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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2018 10:38:35 GMT
What’s Kovacs like I’m not reading or hearing very much about him ? Made some nice plays last night but quiet in comparison to how well the other forwards played
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Post by Jord v4 on Aug 26, 2018 12:10:43 GMT
What’s Kovacs like I’m not reading or hearing very much about him ? Made some nice plays last night but quiet in comparison to how well the other forwards played There you go Iggy, something to be negative about. Happy bank holiday weekend.
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Post by shinobi on Aug 26, 2018 14:29:35 GMT
Didn’t go last night in the end, but what has pleased me most personally regarding player performance reviews, are the platitudes towards Garnett. I was a little concerned with him returning in all honesty given last season’s exploits, but hopefully he carries his play into the regular season.
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Post by Yotes on Aug 26, 2018 15:05:27 GMT
No Rissling or Hughes according to Stef.
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Post by Yotes on Aug 26, 2018 15:21:55 GMT
Gospel in goal (for spik), 1-0 Hurtubise.
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Post by kezypanther on Aug 26, 2018 15:43:52 GMT
End of the first Panthers winning 2-1.
Goals from Hurtubise and Rheault
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Post by wgray on Aug 26, 2018 16:40:29 GMT
Betteridge and Guptil scored to make it 4-1 end of the 2nd. I’ve been very impressed with Ollie and Lacho in this game and all pre-season, brilliant performances.
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Post by Yotes on Aug 26, 2018 18:10:39 GMT
Ended 4-2.
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Post by pantherlee on Aug 26, 2018 18:20:11 GMT
First game I’ve been to and was pretty impressed. Don’t think we really got out of 2nd gear but it was all pretty comfortable. Thought Gospel was outstanding apart from the error for the last goal but otherwise he was faultless. Made some great saves and didn’t give up many rebounds. Rheault was the other stand out for me
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Post by cooperphil156 on Aug 26, 2018 18:21:23 GMT
The Kovacs, Gutpill Hurtubise move for the first goal was breathtaking. For Iginla - Kovacs also showed some good stick skills. The Rheault/ Pither combination looks good and I feel Lacho looks more at home this season. With Risling and Hughes to come in things look promising. Henderson filled in deeper and Tetlow got quite bit of time. Oh and Paws was brilliant!
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Post by spik on Aug 26, 2018 18:48:42 GMT
Out with OLD computer and in with the NEW...So been offline.
v Stavanger Did these players bench? Tetlow Lepine Billingsley Kelsall
v MAC Hazledine Lee Kelsall Doty
Assume they did and both net minders Gospel in first game and Garnett in 2nd sit on bench too?
EDIT: Have all stats for these two games now, thanks.
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Post by bobness on Aug 26, 2018 18:49:17 GMT
Two things are almost totally different to the CN era in the games I've seen that have been a source of frustration to me for years. 1. We have a man screening the netminder on the PP (usually Guptill, it seems) 2. We have little difficulty clearing our own zone when needed.
Lacho looks a changed man.
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Post by Yotes on Aug 26, 2018 18:50:52 GMT
v Stavanger Did these players bench? Tetlow Lepine Billingsley Kelsall Yes, they all definitely played on Saturday.
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Post by Shaggy on Aug 26, 2018 18:51:36 GMT
So that's it for the pre-season... undefeated. And not against wishy-washy opposition neither... Cardiff are never a pushover, Fischtown Pinguins were IMO the toughest opposition of all, and Stavanger were pretty touch as well. MAC Budapest and Dresdener weren't quite up to their standards, but still nothing to sneeze at. And some damned entertaining hockey we've had... To add to my earlier comment:- Game 1 - 5 goals, 5 scorers Game 2 - 6 goals, 5 scorers Game 3 - 7 goals, 7 scorers Game 4 - 2 goals, 2 scorers Game 5 - 5 goals, 4 scorers Game 6 - 4 goals, 4 scorers This is IMO the most important factor that has been shown in the last 3 weekends. The scoring is coming from all over the place... CAUTION : It's only pre-season, we've seen the Panthers play brilliantly against European opposition then fall short domestically, all of our opponents are now going to be fully aware of what we're going to be bringing, etc etc, yadda yadda yadda. HOWEVER - I have to say, I'm genuinely getting pumped up for this season. I'm not as trophy-obsessed as some (I like silverware, don't get me wrong, I like it a lot... but it's not the be-all and end-all for me) so I'm more interested in seeing good hockey... fast, skilled, and preferably with enormous amounts of big (but legal) hits. I'm getting to think that we are going to have plenty of that this season. Whatever happens... I don't think it's going to be boring!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2018 18:57:42 GMT
I think we will be entertaining if nothing else
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Post by sevcik on Aug 26, 2018 19:03:19 GMT
Two things are almost totally different to the CN era in the games I've seen that have been a source of frustration to me for years. 1. We have a man screening the netminder on the PP (usually Guptill, it seems) 2. We have little difficulty clearing our own zone when needed. Lacho looks a changed man. Thought Lacho (along with Gospel) could arguably been man of the match tonight. His work rate and willingness to have the puck is unrecognisable from the player he has been in recent seasons. Amazing how much a new coach.. a more authoritarian coach can affect a players game for the better. Another good team performance. Chernomaz used all his available D + Henderson. Anyone know what's wrong with Hughes & Rissling (who was on the ice for warm up)? Really looking forward to the season proper. Hopefully we will be full strength come Saturday 😊
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Post by Yotes on Aug 26, 2018 19:07:41 GMT
Website says Hughes is ill. Rissling was a precaution.
