This was a fun but painful game to watch. Ortio will improve once he views the video tapes. Most of the goals were due to bad positioning. Basic stuff. Can’t be down on your knees and deep into the crease before the play takes a final direction. The forwards were ok but I felt they were not for checking hard enough. Other than the Agostino goal, I don’t feel there was total effort up front. Rochester was brilliant. They made it very hard at their own blue line. The forwards like Varone and Grigorenko were on their game. Gillies was not the only dirty player. After this fight, Rochester tried some of their own nonsense. When the line brawl started to gain some ground, It looked like Tim Schaller sucker punched an unsuspecting Cundaribut then paid the price from what I heard, once Cundari figured out he was in a fight. The camera moved away so it was hard to tell what took place but some social media chatter afterwards shed some light. I felt Acolatse had some good moments but some wobbly one’s as well. Same goes for Cundari but he seemed to be the more aggressive of the D with lots of intensity. I’m no authority on the game, but this is just how I saw it. Bad play by play announcing. They need to improve because the 2 teams will meet many times still. They need to learn the players names from both teams, not just their own.
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