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RPI Hockey 2017 - 2018: A Wealth of Notions

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RPI was not a hard team to play against. And a few things stood out : very little pressure was put on Maine's D on the forecheck. Not a whole lot of physical play. This made it pretty easy for Maine to break out of their own zone. Also RPI turned over the puck a great deal especially in the neutral zone. And many of RPI's passes on their break out were off the mark, often behind the intended player. Make no mistake, despite their record, Maine is a good team. Well coached and they play hard. I don't expect RPI to match the skill level. But you make up for that by skating hard and showing a willingness to out work your opponent. I saw no one who stood out Saturday. And, despite the game being out of hand late in the third, Liljegren, taking a major penalty, is a statement. The bottom line is RPI has several players who look great when they are skating hard and moving all the time. I saw very little of that Saturday and the results reflect that. I really wonder what exactly is going to have to happen for this team to climb a step on the ladder and stay there?
 
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25+years said:
RPI was not a hard team to play against. And a few things stood out : very little pressure was put on Maine's D on the forecheck. Not a whole lot of physical play. This made it pretty easy for Maine to break out of their own zone. Also RPI turned over the puck a great deal especially in the neutral zone. And many of RPI's passes on their break out were off the mark, often behind the intended player. Make no mistake, despite their record, Maine is a good team. Well coached and they play hard. I don't expect RPI to match the skill level. But you make up for that by skating hard and showing a willingness to out work your opponent. I saw no one who stood out Saturday. And, despite the game being out of hand late in the third, Liljegren, taking a major penalty, is a statement. The bottom line is RPI has several players who look great when they are skating hard and moving all the time. I saw very little of that Saturday and the results reflect that. I really wonder what exactly is going to have to happen for this team to climb a step on the ladder and stay there?
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Unfortunately, I have to agree with much of what you said, but Maine is not a good team. Five on five we played the even in every game this year. They were able to capitalize on some pretty poor goal tending which allowed them to play with the lead in all the games, That makes a big difference. Playing catch up makes you look a lot worse than you are.
RPI needs to suck it up and play from the opening face off. And the goal tending needs to stop the easy shots.
RPI has a lot of work to do, but if the goal tending doesn't improve, we will be dead in the water.
As for the major penalty, that is just frustration that I have seen from every team that has ever been embarrassed in a game.
I am sure that Maine has never had a player take out his frustration during a blow out loss.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Next season's ECAC non-travel-partner schedule http://elf.elynah.com/file.php/1/762/2018-19_Men_s_Schedule_.pdf.
Guess whose game vs. Harvard has to be rescheduled? :mad:

11/2 CCT
11/3 SLU
11/9 @ QU
11/10 @ PU
12/7 @ YU
12/8 @ BU
1/11 @ SLU
1/12 @ CCT
1/25 BU
1/26 YU
2/1 Col
2/2 Cor
2/8 @DC
2/15 PU
2/16 QU
2/22 Cor
2/23 Col
3/1 HU
3/2 DC
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At least we have a few options for Freakout this time. Not sure if I'm going to make it to SLU next year, though.
 
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I’ll tell you what, if we don’t turn it around soon this is gonna be a disaster of a year
 
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rvd5star69 said:
I’ll tell you what, if we don’t turn it around soon this is gonna be a disaster of a year
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Given it's the first year for a coach, there wasn't much in terms of expectations, at least from me. In the next couple years, I'd certainly like to see better. There are glimpses of improvement, and I'm glad Coach Smith is seeking to get his own kids in. Long term, I have a feeling we'll be just fine.
 
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rvd5star69 said:
I’ll tell you what, if we don’t turn it around soon this is gonna be a disaster of a year
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Awaiting your next post: "Water, as it turns out, folks, is wet."

Of course the team that is ten games under .500 and losing by a goal a game (even if you remove empty netters) is heading for a bad year. As Flaggy says, it's not like we weren't really expecting something like this. We're right on track for my preseason guess/hope of 10 non-losses. I might not be as rosy on the team as some people are here, but we all basically expected bad, and bad is what we have (at the very least on the record sheet).
 
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rvd5star69 said:
I’ll tell you what, if we don’t turn it around soon this is gonna be a disaster of a year
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This team has 5 or 6 quality players for this staff to try and build around as they recruit for the future. Realistically the current sophomore class when they are Seniors is when the expectations should be higher. Next year you should expect 12-15 wins. This year it is still possible to get to 10 wins if Marshall can play well in Net.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Given it's the first year for a coach, there wasn't much in terms of expectations, at least from me. In the next couple years, I'd certainly like to see better. There are glimpses of improvement, and I'm glad Coach Smith is seeking to get his own kids in. Long term, I have a feeling we'll be just fine.
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We replaced a coach with 250+ losses with a coach with 250+ losses. I heard the "own kids" excuse for Appert when he started at RPI and tried to remain patient. I wish I could say I had optimistic expectations for the long haul like you do, but I just don't see anything to base it on. No idea how we get out of this hole, and the fact that CCT is tops in the league makes it even worse.
 
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TucsonMike said:
We replaced a coach with 250+ losses with a coach with 250+ losses. I heard the "own kids" excuse for Appert when he started at RPI and tried to remain patient. I wish I could say I had optimistic expectations for the long haul like you do, but I just don't see anything to base it on. No idea how we get out of this hole, and the fact that CCT is tops in the league makes it even worse.
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With Appert we got the "better kids" in year 4, and things started turning for the better. Unfortunately, Appert showed himself to be a terrible bench coach, so inconsistencies were shown and he wasn't able to do much of anything about it. Already I'm seeing improved game management, and from reports on here earlier in the season, "active involvement".

As for how we get out of this hole, one thing I've found as being a common factor in turnaround teams is a culture of expectations. Does the administration expect wins? Is the staff receiving what they need to achieve this expectation?
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Next season's ECAC non-travel-partner schedule http://elf.elynah.com/file.php/1/762/2018-19_Men_s_Schedule_.pdf.
Guess whose game vs. Harvard has to be rescheduled? :mad:

11/2 CCT
11/3 SLU
11/9 @ QU
11/10 @ PU
12/7 @ YU
12/8 @ BU
1/11 @ SLU
1/12 @ CCT
1/25 BU
1/26 YU
2/1 Col
2/2 Cor
2/8 @DC
2/15 PU
2/16 QU
2/22 @Cor
2/23 @Col
3/1 HU
3/2 DC
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One other thing: Do you have the original forum post? In case you forgot, you can't hit PDFs directly on eLynah.
 
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WRPI going to cover this year? I know last year they didn't, and Harvard doesn't have a radio broadcast (at least they didn't last year).
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
WRPI going to cover this year? I know last year they didn't, and Harvard doesn't have a radio broadcast (at least they didn't last year).
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That games was televised as I recall. I don't think that this one will.
 
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