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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2006 15:01:06 GMT
I know it's slightly off topic but does anyone actually have the commentary from the Jesters vs Panthers game in 2001? yup on pc and on my phone
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2006 15:33:37 GMT
By the way, do I get to vote?
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Post by KimThePanther on Oct 23, 2006 15:55:43 GMT
I can't see any reason why you shouldn't be able to Stef. Any chance of downloading that onto the interweb, Pidge? I couldn't go that night and instead spent the evening nervously listening in my boss' office (he assigned me office duties as apparently he thought I looked in no state to be working out front as I was a nervous wreck). When Bob scored you could apparently hear the scream at the other side of the building. ;D
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Post by Smudge on Oct 23, 2006 17:42:31 GMT
Stef,
I see you posted the following on another thread today:
"On this forum we are currently running a thread giving fans a chance to celebrate great moments from our history, which is crawling down its second page.
We have game threads from a couple of narrow defeats which have already mustered sixteen pages of moaning.
I find it all a bit disillusioning, I'm afraid."
I note that there is no mention of the greatest moments poll on the official Panthers' website yet I recall that, when fans were asked to nominate their favourite moments, it was put forward as being something for all Panthers fans to take part in.
I doubt all Panthers' fans are members of this forum (I suspect a fair few don't even know it exists) so I was wondering why hasn't it even been mentioned on the official site. I doubt it would take an IT genius to set up an interactive voting page on the official website and the votes from that site could then be combined with the vote from this.
Sorry for lumping this in your direction but I suspect you have one or two more contacts within the club than I have. I just thought something like this might increase the levels of interest in the poll.
Thanks for your work on this by the way. Some fantastic memories brought back to life.
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Post by Smudge on Oct 23, 2006 17:52:52 GMT
I best vote after all that.
1) The 3-1 game against Manchester. In terms of atmosphere, the best game I ever went to. The circumstances surrounding the game (short bench etc) and the way we won the game, said everything about the spirit of the club at that time and how we took on the big arena teams and won.
2) The Autumn Cup Final win in 1986. Our first trophy since we reformed and a fantastic day out. I'm quite proud to say that I lost the plot completely when we won and I don't do that very often.
3) Winning at Wembley in 1989. A fantastic weekend and a great performance from a great team. Dampier's decision to go with two import D paid dividends.
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Post by KimThePanther on Oct 23, 2006 17:58:42 GMT
Smudge,
Apologies if you found the original premise of this poll misleading. I said that this was a way for the fans hooked up to the internet to mark the anniversary as it's the most popular independent internet site for Panthers fans.
I wasn't my intention to imply that this was an official poll arranged by the club. Again I apologies if the original statement in any indicated that it was.
I did wonder if it would be possible to run this poll in conjunction with the club but given the opinions that were publically given about this website a few seasons back by certain individuals I doubted whether it would be pulled off.
Kim.
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Post by Smudge on Oct 23, 2006 18:16:20 GMT
I did wonder if it would be possible to run this poll in conjunction with the club but given the opinions that were publically given about this website a few seasons back by certain individuals I doubted whether it would be pulled off. I thought that might have something to do with it. Thanks for the reply anyway.
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Post by Lammy on Oct 23, 2006 20:19:40 GMT
My choices are
1. 1989 Cup Final at Wembley.
My other half missed the semi final as he had flu, so my dad came down to London with me, then went home while I went to the hotel. Next day, knowing we were through, hubby came down looking sicker than I have ever seen him - grey round the gills, hot sweats, the lot! - but he would have crawled there. And it was worth it! The noise, the tears, the atmosphere, even after all these years I can still feel it.
2. 2004 Challenge Cup Final.
That goal, in that place - yee hah!
3. Selmar v Rowe.
Superb demonstration of how to get your man. No dirty tricks, no cheap shots, just a classic put-down of a bully who liked to pick on youngsters by a stand-up good guy.
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Post by Shaggy on Oct 24, 2006 8:13:06 GMT
Too many of those from before my time.... (and even worse - I wasn't at Sheffield when we won the Challenge Cup, so I can't count that either) However... 1). ROBERT NORDMARK SCORES!!! OK, so we crashed out of the play-off group rather badly, but that last-minute qualification is still one of the best memories ever. Sometimes it's not about what the end result is, but how you feel at the time... (see also #3 below) 2). Amiens. First trip abroad with the Panthers, and everyone had written us off before we even started. Holding Milan to a draw (and them with NHLers etc), beating Ljubljana... and then winning the battle on the ice with Amiens (and the off-ice noise battle with their fans, brass band an' all!)... classic stuff. 3). The Play-Off final vs Coventry. True grit. They won the Grand Slam that year, and yet we still pushed them to overtime with a team half made up of replacements and two-way players... those young lads did us proud. The massed chants of "Adey! Adey!" at the end... that didn't feel like a loss at all.
