>>> RIT Tigers 2019-2020: "We're on the clock" <<<

[LtPowers]

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Wow, what a game that was! I knew it wasn't over yet midway through the third, but I don't think I actually expected a win.

Tigers are now 5-5-1 when allowing the first goal.


Powers &8^]

[blazer777]

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Good result last night but still giving up way too many goals. Hopefully the offensive support is there again tonight.

[jflory81]

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Time to get this back to the front page....

Deceptively big weekend coming up with Canisius streaking up the standings after taking 5 of 6 from Sacred Heart (which also served to bring Sacred Heart back to the pack). The standings are actually quite interesting:

There is a well defined top 3: Army is actually out in front by winning %, but they are closely followed by Sacred Heart and AIC. A full weekend behind them (defined by needing two wins yourself and two losses from a team in the top 3 to catch up) is Robert Morris and Air Force to round out the top 5. We are then a half weekend behind that pair (if we win our 2 games in hand we have with both those teams it will bring us to a tie with them). But Canisius is sneaking up out of the bottom pack to about a half weekend behind us - if they take 5 points this weekend from us they will pass us and finishing in the top 5 suddenly will feel like a long shot. 5 or 6 out of 6 points FOR us and suddenly we have a legit 3 team race for 2 byes, with an opportunity to get into the title race with a hot streak, with an enormous gulf between the bottom 5 and the top 6.

[jflory81]

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Woof. The wheels have completely come off. I wouldn't mind seeing Matthews again tomorrow night...I wonder if Andriano being the guy replacing Drackett tonight is to save Matthews for tomorrow and not let Arizona State see him while they're hot offensively. That 2nd goal that broke open the floodgates needs to be stopped. To be clear, the rest of the team owns plenty of the rest of this debacle - they were giving up great chances on a shift to shift basis after ASU broke the tie. And they almost all went in.

[Schmitty]

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Don’t forget, next week we’re celebrating the only reason Wayno No Bueno has been employed!

Good to see he’s doing a fantastic job behind the bench tonight. >

[Russell Jaslow]

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The RIT Athletics story about the games this weekend confirms the live streams:
FOLLOW LIVE
This week's games can be heard on WITR 89.7 FM and Fox Sports 1280 AM with Ed Trefzger and Scott Biggar on the call. Fans can also listen online at witr.rit.edu or foxsports1280.iheart.com. Free live streams of both games will be available on the Pac-12 Network [https://pac-12.com/live/arizona-state-university] while Saturday's game will also be streamed on Facebook Live [https://www.facebook.com/Pac12Plus/]. Live statistics for all games can be found at RITathletics.com while updates can also be found on Twitter by following @RITMHKY and/or @RITathletics.

This is the first time I've seen the ASU rink. Holy cow. That place is smaller than Bill Gray's Iceplex.

[mar7967]

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Heads up to you all who may want to try to catch the game tonight: No guarantees, but I believe Arizona State may be live streaming the game here tonight. It doesn't look like there's any fees or charge, but as I said, no guarantees.

Both tonight's game and tomorrow night's game are on the schedule.

EDIT: It's not obvious from the post, but the word "here" in the first paragraph is a link to the Pac 12's live streaming site. Apparently this site lets you embed links but doesn't turn them blue so that people know they're links :laugh:

The RIT Athletics story about the games this weekend confirms the live streams:
FOLLOW LIVE
This week's games can be heard on WITR 89.7 FM and Fox Sports 1280 AM with Ed Trefzger and Scott Biggar on the call. Fans can also listen online at witr.rit.edu or foxsports1280.iheart.com. Free live streams of both games will be available on the Pac-12 Network [https://pac-12.com/live/arizona-state-university] while Saturday's game will also be streamed on Facebook Live [https://www.facebook.com/Pac12Plus/]. Live statistics for all games can be found at RITathletics.com while updates can also be found on Twitter by following @RITMHKY and/or @RITathletics.

[jflory81]

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Heads up to you all who may want to try to catch the game tonight: No guarantees, but I believe Arizona State may be live streaming the game here tonight. It doesn't look like there's any fees or charge, but as I said, no guarantees.

Both tonight's game and tomorrow night's game are on the schedule.

EDIT: It's not obvious from the post, but the word "here" in the first paragraph is a link to the Pac 12's live streaming site. Apparently this site lets you embed links but doesn't turn them blue so that people know they're links :laugh:

[unscarred76]

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It's fine if Coach thinks Drackett is still the guy and gives the team the best chance to win every night, however, to follow up my comment on how his start seems like a distant memory, here's his last 15 starts (starting after the Air Force sweep that he completely stole):

3.10 GAA, 87.5 Save %

Those are...ugly numbers. Even if you take out the non-conference game, you're left with a 2.85 GAA and an 88.6 save % over his last 14 conference games. That would rank 11th out of 12 qualifying AHA goalies. Even with his ridiculously hot start in conference, he's since dropped to 7th in save % and 8th in GAA in the conference among 12 qualifying goalies (this is conference games only).

It's been shaded a bit by his hot start, but Drackett's overall numbers are actually slightly down from last year, when he was a slightly above average AHA goalie, and his recent numbers are in line with his 2017-18 numbers, when RIT was 2nd in the conference in scoring but finished below .500 because they couldn't keep the puck out of their own net (Drackett was 11th out of 12 qualifying goalies that year in split action). I don't think giving Matthews a shot here would be out of line given the circumstances.

