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Post by notts1999 on Jul 24, 2024 15:02:32 GMT
Also hearing
Ryan Bednard potentially both signing?
With Luca Sheldon being re signed as well
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Post by shinobi on Jul 24, 2024 15:06:49 GMT
LaFontaine would be a nice signing.
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Post by rexkramer on Jul 24, 2024 17:01:42 GMT
Also hearing Ryan Bednard potentially both signing? With Luca Sheldon being re signed as well Correct on Bednard. If Lafontaine is the other import nettie then I'm struggling to see the obvious starter.
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Post by awooga on Jul 24, 2024 17:26:43 GMT
Hunter Vorva confirmed as the other.
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Post by blackandgold73 on Jul 24, 2024 17:55:26 GMT
Our new goalie: Jack Lafontaine Looks like someone sadly led you up the garden path with that one.
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Post by bobness on Jul 28, 2024 16:55:25 GMT
The organisation has been "tight as" this year, and the rumour mill all but becalmed. Good.
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Post by EMB on Aug 1, 2024 10:36:17 GMT
Again I wonder if we will get our weekly fix of announcements either today or tomorrow? I did actually wonder if Danny would bring anyone from Coventry with him? I thought up until the Fife announcement last night that Curran might follow. Do we still have 2 D-men and 1 forward to sign?
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Post by rexkramer on Aug 1, 2024 10:44:44 GMT
I'm still convinced that Norrish will return.
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Post by Joe on Aug 1, 2024 11:31:13 GMT
Again I wonder if we will get our weekly fix of announcements either today or tomorrow? I did actually wonder if Danny would bring anyone from Coventry with him? I thought up until the Fife announcement last night that Curran might follow. Do we still have 2 D-men and 1 forward to sign? Thing is I could see Danny bringing a couple of players with him if he was doing recruitment by himself but he’s the one helping Omar so unless Pacha was interested in them before hiring Danny then I can’t really see us signing any
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Post by EMB on Aug 1, 2024 12:35:40 GMT
Again I wonder if we will get our weekly fix of announcements either today or tomorrow? I did actually wonder if Danny would bring anyone from Coventry with him? I thought up until the Fife announcement last night that Curran might follow. Do we still have 2 D-men and 1 forward to sign? Thing is I could see Danny bringing a couple of players with him if he was doing recruitment by himself but he’s the one helping Omar so unless Pacha was interested in them before hiring Danny then I can’t really see us signing any Think I'm still expecting to see a big nasty D man who controls the blue line, abit like Beckett did. Danny always puts together a feisty team but as you say it depends how much clout he has with Pacha. You have to expect everyone to be signed now as they should be arriving in a couple of weeks, just drip feeding them out as was confirmed at the Q&A it was an Elite league decision.
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Post by bobness on Aug 1, 2024 16:53:20 GMT
I'm still convinced that Norrish will return. You could perhaps do worse. Logged big minutes last year, looked good until the whole team started to struggle. He had a pretty average season here before, he looks better now, and wore the C too.
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Post by notts1999 on Aug 1, 2024 17:34:26 GMT
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Post by rexkramer on Aug 1, 2024 17:38:53 GMT
Don't we need a forward who shoots left?
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Post by notts1999 on Aug 1, 2024 17:39:49 GMT
Don't we need a forward who shoots left? No clue, thought we needed another top line RW tbh
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Post by Joe on Aug 1, 2024 19:02:46 GMT
Forward wise I think it’s difficult to predict the quality of our last RW as we’ve got Roy, Henbrant and Betteridge who are most likely playing on that side so far but if those dmen are true then I’d say we look a little unbalanced in terms of quality. Also it would make Spencer and Tetlow our most experienced dmen at 27 and 26 which could be a big issue
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Post by pantherlee on Aug 1, 2024 19:52:58 GMT
Well let’s just hope you’re wrong as none of them overly inspiring. Penner especially looks like he doesn’t belong anywhere where a team with title aspirations. We’ve got one bottom line import forward. We don’t need another. Berry and Wells were also part of very poor teams last season. Steelers of DEL2 finished bottom and Iowa finished with second least points across ECHL
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Post by TjPanther on Aug 1, 2024 20:09:57 GMT
I’d be very underwhelmed if they were our final signings. Ideally you want your final signings/announcements to be a real statement. Similar to AJ last year.
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Post by pantherlee on Aug 1, 2024 20:25:43 GMT
It would also means 4 left shot and 2 right shot defenders
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Post by wgray on Aug 1, 2024 21:19:45 GMT
Let’s hope these rumours are wrong.
With regards to the forward we’ve got left to sign, IMO I’d say for balance we need a RW. We’ve got quality in depth on the LW, I think we need to add it to it on the RW
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Post by bobness on Aug 2, 2024 6:58:32 GMT
Harsh. Not much wrong with any of those 3, IMHO. I would say the top 6 are signed, for starters, with some competition for those slots inherent. I’d be surprised (but happy) if our last forward was a genuine obvious top 6 guy. The two D are fine, good size, decent experience, while still young. Not sure I buy the “but they played on poor teams” bit. I spoke to someone “very” connected with the club the other week and he is being told nothing about signings. It’s a very tight ship this year it seems. As evidenced by the lack of rumours in general and even fewer that turn out to be true. All three could be good tips though, you never know. Anyhoo, time will tell.
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Post by sevcik on Aug 2, 2024 7:16:13 GMT
Yes, let's hope those rumours are wrong. The final 3 imports have been signed for some time, infact were signed well before the two import netminders.
