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RPI Engineers '23-'24

hab said:
Trying to sort out the roster for '23-'24. Help if you can. There were 29 on the '22-'23 roster. Six left to graduate: Price; Boyce; Blitz; Dalby; Bukvic and Peterson (4 seniors are returning for a grad year: Zahirnyi, Alexander, Wagner, Rampado). Eight recruits coming in the fall: Hardy, Bailey, Rathwell, Cioffi, Skoda, Trnkova, Keating and Livingstone. That would make a roster of 31, if my math is right. I suspect it will be a bit smaller (either the odd recruit will not show up or come the following year, and perhaps the odd current player will decide not to return?). Looks promising.
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I would think it has to be current players not returning. For example, Nutescu entered the transfer portal right before the deadline
 
sezenack said:
I would think it has to be current players not returning. For example, Nutescu entered the transfer portal right before the deadline
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Don't we have 5 goalies on the list? (Rampado, Mirek, Lewis, Venne, and Keating) One or two may be gone.
 
Ralph Baer said:
Don't we have 5 goalies on the list? (Rampado, Mirek, Lewis, Venne, and Keating) One or two may be gone.
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Yeah there's no way we will have all 5. I just hope the departures aren't because of Vines cutting players before they graduate. I think that's acceptable in the first couple years in a program, but at this stage, I don't think that's right.
 
hab said:
Trying to sort out the roster for '23-'24. Help if you can. There were 29 on the '22-'23 roster. Six left to graduate: Price; Boyce; Blitz; Dalby; Bukvic and Peterson (4 seniors are returning for a grad year: Zahirnyi, Alexander, Wagner, Rampado). Eight recruits coming in the fall: Hardy, Bailey, Rathwell, Cioffi, Skoda, Trnkova, Keating and Livingstone. That would make a roster of 31, if my math is right. I suspect it will be a bit smaller (either the odd recruit will not show up or come the following year, and perhaps the odd current player will decide not to return?). Looks promising.
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Roster is now up: https://rpiathletics.com/sports/womens-ice-hockey/roster. No surprises, 31 players, including 4 goalies.
 
hab said:
Anyone see the game? I wasnt able to find a video link that worked. Seems to be an ESPN link but that probably doesnt work outside the USA?
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saw a good percentage at a local pub. We outplayed them for two periods but simply could not finish. Rampado was simply excellent but the RIT goalie was a wall also. Third period we seemed to tire out a bit. Seems to happen when coach shortens his bench and plays his top line for too many minutes. RIT finally got one late and we almost answered a few times. Pulled Rampado with 3 minutes left and got the extra attacker goal fortunately. Went into OT on the power play but could not get any real good chances. Became rather obvious that RIT still had their skating legs and we did not and personally felt that we were fortunate for the game to end in a tie once it reached that stage. Still felt we were the better team for at least 40 minutes and the 5 new players in the line up showed they belong for sure.
Tomorrow is another day and hope to see some other sin the game and some different combinations. I personally do not subscribe to ESPN+ but we have a local establishment that will allow the college hockey games to show as long as the rest of the crowd is not clamoring for football or something else on all the TVs.
 
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I caught some of it as well. Bench for sure seemed to be quite short. This seems to be a new pattern for the program. Teams like RPI, who will never have top end talent, will only win by out working the other teams. That requires high energy. A couple of years ago when the program was winning some games against good competition, 4 lines would be rolled and special teams would be mixed up. Last year started a trend of bench shorting and the program took a step backward. Only one game but tying one of the weaker teams on the schedule (and who they beat twice last year) is not a good sign and scoring goals looks to be even more challenging this year.
 
Cornholio said:
I caught some of it as well. Bench for sure seemed to be quite short. This seems to be a new pattern for the program. Teams like RPI, who will never have top end talent, will only win by out working the other teams. That requires high energy. A couple of years ago when the program was winning some games against good competition, 4 lines would be rolled and special teams would be mixed up. Last year started a trend of bench shorting and the program took a step backward. Only one game but tying one of the weaker teams on the schedule (and who they beat twice last year) is not a good sign and scoring goals looks to be even more challenging this year.
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i have seen this the past 2 years for certain. obviously you would love your top line on the ice as often as you can but against most teams you simply need to make use of all 4 lines and keep that top line fresher for the latter parts of games. I hope tomorrow we see a different set of tactics and a few substitutions to give other girls some ice time.
 
Another 1-1 tie. Deja Vu all over again. The good - Skoda will be a tremendous addition to this program. Wish we had many more like her. Rampado was her usual fantastic self. The bad - pretty much everything else. Early in the season so hopefully things will adapt and change but for much of this game girls on the ice do not seem to know where others are and way too many turnovers in all zones but especially in our own zone leaving Rampado to face numerous odd girl rushes.
 
NO panic. I know that I have a reputation for being eternally optimistic about this team....and I know that 2 early season ties vs RIT is not an impressive start. But...I do like the roster and I think that we can expect better as this team gels.
 
hab said:
NO panic. I know that I have a reputation for being eternally optimistic about this team....and I know that 2 early season ties vs RIT is not an impressive start. But...I do like the roster and I think that we can expect better as this team gels.
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From what i saw - there is talent and the new girls will work into the line up quite well. it is early in the season and the cohesiveness and team play is a bit lacking with far too many turnovers deep in our zone and just outside the blue line in center ice. Next week end presents a chance for a bit more switching and changing around both who is on the ice and what lines match up better. i hope as you do that we can see this team gel.
 
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This looked like the same team to me that I've seen my entire time following the team. Some stretches of good play but zero finishing ability and constantly getting bailed out by a stud goalie. The individual talent does seem to be improved, so I think they have a higher ceiling this year. They definitely have a lot to work on to get there.
 
The offense looks to be shoot on net from anywhere, get a tip or rebound. Very little puck movement. The one goal in the 2nd game is I think the only time I've seen 2 passes connect and tap in back door. The team has good size and speed and some hard shots but not a lot of puck skill. Will make scoring in the ECAC very difficult
 
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