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Post by pantherlee on Mar 13, 2024 7:56:10 GMT
I hear a rumour in the stands that Neill has a broken hand.? They are also waiting on Logan, from where we sat it looked like he also was wearing a black splint on his left hand. I’d be very surprised if we see any of this team back next season and that includes The coach and a lot of that is to do with Adam. I’m sorry I really just don’t buy this. If the players were that deeply scarred by what happened then they should have already left like Bjorkung chose to do. Yes those couple of months after when it was still raw must have been very difficult and it visibly was it was plain for all to see. But overall the group seems to have recovered and gained some confidence and enjoyment again and the AJ tragedy just can’t be dragged up to be used as an excuse now whenever we play badly or to decide what their futures will be. It happened and nothing will change that whether players decide to stay or go and I think the players are smart enough to know that and shouldn’t have any bearing on future decisions
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 13, 2024 7:45:32 GMT
Stand by the comment of defensively being awful. Especially in the 1st, how many times did we simply gift them the puck in our defensive zone? The fact that they spawned so many gifts doesn’t make the defence any good. It’s not just this game though. We can’t go away without conceding at least 5. Not that any of this matters now. Yep. Flyers being bad doesn’t mean we were good. Defence was terrible. Playing 5D was a big mistake. No partnerships just throw out the two least tired players. No one seemed to know what they were doing. I don’t really like him as a defenceman but Kelsall should have played D just to keep lines settled.
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 12, 2024 23:56:40 GMT
Also, I’ve mentioned on here we needed Rok to come up big in the run-in and unfortunately tonight he didn’t keep us in it Because he just isn’t good enough to be able to do so
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 12, 2024 23:37:31 GMT
Can’t not turn up for 2 periods and expect to turn it round in the 3rd and get something out of the game. Should have been more that 1 behind after the first. Second period tighter, but no real quality. Peppered their goal in the 3rd, but still didn’t look like beating him and nothing dropped for us. Defensively, we are awful. McGurty poor as well as Ryczek and the others. Rok clanger for their 3rd, but not to blame for their first two. Both from close rage with no protection. Time to start making plans for next year and deciding who to keep. There is a core to be kept from this team but there are too many passengers. You aren’t winning anything if you’ve got 3 import forwards contributing 1 point or fewer in 4 every games like Anderson, Welsh and Pare
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 12, 2024 22:42:59 GMT
I agree with the sentiments but I also believe we saw a team with only one period in them, they didn't have the energy after the 2 games at the weekend. There was no Plan B attacking wise, it was virtually the same and you wasn't beating Owen like that. Should've put a body in front of him and screened him. If they only had the energy for 1 period you’d expect that to in the 1st period not the 3rd
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 12, 2024 22:39:24 GMT
Honking performance. There are contributing factors with top pair D out, 3rd game in 4 days after that terrible road trip, players in and out messing with lines, but not even all that should've resulted in a performance that bad. Rok showed exactly why he cant be retained next year. Too many freebies given away. Even at his best he can let one of those in at any time. It would be unfair to lay the blame for that result at his feet though. A few minutes left in a one goal game and you are looking to put pressure on you simply cannot have an error like that from him either. We were looking threatening at last, we had half a sniff & that mistake took it all away. As I mentioned before, there was a lot of contributing factors that didn't help, but it arguably looked like something may have gone on behind closed doors it was that bad. Oh, and plan B!! Pare has been good of late, however he was really needed to get somethimg going tonight. Ideally sooner, but at very least he should've been flying around throwing hits and looking for a scrap to start the 3rd. That's exactly the type of performance you need your fighter to bring something different. If Pare started throwing big hits, then probably the Official's arms will suddenly go upright rather quickly. Didn't think they appreciated getting booed off the ice at the end of the 2nd The officials deserved that boo. Utterly clueless for both sides. The body check that laid Tetlow out was an absolute beauty of a hit and got called for elbows even though the replay showed his elbows tucked right into his body. Then missing the most obvious cross check against the boards at the end of the second was laughable
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 12, 2024 21:58:55 GMT
That was poor. Scene was set by a terrible first period followed by two periods of huffing and puffing. Only line that looked vaguely dangerous was the top line, the rest were anonymous. The line looked all wrong. Since Michaud and then Neilson got injured the lines look completely disjointed and lacking chemistry and it’s affecting individual performances too. Lunsjo was on fire with Michaud and Neilson and then with Henbrant too but now looks lost and anonymous. Also, why would you have Michaud and Paré on the same line and have Michaud take the face-offs?!
