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RPI Hockey 2012-2013 Part III: There Will Be Math Involved

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Beman said:
You are correct but you need to win in conference. Nice win over Cgate Kasdorf is the one. Seth lives to fight another day. Win over Cornell goes a long way. A loss is another step sideways. You gotta beat Schaff in your bldg. Tied Qpac away very good loosing to princeton ugh. A team plays with a certain confidence when they have their GUY in the net.
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The last time I checked, the ultimate goal of a hockey team isn't to win a conference. It's to win a national championship. We lost in the first round of ECAC playoffs one year, and yet were still four games from that goal.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
SA's postgame press conference http://www.rpiathletics.com/news/2013/1/18/MHOCK_0118135853.aspx.
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I'm a bit surprised-would have though SA would have been a bit more upset with some of our sloppy play on defense. Several times we just did not clear our zone with any force-just sort of waved the puck out to the blue line where Colgate set up again for a shot. Winning certainly can meelow things out. If we had lost-I suspect coach Appert would have been a little more upset with our play and the calls made by the officials.
 
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DrDemento said:
I'm a bit surprised-would have though SA would have been a bit more upset with some of our sloppy play on defense. Several times we just did not clear our zone with any force-just sort of waved the puck out to the blue line where Colgate set up again for a shot. Winning certainly can meelow things out. If we had lost-I suspect coach Appert would have been a little more upset with our play and the calls made by the officials.
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I'm sure it's something he'll see on the game tape. It's very true that at the end of the day, to quote captain Kennedy from a couple years ago, "They don't ask how, they ask how many."
 
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A win tonight would put us very close to, if not over, the TUC cliff. Not to say we're going to have as good of a chance at the playoffs as we did in 2010-11, but it would certainly change some league dynamics.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
A win tonight would put us very close to, if not over, the TUC cliff. Not to say we're going to have as good of a chance at the playoffs as we did in 2010-11, but it would certainly change some league dynamics.
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I see this as important a game as it is. We win and we not only have a 4 point weekend-we move up in the standings in the league-we get close to being considered a TUC-and most important we serve notice that we are going to be there for the rest of the season. Other than QU-everyone in this league is within reach. I think there are 11 league games left (7 at home). We do not play QU or Union again and we have played Yale and Dartmouth on the road already. Seems to me that the schedule is at least , if nothing else, a bit less rigorous on paper coming up. You just never know.;)
 
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One game at a time. Really. That works.
January now, February and March later. ;)
 
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Did anyone notice besides me that we didn't deploy the umbrella during PP? Bailen was on wing for part of it. Haggs was on the point for at least one of them that I remember.
 
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AspyDad said:
Did anyone notice besides me that we didn't deploy the umbrella during PP? Bailen was on wing for part of it. Haggs was on the point for at least one of them that I remember.
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Not exactly-we only got one power play to try out anything. We started immediately in an umbrella format but quickly moved out of it. There is no doubt SA knows how important special teams are going to be for the remainder of the season-he has certainly started to address this.
 
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AspyDad said:
Did anyone notice besides me that we didn't deploy the umbrella during PP? Bailen was on wing for part of it. Haggs was on the point for at least one of them that I remember.
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Yes. Bailen was down low & Haggs was set up for the one timer at the dot.....very good to see.
 
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Beman said:
Finally seeing a game at HFH. I soooo miss the oldest holiday hockey tournament in the land. Nice that Seth and Shirley thought it wasn’t important to continue the tradition. I’ll bet George Low wouldn’t let this happen. Wow!! we went out and played at some state school in Minny. Fabulous! Start winning some games and they will want to play in the X oldest holiday tournament in the country. I heard that Navy decided they wanted to play USC next year so they cancelled the Army Navy game.
Seth needs to win period. This team needs to win 2 games this weekend no excuses. His seven-year tenure is awful. “Our Great Coach” give me a break, not only needs to outplay teams, but he needs to win. Sorry Seth fans but if he doesn’t win, take RPI deep into the ECAC tourney, its time to say bye bye.
Fridgen’s worst years measure up pleasantly to SA’s best years. And SA has had the easing of academic standards for players. Its time to ride the big boy bus. This is your team go get em. Good Luck. Just win baby.
If you had this kind success at Wisconsin ND, ND, MSU ,Denver, CC, Michigan, NHU, BC, even Plattsburgh you would be out the door. Can anyone tell me why RPI puts up with this this BS
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Looking forward to the follow on of this one.
 
