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Post by dill1015 on Aug 1, 2012 12:49:17 GMT
I really dont understand some of the negativity about this signing. I seriously doubt this a cheap signing, this guys looks like a top defenceman and exactly what we need. Someone who plays a nice simple game and does all the little things right. A guy his size doesn't play as a defenceman in the AHL for 90 odd games without being good at something. looking at his profile he is a very similar build to Jeff Mason and Neal Martin, and his stats look very similar or better than both. If he's anywhere near as good as Neal Martin we're in for a treat. My prediction is he'll be another Matt Francis, a real gem. A guy who'll be central to the team and that fans will be crying out for to be re-signed at the end of the seaon... then again i could be wrong
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Post by dill1015 on Jun 20, 2012 12:24:44 GMT
He looks handy with the gloves off.... sorry!
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Post by dill1015 on Jun 20, 2012 12:21:14 GMT
I dont think he was a beast, but he was solid enough before christmas. I think peoples memory of him is so bad because he was woeful at the end of the season and that undermined anything good he'd done earlier in the season.
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Post by dill1015 on Jun 18, 2012 19:08:08 GMT
One thing I don't understand is why is a "tough, stay at home d-man" judged on their ability to drop the gloves? Also, what is the hype over Lepine? IMO he is replaceable and, again IMO, hasn't been as effective since his series of bans. +1 RE Lepine. He may not be as effective, but i think Lepine still offers alot of deterrant. Not may people in our league fancy a fight with Gui, and forwards are definatley more wary about crossing the neutral zone when hes on the ice. I'd be very happy to see Gui back along with a player like Wood. However he is replacable, but if he does go we need to replace his ability to defend his team mates, especially with the size of our current forwards.
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Post by dill1015 on Jun 17, 2012 22:39:05 GMT
Very happy with this, just the sort of guy we've needed. hope he lives up to my expectations. Welcome to nottingham Jason. Lepine and another big signing like this for our last d-man and we'll be looking good.
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Post by dill1015 on Jun 14, 2012 18:46:20 GMT
i think we'll see lepine back but neither of the others. if we do sign lepine we'll be fine on toughness (assuming a couple of others d-men can at less have the ability to drop the gloves like lee)
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Post by dill1015 on Jun 11, 2012 19:20:43 GMT
That's him. Would be an awesome player in the EIHL. He'd be an ideal straight replacment for DAB
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Post by dill1015 on Jun 11, 2012 19:14:10 GMT
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Post by dill1015 on May 28, 2012 20:48:15 GMT
There is now NO reason for panthers not to have at least 4 import d-men, personally i'd like us to go with 5 up front and 5 at the back (cant see it happening though). 5 import D-men is a touch much, I think... but as you say - 4 import D is now pretty much a given, I'd have thought. I dont know, with 5 it would give us 3 straight pairs of d-men with norton there to fill any gaps. Besides defence wins championships. As i said though it'll never happen.
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Post by dill1015 on May 28, 2012 20:42:02 GMT
They surely couldn't have the conferences the same as the current challange cup groups. No offence to the lower teams but that would just be giving the league to belfast every year.
as long as they dont double up games that's an imprvement to the challange cup, make it more of a challange. And should hopefully stop teams just rolling over because they knw they're out of it.
These changes i feel are an immediate blow to the steelers who have clearly spent considerably on thier brit pack this year. Will it lower the overall quality of their remaining imports or will they go with just 10. There is now NO reason for panthers not to have at least 4 import d-men, personally i'd like us to go with 5 up front and 5 at the back (cant see it happening though).
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Post by dill1015 on May 27, 2012 11:54:52 GMT
How can anyone think this is a cheap signing. I havn't seen Galivan play but i suspect based on his stats that hes going to one of our top point scorers next season. lets compare his ECHL points per game against some others who have played in this country shall we... Galivan: 0.80 brendan cook: 0.57 sean McAslan: 0.65 David-Alexandre Beauregard: 0.80 rob Bellamy: 0.38 And hes done this on an apparently low scoring team in that league. Overall im very happy with this. I think 80 points is possible for him next season. although i thnk he is either ryhanen or DAB replacement, as i think rhett gordans replacement will be a defencemen (i hope so anyway) Can't argue with those stats but they don't tell the full story. If he was on a naff line, great, he can clearly put the puck in the net or pass to someone who can, but if he was on one of the top lines it may have inflated his total somewhat. Looks good indeed but there's little way of telling for sure how he will play over here until he's...over here. Exactly, you cant possibly know how a players going to perform. All im saying is he has the stats that suggest the ability is there to be a top player in the league. So there's no reason to write him off as a "cheap signing". Put him on a line with Fox and Benedict and i will expect him to do very well. Of course he may go on to be a huge dissapointment or he might exceed my expectations, there no way of knowing.
