RPI Off-Season Thread 2012: An Off-Season to Be Optimistic

[Still Crazy in section 17]

Re: RPI Off-Season Thread 2012: An Off-Season to Be Optimistic

Not relevant for 2012-13 schedule but here's a post from a BC blog:

....There is talk of a BU-Cornell/BC-RPI doubleheader at MSG on Thanksgiving weekend [2013]. The discussion centered on Hockey East teams with Notre Dame as the 11th team having twenty league games instead of the current twenty-seven games starting in 2013. Certainly a rumor at this point as nothing official has been signed for BC except for Minnesota over the next four years. Of course, it has to be the year AFTER a certain player leaves

Enjoy the summer....

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: RPI Off-Season Thread 2012: An Off-Season to Be Optimistic

Not relevant for 2012-13 schedule but here's a post from a BC blog:

....There is talk of a BU-Cornell/BC-RPI doubleheader at MSG on Thanksgiving weekend [2013]. The discussion centered on Hockey East teams with Notre Dame as the 11th team having twenty league games instead of the current twenty-seven games starting in 2013. Certainly a rumor at this point as nothing official has been signed for BC except for Minnesota over the next four years. Of course, it has to be the year AFTER a certain player leaves

Enjoy the summer....

BC would actually want to play us?! I could have sworn they tried to pay the IceBreaker committee to get out of playing us 5 years ago... not true at all, but they're the only HE team that didn't want to schedule us in the past 10 or so years and we only played them by chance in the IB

[Still Crazy in section 17]

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BC would actually want to play us?! I could have sworn they tried to pay the IceBreaker committee to get out of playing us 5 years ago... not true at all, but they're the only HE team that didn't want to schedule us in the past 10 or so years and we only played them by chance in the IB

That may be true but Jerry York is 'old school' and the idea of a MSG game would fit his profile for non-league games/events. BU vs. Cornell in the garden has done very well and BC with another high profile ECAC school would be extremely desireable. If only Lake Placid had a venue that held 10k+...that would be another locale that would fit York's standards.

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI Off-Season Thread 2012: An Off-Season to Be Optimistic

Not relevant for 2012-13 schedule but here's a post from a BC blog:

....There is talk of a BU-Cornell/BC-RPI doubleheader at MSG on Thanksgiving weekend [2013]. The discussion centered on Hockey East teams with Notre Dame as the 11th team having twenty league games instead of the current twenty-seven games starting in 2013. Certainly a rumor at this point as nothing official has been signed for BC except for Minnesota over the next four years. Of course, it has to be the year AFTER a certain player leaves

Enjoy the summer....

Couldn't that certain player redshirt next season?

Seriously, RPI would be an odd choice to play BC.

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: RPI Off-Season Thread 2012: An Off-Season to Be Optimistic

Couldn't that certain player redshirt next season?

Seriously, RPI would be an odd choice to play BC.

If anything, it would show the good-will that seems to exist between RPI and most of Hockey East (even if we've declined joining twice).

Although I'm not understanding who you mean by "certain player"...

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI Off-Season Thread 2012: An Off-Season to Be Optimistic

Although I'm not understanding who you mean by "certain player"...

The same one who Still Crazy was referring to.

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI Off-Season Thread 2012: An Off-Season to Be Optimistic

Not relevant for 2012-13 schedule but here's a post from a BC blog:

....There is talk of a BU-Cornell/BC-RPI doubleheader at MSG on Thanksgiving weekend [2013]. The discussion centered on Hockey East teams with Notre Dame as the 11th team having twenty league games instead of the current twenty-seven games starting in 2013. Certainly a rumor at this point as nothing official has been signed for BC except for Minnesota over the next four years. Of course, it has to be the year AFTER a certain player leaves

Enjoy the summer....

Do you have a link to that discussion, or was it an actual conversation?

[FlagDUDE08]

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The same one who Still Crazy was referring to.

Let me re-phrase... Although I'm not understanding who SCIS17 means by "certain player"...

[Ralph Baer]

Re: RPI Off-Season Thread 2012: An Off-Season to Be Optimistic

Let me re-phrase... Although I'm not understanding who SCIS17 means by "certain player"...

See Rep.

[lugnut92]

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Oh god I'm so confused. I don't even know which team the player would be on. If it's even a player.

Anyway, do we have any idea when captains for next season will be announced? I can't remember when it happened last season, but I remember there being speculation about the announcement coming at the awards banquet.

[ServinisScores]

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Seriously, RPI would be an odd choice to play BC.

Compared to other ECAC schools?

[Ralph Baer]

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Compared to other ECAC schools?

After I posted that I thought and decided that we probably would draw more of our own fans than any ECAC school besides for Cornell. My original thought was more "why RPI-BC?" RPI however would not have much power in drawing casual hockey fans to MSG.

[FlagDUDE08]

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Oh god I'm so confused. I don't even know which team the player would be on. If it's even a player.

Anyway, do we have any idea when captains for next season will be announced? I can't remember when it happened last season, but I remember there being speculation about the announcement coming at the awards banquet.

If Bergin's sticking around for his redshirt year, I think that'll answer your question.

[lugnut92]

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If Bergin's sticking around for his redshirt year, I think that'll answer your question.

Based on what Mr. Bergin told the pep band, I'm pretty sure he isn't.

[sk8tronthepond]

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Let me re-phrase... Although I'm not understanding who SCIS17 means by "certain player"...

He means his son who this year changed his number to 3!