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RPI MMXI III: Overanalyzing The Iron Men and Other Uses of Internet Bandwidth

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troyboy said:
The passing of the tournament is indeed sad...thats were I saw my first RPI game and fell in love....but time moves on and if anything in life is certain its that things are going to change...so I will move on...
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Well said. I remember dad taking me to the first game and meeting you later for the RPI game. If this is what is best for the program than we need to move on. Knowing SA, he did not do this lightly, he is big on honoring tradition of program. To all, let's make some new traditions.
 
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RPI drops to 18/19 in RPI / Krach :(
Engineer cheering section goes 3-10-2.... just makes the loss worse :(
 
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Wow not a good night! :mad: Ontop of that, Brutlag is now out for a month, really cant afford anymore injuries or were gonna be skating shorthanded. Probably gonna see 7 dmen dressed tonight just because theres no more healthy forwards in reserve(unless Halpern is available).
 
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We seem to be having lots of problems year in and year out staying healthy...
 
Waite21 said:
I lament the passing of the RPI Invitational (to use the name by which it was known when I was a student), though, like Ralph, I am not terribly surprised that this has come to pass. :(

As I recollect, a number of years ago, North Dakota played in and won our tournament, then went on to capture the NCAA championship.

When Sports Illustrated did its obligatory yearly college hockey article reporting on the NCAA championship, the article mentioned the RPI tournament, and not in a complimentary way. According to the North Dakota player quoted in the article, when North Dakota won the RPI tournament, instead of a championship trophy, the team was awarded a wristwatch in acknowledgement of their achievement. Not a wristwatch for each member of the team - one wristwatch for the whole team.

If we were that cheap, I guess we deserved to be dissed.

I don’t think the prestige of the RPI tournament ever recovered from that article.
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Yeah,but it was a really nice watch....
 
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Could someone who watched last night's game explain the article in today's Troy Record? Ed Weaver seems to quoting/channelling Coach Appert who perhaps was trying to soothe his troops by not pointing out how badly they were outplayed. Does anyone reading here think the play was even?

If so I can recommend the video replay on TW3 Sunday evening
Good luck at Colgate tonight.
 
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marty74 said:
Could someone who watched last night's game explain the article in today's Troy Record? Ed Weaver seems to quoting/channelling Coach Appert who perhaps was trying to soothe his troops by not pointing out how badly they were outplayed. Does anyone reading here think the play was even?

If so I can recommend the video replay on TW3 Sunday evening
Good luck at Colgate tonight.
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I was at the game. I would say that's he's pretty much right if you count the whole game. We had a slow first period where it seemed to be all Cornell, then it started to pick up for us, but we weren't setting it up, getting some movement, nor really "controlling" the game. Shots on goal were pretty even all night, but we just didn't make the most of our opportunities. The majority of Cornell's goals came off really bad turnovers. I'd say only the 3rd goal (a scrum), MAYBE the 5th goal (5-on-3), Cornell really earned. Chase gave them the 1st by putting it at the one place you never want to clear the puck, the 2nd was right off the faceoff (similar to what happened with our SHG in the Union game), and the 4th was a clean breakaway.
 
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Hockey can be a very complicated game w/left wing locks/traps/umbrella's and so on....but it still has a few simple aspects #1 being if you can't score you can't win...we have trouble putting the puck in the net...that is and will be our downfall ! 5 power plays last night including a 5 on 3....3 shots on goal is not gonna get it done.Is there anyone out there who still thinks we don't miss BP or JDA ??????????????
 
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troyboy said:
Is there anyone out there who still thinks we don't miss BP or JDA ??????????????
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We really need to stop lamenting over what 'could have been.' They left several months ago now, there's nothing we can do about that.

JFK, Chase, and everyone else got asked this question for two months in the run-up to the season, and every time you could tell how it annoyed them. When people continuously bring it up, I can understand their attitude. Pirri and D'Amigo left. The seniors are still around - they've worked their tails off their whole college career, and want to leave with something special. That's why we're succeeding this year.
 
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hawthr said:
We really need to stop lamenting over what 'could have been.' They left several months ago now, there's nothing we can do about that.

JFK, Chase, and everyone else got asked this question for two months in the run-up to the season, and every time you could tell how it annoyed them. When people continuously bring it up, I can understand their attitude. Pirri and D'Amigo left. The seniors are still around - they've worked their tails off their whole college career, and want to leave with something special. That's why we're succeeding this year.
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Not lamenting.....just say'in....so you can unbunch your panties
 
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I thought the game last night was pretty even...until the 3rd period. The game changer was when Cornell's goalie Mike Garmen made a great glove save in the third period on RPI's 5 on 3. Had the boys capitalized....game tied!
 
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Well, without O'Grady and Higgs we seem to be what everyone feared at the beginning of the year - a 1 line team. Hopefully the two of them are back soon and Brutlag is not out for an extended period of time. We need to find another line that will score a few goals and help take the pressure of the 1st line and the PP.
 
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After tonite's game we will be 10 games into league play and the best we can be is a 500 team, I'm really starting to believe that we are a middle of the pack ecac team, we do have trouble generating quality chances and we have trouble finishing, all league games are tough irregardless of who you play, we would really need to go on a tear but I don't forsee it happening. I thought Burgdofer & Tinordi played a good game and generated some offense by just taking the puck to the net, forget the perimeter stuff and head to the net.
 
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well im 14 and dont plan on seeing that scenario again....anyway time to buckle down, get healthy, and start a good streak in league play...LETS GO RED
 
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hawthr said:
We really need to stop lamenting over what 'could have been.' They left several months ago now, there's nothing we can do about that.

JFK, Chase, and everyone else got asked this question for two months in the run-up to the season, and every time you could tell how it annoyed them. When people continuously bring it up, I can understand their attitude. Pirri and D'Amigo left. The seniors are still around - they've worked their tails off their whole college career, and want to leave with something special. That's why we're succeeding this year.
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SO (Standing Ovation :D) for this well written post.
 
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Big Jim said:
After tonite's game we will be 10 games into league play and the best we can be is a 500 team, I'm really starting to believe that we are a middle of the pack ecac team, we do have trouble generating quality chances and we have trouble finishing, all league games are tough irregardless of who you play, we would really need to go on a tear but I don't forsee it happening. I thought Burgdofer & Tinordi played a good game and generated some offense by just taking the puck to the net, forget the perimeter stuff and head to the net.
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With all due respect if you aren't going to think positively for this team don't think at all!
 
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Well what a way to pull that one out of our *****. Gotta remind the boys that Friday night is a game night as well or else things wont turn out well the rest of the season. Looking forward to maybe getting some payback over Harvard next weekend.
 
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