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Post by dill1015 on May 27, 2012 0:20:54 GMT
How can anyone think this is a cheap signing. I havn't seen Galivan play but i suspect based on his stats that hes going to one of our top point scorers next season. lets compare his ECHL points per game against some others who have played in this country shall we...
Galivan: 0.80 brendan cook: 0.57 sean McAslan: 0.65 David-Alexandre Beauregard: 0.80 rob Bellamy: 0.38
And hes done this on an apparently low scoring team in that league. Overall im very happy with this. I think 80 points is possible for him next season. although i thnk he is either ryhanen or DAB replacement, as i think rhett gordans replacement will be a defencemen (i hope so anyway)
Finally in regards to the quality of Belfast compared to us. Belfast only had 2 forwards with a better points per game in the ECHL last year. Where we were weaker than Belfast last season is in defence. this is the area we need to increase our quality, and theres still no reason to think we wont do that yet. Overall i dont this signing has weaken us at all. Welcome to Nottingham Pat, look forward to seeing what you can do.
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Post by dill1015 on Apr 26, 2012 21:55:15 GMT
Wow! ok first things first, some people need to take a deep dreath and calm down!
when i first saw this i was very shocked totally didn't see this coming. This is undoubtably a huge gamble, but one that COULD pay off BIG TIME!
The way i see it, we know corey is going behind the bench at some point this season. We had to replace his points (or come close as possible). there were 2 options open to corey at this point: 1. replace his points with a new import or 2. replace them with a brit. (in this case weaver is the only real option out there)
So the choice was do i keep meyers and bring in an offensive D-man like Zion or do i bring in weaver and a stay at home d-man like steve munn for example. As much as i like Danny i think option 2 is best for the team. we need that import quality stay at home D-man to stop us shipping goals. No matter what people say i just dont think you can honestly say danny is as good as a quality import stay at home d-man. Once corey goes behind the bench all 3 of our import D-men should be stay at home players. This i feel combined with Lee should give k-wall the defense he needs to bring us that title.
However this will only pay off if weaver can do whats expected of him. everyone knows weaver didn't have the best season last year. However he was logging far too much ice time for someone at his age i feel. And he was playing on a blaze team with a very poor defence (far too many attacking players). Also i think he was being relied upon too much by the blaze as one of their top 2 defence men. I dont see his role at panthers being the same. i expect him to be our 5th D-man, with Lee playing more 5 on 5 hockey and weaver being used on the speacial teams (similar to the way Levers was used last season). This is a huge gamble, but weaver does bring in loads of experience and a winning attiude, the guys won everything theres is to win in the uk several times. And this shouldn't underestimated. Our defense has needed a shake up and its now got it. lets just see if it works, brave move by the coaching staff. The import corey brings in as Meyers replacment is now a vital signing! so is retaining Matt Myers.
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Post by dill1015 on Mar 28, 2012 12:32:18 GMT
didn't go to the game. but from the look of the video seems we were taking alot of long range shots. also looks like we were out muscled in the corners. two things i didn't think this team has had an issue with all season :/
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Post by dill1015 on Jan 15, 2012 17:43:42 GMT
I dont think that we're not spending enough money on players. we dont need to buy the league, what were need to do is spend money in the right areas! K-wall and 4 import d-men is a must imo. lepine, neilson and 2 top end stay at home d-men at the calibre of steve munn.
K-wall Defense: munn type player - neilson munn type player - lee lepine - meyers
Forwards: Beauregard- fox - heerema Clarke- benedict - levers francis- myers - lachowicz
for me this is the type of team that could win the league. Looks so solid at the back, and hardly lacking in fire power up front. If anyone start shouting wage cap: 1/ what wage cap? 2/ if your really bothered, swap a couple of the import forwards so some of less quality, just get those top end stay at home d-men in!!!
