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RPI 2026-27: Houston Field House, We Have Lift-off!

Wicked Slappaahs said:
Yes, that is a safe assumption. He was measured in his responses at the golf outing, but clearly he was irked by the timetable. A member of the women's team told me that the project was originally slated to be completed in time for their August return.
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My guess is that Coach Lang`s mood went sour with the late bail outs and the field house situation isn't helping to improve it..
 
Engineers said:
Seriously! I think like Sez said we will score more but it’s still a work in progress for coach lang. If we can win around 15/16 games with lots of grow for the future I’ll be happy. I really hope they have the hurricanes looking uniforms. Is it me or does it seem like they are taking forever to update the rosters for men’s/women's hockey? Like on the main page? Seems very late
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Part of me thinks that they're waiting until they can do the on-ice photo at the Field House (which miiiight take a while based on what I'm reading)
 
Wicked Slappaahs said:
Yes, that is a safe assumption. He was measured in his responses at the golf outing, but clearly he was irked by the timetable. A member of the women's team told me that the project was originally slated to be completed in time for their August return.
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That's why the failure to have the boards in place doesn't make sense. We've all seen project schedules slip, and renovating an old building like HFH provides all sorts of opportunities discover new problems as you go along, but one would have expected to see the boards piled up in the FH parking lot for a month or more. Any company that makes boards and glass must plan for a massive percentage of their business in the summer as the window between seasons is the time for renovations or bringing a new facility online. By mid-September I'd expect their manufacturing and distribution facilities to be as deserted as Paris in August.
 
Wicked Slappaahs said:
Stopped by HFH this afternoon. No ice signs of boards, glass or ice.... ha ha. Nothing stockpiled in the parking lot that would indicate a shipment of boards and glass. I suppose the good news is the concrete will be well cured if and whenever they get around to making ice....ha ha
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No idea why they did not wheel out their "overabundance of caution" bit (remember that) again for this possibility. Assuming that at least one of the first two weekends are part of a home and home arrangement, all they had to do was go to one or both of the first two opponents this season and have one or both come here next year. How hard would that have been???

Instead should the building not be ready on time, now they would have to process credit card credits or run a string of refund checks and mail them. That is unless they have the gall to expect you to travel to a different building and/or go to an undesirable at night neighborhood instead of the building and neighborhood you paid to attend.

These days I would settle for something a whole lot smaller that I have always liked doing after attending home football games. That is scanning through the RPI TV reply to get to the scoring plays which come with the calls of the plays by what have historically usually been very good broadcasters despite not making their living as broadcasters. In the past the replays have usually been up by about halftime of the 3:30 P.M. major college TV games. Last Saturday's is still not up five days out and it probably never will be.
 
In honor of Matthew Buckley, today is 11 September 2026. There are 21 days (3 weeks) until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 2 October 2026 for the start of next season.
 
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I heard there is someone taking the spot vacated by Evaschesen so maybe that’s the delay? Rumour is it’s someone who was on the team last season but wasn’t going to be back this season but was still enrolled at RPI.
 
RPEyeofthetiger said:
I heard there is someone taking the spot vacated by Evaschesen so maybe that’s the delay? Rumour is it’s someone who was on the team last season but wasn’t going to be back this season but was still enrolled at RPI.
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If that’s the case my bet is on Jovanovic. He’s obviously not a 1:1 replacement for Evaschesen, but he was on the team last year and reportedly had another surgery so he probably wasn’t in a position to transfer and get the ice time Coach Lang hinted that he needed. We carried 10 D last year so perhaps we will do so again. Coach said at one point he even skated 1st pairing in practice so some talent must still be there. If the opening exists and he’s recovered from his latest procedure, why not take another shot?
 
rpi82 said:
If that’s the case my bet is on Jovanovic. He’s obviously not a 1:1 replacement for Evaschesen, but he was on the team last year and reportedly had another surgery so he probably wasn’t in a position to transfer and get the ice time Coach Lang hinted that he needed. We carried 10 D last year so perhaps we will do so again. Coach said at one point he even skated 1st pairing in practice so some talent must still be there. If the opening exists and he’s recovered from his latest procedure, why not take another shot?
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I honestly would have preferred to keep Jovanovic over taking Slezak
 
rpi82 said:
That's why the failure to have the boards in place doesn't make sense. We've all seen project schedules slip, and renovating an old building like HFH provides all sorts of opportunities discover new problems as you go along, but one would have expected to see the boards piled up in the FH parking lot for a month or more. Any company that makes boards and glass must plan for a massive percentage of their business in the summer as the window between seasons is the time for renovations or bringing a new facility online. By mid-September I'd expect their manufacturing and distribution facilities to be as deserted as Paris in August.
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From what I've been able to gather, they let several months slip by without beginning the work. They've should've have had contracts in place and work commencing as soon as the season ended. Even if you had a commencement date that coincided with the frozen four schedule, that's early April. i don't think they even began work until what, June ? Not having boards and glass here on site is certainly not acceptable -- I can only assume we were late placing the order, as we were late beginning the work....
 
sezenack said:
It also could be Matta. He could have a redshirt from missing a lot of his first year at WMU due to injuries
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That might make more sense for the delay in the roster...if they need the NCAA clearinghouse sign-off. RB or someone might be able to tell us if either or both Matta and Jovanovic are in the RPI student portal
 
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Wicked Slappaahs said:
That might make more sense for the delay in the roster...if they need the NCAA clearinghouse sign-off. RB or someone might be able to tell us if either or both Matta and Jovanovic are in the RPI student portal
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I haven't been able to access the student portal for quite a few years. Sezenack can't anymore either.
 
Wicked Slappaahs said:
From what I've been able to gather, they let several months slip by without beginning the work. They've should've have had contracts in place and work commencing as soon as the season ended. Even if you had a commencement date that coincided with the frozen four schedule, that's early April. i don't think they even began work until what, June ? Not having boards and glass here on site is certainly not acceptable -- I can only assume we were late placing the order, as we were late beginning the work....
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The first video was posted June 4 and showed they'd done all the demolition work and removed the old system and floor. So they didn't start in June, but I wouldn't think that was two plus months of work either. Somebody should be answering some very pointed questions.
 
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