February 4, 2011

Appert Waiting for RPI's Best

TROY — Seth Appert wasn’t just trying to keep his Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute hockey players from getting big heads, as the appeared to do earlier this season after winning seven of eight games.

I don’t think he was, anyway.

Before leaving Thursday for Hamden, Conn. for tonight’s game with Quinnipiac, Appert spent the first four days of the week telling the media — everyone who came in with a notepad, camera or tape recorder, that he loves the Engineers’ five-game winning streak — their first in ECAC Hockey in nine years — and though he finds ranking polls at this time of the season to be meaningless, the recognition of the RPI program nice — he’s concerned that the Engineers have not played their best hockey.

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