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>>>RIT Tigers 2022-2023 Season<<<
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As I recall, RIT had a penalty and ASU had pulled their goalie, so there were 6 ASU players and 4 RIT players, plus Matthews, on the ice. I think I remember the radio guy noting that some RIT players were being double-teamed. I wonder if that's why he suggested that maybe someone should square off with the goalie, but when I heard it my immediate reaction was "Oh no! That'd be a baddd idea." I don't think it excuses his comment, but just for a bit more context.
It is pretty generic, aesthetically. But it's also baffling from a functionality perpsective.
We don't have a center ice video scoreboard supposedly because of the low ceiling, requested to enhance the sound of the crowd. But the low ceiling is criss-crossed with beams and superstructure. The sound bounces around, sure, but not in any coherent way. I can barely hear the Corner Crew over behind the north net, and the Pep Band's tubas just get swallowed up. It's acoustically chaotic.
The steep seating bowl was also supposed to help with sound, but the glass is tall enough that most of the sound just bounces right back to the stands and never makes it onto the ice -- and certainly not to the other side of the arena.
The club section is beautiful but the dining area is a bit too small and it inexplicably blocks the path around the upper concourse.
The ticket office's location in the breezeway entrance causes congestion, even if we didn't have security just beyond. There's just no possible natural flow of patrons. With the security screening, it's a complete sh!tshow in there.
Powers &8^]
Prime scenario for a let down tonight - coming off of a sweep against a nonconference opponent, playing in an empty barn after playing in front of 5,000 a night each weekend, and Holy Cross having played fairly well of late. Not only would that be bad news for the pairwise, but Sacred Heart isn't that far behind so it'd be nice to stay a weekend ahead with a win toinght (tonight is our game in hand)
Not much juice seemingly in the opening period. Not many attempts at the net, and a lot of zone time for Holy Cross, even if the attempts are inflated from throwing everything at the cage. Got a couple of periods to get things going. Hope I'm wrong.
Not much juice seemingly in the opening period. Not many attempts at the net, and a lot of zone time for Holy Cross, even if the attempts are inflated from throwing everything at the cage. Got a couple of periods to get things going. Hope I'm wrong.
HC wanted this game bad and it showed as they were hustling all 60 minutes. The HC guys on Flo summed the end result up pretty well. "Good teams win the games they're supposed too. Great ones win the ones they shouldn't ." I'd add that it also helps if your goalie stands on his head. Scarfone saved their bacon tonight
uscho.com and CHN's RPI ratings are discrepant again...CHN has us at 17th (UConn and Northeastern ahead, MSU behind). There's only a couple ten-thousands of a percentage point difference, but that's how close we are from dropping a couple of spots, and we're quite a way from 14th. The only thing I can think of is that the home-road adjustments aren't being applied on CHN's site. Regardless, if the teams behind us on the uscho list do well this weekend, we won't be able to stay ahead of them since they're playing better opponents. We could easily end up back to 17 even with a sweep this weekend.
So, not a lot of leeway left, even with us being 15th currently. Using the CHN simulator, going 7-1 in our last 8 will keep us at 15th going into the playoffs (with other teams at their current RPI value), which is squarely on the bubble - likely the only round we can lose and still make the NCAA's is the final and that's only after sweeping the first two rounds.
EDIT: Doing some digging, there's 11 teams with a discrepancy in "weighted winning %", which of course affects all 62 teams. Most of them played in some kind of tournament in a neutral site (or maybe not neutral site?) leading me to believe the two sites are handling home/road for those tournaments differently. Another difference is that Stonehill is not included on CHN's RPI list, which means LIU has one less win. Aside from that, the only two teams that had a discrepancy that did not play in a neutral tournament (yet) is BC and Northeastern. I can't figure that one out.
I'm assuming USCHO's is the offical RPI rating since that's what the NCAA links to?
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USCHO's RPI has been fixed....we're back down to 17th. AIC did us no favors last night - looks like we're gonna have to earn it the way that Sacred Heart is playing right now. The power play's gonna have to get going before the playoffs, 2/32 since Christmas is no good at all.
