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RPI Hockey 2019 - 2020: Nordic Combined

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ServinisScores said:
Good observation, I never internalized it until I checked the difference between DC and HU. It]n fact, it's closer to the distance between RPI and UVM. I've learned my "one new thing" for today. Thanks EHF :D
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You're welcome. Now, look at next weekend. We play at home against Harvard Friday and travel to Buffalo on Saturday. :rolleyes::eek:
 
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engineerhockeyfan said:
You're welcome. Now, look at next weekend. We play at home against Harvard Friday and travel to Buffalo on Saturday. :rolleyes::eek:
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It's at least twice as far, but unless there is snow which causes problems on the Thruway, it won't be the problem of going through or around NYC.
 
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engineerhockeyfan said:
Until last night, I didn't realize the advantage the Quinnipiac and Princeton have in Saturday Night ECAC games.
As travelling partners, the visiting team has to play a Friday Night game that ends somewhere around 9:30PM.
By the time they get on the bus to travel, it has to be at least 10:30PM. Getting them into the Saturday opponents area in the middle of the night because of the distance between the two schools.
And that doesn't account for any stops.
That would seem to be a big disadvantage for all ECAC visitors to to those venues. JMO
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Unfortunately, the disadvantage didn't seem to affect Union as much as it did RPI. :(
 
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Waite21 said:
Unfortunately, the disadvantage didn't seem to affect Union as much as it did RPI. :(
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I didn't post it to make an excuse for RPI. It affects all teams in the ECAC going into those travel partners arenas.
And you have to believe that you have a better chance going from Q to Princeton.
 
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True enough. Your point is valid.

I see that, based on past history, the ECAC flips the schedule every year, so that if RPI plays at Princeton on Friday and at Quinnipiac on Saturday one year, the next year they will be at Quinnipiac on Friday and at Princeton on Saturday.

So next year's our turn to have the better chance. :)
 
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engineerhockeyfan said:
I didn't post it to make an excuse for RPI. It affects all teams in the ECAC going into those travel partners arenas.
And you have to believe that you have a better chance going from Q to Princeton.
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I have always felt that there is a big advantage on this trip. however i also felt it was worse driving down to Princeton than the other way around. Coming into Baker is just not easy as the rink is like coming into a popsicle and getting brain freeze. It just takes time to get your legs working in that cold. Also, in the past, Princeton made sure as you worked your way out of the locker room to the rink, there was always some rubber matting missing so that you had to walk on concrete with your skate blades. not sure if that is still the case as i missed looking for it this year. Years ago the travel pairing was Yale/Princeton which may only be slightly better time wise. But cudos to you for pointing out this kind of thing. Often it can be just this type of little thing that makes a difference.
 
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Waite21 said:
True enough. Your point is valid.

I see that, based on past history, the ECAC flips the schedule every year, so that if RPI plays at Princeton on Friday and at Quinnipiac on Saturday one year, the next year they will be at Quinnipiac on Friday and at Princeton on Saturday.

So next year's our turn to have the better chance. :)
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Yes, but sometimes Princeton fools you by scheduling the Saturday game at 4PM (ostensibly to avoid conflict with a home basketball game) which can really shorted your rest time between games. Personally I love the 4PM start since there is this fabulous restaurant for us to hit on the way home and getting there around 7PM is perfect!!
 
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Early line for next weekend is not very encouraging as we are a 4-2 underdog on Friday (largest point spread so far this year against us) with only a 12% chance of a victory. We are a one goal favorite on the road for Saturday with a 62% chance of victory and that is the highest percentage favorite we have been so far.
 
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Waite21 said:
True enough. Your point is valid.

I see that, based on past history, the ECAC flips the schedule every year, so that if RPI plays at Princeton on Friday and at Quinnipiac on Saturday one year, the next year they will be at Quinnipiac on Friday and at Princeton on Saturday.

So next year's our turn to have the better chance. :)
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So when does Union get its turn to modify its schedule so Harvard doesn't have to play two games the weekend before the Beanpot? :D
 
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Ralph Baer said:
So when does Union get its turn to modify its schedule so Harvard doesn't have to play two games the weekend before the Beanpot? :D
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Why does it always have to be RPI? Can't they rotate this schedule with the other ECAC teams getting a shot at Harvard?
 
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RPI fan 4 life said:
Probably when Union stops having trimesters. In other words, not likely.
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A Union-Harvard game would not have to be played this weekend. It could be on any mutually agreeable date with Harvard. Didn't we recently play the moved game midweek?

Also as EHF said, the ECAC could schedule one of the other 4 travel pairs the weekend before the Beanpot. They have done that, but it seems that we get the "honor" quite often.
 
DrDemento said:
Early line for next weekend is not very encouraging as we are a 4-2 underdog on Friday (largest point spread so far this year against us) with only a 12% chance of a victory. We are a one goal favorite on the road for Saturday with a 62% chance of victory and that is the highest percentage favorite we have been so far.
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Sounds optimistic to me. Harvard has scored 31 goals in 6 games (6-0), including a 7-2 shellacking of Quinnipiac and 6-1 win at Yale last Sat night.
 
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engineerhockeyfan said:
Until last night, I didn't realize the advantage the Quinnipiac and Princeton have in Saturday Night ECAC games.
As travelling partners, the visiting team has to play a Friday Night game that ends somewhere around 9:30PM.
By the time they get on the bus to travel, it has to be at least 10:30PM. Getting them into the Saturday opponents area in the middle of the night because of the distance between the two schools.
And that doesn't account for any stops.
That would seem to be a big disadvantage for all ECAC visitors to to those venues. JMO
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I think this was one reason why some folks were advocating some years ago for having 2-game weekend series against the same team in the ECAC, a la the Western conferences, but that would likely mean you wouldn't have home games against half of the teams each year.

Not sure the Princeton QPAC travel factor plays much of a role. By this level, hockey players are used to some long bus trips before games. Plus RPI is pretty centrally located as far as ECAC teams go; not sure they have much of a complaint about travel demands relative to the other teams.
 
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Wicked Slappaahs said:
Sounds optimistic to me. Harvard has scored 31 goals in 6 games (6-0), including a 7-2 shellacking of Quinnipiac and 6-1 win at Yale last Sat night.
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I trust our coach can come up with a defensive strategy to simply frustrate them early. If we can keep this low scoring, especially early, you never know. But if we get the same kind of officiating I saw in Princeton Friday in the third period, then it could be an ugly game quickly. i found that third period a bit egregious since we were one of the lowest penalized team in the country at the time.
 
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Wicked Slappaahs said:
Sounds optimistic to me. Harvard has scored 31 goals in 6 games (6-0), including a 7-2 shellacking of Quinnipiac and 6-1 win at Yale last Sat night.
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For what it's worth, the CHODR rating system predicts a 7-1 (or more precisely, 6.95-1.39) score for that game. It obviously suffers from a relatively small sample this early in the season, but I agree that 4-2 seems optimistic.

EDIT: Fun fact, by that rating system, we are playing the best and worst teams in the nation back to back this weekend.
 
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Did anyone hear the rationale for the waved off goal on Saturday vs. Qpac? I was at the game and no one had any idea of the reason it was disallowed.
 
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TuteScrooge said:
Did anyone hear the rationale for the waved off goal on Saturday vs. Qpac? I was at the game and no one had any idea of the reason it was disallowed.
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https://youtu.be/z-eZeV0Bwdw?t=250

Gornall takes out the goaltender's leg while in the crease, obstructing his ability to play the rebound. Ref pointed to the crease prior to signaling the faceoff outside the zone.
 
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