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Post by Rob Scott on Jul 7, 2010 12:56:33 GMT
Tim Branham
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Mythosman
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Post by Mythosman on Jul 7, 2010 13:05:45 GMT
Tantamount.............Word of the day,by far!!!! You're too kind Las!
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Matt Myers
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Post by Mythosman on Jul 7, 2010 13:11:31 GMT
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Post by Rob Scott on Jul 7, 2010 13:14:16 GMT
Neil Petruic
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Post by Rob Scott on Jul 7, 2010 13:24:54 GMT
Chris Murray.
Most recently played for Lowell Devils
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Post by Rob Scott on Jul 7, 2010 13:35:31 GMT
Luis Tremblay.
Looks tough.
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Post by Rob Scott on Jul 7, 2010 13:37:23 GMT
Daryl Marcoux of Stockton Thunder.
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Post by Rob Scott on Jul 7, 2010 13:41:38 GMT
Matt O'Dette looks old, mean nasty, big. Mustard.
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Post by p4nthersf4n on Jul 7, 2010 13:45:42 GMT
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Post by Rob Scott on Jul 7, 2010 13:52:29 GMT
They all look good but heavy on PIM's
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Post by p4nthersf4n on Jul 7, 2010 14:01:48 GMT
True, but my preference for the last d'man would be a no nonsense player
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Post by howeaboutthat on Jul 7, 2010 16:03:17 GMT
True, but my preference for the last d'man would be a no nonsense player No nonsense is all well and good but if a D-man is sat in the penalty box he isn't really doing much stay at home type stuff. Standing up for yourself is one thing, clocking up the PIMs doing what enforcers are paid to do is another.
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Post by Rob Scott on Jul 8, 2010 9:18:15 GMT
Aye,
We already have, Penner, Henderson, Clarke, Neilson at least that spend a fair bit of time in the box. Would like the last bloke to play around 30 mins a night and bore the oppositions forwards into submission by keeping them away from our goal and keeping himself out of the box and on the ice.
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Post by Zukiwskyfan on Jul 8, 2010 12:00:52 GMT
I want our last d man to have the kind of mean streak and attitude where he'll put his stick through your face if you even look at our netminder.
A stay at home guy around 6.4 who racks up 200+ pims and fights 8-10 times will be perfect.
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David Clarke
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Post by lee on Jul 8, 2010 12:08:43 GMT
I want our last d man to have the kind of mean streak and attitude where he'll put his stick through your face if you even look at our netminder. A stay at home guy around 6.4 who racks up 200+ pims and fights 8-10 times will be perfect. 200 penalty mins a season is way to high for a defenceman on a team that already has an enforcer.... assuming he doesn't always take a man with him to the box, he would be personally responsible for giving the opposition 2 powerplays a game!! give me a mike rees / nick toneys any day!
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Post by Daddio on Jul 8, 2010 12:34:57 GMT
Bearing in mind we now have our NM signed and Corey said he would juggle his budget with him and last D man, I expect we shall hear who last player is, in the words of the GM "sooner rather than later" I know its going back a few years but Id love another Darren Malloney type player 6ft+ solid as a rock virtually no Pims for us.
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Post by Shorty on Jul 8, 2010 13:42:55 GMT
Is 200 minutes really that much of an issue for people?
We played 56 league games last season, and maybe another 14 in cup and playoffs, so call it 70 games.
200 minutes over 70 games is equivalent to 3 mins per game.
If he's creaming the opposition against the boards, I can quite happily live with that.
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Zukiwskyfan
Simon Hunt
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Post by Zukiwskyfan on Jul 8, 2010 13:50:38 GMT
I want our last d man to have the kind of mean streak and attitude where he'll put his stick through your face if you even look at our netminder. A stay at home guy around 6.4 who racks up 200+ pims and fights 8-10 times will be perfect. 200 penalty mins a season is way to high for a defenceman on a team that already has an enforcer.... assuming he doesn't always take a man with him to the box, he would be personally responsible for giving the opposition 2 powerplays a game!! give me a mike rees / nick toneys any day! No not really. Yes we have a enforcer but apart from Penner we have nothing toughness wise. Henderson will stir the pot but he won't fight anywhere near as much as Bruce did and we have nobody like bergin to be a number 2 guy. A big tough fighting d man (not another out and out enforcer) is the last piece to the jigsaw. A D man who is as dirty and as nasty as they come is what we are missing. If we sign another guy like Toneys or Malloney we will be the softest team in the league. I aggree on Rees though it just a shame they don't make players like him anymore.
