RPI Hockey 2016 - 2017: Here we go again! I hope it's a fun ride.

[hawthr]

Re: RPI Hockey 2016 - 2017: Here we go again! I hope it's a fun ride.

Belfast next season!

REVEALED.....The @Friendship_Four 2017 teams will be @RPI_Hockey, @ClarksonUniv ,@providencecol & @MaineIceHockey #FriendshipFour17 pic.twitter.com/eecJIikeZa

— Cool FM (@officialcoolfm) January 6, 2017

I've very much wanted to go to Ireland. Think I may make the trip and extend it a bit.

[rpi82]

I've very much wanted to go to Ireland. Think I may make the trip and extend it a bit.

Not sure why it has to be a league game. The league can make it up in part by keeping the travel weekend schedule intact and making one of the Troy/Potsdam games a non-leaguer. Of course that leads us back to wondering why the Belfast game can't be non-league.

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI Hockey 2016 - 2017: Here we go again! I hope it's a fun ride.

I am thinking about going to one the SLU vs. Mercyhurst women's games today or tomorrow at the Capitals' practice rink in Arlington, VA,, more likely tomorrow. There isn't much chance to watch any kind of NCAA hockey in the DC area. Since the RPI women aren't going to catch SLU, I can root for them.

[Rainman]

Re: RPI Hockey 2016 - 2017: Here we go again! I hope it's a fun ride.

Is this going to count as a league game the way SLU-Quinnipiac did? We're looking at losing one of our biggest home games of the season to god**** Northern Ireland. Not that I have any love for Clarkson, but if it's the game that should be in Potsdam, they lose one of their biggest gates. Who does this benefit?

I bet you anything we lose the home game. The league's been trying to screw us over financially for years.

Colgate-Brown in the 2015 Friendship Four was a league game. Colgate lost a league home game when they only had 3 of 12 OOC games at home to begin with. Even worse, we almost always win against Brown at home (at least in our old barn), and our regularly scheduled league games at Brown/Yale were the weekend before. It should have been Brown's home game, given the league block schedule as well as the fact that Brown is dead last in home game attendance. Seeing that Q lost its league home game to SLU this year, I wouldn't be surprised if RPI loses its league home game next year so that they won't have to travel to the North Country just to play one game. Yes, losing a home game sucked for us.

[lugnut92]

Re: RPI Hockey 2016 - 2017: Here we go again! I hope it's a fun ride.

Seeing that Q lost its league home game to SLU this year, I wouldn't be surprised if RPI loses its league home game next year so that they won't have to travel to the North Country just to play one game.

I mean, you could just as easily say they wouldn't want Clarkson to have to come down to the Capital District for only one game.

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI Hockey 2016 - 2017: Here we go again! I hope it's a fun ride.

Thrilled to join other ����-���� partners at @FenwayPark to announce the teams for the 2017 @Friendship_Four ice hockey tournament in #Belfast! pic.twitter.com/1YgJj7hogB

— UK Consulate Boston (@UKinBoston) January 6, 2017

[Waite21]

Re: RPI Hockey 2016 - 2017: Here we go again! I hope it's a fun ride.

I haven't been to Fenway Park in more than 20 years. Last time I was there, they still had the net atop the left-field wall.

It's quite a surprise for me to see, for the first time, what the wall looks like from the street since the Monster Seats were installed.

[rvd5star69]

I haven't been to Fenway Park in more than 20 years. Last time I was there, they still had the net atop the left-field wall.

It's quite a surprise for me to see, for the first time, what the wall looks like from the street since the Monster Seats were installed.

Good to see flagdude in placid

[lugnut92]

Re: RPI Hockey 2016 - 2017: Here we go again! I hope it's a fun ride.

At least we didn't get shut out. *shrug*

[techtodenver]

Re: RPI Hockey 2016 - 2017: Here we go again! I hope it's a fun ride.

Any thoughts on if they should trigger the buyout or is it basically SAs team until 20-21? Definitely have been on that side of the fence in the past 15 years and while I love getting wins it sure would be nice to see a nice competitive rivalry between the 2 schools once again.

[hawthr]

Re: RPI Hockey 2016 - 2017: Here we go again! I hope it's a fun ride.

Thrilled to join other ����-���� partners at @FenwayPark to announce the teams for the 2017 @Friendship_Four ice hockey tournament in #Belfast! pic.twitter.com/1YgJj7hogB

— UK Consulate Boston (@UKinBoston) January 6, 2017

I may be reading in to things too much, but Dr. McElroy is holding our away jersey. Clarkson has their home uni shown.

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI Hockey 2016 - 2017: Here we go again! I hope it's a fun ride.

I may be reading in to things too much, but Dr. McElroy is holding our away jersey. Clarkson has their home uni shown.

Those might have been the uniforms which were available since the others were to be used in LP yesterday. Then again, you may be correct.

[giwan]

Re: RPI Hockey 2016 - 2017: Here we go again! I hope it's a fun ride.

At least we didn't get shut out. *shrug*

Can you set the rung lower?

[lugnut92]

Re: RPI Hockey 2016 - 2017: Here we go again! I hope it's a fun ride.

Can you set the rung lower?

Sure! We haven't lost by more than 5, we haven't given up double digits, we haven't been held to fewer than 10 shots, we haven't given up two shorties in one game... So many things to be "proud" of.

[rsfs04]

Sure! We haven't lost by more than 5, we haven't given up double digits, we haven't been held to fewer than 10 shots, we haven't given up two shorties in one game... So many things to be "proud" of.

Just to jump off this point, this team is just unwatchable at this time. They don't seem to care, as a whole. If they don't care, I don't care.