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Post by pantherlee on Apr 23, 2024 13:27:31 GMT
Yes he's been back a while, partner expecting a baby next month I believe. Would / could have been a good signing although after he left last time he said he would never come back after the way they (the Brits) were treated. you never know what to believe. We keep on hearing about “the way they were treated” but Ive never heard anything specific to suggest what that way may have been. Not to mention that Gary Moran or Corey Neilson or whoever it may be regarding day to day running of the club are no longer around so I take these things with a pinch of salt. If it was that bad then why did Ollie and Tetlow and Hazeldine for that matter come back? They must surely have had other options?
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Post by pantherlee on Apr 22, 2024 13:41:23 GMT
From the same twitter account that called Paredes, Neilson and Nieminen:-
Stephen Johnson and CJ Garcia re-signing with Storm Cole Sanford and Joey Martin re-signing with Devils Trevor Cox and Sam Duggan leaving Devils Daniel Tedesco and Greg Printz leaving Giants
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Post by pantherlee on Apr 17, 2024 19:33:04 GMT
Genuinely the most excited I've been about a signing for years. When was the last time we kept a player who had a strong season? Mark Matheson maybe? Other than that you’re looking at maybe Luke Pither, Jeff Brown and Evan Mosey, but even then none of those are as good as Otto. For that you’re probably going back as far as K-Wall and Jordan Fox
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Post by pantherlee on Apr 17, 2024 18:44:39 GMT
This is absolutely phenomenal news. Welcome back Otto! I don’t feel like I’m being over the top in saying this but I believe he’s one of the best players in this league. He’s a quality player. Amazing start from the club You’re not. He’s walks into any team in this league
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Post by pantherlee on Apr 17, 2024 18:13:53 GMT
Best signing we’ll make all summer. Was resigned to him moving on so delighted he’s back. The fact that he’s signed even before playoff final has around tells me he didn’t need much convincing and hasn’t even considered moving elsewhere
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Post by pantherlee on Apr 17, 2024 14:31:37 GMT
I’d love it to be Otto but as he said he hopes at play in the Austrian league I doubt it. My bet would be a Brit. Possibly Kelsall.
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Post by pantherlee on Apr 16, 2024 17:45:42 GMT
If you are wanting to improve your Brits, you need to be thinking a couple of years down the line, players that are currently with the GB U20's or players that are away at US/Canadian Colleges. It would cost too much to tempt someone currently in the EIHL, and as was pointed out, someone like Hook could easily end up like Ferrara, a star in the NIHL but a relative failure at panthers. After how we’ve used mckenzie this year, I would be avoiding panthers like the plague if I was a ‘youngster’, I’d want to play not warm a bench. McKenzie will never be EIHL level I don’t think. He puts up hardly any numbers in NIHL. He gets the opportunity to train with professional players but you shouldn’t get EIHL opportunities for free and right now he just isn’t at that level.
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Post by pantherlee on Apr 12, 2024 11:29:01 GMT
You could’ve said that about Despres, Farley, Pare, Luciani and Hazeldine though as they all arrived after but I don’t think they were ever seen as outsiders
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Post by pantherlee on Apr 11, 2024 7:56:44 GMT
I largely agree with this. Would give them all another season in a heartbeat, but as the dust settles on this season it'll all move on very quickly to simply being judged by on ice results again. KM is clearly an awesome human. Somebody we should want around the club. Should next seasons on ice product be poor though we'll soon see lots of people calling for his head. Certainly sign him up for next season. A multi year deal probably meaans little anyway in this league, but if it helps tie him down then give it him in the knowledge both parties will likely have a short notice period built in. What we expect on the ice next season will likely be determained by how much of a rebuild it is. Keep 6 or 