No Brady Norrish tonight due to injury.
No Brady Norrish tonight due to injury.
It is amazing how much that loss was felt on offense.
I expect RIT to come out flying tonight.
What an embarrassment.
I had just come back from Seattle to watch this game and I walked out of the GPC at 4-1... I am so disappointed.Well no one stepped up to the plate. I turned it off at 4-1. Not a good way to put butts in seats at GPC. There are no gimmies this year. You don't show up to play you don't win. Did not play well this weekend.
TWC just showed the Friday night game down this way so it was good to watch the 3-1 win. Just starting the rebroadcast of the Saturday game which I'll watch too. I know we expect so much from this team, most of us are crushed when they lose. We are two times defending tournament champs, are we expecting too much? We all agree that the teams are tightly bunched this year yet we expect nothing less than a sweep at home when we play someone below us in the standings. I think I'm going to calibrate myself for a bumpy ride the rest of the way. Hoping for home ice for the playoffs. Hoping all the boys nursing nagging bruises and injuries will be ready to go come playoff time.
I'm never upset with a loss when the team gives a solid effort, regardless who it's against. What is disappointing though is when the effort is low. I'd be fine with the weekend result if Sacred Heart found a way to win a hard fought game, but its all too common that RIT simply hands over the keys at home and doesn't show up. (The team's sub-par performance at home these last few seasons doesn't help attendance either.)
We all agree this team has huge potential, but so far they have rarely played up to it.
That was frustrating to watch. From the outset of the first game it was clear that the SHU forecheckers were going to be relentless and stay right in the face of the Tigers when they gained possession in their own zone. It seemed to take the Tigers quite some time to acknowledge this fact. While being chased, they acted as though if they kept pulling back that eventually the forecheck would abate. The Pioneers wouldn't even stop when the D would carry the puck behind their own net. They were doing their best to force the Tigers to have to try and make a play. It worked more often than not, even in the second game when one would figure they should have known better.... RIT had real trouble getting the puck out of their zone.
He has never had stellar stats. He wins games when the team scores for him, which they did quite often back when he platooned with Ruby. Now the job is his alone and the Tigers have the schizophrenic nature of either scoring very few or a lot of goals per game. For the most part, he loses the former and wins the latter. He very occasionally steals a win or tie, but not all that often.While I would not be too critical of him, Mike Rotolo stats are far from dazzling. 9-11-1, 2.60 GAA with a save percentage .896%. RIT Opponents even in conference have a better save percentage than Rotolos.
He has never had stellar stats. He wins games when the team scores for him, which they did quite often back when he platooned with Ruby. Now the job is his alone and the Tigers have the schizophrenic nature of either scoring very few or a lot of goals per game. For the most part, he loses the former and wins the latter. He very occasionally steals a win or tie, but not all that often.
You really nailed it there, it just a year of weird extremes for the Tigers. Honestly it leaves you puzzled and none of it makes very much sense. However, I think every man in that room would be kidding themselves if they did not admit to themselves that they are better than their record is right now. And they have to get there Sh!# together soon if they want to repeat the last two years. This is going to be one of the toughest stretch runs I can remember them playing...
