***RU Men's LAX vs Maryland Preview/Game Thread***

[rufeelinit]

3-3 less than a minute left in first quarter.

 

[Scarlet83]

3-2 RU!

Awesome!

 

[Scarlet83]

3-3

Darn!!

 

[Caliknight]

Let a soft one in. Keep beating up Kelly. He looks a little less mobile with that knee. Faceoffs.

 

[Scarlet83]

Let a soft one in. Keep beating up Kelly. He looks a little less mobile with that knee. Faceoffs.

Rex is on Kelly?

 

[koleszar]

That was horrible by Gallagher on two straight possession.

Now down 3-4. Faceoffs not looking good.

 

[Foads]

if we come around the cage and shoot one more directly into the goalies stick.........errrr

 

[Foads]

and a violation on the face off for man down

 

[rufeelinit]

4-4 after getting a man up goal. 8 min left 2nd qtr

 

[koleszar]

Mazzone is all over the field and on his game now 4-4.

 

[Foads]

man up with a goal. 4-4

 

[rufeelinit]

Nice pass by Jules. 5-4

 

[Foads]

BOOM!! 5-4 RU

 

[koleszar]

Faceoffs again are going to doom us. This is friggin ridiculous. We now have 4 violations and continue to go a man down. I've never seen a team more inept at faceoffs. Is Bozo the Clown teaching this group?

 

[rufeelinit]

Face off issues continue

 

[Foads]

Damn faceoffs. another violation and man down.

 

[rufeelinit]

And with two delays on face off's you certainly can't expect our guys to be overly aggressive.

 

[Caliknight]

I don't understand this refereeing.

 

[Leonard23]

I don't understand this refereeing.

I don't understand what they are calling a violation on us on FOs. Can anyone explain?

 

[rufeelinit]

Bad turnover and then a textbook transition goal by Maryland. Down 7-5

 

[koleszar]

We're sloppy and can't win faceoffs. Maryland looks crisp. down 5-7

 

[Foads]

game over....

 

[zappaa]

We have to rely on our goalie to win.

Maryland’s best player does not have to be their goalie....they’re a better team

 

[koleszar]

We have to rely on our goalie to win.

Maryland’s best player does not have to be their goalie....they’re a better team

More like we can't win faceoffs. They're better in one aspect, faceoffs just like most teams in the nation. Our overall talent can just overcome that one huge deficiency in most games. Give this team one decent not even great faceoff guy and they're NCAA bound. With this group, looks like we're sitting home for the holidays.

 

[rufeelinit]

Edelman has been pretty good. Critical that they did not give up another before the half. Down 7-5 at the half.

 

[zappaa]

More like we can't win faceoffs. They're better in one aspect, faceoffs just like most teams in the nation. Our overall talent can just overcome that one huge deficiency in most games.

Maryland’s defensive pressure on the ball as far better than ours.

 

[RUtom]

Up 5-4 ...... to down 7-5.. That sucks.

 

[Caliknight]

Turnovers and simple breakdowns. We gave up two off turnovers very unforced turnovers.

Tillman is all over it. They watched enough film to have an idea that Mullins might not play. Crazy amount of prep these coaches put into it.

 

[Caliknight]

We have to rely on our goalie to win.

Maryland’s best player does not have to be their goalie....they’re a better team

Edlemann is great. He isn't in the top 5 of best players on our team.

Sucks that Mullins is out. Our offensive flow is missing him. He does so much that doesn't show up in the stat book but helps the team score goals.

 

[koleszar]

Maryland’s defensive pressure on the ball as far better than ours.

We not only can't win face offs but we now have 4 violations and have given up two delay of game penalties one which directly led to a goal in less than 15 secs.. You can't win if you don't have the ball. Our defense is fine, it just looks one sided because they constantly have the ball do to faceoffs. Give us 6 more shots and them 6 less and watch the score change. It's the same thing game after game.

 

[rufeelinit]

I thought the announcers indicated Mullins was sick. Tillman indicated they thought he was injured against OSU.

 

[dollarbill]

Thought this game started at 5 p.m.? It's halftime already. $$$$

 

[koleszar]

Stupid shot by Coyne behind the back and no one on him right in front. Just fire it in from point blank range.

 

[biazza38]

What was Coyne doing there? Why go around the back. Sigh and then Tolliver’s shot

 

[rufeelinit]

Damn two opps wasted! 7-6

 

[rufeelinit]

Procedure call?

 

[biazza38]

Are you kidding me?!!!!!!! Our guy was tackled and they called a moving pick on us?!?!?!?

 

[rufeelinit]

too many empty possessions! D doing well but asking a lot.

 

[Caliknight]

Stupid shot by Coyne behind the back and no one on him right in front. Just fire it in from point blank range.

Freshman.

 

[rufeelinit]

And there you go. 8-6