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Our fans need to SERIOUSLY learn how not to jump the gun on those taunts. Thirty to forty seconds is MORE than enough to score two goals, and I thought after they started the "Cornell Sucks" chant that we would blow it and go to OT.
 
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7th place. I believe we are better than most of the teams ahead of us. PP was spot on. Liked how Bails was moved down low, less trarffic for him to shot thru. Played well with a lead, poised and composed. Very nice weekend. Can we stop the fire SA stuff for awhile?
 
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AspyDad said:
7th place. I believe we are better than most of the teams ahead of us. PP was spot on. Liked how Bails was moved down low, less trarffic for him to shot thru. Played well with a lead, poised and composed. Very nice weekend. Can we stop the fire SA stuff for awhile?
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Aspy-can only partially agree. We are most certainly better than our record-especially the ECAC record. We have now played 4 straight good league games but only have 5 points to show for it. I am very excited about this team but just would like not to get carried away just yet. We won these two games-and it is a great feeling to come away with all 4 points. But we were outshot both nights and we certainly did not blow these teams out of the arena. Let's see how we do over the next 2-3 weeks before we start to think about how we compare to all the teams above us in the standings. And remember, we have moved up in the standings but every team below us has played fewer league games-and if they also win-only Harvard cannot catch us at the moment. Stay calm and be cool-and hope that our boys can stay that way also.
 
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DrDemento said:
Aspy-can only partially agree. We are most certainly better than our record-especially the ECAC record. We have now played 4 straight good league games but only have 5 points to show for it. I am very excited about this team but just would like not to get carried away just yet. We won these two games-and it is a great feeling to come away with all 4 points. But we were outshot both nights and we certainly did not blow these teams out of the arena. Let's see how we do over the next 2-3 weeks before we start to think about how we compare to all the teams above us in the standings. And remember, we have moved up in the standings but every team below us has played fewer league games-and if they also win-only Harvard cannot catch us at the moment. Stay calm and be cool-and hope that our boys can stay that way also.
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Doc, you know that we are not going to blow any teams out. And we may get out shot in most of our games. But the defense is keeping most of the shots to the perimeter and Kasdorf looks like the real deal.
Our break out is solid and our passing is much improved. If we can get Bailen to stop passing into the slot and Lee to stop taking offensive zone penalties, we will win a lot of games.
I make no prediction on where we will finish, but with 10 league games left, I see us winning more than half of those, and that should keep us in the middle of the pack by the playoffs.
If we continue to improve going into the playoffs, I think we will have as good a shot as anyone of winning the tournament.
Of course, we have to stay healthy and we have to keep improving. Any backslide and who knows how low we can go.
Think happy thoughts, and lets go red!!!!!!!!!!
 
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DrDemento said:
Aspy-can only partially agree. We are most certainly better than our record-especially the ECAC record. We have now played 4 straight good league games but only have 5 points to show for it. I am very excited about this team but just would like not to get carried away just yet. We won these two games-and it is a great feeling to come away with all 4 points. But we were outshot both nights and we certainly did not blow these teams out of the arena. Let's see how we do over the next 2-3 weeks before we start to think about how we compare to all the teams above us in the standings. And remember, we have moved up in the standings but every team below us has played fewer league games-and if they also win-only Harvard cannot catch us at the moment. Stay calm and be cool-and hope that our boys can stay that way also.
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I respectfully disagree. You rightly point out that special teams and especially PP is very important but more so is goaltending and I do not see too many teams with the netminder we have. I do see your wait and see attitude but this team has a run in it...call it my gut.
 
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Officiating was awful tonight...again. Feola and Baker. On a side note Keith Allain went after Chip Mcdonald after handshake of their game. Stewart is a joke.
 
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AspyDad said:
Officiating was awful tonight...again. Feola and Baker. On a side note Keith Allain went after Chip Mcdonald after handshake of their game. Stewart is a joke.
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It wasn't too bad... ...for a Cornell game.
 
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