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Post by Yotes on Sept 2, 2018 22:14:28 GMT
| David Clarke Jersey Retirement Night | | Elite League / 8 September 2018, 7.00pm |   |   | | Twitter: PanthersIHC |
Scorers: Manchester Goal One: 89 Long from 10 Erdhardt and 9 Moffat @ 00:20 Nottingham Goal One: 81 Pither from 6 Olsen and 86 Henderson @ 13:24 Nottingham Goal 2: 15 Kovacs from 9 Perlini and 19 Farmer @ 57:31 MOM: Nottingham 15 Kovacs Manchester: 1 Ginn |
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Post by spik on Sept 3, 2018 10:29:42 GMT
Last 5 LEAGUE (2 seasons) outings at HOME.
8-5 win (also cup)
1-3 loss
3-2 win
1-2 ps loss
4-3 ot win
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Post by Bagheera on Sept 3, 2018 15:47:14 GMT
Fairly common knowledge but this will be the game where Clarke's number will officially be retired.
Perhaps a reason for some to attend that otherwise wouldn't. Maybe even Iginla can come take a look at the new team and be there for the occasion.
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Post by wgray on Sept 3, 2018 16:36:14 GMT
Fairly common knowledge but this will be the game where Clarke's number will officially be retired. Perhaps a reason for some to attend that otherwise wouldn't. Maybe even Iginla can come take a look at the new team and be there for the occasion. Agreed, this will be the send off Clarkey deserves, not that mockery of a game last season. I have been a big critic of his in the past but you can’t knock his commitment to the club and the joy he has brought us, a true servant. Let’s put personal issues aside, turn up in our masses and show him the appreciation he deserves. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2018 16:47:56 GMT
Hope the rink is full to show their full appreciation of Clarkie and for what he's done for us.
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Post by kievthegreat on Sept 3, 2018 18:30:27 GMT
Hope the rink is full to show their full appreciation of Clarkie and for what he's done for us. Sales aren't looking too bad on the seat map. Blocks 1 & 19 not on sale yet and not looking like a big Storm following. All the centre ice blocks looking full as are the Bronze blocks, just those Silver corner blocks looking empty. I don't think it's looking like a bumper crowd unfortunately though. |
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Post by kievthegreat on Sept 3, 2018 19:46:30 GMT
Hope the rink is full to show their full appreciation of Clarkie and for what he's done for us. Sales aren't looking too bad on the seat map. Blocks 1 & 19 not on sale yet and not looking like a big Storm following. All the centre ice blocks looking full as are the Bronze blocks, just those Silver corner blocks looking empty. I don't think it's looking like a bumper crowd unfortunately though. They have just come out and said 2/3rds of tickets sold (approx 5000). |
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Post by wgray on Sept 3, 2018 20:27:25 GMT
Sales aren't looking too bad on the seat map. Blocks 1 & 19 not on sale yet and not looking like a big Storm following. All the centre ice blocks looking full as are the Bronze blocks, just those Silver corner blocks looking empty. I don't think it's looking like a bumper crowd unfortunately though. They have just come out and said 2/3rds of tickets sold (approx 5000). Not too bad considering there’s still 5 days left. |
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Post by kievthegreat on Sept 3, 2018 21:13:43 GMT
They have just come out and said 2/3rds of tickets sold (approx 5000). Not too bad considering there’s still 5 days left. True, but I recall from Tina Taylor's attendance charts that we had about 5800 average against them last year (admittedly only 2 games) so it doesn't look out of the ordinary which is a shame given the occasion. I remember seeing when Storm retired someones number last year or the year before, they made a big thing of it on social media. Not see quite the same from Panthers with Clarke's shirt retirement, but then we did a lot of it last year when he was retiring. |
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Post by Shaggy on Sept 3, 2018 21:21:29 GMT
Hopefully still plenty of last-minuters and walk-ups still to go... I'd love to see as close to a full house as possible and give Clarkie a ruddy good send-off.
Let's face it... we can sell out for games vs They Who Squeal... and who's more important, them or #5? No contest - Mr Clarke all the way.
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Post by DMS on Sept 3, 2018 21:25:10 GMT
Anything over 5000 is still a decent crowd.
When it comes to panthers crowd with the high number of casual fans that attend many of these will not understand the significance of a number being retired and that’s why it shouldn’t be a shock the crowd isn’t looking like being above our average.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2018 6:58:39 GMT
To be fair, the original idea was to retire the jersey vs Sheffield until Clarke had to be in the US with his lad. Panthers can't really be blamed for that and for not pushing it in advance.
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Post by spik on Sept 4, 2018 10:39:15 GMT
DAVID CLARKE 779 games (by my stats) 380 goals, 369 assists, 749 points and 886 penalty minutes.
but for the fact he played one season in ITALY he may have built this to more achievements in ALL-TIME statistics.
