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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

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Quote from: ursusminorDare I ask, why you referred to him as RPI Bob?

I was watching the Bills game and it was past my bedtime!
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No problem

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Quote from: DFORD '94This is why Ken Dryden is the best...

Stanley Cup With Ken Dryden

Thanks.  Dryden exemplifies what college sports should be about, but rarely are.

His description of the Domain Arena's ice cleaning apparatus reminded me of my introduction to NY Rangers hockey at the old (not the oldest) Madison Square Garden back in the late '50s.  Several high school friends and I would regularly go to Sunday night games.  We'd sit in General Admission seats in the second row of the balcony - $1.25 with our school GO cards.  It seemed that the same group from Queens always got there before us and "reserved" the first row.  Although Zamboni had invented his ice cleaning machine by then, union work rules that still prevailed at MSG prevented its use.  Four men with broad snow shovels working in tandem cleared the ice; two guys with brooms swept the base of the boards.  They were followed by two wheeled contraptions that were each pushed by two skating MSG employees that spread warm water on the ice surface.  If you're keeping track, that's ten people.

He also mentioned Bob McGuinn.  I was at a Cornell game in Toronto (with Jim Hyla, I think) and we had beers with McGuinn afterwards.  He hilariously described how he had finished a basement with wood paneling but didn't account for expansion and contraction and how the walls came crashing down.  It was really funny at the time.  I also recall a radio interview after he had scored a game winning goal on a breakaway.  I expected a jock's usual terse description, but he precisely described how the scouting reports identified the goalie's weakness, how he deked this way and that way, how he chose where he wanted to shoot the puck, and how he drove it home for the win.

That said, I'm now going to look for my 30-year-old copy of The Game.

Quote from: The articleGuinner, not fast, not big, bad shot, couldn't do anything but score. Later, we played together at Cornell where, as defending NCAA champions, we played the University of Toronto, defending Canadian champions. Going into overtime, 0-0, North American and Toronto bragging rights at stake, Guinner scored the winning goal. He is the funniest guy on every team he has played on.

Great memories!  RPI Bob and Ken
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Dare I ask, why you referred to him as RPI Bob?

I was debating on posting this here for a few days, but I might as well.

This article, quoting the Princeton Review, states that it was calculated that RPI is the second happiest college in the US! https://resume.io/blog/the-happiest-schools-in-the-us-uk-and-australia

Had I just seen that, I would have dismissed it as AI, but at the moment, it is on the front page of rpi.edu ::yark::

A short free evaluation on Neutral Zone of Puglisi. https://neutralzone.com/2025/09/02/ncaa-commitments-aug-25-31/ He has been evaluated several other times .

Charlie Puglisi (F, R, 5'9, 152, The Winchendon School, 04/16/2008, Cornell)

Puglisi played 28 games with The Winchendon School, recording six goals and 19 points. In 2028, he will go to play at Cornell.

Puglisi was evaluated by NZ scouts at the NYSAHA Spring Selection Camp.

"Puglisi has shown some physical growth in his frame. He was displaying his stride and speed to create scoring chances. He was also showing his puck skills off the rush as he was driving wide around defenders or slipping through holes to the net for opportunities. While Puglisi was not lighting up the scoresheet, he was involved offensively consistently."

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Quote from: ursusminorTalking about out long with an injury. I do think that he had surgery back in 2021. Neutral Zone in a public post wrote it better than I could.

QuoteMatthew Jovanovic (D, L, 6'2,  201, No team, 09/22/2004, RPI)

Jovanovic has not played a competitive game since the 2020-21 season as a member of the USHL's Des Moines Buccaneers. He has been out all this time due to injury and never even got to play for the Saginaw Spirit – the OHL team that drafted him. RPI has given him a chance to comeback and play the game he loves again.

They have dropped him from 4.5 to 4.0 stars.

YEOUCH. What the hell happened to him. Poor dude.

It's always hard to get details about injuries. Apparently, a hip injury revealed something wrong that he had since birth. He is now skating with NHL players and supposedly he will be able to play this year. We will see what happens. RPI, which had almost a complete turnover, felt it was worth a gamble to sign him.

I doubt that he will return to 4.5 level. I add that Neutral Zone has downgraded him further to 3.5 stars. This makes sense to me.

If most of RPI's gambles come through, Eric Lang will deserve ECAC Coach of the Year honors. RPI is the only ECAC school never to have had a coach honored.

Article about Matthew Jovanovic's history on an RPI fan blog https://www.rpifieldhouse.com/p/matt-jovanovic-commits-to-rpi

Quote from: TrotskyAlso I fucked up the rank order, so please note the changes (ursusmajor's reply is now OBE).

Considering that I am even shorter than when I adopted the ursusminor handle, ...

BTW, considering how much turnover RPI had, #12 makes a lot of sense. OTOH, I am optimistic that RPI will get to Lake Placid for the first time in ages. Your algorithm doesn't include a factor for replacing a coach hired by a school administration that wanted RPI hockey to die with a coach who was able to get AIC to the top of the AHA four years in a row.

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Quote from: ursusminorTalking about out long with an injury. I do think that he had surgery back in 2021. Neutral Zone in a public post wrote it better than I could.

QuoteMatthew Jovanovic (D, L, 6'2,  201, No team, 09/22/2004, RPI)

Jovanovic has not played a competitive game since the 2020-21 season as a member of the USHL's Des Moines Buccaneers. He has been out all this time due to injury and never even got to play for the Saginaw Spirit – the OHL team that drafted him. RPI has given him a chance to comeback and play the game he loves again.

They have dropped him from 4.5 to 4.0 stars.

YEOUCH. What the hell happened to him. Poor dude.

It's always hard to get details about injuries. Apparently, a hip injury revealed something wrong that he had since birth. He is now skating with NHL players and supposedly he will be able to play this year. We will see what happens. RPI, which had almost a complete turnover, felt it was worth a gamble to sign him.

I doubt that he will return to 4.5 level. I add that Neutral Zone has downgraded him further to 3.5 stars. This makes sense to me.

If most of RPI's gambles come through, Eric Lang will deserve ECAC Coach of the Year honors. RPI is the only ECAC school never to have had a coach honored.

Quote from: TrotskyHyperlinks are your friend.

Not those on ELynah when one is colorblind. :-D

Thanks.

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Deleted because it doesn't make sense now.

Talking about out long with an injury. I do think that he had surgery back in 2021. Neutral Zone in a public post wrote it better than I could.

QuoteMatthew Jovanovic (D, L, 6'2,  201, No team, 09/22/2004, RPI)

Jovanovic has not played a competitive game since the 2020-21 season as a member of the USHL's Des Moines Buccaneers. He has been out all this time due to injury and never even got to play for the Saginaw Spirit – the OHL team that drafted him. RPI has given him a chance to comeback and play the game he loves again.

They have dropped him from 4.5 to 4.0 stars.

If anyone has over an hour to spend, a lengthy interview with RPI's coach Eric Lang. https://www.rpifieldhouse.com/p/interview-with-coach-lang?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=417313&post_id=170946524
New incoming player Matthew Jovanovic, a former Notre Dame recruit on D who has suffered through several injury-riddled seasons. https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/535867/matthew-jovanovic Appears to be great if he has recovered to the degree that Lang states. Being a pessimist, I see the second coming of Kurt Wiesel, brother of Clarkson's Adam.

Now if the RPI women could get Matthew's sister, Sophie, who played goalie for the Toronto Marlboro's 16U boys team last season and had a 1.71 GAA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdoncWmcTIM