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Post by tootootrain on Dec 12, 2016 19:03:46 GMT
He's certainly improving. Ironic that Ben Davies scored 1+1, given that general opinion said he wasn't good enough for us. His EIHL career average is 0.45ppg, this season he is (so far) playing well above this average. In a league with little wiggle room to 'grow' players no doubt most are signed on past performances. As for last night's game, interesting and frustrating in equal measures, not least Pering's* poor performance. Most annoying for me was the completely clueless idiot sat behind me in Block 13 who whinged all game and displayed an outstanding level of ignorance to those within earshot. Given it seemed she liked her own voice a great deal, much of that corner must have heard her droning on. (*Conspiracy theorists might like to know that he lives and works in Sheffield... )
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Post by DMS on Dec 12, 2016 19:11:46 GMT
Slight change of topic, but, I thought Ollie played really well last night, especially in the 3rd! He's certainly improving. Ironic that Ben Davies scored 1+1, given that general opinion said he wasn't good enough for us. Lacho as scored 1+1 in a game before and look how he's turned out
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Post by PantherG on Dec 12, 2016 19:21:23 GMT
Ollie and Farmer are two of my favourite players on the team right now. They don't score many goals, but their energy and enthusiasm never seems to wane. They're more important than a lot of people credit them for. Farmer agreed but Betteridge is one I don't understand the hype for. He doesn't do a great deal in his own zone and contributes little on offence. He's keen for sure and likes to throw a hit but isn't progressing at a rate to stay at this level IMO... Especially when he was billed as taking up Myers role! None can be described as 'prolific goal scorers' but compare the 3 guys in their past 3 seasons: Farmer - 110 games with 22G + 42A = 64pts Myers - 112 games with 29G + 34A = 63pts Ollie - 73 games with 3G + 2A = 5pts Ollie is also 5 years younger but by the time Farmer was 20 he had 42pts in the EIHL (80 games with 17G + 25A). Myers was a bit slower at 20 than Farmer - 79 games with 5G + 16A = 21pts. However this included a season with Blaisdell who didn't particular liking icing his Brits much (until the playoffs when he had 10pts in 10 games). I don't think you can compare the Farmer era with today, the standard is much higher now that it was back then, playing with around 10 imports gave the arena teams a huge advantage as they snapped up the best brits and put them on lines with high quality imports, think Lacho and Frances, what a combo. But now in general with more imports the output of most Brits has been impacted, Giants fans were brutal last year about Peacock, but I think this is the price to pay with more imports driving a much higher standard of hockey across the league.
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Post by thebestpanthers on Dec 12, 2016 19:21:43 GMT
He's certainly improving. Ironic that Ben Davies scored 1+1, given that general opinion said he wasn't good enough for us. His EIHL career average is 0.45ppg, this season he is (so far) playing well above this average. In a league with little wiggle room to 'grow' players no doubt most are signed on past performances. As for last night's game, interesting and frustrating in equal measures, not least Pering's* poor performance. Most annoying for me was the completely clueless idiot sat behind me in Block 13 who whinged all game and displayed an outstanding level of ignorance to those within earshot. Given it seemed she liked her own voice a great deal, much of that corner must have heard her droning on. (*Conspiracy theorists might like to know that he lives and works in Sheffield... ) I take it he will be sharing the Christmas games with Darnell then!!
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Post by ted logan on Dec 13, 2016 12:40:44 GMT
Highlights finally up on the OS. Apologies, can't do the clicky linky thing.
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Post by mattscold on Dec 13, 2016 12:46:30 GMT
Highlights finally up on the OS. Apologies, can't do the clicky linky thing. link
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Post by tootootrain on Dec 13, 2016 14:08:04 GMT
It's nice that the crowd getting on the back of Stewart during the Shoot-Out came through on the audio.
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Post by Peacock on Dec 13, 2016 16:28:03 GMT
(*Conspiracy theorists might like to know that he lives and works in Sheffield... ) From what I've read, they seem to have a much bigger issue with him than we do.
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Post by Bagheera on Dec 13, 2016 17:26:36 GMT
Slight change of topic, but, I thought Ollie played really well last night, especially in the 3rd! He's certainly improving. Ironic that Ben Davies scored 1+1, given that general opinion said he wasn't good enough for us. Not intended to shoot you down just going from what I honestly remember. I don't recall many saying he wasn't good enough for us. I thought most wanted to pick him up. Was the main point that he wanted a top 6(2 line) slot on top 6 money? The point was that he wasn't good enough to be a top 6 forward for Panthers. Which still stands. Still a player we could have done with picking up, either as an addition or in place of Lacho. Interesting to note on Sunday that Lacho had clearly been relegated to 10th forward with Ollie having a regular slot on a line. I find it strange it's took Corey so long to work it out myself.
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Post by iginla on Dec 13, 2016 18:51:49 GMT
Davies was good enough,he is a far more effective player than either Lacho or Ollie,therefore he should have had a spot on at least our 3rd line no problem had we signed him. That would have given him very good ice time indeed.
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