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Post by Yotes on Jan 10, 2016 20:56:23 GMT
       Game Notes 1-0, 0-2, 3-0. Farmer, Schultz, Lachowicz and Kolnik for Nottingham. Forney and Radja for Belfast. Panthers missing Wiikman and Dimmen. Steve Lee returns from injury. Game SheetBelfast Giants 2 at Nottingham Panthers 4 - Status: Final
Friday, January 15, 2016 - National Ice Centre
Belfast 0 2 0 - 2
Nottingham 1 0 3 - 4
1st Period-1, Nottingham, Farmer 4 (Lawrence, Schmidt), 11:50. Penalties-Keefe Bel (hooking-minor), 8:58; Wilson Bel (slashing-minor), 13:22.
2nd Period-2, Belfast, Forney 14 (Benedict, Walser), 0:16. 3, Belfast, Radja 20 (Forney, Nickerson), 17:09. Penalties-Clarke Not (hooking-minor), 13:23; Walser Bel (tripping-minor), 14:39; Wilson Bel (high sticking-minor), 17:56; Schultz Not (holding opp. stick-minor), 17:56; Forney Bel (hooking-minor), 18:30.
3rd Period-4, Nottingham, Schultz 11 (Lachowicz, Lawrence), 7:34. 5, Nottingham, Lachowicz 4 (Myers, Schmidt), 12:37 (SH). 6, Nottingham, Kolnik 20 (Bohmbach, Moran), 19:54 (EN). Penalties-Clarke Not (check to the head-minor, misconduct - playing), 12:29; Radja Bel (hooking-minor), 14:10; Walser Bel (tripping-minor), 16:13.
Shots on Goal-Belfast 4-12-7-23. Nottingham 11-9-9-29.
Power Play Opportunities-Belfast 0 / 2; Nottingham 0 / 6.
Goalies-Belfast, Murphy 26-13-1 (28 shots-25 saves). Nottingham, Madolora 2-1-0 (23 shots-21 saves).
A-5,151
Referees-Tom Pering (41).
Linesmen-Paul Staniforth (22), Danny Beresford (38). |
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Post by Caesar on Jan 10, 2016 22:27:48 GMT
Absolutely must win game. In regulation.
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Post by kievthegreat on Jan 11, 2016 0:09:35 GMT
Absolutely must win game. In regulation. Screw it lets pretend we still have a chance. Get a 4 point weekend and we can close the gap to Cardiff to 6 points, leapfrog the Giants and draw level with the Squeelers (until Sunday when Squeelers and Cardiff face off and sods law it'll go to OT, but we'll get our game in hand back!). Then reality is a 0 pointer and we can stop with the false hope. |
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Post by Rob Scott on Jan 11, 2016 6:48:11 GMT
Have a season ticket but not going to this.
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Post by rikiwilson92 on Jan 11, 2016 7:28:15 GMT
Looking forward to this one...struggling to call it as our form hasn't been the best at all but sometimes poor form can win
.though saying that I'm sure the Giants are looking to bounce back after their two losses to the steelers....can't call it, but looking forward to it...madolora looks very strong in front of the net to
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Post by EMB on Jan 11, 2016 14:06:47 GMT
Absolutely must win game. In regulation. Shall I hazard a guess for you & Yotes? or shall I just go back to glass half empty...lol A win on Friday night by a couple of goals. |
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Post by panthers4ever on Jan 12, 2016 12:47:30 GMT
Depends which Panthers team turn up if we win or not
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Post by PantherB on Jan 12, 2016 12:51:58 GMT
Would love a regulation win but can't see anything but a Belfast win. Going for a 5-2 win for Belfast. Big weekend, points desperatly needed and with Sheffield on Saturday, it's going to be a tough, rough weekend for the guys.
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Post by PantherG on Jan 13, 2016 0:09:39 GMT
Got a season ticket but will miss this one. Belfast got whipped by Shuff twice in their barn and Walser is under pressure. Two teams struggling so not sure, with our lack of D and the fact Belfast are carrying spare imports I'd give them a slender chance to take the points.
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Post by iginla on Jan 13, 2016 0:29:50 GMT
I'm going for a win in this one,followed by a loss against a rested Sheffield.