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Monty #83
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Post by Monty #83 on Jul 8, 2010 14:10:56 GMT
Is 200 minutes really that much of an issue for people? We played 56 league games last season, and maybe another 14 in cup and playoffs, so call it 70 games. 200 minutes over 70 games is equivalent to 3 mins per game. If he's creaming the opposition against the boards, I can quite happily live with that. +1
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Post by rangers on Jul 8, 2010 14:39:24 GMT
Is 200 minutes really that much of an issue for people? We played 56 league games last season, and maybe another 14 in cup and playoffs, so call it 70 games. 200 minutes over 70 games is equivalent to 3 mins per game. If he's creaming the opposition against the boards, I can quite happily live with that. To put it in perspective Andre Payette got 175 PIMS in his last season in Newcastle. His lowest total, but still...
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David Clarke
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Post by lee on Jul 8, 2010 14:53:01 GMT
200 penalty mins a season is way to high for a defenceman on a team that already has an enforcer.... assuming he doesn't always take a man with him to the box, he would be personally responsible for giving the opposition 2 powerplays a game!! give me a mike rees / nick toneys any day! No not really. Yes we have a enforcer but apart from Penner we have nothing toughness wise. Henderson will stir the pot but he won't fight anywhere near as much as Bruce did and we have nobody like bergin to be a number 2 guy. A big tough fighting d man (not another out and out enforcer) is the last piece to the jigsaw. A D man who is as dirty and as nasty as they come is what we are missing. If we sign another guy like Toneys or Malloney we will be the softest team in the league. I aggree on Rees though it just a shame they don't make players like him anymore. i agree we need a nasty big guy, but i disagree on the need to fight, Bergin had what? 2 fights whilst in a panthers team when Shmyr was here, he only fought alot when our sicknote enforcer couldn't hack it (ndur) and last year when we had no-one..... IMO we need a player similar to Munn basically, but i wouldn't want his penalty minutes to be that high around the 200 mark, more like 50 for me, laroque (who i didn't rate) had high penalty minutes and we all cursed him, he also got penalised for numerous big (legal) hits, i have no doubt if our last D man did the same he would get the same treatment.
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Post by NickThePanther44 on Jul 8, 2010 16:04:32 GMT
It depends what people want from a d-man, if your looking for a guy who plays physical every game, smashes opposition forwards into the boards and steams in everytime anybody gets near the netty then quite frankly he's going to rack up the pims.
I completely agree with Zukiwskyfan, I'd love nothing more than for us to sign the next Clayton Norris, a guy with one hell of a mean streak, top fighter to back Penner up and the ability to log high minutes.
We can sign a soft defensive d-man but that would leave our D a little toothless.
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Post by pantherdman on Jul 8, 2010 16:06:23 GMT
Torn on this. My heart agrees with Zukiwskyfan My head agrees with Kronwalled.
I guess i would prefer 200 good penalty minutes, to 50 stupid penalty minutes.
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Post by howeaboutthat on Jul 8, 2010 18:58:09 GMT
The problem with having a tough-as-nails D-man in the EIHL isn't what he does to the opposition but how the notoriously poor quality officials of the league call the 'offences'.
As shown last season with Larocque, when he did stop playing at being a traffic bollard and start nailing players to the boards he was called for, what in NA leagues, would normally be considered a clean hit.
I'm all for savage checking, hell my forum name celebrates one of the finest at such hits in the current NHL, but this is our last d-man we're talking about, not a fairly expendable forward. Someone who is going to be a lynch-pin to try and turn the fortunes of Panther's pretty shocking defensive prowess around.
Do we really want such a lynch-pin sat in the box for a clean hit or even worse, sat in the changing room wondering what the hell happened?
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Post by buster on Jul 8, 2010 19:10:31 GMT
so you'd accept a second rate player on the basis that it wont matter as much if he gets sent to the box, as opposed to a good player (linchpin) being sat in the box?
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