RPI Hockey 2014-2015: Dedicated to Rich Curadi

[FlagDUDE08]

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I don't think that Saturday was a no show performance. They came out and played very well for the first ten minutes.
Now lets think about the previous four days. Game in Hartford on Tuesday night. Bus trip to Troy. Get up Wednesday and bus trip to Buffalo where I heard there were some festivities planned. Thursday, back on a bus to Ann Arbor. Friday game in which they played well enough to win. Saturday night another game after a heartbreaking loss Friday.
The team just ran out of gas. Just writing that itinerary got me tired.

To say these kids can't handle the itinerary is insane. The only ones who could possibly use that excuse are the ones that came directly from high school. Look at the length of the season during juniors. It's comparable to some professional leagues, such as the AHL. No excuses on last night's play, it was just plain awful.

But, just like our wins, the game is done and over with. Who do we have on Friday?

 

[ServinisScores]

Re: RPI Hockey 2014-2015: Dedicated to Rich Curadi

of the recent stink shows the team has put forth in the past 5 years, this one is eligible to give a pass on. Lots of travel, tough loss on Friday, worthwhile opponent, still lack of maturity. Someone brought up somewhere a good point, which deserves attention because it keeps happening, year over year -- the veterans on this team lack leadership. Which is fascinating to me because the youth on the team that we like the energy from turns into "passengers" as they get older. Very strange culture to me, that seems to be now ingrained into the team.

 

[ServinisScores]

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To say these kids can't handle the itinerary is insane. The only ones who could possibly use that excuse are the ones that came directly from high school. Look at the length of the season during juniors. It's comparable to some professional leagues, such as the AHL. No excuses on last night's play, it was just plain awful.

Get a grip please - 1) these kids don't play many situations with 3 games over 800 miles in 5 days 2) The home team was sitting in wait for them 3) most of these kids aren't ready for AHL-type travel schedules.

 

[Jasma]

I don't think that Saturday was a no show performance. They came out and played very well for the first ten minutes.
Now lets think about the previous four days. Game in Hartford on Tuesday night. Bus trip to Troy. Get up Wednesday and bus trip to Buffalo where I heard there were some festivities planned. Thursday, back on a bus to Ann Arbor. Friday game in which they played well enough to win. Saturday night another game after a heartbreaking loss Friday.
The team just ran out of gas. Just writing that itinerary got me tired.

That may be a reasonable explanation. Friday was very tough. They were about 3 minutes from a win when it fell apart. They are also short handed and some of the other guys have had to play extra minutes.
That still doesn't explain the lack of production by the upperclassmen.

 

[vicious]

Re: RPI Hockey 2014-2015: Dedicated to Rich Curadi

I don't think that Saturday was a no show performance. They came out and played very well for the first ten minutes.
Now lets think about the previous four days. Game in Hartford on Tuesday night. Bus trip to Troy. Get up Wednesday and bus trip to Buffalo where I heard there were some festivities planned. Thursday, back on a bus to Ann Arbor. Friday game in which they played well enough to win. Saturday night another game after a heartbreaking loss Friday.
The team just ran out of gas. Just writing that itinerary got me tired.

Aren't 600 mile trips to Ann Arbor from Troy part of the reason God invented air travel? I understand the school wants to save a buck, but after trips to Hartford and UNH within the same week, a third bus trip sounds like something they really didn't need.

 

[engineerhockeyfan]

Re: RPI Hockey 2014-2015: Dedicated to Rich Curadi

That may be a reasonable explanation. Friday was very tough. They were about 3 minutes from a win when it fell apart. They are also short handed and some of the other guys have had to play extra minutes.
That still doesn't explain the lack of production by the upperclassmen.

I totally agree with your remarks on the upperclassmen. I guess that Zalewski and Haggerty just made them better.
These guys seem lost right now.

 

[turk181]

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Seems like every year by this time we’re talking about the same thing(s). Sure is one looooooong process.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

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Get a grip please - 1) these kids don't play many situations with 3 games over 800 miles in 5 days 2) The home team was sitting in wait for them 3) most of these kids aren't ready for AHL-type travel schedules.

The coach has a say in the scheduling of games, yes? Then why would you schedule this sort of thing if this is the excuse that is going to come up every time? Give your team the best chance to win.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: RPI Hockey 2014-2015: Dedicated to Rich Curadi

Aren't 600 mile trips to Ann Arbor from Troy part of the reason God invented air travel? I understand the school wants to save a buck, but after trips to Hartford and UNH within the same week, a third bus trip sounds like something they really didn't need.

Take one look at when they were travelling. You think they would have been able to find airfare at a price that wasn't double what it would be normally?

 

[ServinisScores]

Re: RPI Hockey 2014-2015: Dedicated to Rich Curadi

The coach has a say in the scheduling of games, yes? Then why would you schedule this sort of thing if this is the excuse that is going to come up every time? Give your team the best chance to win.

would you rather play programs like UNH and Michigan, or have the players sit home and read your impractical perspective of the world? Life isn't as simple as you portray.

 

[RPI_2003]

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And why do you suppose that's the case? Especially considering the EZAC joke-of-a-league can't even get television coverage for their championship weekend, not that it'd matter because we couldn't even get there with biased reffing anyway.

This post is why you've been labeled a troll.

 

[vicious]

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Take one look at when they were travelling. You think they would have been able to find airfare at a price that wasn't double what it would be normally?

Yes. The Siena women's basketball team traveled to Denver over Thanksgiving for a tournament. Think they took the bus? The Michigan games were probably scheduled two years ago. Plenty of time to work out something better than a two-day bus trip with an overnight in Buffalo, in the same week as trips to Hartford and Durham.

