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

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burgie12 said:
Sorry, viz. I cheated and posted it on the women's thread. USCHO Mobile has this annoying "feature" where they unsubscribe you from whatever thread you post in on Mobile and I would've rather unsubscribed from the Women's thread than the Men's thread over the weekend. Besides, I was called by name there.

Anyways, thanks for lugnut for being on top of the ball.

Sorry to ruin the reminiscing, Doc. But, since I live ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL the way out here in Buffalo, I keep my skiing to the Western New York slopes.

I went over one of the jumps in a terrain park at Holiday Valley in beautiful Ellicotville that I wasn't quite prepared for. I guess I never learned that landing was nearly as important to ski jumps as the jump itself.

I took quite a tumble, fractured my right femur, suffered a concussion (yes, I was wearing a helmet), and had to be air-lifted to the hospital in Buffalo.

But, the doctor performed surgery to place a rod in my femur that should keep things together when I can get back in the saddle (which definitely won't be anytime in the next five weeks... no weight-bearing in the right leg until the bone has healed).

Once I figured out how to get back in front of a computer, nothing can stop me now! :p It's so much easier to type on a keyboard than a stupid smartphone.

I'll do what I can. No promises, though.

In fact, I may send my spreadsheet off to FlagDUDE. Maybe his high-powered quad-core computer can help with some of this fancy mathwork. I say quad-core because I'm pretty sure that he has four gerbils to help power the rickety old thing. Maybe he's down to three, though. That would definitely hurt the efficiency :D

Thank you sir, I appreciate it.

Clickers!? Well, as long as you don't come after me with pincers, I won't get too worried.


I'll do what I can.

I was actually considering dropping those from my updates because nobody ever commented on them. I thought people were beginning to find them useless.

The winner of the thread, though, has to go to WS. She is damn cute. :)
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You know B12 is better when he multiple quotes.
 
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Great to have you back B12 and healing. Please do not keep yourself too immobile-move around as much as possible. Fractured femur is indeed a big deal and fat emboli common after it. The more you keep mobile the less chance of that. At any sign of a breathing disturbance-do not wait and get attention fast. Hope you are feeling better quickly and back 100%. I need you on here posting for the rest of the league season and the playoffs so I can understand how we stand and who to root for and against!!
 
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burgie12 said:
In fact, I may send my spreadsheet off to FlagDUDE. Maybe his high-powered quad-core computer can help with some of this fancy mathwork. I say quad-core because I'm pretty sure that he has four gerbils to help power the rickety old thing. Maybe he's down to three, though. That would definitely hurt the efficiency :D

But, seriously, thank you to FD for picking up the slack for me in the "Mathematical Journey" thread and my apologies for stealing his thunder on the women's side. I didn't realize there was a separate thread started for that.
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I believe my computer at home is a quad-core. I'm not near it so I can't check /proc/cpuinfo at this time, but I can look later. I'm on travel, actually, so I have my old T42 tunneling in. I forgot my Live CD, though, so it's slower than dirt. I can always burn one, though.

Given all the help you've given me with the schedules thread in the off-season, this is the least I could do for you. I don't really care too much about who posts the info, or who even gets credit for posting the info. Just so long as the info is there, I'm happy.
 
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DrDemento said:
It used to be fantastic and family run. You could virtually just pull up in front and park. North Creek was where we had to travel to go to a bank, food shop, etc from Blue Mt Lake. Just a great little place. If anyone gets to the area-find some time to go up and do some garnet mining at the barton mines. You can find some incredible gemstones-and while up there-have lunch or dinner at the High Winds restaurant.
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I just checked on Google Maps, that's about 25 miles. :eek:
 
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Ralph Baer said:
I just checked on Google Maps, that's about 25 miles. :eek:
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Door to door was 31.7 miles for us as we live on the West side of BML and you have to turn off of route 28 to get into downtown North Creek for any of the services. In the winter it can take an hour in the snow. In the summer it was 30 minutes but made the trip once in a tad over 20 in the 911 (would have been faster but you have to watch it going through Indian Lake-they do not have local police but there is a State Police Barracks there and the boys just do not quite understand that with some cars it is hard to go slowly even in second gear.:eek:
 
DrDemento said:
Door to door was 31.7 miles for us as we live on the West side of BML and you have to turn off of route 28 to get into downtown North Creek for any of the services. In the winter it can take an hour in the snow. In the summer it was 30 minutes but made the trip once in a tad over 20 in the 911 (would have been faster but you have to watch it going through Indian Lake-they do not have local police but there is a State Police Barracks there and the boys just do not quite understand that with some cars it is hard to go slowly even in second gear.:eek:
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Here's a story in today's Times Union that the good doctor should find interesting:

http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Freight-trains-ply-Adirondack-line-4295379.php

Can't get it to underline so you can just click on it, guess you'll have to look at it the old fashioned way, type it in.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
FYP a
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Thanks guys-the Adirondack history is fascinating. It is definitely worth a trip to the Adirondack Museum on the lake in Blue Mountain Lake. When we first moved up there we explored as much as we could, climbed as many of the peaks, drove down roads that we never though we could get through. But a visit to the Museum give syou a chance to see and hear all about the days of the Great Camps. Vanderbilt, Durant, Rockefeller, Merriweather-Post, et al. built some incredible places and lived a lifestyle that is beyond what most of us could ever dream about. Sagamore, Eagle's Nest, the Point, just some incredible places. As I mentioned in an earlier post-just a visit to the barton Mines to do some garnet mining is a great way to spend some time.
 
