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RPI Hockey 2018 - 2019: 28 Guys Skate onto a Rink ...

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At halftime we're down 13-7. And given Brockport has had 5 effective turnovers, that is awful for the offense. Gotta get something going if we're going to have a chance in this one.
 
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RPI fan 4 life said:
Why not 25th or 27th? We shouldn’t have anything to do with the number 26! :)
And as far as a goalie controversy goes, there’s nothing wrong with having 2 solid goaltenders (Maine won an NCAA title playing different goalies on back to back nights). Just go with the hot hand for now...
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With Yale beating UConn, we are down to 27. Happy? :)
 
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Start of 4Q, the boys are up 14-13. LGR!

Doc - how is your bookie feeling? :D
 
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It's official, we go to the quarterfinals. We will be playing fellow play-up JHU.
 
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Holy $it!!!!!!!!!!!!! On paper we had no chance. On the field we were magnificent!!!!!!!!!! BTW Jenny took RPI and the points so we are certainly going to celebrate big!!!!!!!!!!!!! Watched the entire game and honestly felt early when we blew a few chances to go up by a lot that it would catch up with us. Magnificent job by the team. Have not been this excited about RPI football since 2003.
Now if RPI hockey can sweep UML tomorrow??????
 
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ServinisScores said:
Start of 4Q, the boys are up 14-13. LGR!

Doc - how is your bookie feeling? :D
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Not mine-Jenny's. She normally does not believe in betting or gambling in any way. Says we worked to hard to get it so why risk it? I, on the other hand will wager on anything. She did feel confident about this today for some reason (she said the weather would be the great equalizer and that Brockport was just not a very good bad weather team. I looked at their record and saw how badly they blew everyone out but had severe difficulty with Ithaca and though we had a chance. The early line was a 24 point spread so we took a shot.
If we had not lost badly to Union, we would not have been such an underdog as we were at the time ranked about 16th and could have moved up to 14th win a win over Union. Now we are one of the top 8 left.

BTW here were the so called experts picks from 11/23 one day before today's games http://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/11/23/quick-hits-our-crew-predicts-the-second-round/
They gave us a 5% chance of winning. Wonder how they will see next week against Hopkins? We will need to stop the rushing offense they have.
 
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engineerhockeyfan said:
I didn't post to start a controversy, I was hoping that Savory's performance would get Marshall back on track. He has been very inconsistent this season, and maybe this will get him going again.
And the only thing I didn't like about Smith's coaching was the way he left Marshall in after he was not at his best. I think that it really hurt Marshall's confidence. Maybe now he will get him out earlier on his bad days.
I love the idea of having two goalies that can step in and do a great job. But I don't like a tandem system. We need one goalie to step up and play the majority of the games.(a #1 goaltender).
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This isn't new for Smitty. Somebody hung 7 on us last year (don't recall who) and Perry never got sent out to relieve Marshall. That's when I knew he was done playing at RPI.
 
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RPI fan 4 life said:
Actually you have the wrong game. It was RPI-Princeton but it was the game at Princeton not at HFH. It was on 2/16. The game you listed had Perry as the starter.
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Then maybe I misunderstood what WS was trying to say; I thought he was talking about relief the other way around. The same could theoretically be said about Dartmouth, although it was St. Denis who came in relief, and only after seven. Perry's last in-game action on record and for a pull was, ironically, against Dartmouth. There also was 6 minutes during Freakout, but that was an injury replacement.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
football highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofke9CgSTEw
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Early line on next week's game (thanks to Jenny and her family) has our win chance listed at 4% (1% worse than yesterday) and the median score as 40-14. Hopkins starts the week as a 26 point favorite. But i recall that Brockport was listed as a 24 point favorite with the probable score as 38-14. My own feeling is we face a totally different offense coming up. Brockport was a passing team (and I truly feared that our poor pass defense the previous 3 weeks was just suspect). Hopkins is far more balanced and a far better rushing offensive team. As such do not expect weather to play as much of a role but also do not expect them to turn the ball over as frequently as Brockport did. Brockport simply self destructed early in every way imaginable. Fumbles, interceptions, missed kicks, blocked kicks. In fact it is hard to find a type of turnover they did not commit.
This has been a super RPI football year and I hope we can somehow find a way to extend it one more week. A real shot in the program arm to reach the final 4 as we did in 2003. At the end of the regular season, Brockport was ranked #4 and Hopkins #12 so I guess anything is possible. At the beginning of the season just the thought that we might be one game away from facing Mt. Union would indicate some form of insanity but that is where we find ourselves. Go Red!!

As for the hockey team, before the season, if you told me we would have 4 victories after 10 games I might have believed you (probably not). But to tell me that 2 would be against Union and 1 against UML would have been my guess at all. As we have gotten healthy with Lacka and Reilly back, things look more encouraging than at any time last year. A bit early for me to say this but I would like to think that much of this is coaching related. There are just too many fundamentals that are improved for this to just be player related. Face offs, special teams, break out from the zone plays, all look promising. Still a long way to go and lots to improve upon but things are beginning to look up in Troy.

Have not had the chance to say this yet but as the weekend draws to a close, happy Thanksgiving to all those who follow and post here from Jenny and myself.
 
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