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Post by iginla on Apr 11, 2021 16:39:00 GMT
I’ve been asleep for a couple of hours. What happened, have we lost again ? We? Pmsl. Good spot Jord... it should have said “they”. 🤣🤣
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Post by iginla on Apr 11, 2021 16:45:02 GMT
Bet Brendan Ellis will love Panthers match report description of his injury. “A delay while a large amount of claret was cleared off the ice”.
Jeez come on Gary, surely even you can put it better than that ! 🙈🙄🤣
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Post by bobness on Apr 11, 2021 17:04:26 GMT
“A delay while a large amount of beaujolais nouveau was cleared off the ice”. Fixed it for you. Or does "merlot" work better?
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Post by bobness on Apr 11, 2021 17:33:06 GMT
We had 49 SOG and the Blaze had 23, we had the majority of the puck, but a lot of the time we were kept to the outside. We weren’t quick enough when the puck was put on net and Owen spilt it, then if we did get there first we didn’t show the composure to put it away. The Blaze were the opposite to us, clinical. Two PPG’s and a SHG for them, as always, special teams are so important. Another frustrating game. It's about quality, no quantity. Blaze powerplay vs Panthers showed exactly that. It's not aimed at you, but so much credit was given to Owen (who is a very good goalie, don't get me wrong) when in fact, we are just shooting from the outside with minimal screen. Goalies love a game like that, just a good opportunity to pad their numbers. Also have to remember that once again we are chasing a game after a catastrophic start such that Cov can collapse and look to hit on the stretch. Small sample I know (so far) but Panthers are yet to take a lead into the second period. Scoring first, Panthers are 1 for 5 so far. Their only win has come in the game they scored first in. Some selected individual stats. Cangelosi's face off % is a very impressive 64.7% (surely the best of any team so far?). Ellis and May have 42 shots between them without a goal. Panthers have outshot their opposition by 41 shots in the combined 5 games. Boivin, Domingue and Ellis have scored points in 4 of the 5 games so far. 5 game rolling PP and PK are 2/19 10.5% and 17/21, 81.0%. Not stellar. May leads the team with 5 minors so far. Ellis leads the team with 9 shots taken that were blocked. (Sadly, the league seems to record who took the shot but not who blocked it.) Only 34% of Panthers' shots so far have come from the slot. Again, not stellar. Panthers are spending an average time of 46:48 a game at 5v5, 6:02 on the PP and 6:35 on the PK. Not sure what that proves, but at least I know it...
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Post by The Flying Shirt on Apr 11, 2021 18:12:26 GMT
And the Steelers Storm webcast.... Is down.... 😂😂😂
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Post by Bagheera on Apr 11, 2021 18:24:33 GMT
Sorry to be that misserable guy, but Panthers twitter this evening is exactly the stuff I detest about this club. Terrible on ice performances so whats the response? Ask the fanbase for pictures of pets with Panthers retweeting them all. 100s lapping it up too. I know some arn't taking this thing seriously but come on.
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Post by cooperphil156 on Apr 11, 2021 18:32:31 GMT
Sorry to be that misserable guy, but Panthers twitter this evening is exactly the stuff I detest about this club. Terrible on ice performances so whats the response? Ask the fanbase for pictures of pets with Panthers retweeting them all. 100s lapping it up too. I know some arn't taking this thing seriously but come on. Perhaps a groundhog would be appropriate
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Post by Robbie Nud on Apr 11, 2021 18:37:26 GMT
We have possession and shots but no outcome. Constantly chasing the game from the off, and a lack of energy. We weren’t going to get stud players due to the shortness of the season and budget but there seems a lack of passion from players. Having listened to Wallace’s post game comments he seems lost as to why we are doing badly. Can he not motivate the players? Do they not have confidence in each other and the coach to play well. Why when your NM picks up an injury in warm up do you player fro a period, concede 5 goals so the game is effectively lost before replacing him? We are a team in trouble, probably low morale and I don’t think that Wallace or Doucet have the character to turn that around. And I say that as someone who has watched games, not followed the game on Twitter or the EIHL website and then come on here to gloat how poor they played.
