, which now feels out of place and a bit out of date.

In the end, people get excited and angry about these things, and bar major catastrophes like the Gap rebrand, tend to then just move on with life.

I agree, this is largely irrelevant to RPI hockey. Just leave Puckman, and the Engineers moniker the hell alone and the rest is fluff,

 

[JBGoode441]

According to the interview, coach Karlis moving to Mercyhurst.

 

[Wicked Slappaahs]

Listening to The Field House interview with Coach Lang. I believe he mentioned there are 22 new players. Even Ralph hasn’t identified that many. RB, you have some work to do.

I’ve got to take a break for a business call, but I’m looking forward to the rest. Great job guys!

Interview with Coach Lang

We sat down with new head coach Eric Lang to talk about this upcoming season and his vision for the program in general.

www.rpifieldhouse.com

Sadly, no word on whether the RPI bookstore is offering deep discounts on apparel bearing the former RPI logo....ha ha LOL

 

[Wicked Slappaahs]

Sadly, no word on whether the RPI bookstore is offering deep discounts on apparel bearing the former RPI logo....ha ha LOL

Listening to The Field House interview with Coach Lang. I believe he mentioned there are 22 new players. Even Ralph hasn’t identified that many. RB, you have some work to do.

I’ve got to take a break for a business call, but I’m looking forward to the rest. Great job guys!

Interview with Coach Lang

We sat down with new head coach Eric Lang to talk about this upcoming season and his vision for the program in general.

www.rpifieldhouse.com

Lots of great insights...including the addition of dman Matt Jovanovic ...former N. Dame commit. Toronto kid 6'2 200, who is 2 plus years off ice due to major hip injury. Now training/skating with NHLers in Toronto with Mark Giordano coaching him....who vouched for the kid in talking with Lang.

 

[Close Call]

Great interview with Coach Lang. Disappointed to hear Coach Karlis moving to Mercyhurst. And excited to here 22 new faces incoming this season.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Listening to The Field House interview with Coach Lang. I believe he mentioned there are 22 new players. Even Ralph hasn’t identified that many. RB, you have some work to do.

I’ve got to take a break for a business call, but I’m looking forward to the rest. Great job guys!

Interview with Coach Lang

We sat down with new head coach Eric Lang to talk about this upcoming season and his vision for the program in general.

www.rpifieldhouse.com

Counting Jovanovic and also Bourgault, there are 20. At the end he said there would be a total of 28 players which is in agreement.

 

[Wicked Slappaahs]

Counting Jovanovic and also Bourgault, there are 20.

Lang said in the interview that (paraphrasing) " we have 28 stalls in the locker room and we're going to fill them all..."

 

[Ralph Baer]

Lang said in the interview that (paraphrasing) " we have 28 stalls in the locker room and we're going to fill them all..."

I edited my message without seeing this.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Hearing about Jovanovic's injury history, I hope that he isn't the second coming of Kurt Wiesel, the brother of Clarkson's Adam Wiesel.

 

[Wicked Slappaahs]

I edited my message without seeing this.

Hearing about Jovanovic's injury history, I hope that he isn't the second coming of Kurt Wiesel, the brother of Clarkson's Adam Wiesel.

Certainly no guarantees, and Lang was cautious in his expectations at least for this year. But the upside is there if the hip holds up.... The D will take its lumps this year no doubt, so having Jovanovic on board isn't much of a risk in my view.

 

[Ralph Baer]

I wonder if the women will go after Matthew Jovanovic's sister, Sophie, a 5'11", 16-year-old goalie. https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/987231/sophie-jovanovic

1.71 GAA on the Toronto Marlboro's 16U boy's team. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdoncWmcTIM

4.25 *'s at Neutral Zone.

 

[sezenack]

Roster is posted https://x.com/RPI_Hockey/status/1956066009477210345

 

[sezenack]

Jersey number predictions

Kyrkostas 19
Hilditch 22
Lemieux 5
Krawchuk 30
Klassek 88
Lindberg 28
Wallace 26
Bono 9
Sobieski 7
Wilson 27
Gordon 15
Russell 8
VanDamme 17
Sitar 29
Bruveris 33
Scherzer 16
Buckley 91
Henneberry 90
Gorton 24
Elias 12

Looks like I went 6/18. (Did not predict Jovanovic)
Honestly, not terrible given the number of new players LOL

 

[sezenack]

Sidenote: love that Hilditch is wearing the same number as his dad!

 

[rpi82]

Counting Jovanovic and also Bourgault, there are 20.

Roster is posted https://x.com/RPI_Hockey/status/1956066009477210345

Yup. Looks like 20 new players. I presume that the 22 new Engineers Lang cited includes the two new coaches. I like the way this man thinks.