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RPI Hockey 2017 - 2018: A Wealth of Notions

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FlagDUDE08 said:
Watching it again, it glanced off his back and into the net. Not tight up against the top of the goal, which would have helped to prevent that. https://youtu.be/86RRpynhnbU?t=1h6m12s
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After watching the video his positioning is off just enough to cause the shot to go in. His lower body is too parallel to the goal line causing him to not be square to the shooter ----- as the shooter gets closer he has to drop his short side shoulder to try and cover the post (in essence making him smaller in net) and that leaves the space. By being more square (far side leg turned more towards the shooter ) that would put him on the post and be bigger in net by being in a taller butterfly and probably stopping the shot. In his defense he probably stops that type angle shot alot of times in that postion because the shot has to be properly placed to go in.
 
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I was looking at our forwards stats, hoping to find a potential scorer. What I found was Billy Jerry. Four goals on twelve shots. In conference, three goals on six shots. All with limited time on ice.
I think that we should give him a shot at playing with Burgess or E. Ohrvall, our two best assist men.
I know that he doesn't have a history of being a big scorer, but maybe he is just maturing. Give him more ice time with a good assist man and find out if this is just luck or actual talent.
At least he knows where the net is. JMO
 
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engineerhockeyfan said:
I was looking at our forwards stats, hoping to find a potential scorer. What I found was Billy Jerry. Four goals on twelve shots. In conference, three goals on six shots. All with limited time on ice.
I think that we should give him a shot at playing with Burgess or E. Ohrvall, our two best assist men.
I know that he doesn't have a history of being a big scorer, but maybe he is just maturing. Give him more ice time with a good assist man and find out if this is just luck or actual talent.
At least he knows where the net is. JMO
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It could also be that he plays on the 4th line and the best defending goes up against guys like Tironese, Hayhurst, and Liljegren, so he has much more of an opportunity than he would if he were on a top line because they're resting the best D. Don't know if that qualifies under "just luck", or a different category. Plus, how well goes he gel with his linemates, or does it seem more like "best of the rest"?

I'd certainly be game to see him play on a "more played" line, where the opposition matches up more skilled D against him.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
It could also be that he plays on the 4th line and the best defending goes up against guys like Tironese, Hayhurst, and Liljegren, so he has much more of an opportunity than he would if he were on a top line because they're resting the best D. Don't know if that qualifies under "just luck", or a different category. Plus, how well goes he gel with his linemates, or does it seem more like "best of the rest"?

I'd certainly be game to see him play on a "more played" line, where the opposition matches up more skilled D against him.
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I suspect that you are correct. I have for a long time suspected that the reason that players often have a sophomore slump is that they are put on a line that plays against better defenders their second year.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
It could also be that he plays on the 4th line and the best defending goes up against guys like Tironese, Hayhurst, and Liljegren, so he has much more of an opportunity than he would if he were on a top line because they're resting the best D. Don't know if that qualifies under "just luck", or a different category. Plus, how well goes he gel with his linemates, or does it seem more like "best of the rest"?

I'd certainly be game to see him play on a "more played" line, where the opposition matches up more skilled D against him.
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All I am saying is that when he sees an opening at the net he finds it. As opposed to Burgess who seems to miss open nets with regularity.
 
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engineerhockeyfan said:
All I am saying is that when he sees an opening at the net he finds it. As opposed to Burgess who seems to miss open nets with regularity.
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Unless he's Steven Stamkos' much, much more talented younger brother, there's no way you can expect Jerry to keep scoring on 33% of his shots.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
I suspect that you are correct. I have for a long time suspected that the reason that players often have a sophomore slump is that they are put on a line that plays against better defenders their second year.
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I'm not so sure about that being the reason, especially when you look at how some guys, like Patrick Cullen, REALLY dropped off on the sophomore year. You'd expect a good coach to notice who's doing well when scouting during a year as opposed to exclusively the offseason, and to at least adjust matchups to account for it. I'll give you if the person has to "step up" due to "graduation" (includes signing) or injury, but I really don't see that in the cases where I've seen a slump. Zalewski didn't seem to have a slump, and neither did Haggerty. And more recently, I wouldn't suspect we're seeing that much from Hayhurst. He's really answered the challenge this year with Bourbonnais gone.
 
