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RPI Hockey 2019 - 2020 Part II: Moving on with 2020 Vision!

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Noresmen said:
The review was to determine if they missed a penalty and if it was a major penalty. Had the officials determined they had indeed missed a major penalty (it can't be a minor) they could have then assessed the call of a major penalty. The goal though would have stood. RPI would only have received the benefit of a 5 min power play. The signalling of 5 to the benches was that there was not a penalty and that play would be 5 on 5.

As for this team and how it is built, the team doesn't have to be built to play physical. UMass isn't built that way, their players just hit. RPI doesn't except for some of the smaller players like Marrello, Polino or Gornal. We have defensemen that care more about caring the puck then playing physical. We have 6'+ forwards who have no idea what physicality is .... you don't have to hit to play a physical brand of hockey.
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You mentioned the one player that we have that does play a physical game - Gornal. Wish more played with his style and determination. And your assessment of our defensive emphasis is spot on. Have not seen many hard checks all year.
 
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DrDemento said:
You mentioned the one player that we have that does play a physical game - Gornal. Wish more played with his style and determination. And your assessment of our defensive emphasis is spot on. Have not seen many hard checks all year.
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I use the term (probably too much) "hard to play against." That's not to mean dumb plays by hammering guys on the boards and drawing a 5 minute majors which past RPI teams were more than adept at.. What it does mean to me in today's game is a mentality, tenacity and attitude to pursue pucks and puck handlers. Army is team that often personifies this ...they are never the biggest or most skilled team on the ice, but they nearly always give opponents 3 periods of hustle and effort.

UMass is an extremely skilled team, but they are not a big team. We aided them by not being hard to play against, being tenacious, finishing checks, taking angles that force puckhandlers to change directions...or get hit. Not saying it would've changed the outcome (given our lack of scoring)....but when teams absolutely know they are NOT going to get hit or challenged for possession, they get a lot more creative and daring, IMO. We have a few guys who skate with this mentality, who've been mentioned here but not a whole team...at least not yet. I can dream...
 
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Happy New Year everyone.

Even though WaP has been shuttered for a year and a half, I decided to close out the decade by having a look at the Top 10 games of the 2010s as I did at the end of the 2000s during WaP's first year.

Please enjoy. Feel free to debate them if you like. If anyone wants a full list of the 27 finalist games, drop me a line.

https://www.withoutapeer.com/2019/12/the-top-10-greatest-rpi-games-of-2010s.html
 
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realet said:
Happy New Year everyone.

Even though WaP has been shuttered for a year and a half, I decided to close out the decade by having a look at the Top 10 games of the 2010s as I did at the end of the 2000s during WaP's first year.

Please enjoy. Feel free to debate them if you like. If anyone wants a full list of the 27 finalist games, drop me a line.

https://www.withoutapeer.com/2019/12/the-top-10-greatest-rpi-games-of-2010s.html
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The obligatory "Who are you?" :D
I will have to mull over your list.

"Guten Rutsch!" to you and everyone else. :)
 
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realet said:
Happy New Year everyone.

Even though WaP has been shuttered for a year and a half, I decided to close out the decade by having a look at the Top 10 games of the 2010s as I did at the end of the 2000s during WaP's first year.

Please enjoy. Feel free to debate them if you like. If anyone wants a full list of the 27 finalist games, drop me a line.

https://www.withoutapeer.com/2019/12/the-top-10-greatest-rpi-games-of-2010s.html
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Thanks for a nice read. You're missed in this community. Hope all is well with the family & Happy New Year.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
The obligatory "Who are you?" :D
I will have to mull over your list.

"Guten Rutsch!" to you and everyone else. :)
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In case anyone is interested in Tom's post about the previous decade, it is here. He's definitely gotten more verbose. :D

In both cases https must be changed to http.
 
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The ECAC non-travel partner schedule for 20-21 has been posted on eLynah on New Year's Day as has become traditional. https://elf.elynah.com/file.php/1/902/2020-21_Men_s_Schedule_w_Pairings_111618.pdf

11/6 Clarkson
11/7 SLU
11/13 @Yale
11/14 @Brown
1/1 Princeton
1/2 QU
1/8 @DC
1/9 @Harvard
1/15 Brown
1/16 Yale
1/29 @Cornell
1/30 @Colgate
2/5 Harvard
2/6 DC
2/12 @SLU
2/13 @Clarkson
2/19 @QU
2/20 @Princeton
2/26 Colgate
2/27 Cornell

No switch for Harvard. :)

Edit: It's Union's turn. :D
 
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realet said:
Happy New Year everyone.

Even though WaP has been shuttered for a year and a half, I decided to close out the decade by having a look at the Top 10 games of the 2010s as I did at the end of the 2000s during WaP's first year.