7 imports and would be looking to compete at the top next season. Lose almost all and it's another 2 year plan. Regardless top 4 should be a goal. I think top 4 is a bit too much, realistically I think playoff final and/or top half would be within reach. I hope I’m wrong, but we’ve not been hanging with the ‘big boys’ for sometime. You just need to look at the games v Sheffield (I think it’s 2 years since we won against them) For KM I think it’s the nature of the beast in sport with hiring and firing. If he did get the gaffers job I’d certainly expect the club to have a sizeable and strong back room team with knowledge and experience of the club/league/tactics/scouting to support him and his ‘step up’ into the role and putting a squad together. I don’t think top 4 is too much at all. Had AJ still been with us and we had better netminding then I think we would’ve got at least 4th this season. We had the understandable big slump after AJ’s death not to mention losing AJ the player himself and because of the situation we’re probably a little hamstrung when it came to replacing any underperforming players. And despite all that we only finished 11 points off 4th which is a smaller gap than 1st to 2nd
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Post by pantherlee on Apr 10, 2024 10:40:44 GMT
Favourite time of the year! Hope there’s something in Cangelosi to Nottingham but doubt it somewhat…I’d imagine he’ll have already signed elsewhere in Norway. I’ll start: All Brits to return Caruso to retire Otto to Denmark/ Austria Henbrant and Michaud to return Cangelosi? He’s only 5 feet 7 though 😂
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Post by pantherlee on Apr 9, 2024 16:44:08 GMT
And to ‘cover it up’ they asked Dyson Stephenson to type out a note on his phone to clarify that the club had carried out all the relevant tests? Give over mate, that’s a ridiculous stretch even for you 😂 He didn’t mention concussion tests in his interview no, and I was shocked at first watching that, but Stephenson has certainly put an alternative perspective on it. I don’t know medical tests more than most folk, but I imagine the netminder wouldn’t have played if he felt he wasn’t able to at the very least after tests. Don’t believe everything the powers that be tell you in the EIHL that’s all i’d say. I’ve seen and read some of the bull that gets put out when i’ve known what really went on at the time and then i laughed when the fans took it as gospel just because their beloved team said so. That’s one of the reasons i left it behind and walked away after 20 years,it’s just so amateur and false at times. There are much better things to do with my time these days than watch that crap. Yet you’re endlessly on here cherry picking certain fact to paint your agenda, liking every goal against us on game threads and seemingly poring over interviews of various coaches. If you’ve got so many better things to why doesn’t that extend to posting here? Because the amount of time you’re on here suggest the opposite
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Post by pantherlee on Apr 8, 2024 9:21:40 GMT
I can only echo what has been said by others on here, this team has delivered an entertaining, spirited season in the face of an unprecedented and truly tragic set of circumstances. I have had more fun watching this team than many a Panthers side over the last 25 years and so that's why it feels almost cruel that they don't get the chance to play for us in the playoffs. I really wish every single one of these players (and Victor Bjorkung) the very very best for the future. I hope we retain some of this group as there are elements of super talented players and it would be a shame to wipe the slate clean and start afresh. Ultimately, it's down to the individuals themselves and their personal feelings, but whatever they choose, I'll be following all of their careers closely with great interest. A fantastic group of players. I hope we see the talented core of this team return or at least some of it. I don’t buy what’s being trotted out that the players can’t wait to get on the first flight out of here. The way they’ve been battling, the celebrations when we got the OT winner yesterday and the passion that they’ve shown in not seeing a bunch of guys that don’t want to be here. In fact it’s the reverse that’s true and I’m seeing a group of players that are wearing a Panthers jersey with pride which we haven’t seen in a few years now.
