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Post by John Casey on Sept 9, 2016 21:05:37 GMT
I admit it, if somebody said that the final score was 3-1, I would have assumed it was to Dundee. I am so glad that I was wrong. 2 more points this weekend, then I will be happy.
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Post by Rob Scott on Sept 9, 2016 21:08:34 GMT
Fantastic result.
Big well done to Corey, Rick and the boys.
Looks like we only allowed 17 shots on Wiikman, tremendous stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2016 21:15:12 GMT
Excellent start to the weekend. Great defence all night especially Dimmen Spang and Sertich. Even Lee looks reformed !
Yes that long bus journey really effected them hey!
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Post by BigLad on Sept 9, 2016 21:18:01 GMT
Great result. Panthers looked knackered in the last 10 mins though. Deserved MOM for Wiikman.
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Post by iginla on Sept 9, 2016 21:20:05 GMT
Excellent start to the weekend. Great defence all night especially Dimmen Spang and Sertich. Even Lee looks reformed ! Yes that long bus journey really effected them hey! Excellent result,well done Panthers. But hey don't get carried away Pidge,that was probably the 8th or 9th placed team we just beat,there is much tougher to come yet.
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Post by Shaggy on Sept 9, 2016 21:21:57 GMT
Looks like we only allowed 17 shots on Wiikman, tremendous stuff. A crucial stat, that one... the harder we can make it for the opposition to even get to Wiikman/Pacl, the better. And up the other end we had twice the number of shots - 34. Top stuff.
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Post by Pies on Sept 9, 2016 21:23:15 GMT
If it was only 17 shots allowed, then you can see the style of game we are going to play - limit chances and Nick a couple of goals. You only allow 17 shots on Wiikman a game and he'll win you over 90% of them.
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Post by Shaggy on Sept 9, 2016 21:26:15 GMT
If it was only 17 shots allowed, then you can see the style of game we are going to play - limit chances and Nick a couple of goals. You only allow 17 shots on Wiikman a game and he'll win you over 90% of them. Exactly. Now granted - Dundee are probably (because you never know for sure...) not going to be one of the top teams this season. Limiting a few of the other teams to that number of shots is likely to be harder. But even so... it indicates a strong team-wide ethos towards defence, and that can only be a good thing. As they say... offence wins games, defence wins championships.
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Post by iginla on Sept 9, 2016 21:37:21 GMT
Defence wins indeed. The quality of this years d,at least on paper is the strongest I can remember alongside the grand slam team.
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Post by fishman on Sept 9, 2016 21:47:27 GMT
What happened in the 3rd period 4 shots Panther's to Dundee's 13? ? Dundee's shot count 5-8-13 shots =26 to Panther's 24, according to Elite league game sheet
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Post by Shaggy on Sept 9, 2016 22:04:22 GMT
What happened in the 3rd period 4 shots Panther's to Dundee's 13? ? Dundee's shot count 5-8-13 shots =26 to Panther's 24, according to Elite league game sheet Looks like the EIHL stats were screwed up (now there's a surprise!) because the 'boxscore' on the EIHL website definitely had Miika facing 17 shots. What the hell... the defence may not have been as tight as we first thought, but it's still a solid win.
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Post by PantherB on Sept 9, 2016 22:05:21 GMT
What happened in the 3rd period 4 shots Panther's to Dundee's 13? ? Dundee's shot count 5-8-13 shots =26 to Panther's 24, according to Elite league game sheet I think they had a 5 on 3 PP, though they didn't convert but i'd assume a couple or a few of those shots were from that time. Sounds like we switched off slightly towards the end too, someone said we looked knackered? So that may be another reason. Hopefully tomorrow Corey tells them that and has them keeping it tight and disciplined until the final buzzer!
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Post by spik on Sept 9, 2016 22:56:29 GMT
SOG corrected to 26/24 now to both Boxscore and Gamesheet.
HOWEVER the PIMS don't tally. Yet it is 17. (Too many men but served by Schultz)
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Post by The Flying Shirt on Sept 9, 2016 23:03:27 GMT
The defence was a bit too high in the Dundee half in the first and got caught a couple of times but tightened up in the second. The 5 on 3 was well defended but we will be facing far better teams than that in the coming weeks and I think Dundee can play a lot better than that as well. First time we have won the first of a triple header for a while I think?
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Post by Rob Scott on Sept 10, 2016 6:39:24 GMT
Yeah sorry everyone. I got the 17 shots from the EIHL website box score.
Still a fantastic result.
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Post by Ghost on Sept 10, 2016 9:59:47 GMT
Admittedly I only watched the webcast, but I don't feel that we played particularly well which bodes well for this team when they get their chemistry going. Winning whilst not playing well is a good sign!
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Post by allingtonskates on Sept 10, 2016 10:03:28 GMT
I think our defence looks immense offensively and look good defensively but the problem was they kept getting caught on the counter attack.
