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Post by Dharcy on Jan 2, 2017 20:18:47 GMT
Well we made hard work of that - think the "B" team turned up - like the Blaze game we should have put this out-of-sight before the end of the 2nd Period - their net-minder deserved the MOM for them, and they looked dangerous on the break - Williams bubble has burst, no points and he made a couple of errors to-night (wondered how long it would be before he became Coryised) - but never mind at least we have been better than other years at Christmas, and we start the year with a win Doubt we can finish Top 3 though. Still, good that we won.
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Post by pantherlee on Jan 2, 2017 20:57:50 GMT
It looked to me like tonight was all about attitude. With it being against the caps with a back-up goalie they just looked like they thought they'd won the game before the puck had even dropped. They looked like they were treating it little more than a training session. What was Spang doing tonight? i swear he thought he was playing a testimonial game he kept constantly parting about with the puck in his own zone and looked like he was coasting. Very lucky that all of this didn't come back to bite us.
Don't think Miika was too impressed either. Shook his head a couple times coming off the ice at the end of the second period.
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Post by EMB on Jan 2, 2017 21:06:08 GMT
Well we made hard work of that - think the "B" team turned up - like the Blaze game we should have put this out-of-sight before the end of the 2nd Period - their net-minder deserved the MOM for them, and they looked dangerous on the break - Williams bubble has burst, no points and he made a couple of errors to-night (wondered how long it would be before he became Coryised) - but never mind at least we have been better than other years at Christmas, and we start the year with a win The guy doesn't score for 1 match and his bubble has burst ? The guy hasn't played for near on 6 weeks then plays 5 in 7 days and your moaning cos he hadn't scored. Jeez I really hope that was a tongue in cheek remark.
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Post by Pies on Jan 2, 2017 21:12:48 GMT
A poor performance but it can be forgiven for 2 reasons: we still won and it was our 7th game since the 23rd. Every team would have given their left arm to have our record over Xmas.
Job was done - it'll be a game not looked back on, much like a lot of other caps games but it's job done
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Post by ted logan on Jan 2, 2017 21:38:36 GMT
Awful game but got the points in RT. Lindhagen deserved his MOM, comfortably our best player.
Very impressive festive period though. Kick on into the new year and keep the momentum going.
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Post by iginla on Jan 2, 2017 21:39:34 GMT
Two points yep,well done Panthers,but that was a bloody pants game. Highlight for me was when i realised......that Edinburghs goalie was young enough to be Dan Greens son !!!!
We want that kid next year. 😉
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Post by cooperphil156 on Jan 2, 2017 21:46:29 GMT
So if we have 2 net minders next season- Pacl and Wiikman - how many games would he play? Would that entice someone like him? I know Shaggy rates Gospel, but he has opted for English league and therefore is likely to get more ice time.
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Post by The Flying Shirt on Jan 2, 2017 21:47:37 GMT
Two points yep,well done Panthers,but that was a bloody pants game. Highlight for me was when i realised......that Edinburghs goalie was young enough to be Dan Greens son !!!! We want that kid next year. 😉 He wont pay to play so little chance of that
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Post by kievthegreat on Jan 2, 2017 21:52:29 GMT
Well we made hard work of that - think the "B" team turned up - like the Blaze game we should have put this out-of-sight before the end of the 2nd Period - their net-minder deserved the MOM for them, and they looked dangerous on the break - Williams bubble has burst, no points and he made a couple of errors to-night (wondered how long it would be before he became Coryised) - but never mind at least we have been better than other years at Christmas, and we start the year with a win Doubt we can finish Top 3 though. Still, good that we won. I think top 3 has to be the target. It's worth noting that Steelers and Giants play each other 4 times this month so one/both of them are going to be dropping points and we've got quite a kind league schedule with Cardiff and Belfast away being our only games against top teams.
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Post by iginla on Jan 2, 2017 21:53:54 GMT
We need a Brit goalie goalie from somewhere though with or without Pacl. It's either that,or you play Wiikman and Pacl but go with an import skater short.....take your choice !
