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RPI @ RIT, Friday 11/25/11

Re: RPI @ RIT, Friday 11/25/11

TimV said:
Ok. Maybe it's my fault for misinterpreting the expression. Are you saying that C&G is a style of play, legal but unappealing to those teams and fans who prefer higher scoring games? I can see that. But especially for non-scholarship teams, that comes under the heading of playing a style that maximizes your specific players skills (or lack of skills) and if you can be successful with the players you have, isn't that what good coaching is all about? Otherwise, you're saying that it's OK to be unsuccessful as long as you look good doing it.
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It's not that difficult to understand. Let's say RPI had an equestrian team, and they were very, very good at it. Would I go to watch them? No. Why? Because I don't care about equestrian.

I watch hockey because I enjoy the game the way it was meant to be played - at high speed, with physical play and athletic moves with a game plan focused on scoring goals. That's how the game initially evolved. Clutch and grab turns a game I enjoy into pure boredom. If RPI played hockey the way Cornell plays hockey, I would not watch RPI play hockey. That simple.

If you enjoy watching slow, boring hockey as long as your team wins, good for you. I don't pass judgment on you (for that). I find it distasteful. I am not even close to being alone. For whatever reason, you can't stand that and have to cause a scene. OK.
 
Re: RPI @ RIT, Friday 11/25/11

TimV said:
Ok. Maybe it's my fault for misinterpreting the expression. Are you saying that C&G is a style of play, legal but unappealing to those teams and fans who prefer higher scoring games? I can see that. But especially for non-scholarship teams, that comes under the heading of playing a style that maximizes your specific players skills (or lack of skills) and if you can be successful with the players you have, isn't that what good coaching is all about? Otherwise, you're saying that it's OK to be unsuccessful as long as you look good doing it.

OTOH, the expression always came across as something illegal that was gotten away with only because the refs couldn't call a mountain of penalties. If that's true, shouldn't the quantifiable things (like penalty totals) at least reveal that? And why wouldn't the increased emphasis of the last coupla years on obstruction/interference makethat tactic unsustainable?
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I like to watch hockey, not hockey infused with the WWE on ice, personally. I watch a sport for the athleticism of it all, and while winning is nice, it's not always everything. Checking (of all types) is a legitimate part of hockey, physical and slow to the point of an uninteresting sport shouldn't be. Note that this is my opinion, and nothing more. If all Cornell fans care about is winning no matter how they come across that win (and that seems to be from my perspective a very popular attitude), that is fine, but that's not what I enjoy.

Maximizing the team's success by capitalizing on what they are good at is great, but that just begs the question "shouldn't you develop the rest of their game so they're well-rounded players to the point of being unstoppable?"
 
Re: RPI @ RIT, Friday 11/25/11

No band and no students, day after Thanksgiving. Last year's games that weekend did not sell out and those were conference games. RIT will probably not play Madolora (although you never know now that he's missed five games). My expectations for getting close to the typical insane atmosphere (e.g. last Friday) are low.
 
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Red Cloud said:
Honestly, you folks make a bigger deal of it than we do.

Comparing yourselves to Lynah makes me less interested in coming, bottom line. That's basically telling me you have robotic, unimaginative fans who show up to support a boring hockey team that plays in a dump.
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THIS is what "caused a scene." You pass it off as "your opinion" mean-spirited as it was, and you're entitled to it. But you don't tolerate responses or other opinions very well, and THAT is what "causes a scene." Of course, if you don't feel a post meets your standards for wisdom or RPI-Love, you see it as justifying "causing a scene." It seems to happen a lot-right, Sly Fox (Union), Klumpmypants (Yale), kdiff77(Brown),? The common denominator to "unpleasantness" with all these posters is.....YOU.

So save yourself some headaches and just use the Ignore Function. OK.
 
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Re: RPI @ RIT, Friday 11/25/11

ibanezist00 said:
I like to watch hockey, not hockey infused with the WWE on ice, personally. I watch a sport for the athleticism of it all, and while winning is nice, it's not always everything. Checking (of all types) is a legitimate part of hockey, physical and slow to the point of an uninteresting sport shouldn't be. Note that this is my opinion, and nothing more. If all Cornell fans care about is winning no matter how they come across that win (and that seems to be from my perspective a very popular attitude), that is fine, but that's not what I enjoy.

Maximizing the team's success by capitalizing on what they are good at is great, but that just begs the question "shouldn't you develop the rest of their game so they're well-rounded players to the point of being unstoppable?"
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Fair enough. A little hyperbolic, but fair. And for what it's worth, most of the Cornell fans are, like you, enjoying this year's version with a higher scoring, more skilled set of players better than past teams, which were admittedly more um...defensively oriented. I agree that the rest of the game should also be developed, to the extent that it can be. But you still didn't answer th last two questions in my post. What do you think?
 
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TimV said:
THIS is what "caused a scene." You pass it off as "your opinion" mean-spirited as it was, and you're entitled to it. But you don't tolerate responses or other opinions very well, and THAT is what "causes a scene." Of course, if you don't feel a post meets your standards for wisdom or RPI-Love, you see it as justifying "causing a scene." It seems to happen a lot-right, Sly Fox (Union), Klumpmypants (Yale), kdiff77(Brown), FlagDude, Beman, and jmhusker(RPI)? The common denominator to "unpleasantness" with all these posters is.....YOU.

