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>>>>> RIT TIGERS 2013-2014 - Rocking The Ritter One Last Time <<<<<

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RITProf said:
Colgate and Canisius deserve each other.
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I'm not sure where you're going with that either. If anything, RIT laid a couple more questionable hits on Colgate players than the other way around last night. I didn't see much bad stuff from their side. They just outplayed RIT despite the Tigers trying to take the physical play to them, obviously unsuccessfully.
 
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lmg6841 said:
Idk.... We're playing the worst Michigan team in decades. The Wolverines also managed to lose their exhibition this year. Maybe if RIT can pull it's act together, we can profit from Michigans slump.
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Wishful thinking abounds.
It's true that the 2012-13 Wolverines were the first Michigan team to not make the NCAA tournament in 23 years. However, despite a pretty bad start to the season (including a loss to RIT), they rallied late in the season to come one game short of making it. They were essentially the 16th or 17th best team in the nation. And after all, that was LAST year. Things change. If they keep riding the momentum they built at the end of last season (see last night's win over BC), "worst Michigan team in decades" is a stretch at best. Even if it were true, 17th best is still significantly better than RIT. They won't be intimidated by the big crowd. They play in front of big partisan crowds all the time. They won't be snuck up on having played us twice last season (and remember that second game was a 7-2 drubbing after the Tigers woke them up the night before). Our best hope is that they get cocky after a huge win and forget that they still need to bring their game against lower tier teams or they can be beaten. It happens. You never know. But I'm not going to count on it.
 
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Came across this today. Niagara each year has a buy one get one free ticket for hockey games in one of those entertainment book deals. This year they have change the policy on the coupon to no longer valid for RIT Games. Yet another reason for me to hate going to Niagara. The Dwyer Arena has become my least favorite arena to go to and it has nothing to do with the team on the ice or how the building looks. It's the policy's and dead atmosphere of the arena... Sad to me really...
 
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Tom Naeger said:
Why because Thompson horrible dive or because RIT got their butts handed to them? They got beat, and if not for Ruby it could have been worst, tip your hat and move on...
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Not sure about a dive, but if you are thinking of the same play I am, it was far from a dive from my angle. I never said anything about Colgate not beating RIT. They did, they are the better team, etc. However, last night I left the arena thinking that I don't care if I ever see Colgate play another game. They just came across as a team with little class. Part of it was all the late hitting and pushing (it was way too late, usually on someone not looking, and just plain more than normal) and part of it was the attitude they seemed to have about it all. It just struck me as bush-league stuff, not as the normal give and take, etc. The only time I thought it had been worse was the famous Canisius game ... (although Air Force actually comes close at times, but in a much different way) hence my comment last night. However, that might be their strategy (and it might be effective), because it seemed to clearly take a bunch of the Tigers out of their game and Colgate dominated and won easily. So ... yay for Colgate, congratulations, and I'm still not impressed.

I've seen a lot of hockey and this is one of the very few times I've had that perception. I might be off base, but it is what I saw. I've also seen RIT have their butts handed to them plenty times and left the arena thinking I saw a great hockey team in the opponent. I don't have a problem with the loss. Maybe there is some history (pre-RIT/Colgate) amongst some of the players that contributed to, but even then it seemed strange to me (and to the Coach, by the way). And for the record, I am not saying they were goons or trying to hurt anybody; it didn't look that way.

So that's about all there was to it. Maybe it was just gamesmanship (which is not part of the game in my opinion). Not about losing, just about my observations of the other team. I didn't have much to say about the loss itself; it was a dominating performance by Colgate.

Here's a question for you hockey gurus ... there were many times during the game when a Tiger was skating into the zone with the puck and had 3 Colgate players "on" him. The end result was usually that Colgate skated away with the puck. So, were they really that much faster and better at puck handling that they could nominally leave two Tigers unguarded and get away with it time after time? Why couldn't our guys pass the puck out of there easily? Again something I don't recall seeing so blatantly before (for or against the Tigers).
 
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TigerFan86-87 said:
Allow me to reprase and elaborate...

