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RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

The guy running the CHL to NCAA thread has done an excellent job tracking games and gathering info. One of his latest posts:

"...Oshawa is unique in that none of their 3 overage players have committed to NCAA. Along with LW Luke Torrance, there is D Luca D'Amato and G Jacob Oster. Oster was last year's OHL Goaltender of the Year and had a solid season. they could be among the guys wanting to finish their season before announcing or just not planning on going NCAA."

Seems like a kid like Oster would be a great RPI pickup .....if he had interest and aptitude to go the NCAA route.

Jacob Oster Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

Statistics of Jacob Oster, a hockey player from Ottawa, ONT born Mar 26 2004 who was active from 2019 to 2025.
www.hockeydb.com
 
Wicked Slappaahs said:
The guy running the CHL to NCAA thread has done an excellent job tracking games and gathering info. One of his latest posts:

"...Oshawa is unique in that none of their 3 overage players have committed to NCAA. Along with LW Luke Torrance, there is D Luca D'Amato and G Jacob Oster. Oster was last year's OHL Goaltender of the Year and had a solid season. they could be among the guys wanting to finish their season before announcing or just not planning on going NCAA."

Seems like a kid like Oster would be a great RPI pickup .....if he had interest and aptitude to go the NCAA route.

Jacob Oster Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

Statistics of Jacob Oster, a hockey player from Ottawa, ONT born Mar 26 2004 who was active from 2019 to 2025.
www.hockeydb.com
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Oster is good if they want to bring in two freshmen to compete, but would be a bit risky. Torrance would shore up our forward group as an option in the top 6
 
sezenack said:
Oster is good if they want to bring in two freshmen to compete, but would be a bit risky. Torrance would shore up our forward group as an option in the top 6
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Idk both goalies are OHL veterans with tons of games under their belt. I wouldn’t be too concerned. Oster and krawchuk pairing would be legit. Helluva lot better than the crap we had in recent years. Smith couldn’t recruit a goalie if his life depended on it.
 
Engineers said:
Idk both goalies are OHL veterans with tons of games under their belt. I wouldn’t be too concerned. Oster and krawchuk pairing would be legit. Helluva lot better than the crap we had in recent years. Smith couldn’t recruit a goalie if his life depended on it.
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I hope that's not true because Smith recruited Krawchuk and right now he's the best we have lined up. If Coach Lang thinks Krawchuk isn't the guy (or he no longer wants to enroll) then I certainly hope they've lined up an alternative #1 from somewhere in juniors or overseas because the best we could get from what's left in the portal is a rotational goalie. If he does think Krawchuk could be the guy then adding in a veteran rotational goalie for a year or so might be appropriate while going after someone to compete with Krawchuk in upcoming classes.
 
Engineers said:
Idk both goalies are OHL veterans with tons of games under their belt. I wouldn’t be too concerned. Oster and krawchuk pairing would be legit. Helluva lot better than the crap we had in recent years. Smith couldn’t recruit a goalie if his life depended on it.
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I put our recent goaltending woes squarely on the back of our horrific play in the D zone. Never have I seen a program fail to defend the back side pass more than recent RPI teams. Mathias Laing knows goaltending and knows how to coach it. But if you have a track meet occurring in front of your keeper on a nightly basis, it doesn't matter who you have in net. Also, I'm not sure what happened with Watson, either he was hurt and weren't made aware of it or he was on the outs with Smith. The guy didn't even get mop up time in the games we allowed 5, 6 , 7 goals against.

To further my point, Geisbrecht was tied for first in games played (21), 3rd in minutes played, and made 630 saves ---103 more saves than the next goalie on the list (Takacs from Colgate with 570).
 
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Wicked Slappaahs said:
I put our recent goaltending woes squarely on the back of our horrific play in the D zone. Never have I seen a program fail to defend the back side pass more than recent RPI teams. Mathias Laing knows goaltending and knows how to coach it. But if you have a track meet occurring in front of your keeper on a nightly basis, it doesn't matter who you have in net. Also, I'm not sure what happened with Watson, either he was hurt and weren't made aware of it or he was on the outs with Smith. The guy didn't even get mop up time in the games we allowed 5, 6 , 7 goals against.

To further my point, Geisbrecht was tied for first in games played (21), 3rd in minutes played, and made 630 saves ---103 more saves than the next goalie on the list (Takacs from Colgate with 570).
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630 - 570 = 103. :confused:

(Takacs was actually 527.)
 
Funny that the goalie discussion is coming up today as I believe we have gotten a commitment out of the portal. I am currently working on confirmation before I report it on the blog/twitter
 
Wicked Slappaahs said:
I put our recent goaltending woes squarely on the back of our horrific play in the D zone. Never have I seen a program fail to defend the back side pass more than recent RPI teams. Mathias Laing knows goaltending and knows how to coach it. But if you have a track meet occurring in front of your keeper on a nightly basis, it doesn't matter who you have in net. Also, I'm not sure what happened with Watson, either he was hurt and weren't made aware of it or he was on the outs with Smith. The guy didn't even get mop up time in the games we allowed 5, 6 , 7 goals against.

To further my point, Geisbrecht was tied for first in games played (21), 3rd in minutes played, and made 630 saves ---103 more saves than the next goalie on the list (Takacs from Colgate with 570).
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Agree totally. You give us 2 pairs of top tier solid defense men and we could put Ralph in as our goalie and do very well! On second thought, maybe we would need 3 pairs in front of Ralph. On third thought, scratch Ralph.:) We could have almost anyone in at goalie at do very well.
 
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