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Quote from: ursusminor on October 10, 2026, 01:20:34 AM

Quote from: marty on October 09, 2026, 09:43:13 PM

Quote from: ursusminor on October 09, 2026, 09:18:58 PMRPI defeated OSU 3-0. IMO, the difference was in the goal.

SOG's were 36-20 in OSU's favor.

Krawchuk stole the game. RPI's D was playing good positional hockey but their offense looked like a pee-wee team compared to TOSU. They couldn't advance the puck and lost the puck battles.  But TOSU couldn't score and Krawchuk didn't make a mistake all night that I could see.

Penalties were very lopsided against RPI including a major and game disqualification. 

This was a good start for them on their new ice. 

I agree, but after 1st-line winger Jagger Tapper got a major and game misconduct, the lines got mixed up for the rest of the evening. He was mad for not having a penalty called against an OSU player earlier. I guess that is what happens to someone named for Mick Jagger. Actually, he is not like that usually. The 15 minutes he got credited for in this game was more than his total in two years.

I felt the Engineers looked better on Saturday in their loss to TOSU.

Quote from: Trotsky on October 10, 2026, 08:51:30 PM

Quote from: ursusminor on October 10, 2026, 05:24:17 AM

Quote from: Trotsky on October 10, 2026, 03:14:52 AMMore Tappers.  Can another Fusco be long in coming?

He's apparently not related to the earlier Tappers.

That's not possible.  I've heard of three Tappers, they're all RPI hockey players, and you're telling me this guy isn't related?

Nope.  I don't believe you.  He's even the right age to be offspring.

It means nothing but I thought he was a nephew of one of the notorious Tappers.

Quote from: marty on October 09, 2026, 09:43:13 PM

Quote from: ursusminor on October 09, 2026, 09:18:58 PMRPI defeated OSU 3-0. IMO, the difference was in the goal.

SOG's were 36-20 in OSU's favor.

Krawchuk stole the game. RPI's D was playing good positional hockey but their offense looked like a pee-wee team compared to TOSU. They couldn't advance the puck and lost the puck battles.  But TOSU couldn't score and Krawchuk didn't make a mistake all night that I could see.

Penalties were very lopsided against RPI including a major and game disqualification. 

This was a good start for them on their new ice. 

Also new boards, glass and east end configuration.  The visiting team can now enter the ice behind the goal rather than having to walk to the back of the vistor's bench through the public space.  The old stage area is completely clear and the RPI pep band faces the students - who remain on the north side - having been moved to section 10 which is the east most section on the south side.

The railings in sections 6, 7 and 8 were reinstalled for the townies.  They had been missing for many years being removed in one of the prior renovations.  This should negate the need for me to catch 80+ year olds when they accidentally swoon in the aisles.

Quote from: ursusminor on October 09, 2026, 09:18:58 PMRPI defeated OSU 3-0. IMO, the difference was in the goal.

SOG's were 36-20 in OSU's favor.

Krawchuk stole the game. RPI's D was playing good positional hockey but their offense looked like a pee-wee team compared to TOSU. They couldn't advance the puck and lost the puck battles.  But TOSU couldn't score and Krawchuk didn't make a mistake all night that I could see.

Penalties were very lopsided against RPI including a major and game disqualification. 

This was a good start for them on their new ice. 

Quote from: Al DeFlorio on October 04, 2026, 05:44:04 AM

Quote from: BearLover on October 04, 2026, 01:09:37 AM

Quote from: Dafatone on October 03, 2026, 04:41:33 PM

Quote from: BearLover on October 03, 2026, 12:01:54 AMMSU has 17 draft picks including 9 first rounders. Don't know how we're supposed to compete with that. The best players commit/transfer to the top conferences to play against better talent, which creates a vicious cycle of the top conferences perpetually improving and the weaker conferences perpetually getting worse. The CHL opening up to college exacerbated this. We unfortunately need to root for other ECAC teams to improve so that the conference profile improves somewhat.

Let teams in other conferences take a lot of the blue chip prospects. We don't have to compete with MSU. We just have to win one game against them in the NCAAs if we run into them.

"MSU" is a stand-in for "blue blood who is recruiting ridiculous talent such that the gap between ours and theirs grows larger every year." MSU could just as easily be Denver, BC, BU, Michigan, etc.

Here are the teams who ended our season in the NCAAs the past six trips:
Denver
BU
Denver
BU
Providence
BU

We do have to beat these teams if we ever want to win a national championship.