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Post by dill1015 on Jan 8, 2012 16:00:51 GMT
Right, I will pre-warn that this is going to be a post about Carson - this is by no-means me saying that he lost us the game, I dont think he had that much of a bearing. My girlfriend called it after a minute of the game saying we werent playing well, she was right, we were abysmal. What I dont understand is the calls for checking to the head and high sticking. Firslty the checking to the head by Steve Lee, my take on it was that it looked like a good, hard but clean hit. The problem was the Devils player seemed to collide with the linesman and his helmet fell off. This perhaps made the hit look worse that it was. What are peoples thoughts? Secondly, and more of a bug bear for me was the high stick 2+2 for Lepine. It looked to me like the player had his head quite low or was off balance and falling forward when the incident took place, I immediately looked to Carson and he hadnt made the call. Play went on for some 5 seconds and I was still watching Carson - no call. Suddenly there was a fight and the Devils player goes to Carson showing him his bleeding face, then Lepine gets called for high sticks. My question is this: Is this an example of Carson penalising the result of an incident or does a player getting an injury from a stick warrant a high stick call regardless of the position of the stick and player? 100% agree about the Lee incident. Lee made no contact with the head, bad call. The lepine one is a bit harder to say, for me the devils player (adams i think) went very low, well below waist height. i dont know about the letter of the law, but imo if a player puts himself down there and gets clipped in the face he's kinda askin for it. and its not really lepines fault as he kept his stick well down towards the ice. The worse thing for me about both cases is the way carson's opinion seems to have been affected long after the actions took place either by crowds or players. Ref's should make consistant desicions and stick to them. If he does not call something he was watching at the time, he should not go back afterwards and call it simply because a player has a cut, lost his helmet or a teammate has a fight with the opposing player. These things do not automatically mean it was worthy of a penalty.
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Post by dill1015 on Jan 7, 2012 22:56:13 GMT
I dont understand all this Heerema bashing he is not a weak link. he plays a simple game well, i think people are just expecting lots of flash stuff because of the level hes played at before. He passes, he shoots and works well against the boards and doesn't give the puck away very often.
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Post by dill1015 on Jan 7, 2012 22:25:04 GMT
Well that was bad. im not blaming kowalski at all. of the 4 devils goals 2 were odd man break aways with a smart pass across goal and 2 were unmarked men at the backdoor. All a result of poor defensive work imo. For me i blame the forwards. we looked very flat and didn't take enough preasure off the defensive. so many turn overs in the devils zone allowing break aways. Fox and myers in particular i thought were very poor, lots of stick handling errors and missed passes from the pair on them. However of all the aspects of the game im concered about it was the powerplay that really had me worried. we just aren't treatening at all! we look more scoring 5 on 5. you know its bad when u cant score 6 on 3. very poor. panthers had lots of shots tonight, but they were straight at lyle! didn't see any passes ( or attemts) across goal, and we were only in his face a few times. we're not out of the league yet. But we MUST win tomorrow!
couple of possitives, thought clarke played very well. really worked hard and looked like he really wanted the puck. Macca as well looked very good to me, strong forechecking and didn't look rusty at all!
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Post by dill1015 on Jul 6, 2011 1:46:31 GMT
Couple of good years in the EPL could do him the world of good. Hope he lives up to his potential.
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Post by dill1015 on Jul 6, 2011 1:45:19 GMT
He doesn't take that many penalty minutes compared to other players. And look that his quality! Would take him on the spot. not likely though.
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Post by dill1015 on Feb 3, 2011 15:16:54 GMT
If true, that's immense
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Post by dill1015 on Jan 31, 2011 16:31:11 GMT
I'm sort of expecting big things from this guy. i don't know why but the way corey seems to be after him having played with him, and the interest hes had from high level leagues i have a feeling he could be class. and stats about stay at home d-man mean less than with any other kinda player imo. hope I'm right. p.s. if the flames are moaning, shut up! that's the way the world works, its happened to us plenty of times.
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Post by dill1015 on Jan 15, 2011 21:30:55 GMT
What i want to see is.
corey - gone rick - gone jade - gone mcdonald - gone
bring in a new coach, a stay at home d-man, top line centre and a decent winger.
if this happens then there is slim chance of a cup this season. then let the new coach build his team for next season.
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Post by dill1015 on Jan 9, 2011 19:39:42 GMT
I think he should be given a regular shift over levers. his 5 on 5 play is much better than marcs imo. he great a pintching the puck off players and passes very well.
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Post by dill1015 on Jan 7, 2011 22:54:56 GMT
People will blame darnell, and say we were unlucky with some stuff. but to be honest we weren't good enough. some parts of the game were much improved on recent times. rick on the bench was very good and alot of players have picked up their games. one player though who has to go imo is zion. He's just not on it. over the last few weeks i have seen many times when he should easily be first to a loose puck and simply doesn't move. sorry but just not good enough. he costing us badly and is affecting the whole flow of the game by allowing opposition to keep us pinned in our end and build momentum.
This loss has now taken the slim chance of a league comeback away. The only real hope of silverware now is the playoffs (assuming we lose to devils in the cup). The main issue i think we have as a team is our inability to close down a game. we just cant do it. the amount of times the giants had a man unmarked between our d men and forwards was unacceptable.
I'm not angry panthers, i'm just disappointed.
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