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RPI Hockey 2017 - 2018: A Wealth of Notions

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Anyone else feel you are rooting for the 1962 NY Mets?
This team finds a new way to lose every game. The frustration on the players must be enormous.
I was at the Brown game where they built a big lead and gave it away. Last night, I watched them come back from a big deficit only to lose that.
The team has not been as bad as their record, but the goaltending has. We give up at least one bad goal every game. Some nights more than one. It has to eat at the players.
I thought that we had pretty solid goal tenders at the start of the season, but it certainly doesn't look that way now.
With all that, I will still not give up on them. It took the Mets seven years, but they won it all in 1969.
LGR
 
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engineerhockeyfan said:
Anyone else feel you are rooting for the 1962 NY Mets?
This team finds a new way to lose every game. The frustration on the players must be enormous.
I was at the Brown game where they built a big lead and gave it away. Last night, I watched them come back from a big deficit only to lose that.
The team has not been as bad as their record, but the goaltending has. We give up at least one bad goal every game. Some nights more than one. It has to eat at the players.
I thought that we had pretty solid goal tenders at the start of the season, but it certainly doesn't look that way now.
With all that, I will still not give up on them. It took the Mets seven years, but they won it all in 1969.
LGR
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I can't conceive of myself rooting for the Mets. :)
 
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Certainly this interview and Coach Smith's body language indicates a level of frustration is settling in. I think that it's very easy to let the "we are what we are" attitude take over making further progress harder to achieve. I really do believe this team has the ability to beat any team. Consistency, as we all well know, is very hard to achieve and maintain week in and week out. That being said, this is a team that could take advantage of other team's weak moments and capitalize on them. And the confidence that creates will help them win games this current team isn't winning. The big question is how to get every player to go out every shift and be a thorn in the other team's side. The philosophy of getting better every shift, every period, every game seems to have run into a roadblock. Because at this point in the season all teams are starting to fire on all cylinders making wins harder and harder to get. So, absent stars, taking shifts or periods or games off cannot be overcome for a team with no real stars.
 
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25+years said:
Certainly this interview and Coach Smith's body language indicates a level of frustration is settling in. I think that it's very easy to let the "we are what we are" attitude take over making further progress harder to achieve. I really do believe this team has the ability to beat any team. Consistency, as we all well know, is very hard to achieve and maintain week in and week out. That being said, this is a team that could take advantage of other team's weak moments and capitalize on them. And the confidence that creates will help them win games this current team isn't winning. The big question is how to get every player to go out every shift and be a thorn in the other team's side. The philosophy of getting better every shift, every period, every game seems to have run into a roadblock. Because at this point in the season all teams are starting to fire on all cylinders making wins harder and harder to get. So, absent stars, taking shifts or periods or games off cannot be overcome for a team with no real stars.
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If only there were a way to tap into that frustration and use it as a motivator.....

"I'm Mad as H^ll and I'm not going to take it any more!"
 
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FreshFish said:
If only there were a way to tap into that frustration and use it as a motivator.....

"I'm Mad as H^ll and I'm not going to take it any more!"
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Well, I didn't see any "workouts" on Peoples or Hoosick after the Maine games, that's for sure...
 
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turk181 said:
The scoring didn't end there, Durham connected his second of the season at 11:10 on assists from Ian Ecklund (Twig, Minn./Proctor) and Troy York (Plano, Texas/Plano West), who recorded his first point in a Yellowjacket uniform after transferring from RPI just days earlier. Superior would hold a 3-1 after two periods.....http://www.uwsyellowjackets.com/new...dominant-win-over-st-mary-s.aspx?path=mhockey
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TY had 2 assists. http://collegehockeystats.net/1718/boxes/mstrwsr1.j05

I think that we will miss him if we didn't already this past weekend.
 