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 12, 2024 21:54:21 GMT
Really bad tonight. That 3rd period has wound me up even more. Camped in Fife’s zone for the whole period. If we’d done that in the first 2 periods Fife wouldn’t have had a sniff. When this season is over I’ll happily drive Stojanovic to the airport myself. He’s an absolute sieve. For too long now Panthers have signed poor goalies
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 12, 2024 21:06:57 GMT
My god we’ve been awful for 2 periods. As bad as it gets. Luckily Flyers aren’t much better and we’re still in it. Ryczek, Tetlow and Welsh have been abysmal
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 5, 2024 15:03:16 GMT
If we were full strength I’d be benching Kelsall & McGurty/Ryczek or Anderson & Tetlow
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 4, 2024 21:49:35 GMT
I didn’t even get the design either for superhero night. They must’ve thought the muscly design made it look like a superhero outfit but to me it just made them look like gorillas Took me a while to get it but the neck piece gives it away. Its meant to be Black Panther. View AttachmentEpic fail
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 4, 2024 21:32:57 GMT
I didn’t even get the design either for superhero night. They must’ve thought the muscly design made it look like a superhero outfit but to me it just made them look like gorillas
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 4, 2024 21:10:44 GMT
Some people really have more money than sense. Especially as we lost in the game they were worn and they were absolutely hideous
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 3, 2024 21:56:54 GMT
There are some good players on this roster but not enough to cope with a key loss. Losing Michaud has taken away a lot of creativity and simultaneously broken up the hottest line in the league and if anything Tetlows return hasn’t helped. Shuffling defensive lines because of having 7D is just disrupting partnerships
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 3, 2024 13:23:46 GMT
I thought Pare had one of his best games for us last night. It will be nice to see what he can do with settled line mates. Anderson hasn't been anywhere near as good as he was in the later half of last season. Most of all though, we really missed Michaud last night. Anderson just isn’t a good player. Thought he was the worst of a bad bunch last year and had a little run towards the end of the season. Wasn’t happy when he was re-signed and hasn’t done anything since. No import forward for an arena (or any team really) should produce such low scoring numbers
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 2, 2024 21:34:34 GMT
A little bit gutting that one. That GWG was real frustrating. Hate to see a player allowed to skate all the way in on the goalie like that. Has to be put on his backside. Ryczek at fault for that one. He had a really poor game throughout. Thought we were going to pull off one of the most ill deserved wins ever when we equalised. We were so poor we shouldn’t have been in it. Cardiff managed to better just by being mediocre. If we play like that against a team on form we’d get battered. Played like they’d never met before
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Post by pantherlee on Mar 2, 2024 19:51:02 GMT
That 1st period so sloppy from Panthers. So many sloppy passes and poor stick handling. 2 goals for Cardiff on a plate. They have done anything really apart from accept 2 gifts. One a powerplay with Caruso taking the penalty…Again.
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Post by pantherlee on Feb 28, 2024 19:09:14 GMT
The thing is, we were always in that game. It was very weird in the sense that we conceded 9 but were never out ofthe game. Up until the 9thgoal we were either leading or never more than 1 goal down. In terms of leaving Robinson in, you can understand why the coaches did it. There was a game to be won. As said on the game thread at the time. If Rok was backing up he could've been on and potentially saved the game. Leaving him Nottingham for anything other than injury or ilness was a poor decision if that was the case. They are the decisions teams like Sheffield wouldn't make. Thats the bit we dont know though. If that’s the case I’ve got no sympathy for him. He’s paid to do a job. Stop whining and get on with it. Sounds like quite an unprofessional attitude
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Post by pantherlee on Feb 26, 2024 11:45:57 GMT