It is interesting to note though that some say we need a right wing (Logan Neilson can apparently both wings). Penner is listed as a RW/C. Penner also played on the same team as Adam Berg last season, scoring almost exactly the same amount of points. Albeit Penner played 22 games more than Berg during the regular season, so there is a connection or at least a coincidence there.
Personally I think we need a higher quality of pkayer for our final import forward slot. Time will tell if we get it.
Playing devils advocate, everyone on here was happy with the signing of Davis Bunz, myself included. Julian Wells career certainly since college is pretty much identical (Wells had a better PPG,in NCAA, Albeit still very low) than Bunz did.
The only difference between the two now is Bunz has seemingly turned into an offensive d man. Whereas Wells seems on paper at least to have remained a defensive defenceman. Maybe Wells is good at that role and hasn't been allowed or wanted to change.
I guess what I'm saying is why wouldn't people be happy if Wells signed when they are happy with Bunz?
Ideally I'd prefer a player with more experience, and having played in better leagues but as stated Wells is a defensive d man and that is something we need.
Tboughts?
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Post by bobness on Aug 2, 2024 8:27:18 GMT
Yes, let's hope those rumours are wrong. The final 3 imports have been signed for some time, infact were signed well before the two import netminders. It is interesting to note though that some say we need a right wing (Logan Neilson can apparently both wings). Penner is listed as a RW/C. Penner also played on the same team as Adam Berg last season, scoring almost exactly the same amount of points. Albeit Penner played 22 games more than Berg during the regular season, so there is a connection or at least a coincidence there. Personally I think we need a higher quality of pkayer for our final import forward slot. Time will tell if we get it. Playing devils advocate, everyone on here was happy with the signing of Davis Bunz, myself included. Julian Wells career certainly since college is pretty much identical (Wells had a better PPG,in NCAA, Albeit still very low) than Bunz did. The only difference between the two now is Bunz has seemingly turned into an offensive d man. Whereas Wells seems on paper at least to have remained a defensive defenceman. Maybe Wells is good at that role and hasn't been allowed or wanted to change. I guess what I'm saying is why wouldn't people be happy if Wells signed when they are happy with Bunz? Ideally I'd prefer a player with more experience, and having played in better leagues but as stated Wells is a defensive d man and that is something we need. Tboughts? With you on Wells all the way. Has more than a whiff of Beckett about him, but perhaps without the high PIMs bit. You can never tell re "mid-tier" forwards until they get here, their roles may have been restricted in NA, and they could blossom over here. Or the opposite, let's be honest. Spencer Naas, for example. Middling, sub-0.5 PPG type ECHL stats. A bit meh, you might say. Last season's league-leading goal scorer. And none of these are even confirmed yet, so at present it's all a bit moo.
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Post by Joe on Aug 2, 2024 10:00:46 GMT
Yes, let's hope those rumours are wrong. The final 3 imports have been signed for some time, infact were signed well before the two import netminders. It is interesting to note though that some say we need a right wing (Logan Neilson can apparently both wings). Penner is listed as a RW/C. Penner also played on the same team as Adam Berg last season, scoring almost exactly the same amount of points. Albeit Penner played 22 games more than Berg during the regular season, so there is a connection or at least a coincidence there. Personally I think we need a higher quality of pkayer for our final import forward slot. Time will tell if we get it. Playing devils advocate, everyone on here was happy with the signing of Davis Bunz, myself included. Julian Wells career certainly since college is pretty much identical (Wells had a better PPG,in NCAA, Albeit still very low) than Bunz did. The only difference between the two now is Bunz has seemingly turned into an offensive d man. Whereas Wells seems on paper at least to have remained a defensive defenceman. Maybe Wells is good at that role and hasn't been allowed or wanted to change. I guess what I'm saying is why wouldn't people be happy if Wells signed when they are happy with Bunz? Ideally I'd prefer a player with more experience, and having played in better leagues but as stated Wells is a defensive d man and that is something we need. Tboughts? I think the difference between Bunz and the two rumoured players is that we can see the positives in Bunz’ game, whereas on the face of it Wells and Berry don’t really seem to add to the areas in which we’re lacking
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Post by bobness on Aug 2, 2024 12:31:37 GMT
Yes, let's hope those rumours are wrong. The final 3 imports have been signed for some time, infact were signed well before the two import netminders. It is interesting to note though that some say we need a right wing (Logan Neilson can apparently both wings). Penner is listed as a RW/C. Penner also played on the same team as Adam Berg last season, scoring almost exactly the same amount of points. Albeit Penner played 22 games more than Berg during the regular season, so there is a connection or at least a coincidence there. Personally I think we need a higher quality of pkayer for our final import forward slot. Time will tell if we get it. Playing devils advocate, everyone on here was happy with the signing of Davis Bunz, myself included. Julian Wells career certainly since college is pretty much identical (Wells had a better PPG,in NCAA, Albeit still very low) than Bunz did. The only difference between the two now is Bunz has seemingly turned into an offensive d man. Whereas Wells seems on paper at least to have remained a defensive defenceman. Maybe Wells is good at that role and hasn't been allowed or wanted to change. I guess what I'm saying is why wouldn't people be happy if Wells signed when they are happy with Bunz? Ideally I'd prefer a player with more experience, and having played in better leagues but as stated Wells is a defensive d man and that is something we need. Tboughts? I think the difference between Bunz and the two rumoured players is that we can see the positives in Bunz’ game, whereas on the face of it Wells and Berry don’t really seem to add to the areas in which we’re lacking Fair point, but I'm not sure how anyone can "see" that, except by looking at a website, which is a start, but by no means the whole story.
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Post by Yotes on Aug 2, 2024 15:00:08 GMT
Penner's got an impressive ironman streak on the go, 3 years without missing a game by the look of it.
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