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Orange Cat Review RIT Vs. Holy Cross – Game 1
Puck Drop: After let's say an unique way to sweep a team on the road. RIT finally opened up play at the GPC against an interesting Holy Cross team who also played good out of conference opponents, but seem to fair better against the stronger opponents and not so good against the weaker opponents. Old grumpy men, like myself, have been complaining about RIT getting outshot and we almost got a taste of our own medicine as RIT out shoot the Crusaders by a wide margin, but Logan Drackett had almost 30% of the 11 shots he face in the first two periods hit the back of the net. Not really all his fault, just a tough night. This became a game that I actually wanted to see, cause this was the game that I felt if this team was going to be dangerous, it needed to win this kind of game. RIT used a 5 goal third period to grab a 7-4 win.
Blame Game: : Off kind of broken play near the blue line Alden Dupuis batted a puck to a tip toeing the line Jake Hamacher who used his sweet hands to tie the game at one on a partial breakaway. God does Hamacher have sweet hands, his talent and hockey IQ is so much fun to watch. Why I have this under blame game was I just was a little surprise Holy Cross did not challenge the off sides. I'm not saying it was, but it was close I thought it be worth a shot.
Hockey Hero: Logan Drackett, sorry just became a habit. Andrew Rinaldi, when a freshman has a hat trick you have to give it to him. I really like the kid, just seems his motor never stop going and he got skills.
Turing Point: Down 3-1 with time running out in the third Adam Brubacher collected a bounce puck after a nice intial chance by Nick Bruce. Brubacher could have tried to force the pass throw the two guys in front of him, but he cooly slide a pass over the Will Calverley who buried a big goal to cut the margin to 1 going into the third. That made a big difference, to out shoot the Crusaders and have some bad bounces it would have really felt different going to the room after 40 down 2 instead of the down 1 they ended up with...
Hey, You Did Good: Give some more freshman love to Caleb Moretz. 2 assist, including a sweet pass to Andrew Rinaldi to give the Tigers their first lead of the night
Look, You Need to Do Better: I'm going to nitpick a common concern I have on this team, and how I would attack it if I was the bad guys. Get RIT defense to have to get mobile with the puck in their own zone. This just happen to be the best example, but that weird bounce that lead to the second goal, really happen because Ryan Nicholson felt the pressure and even thought it was freaky bounce he did not make the best decision as he tried to escape the Purple that was closing in on him
Good Move Wayne: Nick Bruce saw no action last week at Air Force and was inserted into the second line with Will Calverley and Kobe Walker. Seemed to help Calverley get going as he had two goals, and Bruce assisted on both of them, included the primary on the game winner.
WILSON!!!!!!!!! (Second Guessing Wayne): When you navigate your through rough waters like that I don't think you can complain much, maybe work on the pregame speeches, I was really hoping to see the Tigers come out flying tonight and early on the on form of that was a boarding penalty taken by Shawn Cameron that lead to the fist of two Jake Pappalardo goals.
Breathless: In 7 games the Freshman class has now scored 7 Goals and chipped in 8 Assists for 15 points. That pretty much a goal and helper a game. Not bad for a senior class...
Next Shift Up: Short turn around for a 5:05 game, I am really curious on what Holy Cross will come back with. Don't forget the Women take on Syracuse at Noon. Nothing would make Chris Lerch more happy than RIT Beating Syracuse...
Orange Cat Review RIT Vs. Holy Cross – Game 1
Puck Drop: After let's say an unique way to sweep a team on the road. RIT finally opened up play at the GPC against an interesting Holy Cross team who also played good out of conference opponents, but seem to fair better against the stronger opponents and not so good against the weaker opponents. Old grumpy men, like myself, have been complaining about RIT getting outshot and we almost got a taste of our own medicine as RIT out shoot the Crusaders by a wide margin, but Logan Drackett had almost 30% of the 11 shots he face in the first two periods hit the back of the net. Not really all his fault, just a tough night. This became a game that I actually wanted to see, cause this was the game that I felt if this team was going to be dangerous, it needed to win this kind of game. RIT used a 5 goal third period to grab a 7-4 win.
Blame Game: : Off kind of broken play near the blue line Alden Dupuis batted a puck to a tip toeing the line Jake Hamacher who used his sweet hands to tie the game at one on a partial breakaway. God does Hamacher have sweet hands, his talent and hockey IQ is so much fun to watch. Why I have this under blame game was I just was a little surprise Holy Cross did not challenge the off sides. I'm not saying it was, but it was close I thought it be worth a shot.
Hockey Hero: Logan Drackett, sorry just became a habit. Andrew Rinaldi, when a freshman has a hat trick you have to give it to him. I really like the kid, just seems his motor never stop going and he got skills.
Turing Point: Down 3-1 with time running out in the third Adam Brubacher collected a bounce puck after a nice intial chance by Nick Bruce. Brubacher could have tried to force the pass throw the two guys in front of him, but he cooly slide a pass over the Will Calverley who buried a big goal to cut the margin to 1 going into the third. That made a big difference, to out shoot the Crusaders and have some bad bounces it would have really felt different going to the room after 40 down 2 instead of the down 1 they ended up with...
Hey, You Did Good: Give some more freshman love to Caleb Moretz. 2 assist, including a sweet pass to Andrew Rinaldi to give the Tigers their first lead of the night
Look, You Need to Do Better: I'm going to nitpick a common concern I have on this team, and how I would attack it if I was the bad guys. Get RIT defense to have to get mobile with the puck in their own zone. This just happen to be the best example, but that weird bounce that lead to the second goal, really happen because Ryan Nicholson felt the pressure and even thought it was freaky bounce he did not make the best decision as he tried to escape the Purple that was closing in on him
Good Move Wayne: Nick Bruce saw no action last week at Air Force and was inserted into the second line with Will Calverley and Kobe Walker. Seemed to help Calverley get going as he had two goals, and Bruce assisted on both of them, included the primary on the game winner.
WILSON!!!!!!!!! (Second Guessing Wayne): When you navigate your through rough waters like that I don't think you can complain much, maybe work on the pregame speeches, I was really hoping to see the Tigers come out flying tonight and early on the on form of that was a boarding penalty taken by Shawn Cameron that lead to the fist of two Jake Pappalardo goals.
Breathless: In 7 games the Freshman class has now scored 7 Goals and chipped in 8 Assists for 15 points. That pretty much a goal and helper a game. Not bad for a senior class...
Next Shift Up: Short turn around for a 5:05 game, I am really curious on what Holy Cross will come back with. Don't forget the Women take on Syracuse at Noon. Nothing would make Chris Lerch more happy than RIT Beating Syracuse...
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