Must remember patience
RIT suffers two more close losses. Friday, the Tigers fell 4-3 to St. Lawrence. That was followed up by a 4-2 loss to Clarkson. This just adds to the stats that were piled up last year when RIT played every game close.
While it sucks that these games were losses, we have to remember to have patience. RIT is still only a 2nd year DI program. Clarkson played it's 2000th game in history. RIT has played about 30 DI games. That the Tigers were able to hang in there on the road against two good, established programs is a good sign. Yes, at some point, fans should expect to win some of these games. But we can't think that they should win those game now. I'm guilty of that. I'm sure more fans are guilty of that. Perhaps the win over St. Lawrence at the Ritter raised expectations too high.
Wait until RIT gets to the conference schedule. That is where RIT can be more competitive and wins some games. It will happen. If it doesn't, then we have the right to be upset.
So let me wrap up this blog with a good, bad, and ugly.
The good: Goaltending. Jocelyn Guimond was as good as he was last year. He kept RIT in the game against St. Lawrence. But the pleasant surprise was Louis Menard's game against Clarkson. Nobody knew what to expect from him, since he only got in 1 game before getting hurt last year. If Menard can keep this up, it will mean that the Tigers will have 2 solid goalies and can rest Guimond and still have a chance to win.
The bad: RIT got outshot pretty bad in both games. They were slight improvements from last year. There is also some question about the number of shots RIT took in St. Lawrence. The St. Lawrence AD seemed to short change RIT by 7 shots. Things were better against Clarkson, and RIT even outshot the Knights for a period. Granted, this is ECACHL competition, but I'm sure Coach Wilson will be addressing this as well.
The ugly - RIT's penalties. The Tigers took too many penalties. That is a killer against more talented teams. While the Tigers have been excellant in killing penalties so far, it will wear the team down. Also, they took penalties when they were on the power play. RIT can't let that happen.
My players of the weekend:
Simon Lambert - 3 assists.
Steve Pinizzotto - 1 goal and 1 assist
Louis Menart - Excellant game against Clarkson
While it sucks that these games were losses, we have to remember to have patience. RIT is still only a 2nd year DI program. Clarkson played it's 2000th game in history. RIT has played about 30 DI games. That the Tigers were able to hang in there on the road against two good, established programs is a good sign. Yes, at some point, fans should expect to win some of these games. But we can't think that they should win those game now. I'm guilty of that. I'm sure more fans are guilty of that. Perhaps the win over St. Lawrence at the Ritter raised expectations too high.
Wait until RIT gets to the conference schedule. That is where RIT can be more competitive and wins some games. It will happen. If it doesn't, then we have the right to be upset.
So let me wrap up this blog with a good, bad, and ugly.
The good: Goaltending. Jocelyn Guimond was as good as he was last year. He kept RIT in the game against St. Lawrence. But the pleasant surprise was Louis Menard's game against Clarkson. Nobody knew what to expect from him, since he only got in 1 game before getting hurt last year. If Menard can keep this up, it will mean that the Tigers will have 2 solid goalies and can rest Guimond and still have a chance to win.
The bad: RIT got outshot pretty bad in both games. They were slight improvements from last year. There is also some question about the number of shots RIT took in St. Lawrence. The St. Lawrence AD seemed to short change RIT by 7 shots. Things were better against Clarkson, and RIT even outshot the Knights for a period. Granted, this is ECACHL competition, but I'm sure Coach Wilson will be addressing this as well.
The ugly - RIT's penalties. The Tigers took too many penalties. That is a killer against more talented teams. While the Tigers have been excellant in killing penalties so far, it will wear the team down. Also, they took penalties when they were on the power play. RIT can't let that happen.
My players of the weekend:
Simon Lambert - 3 assists.
Steve Pinizzotto - 1 goal and 1 assist
Louis Menart - Excellant game against Clarkson
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