We can cope all we want, but it's very clear at this point that blue-chip recruits are far more likely to win you a national title than B-level recruits. If B-level recruits were better, then MSU would recruit them instead.

Remarking on the growing talent disparity is not "shitting on my team," it's just being realistic about the state of college hockey. I've said many times that I am bullish on our chances this year if our goaltending works out. No need for everyone to freak out and start pretending we have a better team than the 18-draft-pick juggernauts lurking in the Big 10.

Everyone here knows all of this.  You really don't have to keep repeating your Chicken Little act every three days.  You seem to think you're the only one who's figured this out.  Or, do you just want everyone else here to be as miserable over it as you are?

Your laments are not going to change things one bit.  So, either suck it up and figure out how to live with it or move on to some other interest.

He's got his normal seasonal depression due to the Autumnal Equinox.  He has this problem during the Winter Solstice, Vernal Equinox and Summer Solstice along with the other 361.25 days a year.

Otherwise he's a really fun guy.

Quote from: Beeeej on October 02, 2026, 08:51:29 PM

Quote from: ursusminor on October 02, 2026, 08:31:35 PMRPI defeated Army 5-4 at West Point in a preseason game. Hat trick for Rainers Rullers.

Please, there's no such person.

It was a natural hat trick to tie the game at 3.

Believe that Olivers Murnieks took notice of Rainers.
 
Sveiks!

Quote from: RPI FieldhouseOur women's hockey game on October 2 will be played at M&T Bank Center at 2 p.m. while final construction is completed at Houston Field House.
Season ticket holders may use the tickets they have already received. No exchange or additional action is needed.

Hopefully the rink renovation is almost ready for play. 

Quote from: stereax on September 28, 2026, 01:01:00 AMApparently Barstool has a running thing with Stanley, because his name is Hoyt, and they wanted a collection of Hoyts.

Anyways, fun tidbit I found from peeking into those old streams: he took a bunch of summer classes, extra credits, etc to graduate a year early - so the Cornell '26 is accurate. Probably the team was also aware of this, hence the d-men they brought in when they did.

Are you in the wrong field?  Is there a future for you in forensic law - if that's a thing?

Good for him.

Quote from: Will on September 27, 2026, 12:49:48 PM

Quote from: upprdeck on September 27, 2026, 11:12:25 AMBut I do think that its short sited to think everyone wants to always pull out a cell phone to listen to a call.  When in a car a radio works so much better, especially now that you can't really legally use the phone that well.

This is mitigated somewhat by the notion that most or all modern vehicles have Bluetooth connectivity with our smartphones.  Obviously this doesn't help people with older cars and/or dumbphones/no phones, but those folks were already being left behind by the move off of terrestrial radio.

You're still out of luck if you're in a rural area with no cell coverage - WHCU would barely make it to Troy on a good night. Before streaming I'd turn on HCU in my car as I was leaving the RPI games.

Currently their transmitter seems to have flea power. I never hear them at night when DXing.

Quote from: Trotsky on September 25, 2026, 02:56:56 AMToday I realized I have no longer heard of a single active player in the NFL, except Mahomes.  I have heard of Mahomes because his dad was a Met.

I'm a lifetime Seahawks fan.  I watched us win the Super Bowl.  The statement still holds.

TBH, it's getting pretty damn close to true about the NHL.  Besides our alums, a sprinkling of Isles, and a dwindling supply of 40-somethings like Ovie, I got nuthin'.  Is Crosby still playing?  Shit, is Jagr? -- he must be 50.

There are no active NHL players whose dads were Mets that I am aware of.  Glavine was a decent high school hockey player, but fuck him.

Oh, and Tay Tay's guy.  I forget his name.  Wait, that isn't Mahomes, right?  It's his friend?

Good for you.  I'm saying that as a pro sports fan dropout.  I remember how excited I was when the guy down the street taught me I could follow the Maris Mantle home run race by looking in the newspaper each afternoon.  Today I have no idea who the leaders are in any MLB stat and my brain thanks me for ignoring this trivia. I'll watch games in most sports and enjoy individual efforts but won't get upset when "my team" loses - though there's one exception and my entire being can still get excited when I make my pilgrimage to Lynah.

LGR

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Quote from: Trotsky on September 20, 2026, 03:28:34 PMYou also have to realize there are probably at least ten people on eLF who know more about the day to day operation of the team and the program than any current undergrad, for reasons which are well beyond any Sun reporter to control.