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lugnut92 said:
Unless he's Steven Stamkos' much, much more talented younger brother, there's no way you can expect Jerry to keep scoring on 33% of his shots.
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I don't expect anything, I just want to see what he could do with more talented line mates.
 
engineerhockeyfan said:
I don't expect anything, I just want to see what he could do with more talented line mates.
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I think that’s why he may have put Polino with him in the last 10 mins of the game. He and Tironese along with Jesper had been playing well together but as soon as the 3rd goal was scored the coach went to 3 lines and sat the Orvhalls brothers. Curious move since IMO Tironese Polino and Jesper had been the best line to that point.
 
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Are we getting our goal scorer?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">4.25⭐️ prospect is a pure goal scorer with mature hockey sense, puck skill, natural offensive instincts & separational speed. He leads the team in points (9-7-16). The former 3rd overall pick in the KHL earned B+ at <a href="https://twitter.com/USHL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USHL</a> Showcase.<a href="https://t.co/zEFMYvKlPn">https://t.co/zEFMYvKlPn</a></p>— Neutral Zone (@_Neutral_Zone) <a href="https://twitter.com/_Neutral_Zone/status/940609925931307011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Since the above doesn't specifically mention it, this is Jakub Lacka.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Are we getting our goal scorer?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">4.25⭐️ prospect is a pure goal scorer with mature hockey sense, puck skill, natural offensive instincts & separational speed. He leads the team in points (9-7-16). The former 3rd overall pick in the KHL earned B+ at <a href="https://twitter.com/USHL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USHL</a> Showcase.<a href="https://t.co/zEFMYvKlPn">https://t.co/zEFMYvKlPn</a></p>— Neutral Zone (@_Neutral_Zone) <a href="https://twitter.com/_Neutral_Zone/status/940609925931307011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Certainly brings excitement akin to Pirri and D'Amigo coming in. And with the changes we've seen from Smith even in just a few months, I'm looking forward to this one.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Certainly brings excitement akin to Pirri and D'Amigo coming in. And with the changes we've seen from Smith even in just a few months, I'm looking forward to this one.
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I don't expect him to be at that level, but I don't think we have gotten a Neutral Zone 4.25* recruit since they started ranking them.
 
Ralph Baer said:
Are we getting our goal scorer?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">4.25⭐️ prospect is a pure goal scorer with mature hockey sense, puck skill, natural offensive instincts & separational speed. He leads the team in points (9-7-16). The former 3rd overall pick in the KHL earned B+ at <a href="https://twitter.com/USHL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USHL</a> Showcase.<a href="https://t.co/zEFMYvKlPn">https://t.co/zEFMYvKlPn</a></p>— Neutral Zone (@_Neutral_Zone) <a href="https://twitter.com/_Neutral_Zone/status/940609925931307011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Since the above doesn't specifically mention it, this is Jakub Laksa.
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Lacka
 
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turk181 said:
Hopefully it doesn’t take the PA announcer 4yrs. to get the right pronunciation of his hometown like it did with Milos' :D
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He will probably have more trouble with Ebba Berglund of the women's team whose hometown is listed as Örnsköldsvik or Överhörnäs, Sweden depending upon where you look. The second is a suburb of the first.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
He will probably have more trouble with Ebba Berglund of the women's team whose hometown is listed as Örnsköldsvik or Överhörnäs, Sweden depending upon where you look. The second is a suburb of the first.
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Women's games have a different PA announcer. He subs when Al's on a family outing.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
I don't expect him to be at that level, but I don't think we have gotten a Neutral Zone 4.25* recruit since they started ranking them.
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For the record, the site has/had Burgess at 4.25. They don't update the players once they go past juniors.
 
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