Lest we let Luiz get away with his moronic, non-sensical drivel once again -- I
will make my one and only comment about this issue.
 
I shouldn't even say anything -- but I just cannot let misinformation come
spewing once again from the minds of know-nothings with a vendetta against
Princeton.  I'm afraid I can't resist, and I hate myself for it.
 
> There is no question that this is the best Princeton team I have seen since
> the days John Messuri was scoring all those goals in the late 1980s. The
> Tigers play a disciplined defensive game that compensates for the lack of a
> big goal scorer. They skate and pass well, and have solid goaltending.
> Nevertheless they STILL clutch and grab, and, surprisingly, despite their
> reputation for playing this style, still get away with it at times.
 
You are a damn fool who just won't give up.  You watch Princeton games with
such blinders it is sadly fascinating.  I challenge ANYBODY in the United
States of America to watch an ECAC game in which Princeton is in, and compare
it to ANY other team in the league, especially Brown, and tell me if they are
"clutching and grabbing" any more than anyone else.  Don't believe me -- let's
ask everyone else.
 
The Brown fans' fascination with this "clutch and grab" term, borders on the
pathological.  After the game, Marty Clapton went so far as to say, "Princeton
has no skill - they're a football team"  -- Now, for some reason Clapton
decides to play like an All-American against Princeton, that's fine.  But which
team is in last place, might I ask?  And if you ask any coach in the league who
has the most team speed, top to bottom -- it's Princeton.
 
I'm not about to get into another pissing match because Bob Gaudet is a great
guy and a good coach -- but if he's riling up his team and fans by pushing this
"clutch and grab" buttons, then there's something wrong.  And -- to his credit
-- he said nothing of the sort after the game -- or after the game in
Princeton.
 
Get off of this.  You are so clueless about this topic it makes my head spin.
 
I have purposefully avoided this kind of argument this year --- but I can
resist no longer.  Sadly, this means that Luiz and his friends have won ---
they have done what they set out to do, which is to set me off.  I took the
bait -- I lose.
 
I hope everyone else understands that Luiz must be stopped.  (By the way, why
so quiet from Luiz this year -- until the Princeton game??).
 
> When a
> Princeton defenseman wasn't called for hooking down Brown's speedy Mike
> Flynn in the first two minutes of last Saturday's game, I couldn't help
> thinking, "here we go again."
 
Referees never miss calls or let things go.  Never happens.
 
> Fortunately, however, referee Mike Noeth
> started calling restraining fouls on Princeton, at one point even giving
> Brown a long two-man advantage. After that two-man advantage Princeton
> seemed to cut back on the clutching and grabbing, and to start relying a
> bit more on sound positional play and good skating. The Tigers never
> completely abandoned, however, what Brown Daily Herald's Senior Staff
> Writer Martin Smal has humorously, but aptly described as their "hands-on
> approach to hockey."
 
Small being the appropriate term here.
 
> This Princeton team is skilled enough NOT to have to
> clutch and grab, but I suppose this is the style that Coach Cahoon likes to
> teach.
 
Can you possibly get any more ignorant than that comment.
 
Who leads the league in Penalty Minutes, by the way? --- AGAIN!!
 
> Although I find the style he teaches distasteful, Coach
> Cahoon deserves, therefore, a lot of credit for having brought a measure of
> respectability to a program with an undistinguished history.
 
Ignorance may be bliss -- but for you, it's just ignorance.  But Luiz -- why
trust me -- find a fan from each team in the ECAC -- someone who sees all the
games -- ask them which style they find more distasteful -- Brown's or
Princeton's.
 
You say you thought Princeton had it's best team in years.  Well, that was
about their worst game of the season. That's what it takes for Brown to win
this year.  So, if you want skating and passing, etc... maybe you should watch
them more often.
 
> The four teams currently tied for first (Cornell, RPI, Clarkson and
> Vermont) are unquestionably the four best teams in the league. I
> particularly like Cornell, with Clarkson a close second. Both Cornell and
> Clarkson play the way the game is supposed to be played, combining a
> creative, go-to-the-net offense with a  physical, no-nonsense defense.
 
And of course, they never "clutch and grab"
 
AW
 
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