Opponents and other news and results 2026-2027

[stereax]

MSU 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.

Anyone remember the last time we played MSU, when they were the 1 seed, and had a bunch of really good players, and everyone expected them to beat us to a pulp?



You have to have the skill AND the process to win in the tourney. Teams like Denver are successful no matter who they have, because they bring in the right guys and they play the right way.

Obviously, the talent gap is increasing, but it also allows us to get better recruits as well. Two-sided coin. And due to our Ivy positioning, we'll always have that advantage - it's not like we're a Lindenwood.

It would be awesome to get top line talent at Cornell. At the same time, Cornell generally expects you to stay at least 3 years, if not 4. Top draft picks aren't going to do that.

If you start taking one-year mercenaries, it waters down your competitive advantages in academics, in the degree, in all of that.

[marty]

RPI 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!

[The Rancor]

Shitting on the program before we even hit the ice for game one. SMH. We don't even play Michigan State this season.

How do we compete? We show up on the ice for 30 (hopefully more) games. That's the whole thing. Maybe you'd be happier rooting for another team?

[Al DeFlorio]

Shitting on the program before we even hit the ice for game one. SMH. We don't even play Michigan State this season.

How do we compete? We show up on the ice for 30 (hopefully more) games. That's the whole thing. Maybe you'd be happier rooting for another team?

It's his brand.

[stereax]

Quinnipiac hits DOU-BLE DI-GITS vs UNH in a 10-2 win.

Maryville wins against SLU in their first Div1 game, 3-2.

Cournoyer gets the start and makes 16 saves on 18 shots as Wisconsin defeats Robert Morris 4-2.

ASU blanks Lindenwood 5-0.

BU wins against Fairbanks in OT, 2-1. Both goalies do great - Alaska's is Tyler Shea, from Brown. Fun fact, in his freshman year at UMich, Shea dressed as a winger for one game 😂 Anywho, Shea makes 41 saves and lets in 2, Yegorov makes 25 and lets in 1. Btw Adam can you put save percentage on the app for goalies in each game?

And, in exhibition, Colgate beats Union 4-1.

[adamw]

Btw Adam can you put save percentage on the app for goalies in each game?

Depends on which app. But I expect Ivy Leaguers to just do the math.

[stereax]

Btw Adam can you put save percentage on the app for goalies in each game?

Depends on which app. But I expect Ivy Leaguers to just do the math.

Android, doesn't show. Only has GA and SV. I could do the math but I'm lazy 💜

[ursusminor]

RPI 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!

He scored goals 1, 3, and 4. Freshman Caleb Hadland scored the second and soph Matthew Buckley #5. Videos of all of them without sound are here: https://www.instagram.com/rpi_mhockey/?hl=en

FWIW, RPI football returned the 2nd-half kickoff to lead Hilbert College 62-0. I think that we solved a couple of Hilbert's problems.

[arugula]

MSU 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.

Anyone remember the last time we played MSU, when they were the 1 seed, and had a bunch of really good players, and everyone expected them to beat us to a pulp?



You have to have the skill AND the process to win in the tourney. Teams like Denver are successful no matter who they have, because they bring in the right guys and they play the right way.

Obviously, the talent gap is increasing, but it also allows us to get better recruits as well. Two-sided coin. And due to our Ivy positioning, we'll always have that advantage - it's not like we're a Lindenwood.

It would be awesome to get top line talent at Cornell. At the same time, Cornell generally expects you to stay at least 3 years, if not 4. Top draft picks aren't going to do that.

If you start taking one-year mercenaries, it waters down your competitive advantages in academics, in the degree, in all of that.

I will take B level 21 year olds who have played together over younger ones who are theoretically better but one and done mercenaries who leave every year.

[Dafatone]

MSU 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.

[BearLover]

MSU 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.

Anyone remember the last time we played MSU, when they were the 1 seed, and had a bunch of really good players, and everyone expected them to beat us to a pulp?



You have to have the skill AND the process to win in the tourney. Teams like Denver are successful no matter who they have, because they bring in the right guys and they play the right way.

Obviously, the talent gap is increasing, but it also allows us to get better recruits as well. Two-sided coin. And due to our Ivy positioning, we'll always have that advantage - it's not like we're a Lindenwood.

It would be awesome to get top line talent at Cornell. At the same time, Cornell generally expects you to stay at least 3 years, if not 4. Top draft picks aren't going to do that.

If you start taking one-year mercenaries, it waters down your competitive advantages in academics, in the degree, in all of that.

The year we played MSU in the tournament, they had 8 draft picks including 2 first rounders. CHL players were not yet eligible. Now, they have 17 draft picks including 9 first rounders.

(We also got dominated in that game, aside from the final score, though of course the ending was very nice.)

[BearLover]

MSU 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.

[Al DeFlorio]

MSU 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.

[marty]

MSU 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.

[The Rancor]

MSU 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.

Completely nonsensical take. Our guys have been playing against their guys, in other leagues, and in our own, for years. They all made the cut, and are in the D1 dance.  They even scored goals, won games, and made highlight reels along the way. Our guys aren't scared, intimidated, or otherwise unprepared to face off against MSU, BU, Denver or any other team- and that's what you don't understand about sports, hockey or life.
Let's Go Red.