Now stands
SECOND in Appearances 64 behind WEBER
FORTH in Goals 5 behind STRONGMAN
FIFTH in Assists 53 behind KURTENBACH
FOURTH in Points 75 behind WEBER
THIRD in Penalty minutes 49 behind WAGHORN
re GB (missing out on next years BIGGIE WORLDS of course)
4th in Appearance with 92 and only 18 from the record.
7th in Goals with 29 and 14 from the best total.
4th in Assists with 38 and (7 and 10 from 3rd and 2nd places)...44 from Tony Hands massive total.
6th in Points with 67 and (2,10,12 from those above him)....122 by TH, no news there.
11th in Pims with 82 - (88 to 168 being those ahead in those stakes).
Something in domestic and national totals to be proud of.
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Post by shinobi on Sept 4, 2018 18:03:23 GMT
Hopefully still plenty of last-minuters and walk-ups still to go... I'd love to see as close to a full house as possible and give Clarkie a ruddy good send-off. Let's face it... we can sell out for games vs They Who Squeal... and who's more important, them or #5? No contest - Mr Clarke all the way. Assuming I finish work on time & traffic from Lincoln isn’t horrible, I’ll be a last minute walk up. |
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Post by Carnell on Sept 5, 2018 6:59:01 GMT
SECOND in Appearances 64 behind WEBER I always thought he'd retire at the end of this season so he would pass Weber for all time appearances (pending an injury free season) |
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Post by iginla on Sept 5, 2018 11:28:08 GMT
Anything over 5000 is still a decent crowd. When it comes to panthers crowd with the high number of casual fans that attend many of these will not understand the significance of a number being retired and that’s why it shouldn’t be a shock the crowd isn’t looking like being above our average. I see that the Steelers are crowing that they’ve sold 7000 tickets for their home opener against MK. All at £5.00 per ticket though. Yes Simmsey.... That’s the equivalent of a 2500 crowd at normal full price, so not really anything to feel smug about ! Lol 🙄 |
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Post by pantherlee on Sept 5, 2018 12:35:04 GMT
Anything over 5000 is still a decent crowd. When it comes to panthers crowd with the high number of casual fans that attend many of these will not understand the significance of a number being retired and that’s why it shouldn’t be a shock the crowd isn’t looking like being above our average. I see that the Steelers are crowing that they’ve sold 7000 tickets for their home opener against MK. All at £5.00 per ticket though. Yes Simmsey.... That’s the equivalent of a 2500 crowd at normal full price, so not really anything to feel smug about ! Lol 🙄 How would you feel about panthers doing £5 a ticket Iginla? |
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Post by bobness on Sept 5, 2018 12:44:45 GMT
Anything over 5000 is still a decent crowd. When it comes to panthers crowd with the high number of casual fans that attend many of these will not understand the significance of a number being retired and that’s why it shouldn’t be a shock the crowd isn’t looking like being above our average. I see that the Steelers are crowing that they’ve sold 7000 tickets for their home opener against MK. All at £5.00 per ticket though. Yes Simmsey.... That’s the equivalent of a 2500 crowd at normal full price, so not really anything to feel smug about ! Lol 🙄 Saying it in a tweet is hardly "crowing" any more than the Panthers OS does every week. "Two-thirds of the bowl accounted for..." Speculate to accumulate though, playing the longer game? Think that might be the idea? A full arena is much better than a less full one, they all have to eat and drink (and buy merchandise etc) too... Newbies attracted may well come back at full price and those who would've gone anyway get a good deal and a bit of a feel good factor? I can't imagine MK will bring 2,000+ fans either, so a good game to do it for, which may attract some away support too, after all, it's basically only a journey up and down the M1? And wasn't the idea of selling tickets much cheaper to get a bigger crowd put forward for the Panthers' pre-season games, then roundly criticised when they were sold at basically full price? I'd like to see Panthers do this exact thing for some fixtures. If only just to see what could be done, and what the price elasticities of demand might be, for future reference at the very least? Are 4,000 walkups at a fiver better than 1,000 walkups at £15? I'd say so. Anyhoo. Did I miss something, or were the already retired jersey numbers missing from the arena last weekend? |
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Post by iginla on Sept 5, 2018 14:38:09 GMT
I see that the Steelers are crowing that they’ve sold 7000 tickets for their home opener against MK. All at £5.00 per ticket though. Yes Simmsey.... That’s the equivalent of a 2500 crowd at normal full price, so not really anything to feel smug about ! Lol 🙄 How would you feel about panthers doing £5 a ticket Iginla? I’d be happy if they did it for a one off game but I wouldn’t want them saying oooh look how many tickets we’ve sold ! First game of the season too....that’s got to be a daft idea when most fans are already chomping at the bit to get back to hockey anyway. Do it for a midweek game would be my thinking if your going to do it at all,not the first game of the season. |
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Post by azbates on Sept 5, 2018 17:20:23 GMT
