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Post by dp on Dec 5, 2008 20:06:22 GMT
Never really stood out for Panthers, but I always watched him play Tessier and he's pretty much the only d-man I've seen who could play Tessier - seemed to be able to dictate to him, rather than the other way round. Good signing, would have liked him back.
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Post by dp on Nov 30, 2008 19:58:30 GMT
I think it says so much that people are calling for Jason Robinson to sign - he's ABSOLUTELY USELESS and can't fight for toffee!!!
And I can't believe nobody's mentioned Briane Thompson to come back yet - he's another pretty useless player that people seemed to love (and I admit I used to love when he was playing for us, but definitely wouldn't want back). Blaisdell's comments about him when he was Steelers coach said it all.
Ndur has won a Championship with Coventry and played loads of NHL, and the people blaming him for any Vipers goals last night obviously can't see Danny Meyers....
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Post by dp on Nov 16, 2008 8:30:10 GMT
I'd be interested to hear what people who know about the tactics of the game (i.e. people who have actually played the game) think...
Our defence obviously isn't good enough. I'm not 100% convinced by Parley, but I'm also pretty sure Joaquin Gage would have let in at least 4 or 5 playing for us last night, so Parley's obviously not the only issue.
BUT...would adding an extra D man actually change anything, or is it our systems which are the problem? (e.g. forwards not back checking, zoning being wrong or whatever).
Ndur has won championships and played NHL. Pretty much everybody rates Toneys. And our other 2 d men were here last year when we were considered to be pretty solid at the back. So it can't be the individuals can it?
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Post by dp on Nov 4, 2008 18:43:04 GMT
Pretty sure the comments from the NEP were from the same interview as Panthers Radio, because it's word for word the same.
I don't think coming off the ice having played and being interviewed straight away is the best idea, because anybody who's played any sport will know, the adrenaline doesn't stop pumping for quite a bit afterwards sometimes.
I don't mind what he says about Coventry, and I'm glad somebody's giving Thompson something back, because I'm fed up of his moaning after every loss over the years (anybody else hear his interview after Belfast beat them - it was embarrassing) but one worry I would have is that Corey's comments will have REALLY put the pressure on Panthers players next time we play Blaze.
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Post by dp on Oct 19, 2008 13:12:48 GMT
I think Corey has to take the blame for last night's performance. Galbraith apart, you can't really fault the players' effort.
Problem was, Corey decided to make up for the loss of Clarke by playing almost 2 and a half lines, with the players interchanging on each line every shift. So one shift Tess would be centring Molin and Bergin, the next he'd be playing wing with Myers centring.
It's no wonder they looked confused and couldn't get things going - I was confused just watching!
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Post by dp on Oct 3, 2008 17:51:31 GMT
I know it's getting way off topic but I had a quick scan through Home of British Ice Hockey tonight and read that in the last Superleague season we averaged just under 4,700 (with only 4 opponents!). Not bad going.
The average dropped to 3,900 the season after (first Elite season).
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Post by dp on Sept 27, 2008 21:26:22 GMT
Good solid win but one of the worst refereeing performances I've ever seen. Some of the Cardiff play was downright dangerous, and he didn't call anything. So we started to give it back, and he let us get away with it as well.
That was not good reffing, and it was lucky none of our lot got a serious injury.
Onto the game though...Tessier still not looking anywhere near 100%. Think he might need a change of line-mates to get him firing. Galbraith looks a class act if a little lazy, but some of his play takes your breath away. Toneys still impressive. Ndur did the job he had to in the circumstances - the Cardiff players looked scared to go anywhere near him by the end. Cook is the main man though - seriously, did anybody expect this of him when we signed him!??
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Post by dp on Sept 26, 2008 21:30:11 GMT
Was the Patrick one really only for what they showed on Sky? If it was that's ridiculous - he didn't even do anything.
Yet again - thanks for this Sheffield.
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Post by dp on Sept 21, 2008 19:35:10 GMT
Great effort coming from 4-0 down to get so close.
Same as last night though, I think this team's biggest problem is going to be over-confidence and thinking it's all going to be easy after the start we've made. Corey's got to get rid of that from the mentality - I'm hopeful that's the only thing wrong with this team.
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Post by dp on Sept 20, 2008 21:48:54 GMT
Daddio - it was exciting and tense, it just didn't have a lot of quality. Most of the passing was terrible.
Bergin was shocking, Tessier was poor, Neilson was poor, Meyers was poor, Galbraith was poor, Molin was poor, Clarke didn't do much. Just think it was only a good, tense game because we played so badly! If we'd have played well it would have been another "boring" 6-0!
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Post by dp on Sept 20, 2008 21:22:15 GMT
Strange game that. I've never come away from a Panthers win against Sheffield feeling so unhappy.
I thought the first period was too easy for us - we thought we were going to wipe the floor with them, and it led to the second period being absolutely awful. We should be beating this team easily, but we made very hard work of it - over-confidence creeping in??
In the end we were very lucky, and the players shouldn't be too proud of themselves - they've got the ability to have won this game very easily.
Cracking fight though! Richardson early, got greedy and kept going wanting to past him, and Finnerty somehow came back at the end to even it up. Credit to Finnerty because he shouldn't really be holding his own with Richardson based on past form, and he refused to go down and got his reward at the end.
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Post by dp on Sept 19, 2008 20:19:48 GMT
Dear oh dear. What's going to happen to the league now? If I was a player I'd be terrified of doing anything at all because you could quite easily lose your job just from winning a fight.
Thanks Steelers, and thanks EIHL - you've made a joke of the league.
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Post by dp on Sept 19, 2008 19:59:27 GMT
Can see it being a very clean, free flowing game. Neither team will want to give the other a powerplay, so both will be on best behaviour.