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Post by wallflower on Oct 24, 2006 9:05:57 GMT
1) Beating Fife Flyers at the old rink to get to Wembley in 88/89. This was a very emotional evening as the Hillsborough Disaster had happened that afternoon, and a lot of people had come from that match to the Panthers. A minute's silence was held, and quite a few people were weeping. The match was one of the best I have ever seen, with Doc Durdle playing blinder, and the atmosphere was go intense I was sure the roof would come off the old barn!
2) Winning at Wembley - what a weekend! It took me a week to get over it, and to get my voice back.
3) Beating Murrayfield Racers 19-2 at the old rink..... I was watching my DVD last night, brilliant evening. Such a big win might sound boring but it wasn't! Simon Hunt, Paul Adey, Ross Lambert and Rich Brebant were sublime. Tony Hand was in despair, and Mike Ware threw an amazing tantrum..... Very funny.
Lots and lots of others I could have included - where do you begin to list the great moments you remember over and over again?!
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Post by Ian on Oct 24, 2006 9:26:19 GMT
1) Beating Fife Flyers at the old rink to get to Wembley in 88/89. It was definitely the Murrayfield Racers we beat, but other than that I agree - a great night in strange circumstances in view of what had happened earlier that day.
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Post by Rich on Oct 24, 2006 9:52:45 GMT
3: Signing Nick Boynton (January 2005) Apart from the trials and tribulations we suffered throughout 2004/05, there was the added interest of the NHL lockout and the sight of players from ‘The Show’ playing here. For the most part the players who came to Britain were fringe players, but in Nick Boynton we got to see, every week, a genuine regular NHLer, an all-star the previous season, who commanded a seven-figure salary back in Boston. Ian Moran and Steve McKenna were good as well, but in Boynton I reckon we saw the best of the NHL players in Britain, and we are unlikely to see a player of his quality playing regularly in this country again. 2:Nottingham Panthers 3-1 Manchester Storm - Benson & Hedges Cup Semi Final Second Leg (November 12th 1998) 1:Coventry Blaze 2-1 Nottingham Panthers (OT) - 2005 Playoff Final (April 10th 2005) Thanks for the Purves Link MP id never seen that, Shades of Ovechkin in there! The reason I chose the final was that it was an awesome weekend and despite it being not very long ago and us losing it was an awesome game of hockey and will be remember for all the right reasons and seeing guys like Belak and Boynton pit their wits against each other is something I dont think we will see again
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Post by Thomas Elliott on Oct 24, 2006 16:52:56 GMT
1. Sheffield Steelers 2-3 Nottingham Panthers (OT) - 2004 Challenge Cup Final (March 17th 2004)
2. Coventry Blaze 2-1 Nottingham Panthers (OT) - 2005 Playoff Final (April 10th 2005)
3. Signing Nick Boynton (January 2005)
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Post by latenightpsycho on Oct 25, 2006 12:29:35 GMT
1) Beating Fife Flyers at the old rink to get to Wembley in 88/89. It was definitely the Murrayfield Racers we beat, but other than that I agree - a great night in strange circumstances in view of what had happened earlier that day. Yep, definitely Murrayfield. After having been at Hillsborough I turned up at the game just as the teams were taking to the ice. Didn't really feel like turning up at LPS to be honest but felt I had to to make sure my mum knew I was OK. She burst into tears when she saw me. Emotional barely does it justice. But I can't find it on the list so can't be voted for?
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Post by keefe a.k.a Donk on Oct 25, 2006 12:33:15 GMT
For days i have been trying to do this, and ive still only managed to cut my list down to 5!!!!!
Arrrggghhhhhhh its to difficult!
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Post by latenightpsycho on Oct 25, 2006 12:43:01 GMT
Bit disappointed Adeys 1000th point in a big game vs cardiff in front of the cameras didnt make it but some great memories there, il vote later when iv read them again Didn't they stop the game at that point to make an on-ice presentation? Or is my mind playing tricks on me?!
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Post by Rink Rush on Oct 25, 2006 13:37:14 GMT
Bit disappointed Adeys 1000th point in a big game vs cardiff in front of the cameras didnt make it but some great memories there, il vote later when iv read them again Didn't they stop the game at that point to make an on-ice presentation? Or is my mind playing tricks on me?! They did. At least I think they did. My mind's not what it was either.
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Post by Paul on Oct 25, 2006 13:57:51 GMT
Didn't they stop the game at that point to make an on-ice presentation? Or is my mind playing tricks on me?! They did. At least I think they did. My mind's not what it was either. Two easy to choose, 1 difficult 1) Autumn Cup Final 1986 How we laughed at Fife's "Preserve Wildlife - Stuff a Panther" banner. The surreal feeling of watching ice hockey in an arena! Seeing more people in kilts than I'd seen since the last time the Dagenham Girl Pipers were on TV. One question. Why, if I was sitting at the side of the rink do I always picture Erratt's goal from beind the net? 2) Wembley 89 Too many memories to mention but he's a few: 1) The Panthers fan who was so drunk he fell asleep against the underground train doors & if they'd ever have opened he'd have ended up on the platform(& probably not worken up!) 2) Hilton Ruggles going absolutely mad in the semi & basically handing us the game 3) The Durham Wasps grand slam banner that had disappeared by the final on Sunday. 4) The second interval of the final with the scores tied at 3-3. I have never felt so nervous in my life. 5) Stef doing the announcing & his two articles about the event in the programmes at the start of the next season. Those were the easy ones, now for the difficult one. It could really have been any of the rest. The first two were easy because they were the first time we'd done either of them. I think I'll have to go for Odelein v Rowe. It wasn't much of a fight as I recall. It amounted to all of about 3 punches & one of them wasn't needed & I'm not sure the one Rowe threw landed. He didn't look as though he wanted to fight Selmar & was goaded into it by a couple of the Whitley Brits. I bet he wished he'd never listened.