I see that the Steelers are crowing that they’ve sold 7000 tickets for their home opener against MK. All at £5.00 per ticket though. Yes Simmsey.... That’s the equivalent of a 2500 crowd at normal full price, so not really anything to feel smug about ! Lol 🙄 Saying it in a tweet is hardly "crowing" any more than the Panthers OS does every week. "Two-thirds of the bowl accounted for..." Speculate to accumulate though, playing the longer game? Think that might be the idea? A full arena is much better than a less full one, they all have to eat and drink (and buy merchandise etc) too... Newbies attracted may well come back at full price and those who would've gone anyway get a good deal and a bit of a feel good factor? I can't imagine MK will bring 2,000+ fans either, so a good game to do it for, which may attract some away support too, after all, it's basically only a journey up and down the M1? And wasn't the idea of selling tickets much cheaper to get a bigger crowd put forward for the Panthers' pre-season games, then roundly criticised when they were sold at basically full price? I'd like to see Panthers do this exact thing for some fixtures. If only just to see what could be done, and what the price elasticities of demand might be, for future reference at the very least? Are 4,000 walkups at a fiver better than 1,000 walkups at £15? I'd say so. Anyhoo. Did I miss something, or were the already retired jersey numbers missing from the arena last weekend? The old banner with the GMB Panthers logo surrounded by the retired jerseys has gone and been replaced a new banner with just the newer logo on. I noticed that that some new rigging is up in the rafters with folded cloth all along it, I’m not sure if it’s there for an upcoming gig or if that’s where the retired jerseys are now going to go, I hope it is. |
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Post by wgray on Sept 5, 2018 18:05:46 GMT
Saying it in a tweet is hardly "crowing" any more than the Panthers OS does every week. "Two-thirds of the bowl accounted for..." Speculate to accumulate though, playing the longer game? Think that might be the idea? A full arena is much better than a less full one, they all have to eat and drink (and buy merchandise etc) too... Newbies attracted may well come back at full price and those who would've gone anyway get a good deal and a bit of a feel good factor? I can't imagine MK will bring 2,000+ fans either, so a good game to do it for, which may attract some away support too, after all, it's basically only a journey up and down the M1? And wasn't the idea of selling tickets much cheaper to get a bigger crowd put forward for the Panthers' pre-season games, then roundly criticised when they were sold at basically full price? I'd like to see Panthers do this exact thing for some fixtures. If only just to see what could be done, and what the price elasticities of demand might be, for future reference at the very least? Are 4,000 walkups at a fiver better than 1,000 walkups at £15? I'd say so. Anyhoo. Did I miss something, or were the already retired jersey numbers missing from the arena last weekend? The old banner with the GMB Panthers logo surrounded by the retired jerseys has gone and been replaced a new banner with just the newer logo on. I noticed that that some new rigging is up in the rafters with folded cloth all along it, I’m not sure if it’s there for an upcoming gig or if that’s where the retired jerseys are now going to go, I hope it is. I hope the retired numbers have their own banners, it would make the arena feel more like a home. We could even include the many titles we’ve won and make it look like we have a history. |
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Post by spik on Sept 5, 2018 19:04:28 GMT
SECOND in Appearances 64 behind WEBER I always thought he'd retire at the end of this season so he would pass Weber for all time appearances (pending an injury free season) Probably didn't know considering how the sport omits things. I had to remind the governing body for the GB team, that they kept going on about Colin Shields new All-Time goal scoring record for GB when he had not achieved this yet. They said that they meant the recent era record to me but kept saying All-Time on TV. What recent era, I don't know, we've always been part of the IIIF Championships programme bar a missed Olympic qualifier. Thankfully, when I dropped them an updated list, they credited Shields was ONE behind the present holder...... GERRY DAVEY. |
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Post by Jord v4 on Sept 5, 2018 21:27:51 GMT
I hope the retired numbers have their own banners, it would make the arena feel more like a home. We could even include the many titles we’ve won and make it look like we have a history. It's a new banner with images of the retired players to go with the numbers. |
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Post by wgray on Sept 5, 2018 21:30:59 GMT
I hope the retired numbers have their own banners, it would make the arena feel more like a home. We could even include the many titles we’ve won and make it look like we have a history. It's a new banner with images of the retired players to go with the numbers. Ah right, where’s it going to be then, is it replacing the new one they’ve put up? |
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Post by Jord v4 on Sept 5, 2018 21:31:03 GMT
Also, Guptil is back in training. Precautionary scratch last wk with groin strain.
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