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RPI 22-23: Objective needs to be top 6

Ralph Baer said:
https://twitter.com/_cindyjane/status/1520913105085153281

Cindy Acropolis Toye, who as DrD has stated owns most of RPI's scoring records was inducted into the NJ HS Hockey HoF. She is already in the RPI Athletics HoF and is the mother of incoming frosh Kyley Toye. (I think that I finally spelled Kyley correctly. :-) )
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Ralph-Thanks for noticing and posting. here is a bit more-
https://njhshockeyhof.com/cindy-acropolis-toye/

She joins her brother Bobby in the HOF along with perhaps the best I have seen play here in Brick , Jim Dowd. I believe she is the only female inducted.
 
hab said:
We have been satisfied for too long with very marginal improvements for this team, and then falling short of even those goals. It is time to expect that this team moves into the top half of the conference in 22-23. I will not be happy with just making the playoffs this time.
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This time?! Did they make the playoffs this year? It doesn't look like it. Maybe focus on making it into the top 8 before worrying about if they can break into the top 6. That's a tall order. They need to walk before they can run.
 
shelfit said:
This time?! Did they make the playoffs this year? It doesn't look like it. Maybe focus on making it into the top 8 before worrying about if they can break into the top 6. That's a tall order. They need to walk before they can run.
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I think that it is a good idea to make the goal slightly higher than what one can reasonably expect. Wasn't the goal last year to make the playoffs, as opposed to just winning a game or two?
 
shelfit said:
This time?! Did they make the playoffs this year? It doesn't look like it. Maybe focus on making it into the top 8 before worrying about if they can break into the top 6. That's a tall order. They need to walk before they can run.
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I am not sure I care if they can walk or run as long as they can skate!
 
DrDemento said:
I am not sure I care if they can walk or run as long as they can skate!
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I was going to include that in my post but I thought that would be too easy. Lol. Seriously though, as long as they don't have any more D3 level skaters like they had just a few short years ago, they should do much better. JB was a former collegiate goalie so he knew what to look for when recruiting goalies, but he wasn't good at assessing talent when it came to recruiting regular players. He also never impressed me as much of a bench coach.
 
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The supposed last of the new player posts was tweeted today, and Taryn Rathwell was not included. I will assume that she is arriving in 2023. That will be changed when I next post the list on the men's recruit thread next weekend.

BTW, I did not mention and perhaps should have that Sophia Beaudoin was born in 2001. It is quite rare for a women's RPI recruit to be an overager. Also NZ gave her a 3.75.
 
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So, we are in to July and looking forward to new season. Does anyone have an opinion on which, if any, of the new recruits might make a big positive impact in the coming season?
 
hab said:
So, we are in to July and looking forward to new season. Does anyone have an opinion on which, if any, of the new recruits might make a big positive impact in the coming season?
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Hab: Really hard to know what we have. Stats for all of these girls are almost impossible to find or else i am sure Ralph would have found them. I am only familiar with one young lady and I think she will be just fine once she gets used to the level of competition which is a big step up for her.
 
DrDemento said:
Hab: Really hard to know what we have. Stats for all of these girls are almost impossible to find or else i am sure Ralph would have found them. I am only familiar with one young lady and I think she will be just fine once she gets used to the level of competition which is a big step up for her.
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I know very little about them. None of them have great ratings on Neutral Zone, and I no longer get the women's evaluations from them along with the men's. I do wonder about Sabrina Beaudoin who is a couple of years older than the others.
 
Ralph Baer said:
I know very little about them. None of them have great ratings on Neutral Zone, and I no longer get the women's evaluations from them along with the men's. I do wonder about Sabrina Beaudoin who is a couple of years older than the others.
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Agree that none of the incoming players are obvious game changers for the Engineers. It looks like we will be losing 5 players: Weiss, Severson, Hicks, Capelle, and Friis Hansen, but with the Covid interruption it is hard to tell who might still have eligibility. Anyone have better info re: who is leaving from last year's team?
 
I have had some very reasonable objections to my contention that RPI needs to aim for top 6 this year. The objections all make sense: 1) it is a stretch from where we have been recently; 2) the incoming recruit class is solid but lacking a game-changing star; 3) we should focus on the process, not the result. Let me present the counter narrative: we have a solid returning contingent; we have a strong coaching staff; we have been satisfied for far too long with the objective of just making the playoffs and need to raise our sites.
 
Less than a month until the team hits the ice for an exhibition game. Has anyone seen the '22-'23 roster?
 
hab said:
Less than a month until the team hits the ice for an exhibition game. Has anyone seen the '22-'23 roster?
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Obviously has not been posted on the website yet. Football opens in 9 days and the website has not been updated with the rsoter eiter!
 
DrDemento said:
Obviously has not been posted on the website yet. Football opens in 9 days and the website has not been updated with the rsoter eiter!
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We have been asking the same about Clarkson's rosters on The Roundtable. Today the rosters were finally posted for both the men and women. Patience ;-).
 
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