I agree we should be kind.  Jane was head and shoulders above any prior student reporter in my years of fandom, including a few who were highly honored.  She isn't the standard, she's a miracle we were fortunate to experience.  Her combination of precision and thoroughness in reporting facts and more importantly her utter disdain for the mawkish, tired overwrought emotional bullshit that typically infests sports reporting, is a one-off.  I have never seen it ever before -- even among the greatest sports reporters of all time.  She's simply a wonder.

Honestly I doubt that will survive in her professional career.  You cannot thrive in a commercial space without giving the boobs what they want.  There's just too many of them with too many dollars for your editor to ignore.  And I'm sure her successors at the Sun will return to that tawdriness as well, as it is always guaranteed to get applause.  It is the false hustle of journalism, and it plays, even at an institution where the inmates should know better.

From all this glazing of Jane, you'd think she's Charlotte Brontë...

Seriously, what is going on here? Jane was great, but she was a student reporter covering a hockey team. She didn't do anything groundbreaking our special. She asked good questions. She wrote solid descriptions of the games. I'm happy she now has a full-time adult job in sports journalism, but I have no idea what the crazy hype on this forum is all about. Several Sun reporters in past years were just as good. Raphy Gendler and a few others in the 2017-2020 era come to mind. (And that's just during the time I've been closely following this stuff--I'm sure there are others too.)

To be clear, Jane was very good, as have been some other Sun hockey writers in recent years. But this level of glazing is out of control.

If you disagree, and think she's the second coming of Grantland Rice, I'd love for you to post a few of her articles you think are particularly great. 

I'll say one thing that I did think Jane did uniquely well, which was (probably because she's an athlete herself) try to drill down into the intricacies of hockey strategy. For example, the faceoff article about Walsh and Castagna's dominance at the dot. That type of article was actually really cool. But come on, her typical game recaps and weekly pieces were solid, but at approximately the same (quite high!) level of some past Cornell hockey writers.

ha - Jane is great. Trotsky's journalism pontificating is always weird. I assume he is a Christopher Hitchens fan. She, however, does not have a full-time journalism job - yet - FWIW. But will be writing for CHN still.

Not surprising that you and BL have different tastes in writing style - nor that he didn't enjoy Jane as much as the rest of us.

At least we know he's getting tuned up for another season of his writing beat/ersatz vocation here.

This seems to have been a great promotion and better than free pizza  to create a buzz.  Thanks to whoever made this happen.

Quote from: underskill on September 16, 2026, 09:29:30 PMWe had to sleep outside Lynah which was not fun but well worth it.

I'm old enough that I can't remember where I slept last night.

But I think that also happened when I was in my 20's - must have been a good time.

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Quote from: George64 on August 31, 2026, 02:26:21 PMUnlike Google Maps, Apple Maps still calls Lake Ontario, Lake Ontario!

Well, it took Apple longer, but they just caved, too.

As of five minutes ago, Waze (never heard about it before today) is holding out!

Waze is a traffic app that used to be popular because it was the first one to really program traffic, delays, and stuff into its route calculations. Required users to report stuff, though. And its system could get wonky.

Waze relies on the users' movement to understand traffic flow. Feedback from the phone app of those using the app is translated into color coded traffic conditions shown on the app.  Google Maps bought the company in order to buy the rights to the underlying algorithm.  At least that's how I think it happened.
Users can elect to report road conditions including police location. That feedback isn't actually required of the users but the more manual reporting the more use the app is to others.

I use the app in an attempt to decrease time wasted in traffic jams.

Also used it to locate Ramada Plaza Windham Albany during last year's regionals. 

Quote from: BearLover on September 01, 2026, 10:46:14 AMWith journalism dying, I don't think we should be bypassing paywalls. Either subscribe or don't read it IMO.

As to the topic at issue, there are many such cases. Unless you're one of like 15 truly elite educational brands (Ivies, MIT, Stanford, etc.) or are a member of the B10 or SEC for football, I don't know how a school is supposed to sustain itself these days.

People talk all the time about School X going D-1 in hockey. Seems foolish to me. Schools can't afford another major money sink. The few who can are already committed to spending all their money on football. We may see the number of D-1 hockey schools shrink rather than grow. Similarly, I wonder if schools will start cutting their football programs. Particularly in a world where you need to spend $20m on players to compete nationally, and it's been well established that football is giving kids severe brain damage. It just doesn't make sense to play football in this climate. And of course, we should all be skeptical of the ability of any school outside the Power 4 to be paying NIL/revenue share to hockey and lacrosse players.

Hmmmm....