GDT: Devils 3:7 Panthers (EL, 28/11)

[cooperphil156]

We won each period and kept up the pace with constant forechecks - that 20 man roster (+2) with the extra Brits came in handy. Just one point - I cannot remember seeing Oakford out there much. Hopefully plenty left in the tank for tomorrow.

[wgray]

Great result, battled all night long, took our chances and stood up for ourselves, what a team

[iginla]

Yes I'm here Pantherman66.
That was a great win tonight at the BBT,the best of the season so far,but if you look i said it was tomorrow's Steelers game that worried me !

I have said before that this team has just "got it" and I haven't changed my mind yet,it's the injuries that concern me.

[MODSTUFF]

Nov 28, 2015 22:00:29 GMT Jono Bullard said:

Outstanding performance. That could be season defining.

Deffo. If Panthers win the league in March, I'll certainly look back to November and pin it down to this single game.

[texpef]

What a result... And without key players hope for more of the same tomorrow

[The Flying Shirt]

Oh, amd a special mention to Ling as well. He was absolutely on fire (and without a fire drill too this weekend)

[Deleted]

Wow !!! That's the win and performance of the season right there. Stunning road game by us. Ling was superb his best game since he returned. I said 2 weeks into the team will be better that the one of 3 years ago.

There's a family like attitude amongst this lot and I've never met them. You can tell they work for each other no loners or passengers. A joy to watch. Our unsung hero back next week and perhaps our best player back the week after.

[PantherG]

Stunned not with the win, but the margin in which we did it... God I hope we keep it steady tomorrow and make it a 4 point weekend. I'm really nervous about this game tomorrow for some reason.

[Deleted]

My god what a game. Thought we were unlucky to go behind twice and to hold our nerve when they pulled it back to 4-3 showed great character. Bowns had a mare. Hideous hit by Marsh on Moran. To have 3/4 points from 2 visits to the BBT is nothing short of remarkable. If we can follow it up with a win vs Sheffield that will definitely provide a huge "take notice" sign for the rest of the league. Keep it up guys.

[titch]

Why are people worried about Squeelers tomorrow? The 'team' from Sheffield are BARELY able to beat bottom of the table Blaze at home and ONLY just beat the Panthers when we played some of the worse hockey of the season! You don't go to Cardiff and win 7 - 3 if you're not a fantastic team. I'm hoping for the deafening atmosphere that the Panthers made at the Cardiff arena tonight to appear at the NIC tomorrow, there is no doubt that the atmosphere the fans are creating this season in some of the games are motivating the boys more!

#LetsGoPanthers!

[Pies]

Nov 28, 2015 23:26:40 GMT @pidge said:

Wow !!! That's the win and performance of the season right there. Stunning road game by us. Ling was superb his best game since he returned. I said 2 weeks into the team will be better that the one of 3 years ago.

There's a family like attitude amongst this lot and I've never met them. You can tell they work for each other no loners or passengers. A joy to watch. Our unsung hero back next week and perhaps our best player back the week after.

You know what Pidge I absolutely get what you're saying. They seem like they'd do anything for each other on the ice. How many times in the past 2 seasons have we seen a dirty hit put on a player and no one step up? Waugh was straight in as soon as he saw the hit on Moran. Swindlehurst gets pushed around by Lord and Janssen comes in to stick up for him. There's no one just looking to rack up points as an individual, it's all about the 2 points as a team. I think they genuinely love winning but they hate losing just as much. Even if we end up trophy less, which I hope to god we don't, this team so far has been one of the most entertaining I've seen

[panthers4ever]

Great win f,rom the guys

[thebestpanthers]

I agree with what people are saying - this is a very exciting team and they are playing just like that A TEAM - but cast your minds back a few weeks and "some" people were moaning on here about only being "one dimensional" with no "plan B" and was Cory the one to lead us - also a number of comments re number of imports - FWIW I would rather have the team now and possibly lose a few games than risk adding to the team with someone who could disrupt the flow - Ling was a risk (paying off) Hardy was a risk (looks like he is paying off) Good job we did not go for Lawrence.
I will be surprised if we do not win something this season but I am enjoying watching a TEAM play

[dexter]

Wowsa! Superb result! What a team!

[BigLad]

Awesome stuff

[Deleted]

Does anyone know why their man Lord got annoyed with Swindlehurst after the latters check in the third? It looked pretty clean to me, the Cardiff player simply bounced off and hit the deck but, he made no effort to claim any foul had happened from what I remember.

Thought it might be a case of Lord not seeing the hit properly and thinking it was worse than it was, plus the stress of the game getting to him.

Well done Panthers, I'd really like a repeat performance tonight. Also, it was the first time I've seen the inside of that place and it was via webcast but the atmosphere looked fantastic for both sets of fans, shame I won't get chance to visit before it goes. Oh and I couldn't stop laughing at the conveniently place door to the Devils bench too lol.



Edit: Swindlehurst, not Betteridge.

