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Does RPI's 5-1 victory over Clarkson not count because CHN thinks the game will start at 7 PM? 

A public post on Neutral Zone about recent commitments. https://neutralzone.com/2025/10/27/ncaa-commitments-oct-20-oct-26/

Re: Sullivan

QuoteCharlie Sullivan (D, L, 6'1, 183, St. Andrew's College, 03/21/2009, Cornell)

A draft pick of the Guelph Storm, Sullivan is currently playing at St. Andrew's College. In 2028, the defenseman will head to Cornell.

Sullivan put in a great performance at the OHL Cup, where his Don Mills Flyers placed second.

"Throughout the OHL Cup, Charlie showcased his strong compete level, skating, and shot. Looking at his compete level, Charlie backchecked consistently. He rarely trailed the play and was consistently one of the first players back to limit zone entries for his team. Charlie won numerous puck battles. Due to his strong physical game, Charlie delivered many hits to opponents away from the puck, enabling him to gain puck possession and initiate breakouts. Charlie frequently positioned himself in shooting lanes, demonstrating a willingness to put his body on the line. He blocked many shots, limiting scoring chances against his team. Regarding his skating, he was agile. Charlie demonstrated the ability to utilize both his inside and outside edges effectively."

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Quote from: ursusminor on October 26, 2025, 02:11:14 PMIn the spring of 1964, I was a senior in HS. I rode the 7 train from Queensborough Plaza to Main Street-Flushing as part of an hour and a half subway and bus trip home from HS. A few times that spring, the train was filled with subhuman Mets fans who made it impossible to any of my homework (usually which was the easiest to do in the subway). I have despised the Mets since then and remained a Yankees fan.

well well well looks like i found another bronx science kid from queens

Yes. There were not many then. Thankfully, I only had the very lengthy trip on the way home from BHSS. Going there I was driven, by my father as a sophomore and by the father of the only other student from the same JHS as me the other two years.

In the spring of 1964, I was a senior in HS. I rode the 7 train from Queensborough Plaza to Main Street-Flushing as part of an hour and a half subway and bus trip home from HS. A few times that spring, the train was filled with subhuman Mets fans who made it impossible to do any of my homework (usually reading, which was the easiest to do in the subway). I have despised the Mets since then and remained a Yankees fan.

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Quote from: chimpfood on October 23, 2025, 11:50:50 AMNeed to see Walsh and Hoyt in this one

I don't think Jason mentioned whether they were banged up or just numbers casualties last week.

I posted this on the Czech thread:

"Coach had some comments in the Friday luncheon.

We are either the tallest, or maybe second tallest, I don't remember. But even with that, he thinks we're still faster than we have been.

Walsh and I think it was Stanley were out because of a good helping of caution."

Elite Prospects shows Cornell as the second tallest. https://www.eliteprospects.com/league/ncaa/teams-physical-stats They could be the tallest since averaging heights which are integral numbers of inches cannot be averaged to a fraction of an inch with complete confidence. Possibly more important is that probably not all heights are correct, and Elite Prospects could be using some old figures. They are also second in weight.

Quote from: Trotsky on October 24, 2025, 11:25:24 PM

Quote from: Iceberg on October 24, 2025, 09:30:11 PMUND loses to Clarkson in the North Country. Hmm...

3 upsets:

Clarkson 5 #8 North Dakota 2
Colgate 3 #10 Maine 2
Merrimack 4 #6 Quinnipiac 1

1 chalk:

#20 Mankato 4 RPI 2

I got all four wrong in the prediction contest on USCHO. I did no worse when I forgot to post guesses last week. 

A free article on Neutral Zone about changes which have affected college hockey's entering classes. There is a paragraph titled "Cornell". This is not the appropriate thread for it, but I didn't want to resurrect last year's recruit thread.

https://neutralzone.com/2025/10/06/a-new-era-of-ncaa-hockey/

Quote from: Trotsky on October 05, 2025, 10:16:53 PMhttps://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Software+Update+Services

So you and 12 others including some who haven't been here for a decade or so are updating the software. That sounds like something which DJT would say.

As I sit here waiting for RPI to be devoured by BU at 5 PM in a game that doesn't count, I have been trying to figure out just what "SUS member" means. There are only 13 SUS members, and they range from Trotsky who has the most posts of anyone to kla52 who has only 6 posts and hasn't been active since 2017. Clearly it is something that requires an Ivy-League education to understand.

My recollection from before I retired, now almost 15 years ago, is that SUS are explosive underwater sound sources. They are used for studying the sea floor among other things. As I theoretic researcher, I never used them, which is good because I probably would have blown myself up even though they are small.

Quote from: Trotsky on October 02, 2025, 03:37:29 PMGradually filling in.  Keep em coming.

TBRW on that page has Yale twice and no RPI.

Quote from: stereaxCool article about ECAC W hockey. Did y'all know this?

"With the roster down to just 21 players thanks to a freshman class of 6, staying healthy will be just as important as any on-ice keys for Cornell this season."

I wonder why the writer chose to identify RPI with the full "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute" while not identifying any of the other 11 as "University" or "College" as appropriate.

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Quote from: billhowardAnd you are also one of the ones elated that Shirley Ann Jackson has since decamped RPI? IIRC, SAJ was going to be in the 2017-2021 cabinet of President H Clinton except that hit a roadblock.

Yes. I don't think that any of the RPI fans who post on USCHO were sad when SAJ retired.

RPI reddit (not even hockey) was 10x more amplified.  She unified the entire campus community.  The sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all hated her.

There still are fans who think that Seth Appert should not have been fired.

Quote from: billhowardAnd you are also one of the ones elated that Shirley Ann Jackson has since decamped RPI? IIRC, SAJ was going to be in the 2017-2021 cabinet of President H Clinton except that hit a roadblock.

Yes. I don't think that any of the RPI fans who post on USCHO were sad when SAJ retired.

Quote from: TrotskyI'll start.

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           [b]W      L      T      Pts[/b]

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 1  Quinnipiac         16 4 2 34
 2  [color=#b31313]Cornell[/color]         12 6 4 28
 3  Clarkson         12 8 2 26
 4  Colgate         11 9 2 24
 5  Union         11 9 2 24
 6  Harvard         11 9 2 24
 7  Dartmouth         10 9 3 23
 8  Yale          7 12 3 17
 9  Brown          7 13 2 16
10  Princeton          7 13 2 16
11  St. Lawrence          7 13 2 16
12  RPI                  8 14 0 16



Looking at that without looking at where it came from, it looks like RPI should be #9 since wins is the first tie-breaker. I'd rather have us indeed predicted as #12 since it can make RPI louse up your predictions worse if say half of RPI's portal additions and other new players perform as hoped. Note that Neutral Zone ranked RPI as #1 in the country in Portal additions. ::whistle::  Granted, I do not agree that simply adding the value of each new player makes sense. RPI was #33 is the country in other recruits (#5 in the ECAC). And then there is the expected benefit of a coach who got AIC out of the toilet. :-D