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Post by Bagheera on Apr 11, 2021 18:43:33 GMT
We have possession and shots but no outcome. Constantly chasing the game from the off, and a lack of energy. We weren’t going to get stud players due to the shortness of the season and budget but there seems a lack of passion from players. Having listened to Wallace’s post game comments he seems lost as to why we are doing badly. Can he not motivate the players? Do they not have confidence in each other and the coach to play well. Why when your NM picks up an injury in warm up do you player fro a period, concede 5 goals so the game is effectively lost before replacing him? We are a team in trouble, probably low morale and I don’t think that Wallace or Doucet have the character to turn that around. And I say that as someone who has watched games, not followed the game on Twitter or the EIHL website and then come on here to gloat how poor they played. I agree with all you say pretty much. The only difference being that I think our quality is behind the rest. I simply think we arn't good enough. Other teams, Steelers in particular recruited a better quality with their 8 imports.
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Post by The Flying Shirt on Apr 11, 2021 18:56:53 GMT
We have possession and shots but no outcome. Constantly chasing the game from the off, and a lack of energy. We weren’t going to get stud players due to the shortness of the season and budget but there seems a lack of passion from players. Having listened to Wallace’s post game comments he seems lost as to why we are doing badly. Can he not motivate the players? Do they not have confidence in each other and the coach to play well. Why when your NM picks up an injury in warm up do you player fro a period, concede 5 goals so the game is effectively lost before replacing him? We are a team in trouble, probably low morale and I don’t think that Wallace or Doucet have the character to turn that around. And I say that as someone who has watched games, not followed the game on Twitter or the EIHL website and then come on here to gloat how poor they played. I saw that too and couldn’t help thinking that the injury in warmup was a slip of the tongue or something as I can’t believe he would have risked Bowns when Whistle was there and ready
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Post by wannabe2 on Apr 11, 2021 19:15:47 GMT
We have possession and shots but no outcome. Constantly chasing the game from the off, and a lack of energy. We weren’t going to get stud players due to the shortness of the season and budget but there seems a lack of passion from players. Having listened to Wallace’s post game comments he seems lost as to why we are doing badly. Can he not motivate the players? Do they not have confidence in each other and the coach to play well. Why when your NM picks up an injury in warm up do you player fro a period, concede 5 goals so the game is effectively lost before replacing him? We are a team in trouble, probably low morale and I don’t think that Wallace or Doucet have the character to turn that around. And I say that as someone who has watched games, not followed the game on Twitter or the EIHL website and then come on here to gloat how poor they played. I agree with all you say pretty much. The only difference being that I think our quality is behind the rest. I simply think we arn't good enough. Other teams, Steelers in particular recruited a better quality with their 8 imports. Steelers Brits are a huge difference also unfortunately, put that together with inferior imports and it’s all uphill. Eberle is a player we would all want.
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Post by iginla on Apr 11, 2021 19:22:38 GMT
I agree with all you say pretty much. The only difference being that I think our quality is behind the rest. I simply think we arn't good enough. Other teams, Steelers in particular recruited a better quality with their 8 imports. Steelers Brits are a huge difference also unfortunately, put that together with inferior imports and it’s all uphill. Eberle is a player we would all want. Spot on. Steelers have very few weak looking links in their team, import or Brits, where as Panthers have plenty. Even Manchester have an arguably better Brit pack than Panthers.
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Post by wannabe2 on Apr 11, 2021 19:40:28 GMT
At the moment Storm are matching Steelers for effort, do that and you have a chance, Panthers were certainly lacking in that dept unfortunately. Match them for effort and hit them at every oppurtunity and you have a chance, in fact just keep hitting them.
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Post by The Flying Shirt on Apr 11, 2021 20:04:55 GMT
I’ve been asleep for a couple of hours. What happened, have we lost again ? Gas Guptil 😊
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Post by The Flying Shirt on Apr 11, 2021 20:06:07 GMT
At the moment Storm are matching Steelers for effort, do that and you have a chance, Panthers were certainly lacking in that dept unfortunately. Match them for effort and hit them at every oppurtunity and you have a chance, in fact just keep hitting them. Great game so far but mad penalty to take on the penalty kill there. A real donkey effort
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Post by wannabe2 on Apr 11, 2021 20:13:48 GMT
Not sure about a great game, but a huge improvement on Panthers non effort. A 3rd period bench clearance would be good, but maybe unlikely, would love to see Batch hand Connolly his rump on a plate but that’s hoping for too much. Come on you Storm the 3rd has to be yours.
