Hockey Off-Season

[Trotsky]

RPI blog Without A Peer's annual article about Cornell.

I hope he's right.

Me too.  It's actually a fairly well-researched and well-thought-out opponent review; not the boiler plate one usually sees.  I'm looking forward to reading the other KYEs as a guide to our common opponents.  I have for example absolutely no idea what to expect from Clarkson this year.

You have a while to wait until Clarkson. After he finished the OOC teams, he has been posting one per week on Wednesday in the order that RPI faces them for the first time. So far, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Cornell. Next week is Colgate.

As long as he'd done by November.

[ursusminor]

RPI blog Without A Peer's annual article about Cornell.

I hope he's right.

Me too.  It's actually a fairly well-researched and well-thought-out opponent review; not the boiler plate one usually sees.  I'm looking forward to reading the other KYEs as a guide to our common opponents.  I have for example absolutely no idea what to expect from Clarkson this year.

You have a while to wait until Clarkson. After he finished the OOC teams, he has been posting one per week on Wednesday in the order that RPI faces them for the first time. So far, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Cornell. Next week is Colgate.

As long as he'd done by November.

It's designed to end before RPI's season starts. :-)

[Trotsky]

We missed a little good news last week:

[David Harding]

We missed a little good news last week:

Another of our coming opponents, UNO, has lost a couple of players, too.

[Jim Hyla]

A nice way to start your season early.  Bobcats Bound for Italy

[Swampy]

A nice way to start your season early.  Bobcats Bound for Italy

Jeez, I could have sworn the Colosseum is in Rome. Maybe there's another one in Milan or at Lake Como. Or maybe the image of Q's hockey players as gladiators was more attractive for Q's publicists than one of the team going to church or going shopping.

Then again, maybe the person who designed the announcement was a geography major at Quinnipiac.

[Swampy]

A nice way to start your season early.  Bobcats Bound for Italy

Jeez, I could have sworn the Colosseum is in Rome. Maybe there's another one in Milan or at Lake Como. Or maybe the image of Q's hockey players as gladiators was more attractive for Q's publicists than one of the team going to church or going shopping.

Then again, maybe the person who designed the announcement was a geography major at Quinnipiac.

Oh wait. I looked at their itinerary. Apparently they couldn't get a flight home from Milan, so they're making the 7-hour trip to Rome on Sunday the 18th and will spend two days waiting there before their departure on the 21st. What, no extra days for excursions to Pompeii and Capri? How can you have a preseason hockey training trip without that?

[redice]

A nice way to start your season early.  Bobcats Bound for Italy

Also a heckuva good team-bonding experience.  

I don't know who arranged it.  But, I would call it "brilliant" on a few levels.

[Trotsky]

A nice way to start your season early.  Bobcats Bound for Italy

Also a heckuva good team-bonding experience.  

I don't know who arranged it.  But, I would call it "brilliant" on a few levels.

Yeah.

Also, jokes aside, that looks like a damn fun trip.  I'm not sure 20-something rockheads from Hamden are going to get the most of it and I would be perfectly happy to sit in for one on the flight.

Edit: if I'm reading it right, family and alumni are also invited (presumably they pay their own way).  I gotta tell ya, if Cornell hockey did a trip like that I would seriously consider it if some others in the eLynah community did.  It sounds like a blast.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

A nice way to start your season early.  Bobcats Bound for Italy

Also a heckuva good team-bonding experience.  

I don't know who arranged it.  But, I would call it "brilliant" on a few levels.

Yeah.

Also, jokes aside, that looks like a damn fun trip.  I'm not sure 20-something rockheads from Hamden are going to get the most of it and I would be perfectly happy to sit in for one on the flight.

Edit: if I'm reading it right, family and alumni are also invited (presumably they pay their own way).  I gotta tell ya, if Cornell hockey did a trip like that I would seriously consider it if some others in the eLynah community did.  It sounds like a blast.

Sorry.  They can't even practice together at that time of year per Ivy League rules, never mind play some exhibition games.

[Trotsky]

A nice way to start your season early.  Bobcats Bound for Italy

Also a heckuva good team-bonding experience.  

I don't know who arranged it.  But, I would call it "brilliant" on a few levels.

Yeah.

Also, jokes aside, that looks like a damn fun trip.  I'm not sure 20-something rockheads from Hamden are going to get the most of it and I would be perfectly happy to sit in for one on the flight.

Edit: if I'm reading it right, family and alumni are also invited (presumably they pay their own way).  I gotta tell ya, if Cornell hockey did a trip like that I would seriously consider it if some others in the eLynah community did.  It sounds like a blast.

Sorry.  They can't even practice together at that time of year per Ivy League rules, never mind play some exhibition games.

Italy's nice in December, too.

[Weder]

A nice way to start your season early.  Bobcats Bound for Italy

Also a heckuva good team-bonding experience.  

I don't know who arranged it.  But, I would call it "brilliant" on a few levels.

Yeah.

Also, jokes aside, that looks like a damn fun trip.  I'm not sure 20-something rockheads from Hamden are going to get the most of it and I would be perfectly happy to sit in for one on the flight.

Edit: if I'm reading it right, family and alumni are also invited (presumably they pay their own way).  I gotta tell ya, if Cornell hockey did a trip like that I would seriously consider it if some others in the eLynah community did.  It sounds like a blast.

Sorry.  They can't even practice together at that time of year per Ivy League rules, never mind play some exhibition games.

Italy's nice in December, too.

Ivy teams are allowed to take part in these summer overseas trips. NCAA rules allow for them once every four years per team, I think. I remember several Cornell teams doing this in recent years.

[Jim Hyla]

More on the trip from the New Haven Register.

[pfibiger]

More offseason ECAC news:

Spiro Goulakos is in remission and rejoins Colgate for this season:
http://www.ecachockey.com/men/members/colgate/20131208_Goulakos_To_Rejoin_Raiders

Four Harvard players (Everson, Luzar, McNally, and Michalek) reinstated after serving a one year suspension from the cheating scandal:
http://www.westerncollegehockeyblog.com/2013/8/12/4613106/harvard-ecac-hockey-ted-donato-mark-luzar-max-everson-patrick-mcnally-stephen-michalek

[Jim Hyla]

We missed a little good news last week:

And a replacement comes in. Reports by Ken Schott and ECAC.

And some good news.