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RPI 2025 Off-Season: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ralph Baer said:
We have added 6 from the portal quite rapidly after hiring Lang. If I knew whom we can expected from the recruit list, we would have an idea how many more we need. I currently expect Goffredo, Ozolins, Rullers, Tinling, Dorfman, McNeil, Tapper, and Bourgault back. My best guess is that Krawchuk, Lemieux, Hilditch, Klassek. Kyrkostas, and Ziliotto from the recruits. That would mean we need another 6 to get to 26. Perhaps Muzzatti will still return. Janus is another maybe. I would think that we would like Adrian, but the past year was a waste for him. (It was for Bourgault too.)

Comments are greatly appreciated.
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We have filled two of the six spots with Russell and VanDamme if I am correct above.
 
DrDemento said:
it has been fairly obvious that we lacked size on defense for several years. I appreciate this attempt to rectify what I saw as one of our biggest problems (among several others).
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Interestingly, I recently watched that '85 championship retrospective video with Pierre Langevin and he made mention of how big the D guys on that team were. Seems like a pretty critical ingredient.
 
tanman said:
Interestingly, I recently watched that '85 championship retrospective video with Pierre Langevin and he made mention of how big the D guys on that team were. Seems like a pretty critical ingredient.
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Which is why, no matter how talented they were, Martin St. Louis and Brian Gionta did not play as defensemen. Different positions in hockey necessitate players have certain attributes. And as the old adage goes - you cannot teach size! The game has changed over the years. When I played a big D-man might be 5'10" and 185 pounds. Today, most D players are listed as 6'2" or taller and 210 or bigger, with the larger boys being a couple inches above that and 15 or more pounds of muscle heavier.
 
DrDemento said:
Which is why, no matter how talented they were, Martin St. Louis and Brian Gionta did not play as defensemen. Different positions in hockey necessitate players have certain attributes. And as the old adage goes - you cannot teach size! The game has changed over the years. When I played a big D-man might be 5'10" and 185 pounds. Today, most D players are listed as 6'2" or taller and 210 or bigger, with the larger boys being a couple inches above that and 15 or more pounds of muscle heavier.
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Lane Hutson is only 5'10" and 165 lb. :) He might be the exception which proves the rule.
 
DrDemento said:
Which is why, no matter how talented they were, Martin St. Louis and Brian Gionta did not play as defensemen. Different positions in hockey necessitate players have certain attributes. And as the old adage goes - you cannot teach size! The game has changed over the years. When I played a big D-man might be 5'10" and 185 pounds. Today, most D players are listed as 6'2" or taller and 210 or bigger, with the larger boys being a couple inches above that and 15 or more pounds of muscle heavier.
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To a certain extent...but puck movers like Makar, Gostisbehere, Spurgeon, Fox, Hutson, Quinn Hughes etc. have changed the blue line. They are catalysts for the offense from the blue line. Of course, they are normally paired with some beefy guys ...just to keep everyone honest !

I should add: Any/all of the above are on occasion, defensive liabilities in certain "confined" circumstances .. :LOL: .....to prove Doc's point ! Ha ha
 
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Wicked Slappaahs said:
To a certain extent...but puck movers like Makar, Gostisbehere, Spurgeon, Fox, Hutson, Quinn Hughes etc. have changed the blue line. They are catalysts for the offense from the blue line.
Of course, they are normally paired with some beefy guys ...just to keep everyone honest !
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All those listed by you are really top notch-but none of them are really small guys. And certainly they play bigger than they are. Of course you need guys like them on the back line but as you point out, usually for them to succeed with what they do so well, they are paired with a mastodon. Newton's third law still holds in many areas of sports and especially on the ice. What else I have seen change is the size of the goalies. The days of the shorter, squatter tenders (think Gump Worsely) are no longer around. Now when the goalies get down into the butterfly, they are still taller than many of us!!!!!!!!!
 
DrDemento said:
Which is why, no matter how talented they were, Martin St. Louis and Brian Gionta did not play as defensemen. Different positions in hockey necessitate players have certain attributes. And as the old adage goes - you cannot teach size! The game has changed over the years. When I played a big D-man might be 5'10" and 185 pounds. Today, most D players are listed as 6'2" or taller and 210 or bigger, with the larger boys being a couple inches above that and 15 or more pounds of muscle heavier.
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So what you’re saying is…when it comes to the D, size matters?

Or is it how effective the D is?
 
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