I just thought it was ironic the Caps goalie was literally half Dan Greens age......he's only 17 and stopped 40 shots.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2017 22:04:03 GMT
Green should be nowhere near a club of this size. He's denying the chance of a player like Mccaughlin to have the chance at eihl level. I wish the panthers management would be the foresight in this and no just employ cannon fodder purely because they are married to the bloody NIC chairman's daughter crazy. Only at panthers
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Post by panthers_nyr on Jan 2, 2017 22:07:50 GMT
We looked very complacent and it was a real poor game but another 2 points is all that matters.
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Post by The Flying Shirt on Jan 2, 2017 22:35:31 GMT
Green should be nowhere near a club of this size. He's denying the chance of a player like Mccaughlin to have the chance at eihl level. I wish the panthers management would be the foresight in this and no just employ cannon fodder purely because they are married to the bloody NIC chairman's daughter crazy. Only at panthers Absolute madness. I would rather have Arnold Rimmer (pre hard light conversion) as back-up
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Post by Shaggy on Jan 2, 2017 22:36:24 GMT
Green should be nowhere near a club of this size. He's denying the chance of a player like Mccaughlin to have the chance at eihl level. I wish the panthers management would be the foresight in this and no just employ cannon fodder purely because they are married to the bloody NIC chairman's daughter crazy. Only at panthers How many times does it have to be pointed out before it sinks in? If you want a decent British netminder at the Panthers, you need to ensure that he actually gets some games - and that means more than just "stick him in when the two imports are injured". All we ever hear is "play the best netminder every time" or "I pay to see a proper (meaning import) goalie, not some local kid" or "the Panthers should have two import goalies"... well, we've got that last one now haven't we? Meaning even less chance for a British netminder to get a go. So no British netminder with any decent long-term potential is going to bother with us. Why should he? He's hardly likely to get any starts, and if we have 2 injured import outskaters he's not even going to get that fantastically-valuable clipboard and door-opening experience! "Play only the best every game" OR "get a decent British backup". Pick one - we can't have both.
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Post by The Flying Shirt on Jan 2, 2017 22:42:01 GMT
Green should be nowhere near a club of this size. He's denying the chance of a player like Mccaughlin to have the chance at eihl level. I wish the panthers management would be the foresight in this and no just employ cannon fodder purely because they are married to the bloody NIC chairman's daughter crazy. Only at panthers How many times does it have to be pointed out before it sinks in? If you want a decent British netminder at the Panthers, you need to ensure that he actually gets some games - and that means more than just "stick him in when the two imports are injured". All we ever hear is "play the best netminder every time" or "I pay to see a proper (meaning import) goalie, not some local kid" or "the Panthers should have two import goalies"... well, we've got that last one now haven't we? Meaning even less chance for a British netminder to get a go. So no British netminder with any decent long-term potential is going to bother with us. Why should he? He's hardly likely to get any starts, and if we have 2 injured import outskaters he's not even going to get that fantastically-valuable clipboard and door-opening experience! "Play only the best every game" OR "get a decent British backup". Pick one - we can't have both. That's why I think we will always have two import netminders now.
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Post by kievthegreat on Jan 2, 2017 22:59:09 GMT
Green should be nowhere near a club of this size. He's denying the chance of a player like Mccaughlin to have the chance at eihl level. I wish the panthers management would be the foresight in this and no just employ cannon fodder purely because they are married to the bloody NIC chairman's daughter crazy. Only at panthers Absolute madness. I would rather have Arnold Rimmer (pre hard light conversion) as back-up More reliable than a garden strimmer.
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Post by iginla on Jan 2, 2017 23:03:05 GMT
So basically,if we want a half decent British back up.....we have to ditch the 2nd import goalie ?
Wonder what Pacl was doing back in Czech,can't remember if he was 3rd or 4th choice at his previous club,he certainly wasn't the only back up. There can still be opportunities here for each of 3 netminders. I should think there are still several EIHL Brit back ups this year who haven't seen much if any game ice time yet.
