Re: RPI at Princeton, 2/16/18
Didn't see Dr. D and Jenny at the game. Perhaps they were dressed less conspicuously than in previous years?
My seat was at center ice, just outside the blue line nearer to the end where eight of the nine goals were scored.
The game started and Princeton came out smoking. They won the opening faceoff, took the puck right into the RPI zone, and never gave it up until Kuffner blasted one home from the slot, 27 seconds in. Then they won the ensuing faceoff, took the puck right into the RPI zone again, and again never gave it up until a deflection found its way into the net 16 seconds later.
Princeton's third goal, five minutes later, may have been the most disheartening of all. Princeton was on the power play, and the puck came loose in front and off to Marshall's left. It appeared that there were three RPI players with a chance to get possession, but somehow they got in each other's way so that none of them could get to the puck. None of them, however, was in the way of the pass that Hallisey sent over to Kuffner, who had the kind of tap-in chance that anybody's Great-Aunt Dorothy could have converted.
After that start, it's not surprising that the enthusiasm of the RPI fans in attendance was kind of toned down.
I agree that the final score was a pretty good reflection of how much one team outplayed the other. It was hard to envision this RPI team being capable of playing the kind of game they did only two weeks ago at Ithaca. Maybe, as Dr. D suggested, it was a matter of matchups.