 

[Waite21]

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Let it be noted that Boston University, the team which was named #1 in the country in the poll at the beginning of last week, lost to Dartmouth yesterday, 2-0.

It was the Terriers' second defeat in six days at the hands of teams from the ECAC.

Joke-of-a-league? I don't hear BU laughing.

 

[RedWrister]

Re: RPI Hockey 2014-2015: Dedicated to Rich Curadi

Let it be noted that Boston University, the team which was named #1 in the country in the poll at the beginning of last week, lost to Dartmouth yesterday, 2-0.

It was the Terriers' second defeat in six days at the hands of teams from the ECAC.

Joke-of-a-league? I don't hear BU laughing.

And let's not forget the last two National Championships.

 

[hrbrendan]

Re: RPI Hockey 2014-2015: Dedicated to Rich Curadi

Not only that, but he never answered Ralph's question as to how often RPI's been on national TV. Between he and hrbrendan, the erosion of this thread has now become apparent.

I'm not going to pull punches when I think a player is dogging it or playing like garbage, but I'm not here for the sake of trolling like flag-idiot is. Perhaps it's me not having had a kid play yet, or that I've coached college kids relatively recently (albeit at a much lower level in the ACHA), but I get very frustrated watching mental mistakes on the ice. Physical mistakes, fine, people miss the net, fall down, etc., it happens. Mental mistakes are much more frustrating, as they are generally a lack of concentration or willingness to take advice from coaches.

 

[hrbrendan]

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To say these kids can't handle the itinerary is insane. The only ones who could possibly use that excuse are the ones that came directly from high school. Look at the length of the season during juniors. It's comparable to some professional leagues, such as the AHL. No excuses on last night's play, it was just plain awful.

But, just like our wins, the game is done and over with. Who do we have on Friday?

You are an idiot if you think that type of bus trip wouldn't have a negative affect on a team. On top of the fact that at the professional and juniors levels, academics is an afterthought or nonexistent, the same exact thing happens at those levels as well. Long road trips suck. Long road trips where you blow a lead in a heartbreaking manner suck even more.

 

[fr. joe]

Re: RPI Hockey 2014-2015: Dedicated to Rich Curadi

On to Yale and Brown... how's it looking on the injury front?

 

[jericho]

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I'm not going to pull punches when I think a player is dogging it or playing like garbage, but I'm not here for the sake of trolling like flag-idiot is. Perhaps it's me not having had a kid play yet, or that I've coached college kids relatively recently (albeit at a much lower level in the ACHA), but I get very frustrated watching mental mistakes on the ice. Physical mistakes, fine, people miss the net, fall down, etc., it happens. Mental mistakes are much more frustrating, as they are generally a lack of concentration or willingness to take advice from coaches.

So let me get this straight then, you spend a great deal of time on here both on this thread and during games knocking Seth and the coaching staff for not having the team prepared and not game planning, but then this post is putting the onus on the players. As a coach, you can't always prevent mental mistakes. You'll learn that eventually, but that isn't the coach's fault. I coach football, (albeit 10-13 year olds, so I'm a little bit more patient) but when you develop a play and tell them that it's on two, and the kids go one, no matter what age the kid is, if he/she can count to two, that isn't the coach's fault. Sorry about mentioning you and Flaggy in the same post, perhaps it was a bit harsh, but when you see the same drivel posted over and over by the same people, it gets a little trite.

 

[uncledave]

Re: RPI Hockey 2014-2015: Dedicated to Rich Curadi

WOW !!!! A guy who has no idea of the inner workings of the program and has a fundamental misunderstanding of the current college hockey landscape commenting on a post of a guy who doesn't know which end is up. This can sometimes be a special place !!! HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL BE SAFE !!!!!!!!!

Why not tell me, line by line, HOW I am mistaken, rather than just imply that I'm an idiot. I can assure you that I am not. I find my way to Troy all by myself...and it's FAR!

 

[hrbrendan]

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So let me get this straight then, you spend a great deal of time on here both on this thread and during games knocking Seth and the coaching staff for not having the team prepared and not game planning, but then this post is putting the onus on the players. As a coach, you can't always prevent mental mistakes. You'll learn that eventually, but that isn't the coach's fault. I coach football, (albeit 10-13 year olds, so I'm a little bit more patient) but when you develop a play and tell them that it's on two, and the kids go one, no matter what age the kid is, if he/she can count to two, that isn't the coach's fault. Sorry about mentioning you and Flaggy in the same post, perhaps it was a bit harsh, but when you see the same drivel posted over and over by the same people, it gets a little trite.

The two are not mutually exclusive. I think a coach at the collegiate level should be judged based upon the performance of the team, not in a given game, but over time. Appert is no shining star in that department, however injuries and losing key players early has certainly played a part in that.

I'm well aware that you can tell a kid to do one thing and they may not choose to do it. That is the frustrating part about it, and while not having coached football, id imagine its a lot different with college kids who are on the ice 6 days a week vs young football players. Nobody is telling them to play halfway between the shot and the pass on a 2 on 1... you play the pass. They have been told that since they were 5 years old, yet it happened last game and cost them a goal. That's the kind of mental mistake I'm referring to with regards to a player. I'm not saying so and so is a bad kid, sucks at hockey, or whatever, I'm saying he might have had a bad game. I'm also doing so in a game thread, which is for discussion about the game and kinda what they're there for. I'm also pretty sure I've participated in 2 game threads... I need to pick better games apparently.

And nobody deserves to be compared to flag-tard.