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Brown Hockey 2015-16: (s)Lappin' around the competition

Re: Brown Hockey 2015-16: (s)Lappin' around the competition

Huge four points on the line this weekend. Colgate is beatable, and Cornell will be coming off of a extremely physical challenge against Yale the night before.
My biggest takeaway from the past weekend was special teams. For the first time in two years our power play showed real signs of life. Conversely it seems that the PK is unquestionably the achilles heal of this young team. Heres to hoping that can be worked on moving forward.
 
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No suspensions listed on the ECAC official site (would think we'd have heard about it by now if there were), so I'd gather all normally eligible players will be eligible. No comment on dog house entrants, though.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
No suspensions listed on the ECAC official site (would think we'd have heard about it by now if there were), so I'd gather all normally eligible players will be eligible. No comment on dog house entrants, though.
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Commissioner is probably busy sleeping one off and weighing moving the ECAC Tournament to Aleppo.
 
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I won't be in Providence this weekend but hopefully in the future when I have time. Is there any quick way to go between there and New Haven without a car?
 
Red Hockey said:
I won't be in Providence this weekend but hopefully in the future when I have time. Is there any quick way to go between there and New Haven without a car?
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Yep, you can take Amtrak between the two cities. Brown (and Meehan Auditorium) are probably a 20 minute walk from the train station, but it's up a perilously steep hill, so I'd advise taking a cab or an Uber.
 
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Trust me, I already know about the hills. I walked around the campus last year when I was in town. And compared to the multiple hills in Ithaca, it was nothing I wasn't used to.
 
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Red Hockey said:
I won't be in Providence this weekend but hopefully in the future when I have time. Is there any quick way to go between there and New Haven without a car?
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Many have gone from New Haven to Providence by getting expelled... ;)

Colgate's actually a much better team than last week's scores would indicate. The Friday game got away from them and the Saturday one could have gone either way. The Spink brothers are still there (for seemingly the tenth consecutive year), so Gate is still very dangerous.
 
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That was perhaps the worst period we could have possibly played. Colgate outshot us 17-3, and frankly, that might be generous to us. We're very fortunate it's only 1-0.

FIVE penalties, including one that negated our only (abbreviated) power play. That's bad.

Also, I'm a little surprised to see them running the neutral zone trap on breakouts. I haven't seen that look this year, and I don't think it's conducive to our fast, talented forwards' collective strengths. I'm hoping it's just a matchup thing Whittet is deploying for one opponent, and not indicative of a trend. If it becomes the norm, we might get used to being outshot by 14 in a single period.
 
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On the contrary, the second period was sensational! Our top six was completely dominant. We only registered 14 shots on goal, but we missed the net more than a few times - it seemed like it might have been in the double digits to me. We should have had 4 goals that period.

(To be fair, Colgate should have had a handful of goals in the first, too, so we'll call it even!)
 
Re: Brown Hockey 2015-16: (s)Lappin' around the competition

Good game tonight but your announcer was perhaps the worst I've ever listened to. The Ivy League network is pathetic.
 
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Mike Hutter said:
Another take on the "malfunction" - http://www.dailygazette.com/weblogs...ege-hockey-slap-schotts-malfunctioning-video/

Ken S also has Brown as the ECAC Team of the Week
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It's very curious that so many RPI supporters (including Ken Schott) have spent so much time directly or indirectly criticizing Brown goalie Tim Ernst's sarcastic twitter post after a poor decision by the referees and what should be the embarrassing situation of an engineering school being unable to do something that is technologically quite simple.
 
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Red Hockey said:
Trust me, I already know about the hills. I walked around the campus last year when I was in town. And compared to the multiple hills in Ithaca, it was nothing I wasn't used to.
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Wouldn't a simple thank you suffice?
 
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Euler18 said:
It's very curious that so many RPI supporters (including Ken Schott) have spent so much time directly or indirectly criticizing Brown goalie Tim Ernst's sarcastic twitter post after a poor decision by the referees and what should be the embarrassing situation of an engineering school being unable to do something that is technologically quite simple.
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Especially considering it's the league's mandated setup, and using RPI-TV would be considered to be, in their eyes, a conflict of interest.
 
Re: Brown Hockey 2015-16: (s)Lappin' around the competition

So far, so good - they announced shots as 10-3 in our favor. We had a few really good scoring chances, but Gillam has been very strong.

Not much else to report, really. Cornell had a lot of zone time, but didn't take many shots.
 
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