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RPI 2026 Off-Season: Please Pardon Our Appearance As We Upgrade This Area

The portal opens the Monday after the NCAA title game, so nothing official until Monday 13 April.
 
I wonder who the National power is coming to Troy in October. I`m thinking if it`s an eastern team BU. If a western power is coming I have to see if I can figure out a lang connection . Western powers seldom come East to play non ranked programs.
 
sezenack said:
www.rpifieldhouse.com

Season Wrap-Up with Coach Lang

What were his thoughts on year 1 and what's next for the program?
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Thanks Sez for a great post and you 3 guys did a fantastic interview with thoughtful and important questions. I felt almost immediately last year that we made a very good move getting a good coach for this program. After this in depth interview and listening to all of what he had to offer, we did far better than that and I have great hopes for what we will be seeing at RPI!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go Red!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
My guesses for the big time program coming to Troy in October are Notre Dame or Penn State. Not as the Marquee OOC team but I would not be surprised if LIU comes to Troy this year.
 
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DavidNardolillo said:
Bob Belber is claiming 7100 people attended the Albany regionals, so 3550 per day, roughly. Albany was apparently first in attendance among the regional sites this year.

According to Wikipedia, the ECAC rinks that seat 3500 or more are Yale, Dartmouth, RPI, and Cornell. Brown, Clarkson, Harvard and Quinnipiac seat over 3,000. Everywhere else is below 3,000. Smallest is Princeton at 2,092. To be fair, some of these venues have few amenities and would really struggle if they had to entertain capacity crowds.

There are some other trade-offs besides capacity: students are on spring break and the NCAA control of seating and arena features can really dull down the atmosphere from what one experiences during the regular season.

I was at what was effectively an on-campus regional 21 years ago. It happened that Mariucci Arena was a regional site going into the season, and the University of Minnesota wound up being assigned to its home rink in the NCAA tournament (people might remember Mike Schafer complaining vociferously about this, both before and after Minnesota beat Cornell in overtime in the second round).

It was a muted atmosphere. Odd afternoon gametime, compared to 7pm faceoffs the rest of the season; no student section (students on spring break anyway); and the NCAA had moved to whitewash many elements of the home rink advantage: PA announcer and rink ops had to ditch regular season format and follow neutral scripts; every advertisement on the boards removed; home school insignias and advertisements on the ice surface removed; and some common area displays covered by NCAA branding.

Still, I think it is worth revisiting the on-campus format for a 1 year test run--but let the home team maintain its normal game formats when possible; the #1 seeds should enjoy some home rink advantages.
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I believe the NCAA would want to keep or split the gate proceeds, which the schools of course wouldn't be fans of.
 
MikeMidd said:
The portal opens the Monday after the NCAA title game, so nothing official until Monday 13 April.
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The portal is open now for the exception categories (graduates, scholarship pulled, coach left, etc.). Most of the Mercyhurst roster is in there. I think the Humphreys commit to Minnesota is technically a portal transaction.
 
DavidNardolillo said:
The portal is open now for the exception categories (graduates, scholarship pulled, coach left, etc.). Most of the Mercyhurst roster is in there. I think the Humphreys commit to Minnesota is technically a portal transaction.
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The Humphrey transaction was in march of 2025
 
Today is 3 April 2026. There are 184 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 4 October 2026 for the start of next season.
 
Today is 4 April 2026. There are 183 days (6 months) until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 4 October 2026 for the start of next season.
 
Today is 5 April 2026. There are 182 days (26 weeks) until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 4 October 2026 for the start of next season.
 
Today is 6 April 2026. There are 181 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 4 October 2026 for the start of next season.
 
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