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DrDemento said:
It used to be fantastic and family run. You could virtually just pull up in front and park. North Creek was where we had to travel to go to a bank, food shop, etc from Blue Mt Lake. Just a great little place. If anyone gets to the area-find some time to go up and do some garnet mining at the barton mines. You can find some incredible gemstones-and while up there-have lunch or dinner at the High Winds restaurant.
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Very true Doc...My brother had his kitchen counters quarried at Barton...beautiful granite with ruby red garnet mixed in ... great stuff!
 
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Wicked Slappaahs said:
Very true Doc...My brother had his kitchen counters quarried at Barton...beautiful granite with ruby red garnet mixed in ... great stuff!
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First time we walked into the High Winds restaurant on top of Gore-we immediately notice the stone fireplace that went from floor to ceiling-with many of the rocks made of solid garnet. We paid a small fee to do some mining up there-found lots of nice quality stones that Jenny had made into jewelry (earrings and a pendant). I had thought garnets were always that beautiful dark red color. But Jenny found one amber colored one and a fe green ones (never even knew they existed) which she took to a local jeweler down here in NJ for appraisal and found them to be the most valuable stones we got up there. Your brother's kitchen counters must be fabulous.:)
 
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With RPI holding a six point lead and a head-to-head tiebreaker over ninth-place Brown and only four games left in the regular season, it looks like a pretty safe bet that RPI will host a series on either the first or second weekend of the ECAC playoffs.

It looks like spring break will begin at the conclusion of classes on March 8 and conclude with the resumption of classes on March 18, so those home playoff games, whichever weekend they take place, will fall during spring break.

For current or previous members of the band - would the members of the band be likely to stick around a few extra days after the beginning of the break and play at a series on the first weekend if the team finishes between fifth and eighth? Would the members of the band be likely to return a few days early and play at a series on the second weekend if the team finishes between second and fourth?
 
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Waite21 said:
With RPI holding a six point lead and a head-to-head tiebreaker over ninth-place Brown and only four games left in the regular season, it looks like a pretty safe bet that RPI will host a series on either the first or second weekend of the ECAC playoffs.

It looks like spring break will begin at the conclusion of classes on March 8 and conclude with the resumption of classes on March 18, so those home playoff games, whichever weekend they take place, will fall during spring break.

For current or previous members of the band - would the members of the band be likely to stick around a few extra days after the beginning of the break and play at a series on the first weekend if the team finishes between fifth and eighth? Would the members of the band be likely to return a few days early and play at a series on the second weekend if the team finishes between second and fourth?
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I'm not a manager so this isn't official but I highly doubt there's any way we wouldn't be at men's playoffs - home or away. Spring break might lower our numbers but without some sort of outstanding circumstances keeping us away, we'll be there.
 
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RKarger said:
I'm not a manager so this isn't official but I highly doubt there's any way we wouldn't be at men's playoffs - home or away. Spring break might lower our numbers but without some sort of outstanding circumstances keeping us away, we'll be there.
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Although it is entirely the managers' call because it is your band, alumni are always willing to help. I remember playing in 08-09 during the Cornell series at Lynah (as much as we've heard about game 2, game 1 was a real goalie battle slug fest).
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Although it is entirely the managers' call because it is your band, alumni are always willing to help. I remember playing in 08-09 during the Cornell series at Lynah (as much as we've heard about game 2, game 1 was a real goalie battle slug fest).
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Of course, we know we've got a lot of alumni ready to pull on a rugby and jump into action. :) But, unlike my class year and the year after me, we actually got a large class of freshmen this year, so we haven't been nearly as tight on numbers. In the beginning of the season we managed to have a full road trip band at Harvard/Dartmouth and a band at home at football and women's hockey at the same time. Some people may not be able to get to the game thanks to pre-existing break plans but I know some of us (hi lugnut92) including me have been working out our vacation around hockey, not the other way around. :D
 
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Waite21 said:
With RPI holding a six point lead and a head-to-head tiebreaker over ninth-place Brown and only four games left in the regular season, it looks like a pretty safe bet that RPI will host a series on either the first or second weekend of the ECAC playoffs.

It looks like spring break will begin at the conclusion of classes on March 8 and conclude with the resumption of classes on March 18, so those home playoff games, whichever weekend they take place, will fall during spring break.

For current or previous members of the band - would the members of the band be likely to stick around a few extra days after the beginning of the break and play at a series on the first weekend if the team finishes between fifth and eighth? Would the members of the band be likely to return a few days early and play at a series on the second weekend if the team finishes between second and fourth?
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While not an alum, I'm ready. I play a mean triangle.
 
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RKarger said:
I'm not a manager so this isn't official but I highly doubt there's any way we wouldn't be at men's playoffs - home or away. Spring break might lower our numbers but without some sort of outstanding circumstances keeping us away, we'll be there.
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That is outstanding -- and that attitude is to be applauded. I would be each and every member the bevie of their choosing -- as state and local laws allow ! :D
 
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RKarger said:
Of course, we know we've got a lot of alumni ready to pull on a rugby and jump into action. :) But, unlike my class year and the year after me, we actually got a large class of freshmen this year, so we haven't been nearly as tight on numbers. In the beginning of the season we managed to have a full road trip band at Harvard/Dartmouth and a band at home at football and women's hockey at the same time. Some people may not be able to get to the game thanks to pre-existing break plans but I know some of us (hi lugnut92) including me have been working out our vacation around hockey, not the other way around. :D
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Are most of them somewhat local as well, or intend to stick around? I know that was one problem that was experienced in between after I graduated and you came into play.
 
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