That was distressing to watch.
No offense whatsoever. Someone mentioned that RIT played pretty even through the first 5-10 minutes of the first period. I disagree. If it weren't for the consecutive power plays (and the 14 seconds of 5-on-3) during which the Tigers piled up a quick 5 shots on goal, they only generated 1 other shot through the entire first period, which appeared to me to be credited to RIT despite actually coming off an errant pass off a Raider stick from the opposite end of the ice (maybe they were crediting an actual RIT shot from earlier that they had missed, but it went on the board after an "own-shot"). So if you throw out the 3:36 of power play that actually went well, the Tigers' offense was absent the entire rest of the first period. I can only distinctly remember a couple other times where the Tigers gained and retained possession in the Colgate zone for any extended time to generate multiple shots through the rest of the game.
Given the complete lack of offense, it is almost surprising how few shots Colgate actually generated. 36 is a fair number, but with the complete lack of attack time RIT had, one would expect Colgate to have been on the attack for 40 -50 minutes. The Raiders played well, but either RIT was doing something right defensively or Colgate isn't that strong offensively either. They should have been able to pile up 50 or more shots. I'm not going to claim that it was a defensive masterpiece, but it could have been much worse. They definitely lapsed a few times and took a few dumb penalties (nothing new there), but the rest of the time didn't appear quite as pourous as last season.
And of course if it weren't for Ruby, it could have easily been 6, 7, or more 'Gate goals.
While I am trying to take some positives from that listless performance, it still was not good. Fortunately, it's only one game and they have time to fix whatever was wrong last night, but if they don't, they won't win too many games in or out of conference this season.
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I'll reserve judgement on the conference games once they start playing them and hopefully healthier. Luckily, there are a couple more weekends before that happens so there is time to fix the problem areas.
 
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Look, teams with more skill and more speed are going to beat us. That happens a lot. Why is this suddenly a surprise to everyone?

I certainly didn't see a listless team out there last night. They got outplayed, yes, but it wasn't from lack of trying.


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I think there energy was there, but outside of a few moments the team just didn't play well together. Both breaking out of our zone and getting into theirs relied too heavily on individual efforts. As someone mentioned a few posts down, we'd have one skater charge into their zone with 3 defenders waiting for him. The offensive support just doesn't seem to be gelled yet.

LtPowers said:
Look, teams with more skill and more speed are going to beat us. That happens a lot. Why is this suddenly a surprise to everyone?

I certainly didn't see a listless team out there last night. They got outplayed, yes, but it wasn't from lack of trying.


Powers &8^]
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Well boys, if Sacred Heart can beat #1 UMass Lowell, we sure as hell can beat Michigan!
 
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Anyone know if Michigan will have the hockey band at tonight's game?
 
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lmg6841 said:
*cough*
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Do you mean at the Doctors? Turn your head and cough twice? Because that would be very discomforting! haha

GO TIGERS

-FROM SLOVAKIA!!!!
 
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Similar to what Michigan is going to do to us tonight.

Rochester said:
Do you mean at the Doctors? Turn your head and cough twice? Because that would be very discomforting! haha

GO TIGERS

-FROM SLOVAKIA!!!!
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Prepare your butts, it's going to be the Frozen Four all over again.
 
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Never been so glad to be wrong! We have a game now!


lmg6841 said:
Prepare your butts, it's going to be the Frozen Four all over again.
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Where the heck was this team on Thursday night?

Great comeback and effort by the Tigers tonight. Hope they remember that if they bring this effort they can play with anyone in the country.
 
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If RIT can play like that more often this season, we'll win a lot of games. We started horribly and that cost us the game, sadly. Ruby just couldn't seen to make the big saves when we needed them the most, although half of their goals weren't going to be stopped by any goalie.

The defense played really, really well after the first period and the offense really picked up once they finally started following WW's advice of not being too fancy and just throwing the puck at the net. Hopefully they learned a thing or two tonight.

One thing that stood out to me was Nolan...if he wants to be a forward, we should move him to a wing. He's a pretty mediocre defenseman and he loves to skate the puck into the zone like that's his job anyway. Maybe he should pull a Brent Burns and switch to offense - I think he'd do more good there. At least it wouldn't be as frustrating when he got blown past on the rush or trips over his own skates trying to turn around. He's got a pretty decent shot and can pass, and we've got extra defense!
 
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I totally agree about Nolan. I like that he cuts in for goal scoring opportunities, but staying down low is not what I like seeing from my defensemen.

Michigan let RIT back in the game by taking a bunch of penalties that RIT capitalized on. I think that 5th goal that Michigan got in th last minute of the 2nd took back momentum. Then when RIT had the disallowed (correctly) goal, and then the seemingly missed call on a play that I thought could have merited a penalty shot kept the momentum the Wolverines way.
 
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Did they make any announcements about the new ice arena at yesterdays game?
 
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If the refs got the no goal call correct then ok. From my point of view I couldn't see the puck but the angle it took looked like it had to have gone in. I didn't see them video reviewing any of the goals, was this because it was neutral site?

There was a horrible call by the linesmen on a offsides when RIT was coming into the zone on what a 3-1 that killed a great scoring chance. This was right before Michigan came down the ice for their 5th goal.

Overall I can't believe this was the same team that played on Thursday night. Great effort. Wish the Tigers could snipe as well as Michigan but RIT went it and got the dirty goals
 
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Rochester said:
Did they make any announcements about the new ice arena at yesterdays game?
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It was mentioned/shown in the videos they showed during intermission. Nothing new for those of us that have been around.
 
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