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RPI Engineers '15-'16

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Katerina Seper signing NLI last week (bottom right)

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Another no-point weekend, but this one is a bit more acceptable. We're still below the playoff line, and now in 10th, but we're only 0.11 pts behind Cornell in 8th place. This should be a fun season.

RPI KRACH (RRWP): 66.31 (.4251)

MCTs (Mean/Median/Mode/Range):
Points - 18.99 / 19 / 19 / 6 - 34
Rank - 8.42 / 9 / 9 / 1 - 12
Playoffs - 45.5%
Most likely opponent - at Quinnipiac (15.5%)

Conference rankings:
  1. Quinnipiac
  2. Harvard
  3. Clarkson
  4. SLU
    —————
  5. Dartmouth
  6. Princeton
  7. Colgate
  8. Cornell
    —————
    —————
  9. Yale
  10. RPI
  11. Brown
  12. Union
 
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lugnut92 said:
Another no-point weekend, but this one is a bit more acceptable. We're still below the playoff line, and now in 10th, but we're only 0.11 pts behind Cornell in 8th place. This should be a fun season.

RPI KRACH (RRWP): 66.31 (.4251)

MCTs (Mean/Median/Mode/Range):
Points - 18.99 / 19 / 19 / 6 - 34
Rank - 8.42 / 9 / 9 / 1 - 12
Playoffs - 45.5%
Most likely opponent - at Quinnipiac (15.5%)

Conference rankings:
  1. Quinnipiac
  2. Harvard
  3. Clarkson
  4. SLU
    —————
  5. Dartmouth
  6. Princeton
  7. Colgate
  8. Cornell
    —————
    —————
  9. Yale
  10. RPI
  11. Brown
  12. Union
  13. 12
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Losing a mid-season exhibition to McGill isn't a great thing for morale..... not sure what the point of this game was 12 games into the season. Looks just like a chance for un-necessary injury to me.
 
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HockeyEast33 said:
Losing a mid-season exhibition to McGill isn't a great thing for morale.
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I've never heard of any team caring too much after the fact about any exhibition loss. I've watched the Gophers endure a few double-digit losses to Team USA in the midst of championship seasons. The point of any exhibition is to work on some things without it costing you as it would in a game, such as giving playing time to backup goaltenders who could use it.
 
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I've never heard of any team caring too much after the fact about any exhibition loss. I've watched the Gophers endure a few double-digit losses to Team USA in the midst of championship seasons. The point of any exhibition is to work on some things without it costing you as it would in a game, such as giving playing time to backup goaltenders who could use it.
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I would take a guess and say that McGill don't see it that way. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain playing division 1 teams. A win is big for them and will have a positive impact on their team.
 
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Puckdrop14 said:
I would take a guess and say that McGill don't see it that way. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain playing division 1 teams. A win is big for them and will have a positive impact on their team.
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Still doesn't change the fact that the game meant nothing for RPI.
 
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We might not be losing in ECAC games, but our KRACH is falling, which is unhelpful. We're projected to end up around 4 points behind Cornell in 8th, so we'll have our work cut out for us now. Let's win some games. Yale and Brown at home needs to be a four point weekend.

RPI KRACH (RRWP): 49.41 (.3743)

MCTs (Mean/Median/Mode/Range):
Points - 17.59 / 18 / 17 / 5 - 32
Rank - 9.04 / 9 / 10 / 1 - 12
Playoffs - 25.8%
Most likely opponent - at Quinnipiac (10.4%)

Conference rankings:
  1. Quinnipiac
  2. Harvard
  3. Clarkson
  4. SLU
    —————
  5. Dartmouth
  6. Princeton
  7. Colgate
  8. Cornell
    —————
    —————
  9. Yale
  10. RPI
  11. Union
  12. Brown
 
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HockeyEast33 said:
I bet the girls care also.... so back to my original post ..."Losing a mid-season exhibition to McGill isn't a great thing for morale..... "
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Seems to be a real effort to change attitude and culture in the locker room. Win or lose. This takes time unless you are winning
 
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giwan said:
Seems to be a real effort to change attitude and culture in the locker room. Win or lose. This takes time unless you are winning
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Interesting. I'd be interested in hearing opinions about this question - when a coach has been at a program for a long time how hard is it to change the existing culture for a new and more positive one? I would think it would be pretty hard to do compared to a new coach coming in with their "new" ideas and attitudes about the game, what the word team means, and so on.
 
