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RPI Hockey 2012-2013 Part IV: Not A Finished Product Yet

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GRussinko said:
Nice RPI reference by Dave Strader during the Rangers/Caps game on NBC sports, apparently the '85 championship game was the first game he ever called on TV.
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I heard this and thought it odd; I assumed he meant radio (maybe Providence radio?). The game was on ESPN, of course, and the crew was Tom Mees and Lou Nanne. I don't believe there was a second TV outlet covering the FF back then.
 
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Dr. Robert said:
I heard this and thought it odd; I assumed he meant radio (maybe Providence radio?). The game was on ESPN, of course, and the crew was Tom Mees and Lou Nanne. I don't believe there was a second TV outlet covering the FF back then.
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Thanks. I was sure that it was Mees and Nanne also but was too lazy to dig up my DVD to check. I suspect, however, that Strader was on a local Detroit station, not Providence, since his Wikipedia says that the Red Wings brought him up from broadcasting their minor league team. I didn't bother to check if the station names were for a Detroit station.
 
Ralph Baer said:
Thanks. I was sure that it was Mees and Nanne also but was too lazy to dig up my DVD to check. I suspect, however, that Strader was on a local Detroit station, not Providence, since his Wikipedia says that the Red Wings brought him up from broadcasting their minor league team. I didn't bother to check if the station names were for a Detroit station.
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I just looked up his Wikipedia file and it says that he worked for WKBD (a local Detroit station) and PASS Sports broadcasting Detroit Red Wings games in 1985. There was no mention of doing the '85 Championship Game on ESPN or any other local station. Interesting that he would have mentioned it..
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Thanks. I was sure that it was Mees and Nanne also but was too lazy to dig up my DVD to check. I suspect, however, that Strader was on a local Detroit station, not Providence, since his Wikipedia says that the Red Wings brought him up from broadcasting their minor league team. I didn't bother to check if the station names were for a Detroit station.
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Aha! Didn't think to check Wikipedia. The Detroit angle makes sense even though it would still be interesting - though not outside the realm of possibility - that a local radio station thought to carry the games.
 
Dr. Robert said:
Aha! Didn't think to check Wikipedia. The Detroit angle makes sense even though it would still be interesting - though not outside the realm of possibility - that a local radio station thought to carry the games.
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I believe wrgbTV in Schenectady may have picked up the feed and used their own announcers. I seem to remember their sports guy at the time, Ed O'Brien doing it. Strader may have done it with him?

By the way, I think Strader is the best NHL announcer in America.
 
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AspyDad said:
You know that's how teams lose. You don't want to call any guys out individually as a Coach. You guys are the best. SA puts a run together and you still criticize. The undercurrent was for awhile on the thread was let's get rid of Seth and now you can't give the guy any credit. Who whould you hire, Ben Barr, Nolan Graham. Knock it off.
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Players win, coaches lose.
 
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rsfs04 said:
We picked up 33 points in the new poll, up to 34. First team outside the rankings.

http://www.uscho.com/rankings/d-i-mens-poll/
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There may be some very valid reasons for it but i find it a bit difficult to figure out why we are just not one notch higher and in the top 20. There are some pretty odd votes for teams behind us that could stand some explanation. But this poll has been rather odd for years.
 
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DrDemento said:
There may be some very valid reasons for it but i find it a bit difficult to figure out why we are just not one notch higher and in the top 20. There are some pretty odd votes for teams behind us that could stand some explanation. But this poll has been rather odd for years.
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There is a lot of inertia in the voting.
 
Ralph Baer said:
There is a lot of inertia in the voting.
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Gee?? You think?? Look at Yale for example. They have lost 4 straight and have only fallen from 10th to 13th in the polls while 8 straight league wins and 8-1 in the last nine still leaves us behind Yale, Dartmouth and Union.
 
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Man, I hope the voters get their act together before the end of the season, otherwise we won't have a chance at making the tournament! </sarcasm>
 
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RPI fan 4 life said:
Gee?? You think?? Look at Yale for example. They have lost 4 straight and have only fallen from 10th to 13th in the polls while 8 straight league wins and 8-1 in the last nine still leaves us behind Yale, Dartmouth and Union.
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This has been the situation with these voters for as long as I can remember. I suspect, but of course cannot prove, that the loyalty of some of those who vote is so strongly entrenched that they will vote for them regardless of recent results. Obvioulsy sitting in second place in the ECAC and winning the last 8 league games should have moved us a bit more than it has. We do not deseerve to be placed very much higher-we dug that hole earlier.
 
DrDemento said:
Obviously sitting in second place in the ECAC and winning the last 8 league games should have moved us a bit more than it has. We do not deseerve to be placed very much higher-we dug that hole earlier.
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Totally 100% true. It's still a bit frustrating. But the other way to look at it is that it should give them that much more desire to continue the way they're playing and good things will eventually happen.
 
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DrDemento said:
This has been the situation with these voters for as long as I can remember. I suspect, but of course cannot prove, that the loyalty of some of those who vote is so strongly entrenched that they will vote for them regardless of recent results. Obvioulsy sitting in second place in the ECAC and winning the last 8 league games should have moved us a bit more than it has. We do not deseerve to be placed very much higher-we dug that hole earlier.
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While I do think that there may be some favoritism shown by some voters, I do think that they just tend not to move any team that much from week to week. Thus -- inertia.
 
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