Having said that, I can see the game being decided either way by a goal on a "puck over the plexi" delaying the game powerplay.
Hope I'm wrong though, because when we bullied them last year they didn't want to know, and we beat them 6-1.
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Post by dp on Sept 13, 2008 21:06:12 GMT
Great to watch tonight - some cracking play.
I'm desperately trying not to get too excited by this team!
Says it all that we ran rings round them and Tessier didn't even get a look in - just think what we'll be like when he's up firing on all cylinders.
Galbraith looks quality - reminds me of Ahlroos for some reason.
Any news on Ndur? He didn't look like he iced after the first period.
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Post by dp on Sept 13, 2008 11:03:41 GMT
What a joke. The "sucker punch" is just a glove shot, which happens every time somebody's trying to get somebody to go, and a slash like that happens 5 times a game.
I hate to say it but there's definitely something dodgy going on here - nobody's going to dare even touch any Steelers player this season now...and they didn't sign an enforcer?? Perhaps they knew they didn't need to because they could control the discipline like this - their players certainly aren't going to get bullied by anyone now.
What a joke.
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Post by dp on Sept 12, 2008 17:24:48 GMT
Just watched it on Sky and it was almost exactly as I remember it - if anything different, I thought there were 2 punches to the back of the head when he's on the ice, but it looks like only one.
So I think 10 games is about right.
A few other things though:
- there was nothing wrong with Riddle's check on Myers which started it all - it was just bad luck that Myers tried to side-step him and ended up clashing knees. So, from that point of view, the whole thing needn't have happened anyway!
- Clarke's hit on Kerr after 30 seconds was clean. Some people said he led with his elbow, but it doesn't look like that on TV - Kerr was falling anyway and Clarke checked over the top of him
- what's going on with Paul Moran's North American Nottingham accent??!
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Post by dp on Sept 9, 2008 13:36:33 GMT
As the chap sitting next to me said, the worst thing about the blood incident was that at that point he didn't have a clue what state Levers was in. For all Kozak knew he could have been blinded, brain damaged, or anything.
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Post by dp on Sept 7, 2008 19:15:56 GMT
Hopefully Kozak will never play again in this country - from the look Strachan gave him as he went off, I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see him for Hull again.
Ramming somebody's head into the ice is one thing, but dancing through his blood on the way off is just not sport. The hitting was bad enough, but the dancing through the blood was the worst thing I've ever seen - for all he knew a fellow pro could have been blinded, concussed, brain damaged, or anything.
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Post by dp on May 22, 2008 21:09:31 GMT
I was hoping it was Lance as well - not just because he can mix it up and looks like the sort of "entertaining" player we were promised, but because he scores more points as well by the looks of things. Bit of a worry also that Jade rarely seems to finish a season at the team he started it at.
Great news Clarke's back obviously, but, so far, we look weaker than last year on the import front, and Coventry look even stronger.
Looks like we've only got 2 centres plus a third liner to sign of the forwards - so the 2 centres need to be world beaters.
Hate to say it, but we look off the pace at the moment - and massively lacking in toughness - even team toughness!
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Post by dp on Apr 22, 2008 17:20:43 GMT
I've never really understood all this "you can't get success with newcomers to the UK".
The reason Coventry keep on re-signing all their players - and keep having success - is because they're all good players! If they weren't good in the first place, then they wouldn't have kept them!
Wasn't Coventry's first Elite League title nearly all new players, with a few key people retained? (Calder, Carlson & Payette, who I think were their first line were all new to the UK weren't they?).
Didn't Blaisdell come in at Steelers and sign a completely new team in about 2 weeks and win the league?
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Post by dp on Apr 18, 2008 17:03:56 GMT
I think all these people saying "such and such won't come back now Ellis has gone" proves to me exactly why getting rid of Ellis was the right decision.
I think there were far too many players in the comfort zone under him. Personally I want people here who come here to be the best, to play for the biggest club in the UK, in front of the biggest crowds, and who want to win - not people who want to play for a particular coach because they're mates with them.
I hope Corey's first new blood signings are some players like Danny Stewart and Sylvain Clouthier - winners, who despise losing.
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Post by dp on Apr 6, 2008 16:54:36 GMT
Begrudgingly well done to Steelers but that was without doubt the worst final, rounding off the worst finals weekend, I've ever seen.
None of the players seemed particularly bothered, and none of the fans did either.
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Post by dp on Mar 29, 2008 21:53:27 GMT
If I were being pessemistic I'd say that they were all over us until they started to just ice it for the last 15 minutes because they were tired - and if they play like that again tomorrow, they'll beat us easily.
If I'm being positive then I'd say that one of their goals should never have stood because Askey was hit in the mask just before it and play wasn't stopped, and another was a lucky break short-handed, and that by the end of the game we'd completely worn them down and they couldn't cope with us.
Just have to wait and see which the reality is tomorrow.
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Post by dp on Apr 24, 2007 20:47:04 GMT
Sure I read somewhere that he's classed as a Brit because he moved here so young and learned to play over here.
Might be wrong - but if he's classed as a Brit then he'd be a good signing I reckon.
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Post by dp on Nov 26, 2007 11:47:51 GMT
My first tip would be to use "Classic" controls instead of Default!
That makes it a lot easier - well, it does for me!
My other advice would be not to expect to score many with just straight shooting. The only time you can really score with a long-ish shot is if there's loads of traffic in the way.
By far the easiest way to score is to take it down the wing, and lay it across to somebody coming in at the back post, and then hit it first time. It's the only way to get the keeper out the way.
I found playing online was a very good way to learn, because there are obviously some really good players who you can copy moves from.
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