Please enjoy. Feel free to debate them if you like. If anyone wants a full list of the 27 finalist games, drop me a line.

https://www.withoutapeer.com/2019/12/the-top-10-greatest-rpi-games-of-2010s.html
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Can't quarrel with the list, but I was surprised to learn that the 2010-2011 Freakout! win over Yale did not constitute the deciding points in the Pairwise ranking that year.Which team was directly behind RPI in the Pairwise that year?
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/RPI_Hockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RPI_Hockey</a> assistant coach Scott Moser walks us through USA 2v2, which focuses on defending skating forwards & angling.<br><br>For more chalk talks → <a href="https://t.co/bGDeRngbOm">https://t.co/bGDeRngbOm</a> <a href="https://t.co/mYwy9EoX3T">pic.twitter.com/mYwy9EoX3T</a></p>— USA Hockey (@usahockey) <a href="https://twitter.com/usahockey/status/1212495538706243584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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3 things stand out in this schedule:
1. A home game on New Years Day. Has been a long time since that last happened.
2. Looks like the 2/6 game vs. DC will be Freakout!
3. Only 4 league games before January (probably 6 since our games vs. Union will be played before then). Compared to the 9 that we already have this year, looks like more non-league action early next season.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
The ECAC non-travel partner schedule for 20-21 has been posted on eLynah on New Year's Day as has become traditional. https://elf.elynah.com/file.php/1/902/2020-21_Men_s_Schedule_w_Pairings_111618.pdf

11/6 Clarkson
11/7 SLU
11/13 @Yale
11/14 @Brown
1/1 Princeton
1/2 QU
1/8 @DC
1/9 @Harvard
1/15 Brown
1/16 Yale
1/29 @Cornell
1/30 @Colgate
2/5 Harvard
2/6 DC
2/12 @SLU
2/13 @Clarkson
2/19 @QU
2/20 @Princeton
2/26 Colgate
2/27 Cornell

No switch for Harvard. :)

Edit: It's Union's turn. :D
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I'd also bet money on 1/23/2021 for the Mayor's Cup
 
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DavidNardolillo said:
Can't quarrel with the list, but I was surprised to learn that the 2010-2011 Freakout! win over Yale did not constitute the deciding points in the Pairwise ranking that year.Which team was directly behind RPI in the Pairwise that year?
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If my memory serves me right, it had to do with the comparison with Nebraska-Omaha. Both teams played UAH twice, but the Mavs lost one and it helped give the Engineers that comparison win that would have been difficult to achieve otherwise.

So goes the PWR.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Coach Smith and senior Mike Gornall discuss the upcoming road trip to No. 4 Clarkson and St. Lawrence this weekend.<a href="https://t.co/v6rQ9MxMng">https://t.co/v6rQ9MxMng</a></p>— RPI Men's Hockey (@RPI_Hockey) <a href="https://twitter.com/RPI_Hockey/status/1212798177520295936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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Anyone want to try their hand at an All-Decade team? I have not been around long enough to do so
 
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sezenack said:
Anyone want to try their hand at an All-Decade team? I have not been around long enough to do so
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Brandon Pirri-Jerry D'Amigo-Chase Polacek
Jared Wilson-Nick Bailen
Allen York

Those are my starters.
 
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Polacek-Higgs-Haggerty...........Wilson & Bailen........Kasdorf
 
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Haggerty, Polacek, Bourbonnais, Bailen, Prapavessis, Kasdorf

There are the questions of how to count players who overlapped the start of the decade and the previous one and how to count players with short careers. Since the question was asked now, it only includes half of this season and to balance it must include only the second half of 2009-10. Thus Pirri and D'Amigo only played a half season each. I can't include them.
 
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haggerty higgs polacek Wilson bailen and yorkie ill go with

does anyone know if there doing the rpi food reception before the mayors cup again
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Haggerty, Polacek, Bourbonnais, Bailen, Prapavessis, Kasdorf

There are the questions of how to count players who overlapped the start of the decade and the previous one and how to count players with short careers. Since the question was asked now, it only includes half of this season and to balance it must include only the second half of 2009-10. Thus Pirri and D'Amigo only played a half season each. I can't include them.
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Don't overthink it Ralph. 09-10 season counts as this decade.

Polacek-Higgs-Haggerty
Wilson-Tinordi
York
 
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ServinisScores said:
Don't overthink it Ralph. 09-10 season counts as this decade.

Polacek-Higgs-Haggerty
Wilson-Tinordi
York
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Tinordi was a forward<hr>

since everyone is doing it:

Polacek - Higgs - Haggerty
Reilly - Bailen
Kasdorf

and a second "fan favorites" team (pay no attention to the fact that most of these players were on the team my senior year)

Lee - Bubela - Brutlag
Curadi - Dolan
Coupal (this is a cop out because I couldn't choose between Bryce and Diebold)
 
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