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giwan said:
Seems to be a real effort to change attitude and culture in the locker room. Win or lose. This takes time unless you are winning
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I'd be curious what makes you think there is a real effort to change attitude and culture in the locker room? Product on ice doesn't look any different than years past - start out with a lot of promise, girls work hard, but no improvement as other teams do improve so actually go backwards. Have seen it for years now, best year for the player is their freshman year.

Also, have to agree with Wednesday's Women writers - one person scoring is not a team!! Would also add, you have to score (by more than one person) not just keep the other team from scoring which seems to be the mentality. 2/3 of the coaching is now from the back end (goalies) so offense is not their strong suit so much as defense and keeping the puck out of the net. Can't win if you don't score.
 
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hkypassion said:
I'd be curious what makes you think there is a real effort to change attitude and culture in the locker room? Product on ice doesn't look any different than years past - .
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Don't know how anyone who has watched this team on the ice this year or listened to the players talking about the difference between this year and last could make this statement. But...you have been on this hobby horse for awhile and I don't expect to see much change. If the team ends up with a better conference record than last year will you then admit that something has changed and the team is going in a positive direction?
 
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hkypassion said:
I'd be curious what makes you think there is a real effort to change attitude and culture in the locker room? Product on ice doesn't look any different than years past - start out with a lot of promise, girls work hard, but no improvement as other teams do improve so actually go backwards. Have seen it for years now, best year for the player is their freshman year.

Also, have to agree with Wednesday's Women writers - one person scoring is not a team!! Would also add, you have to score (by more than one person) not just keep the other team from scoring which seems to be the mentality. 2/3 of the coaching is now from the back end (goalies) so offense is not their strong suit so much as defense and keeping the puck out of the net. Can't win if you don't score.
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Based on some player interviews, and both specific and general discussions with coaches. Again I previously stated that it is harder to change culture when losing vs winning. It can still be changed just more difficult. Still stand by my comments
 
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Well....that was certainly a wake-up call! I didn't see the game against Yale today (I don't miss many games) but looking at the score and the SOGs I think that it is safe to say that RPI got embarrassed by a team that we may be battling with for a playoff birth. I'll watch them against Brown tomorrow and hope that I see something that restores my confidence.
 
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Well, it needed to be a four point weekend. A two point weekend is acceptable, I guess. But not actually. We're 4.5 points out of the money now and losing to teams between us and 8th is something that cannot happen if we want to extend the season. What's worse is that Yale embarrassed us. KRACH only sees the L, but it feels like we deserved worse than even that. We have about a month off to rest and figure our **** out, then a warm-up weekend against a decent Mercyhurst team before we face two top players in the conference in Quinnipiac and Princeton (a pair where we'd be lucky to earn a point).

RPI KRACH (RRWP): 45.0 (.3602)

MCTs (Mean/Median/Mode/Range):
Points - 16.67 / 17 / 16-17 / 7 - 31
Rank - 9.59 / 10 / 10 / 2 - 12
Playoffs - 9.5%
Most likely opponent - at Quinnipiac (6.0%)

Conference rankings:
  1. Quinnipiac
  2. Clarkson
  3. Princeton
  4. Colgate
    —————
  5. Harvard
  6. Cornell
  7. SLU
  8. Dartmouth
    —————
    —————
  9. Yale
  10. RPI
  11. Brown
  12. Union
 
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lugnut92 said:
Well, it needed to be a four point weekend. A two point weekend is acceptable, I guess. But not actually. We're 4.5 points out of the money now and losing to teams between us and 8th is something that cannot happen if we want to extend the season. What's worse is that Yale embarrassed us. KRACH only sees the L, but it feels like we deserved worse than even that. We have about a month off to rest and figure our **** out, then a warm-up weekend against a terrible Mercyhurst team before we face two top players in the conference in Quinnipiac and Princeton (a pair where we'd be lucky to earn a point).
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"Terrible Mercyhurst team" :confused:
 
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