Before we begin the "Why is Masotta in there, he doesn't deserve to be"
thread, let's lay it on the line.
 
Masotta deserved to be in there.  He played a great game against BC, and
even if Tamburro were not injured, Masotta, for the sake of getting
back on the ECAC trail, should have been in there.
 
There, that's out of the way.
 
Second, it will ultimately come out that perhaps the loss is Masotta's
fault.  In part, yes, for the soft goals.  But that is only 1% of the
reason why.  1% goes to the defense in front of Masotta.  1% goes to
the offense non-generated by RPI.  97% goes to Head Coach Dan Fridgen.
 
I am not a coach, but I totally disagreed with his juggling of the
lines.  The line-up for the past 3 games was:
 
Matthews-Askew-Perardi
Healey-Hamelin-Clarke
Regan-Richardson-Brick
Maye-O'Connor-Battaglia
 
Askew gets a hip pointer and is out, so Chris Kiley is inserted into the
lineup.  Where does Kiley go?
In my opinion, with 2 hot lines in the Hamelin and Richardson line, you
replace Askew with O'Connor andput Kiley on line 4 to preserve the
lineup that has worked effectively for the past 3 games.  What happens?
 
Matthews-Brick-Perardi
Healey-Hamelin-Regan
O'Connor-Richardson-Clarke
Maye-Kiley-Battaglia
 
Huh?
 
ichardson looked lost all night trying to find someone to pass to.  Hamelin
did not click with Regan all night.  Brick lost 95% of all faceoffs he
was involved in, and all 3 lines were very uneffective.
 
Power Play units were also disjointed, as the front lines are usually
Regan-Richardson-Brick
Clarke-Askew-Perardi
 
We got:
Regan-Richardson-Clarke
O'Connor-Brick-Perardi
 
Dan Fridgen also tried to match lines all throughout Period 1 and it did not
work.
 
Brian mentioned the faceoff losses.
 
RPI won the first 5 faceoffs of the evening, and their best chances of the
1st period came then.  Then they proceeded to lose the next 10 or
so leading to Colgate scoring opportunities.
 
Let's see if Dan Fridgen goes back to the lineups which gave him success
in the previous 3 games against Cornell tonight.
 
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