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Post by kezypanther on Jan 13, 2016 8:39:05 GMT
Can only see us winning one game this weekend and I think it will be this one. Both are going to be tough and can see us struggling in both.
Oh well.
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Post by joesteeler on Jan 13, 2016 9:09:05 GMT
Absolutely must win game. In regulation. Screw it lets pretend we still have a chance. I'm not sure you are out of this You have 3 games in hand on Cardiff and only 8 points behind. Anyone from 1-5 can win it for me. However I think it will be between Cardiff and Braehead. Maybe Brahead gets the slight advantage of their easier schedule. |
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Post by titch on Jan 13, 2016 10:06:50 GMT
I'm going for a win. Giants are not that great to be fair.
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Post by BigLad on Jan 13, 2016 10:50:17 GMT
Giants have our number. Love a win, but not banking on it.
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Post by Panthers44 on Jan 13, 2016 13:24:51 GMT
POST GAME REPORT
Period 1
Panthers spent the firs 10 mins piling on the pressure and even hit the goal a couple of times. Giants score with their first half chance. Both teams with good chances after that. Giants score a second in the last minute.
Period 2
Both teams try hard but no real chances for either.
Period 3
Giants score with first attack. Crowd BOOS Panthers. Janssen gets firs shift of the game. Kolnik scores with backhander 5 mins left. Panthers new line looking good now. Moran scores with 1 min left. Madolora pulled and Ling send it to overtime.
Overtime
Schmidt and Waugh both get 2 mins for being on the ice all night. Giants get winner on the resulting 5 on 3 powerplay.
Post game reaction
Panthers were unlucky and came up against hot goalie. Fans were great and its yet another record attendance. Neilson says Panthers players have now played on a line with every other player so they should be no problems with the changing of the lines.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2016 18:11:43 GMT
Giants have our number. Love a win, but not banking on it. Do they? I'd say we're fairly even. Every game has been a 1 goal game and we've got 5/8 points whereas Giants have 4/8 in games between us? |
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Post by BigLad on Jan 14, 2016 12:36:14 GMT
Giants have our number. Love a win, but not banking on it. Do they? I'd say we're fairly even. Every game has been a 1 goal game and we've got 5/8 points whereas Giants have 4/8 in games between us? I've seen us lose at home more times to Belfast in the last few years than I have any other team. Even Sheffield. |
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Post by John Casey on Jan 14, 2016 13:17:46 GMT
Seeing how it appears there will be no temp D-man, I would say that our Defence will be in for a very long weekend, Belfast and Sheffield will no doubt take advantage of our currant D-men playing 20+ minutes and they will not let us off the hook like Fife did.
Who knows what will happen if we get another injury to a Defence Man, we'll probably have to put Green on D.
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Post by shmyrohdear on Jan 14, 2016 13:54:54 GMT
Absolutely must win game. In regulation. Screw it lets pretend we still have a chance. Get a 4 point weekend and we can close the gap to Cardiff to 6 points, leapfrog the Giants and draw level with the Squeelers (until Sunday when Squeelers and Cardiff face off and sods law it'll go to OT, but we'll get our game in hand back!). Then reality is a 0 pointer and we can stop with the false hope. Have you even looked at the league table? Or even the run in for the next ten games for all top four teams? We are still very much in the race if we can take points off of these two. Hockey's a funny old sport for ups and downs. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2016 14:30:02 GMT
Seeing how it appears there will be no temp D-man, I would say that our Defence will be in for a very long weekend, Belfast and Sheffield will no doubt take advantage of our currant D-men playing 20+ minutes and they will not let us off the hook like Fife did. Who knows what will happen if we get another injury to a Defence Man, we'll probably have to put Green on D. Now we've got Steve Lee back this weekend we're likely to be playing with a full compliment of 6 defencemen: Swindlehurst - Waugh Lee - Mosey Schmidt - Oakford Now that looks a hell of a lot better with Dimmen in there don't get me wrong, but those 6 are more than capable of dealing with what's coming their way this weekend. Oakford has been outstanding since Lee has been out and more than deserves his place in the top 6 on current form (more so than Lee does if you ask me but this weekend we have little choice in the matter). If these 6 can keep it simple and make good decisions (something which has been a problem all year) I'm fairly confident in our ability to take 3 points at least from this weekend. |
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Post by Rob Scott on Jan 14, 2016 14:37:36 GMT
It's crunch time.