Some of you may remember I created a google sheets document with the history of Atlantic Hockey captured by a 4 year rolling winning percentage a few years ago. I kind of fell off updating that after the pandemic, but I finally got back around to it and now have the document fully up to date again. The 2021-22 Senior Class for AIC has trumped RIT's 2009-2010 senior class in winning percentage (.729 to .728, as well as 4 regular season championships to 2.5 and 3 playoff championships to 1....RIT does have the 2 NCAA wins to 1 for AIC though). RIT has climbed back into the 2nd or 3rd slot for most of the completed 4 year classes of the 2020's, obviously helped by this year's excellent record post-scholarships, but also started before scholarships were available - after spending most of the 2010's decade between 5th and 7th the 2020-21 Senior class climbed back to 2nd. Here's the updated document: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...1LSmKS38Ybt2gI
Some of you may remember I created a google sheets document with the history of Atlantic Hockey captured by a 4 year rolling winning percentage a few years ago. I kind of fell off updating that after the pandemic, but I finally got back around to it and now have the document fully up to date again. The 2021-22 Senior Class for AIC has trumped RIT's 2009-2010 senior class in winning percentage (.729 to .728, as well as 4 regular season championships to 2.5 and 3 playoff championships to 1....RIT does have the 2 NCAA wins to 1 for AIC though). RIT has climbed back into the 2nd or 3rd slot for most of the completed 4 year classes of the 2020's, obviously helped by this year's excellent record post-scholarships, but also started before scholarships were available - after spending most of the 2010's decade between 5th and 7th the 2020-21 Senior class climbed back to 2nd. Here's the updated document: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...1LSmKS38Ybt2gI
It can't be overstated how important winning in regulation was. If Minnesota State loses, we could be as high as #13 after tonight. If we had won in OT tonight we would have fallen to #18.
Minnesota State also illustrates how damaging a loss to a lower tier team will be - they will drop from #13 to #17 if they can't come back against St. Thomas tonight. All of the teams from 14 through 18 are extremely close to each other right now. (13 through 18 if Minnesota State loses tonight). We got a lot of good results elsewhere. Root for Arizona State, St. Thomas to hold on, and Bejimidi to come back against Michigan Tech for the rest of the night.
Minnesota State also illustrates how damaging a loss to a lower tier team will be - they will drop from #13 to #17 if they can't come back against St. Thomas tonight. All of the teams from 14 through 18 are extremely close to each other right now. (13 through 18 if Minnesota State loses tonight). We got a lot of good results elsewhere. Root for Arizona State, St. Thomas to hold on, and Bejimidi to come back against Michigan Tech for the rest of the night.
I was thinking about this a little bit on Saturday during the game, and it wouldn't take much to just go and paint some RIT colors in a few places, to liven it up, and make it scream "This is OUR HOUSE!" One idea in particular that I had was to paint the fa?ade that goes all the way around the arena (What I'm talking about is even with the bottom of the video boards, and runs more or less all the way around the outside of the arena) orange, with some black horizontal stripes (or vice versa), and maybe place some logos, and/or paint something like "Home of the Tigers" in big white letters on there. Or, paint it orange, and give it a Tiger Stripe treatment all the way around. There are probably some other things that could be done to dress the place up a little, at relatively low cost.
You may be on to something. For comparison, here's a render of the GPC from 2012:
Note the orange on the reverse of the boards, and the orange standing rails at the top of the seating bowl.
Compare that to what we actually got:
Man what a mess that ceiling is, isn't it? It's bad aesthetically and it's bad acoustically.
Powers &8^]
Sacred Heart loses to Army last night. 9 point lead with 6 to play for both teams, which means that a combination of 9 points won by RIT and lost by Sacred Heart this weekend clinches RIT the #1 seed for the tournament (only exception: if RIT wins one game in regulation and Sacred Heart loses two in regulation, AIC would also have to drop 1 point)
In terms of the at large bid, it's pretty much going to take being undefeated until the championship game, I think, to be able to have a chance to still make the NCAA tournament with a loss in the playoffs. Maybe they can drop one game when you add in the 4 extra playoff wins to get to the AHA Championship, but it seems unlikely to me. With Bentley and Air Force fighting for their playoff lives, it may not be as easy as the standings/pairwise make it out to seem. RIT's shown to be very good, but not quite that dominant team where they completely control the game against lesser competition (and even if they were, as Minnesota State showed last weekend, you can still lose a game here and there...they outshot St. Thomas a combined 83-27 over two games and lost on Friday night). RIT easily could have lost games in regulation these last couple of weeks had a couple of bounces gone the other way.