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engineerhockeyfan said:
Anyone else feel you are rooting for the 1962 NY Mets?
This team finds a new way to lose every game. The frustration on the players must be enormous.
I was at the Brown game where they built a big lead and gave it away. Last night, I watched them come back from a big deficit only to lose that.
The team has not been as bad as their record, but the goaltending has. We give up at least one bad goal every game. Some nights more than one. It has to eat at the players.
I thought that we had pretty solid goal tenders at the start of the season, but it certainly doesn't look that way now.
With all that, I will still not give up on them. It took the Mets seven years, but they won it all in 1969.
LGR
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Not even close to that feeling. This is far worse. At least the team that first got me interested in both baseball in particular and sports in general had these things going for them.

1) The supposed worst team in MLB history (in reality only the third worst post 1900 and actually only the ninth worst all time) had a winning percent of 250. We are at 214. Hardly comparable.

2) The 62 Mets were led in hitting by an aging (many original Mets were that) Richie Ashburn who hit 306 that year with next to no protection in that lineup. We have no one doing anything close to that.

3) The 62 Mets were led in homers by Frank Thomas who hit 34 that year with next to no protection in that lineup. We have no one doing anything close to that.

4) One of two Bob Millers' on the 62 Met pitching staff (no relation except in ineffectiveness) spent the very next season as the fourth starter on a staff with three other guys some people may remember. Those guys were Koufax, Drysdale and Podres. Miller went 14- 14 for the 1963 Dodgers which got him a winners' share of the World Series pot and a world championship ring for life. We have no one who will get anything next year.

5) Two years later with the Cardinals trailing the Yankees 2 games to 1 in the 1964 series AND getting beat 3-0 in game five, original Met Roger Craig had to be summoned in early to bail out the starter. From that point on, Mickey, Roger, Ellie, et. al. could do absolutely nothing with Craig who went the rest of the way allowing the Cards to come back with a Ken Boyer (later became yet another aging Met) grand slam. Craig got the win and turned the whole series around. Like Miller, Craig also got a winners' share of the World Series pot and a world championship ring for life. We have no one who will get anything two years from now.

5) Original Met "Little" Alvin Jackson was still pitching somewhat effectively in the majors close to a decade later. We have no one who will still be playing hockey anywhere close to a decade from now.

6) Both the original Mets and all Mets for about the next two decades had the great Jane Jarvis on the organ playing the likes of Meet the Mets pregame, The Mexican Hat Dance during the seventh inning stretch, Felix the Cat whenever Felix Milan led off an inning and The Irish Jig whenever Tug McGraw was summoned from the bullpen. A lot of what we get is annoying, blaring piped in music that does nothing but manufacture migraines.

7) Both the original and early Mets had a live mascot (Homer the Beagle) and an ad campaign featuring a bevy of gorgeous dolls vying to be the next Miss Reingold. We have a puck and scoreboard screen promos for a local ambulance chaser.

8) The original Mets and all other Mets through about 1980 had about the best broadcasting talent that has EVER been assembled with Lindsey Nelson, Bob Murphy and Ralph Kiner. Remember that a younger Kiner was really good. He just stayed around too long. About the only noteworthy aspect of this era of RPI Hockey is that, at least, we having Perry manning the mike relaying the bad news as it happens. Perry is pretty dammed good as are some of the other guys who occasionally fill in for hockey and broadcast other RPI sports.

Yes, about the only favorable comparison we have to the original 1962 New York Mets is in the broadcast booth.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Are we going to win another game... :eek:
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On January 13, 2017, Harvard, ranked # 2 in the country and riding a six-game winning streak, came to Troy to play an RPI team that had lost seven in a row and 14 of its last 15.

RPI won the game, 4-0.

Nothing is impossible. :)

Edit: For those who might be wondering, the goalie who recorded the shutout that night is still on the RPI roster. Coach Smith might want to consider starting Chase Perry on Tuesday night.
 
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Waite21 said:
On January 13, 2017, Harvard, ranked # 2 in the country and riding a six-game winning streak, came to Troy to play an RPI team that had lost seven in a row and 14 of its last 15.

RPI won the game, 4-0.

Nothing is impossible. :)

Edit: For those who might be wondering, the goalie who recorded the shutout that night is still on the RPI roster. Coach Smith might want to consider starting Chase Perry on Tuesday night.
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i like the Perry idea. This team is getting killed with bad goals. Our collective moods would be a lot more positive if we had average netminding.
 
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