The Cat's Whiskers - Cold Introduction

[Adam]

Jan 18, 2010 23:22:24 GMT Jono Bullard said:

I take a look at the next crucial eight games will define the Panthers season.

Eight Games

Noticed this jono..

"I won’t make predictions, however if we are to achieve the Holy Grail of a league title then we have to at the very least win five of the seven league games, preferably all seven, but with the Giants and Blaze games being away from home is going to be a major ask, especially when you consider that in four EIHL away games against the Blaze & Giants, we have won only once."

We haven't one any of the league games mate. The one we won at Coventry was in the Challenge Cup.

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Congratulations Adam, you spotted the deliberate mistake and win tonight's star prize, a years subscription to TCW ;D

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Jay Courtney interviews Panthers forward Marc Levers

Marc Levers Interview

[Shorty]

Good stuff.

Props to Jay.

[sanjosefan]

Jan 21, 2010 20:17:50 GMT Shorty said:

Good stuff.

Props to Jay.

Cheers buddy

[The Flying Shirt]

Great interview and very interesting.

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My preview of both huge Panthers games this weekend.

Weekend Preview

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Jay Courtney spoke to Belfast Giants forward Colin Shields:

Colin Shields Interview

[pantherinmanc]

Great piece, very well written I must say. Cheers.

[texpef]

Just the single mistake as far as i can tell!!!

[pantherdman]

Trying to think of some Gok related chants for him in Belfast.

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I take a look at the title run in for all three contenders.

The Title Run In

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Devils v Panthers 1st leg preview:

CC Final 1st leg preview

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News of a temporary solution for the Yes/No/Don't Know project

Yes Project has temporary solution

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After a trip to see a couple of DEL games in Cologne and Dusselsorf, I've written on The Cat's Whiskers about how the game is different over there, and how the Panthers/Steelers rivalry can't really be described as the biggest in Europe.

The Biggest Rivalry in Europe?

[bill238]

Mar 11, 2010 23:05:07 GMT Jono Bullard said:

After a trip to see a couple of DEL games in Cologne and Dusselsorf, I've written on The Cat's Whiskers about how the game is different over there, and how the Panthers/Steelers rivalry can't really be described as the biggest in Europe.

The Biggest Rivalry in Europe?

Great read and extremely interesting.

[Shaggy]

Good bit of writing there, Jono...

And it's not just Germany, neither. Supporting GB at the Worlds in Slovenia in 2007, I saw they needed armed police to keep apart fans of rival club teams - all of whom were supposedly there supporting the national team, but seemed more interested in hostilities between themselves!
And don't even mention the Croatian fans back in 2003... that was scary. The only thing that seemed to be stopping some of them going to war with each other was their mutual hatred of us!

British ice hockey and its fans have a long way to go before even beginning to approach European fans for intensity.

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I went to see a SEL game back in 2003 between Jonkoping and HV71, terraces behind each goal, flares, they pretty much hated each other.

[Nottingham Lions]

I saw the World Champs in Germany in 2001, we were based in Cologne and saw the Germans reach the Quarter Finals. The atmosphere was like nothing I've experienced (and I've been to a Maple Leafs vs. Canadiens game and that was pretty intense!)

The German fans were awesome, didn't stop chanting, singing and drumming from the second they got in the arena until well after the game ended!

I'd love to see a DEL game in Cologne!

[buzz]

I was at one of the games in the 2006 Czech play off finals between Sparta and Slavia Prague. There were 15,000 fans, sparklers, flares, cat calls, chanting, the lot - they did not get along.

I know a lot of hockey fans don't like football, but this was like the best kind of football atmosphere - really intense, but I didn't find it threatening (mind you, I couldn't understand what they were shouting at each other!).

IMHO, it was a bigger rivalry than Panthers v Steelers.

[bill238]

Article on how the Cologne sharks are on the verge of not being a team

www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/article/save-the-sharks.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=955&cHash=a88f681d6c

Also after that sellout game of 18,500 fans you went to Jono, the next game only had a attendance of 6,983 so I can see why they are in so much debt. Actually thinking about it they are in a very similar position to portsmouth

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Just like last year, we're offering free T-Shirt designs for the play-offs. Just click, print and then iron on a plain T-Shirt.

Five designs are on the link below, hopefully more will follow

Play-off T-Shirt designs

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The Cat's Whiskers preview of all four quarter finals

Play Off 1/4 finals preview

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The Cat's Whiskers Review of the Play-Off Weekend.

The Weekend That Was

If you're still depressed at our showing on Saturday, you can always have a laugh at the Steelers expense ;D

Sheffield Steelers Playoff EP

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If you'd like to re-live some of the games this season (in text form!) all 63 games that were covered by TCW Live have been put in one place. Click on the link below and choose the game where you'd like to see my awful spelling mistakes once again!

TCW Live 2009/10 Season Archive

For those who haven't seen it, Paul, Iain and myself have reviewed Panthers season and each individual player on the link below.

2009/10 Panthers season review

And finally The Cat's Whiskers opinion on all the re-signings so far are on the below links.

Neilson returns
Galbraith returns
Clarke, Levers & Meyers return
Lee returns
KSP returns