Ralph Baer wrote:
 
>For reasons discussed several times on Hockey-L, periodically RPI has to
>rely more than most teams on Freshmen.  A few produce immediately, but most
>don't.  Fans of other teams have made comments that they don't expect much
>from Freshmen until after the Holidays, we probably shouldn't either.
 
RPI/Rensselaer has traditionally (from my memory anyways) always played
better after Christmas.  We'll see if that holds true this year.  Would
anyone like to go further and speculate why?
 
-Ken Johnson, RPI '87
 
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