Wicked Slappaahs
I miss Tie Domi
Re: RPI III: Revenge of the Seth
I haven't read any of the write-ups, but here is what I saw last night.
This was as good a college hockey atmosphere as one will find. One criticism I would make is that there was no obvious effort - that I saw - to collect money for Haiti recovery efforts. The 50-50 $$$ went to one of the sports teams. For a school that likes to think of itself as socially progressive, this was inexcusable.
Union had more "jump" in the 3rd and played the way we did for most of the 1st and 2nd. Both teams did a good job of limiting quality opportunities. Our blue line play has improved immensely, credit to Coach Vines. They did a great job positionally and levelled several well-timed body blows. Let's remember U is a team that scored 9 goals last weekend. This game could easily have been a "W" for RPI. I do think the defense was playing tight in the 3rd which lead to bad clears...but much of that was due to Union applying a lot more pressure and our forwards needed to help out more.
At the risk of being labelled, aside from D'Amigo getting mugged while we were on the PK in the 1st, the penalty call on Pirri in the 3rd was ridiculous...an example of a weak call being made, one that impacted the outcome of the game. To add insult to injury, Murphy conveniently positioned himself so as to be in Pirri's way as he exited the box, busting up a breakaway chance for Brandon. Pirri even looked back at Murphy in disbelief as if to say " Did you REALLY just do that?...". Several of the U fans around me couldn't believe it. Murphy doesn't possess enough brainpower to think of this ahead of time, he's just an idiot with zero sense for where should positioned in that situation.
As for Helfrich, I don't know whether he is dinged up or not. I do know I saw him play in person at Q last Friday and he did not look like himself. So Appert decided to sit him - whether it was to give him recoup time or to send a message - I'm ok with it. Players earn their ice time in Seth's world. This isn't youth soccer where no one loses and everyone gets a trophy.
I haven't read any of the write-ups, but here is what I saw last night.
This was as good a college hockey atmosphere as one will find. One criticism I would make is that there was no obvious effort - that I saw - to collect money for Haiti recovery efforts. The 50-50 $$$ went to one of the sports teams. For a school that likes to think of itself as socially progressive, this was inexcusable.
Union had more "jump" in the 3rd and played the way we did for most of the 1st and 2nd. Both teams did a good job of limiting quality opportunities. Our blue line play has improved immensely, credit to Coach Vines. They did a great job positionally and levelled several well-timed body blows. Let's remember U is a team that scored 9 goals last weekend. This game could easily have been a "W" for RPI. I do think the defense was playing tight in the 3rd which lead to bad clears...but much of that was due to Union applying a lot more pressure and our forwards needed to help out more.
At the risk of being labelled, aside from D'Amigo getting mugged while we were on the PK in the 1st, the penalty call on Pirri in the 3rd was ridiculous...an example of a weak call being made, one that impacted the outcome of the game. To add insult to injury, Murphy conveniently positioned himself so as to be in Pirri's way as he exited the box, busting up a breakaway chance for Brandon. Pirri even looked back at Murphy in disbelief as if to say " Did you REALLY just do that?...". Several of the U fans around me couldn't believe it. Murphy doesn't possess enough brainpower to think of this ahead of time, he's just an idiot with zero sense for where should positioned in that situation.
As for Helfrich, I don't know whether he is dinged up or not. I do know I saw him play in person at Q last Friday and he did not look like himself. So Appert decided to sit him - whether it was to give him recoup time or to send a message - I'm ok with it. Players earn their ice time in Seth's world. This isn't youth soccer where no one loses and everyone gets a trophy.
, I am sold on your team. I can't see anything but good things ahead for them. I am really happy that they and Union are finally done, for now at least and I also hope that that neither team "bounces" next weekend. Let's plan on meeting next in Albany this March. 
But I think all of us have our teams that we want to see lose every single game, and those teams in the ECAC we wouldn't mind seeing them win 20 out of 22. It's quite something to see your team make a turn-around (thus far) from worst to first in 3 years. I'm also glad the Route 7 games are done for the rest of the regular season. Best of luck in the rest of the season.