Good seats still available.
Louder the roar, bigger the score.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2016 9:04:02 GMT
Not going to this game and not going to see Clan in the cup, Neilson keeps promising better but over the last 2 months its not been very productive, this pick & mix lines drives me up the wall, I do think it will cost the team and eventually his job as head coach. The odd win will not be enough, just had a quick look at the fixtures, only 6 cross conference games remain out of the 20 games in the league. Did have great hopes for this side with the depth of the team, but with the injuries, not getting in cover and the pick & mix lines, The money I'm saving will be spent wisely, on replacing my golf equipment and a few lessons at least have something to show for my money. The pick and mix lines is a bit odd, mainly because during the grand slam year you knew what lines where going to role out: Benny - Graham - Ling Clarke - Myers - Wilson Lacho - Francis - Galivan Levers What I think Neilson is guilty of is trying to be too clever (can't fault him for wanting to be ahead of the curve and trying something new) but he should have gone back to keeping it simple rather than trying to force this to work after a month or so. Granted losing Schultz & Moran for extended periods of time won't have helped with him finding settled lines though. |
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Post by The Flying Shirt on Jan 15, 2016 9:10:17 GMT
Not going to this game and not going to see Clan in the cup, Neilson keeps promising better but over the last 2 months its not been very productive, this pick & mix lines drives me up the wall, I do think it will cost the team and eventually his job as head coach. The odd win will not be enough, just had a quick look at the fixtures, only 6 cross conference games remain out of the 20 games in the league. Did have great hopes for this side with the depth of the team, but with the injuries, not getting in cover and the pick & mix lines, The money I'm saving will be spent wisely, on replacing my golf equipment and a few lessons at least have something to show for my money. The pick and mix lines is a bit odd, mainly because during the grand slam year you knew what lines where going to role out: Benny - Graham - Ling Clarke - Myers - Wilson Lacho - Francis - Galivan Levers What I think Neilson is guilty of is trying to be too clever (can't fault him for wanting to be ahead of the curve and trying something new) but he should have gone back to keeping it simple rather than trying to force this to work after a month or so. Granted losing Schultz & Moran for extended periods of time won't have helped with him finding settled lines though. A major flaw with this year against the league winning year happened right at the start. The league winning year CN made the brave move of cutting Danny who was by then past his best and that freed up finances but this year went completely the other way and loaded up with Brits and tied his own hands behind his back from day one. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2016 9:23:41 GMT
The pick and mix lines is a bit odd, mainly because during the grand slam year you knew what lines where going to role out: Benny - Graham - Ling Clarke - Myers - Wilson Lacho - Francis - Galivan Levers What I think Neilson is guilty of is trying to be too clever (can't fault him for wanting to be ahead of the curve and trying something new) but he should have gone back to keeping it simple rather than trying to force this to work after a month or so. Granted losing Schultz & Moran for extended periods of time won't have helped with him finding settled lines though. A major flaw with this year against the league winning year happened right at the start. The league winning year CN made the brave move of cutting Danny who was by then past his best and that freed up finances but this year went completely the other way and loaded up with Brits and tied his own hands behind his back from day one. Totally agree, I had no problem with bringing Myers back but Lacho was certainly overkill on the Brit front (I think Corey has been loyal to a fault with him and Lacho has not repaid that loyalty). Also as much as I like Farmer and don't want him playing for anybody else he's always produced when playing with top players (like Goldie in Braehead), so if he's not being used in that fashion he's being wasted in my opinion and we aren't getting value out of him due to the role he's playing this season (not his fault though). I'd wager if you paired him with Lawrence & Ling he'd start to light it up, but whether that happens is another matter entirely. |
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Post by GuinnessMan on Jan 15, 2016 10:42:13 GMT
]A major flaw with this year against the league winning year happened right at the start. The league winning year CN made the brave move of cutting Danny who was by then past his best and that freed up finances but this year went completely the other way and loaded up with Brits and tied his own hands behind his back from day one.[/quote]
It was Neil Black who announced (at last years Play-offs I believe) that we (and Clan) would be going with 9 Brits this year ... way before CN was re-signed. So, if you like, NB tied CNs hands to a large degree in this respect.
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