EDIT: The "overall" numbers above are just conference games - sorry about that. His actual total numbers are still pretty good (and right around where his numbers were last year) thanks to his hot start: .911 save percentage and 2.53 GAA...right around middle of the pack for NCAA goalies.

After seeing the numbers that way, definitely makes a stronger case for Mathews!

[TigerFan86-87]

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Pressing question: does Matthews get another start at Arizona State next weekend? And if the two goalies' results are similar to this weekend, does Matthews get a run of starts in league? He looked sharp Saturday and made some key saves, and Drackett's incredible start is a bit of a distant memory at this point.

Matthews did look good, but it might be hard to judge how sharp. The defensive effort by the Tigers was much improved Saturday. He didn't have to face very many grade A chances (if any at all, really). The first goal was due to a lack of rebound control (and nobody marking the huge forward right in front of the crease). If the D can keep up that level of play, I'd say keep him in there and get him some confidence. If they go back to playing more like they did on Friday, then maybe it wouldn't do him much good to be in there unless the coaches feel he's ready for a bigger challenge.

[jflory81]

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It's fine if Coach thinks Drackett is still the guy and gives the team the best chance to win every night, however, to follow up my comment on how his start seems like a distant memory, here's his last 15 starts (starting after the Air Force sweep that he completely stole):

3.10 GAA, 87.5 Save %

Those are...ugly numbers. Even if you take out the non-conference game, you're left with a 2.85 GAA and an 88.6 save % over his last 14 conference games. That would rank 11th out of 12 qualifying AHA goalies. Even with his ridiculously hot start in conference, he's since dropped to 7th in save % and 8th in GAA in the conference among 12 qualifying goalies (this is conference games only).

It's been shaded a bit by his hot start, but Drackett's overall numbers are actually slightly down from last year, when he was a slightly above average AHA goalie, and his recent numbers are in line with his 2017-18 numbers, when RIT was 2nd in the conference in scoring but finished below .500 because they couldn't keep the puck out of their own net (Drackett was 11th out of 12 qualifying goalies that year in split action). I don't think giving Matthews a shot here would be out of line given the circumstances.

EDIT: The "overall" numbers above are just conference games - sorry about that. His actual total numbers are still pretty good (and right around where his numbers were last year) thanks to his hot start: .911 save percentage and 2.53 GAA...right around middle of the pack for NCAA goalies.

[unscarred76]

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Obviously a really good weekend - they could have taken both from a nationally ranked team if not for an off-night from Logan and completely incompetent officiating Friday night (how one looks at the kicked in goal and decides there was no kick is absolutely baffling and frankly embarrassing for the AHA)....but one that also makes where they currently stand in the AHA even more baffling. Sacred Heart and Army are legit teams, AIC might be (they need to beat someone outside the conference for a change though - their non-conference record the last couple of years is atrocious....makes me consider their run last year more of a hot streak than something sustainable), but outside of that they should be winning weekends.

The good news is they don't play any of those 3 teams for the rest of the year (at least until the playoffs). The bad news is they have this nasty habit of overlooking teams and playing down to their competition. But a top 4 seed is certainly obtainable with this roster and the schedule coming in.

Pressing question: does Matthews get another start at Arizona State next weekend? And if the two goalies' results are similar to this weekend, does Matthews get a run of starts in league? He looked sharp Saturday and made some key saves, and Drackett's incredible start is a bit of a distant memory at this point.

I think Drackett was benched (well Im fairly certain) for blowing a gasket and destroying his stick after 3 soft goals in a row. Its understandable and he's never done anything like that before but still as coach you have to discipline that. I say they go back to him Friday night as we really dont want to start goalie roulette. Maybe that was a good wake up call for him to refocus and get his confidence back up. However, if he has a particularly poor game Friday against ASU, then maybe put Mathews in for Saturday. Overall though, Drackett's play has been pretty solid this season and IF I were coach I'd still stick with him personally.

[jflory81]

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Obviously a really good weekend - they could have taken both from a nationally ranked team if not for an off-night from Logan and completely incompetent officiating Friday night (how one looks at the kicked in goal and decides there was no kick is absolutely baffling and frankly embarrassing for the AHA)....but one that also makes where they currently stand in the AHA even more baffling. Sacred Heart and Army are legit teams, AIC might be (they need to beat someone outside the conference for a change though - their non-conference record the last couple of years is atrocious....makes me consider their run last year more of a hot streak than something sustainable), but outside of that they should be winning weekends.

The good news is they don't play any of those 3 teams for the rest of the year (at least until the playoffs). The bad news is they have this nasty habit of overlooking teams and playing down to their competition. But a top 4 seed is certainly obtainable with this roster and the schedule coming in.

Pressing question: does Matthews get another start at Arizona State next weekend? And if the two goalies' results are similar to this weekend, does Matthews get a run of starts in league? He looked sharp Saturday and made some key saves, and Drackett's incredible start is a bit of a distant memory at this point.

[unscarred76]

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Great win, tigers played hard and looked good all game. Great first start for the freshmen goaltender! Didnt think there was much of a chance as thats a tough first start. I really like Rinaldi - he plays so hard and has so much speed and grittiness. Makes a few rookie passes but otherwise he’s going to be a great one. Go Tigers!

[bakdraft21]

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That's because the chicken was in net, some guy named Tyson. Than of course this Scott guy came by who was pretty good [emoji1787]

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10- 4,but my day was waaay b4 Scott more like Hawkins and Hendrickson,guys I played with on Long Island...Best of luck going forward..