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Post by pantherlee on Apr 7, 2024 19:05:18 GMT
Imagine being just so sad that you “like” every post that pertains to something going against the club. What a sad little existence he must live. Can’t imagine that kind of bitterness
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Post by pantherlee on Apr 7, 2024 18:52:53 GMT
As much as it’s gutting to miss out and a club like Panthers should be expected to qualify for the playoffs in far more fond of this team than I’ve been of any for a long time and certainly since COVID. This team has quality in some areas and I hope we keep a good amount of that quality as a core going forward. This team had real potential and it will go down as what might’ve been had tragedy not struck
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Post by pantherlee on Apr 2, 2024 19:39:56 GMT
I known its wildly optimistic but I'd certainly take Roy, Nieminen, Michaud, Lunsjö, Henbrant and Neill back from the imports. I could be open to arguments on Caruso and Luciani. Agree on the forwards you mentioned. 50/50 on Michaud but Lunsjo is very underrated for me. He always sees to be the one who loses out when lines get reshuffled and gets stuck with Anderson, Pare or Welsh which starved him of points but he was on the form line in the league at one point with Michaud and Neilson and scored a hatful and always looks dangerous. Put him on a consistent and scoring line and there’s a potential PPG player there in my opinion. I’d add Despres to that list as well but not overly bothered by Luciani
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Post by pantherlee on Apr 2, 2024 16:30:28 GMT
To be honest I don’t buy the argument that players are just looking to get straight out of Nottingham because of what happened with AJ. In the the following months they did look like they had the weight of the world on their shoulders but time has passed and those players don’t look like they’re unhappy to be here and still look like they’re giving all they have to the end, so if players move on it will be for professional reasons rather than a need to put Nottingham and everything that happened behind them as they could have done that at any time. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a few returnees and if players like Roy and Nieminen don’t return it will because they’ve gone on to bigger things
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Post by pantherlee on Apr 1, 2024 17:40:33 GMT
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Post by pantherlee on Apr 1, 2024 15:47:05 GMT
Why has nobody had to answer for the cheap shot on Hazeldine? Yes very disappointing. Pare should be making a beeline straight for whoever it was. That’s his job on the team
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Post by pantherlee on Apr 1, 2024 15:43:30 GMT
Today’s match referee’d by Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 31, 2024 20:43:17 GMT
+/- really is your new favourite hobby horse you love to ride at the minute isn’t it Now he's got it to look at, he can use it when it suits his agenda. Well, except where Tetlow's concerned, but that's just an irrational hatred. When you don't attend any games, you need to latch onto the stats as they're all you've got. You beat me to it. A nice convenient stat that’s so vague and open to interpretation he can manipulate it when it suits him
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 31, 2024 16:13:59 GMT
I like Anderson as a Panthers player a lot. He puts in 100% every shift for all three periods but the problem is that he wouldn’t get into any other arena team because apart from the effort he doesn’t bring a lot more to the line. That and he’s -18 too. +/- really is your new favourite hobby horse you love to ride at the minute isn’t it
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 31, 2024 10:47:28 GMT
To be fair, that’s just sports fans in general really isn’t it? Most people shout for anything they can from the officials and will boo if they don’t get it. Prime example was the goal review last night, Luciani was stood bang in the middle of the crease, obviously it’s worth the officials reviewing but as soon as that was announced, the boos rained down and they’re just doing their job 🤷🏼♂️ gave a good goal and we move on. Wouldn’t get too bogged down with shouts to the officials. I always shout “get out the way!” When they touch the puck by accident. I’m well aware it’s a hazard of the game and they’re not trying to touch it, just something I’ve always done 😂 I dont think so. Penalties and maybe calls absoloutly. We're talking about small bumb hits and next to nothing contact when refering to squealing. More of a modern fan or newbie thing. It's like a " hey, dont touch our player" type squeal. I spend plenty of time shouting at the officials too. They usually deserve it. Especially when needlessly in the way. As for the hit on Michund(a different post) and the player making the hit being able to be responsible and pull out, that all depends on timing and how late he's coming in. Still only going on the live view so I think it was tough to avoid. Replays may tell a different story though. If he had time he 100% should've avoided dangerous contact. Don’t want to sound nitpicky but why do always put Michund when his name is Michaud?
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 30, 2024 21:34:47 GMT
Easy work. Dominated from start to finish. Could’ve been 7 or 8
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 29, 2024 10:03:23 GMT
He was never going to be. It was just more classic spin. How was it classically spun? I've had a look at the original press release when he signed. The two things that stick out are Jonathan Paredes saying he is very good on face-offs (145 won vs 123 lost. 54.1% overall, easily the best face-off percentage on the team) and the he will add physicality to the line up (many said we were getting bullied and pushed around, there's been a very sharp decline in those sorts of comments since he arrived from people who watch the games). Where's the spin? Have to agree with all points. I don’t see what spin you’re on about and he has done all what Joni has said. He’s filled a hole and done his job but I just don’t think there’s much of a player there. Thought it was quite obvious from his first game that he had no real skill he’s just added a bit of physicality and face off success but for an import for an arena team needs to be bringing more to the table. Same goes for Welsh and Anderson
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 29, 2024 8:13:08 GMT
No, but he was put down to 4th line with Lunsjo. I did nearly have a heart attack near the end with around 1m30s left when we had an offensive zone face off and of all people Lemay was in the circle. Strange call. Pare has really gone off these last few weeks. According to the stats, Lunsjo played more minutes than Otto? Bit strange. I agree though, Pare has gone off the boil a bit lately. Honestly. I never thought was any good from the start
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