[allingtonskates]

we did great last night and I really hope for ore of the same. I think Janssen and Hendrikx will want to go again but for me that fight by Janssen and the way he won it tuned us on and we dominated from there on out. Looked like Moran got injured at the end and I hope he is ok and I did see him shaking hands at the end so I think he will be fine and Waugh did a great job standing up for him. All in all I think if we keep playing like that we will win the league this year and hopefully this is the start of something new instead of playing poor but winning and turning it into playing great and smashing them. plus lots of people say that's the hardest place to go to and before this win us and braehead were the only teams to take a point out of their arena and we broke their streak just like we did to Edinburgh.  

[voth26]

A good win for you guys last night, for me the game was pretty even up to the end 2nd period. Who ever scored first in the 3rd would gain the momentum and unfortunately for us it was you, although I'm sure you will admit it was a soft goal which seemed to affect Bowns!!, but credit to the panthers you pushed on and really began to take control scoring a sh goal. Hogarth has to be the worst ref in the league as he left both teams bemused by his calls and non calls on each team. One question I have and that is why does Janssen feel the need to continue to punch players to the back of the head once they have hit the ice?. Any how's a good win for you and hopefully it will give the Devils a kick up the backside. The league is going to be interesting for the rest of the season for sure.

[Deleted]

Nov 29, 2015 18:00:24 GMT voth26 said:

A good win for you guys last night, for me the game was pretty even up to the end 2nd period. Who ever scored first in the 3rd would gain the momentum and unfortunately for us it was you, although I'm sure you will admit it was a soft goal which seemed to affect Bowns!!, but credit to the panthers you pushed on and really began to take control scoring a sh goal. Hogarth has to be the worst ref in the league as he left both teams bemused by his calls and non calls on each team. One question I have and that is why does Janssen feel the need to continue to punch players to the back of the head once they have hit the ice?. Any how's a good win for you and hopefully it will give the Devils a kick up the backside. The league is going to be interesting for the rest of the season for sure.

Completely disagree on Hogarth. He reffed that game almost flawlessly in my eyes. I'm no longer wanting Darnell and Hicks, quite frankly they can stay in Denmark. Hogarth is one quality up and coming referee and he has had some very extreme situations to deal with including the Grimaldi incident (which he called the penalties spot on) and the Edinburgh extra man/last min equaliser last weekend. I don't care about the "ooh that was a trip" penalties as long as they get the big decisions right and he did last night. No goal, net was definitely off its moorings. And Marsh deserved the match penalty for his check to the head.

[Dan]

Nov 28, 2015 22:32:02 GMT iginla said:

Yes I'm here Pantherman66.
That was a great win tonight at the BBT,the best of the season so far,but if you look i said it was tomorrow's Steelers game that worried me !

I have said before that this team has just "got it" and I haven't changed my mind yet,it's the injuries that concern me.

Interesting. What's your view on the import level?

[fishman]

[iginla]

On the import level Dan ?

Well I'm happy we now have 13,but i'm not happy they didn't bring in a temporary replacement for Schultz bearing in mind how long he was always going to be out......and he isn't coming back any time soon either.

[gazzathedevil]

Well myself and the hockey guys said that you were the best team we had seen in the BBT before Saturday evening and now with a fully fit Ling I felt you went up another level. If you guys can pick up the required amount of points on your big road trips in December I think you will be in a very good position to push on for the title in the new year.

Thank you to all Panthers fans for the kind words about the Webcast this weekend as well, it was myself and John Donovan on commentary and we received a lot of good feedback so we glad you felt you didn't waste your money. If you have any suggestions on how we can improve please do not hesitate to contact us though, we know we aren't the finished article and we don't take criticism personally

[Pies]

Dec 1, 2015 14:37:39 GMT gazzathedevil said:

Well myself and the hockey guys said that you were the best team we had seen in the BBT before Saturday evening and now with a fully fit Ling I felt you went up another level. If you guys can pick up the required amount of points on your big road trips in December I think you will be in a very good position to push on for the title in the new year.

Thank you to all Panthers fans for the kind words about the Webcast this weekend as well, it was myself and John Donovan on commentary and we received a lot of good feedback so we glad you felt you didn't waste your money. If you have any suggestions on how we can improve please do not hesitate to contact us though, we know we aren't the finished article and we don't take criticism personally

Only slight criticisms I have were that you got the fact we were away the next night wrong since we played at home. And I would like to hear how much time is left a little bit more often but that's just me personally! Other than that, very easy to follow

[gazzathedevil]

Dec 1, 2015 16:10:04 GMT Pies said:

Only slight criticisms I have were that you got the fact we were away the next night wrong since we played at home. And I would like to hear how much time is left a little bit more often but that's just me personally! Other than that, very easy to follow
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Yeah I was disappointed in myself i got the venue wrong! Twitter put me right as soon as the broadcast finished. I just had it in my head you guys were not at the NIC again for a while. So yes big apologies for that one.

At present there is work being done to try and get a clock on the screen, it's definitely on the to do list I've been told. Until we get it on the screen we will try and up the mentions to keep people informed