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RPI 2013/14 Part III: Maximum Overdrivel

Decent weekend should have won Friday. You really can't take stupid penalties in critical situations. Good teams have the discipline to avoid those things.
That's ok play and learn, it's part of the process. There is enough time to improve enough and win in LP.
If they can beat Colgate and Cornell next weekend that will help.
 
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Thought Fulton had a great game. Great speed hustle no stupid penalties at least two great passes to Tinordi one for a goal. Where has he been all year! I thought we dominated two teams supposedly with great reps coming in but they had few serious chances. I was so down after giving away a sure win friday nite but the boys have had four solid games out of the last five and an undermanned no diesel squad against clarkson Some hope but we will no more after this weekend coming up.
 
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Thought Fulton had a great game. Great speed hustle no stupid penalties at least two great passes to Tinordi one for a goal. Where has he been all year! I thought we dominated two teams supposedly with great reps coming in but they had few serious chances. I was so down after giving away a sure win friday nite but the boys have had four solid games out of the last five and an undermanned no diesel squad against clarkson Some hope but we will no more after this weekend coming up.

I've been wondering the same thing, especially after his performance last year. I wonder if this is a situation comparable to that of Scott Halpern, where he's good for certain situations because of how he plays, but he makes the most of his chances.
 
Re: RPI 2013/14 Part III: Maximum Overdrivel

Thought Fulton had a great game. Great speed hustle no stupid penalties at least two great passes to Tinordi one for a goal. Where has he been all year! I thought we dominated two teams supposedly with great reps coming in but they had few serious chances. I was so down after giving away a sure win friday nite but the boys have had four solid games out of the last five and an undermanned no diesel squad against clarkson Some hope but we will no more after this weekend coming up.

I've been wondering the same thing, especially after his performance last year. I wonder if this is a situation comparable to that of Scott Halpern, where he's good for certain situations because of how he plays, but he makes the most of his chances.
Couldn't agree more about the play of Travis. In full disclosure I will admit that I have formed a great relationship with him since he got here but the truth is seen when he's in the lineup. I'll just say this; he's been dealing with an injury that occurred in the first SH game.
 
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Couldn't agree more about the play of Travis. In full disclosure I will admit that I have formed a great relationship with him since he got here but the truth is seen when he's in the lineup. I'll just say this; he's been dealing with an injury that occurred in the first SH game.

Thanks for the info . I was hoping he was not in the doghouse for some reason. If he is healthy now it's a big plus. I always liked his speed.
 
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I was a little unclear about those 2 penalties called simultaneously. I saw the first call-but the too mkany men on the ice call I missed. I thought the extra man they counted was not involved in the play at all and had reached a cery close distance to our bench. But, then again, that is a rule I am never really clear about-often i count too many men out there but the officials seem to ignore it if the extra man is within a short distance of getting off the ice

I was sitting right across from the bench, and I called the penalty before the ref did. I don't remember the player, but he was about to step into the bench, and decided to touch the puck as someone came over the boards. Easy call.
Surprisingly, I missed the interference call.
 
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I did not see the interference at all, but clearly saw the TMM penalty. The RPI forward (looked like it was Higgs) was coming to make the change, and then the puck got tied up along the boards in front of the RPI bench. He stopped to play the puck as RPI was making the line change. Since Higgs also got called for the interference, it may be possible that him stopping to play the puck impeded the progress of the Brown defender to try to do the same, thus getting the interference at the same time? Not positive on that, but a clear Too Many Men penalty.

And DrD, the rule is clear, but the implementation of it is where it gets cloudy. The player (or players) coming on and off the ice cannot play the puck or an imposing player, otherwise a penalty will be called. In the above scenario, Higgs was attempting to exit the ice, when the shift change was occurring. Although he can be on the ice while the change is complete, he cannot intentionally play the puck or an opposing player. This is why line changes almost always occur on a dump in.