So save yourself some headaches and just use the Ignore Function. OK.
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I believe I can determine my unpleasantness for myself, thank you. It is not caused by Red Cloud.
 
Re: RPI @ RIT, Friday 11/25/11

First RIT game i'll be at since Army at West Point last year.....and First game at the Ritter in nearly a Decade....
Next Up, Wisconsin....
 
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Chris Lerch said:
No band and no students, day after Thanksgiving.
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Then Maybe i can take my respective seat from 1999-2001 right behind the Penalty box....and cause trouble like the old days. Not sure the Wifey will like if i'm in the drunken stupor though.
 
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JRZ DVLS said:
Then Maybe i can take my respective seat from 1999-2001 right behind the Penalty box....and cause trouble like the old days. Not sure the Wifey will like if i'm in the drunken stupor though.
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So long as you don't end up with metal bracelets, you'll probably be fine. Plus, don't chicks dig passion? Or is this why I haven't had a girlfriend for longer than 2 months at a time?
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
So long as you don't end up with metal bracelets, you'll probably be fine. Plus, don't chicks dig passion? Or is this why I haven't had a girlfriend for longer than 2 months at a time?
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I was lucky. I found a woman who not only enjoys hockey-but might even be more passionate about it than I am. Once you find that-you never let go! Plus a big bonus-she can really cook.:D
 
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TimV said:
THIS is what "caused a scene." You pass it off as "your opinion" mean-spirited as it was, and you're entitled to it.
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It caused a scene only because YOU had a problem with it! We were having polite conversation until you came along! Just because you don't like my opinion, it's mean spirited. Brilliant.

But you don't tolerate responses or other opinions very well, and THAT is what "causes a scene."
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Projection.

Of course, if you don't feel a post meets your standards for wisdom or RPI-Love, you see it as justifying "causing a scene." It seems to happen a lot-right, Sly Fox (Union), Klumpmypants (Yale), kdiff77(Brown),? The common denominator to "unpleasantness" with all these posters is.....YOU.
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Actually, the common denominator seems to be idiots spouting nonsense that I point out and collect ample amounts of butthurt from said posters.

So save yourself some headaches and just use the Ignore Function. OK.
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I know this is a difficult concept, but YOU were not part of the conversation in the first place. You're responding to ME. Why should *I* be the one using the ignore function, genius? Shouldn't you just ignore me if I'm such a meanieface poophead?

Why would I ignore you? Your moronic screeds make me laugh uncontrollably, especially your feeble attempts to respond to reason. Why would I deprive myself of that enjoyment?
 
Re: RPI @ RIT, Friday 11/25/11

Sorry I even brought up Lynah rink. The only reason I did was that some people like Dave Starman consider the Ritter a hidden gem for gamebay atmosphere and put it alongside places like Yost, Marriuci, and Lynah. I obviously chose Lynah for a comparison due to the conference affiliation. I certainly was not comparing the hockey teams nor their style of play.
 
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komey1 said:
Sorry I even brought up Lynah rink. The only reason I did was that some people like Dave Starman consider the Ritter a hidden gem for gamebay atmosphere and put it alongside places like Yost, Marriuci, and Lynah. I obviously chose Lynah for a comparison due to the conference affiliation. I certainly was not comparing the hockey teams nor their style of play.
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I understand this and hold you blameless. I do hold those anti-mainstream beliefs on Lynah and I was mostly just joshing with you because of it when this guy got all bent out of shape. No worries - no harm, no foul. :)
 
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DrDemento said:
I was lucky. I found a woman who not only enjoys hockey-but might even be more passionate about it than I am. Once you find that-you never let go! Plus a big bonus-she can really cook.:D
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My strategy for getting a wife to like hockey:

1. Marry her.
2. Impregnate her.
3. Get the kids into youth hockey, where they will play for the next 14+ years.
4. Do radio for a college team and write for a college hockey website that that requires you to be away for many weekends during the season, thus dumping most of the youth hockey duties on her.
5. Pretty much be her slave in the offseason.

Works every time.
 
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Chris Lerch said:
My strategy for getting a wife to like hockey:

1. Marry her.
2. Impregnate her.
3. Get the kids into youth hockey, where they will play for the next 14+ years.
4. Do radio for a college team and write for a college hockey website that that requires you to be away for many weekends during the season, thus dumping most of the youth hockey duties on her.
5. Pretty much be her slave in the offseason.

Works every time.
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Very cute. In my case it was easy-Jenny liked hockey from her very first RPI game at the HFH in the '75 season-but she was not addicted until her first Christmas Tournament with 3 days of 6 hours each of hockey. The killer though was 1985 at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. Besides, since most of the games are in frigid winter weather-it gives her a great excuse to wear her fur coats.:)
 
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Red Cloud said:
I understand this and hold you blameless. I do hold those anti-mainstream beliefs on Lynah and I was mostly just joshing with you because of it when this guy got all bent out of shape. No worries - no harm, no foul. :)
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I get that not everyone likes certain things. I believe Lynah was called "predictable" by a certain RIT broadcaster on RIT's second visit. I only made the first one, and the students were not on break, so I don't think I can fairly judge the atmosphere because townies generally don't have the same passion as students/returning alumni.
 
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No posts in 6 days... It's gameday, guys! Let's talk about things that aren't Lynah!
 
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