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Post by Yotes on Nov 20, 2016 20:01:01 GMT
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Post by John Casey on Nov 20, 2016 21:05:25 GMT
Just tell the team that they are playing European opposition, that should see us win. In all seriousness it will be nice to put in a performance here especially since our last 2 games at home against Belfast wasn't exactly glorious.
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Post by Shaggy on Nov 21, 2016 0:04:11 GMT
Looks like the Giants are definitely going to be down at least one player on Friday... Rutherford was apparently stretchered off the ice at Sheffield tonight after getting clobbered by Desbiens... taken off with neck support. The only accounts I've seen so far are from Sheffield fans, so may or may not be somewhat biased... apparently Rutherford checked a Sheffield player in the head and Desbiens came in to clobber him. Rutherford went down and didn't come up again... accounts appear to differ as to why - some are saying that he hit his head on the ice, others are saying that it's the fault of other Giants players for piling on top!   According to them, Desbiens shouldn't get more than a 2min roughing minor (he got 5+G) and everything was Belfast's fault... hmmm... Whatever the rights or wrongs... it surely would be a miracle if he ices for Belfast on Friday. |
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Post by PantherG on Nov 21, 2016 0:12:00 GMT
Looks like the Giants are definitely going to be down at least one player on Friday... Rutherford was apparently stretchered off the ice at Sheffield tonight after getting clobbered by Desbiens... taken off with neck support. The only accounts I've seen so far are from Sheffield fans, so may or may not be somewhat biased... apparently Rutherford checked a Sheffield player in the head and Desbiens came in to clobber him. Rutherford went down and didn't come up again... accounts appear to differ as to why - some are saying that he hit his head on the ice, others are saying that it's the fault of other Giants players for piling on top! According to them, Desbiens shouldn't get more than a 2min roughing minor (he got 5+G) and everything was Belfast's fault... hmmm... Whatever the rights or wrongs... it surely would be a miracle if he ices for Belfast on Friday. I watched the video, Rutherford gave a really bad blindside check to a Shuff players head, who went down. Desbiens came over and punched him , with gloves and Rutherford went to the ground, that caused a few Belfast players and linos to get involved and they kinda fell on Rutherford. Apparently the Shuff player is concussed. |
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Post by PantherG on Nov 21, 2016 0:13:11 GMT
We will be down more than a few for this....
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Post by Rob Scott on Nov 21, 2016 0:28:53 GMT
Never mind. It's only the league. Top 8 will do. Just make sure we're at full strength in January.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 8:38:10 GMT
Normal service resumes here....I'm glad I won't be there to witness it
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Post by Yotes on Nov 21, 2016 10:37:57 GMT
I can't see us losing 3 times in a row, at home, to a fairly average Belfast side. Panthers to win 4-2.
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Post by thebestpanthers on Nov 21, 2016 10:52:14 GMT
I can't see us losing 3 times in a row, at home, to a fairly average Belfast side. Panthers to win 4-2. Thanks Yotes - you really know how to curse a game - it will depend on who we have on the ice, and to a lesser degree, who they have, 4 point week-end will be good, but it this moment will settle for three |
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Post by Yotes on Nov 21, 2016 14:37:46 GMT
So long as we don't let whatever line Forney is on get going, they look almost as toothless as we do. I don't think a huge amount of their goalie tandem, or portions of their defence (Nickerson, Martinelli, Quesnele) either. They'll give us plenty of chances.
We will win. I'm more concerned about Fife.
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Post by kezypanther on Nov 21, 2016 14:39:41 GMT
we have already lost to them twice here. they are our bogey team at home and wouldn't put it past them to do it again. I have no hope.
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Post by endisforever91 on Nov 23, 2016 19:09:37 GMT
Rutherford gets 2 games for his check to the head in Sheffield and will miss this game and the Storm game the night after.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2016 19:27:57 GMT
He ll be out anyway as he's injured now
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Post by Yotes on Nov 23, 2016 20:05:26 GMT
Presumably they have to play an import short though, if they have spares.
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Post by Shaggy on Nov 23, 2016 20:43:05 GMT
Rutherford gets 2 games for his check to the head in Sheffield and will miss this game and the Storm game the night after. So that was the muffled distant explosion I heard earlier... must have been the inmates of SquealBleat combusting en masse! From what I hear, the only disagreement over there was whether Rutherford should be shot or hanged. Cue the "DOPS conspiring against Sheffield" rants? Wonder if anyone is going to bring Neil Black or Gary Moran into this... ;-) |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2016 21:07:01 GMT
To be fair he deserved a lot more than two games for that check. I would have thought at least four games.
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Post by PantherG on Nov 23, 2016 22:22:05 GMT
To be fair he deserved a lot more than two games for that check. I would have thought at least four games. As Fitzgerald deserved far more for his check on Stewart, didnt hear cries out of Shuff when that ban was delivered. |
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Post by wgray on Nov 24, 2016 2:32:13 GMT
Let's be honest, DOPS are weak is wee wee. To say there is so much concern around concussion in contact sports at the minute, the pathetic bans that they have issued for checking to the head does nothing to make players even think twice about controlling their checks, the length of the ban never equates to the time that the injured player is out for. They set the precedent last season with hit on Brad Moran and nothing has changed. It's embarrassing and ridicules what they are supposed to stand for
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Post by wasteoftime on Nov 24, 2016 6:19:47 GMT
Wait till a Panthers player does it.
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Post by Shorty on Nov 24, 2016 11:07:25 GMT
Shultz back for this.
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Post by voth26 on Nov 24, 2016 12:15:09 GMT
To be fair he deserved a lot more than two games for that check. I would have thought at least four games. Yet Cowick gets 6 games for abuse of an offical, which is clearly worse than a blindside hit to the head!! |
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Post by EMB on Nov 24, 2016 12:38:11 GMT
You'll probably find that Hagos is out longer than the Rutherford ban, abit like when Brad Moran was injured. Its quite frightening just how many players in our league are suffering from concussion let alone the ones we have in our team.
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Post by Yotes on Nov 24, 2016 12:39:08 GMT
To be fair he deserved a lot more than two games for that check. I would have thought at least four games. Yet Cowick gets 6 games for abuse of an offical, which is clearly worse than a blindside hit to the head!! Cowick got what he deserved for that. The officials must be sacrosanct. |
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Post by shmyrohdear on Nov 25, 2016 12:49:53 GMT
At least four games? Not a chance, even the NHL DOPS wouldn't give him that. No history if hits in that nature so it was never getting more than two, Desbiens deserves the same.
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Post by pingchowchi on Nov 25, 2016 13:00:50 GMT
To be fair he deserved a lot more than two games for that check. I would have thought at least four games. Yet Cowick gets 6 games for abuse of an offical, which is clearly worse than a blindside hit to the head!! It is worse. |
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According to them, Desbiens shouldn't get more than a 2min roughing minor (he got 5+G) and everything was Belfast's fault... hmmm...