I guess i was just focused on the interference-by the time i looked it seemed to me Higgs was not involved in play. if it was the right call-then I can live with it. i did wonder why some of the quick whistles when the goalies had not frozen the puck-but when we win a game, I really don't question anything.
 
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I was sitting right across from the bench, and I called the penalty before the ref did. I don't remember the player, but he was about to step into the bench, and decided to touch the puck as someone came over the boards. Easy call.
Surprisingly, I missed the interference call.

I did the exact reverse. I saw the interference(actually was hoping the officials missed it, but they didn't) but by the time i looked around-I thought Higgs was not into the play.
 
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I was sitting right across from the bench, and I called the penalty before the ref did. I don't remember the player, but he was about to step into the bench, and decided to touch the puck as someone came over the boards. Easy call.
Surprisingly, I missed the interference call.

This is how I saw it as well. I never saw the interference call but the too many men was easy to see.

Overall 2 pretty good efforts from the team this weekend, I feel like we should have had at least 3 or 4 points given the way they played. Hopefully we can go on a run like last year.

One question, after the melee late in the 3rd, why was there only 1 Brown player(#9) in the box? There was nobody serving the minor on the goalie. (Moot point I know:rolleyes:)
 
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If SA wasn't a hockey coach he should have been a politician. You probably think I am making a negative comment but I'm not. A great politician has a strong sense of where the (country, state, town) needs to go and is a great communicator along the way. You can be a great coach and be completely inarticulate in front of a microphone, but its nice to see when a guy can be succinct and clear about how he saw the game. Always enjoy listening to SA. The fact that he praised my favourite player (Tinordi) in this interview helps :D.
 
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If SA wasn't a hockey coach he should have been a politician.

That's why I always yell "Seth Appert for Congress!!!" when that ESJ ad comes on during the second intermission.
 
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This is how I saw it as well. I never saw the interference call but the too many men was easy to see.
One question, after the melee late in the 3rd, why was there only 1 Brown player(#9) in the box? There was nobody serving the minor on the goalie. (Moot point I know:rolleyes:)

There were two matching minors on RPI and Brown for four players total, the goalie being included in that, as well as another extra minor penalty on Brown, so total was one Brown player in the box.
 
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There were two matching minors on RPI and Brown for four players total, the goalie being included in that, as well as another extra minor penalty on Brown, so total was one Brown player in the box.


That would make sense if the RPI box was empty, but we had two players in the penalty box.
My guess is that the officials just missed it. (what a surprise).
 
Re: RPI 2013/14 Part III: Maximum Overdrivel

If SA wasn't a hockey coach he should have been a politician. You probably think I am making a negative comment but I'm not. A great politician has a strong sense of where the (country, state, town) needs to go and is a great communicator along the way. You can be a great coach and be completely inarticulate in front of a microphone, but its nice to see when a guy can be succinct and clear about how he saw the game. Always enjoy listening to SA. The fact that he praised my favourite player (Tinordi) in this interview helps :D.

Love to see Tinordi get some praise. he has been a hard working positive for this program. I posted this on the alum thread-we certainly got the tinordi who had the better NCAA career-and i would not be surprised at all to see lour boy go a lot further up the professional ranks. One of my favorites obviously also.
 
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That would make sense if the RPI box was empty, but we had two players in the penalty box.
My guess is that the officials just missed it. (what a surprise).

There were two players in there? Could have sworn it was empty, but I couldn't see that well from my angle. Sorry for adding to the confusion.

Also just got a neg rep comment about "french kiss my swamp a** like your mother did" attached to my original post on this topic. I'm not even sure where to start on interpreting what this means. Didn't realize there were 14-year-olds on this board?
 
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Also just got a neg rep comment about "french kiss my swamp a** like your mother did" attached to my original post on this topic. I'm not even sure where to start on interpreting what this means. Didn't realize there were 14-year-olds on this board?

That's a Hokydad rep if I ever saw one. Calling it a comment from a 14-year-old is far too kind.
 
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