What didn't work on Saturday and why we lost?

our powerplay was woeful!

god knows why we kept trying the same tactic time after time when Braehead were onto it.

Pass along the blue line (breahead knew to pressure the Blueline puck carrier) then when that didn't work we passed it to a guy behind the goal looking to pass it to someone on the doorstep to knock it in and this failed every time!

the powerplay was much more effective when they stuck penner in from of Perras and reigned the shots in. he can't save what he can't see.

We tried the same old thing on the PP, nearly came off once as Clarkie missed his shot. After that we didnt have a clue. Should have Penner in front of Perras/any netminder all the time. He is huge and we must use that to our advantage

Changing the lines is a strange one for me. We played 5 and hadnt lost, so CN changes it up.

Jade/Liscak/Clarkie wasnt a great line.
Myers/Ryan/Beau was the same and is our best line i think
McDonald/Sproat/Penner or Lacho.

Liscak is an average player, so far nothing to impress.
I think Kowalski was unlucky with the first one but played ok afterwards
We need to defend better, Zion/Meyers went forward a lot, but need to come back and defend.
We need a plan B

Also, Bruce knows CN pretty well so is it any wonder we lost? I reckon if CN doesn't win anything this season then Bruce could come here as Coach

Does anyone else think this is just same old Panthers. Play really well against the top teams and lose the league against the weaker teams? Why do you think this seems to happen every year?

Jay do you think they should of shot the puck more on the powerplay?

Do you also agree with Lee's statement below?
the powerplay was much more effective when they stuck penner in from of Perras and reigned the shots in. he can't save what he can't see.

I dont think they should of shot more in the powerplay, they have a better view than any of us spectators, if there isnt a clear shot on goal then it shouldnt be wasted to be then whacked right the way up to the other end of the ice, i just feel its abit inneffective, you watch teams like sheffield, they just look dangerous when on the powerplay..

Bruce clearly knew our game plan through playing with us the past couple of years and he exploited that.

It did seem to me that the powerplay was less effective than normal on Saturday... and we didn't seem to take advantage of one big asset that we had - namely, Alex Penner.

This guy is perfect for sitting in front of the netminder and causing havoc... which, all credit to him, he certainly seemed to do on Saturday when he was put out there on the PP. Thing is... surely when we have someone like that we should take advantage of it by letting off more (admittedly lower-percentage) shots, and then drive in on the net with at least one more player so as to hopefully catch rebounds, take second or third shots, etc etc... with the blueline shooter(s) staying out there to hopefully head off any short-handed rushes if we get unlucky.

On Saturday. it did just seem like the search for the perfect shot... which can work (and has done in the past!) but is, as others have pointed out, something that Bruce Richardson is intimately familiar with.

No calling for scalps from me, it's early days yet and mistakes aren't cause for total panic & blindly lashing out... just something to possibly learn from.

Ive read some of the comments and can agree with most.

Our PP has gone to pot again, we pass all the time which in turn does not put any pressure on the netty or their defense, it more or less allows them to position themself better so we can not get through.

Our first game against tilburgh or belfast, when it came to PP moments, it was taking shots when ever some one got it passed to them, i counted 5 attempts within 30 seconds of a pp with the 6th actually going in.

I get fed up as much as the next person when people are shouting shoot all the time, some times i do understand because its just as much annoying when all we do is pass the parcel (puck).

I have also noticed the trick of dumping the puck to some where that one of our players is not stood or even better passing to the other team. Look before you pass please.

We have a good enough line up of defense when they do their job, problem is, you dont see them doing the job much. I seen corey and co watching the puck alot and skating backwards but not much else.

I know im amatuer compared to some people on here who play ice hockey or have been supporting the Panthers for years before i was born, but surely if some one like me can see this sort of thing, that this alone says some thing is wrong.

Or am i the one thats wrong?

Simples


We was rubbish

They won nearly all of the faceoffs , they where hungry for the puck they wanted posession of it at all times and fought hard in the corners , they read our play Bruce informed his players how we played and of corys game plans , they defended well especialy on the power play and read our play prety well .
and they carried this format onto Cardiff the following night and but for Cardiff waking up they would have won that one too , pity we did not wake up after the 2nd goal instead of letting them score three , there are going to be a few games on the road that Breahead take to the line by the odd goal , it is Richardsons type of play and never give up attitude .
It took 3 Goals for panthers to wake up , but we where always going to be chasing the game after that .
I can only hope they take points off the other leading teams of the league .
not too worried that we have lost a game , it may well do us good to lose and in our own Barn too .
I am concerned by the amount of Goals we have conceded , and we need to tighten at the back , maybe a shut out is required to calm everyone down .

We dont do shut outs

Could have been when Richardson was serving a misconduct....

Four things.

1. The powerplay didn't work.

2. Team defence was poor.

3. Ten minutes where the players looked like they'd never met.

4. Another too many men call.

Plenty for Neilson to work on, try and mix up the powerplay, it was way too predictable on Saturday. sort out the defence, when we're bad we just flap and panic, surely it should be more organized. Our D men have got to get back more quickly than they are doing, watching Braehead, even on the powerplay, if they lost possession of the puck two men immediately dropped to the centreline, this is an area where we get caught regularly by oddman rushes because our players are slow to react, if they react at all.

We've got to cut out these periods of play where the team just don't show up, ten minutes at the start at the weekend and it was effectively game over. Get them playing hard for sixty minutes.

Time to cut out the too many men calls. It's stupid and it's lazy and it's hurting the team.

Too early to panic and in no way should we be looking at personnel changes but there is work to be done.