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>>> RIT Tigers 2018/2019 - Time For The Tigers to Roar <<<

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Ed Trefzger said:
This is what the game notes from RIT for this weekend say about video/streaming: All home games this season will feature video streaming with audio by Stretch Internet on a subscription basis. For more information, go to https://portal.stretchinternet.com/atlantichockey/. As always, Gene Battaglia and John DiTullio bring you all the action from the Gene Polisseni Center.
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They should pay us for having to listen to those two. No innate hockey knowledge/instincts whatsoever. The rest of the broadcast has steadily improved; the so-called "professional" commentators are now the worst part of it.

joew74 said:
I emailed Joe Venniro, and he told me that they are still working on it, and he is hopeful that in the next week they will be able to announce details for broadcast TV and streaming, but as of Saturday nothing was official yet. So it sounds like all is not lost yet.
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Fingers crossed. As someone who works Friday nights (and sometimes Saturday nights), DVR is pretty much my only option - even when the games were available to stream for free, it was hard/impossible to get there after the game was played without having the score spoiled.
 
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Just received word that Saturday's game at Lowell has been moved up to 6 p.m. from 7 p.m. to accommodate Red Sox fans.
 
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Ed Trefzger said:
Just received word that Saturday's game at Lowell has been moved up to 6 p.m. from 7 p.m. to accommodate Red Sox fans.
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I'm pretty sure the Sox fans aren't going to the UML-RIT game, regardless. Moving the start time up one hour isn't going to increase attendance. "Hey, we're opening the ALCS Saturday night. We need to get ready for watching that game with all of our Sox fan friends. But before we do that... let's go to the Riverhawks' hockey game against... who? Oh, doesn't matter. Priorities."
 
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Relatively encouraging start tonight, losing 2-1 out of conference on the road to begin the year. From the sounds of the broadcast, Drackett was pretty solid.
 
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I forgot to listen to the game, but from the box score, we outshot them all three periods; it was just those two penalty kills in the third that hurt us.

Encouraging that we hung with the Minutemen, but we've got to hold leads, kill penalties, and get insurance goals.


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LtPowers said:
I forgot to listen to the game, but from the box score, we outshot them all three periods; it was just those two penalty kills in the third that hurt us.

Encouraging that we hung with the Minutemen, but we've got to hold leads, kill penalties, and get insurance goals.


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It's the Riverhawks. From listening, it seemed like RIT got called for more penalties in the 3rd. I'm guessing the team got worn down from so many penalty kills. Coach was happy with the effort, but not the result. Effort like what they showed in this game will put RIT into a spot near the top of the standings when conference play begins.

It will be interested to see who starts in goal tonight. Drackett certainly deserves another start, but Coach does tend to get both goaltenders into games in non-conference play.

Also good to see the 4th line get the goal. We know the top line will score lots of goals. But having depth in the lines will make things tough for opponents.
 
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LtPowers said:
Encouraging that we hung with the Minutemen, but we've got to hold leads, kill penalties, and get insurance goals.


Powers &8^]
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By way of information, Lowell is the Riverhawks. Amherst, that horrible school out in western Massachusetts, is the Minutemen and has an inferiority complex to Lowell. Easy to tell the difference too as Lowell has all the Hockey East championships and NCAA appearances while Amherst has, well, not much of anything.

Looking forward to tonight's game and on to the Red Sox. Any RIT fans attending tonight should pop by the Worthen on Worthen Street just up from the Tsongas past City Hall. Lowell's oldest continuously operating bar and where a lot of Lowell fans go to prior to games since the nearby Beer Works shut down last summer, fired their staff, and redid the place for the worse. Consequently, many of us no longer go there before games because of this and look elsewhere. A shame too as they used to have great food, people, and the convenience was great.
 
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Yeah, yeah, I got the University of Massachusetts at Lowell confused with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. (Actually got their mascots mixed up, not the schools themselves. Easy to do.) My bad!


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blazer777 said:
You should be really encouraged after tonight's game.
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Indeed. Well, the third was very bad..RIT clearly believed they could just turtle and hold on which did not work. Thankfully they ended up with a well deserved win. From the sounds of it, and quoting directly from WITR, that second period was one of the best RIT has played in years.

Glad Drackett got another start and glad that he, again, put up average numbers. Average is all RIT needs in net to be a power house team.
 
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RIT Winters said:
Indeed. Well, the third was very bad..RIT clearly believed they could just turtle and hold on which did not work. Thankfully they ended up with a well deserved win. From the sounds of it, and quoting directly from WITR, that second period was one of the best RIT has played in years.

Glad Drackett got another start and glad that he, again, put up average numbers. Average is all RIT needs in net to be a power house team.
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Don't know if it was as much turtling as trying to kill off penalty after penalty. They really need to maintain their discipline. It bit them in the rear Friday and nearly did today. That will need to be addressed before Saturday and especially before conference season heats up.

I think Drackett was solid in net, and it was a pleasant surprise he got the start tonight.

The good: Effort and fight from the team. The way they lost last night and started tonight's game could have easily led to a really bad weekend.
The bad: Need to be able to finish games. Allowing third period goals will hurt.
The ugly: Penalties and killing them MUST get better.
 
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Anyone know how ticket sales are going for the BCA game?
 
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joew74 said:
Basically the same arrangement as last year (although no mention of live streaming on ritsz.com). Wonder why it took so long to finalize? Were they possibly looking for a better deal elsewhere, or having a hard time coming to terms with with CW?
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No info about streaming makes me want to assume the worst, but we won't know until the first game back at the Gene. Fingers crossed!
 
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Good weekend for RIT (3rd periods not withstanding), but a little bit of a disappointing start conference wide. 3-12-1 (.219) is solidly behind last year's .335 winning percentage, and a lot of those games last week were played at home. Of course, Minnesota State was able to finish 6th in pairwise last year despite the WCHA finishing with a .353 interconference winning percentage, which just goes if you have one truly dominant team in a conference, you can still get into the dance with a great conference record and representative non-conference record in a poor conference.

To go into further detail, Minnesota State themselves were 4-2-0 out of conference and 25-8-1 inside of their conference (including the playoffs, which they lost in the semifinals). The rest of the teams in the WCHA only managed a 13-32-7 record outside of conference (worse than last year's Atlantic Hockey overall record at .317) and yet Minnesota State was able to ride a solid but not great non-conference record and dominant conference record to get into the dance despite losing to a .500 team in the conference playoffs.

You can also go back to 2013 when Niagara rode a 20-5-2 conference record and a 1-3-3(!) non-conference record into the tourney despite Atlantic Hockey's .290 non-conference winning percentage that year.

To be fair, that Niagara team probably wouldn't get in under the current pairwise rules, however, they almost certainly would have under the current rules with a representative non-conference record (say 3-2-2 instead of 1-3-3)
 
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