RIT 2010-11: What do Tigers dream of?

[LtPowers]

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Also, RIT is threatening to run away with the conference once again.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. =) There's a lot of hockey left to play, and we still have to play AFA twice, Canisius twice, and NU twice, and RoMo once.


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[komey1]

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The top of the AHA is much stronger than last year so RIT cannot afford to let up. It's certainly critical to make sure to take care of business at home against Bentley.

As for RIT's top competition, I see NU as more of a threat than RMU. RIT will have the tiebreaker on RMU no matter what happens in their game. Niagara has had RIT's number so far in the DI era. The buffer between RIT and NU is 2 points thanks to Holy Cross knocking off the Eagles.

[komey1]

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Ok - Here is my team:

1st Line: Burt-Lambert-Brenner

Lambert was RIT's only Hobey baker finalist so he easily goes on this line. I put Brenner and Burt on here for their play during the NCAAs.

2nd Line: Matt Smith-Favot-Pinzzotto

Snith was a power play maven his last couple years for RIT. Favot has been a great playmaker during his career. Pinner gets dropped partially because he only played essentially a year and a half for RIT and there have been so many excellant forwards for RIT.

3rd Line: Sarazin-Newan-Crowell

Sarazin is etched in RIT history with their first DI goal. Crowell really had a great year his last year and who knows if RIT could have done had he stayed. Newman was underrated a lot of his career but solid.

4th Line: Walton-Kharin-Matic

Walton was a great role player who never backed down. Kharin had speed to burn and solid scoring. Matic was just all around good.

Defense:

1st pair - Ringwald-Tanev

Ringwald was all everything for RIT in his 4 years. Tanev was outstanding in his one year.

2nd pair - Raymond-Hofstetter

Raymond has a great defensive defensemen. Hofstetter was good as well with more scoring punch

3rd pair - Mazur-Haltigan

Mazur was an offensive force at the point with just under 100 points. Haltigan has been solid so far.

Goaltender:

1. DeMichiel

6 shutouts and a Frozen Four trip earns this spot

2. Guimond

Put RIT on the map with his 66 save performance again St. Lawrence

3. Menard

Solid goaltender that help win an AHA regular season title.

Missed the cut:
Mazzei
Draper
Patry
Murphy

Could play their way on:
Hartley - slowed down after hot start
Mitchell - Scored a lot of big goals
Colavecchia - Teamed with Mitchell on quite a few
Madolora - Having an incredible year

[RIT4life]

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slightly off topic but does anyone know where we are with the fundraising for the arena? I know we are in stretch run for the playoff positioning and that's more important but thought I'd ask..

[Tom Naeger]

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Ok - Here is my team:

1st Line: Burt-Lambert-Brenner

Lambert was RIT's only Hobey baker finalist so he easily goes on this line. I put Brenner and Burt on here for their play during the NCAAs.

2nd Line: Matt Smith-Favot-Pinzzotto

Snith was a power play maven his last couple years for RIT. Favot has been a great playmaker during his career. Pinner gets dropped partially because he only played essentially a year and a half for RIT and there have been so many excellant forwards for RIT.

3rd Line: Sarazin-Newan-Crowell

Sarazin is etched in RIT history with their first DI goal. Crowell really had a great year his last year and who knows if RIT could have done had he stayed. Newman was underrated a lot of his career but solid.

4th Line: Walton-Kharin-Matic

Walton was a great role player who never backed down. Kharin had speed to burn and solid scoring. Matic was just all around good.

Defense:

1st pair - Ringwald-Tanev

Ringwald was all everything for RIT in his 4 years. Tanev was outstanding in his one year.

2nd pair - Raymond-Hofstetter

Raymond has a great defensive defensemen. Hofstetter was good as well with more scoring punch

3rd pair - Mazur-Haltigan

Mazur was an offensive force at the point with just under 100 points. Haltigan has been solid so far.

Goaltender:

1. DeMichiel

6 shutouts and a Frozen Four trip earns this spot

2. Guimond

Put RIT on the map with his 66 save performance again St. Lawrence

3. Menard

Solid goaltender that help win an AHA regular season title.

Missed the cut:
Mazzei
Draper
Patry
Murphy

Could play their way on:
Hartley - slowed down after hot start
Mitchell - Scored a lot of big goals
Colavecchia - Teamed with Mitchell on quite a few
Madolora - Having an incredible year

Komey, I agree a lot with what you put down. Looks like we have about the same players on the team. I actually made my lines more for who I thought would make up the best line combos. Really interesting to get everyone veiw on this and really shows how far RIT has come to have all these players to really have a debate like this in only what 6 years, impressive...

[komey1]

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I agree. The forwards have been particularly talented, as have the goalies. The defencemen were a bit more difficult.

[dutchbrowncoat]

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[dutchbrowncoat]

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madolora has been great lately.
- he leads the AHA in wins by 2 with 10
- he leads the AHA in save % by .028 with .947
- he leads the AHA in GAA by .64 with a 1.68

if he keeps this up and we can keep out of the box for more than two minutes straight we should be able to make a good run this year.

[JRZ DVLS]

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Shane looked unreal this weekend, He was the only reason They came out of West Point Friday with a tie. he was standing on his head. BTW, I made the Trek from Illinois to this one. Wish i could have gone to Saturday, but family things. Looked like the Tigers were flat and had a long trip in the snow or something. But it was great to see. Wouldn't doubt if any of you were there. Took the Family with me.

[komey1]

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The biggest thing I could see was the sloppy passing on Friday. There were a lot of giveaways that lead to Army counterpunching. Fortunately, Shane was up to the task.

RIT can't let up as there isn't a lot of wiggle room in the conference standings. Bentley is the last conference opponent to win at the Ritter when they did it on "pink jersey" day. They need to take advantage of the games against the Eastern pod.

[Tom Naeger]

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Intersting number, 36, which is the number of points the Tigers had to get to win the regular season title last year. They are 14 away from that number with 12 games left. Meaning they could drop 5 games and get to that number. Not sure if they will have to get that high as I see a very hard fought finish to this year's conference play...

[komey1]

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Intersting number, 36, which is the number of points the Tigers had to get to win the regular season title last year. They are 14 away from that number with 12 games left. Meaning they could drop 5 games and get to that number. Not sure if they will have to get that high as I see a very hard fought finish to this year's conference play...

Going into the Robert Morris game, I figured RIT should go about 10-5 in the remaining conference games. I'm off by a tie as to what they would have done (was thinking loss at Bobby Mo and sweep Army).

[PrezdeJohnson09]

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Komey,

Just rewatched the Hangover on the way to the Plattsburgh/Norwich women's game today and I completely forgot about the Tiger song in the hotel villa.

Major props for making this thread title of this year's thread.

As soon as he started playing the song I laughed my arse off that this was the thread title.

[jflory81]

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Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. =) There's a lot of hockey left to play, and we still have to play AFA twice, Canisius twice, and NU twice, and RoMo once.


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To be fair, I said they were threatening to, not that they were . With RIT at home against a struggling Bentley team, there's a lot of pressure on the other 3 teams threatening in the Western pod (AF, RoMo, Niagara) to keep pace right now.

[komey1]

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You miss us, don't you. Admit it

You secretly hope we do well so that you can remind the few (and shrinking in number) that rememder the last RIT-Elmira game to humble us.