After originally considering doing an Army @ Sacred Heart (2 P.M.) and Dartmouth @ Yale (7 P.M.) doubleheader yesterday, I instead returned to Princeton to catch RPI visit central Jersey once more, and despite RPI knocking off Union twice late last month, once in each of Schenectady (@ Union) and Troy (@ RPI), this game ended up being that much more of a rout for a Princeton team that has seemingly been unable to not score tons of goals in any given game either late last season, during the conference tournament that followed, as you saw last March, when Princeton ripped Brown twice back-to-back, or this season so far!
After heading to the Wawa right in front of Princeton's rink as I just about always have done every time I've made the trip down there the past couple of years or so, and, naturally, consuming another pint's worth of Wawa's dairy farm-produced chocolate milk, everybody witnessed Princeton's "class of '19" soon-to-graduate hockey team members get honored, which I thought usually occurred at the end of regular seasons; after that, however, the rout was already on, as Princeton immediately jumped a
The second period mostly saw Princeton "coast" defensively, allowing RPI to catch up in terms of shots on goal as the period progressed, although Princeton made it 4-0 a few minutes into the period, and the only penalty in the period (against RPI) ended up expiring with very little happening offensively for Princeton, which, again, was suddenly up 4-0, so it's not like Princeton needed to do much more offensively that period to maintain a multiple-goal lead the rest of the game!
The final 20 minutes saw a change in what was a (relative) lack of hitting up until that point in the game suddenly change, though, mostly as RPI suddenly firing still more shots on goal in an attempt to close the gap on the scoreboard - an attempt that would come in vain, though, as RPI only managed a single goal to break the shutout; after that, not even the extra skater could help RPI, as Princeton suddenly "clamped down" defensively and dumped many an RPI chance back down into one corner or the other near the empty net, and, with that, Princeton took a 4-1 lead and, most importantly, a continued top-20 ranking nationally up to Colgate and Cornell next weekend; speaking of Cornell, the next game I'll be at will feature them and Harvard @ MSG right after Thanksgiving!
(...also, Penn State defeated Robert Morris this weekend 7-2 (Fri.) and 11-6 (Sat.), so between those two results this weekend - and Princeton defeating Dartmouth 7-1 a few weeks ago, along with scoring 4 goals in each of its other games except, ironically, for the Princeton @ Penn State game at the end of October (the season opener for Princeton) that Penn State ended up winning 4-2 - the game next month between both those teams at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia is shaping up to be absolutely epic, scoring-wise!)
As for retail, JCPenney apparently secretly named a new CEO a few weeks ago; more importantly, Lowe's just joined Kmart and Sears in terms of retailers shutting down locations - this time, Lowe's announced 51 closures of its 2,390 total locations, so that's not the biggest percentage of closures, but 31 of them will be up in Canada, affecting both Lowe's and its Canadian subsidiary, Rona, along with 20 here in the States, including both Lowe's locations in Manhattan (Broadway/W 68th; W 6th Ave. between W 19th and 20th St's); as for Kmart and Sears' latest closures, this round will see 40 locations fall, including one Kmart in Huntington out on Long Island, and also the last remaining (this is increasingly becoming a "theme" on retail-related social media) Kmart location in the entire Philadelphia region, and leaving only the Sears location at the Moorestown Mall in southern N.J. as the only location from either Kmart or Sears in that region!
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