Neill has made more of those mistakes in recent matches I have to agree but a lot of the good things we do goes through him too. Until recently I thought he was this years star player but now I can’t look beyond Hugo Roy for that. Caruso and McGurty are steady. We’ve definitely had a lot worse than both of them but they are sloppy sometimes and both take far too many minor penalties. 51 minutes each and I can’t remember many fights in there so they must be mostly minors which is far too many from 2 dmen Overall I agree. As I say I like Neill, and that's the thing with this D. There isn't one of them that are bad, need to be cut players like we almost always have. You cant have 4/5 top pairing Dmen so some will always be better than others. Next season i'd keep Neill, Despres & Ryczek aswell as the 2 Brits. Id then sign 2 more imports to replace Caruso and McGurty if the budget allows. I'd 100% carry that spare D from the start. I really dont think it our Dmen that are the direct cause of our goals conceded. It's very much more about the way we defend as a 5 man unit. Realistically though we won’t be running 7 dmen from the start of the season. Nobody does so it just bringing in one dman in an area we struggle most I think as I our forwards are actually more defensively responsible than previous seasons. I don’t dislike Ryczek but neither do I think he’s great so if you keep Neill and Despres then I think I’d want 2 new import D to freshen it up a bit
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Post by pantherlee on Feb 26, 2024 11:40:01 GMT
Neill has made more of those mistakes in recent matches I have to agree but a lot of the good things we do goes through him too. Until recently I thought he was this years star player but now I can’t look beyond Hugo Roy for that. Caruso and McGurty are steady. We’ve definitely had a lot worse than both of them but they are sloppy sometimes and both take far too many minor penalties. 51 minutes each and I can’t remember many fights in there so they must be mostly minors which is far too many from 2 dmen McGurty did get that game penalty against Coventry for the kneeing. Yes I remember that one and that was probably the worst of the lot. Put himself in a compromised position and then made a reckless play to give himself a 5 minute major instead of a 2 minute minor. He had the careless high stick against Cardiff last week and gave away a poor tripping penalty against giants last night. He is just very prone to these kind of penalties whether it comes from poor positional play or lack of discipline I don’t know but it just the team under pressure far too often
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Post by pantherlee on Feb 26, 2024 10:41:18 GMT
Statistically, in the category that matters for a D man for me (net not being scored on), he's pretty much our best this year. He took a fair few penalties early in the season, and still leads the team, comfortably, in "minors taken", but he has nearly half the "minuses" Carl Neill does. The whole D is a bit iffy this season, to be fair, I don't think he's the worst culprit in that area by a long way. I'm a big believer that we often make our minds up on players quite early and then we see things in line with that opinion. Carl Neil plays big minutes and looks smooth. I like him, but he makes way more mistakes in and around his own goal than anybody else. He's cost us quite a few of late with suicide passes around the net. Got away with a few more too. Caruso looks like he's skating through treacle, however he makes some very classy plays. This isn't me firing shots at others for this, im just as guilty as anybody. Michund up until this unavoidable streak was one of the first on my no return list, but his stats were ok even before then. The thing is, early on I noticed his appauling offensive zone turnovers allowing the oppossision to transition down the other end for goals. So I now notice that all the time. Even whilst he's been so hot. His form and stats are pretty umdeniable it this point and he's forced me to change my mind. Neill has made more of those mistakes in recent matches I have to agree but a lot of the good things we do goes through him too. Until recently I thought he was this years star player but now I can’t look beyond Hugo Roy for that. Caruso and McGurty are steady. We’ve definitely had a lot worse than both of them but they are sloppy sometimes and both take far too many minor penalties. 51 minutes each and I can’t remember many fights in there so they must be mostly minors which is far too many from 2 dmen
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Post by pantherlee on Feb 25, 2024 21:58:45 GMT
Was shocked, wasn’t expecting that. So many of them stood up and performed, Roy is a great hockey player, the first goal was a bullet. Really liked Lemay, Lunsjö, Neilson, Luciani, Kelsall and Anderson. Caruso and McGurty frustrate the living daylights out of me. Tetlow did good considering how long he’s been out. Some of those calls by the officials were awful. Keep playing like that please. Agree about Caruso and McGurty. They both give away so many sloppy penalties it puts us on the back foot way too often
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Post by pantherlee on Feb 25, 2024 18:36:55 GMT
Superb performance. They needed to deliver at last night and they did just that.
Roy and Nieminen are exceptional. Luciani and Lunsjo were very good together. Lemay scored bullet. Despres starting to show his class again and Rok had his best performance for some time and deserved his MoM
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Post by pantherlee on Feb 25, 2024 17:34:42 GMT
Jesus Christ the stripeys are embarrassing themselves tonight!
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Post by pantherlee on Feb 25, 2024 16:42:40 GMT
Looks like we’re getting the Dr. Jekyll version of the Panthers today. For the first period at least anyway
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