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Post by wannabe2 on Apr 11, 2021 20:23:01 GMT
Hewitt is playing better than ever.🙈🙈🙈
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Post by iginla on Apr 11, 2021 20:32:25 GMT
Hewitt is playing better than ever.🙈🙈🙈 Sounds like Panthers could have done with him. He might be severely lacking in skill but always plays with great heart and that bulldog spirit.
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Post by wannabe2 on Apr 11, 2021 20:32:53 GMT
6-4 Steelers Storm keeper not great, come on Manchester.
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Post by Yotes on Apr 11, 2021 21:42:14 GMT
I agree with all you say pretty much. The only difference being that I think our quality is behind the rest. I simply think we arn't good enough. Other teams, Steelers in particular recruited a better quality with their 8 imports. In fairness, fairly quick fire recruitment for this was probably always going to be a bit hit and miss. The more I think of the Brit side of it though, I think they could've done a better job there.
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Post by kievthegreat on Apr 11, 2021 23:15:20 GMT
I agree with all you say pretty much. The only difference being that I think our quality is behind the rest. I simply think we arn't good enough. Other teams, Steelers in particular recruited a better quality with their 8 imports. In fairness, fairly quick fire recruitment for this was probably always going to be a bit hit and miss. The more I think of the Brit side of it though, I think they could've done a better job there. We went all in on Bowns. Conceivably, we could have had: Lake or Hammond (2nd Pick) Batch or Davies (7th Pick) The other picks are all close together, but interestingly Plus worth remembering we picked Kieran Brown higher than Steelers picked Churchfield. I think if we didn't trade for Bowns that we may have gone for him as backstop to Whistle. Although the fact is we ended up wasting a pick on him that could have been a higher ranking player than Chamberlain (although I haven't hated him TBF).
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Post by Yotes on Apr 11, 2021 23:50:23 GMT
A couple of picks like that - a decent forward and defenseman IMO - would've made more sense to me than what we did.
Our protected list - especially given the question mark over Perlini's arrival date - looked the weakest of all 4 teams, and our drafting didn't seem to address the holes. We strengthened the area of the list that looked strongest to begin with.
We could've late picked Rebound Murphy, or just trusted Will Kerlin to backup for us.
Brown dropping out didn't help us, but again, #18 for him? Seems a little high for his EIHL career to date.
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Post by kievthegreat on Apr 12, 2021 1:38:46 GMT
Brown dropping out didn't help us, but again, #18 for him? Seems a little high for his EIHL career to date. Always struck me as a "try before you buy" pick. Although Gary burnt that bridge pretty thoroughly I reckon.
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Post by The Flying Shirt on Apr 12, 2021 8:10:48 GMT
In fairness, fairly quick fire recruitment for this was probably always going to be a bit hit and miss. The more I think of the Brit side of it though, I think they could've done a better job there. We went all in on Bowns. Conceivably, we could have had: Lake or Hammond (2nd Pick) Batch or Davies (7th Pick) The other picks are all close together, but interestingly Plus worth remembering we picked Kieran Brown higher than Steelers picked Churchfield. I think if we didn't trade for Bowns that we may have gone for him as backstop to Whistle. Although the fact is we ended up wasting a pick on him that could have been a higher ranking player than Chamberlain (although I haven't hated him TBF). Didn’t Wallace or Gromit say they were recruiting with a view to try out players for the (hoped for) 21/22 season? Just thank goodness Golovkovs wasn’t available. Personally with all four teams having the same budget, signing window and time to put things together I think this mini series is more telling on coaching and recruitment staff than anything else and so far I’m seeing three coaches who I would have loved to see put a season together for the Panthers.
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Post by Jord v4 on Apr 12, 2021 8:14:56 GMT
Sorry to be that misserable guy Competition is high for this title...
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