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Post by shinobi on Jan 2, 2017 23:09:47 GMT
Well we made hard work of that - think the "B" team turned up - like the Blaze game we should have put this out-of-sight before the end of the 2nd Period - their net-minder deserved the MOM for them, and they looked dangerous on the break - Williams bubble has burst, no points and he made a couple of errors to-night (wondered how long it would be before he became Coryised) - but never mind at least we have been better than other years at Christmas, and we start the year with a win The guy doesn't score for 1 match and his bubble has burst ? The guy hasn't played for near on 6 weeks then plays 5 in 7 days and your moaning cos he hadn't scored. Jeez I really hope that was a tongue in cheek remark. Tongue in cheek hopefully...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2017 23:26:58 GMT
Green should be nowhere near a club of this size. He's denying the chance of a player like Mccaughlin to have the chance at eihl level. I wish the panthers management would be the foresight in this and no just employ cannon fodder purely because they are married to the bloody NIC chairman's daughter crazy. Only at panthers How many times does it have to be pointed out before it sinks in? If you want a decent British netminder at the Panthers, you need to ensure that he actually gets some games - and that means more than just "stick him in when the two imports are injured". All we ever hear is "play the best netminder every time" or "I pay to see a proper (meaning import) goalie, not some local kid" or "the Panthers should have two import goalies"... well, we've got that last one now haven't we? Meaning even less chance for a British netminder to get a go. So no British netminder with any decent long-term potential is going to bother with us. Why should he? He's hardly likely to get any starts, and if we have 2 injured import outskaters he's not even going to get that fantastically-valuable clipboard and door-opening experience! "Play only the best every game" OR "get a decent British backup". Pick one - we can't have both. You mean like the tonnes of ice time Brad day gets for example. Him and green are light years apart and in age
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Post by Mark on Jan 3, 2017 0:12:20 GMT
It's fair to say that no British back up netminder gets much ice time in the EIHL.
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Post by iginla on Jan 3, 2017 0:33:45 GMT
It's fair to say that no British back up netminder gets much ice time in the EIHL. Exactly. But some people try to say no British netminders will come to Panthers. Doesn't really matter whether they are number two or three,they're still going to get virtually no ice time. If by any chance an import nettie is going to be out injured for any length of time,his team will just bring in another import,as we did with Pacl,so the max games a Brit is going to play is perhaps three or four games over a season.
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Post by Bagheera on Jan 3, 2017 10:25:31 GMT
The reality is we will have to find a new Brit goalie sooner rather than later. Green can't go on forever. I don't think people are asking for the next top prospect, just a capable youngster who can come in when needed, And being younger hopefully at least have some more naturally quicker reactions when coming in cold. We don't need a career back up if we stick with 2 imports. We need a younger guy who can go play some junior games when not required but primerally be a Panther. When he gets to the point he wants a starting birth let him go and get the next one in. No reason not to have a new one every couple of seasons to do that job.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2017 13:19:12 GMT
Simply put this was a job done scenario. Pretty or not winning and moving on to a week of rest (which I'm sure all the players are looking forward to) was the important part. Rest up and gun out firing on all cylinders Saturday against Braehead.
Funny how we all see the game, I (as did the majority it seems) thought the game was a bit meh but the newbie (who is not an uneducated ice hockey fan) who came with us thought everything was great from pre-game intro up to the final hooter and is going to be coming to more games. I envy those with fresh eyes to it all sometimes, easy to lose site of the magic of it all when you've been going for so long.
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Post by PantherB on Jan 3, 2017 14:37:01 GMT
Dreadful performance. Tried too hard to walk the puck into the net instead of taking some pot shots. No disrespect to the kid in net for Caps but he faced mostly shots to the chest and only on maybe 5 occasions did he have other problematic shots.
Schultz was a big annoyance for me last night, pretty much every opportunity he had he attempted to pass it across the crease for an empty net at the back door and when Caps are playing very defensively it isn't going to get results.
If Caps had all their skaters for this one, we'd have lost. We were awful, we robbed Caps of a point or two.
The guys probably were tired but once again, we fail to take our chances against not even the first backup and the game gets decided in the final 10 minutes.
Guys like Lee, Nikiforuk, Farmer, Lawrence, Schultz, Williams, Dimmen, Sertich, Spang.. Pretty much the entire team have a decent enough shot, just send one on net.. The kid is 18, if we pressure him enough, he would crumble as most goaltenders do. We didn't do that, we just messed around with the puck waiting for the net to be wide open.
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