In terms of the at large bid, it's pretty much going to take being undefeated until the championship game, I think, to be able to have a chance to still make the NCAA tournament with a loss in the playoffs. Maybe they can drop one game when you add in the 4 extra playoff wins to get to the AHA Championship, but it seems unlikely to me. With Bentley and Air Force fighting for their playoff lives, it may not be as easy as the standings/pairwise make it out to seem. RIT's shown to be very good, but not quite that dominant team where they completely control the game against lesser competition (and even if they were, as Minnesota State showed last weekend, you can still lose a game here and there...they outshot St. Thomas a combined 83-27 over two games and lost on Friday night). RIT easily could have lost games in regulation these last couple of weeks had a couple of bounces gone the other way.
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RIT Winters
Hey, you SUCK!
The good news, such as it is, is that a lot of the issues with GPC really could be solved cosmetically and relatively cheaply. Seriously, just add more orange. Maybe some cool RIT murals. Ironically the lower concourse does this fairly well with the hall of fame wall, the gift shop, as well as just more orange paint leading to a feeling of walking into RIT's building. Then you get to your grey seats, look at the white walls, the grey steel beams and it feels like a neutral site game. It's the ultimate insult to injury that the one orange beam in the place - the one they had fans sign as part of the celebration of the GPC - was installed in a place where almost no one will ever see it unless they know to look for it, hidden in the corner behind a bunch of ductwork.
Hopefully the program can string together a couple good years to generate administrative interest for investing in improving the Gene.
Well, maybe having their at large chances snuffed out will teach them that they have to come out hard at the opening faceoff for a change. They've been acting like they could just show up early in games since they swept Arizona State. Extremely disappointing two mediocre weekends that brought their pairwise chances to the brink didn't have them coming out hard tonight.
Since their trip to the desert they've play very lackadaisically. Keep playing like this and they may be regular season champs but they won't make it out of the first round. Coach said in the post game last night. "don't care if we finish #1, we just need to play better".
Next year's schedule:
26 conference games (2 series of 4 games, 2 series of 3 games, 6 series of 2 games). One of the 4 game series will be RMU.
First Sat in Oct @ St Lawrence
Brick city - Notre dame
Home vs St Lawrence/Home vs Clarkson in one weekend
Ledyard bank classic at Dartmouth (holiday time)
2 @ UNH
26 conference games (2 series of 4 games, 2 series of 3 games, 6 series of 2 games). One of the 4 game series will be RMU.
First Sat in Oct @ St Lawrence
Brick city - Notre dame
Home vs St Lawrence/Home vs Clarkson in one weekend
Ledyard bank classic at Dartmouth (holiday time)
2 @ UNH
ClarksonHockeyFan16
I am now LetsGoTech16
Dates?
Unsure. I assume you’re asking specifically for the St. Lawrence/Clarkson weekend? I think the radio guys said late October (would have to be one of the last two weekends), but I could be wrong. They assumed it those teams would be at Niagara or Canisius on the night they aren’t at RIT.
ClarksonHockeyFan16
I am now LetsGoTech16
Likely Canisius then. Clarkson owes them a game from last season that was canceled.
With Sacred Heart needing overtime to get past Canisius today, RIT has clinched sole possession of 1st place and their first regular season title since 2011. And with Air Force coming in next week completely out of the playoff race, next week's games mean absolutely nothing standings wise. Even elsewhere, the 8 playoff teams have been decided - just jostling for seeding and home ice in various rounds, most notably between Sacred Heart and AIC, where whoever wins the weekend series will be the 2 seed.
But man, with both RIT and Sacred Heart (and even AIC to an extent) struggling a bit down the stretch it seems like the playoffs are wide open. Feels like Holy Cross, Canisius, and Army are all playing better hockey in February than the top seeds. Hopefully they can find their game again.
But man, with both RIT and Sacred Heart (and even AIC to an extent) struggling a bit down the stretch it seems like the playoffs are wide open. Feels like Holy Cross, Canisius, and Army are all playing better hockey in February than the top seeds. Hopefully they can find their game again.
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