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Post by The Flying Shirt on Aug 26, 2018 19:15:27 GMT
Two things are almost totally different to the CN era in the games I've seen that have been a source of frustration to me for years. 1. We have a man screening the netminder on the PP (usually Guptill, it seems) 2. We have little difficulty clearing our own zone when needed. Lacho looks a changed man. Thought Lacho (along with Gospel) could arguably been man of the match tonight. His work rate and willingness to have the puck is unrecognisable from the player he has been in recent seasons. Amazing how much a new coach.. a more authoritarian coach can affect a players game for the better. Another good team performance. Chernomaz used all his available D + Henderson. Anyone know what's wrong with Hughes & Rissling (who was on the ice for warm up)? Really looking forward to the season proper. Hopefully we will be full strength come Saturday 😊 Rissling stopped a puck on Saturday
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Post by Pies on Aug 26, 2018 19:26:21 GMT
Well, all things considered, that was a success of a preseason. I only caught the last 3 games but I was impressed.
Gospel has proven he is capable of being a solid enough back up this season. We don’t need to wax lyrical too much about the rest. The real bit starts now.
Credit to the Ownership for putting on a real spectacle of a preseason, even if the pricing was contentious!
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Post by thebestpanthers on Aug 26, 2018 20:01:05 GMT
What’s Kovacs like I’m not reading or hearing very much about him ? I am sure SOMEONE asked the same question about Hurtubise last week - wonder if we are going to work the way through the whole team till we can find the scrapgoat?? - or maybe we give it a rest for a few weeks to see how we get on before gassing anybody - hope springs eternal !!!!!!!!
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Post by iginla on Aug 26, 2018 20:23:19 GMT
What’s Kovacs like I’m not reading or hearing very much about him ? I am sure SOMEONE asked the same question about Hurtubise last week - wonder if we are going to work the way through the whole team till we can find the scrapgoat?? - or maybe we give it a rest for a few weeks to see how we get on before gassing anybody - hope springs eternal !!!!!!!! It was a simple question,why take that attitude ? How about you give it a rest taking exception to the poster when the question was perfectly simple and reasonable. Hurtubise and Kovacs were the two players so far being pretty quiet and not being mentioned by anybody,that’s why i asked. As for a scapegoat,you won’t find me asking for one,all the rest of the players seem to be doing what they should be.
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Post by Shaggy on Aug 26, 2018 20:24:40 GMT
It would be nice to believe that every player on the team will play at 100% all game every game... but it's totally unrealistic. There will be games where one or more players won't be on top form... for any one of a myriad of reasons. The important thing will be that the team as a whole steps up. Saying it yet again - it's early days yet. But so far, the indications are that the team may well do just that. Which is good enough for me...
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Post by Shaggy on Aug 26, 2018 21:41:25 GMT
To add to my earlier comment:- Game 1 - 5 goals, 5 scorers Game 2 - 6 goals, 5 scorers Game 3 - 7 goals, 7 scorers Game 4 - 2 goals, 2 scorers Game 5 - 5 goals, 4 scorers Game 6 - 4 goals, 4 scorers This is IMO the most important factor that has been shown in the last 3 weekends. The scoring is coming from all over the place... As a bit more of an illustration of this... we have scored 29 goals in these 6 pre-season games, coming from 13 different players. The breakdown of that is as follows:- 5 goals - Guptill, Pither 4 goals - Rheault 3 goals - Perlini 2 goals - Billingsley, Hurtibise, Kovacs 1 goal - Betteridge, Biggs, Doty, Kelsall, Lachowicz, Lepine So it's obvious that we have a few players who will score more than most of the others... well, duh! But the sheer amount of 'secondary scoring' is very heartening to see.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2018 5:00:44 GMT
To add to my earlier comment:- Game 1 - 5 goals, 5 scorers Game 2 - 6 goals, 5 scorers Game 3 - 7 goals, 7 scorers Game 4 - 2 goals, 2 scorers Game 5 - 5 goals, 4 scorers Game 6 - 4 goals, 4 scorers This is IMO the most important factor that has been shown in the last 3 weekends. The scoring is coming from all over the place... As a bit more of an illustration of this... we have scored 29 goals in these 6 pre-season games, coming from 13 different players. The breakdown of that is as follows:- 5 goals - Guptill, Pither 4 goals - Rheault 3 goals - Perlini 2 goals - Billingsley, Hurtibise, Kovacs 1 goal - Betteridge, Biggs, Doty, Kelsall, Lachowicz, Lepine So it's obvious that we have a few players who will score more than most of the others... well, duh! But the sheer amount of 'secondary scoring' is very heartening to see. Not to put a downer on anything, but I’m pretty sure we were celebrating our spread-out scoring this time last season as well? Regardless, this team does look the real deal so far.
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Post by Fez on Aug 27, 2018 7:27:32 GMT
First game of the season for me.
Sounds like the performances were better in the other games. I thought they were pretty workmanlike to be honest. As plenty of others have accurately said, it is of course early days.
We should be conscious though of the new coach/manager 'bump' often seen by football teams. Performances often increase markedly over the first couple of games when a new boss comes in as the players up their game to impress the new guy. Performances drop to previous level usually thereafter. Obviously this is not exactly the same scenario here since we are used to have a much higher ratio of player turnover from season to season. Something worth considering though.
The player that stood out for me, and unfortunately not in a positive sense, was Doty. Way off the pace; looking to the bench early in shifts; limited impact all round. Personally don't see what he brings to the party bearing in mind the almost ubiquitous size elsewhere. Would be delighted to be proved wrong but he has the most to do IMO.
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