Let's Examine the most recent weekend at RPI, shall we?
 
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8: Princeton 4, RPI 4. A combined effort by Ammian and Hearn.
        I did see some good deserving penalties by both teams get awarded, but
        let's face it- RPI always seems to get more. Also I seem to notice a
        lot of holding, tripping and hooking by the other team that never
        seems to get called. At least one strange penalty called against us
        resulted in a power play goal for princeton.
 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9: Yale 4, RPI 1: Cerbo all the way- I even forgot the other
        ref's name. This Boris Badunov lookalike made more questionable calls
        than the dastardly duo on Friday night! CASE IN POINT #1: A Yale player
        severely checked our goalie- a major nono for which the penalty was
        awarded, but then RPI got a DOUBLE MINOR!!!    CASE IN POINT #2: Will
        somebody please tell me and about 4000 students and Capital District
        residents in attendance WHY THE HELL WAS OUR FIRST GOAL DISALLOWED???!!
        Even the Troy Record couldn't explain!  Cerbo did Game DQ a Yale
        player, but by then the damage had been done.  I applaud the three or
        four fans who voiced their displeasure right at Cerbo et al at game's
        end.
 
 
Some issues:
        Cerbo may be a relative newcomer to the field house, but I see Ammian
more often than some others like Belanger. Shouldn't refs rotate more evenly
and even between conferences?
 
        Why does RPI always seem to outpenalize the other team? I can see a bad
game once in a while (i.e. McConaghy working Harvard-RPI on 2/16/91) and like-
wise a well-called game (i.e. Malinowski working Brown-RPI 2/2/91- 204 minutes
of penalties evenly divided- a real classic) with games complementing each
other in between. But everything seems one-sided against RPI in the 5+ years
I've seen Engineers hockey. WHY??
 
        Incidentally, the other team usually seems to be much more aggressive
and full of cheap shots.
 
Gotta Run. -Rich