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RPI Off-Season Thread 2012: An Off-Season to Be Optimistic

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turk181 said:
I've heard Stan "The Hockey Maven" Fischler tell this story just as you recall Doc. I too have great memories of stopping at one of the many Horn & Hardats as a kid. I never thought of it the way you put it Doc but you're right, you have to have the years to have the many memories.:)
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Turk: Saw my first NHL game at MSG February of 1955. Some things you just do not forget. Montreal murdered the Rangers (score was something like 7 or 8 to 1). I remember my dad took me to see that game so i could see Maurice Richard play(his favorite player). He was everything he had said he would be. Fast, absolutely fierce, and fearless. But that team had a fellow who just hit the puck so hard with a shot that i later found out was called a slapshot (had never seen that ever) named Bernie Geoffrion. I was hooked on hockey for life that day. BTW-at that age I could not figure out how they filled the little glass cupboards you got the sandwiches out of at the Automat.:o
 
ibanezist00 said:
I may be completely wrong (and don't feel like doing the research right now), but isn't there now an NCAA rule that does not allow the selling of alcohol in any school-owned sports facility? A lot of schools get around this -- i.e. Siena basketball holding games at the Times Union Center -- and on top of that, RPI is technically a "dry campus" if I remember correctly...

Don't get me wrong though, I'd like to see all of that horsehocky completely lifted and be able to buy a cold one at an RPI game...
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That's what I thought as well but was proved wrong this winter. A friend of mine was talking about how they could drink at the Denver games and that the rink was on campus. I then researched it to find out it is up to the school to make the decisions. Plus, when they did the grand opening for the football stadium a few years ago they had a tent setup at the north end where they were selling beer. You just couldn't take the drinks out of the tent area. I think Siena moved their home games to the TU because they can draw a bigger crowd. Last I knew I think they avg about 6,000 plus. Of course this was before their coach left for Iowa.

I didn't know they were considered a dry campus. They sell beer at the Alumni house after the freak out games. Wouldn't that go against being a dry campus?
 
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I believe BU and NoDak's arena both serve beer at the rink. There is alcohol in the Burben (Bourbon) Room at Cheel, but that is a separate area overlooking the rink..no booze inside
 
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WillOutDrinkYou said:
I didn't know they were considered a dry campus. They sell beer at the Alumni house after the freak out games. Wouldn't that go against being a dry campus?
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Alcoholic consumption and "stockpiles" are limited, but by no means is it dry. Unless they changed something in the last couple of years (and given the pub posts on facebook about happy hour, I don't think they did).
 
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DrDemento said:
Turk: Saw my first NHL game at MSG February of 1955. Some things you just do not forget. Montreal murdered the Rangers (score was something like 7 or 8 to 1). I remember my dad took me to see that game so i could see Maurice Richard play(his favorite player). He was everything he had said he would be. Fast, absolutely fierce, and fearless. But that team had a fellow who just hit the puck so hard with a shot that i later found out was called a slapshot (had never seen that ever) named Bernie Geoffrion. I was hooked on hockey for life that day. BTW-at that age I could not figure out how they filled the little glass cupboards you got the sandwiches out of at the Automat.:o
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Hence Geoffrion's nickname "Boom Boom". Unitl Bobby Hull came along, Boom Boom had the hardest shot in the league.
 
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engineerhockeyfan said:
Hence Geoffrion's nickname "Boom Boom". Unitl Bobby Hull came along, Boom Boom had the hardest shot in the league.
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EHF: A while ago I looked back to see who was on that Montreal team that used to beat my Rangers pretty regularly. It was like looking at an almost completely Hall Of Fame team. In those days we went to lots of games-sitting incredibly high above the ice and very far away. But we saw the same 6 teams all the time and each team had the same line up just about all the time-so you really got to know the teams and players coming into MSG. I realize this is not about RPI hockey but we have about 6 months of time to fill-and I think there are at least a few who post here who go back pretty far with their hockey memories.
 
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DrDemento said:
EHF: A while ago I looked back to see who was on that Montreal team that used to beat my Rangers pretty regularly. It was like looking at an almost completely Hall Of Fame team. In those days we went to lots of games-sitting incredibly high above the ice and very far away. But we saw the same 6 teams all the time and each team had the same line up just about all the time-so you really got to know the teams and players coming into MSG. I realize this is not about RPI hockey but we have about 6 months of time to fill-and I think there are at least a few who post here who go back pretty far with their hockey memories.
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Even sitting that far away, you could see the players faces as they did not wear any headgear. It was a whole different game. And nobody played it better then the Canadiens.
 
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I cant go back that far, but seeing how you are talking about the Canadiens, it brings me back to my first NHL game in 1990. I was a Pee Wee playing for Troy Youth hockey, 14 years old, and we were playing 2 games against a team from Montreal. Instead of the kids staying in the hotel, each kid was assigned a "billet" from the Montreal team and each player would stay at the house of the player from the other team. We met our billets on a Friday night at the Montreal team's home rink, and I wasnt in the car for more than 5 minutes when my billets' dad turned around and asked me if I had ever been to an N.H.L. game, then he informed me I would be going to the Canadiens game on Saturday night at the Fourm, vs. the Red Wings. What a building. I still have the ticket stub to that game. Our seats were awful. We were center ice, very top of the blue seats, probably 3 or 4 rows from the top. Couldnt even see the boards on the other side of the ice becasue of the press box hanging down. But I didnt care, I was a 14 year old kid watching Patrick Roy and Steve Yzerman(among others), eating the Fourms famous hot dogs, on a Saturday night at the Montreal Fourm.
 
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Does anyone know if there is a group for RPI fans on the pickemhockey website? I thought there was one last year, but I could be mistaken.
 
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Why don't they put any thing on the school website about the guys, i.e. Paddy, signing a pro contract? Or is it on the site somewhere that I'm not seeing it.
 
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DavidSec17 said:
I cant go back that far, but seeing how you are talking about the Canadiens, it brings me back to my first NHL game in 1990. I was a Pee Wee playing for Troy Youth hockey, 14 years old, and we were playing 2 games against a team from Montreal. Instead of the kids staying in the hotel, each kid was assigned a "billet" from the Montreal team and each player would stay at the house of the player from the other team. We met our billets on a Friday night at the Montreal team's home rink, and I wasnt in the car for more than 5 minutes when my billets' dad turned around and asked me if I had ever been to an N.H.L. game, then he informed me I would be going to the Canadiens game on Saturday night at the Fourm, vs. the Red Wings. What a building. I still have the ticket stub to that game. Our seats were awful. We were center ice, very top of the blue seats, probably 3 or 4 rows from the top. Couldnt even see the boards on the other side of the ice becasue of the press box hanging down. But I didnt care, I was a 14 year old kid watching Patrick Roy and Steve Yzerman(among others), eating the Fourms famous hot dogs, on a Saturday night at the Montreal Fourm.
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Although I never went to any games (my first pro hockey game for live attendance wasn't until 2008), I remember watching Patrick Roy on both Molson Hockey Night in Canada and La Soirée du Hockey Molson when I was really young. I think I stopped paying attention once Roy was traded for Thibault, but finally got back into watching hockey again when I found the Sabres games on Empire (after we finally got a satellite dish). My first live NHL game had President Clinton in attendance, and they showed him up on the screen.
 
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