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Post by BIG-BAD-TONE on Oct 25, 2006 17:43:20 GMT
The majority of people that post on this forum will not be old enough to remember most of the good times in the 80s/early 90s so the voting will reflect this but here goes
1) 89 Playoff victory 2) Selmar vs. Rowe 3) 86 cup win vs. Fife
have to agree with fez
Shame the Simon Hunt against the Murrayfield Racers in an Autumn Cup semi-final, Simon scored 6 goals in the away leg after losing at home in the first leg or the Adey 1000 pts is not up for nomination
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Post by BeerMonster on Oct 26, 2006 8:41:09 GMT
Well here goes, my choices:
1. 1989 Heineken Championship Final: - Still the clubs finest hour! Oh the good old days of a Wembley weekend
2. Nottingham Panthers 13-5 Peterborough Pirates - first game after the death of Gary Rippingale: - Not for the game, but for the reaction of the players before hand, the silence of the crowd only to be broken by each stick as it hit the ice and the odd sniffle in the stands of someone wiping tears from their eyes, all those that were that there will always remember.
3. Nottingham Panthers 8-4 Whitley Warriors - Odelein vs Rowe: - A good old 1 on 1 centre ice. Mike Rowe finally gets taught a lesson.
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Post by Stewart on Oct 26, 2006 10:51:36 GMT
How do you get 60 years? There was no Nottingham Panthers Ice Hockey Club between 1960 & 1980!
If Wembley Lions reformed could they claim to have been around for 75 years? or what about the Durham Wasps (Founded1946) can they claim "60 years heritage" if they get their new rink?
Be proud of your club and it's heritage by all means but don't try and re-write history. Nottingham Panthers (in its present incarnation) was founded in 1980, 26 years ago!
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Post by KimThePanther on Oct 26, 2006 11:00:34 GMT
It's more than fair to say though Stewart that had the original incarnation of the team not existed then neither would the second version.
Had the original club not existed then Gary Keward would never have been a Nottingham Panthers fan. He might then never have considered moving the Sheffield Lancers to the Ice Stadium and Nottingham may never have had a team at all.
And even if we did, we probably wouldn't have been Nottingham Panthers and probably wouldn't have the loyal fanbase we now have. When the club restarted in 1980 many of the people who began watching it were the people who'd been there twenty years earlier. They brought along their families, who in turn brought along their families who are now starting to bring along their families.
We obviously aren't marking sixty continuous years - we're marking the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the original club which the present one owes a considerable amount of it's existance too.
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Post by Stewart on Oct 26, 2006 11:05:35 GMT
It's more than fair to say though Stewart that had the original incarnation of the team not existed then neither would the second version. Had the original club not existed then Gary Keward would never have been a Nottingham Panthers fan. He might then never have considered moving the Sheffield Lancers to the Ice Stadium and Nottingham may never have had a team at all. And even if we did, we probably wouldn't have been Nottingham Panthers and probably wouldn't have the loyal fanbase we now have. When the club restarted in 1980 many of the people who began watching the club were the people who'd been there twenty years earlier. They brought along their families, who in turn brought along their families who are now starting to bring along their families. We obviously aren't marking sixty continuous years - we're marking the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the original club which the present one owes a considerable amount of it's existance too. But don't you find it ironic that you will celebrate 60 years of Panthers history but the minute anyone says "but you haven't won the league for 50 years (ish)" most Panther fans are quick to point out that it's not really 50 years because there was a 20 year break. I agree there is a link but being a Wembley Lions fan (it was good to beat you then too! ) I would really struggle to celebrate 75 years history if they were reformed.
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Post by MP on Oct 26, 2006 11:56:28 GMT
I would really struggle to celebrate 75 years history if they were reformed. That's alright Stewart, you struggle if you like, we're happy to party! We'll even buy you a drink to celebrate - what'll you have - sour grapes? ;D
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Post by Stewart on Oct 26, 2006 14:01:07 GMT
I would really struggle to celebrate 75 years history if they were reformed. That's alright Stewart, you struggle if you like, we're happy to party! We'll even buy you a drink to celebrate - what'll you have - sour grapes? ;D Why would I have any sour grapes MP? My fledgling club has won more in its 15 year existence that yours has in its "60 years" I'm just puzzled how you can class 20 years of non-existence as part of your heritage, or even why you would want to. As I said if the Wembley Lions were to reform there is no way I would look upon it as the same club I supported back in the late 50's early 60's.
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