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Post by panthers4ever on Sept 10, 2016 11:48:19 GMT
Great start to the weekend lets hope for same again tonight
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Post by texpef on Sept 10, 2016 12:49:42 GMT
Top of the league, it's amazing what you can do when you travel on the day of the game. Unbelievably crass and narrow minded, great result last night (although as said its no surprise which teams prop up the others come the end of the season) but it isnt just the one game this weekend is it?.. lets see if they still have this energy come sunday which an extra good nights rest might have helped with..
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Post by fishman on Sept 10, 2016 13:38:26 GMT
CN admits they arrived late, reason was traffic and struggling bus It's not the correct way to go about travel, if you leave the day before and have issues you have time to sort it out, but to leave at about 10am for a 350 mile trip on a Friday, crazy. This travel on the day or the day before, it's got to have a points value, my guess and it is a guess would be 10Pts what say you? ??
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Post by PantherB on Sept 10, 2016 14:17:47 GMT
There's no points value on travel. They've done all the available options for the Belfast trips, any you can think of and non has had proven better results than any other travel option. It's a game played on the ice, not the coach and these players are coming to us from leagues with similar travel arangements, perhaps even worse than ours. They have to be prepared for it.
It's not very often we see the likes of Steelers, Belfast or Cardiff travel a day early either, yet they consistently put themselves in the mix or win something.
Of course though, i'd much much prefer them to travel a day early just incase of dealys like they experienced.
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Post by fishman on Sept 10, 2016 14:30:32 GMT
There's no points value on travel. They've done all the available options for the Belfast trips, any you can think of and non has had proven better results than any other travel option. It's a game played on the ice, not the coach and these players are coming to us from leagues with similar travel arangements, perhaps even worse than ours. They have to be prepared for it. It's not very often we see the likes of Steelers, Belfast or Cardiff travel a day early either, yet they consistently put themselves in the mix or win something. Of course though, i'd much much prefer them to travel a day early just incase of dealys like they experienced. Your not a believer in bus legs theory then? And if they have to travel same day what about setting of few hour earlier, it must have been 7 ish when they arrive at Dundee ice arena!
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Post by iginla on Sept 10, 2016 16:31:16 GMT
There's no points value on travel. They've done all the available options for the Belfast trips, any you can think of and non has had proven better results than any other travel option. It's a game played on the ice, not the coach and these players are coming to us from leagues with similar travel arangements, perhaps even worse than ours. They have to be prepared for it. It's not very often we see the likes of Steelers, Belfast or Cardiff travel a day early either, yet they consistently put themselves in the mix or win something. Of course though, i'd much much prefer them to travel a day early just incase of dealys like they experienced. There's got to be an advantage in giving yourself extra rest time,especially for a three in three weekend. To spend nine hours on a bus and leave yourself with an hour to get your kit on,warm up,then get out on the ice and play is dumb. Last night by Neilsons own admission we came out flat,I wonder why that was.......on a different night against a better team that could have cost us early doors. I don't get your argument. The first half of your post defends them going late,then you say you would much rather they travelled a day early ?
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Post by PantherB on Sept 10, 2016 16:45:07 GMT
There's no points value on travel. They've done all the available options for the Belfast trips, any you can think of and non has had proven better results than any other travel option. It's a game played on the ice, not the coach and these players are coming to us from leagues with similar travel arangements, perhaps even worse than ours. They have to be prepared for it. It's not very often we see the likes of Steelers, Belfast or Cardiff travel a day early either, yet they consistently put themselves in the mix or win something. Of course though, i'd much much prefer them to travel a day early just incase of dealys like they experienced. There's got to be an advantage in giving yourself extra rest time,especially for a three in three weekend. To spend nine hours on a bus and leave yourself with an hour to get your kit on,warm up,then get out on the ice and play is dumb. Last night by Neilsons own admission we came out flat,I wonder why that was.......on a different night against a better team that could have cost us early doors. I don't get your argument. The first half of your post defends them going late,then you say you would much rather they travelled a day early ? It's not reallllyy defending them going late, just looking at the reasoning behind it and what results have been in the past ect.. just to get more of an understanding as to why they always go on the day now. If there was a proven trend where we won the majority of games when travelling the day before then i'd be with you and others in sharing disappointment. On a personal point of view i'd still much rather they travelled a day earlier but i won't get toooo upset if they don't with there being no evidence of a benefit. Last night was taking the urine related expletive though, arriving at the time they did. Hopefully Corey has had enough of it and suggests quite assertively that we travel a day early to Scotland from now on.
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Post by fishman on Sept 10, 2016 16:49:27 GMT
Maybe we could get Jono to ask the the catswhiskers team if they think travel as a points value.
if you think travel as a points value, what do you think it is?
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