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RPI Hockey 2015 - 2016:: Six Flags Over the HFH

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lugnut92 said:
With only three games left in non-conference play (against a KRACH-average Miami team and those jerks from Schenectady one last time) and a bare minimum of 16 games of ECAC cannibalization to come, I can't see us getting into the dance without winning the ECAC tournament. Without taking the Whitelaw, we stand a very good chance of being bumped by the AHC or WCHA champs.
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It is difficult to make a projection at this time concerning At-Large bids. But ever since the elimination of the TUC criterion, it is all about RPI index. The RPI now correlates to PWR at about 99%. So win and your RPI goes up, lose and it goes down (exceptions are eliminated from the calculation). At the end of the conference playoffs, teams having an RPI of about .5400 are on the bubble. Our current RPI of .5341 indicates that we must improve in the second half. Despite having the 19th toughest schedule to date and winning at a .600 clip, it isn't good enough. We need to do better. Generally that means going deep into the ECAC tournament but not necessarily having to win it.
 
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RPI fan 4 life said:
It may not be hockey related, but Andrew Franks just kicked an extra point for Miami. ESPN mentioned that he is from RPI, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.
Nice to get a plug in on national TV. :)

Update: Just before Franks kicked a FG, Jon Gruden asked Mike Tirico where Franks was from again. Tirico said RPI, a great engineering school in Troy, NY and their nickname is the engineers.

Two national TV plugs in one night. Think the last time that happened was in 1985. :)
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They usually have to mention where it is when people say RPI. Even John Murphy did, who covers the Bills on radio, and you'd think a number of those listeners would know what's on the other side of the Thruway.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
They usually have to mention where it is when people say RPI. Even John Murphy did, who covers the Bills on radio, and you'd think a number of those listeners would know what's on the other side of the Thruway.
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Aren't both Troy and Buffalo on the same side of the Thruway -- the right-hand side when headed from NYC to PA?
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Aren't both Troy and Buffalo on the same side of the Thruway -- the fight-hand side when headed from NYC to PA?
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Buffalo's on one end of I-90, Albany's on the other. Some of us grew up knowing I-87 as the Northway (or jokingly the Southway when going south) and I-90 as the Thruway. ;)
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/RPI_Hockey">@RPI_Hockey</a> working to win, even during break by <a href="https://twitter.com/LianaBonavita">@LianaBonavita</a> -<a href="https://t.co/DaUpcMcoVc">https://t.co/DaUpcMcoVc</a> <a href="https://t.co/XC6Ipztn2Q">pic.twitter.com/XC6Ipztn2Q</a></p>— ECAC HOCKEY (@ECACHOCKEYMWD1) <a href="https://twitter.com/ECACHOCKEYMWD1/status/676781389094645760">December 15, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Real poll for the first time. Who's your choice for RPI's first-half MVP? Tweet at us if you think someone different</p>— Without a Peer (@without_a_peer) <a href="https://twitter.com/without_a_peer/status/676816954955575296">December 15, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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turk181 said:
I think that’s what coaches all try to get through to their teams. One game, one period, maybe even one play could have huge ramifications on a season. Maybe it’s a lesson some never learn till years later. Like the man said, "it’s a shame youth is wasted on the young”.
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I grew up in a very athletic family. They always preached exactly that. No lead is safe, you have never scored the winning goal (or shot) until the final buzzer shows that you did. For some reason i always seem to feel we get a part of almost every game where we are coasting. I have long since given up trying to figure out why this happens but rarely do we get what EHF always asks for, a full sixty minute effort.
 
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DrDemento said:
I grew up in a very athletic family. They always preached exactly that. No lead is safe, you have never scored the winning goal (or shot) until the final buzzer shows that you did. For some reason i always seem to feel we get a part of almost every game where we are coasting. I have long since given up trying to figure out why this happens but rarely do we get what EHF always asks for, a full sixty minute effort.
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Of course you are right in saying that we rarely get a sixty minute effort, but I think we as fans sometimes don't give them enough credit when they do play sixty minutes.
Every game has ebbs and flows, and just because our opponent makes a push during a game, doesn't mean we are taking time off.
This year we have played many more sixty minute games than we have given them credit for. Sometimes we have to give the opponent credit.
I like this years team, and believe that they will get even better in 2016. (that is probably just the fan in me talking).
 
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Ralph Baer said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Real poll for the first time. Who's your choice for RPI's first-half MVP? Tweet at us if you think someone different</p>— Without a Peer (@without_a_peer) <a href="https://twitter.com/without_a_peer/status/676816954955575296">December 15, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Hands down it's Cam Hackett. RPI would not be where they are now without him.
 
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jericho said:
Hands down it's Cam Hackett. RPI would not be where they are now without him.
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Absolutely. Also MSP(Most Surprising Player). I can not think of any of us posters on here who expected anything like the performance he has given when pressed into service so early in his career. We have been spoiled with some of the best goaltending here at RPI over the years and personally I consider a healthy Kasdorf the best i have ever seen here. I thought Hackett could have a very good upside potential but not even in my dreams did I ever consider that he could carry this team early in his freshman year. I listen to each and every SA interview and even though he has tried not to show it, I sense even he has been pleasantly surprised.
 
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DrDemento said:
Absolutely. Also MSP(Most Surprising Player). I can not think of any of us posters on here who expected anything like the performance he has given when pressed into service so early in his career. We have been spoiled with some of the best goaltending here at RPI over the years and personally I consider a healthy Kasdorf the best i have ever seen here. I thought Hackett could have a very good upside potential but not even in my dreams did I ever consider that he could carry this team early in his freshman year. I listen to each and every SA interview and even though he has tried not to show it, I sense even he has been pleasantly surprised.
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This is an impresssive list: Darren Puppa, Neil Little, Mike Tamburro, Joel Laing, Nathan Marsters (RIP), Jordan Alford, Mathis Lange, Cam Hackett, Jason Kasdorf....

Even the backups: Scott Prekaski, Tim Carvel, Kevin Kurk....

But for every Joel Laing that you get you get a Bryan Masotta to go with it.
 
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Let us not forget the first RPI player ever to make it to the NHL, Don (The Snake) Cutts.

His save percentage and GAA don't look especially impressive compared to goalies playing in more recent years, but college hockey was a higher-scoring game in his day, probably due in no small part to the fact that neither he nor his fellow goalies of that era had the advantage of modern-day equipment.
 
RPI fan 4 life said:
It may not be hockey related, but Andrew Franks just kicked an extra point for Miami. ESPN mentioned that he is from RPI, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.
Nice to get a plug in on national TV. :)

Update: Just before Franks kicked a FG, Jon Gruden asked Mike Tirico where Franks was from again. Tirico said RPI, a great engineering school in Troy, NY and their nickname is the engineers.

Two national TV plugs in one night. Think the last time that happened was in 1985. :)
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Red Hawks, Jon. Red Hawks. :)

Which sucks.
 
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