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RPI Hockey 2012-2013 Part II: You Better Starting Posting the Engineer Way

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FlagDUDE08 said:
Didn't they recently construct additional pylons?

I heard that for their goalie, they just stuck a reaver in front of the net. :D
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No, they use a dark templar. You think it's a wide open goal, but the puck never goes in.
 
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Its now official -- this thread is wheels up in the ditch. And Officer Baer is nowhere to be found. :D
 
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burgie12 said:
No, they use a dark templar. You think it's a wide open goal, but the puck never goes in.
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Adun Toridas!

Of course who knows, maybe for home games, they sneak an arbiter into the scoreboard above centre ice. ;)

Either that, or above the goal, so they can recall the puck into the net. :p
 
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Wicked Slappaahs said:
Its now official -- this thread is wheels up in the ditch. And Officer Baer is nowhere to be found. :D
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Hey now, it's appropriate to use Protoss jokes to describe the "opponents". After all, we used to be the [Zerg] swarm, yes?
 
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Ralph Baer said:
I suspect exactly one, and probably it's the next one. :)
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We were right. http://www.withoutapeer.com/2012/12/what-if-another-day-at-office.html

BTW Tom, I noticed that there seems to be an issue with the preview of your Twitter feed on the page; it shows "There was an error in this gadget". I'm not sure if you've already noticed this, or if anyone had brought it to your attention...
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
BTW Tom, I noticed that there seems to be an issue with the preview of your Twitter feed on the page; it shows "There was an error in this gadget". I'm not sure if you've already noticed this, or if anyone had brought it to your attention...
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So it isn't just an IE problem? :)
 
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I have really enjoyed the WHAT IF columns in WAP. I have two suggestions for possible WHAT IF articles.

What if Ralph Baer never used his real name when he logged onto USCHO that fateful first day?

What if FDude had gone to Clarkson?
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
We were right. http://www.withoutapeer.com/2012/12/what-if-another-day-at-office.html
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Great article. I want to add a couple of things that weren't mentioned.

The 7-0 victory over BU was accomplished with Barry Sherwood, a center, playing goal for RPI. Due to academic problems, RPI had only one goalie on the roster, Tom Nichol. Nichol had been suspended (by Kearns I think) for punching in the handshake line a Middlebury player who had taken liberties in the crease. I don't think that I have ever seen an RPI team play better defense for 60 minutes.

There was the feeling on the RPI campus that RPI deserved the number 4 seed and thus the home field advantage over BU in the playoffs. However, RPI had a signifantly inferior team to the one that had beaten BU earlier. Academics had taken its toll on Barry Law and Barry Sherwood. I think that we also were without some players due to injury, but the roster in the program doesn't show it. BU still played home games at the Boston Arena (now only used by NU). There is an interesting article in the program about BU's Walter Brown Arena, then under construction. They don't build them to last there. :p BTW, that was the only away game that I attended while at RPI. (I attended two neutral-site games at MSG.)
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
We were right. http://www.withoutapeer.com/2012/12/what-if-another-day-at-office.html

BTW Tom, I noticed that there seems to be an issue with the preview of your Twitter feed on the page; it shows "There was an error in this gadget". I'm not sure if you've already noticed this, or if anyone had brought it to your attention...
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Thanks for the heads up. Looks like a problem with the gadget, I took it down.
 
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The Record doesn't have an article up about the game yesterday vs. Bye. Any reports? ;)
 
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AspyDad said:
What if Ralph Baer never used his real name when he logged onto USCHO that fateful first day?
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I was thinking about this again. Assuredly I would have chosen "ursaminor" which is what I use on the Clarkson board. At the time it did not dawn on me that "ursa" is the female form (ursa:ursus::alumna:alumnus). It's real hard to tell gender from a few stars, and I never studied Latin. ;) I can hear my mother saying that is what is wrong about the American school system -- they don't require 8 years of Latin for an academic HS diploma. (They don't in Germany either anymore. :D)

On the Cornell board there is a way to change one's handle, and I am now "ursusminor" there. I use that or just "ursus" everywhere else now.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
The Record doesn't have an article up about the game yesterday vs. Bye. Any reports? ;)
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They're still duking it out. There's a special rule that any games against Bye cannot end in a tie. They're in the 16th overtime. :p
 
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I was looking at the various conference standings. Besides for SHU, all of RPI's non-conference opponents currently have at least a .500 overall record and a winning conference record. If we ever get to be a TUC, our SoS should be quite good.
 
Ralph Baer said:
At least there is no shootout. :p
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I actually enjoy the shoot outs. Like the one last night between Miami (Ohio) and Ohio St. The 3rd guy from OS did not even give himself a chance after he made his first move. I could have made the save myself with the little amount of room he had left.
 
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