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Post by bobdee on Feb 14, 2019 10:29:31 GMT
DOPS credibility was on the line and they failed miserably. They paid no attention to Byers getting in amongst the flyers' players and the consequent charge down the ice of the Storm players. Should they actually look at the video with an unbiased view Stoflet was punched by a Storm player to which he reacted. How did the Storm player not get punished. D in DOPS stands for disgraceful.
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ronniemac
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Post by ronniemac on Feb 14, 2019 11:48:06 GMT
How did the Storm player holding Moore (think it was Balmer) not get a penalty allowing Springer to take his sucker punches?
Sam Zajac (Whitley Bay Dman with EIHL pedigree and Frank's son Liam Morris sign for Storm.
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Post by zamboni on Feb 14, 2019 12:39:05 GMT
Finnerty chaired the DOPS panel with some of Storm players It’s an absolute joke hope we appeal If Stoflet is concise also then he wouldn’t be playing anyway Need to bring in reinforcements
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Post by niall on Feb 14, 2019 15:27:35 GMT
I expected Stoflet to get a ban. I expected it to be questioned that Fife Flyers have the practice of doing the post-match presentations at opposite ends to where the respective teams do the pre-match warm-ups. However, the rest of the DOPS review is a joke. Byers started the confrontation and got no punishment. Every other Storm player skating the length of the ice to join the confrontation was ignored. Suggesting that this incident was unprecedented when Storm were the aggressors in a similar incident against Guildford earlier in the season was odd. Finnerty not being responsible for his team's actions makes no sense. He put together that team of big, physical players including a few out and out goons. Incidents like this are largely down to his recruitment policy.
It leaves a bad taste in the mouth that a team like Manchester can get away so lightly in such an incident and a non-physical team like Fife get punished equally or in Stoflet's case, more heavily punished. It is debatable if Stoflet threw the first punch in the confrontation and is perhaps not even relevant in the circumstances.
We got the win but it could turn out to be a costly night for us. Aarssen is potentially out for the season. Hopefully Crowder and Stoflet won't be out for so long but you never know with concussion issues. Even if we get a player in by the deadline, we will have to ice with a maximum of 13 imports for the next 6 games due to Stoflet's suspension. Due to injuries, we struggled towards the end of last season and in to the play-offs. We could be looking at a similar situation this season.
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Post by tackleberry on Feb 14, 2019 15:36:13 GMT
That is just embarrassing! how on earth can they give Stoflet who is in his own end 6 games, yet Springer skates the length of the ice, sucker punches a defenceless opponent 3 times, is a repeat offender and only gets 5 games? Why are we getting a £3000 fine when we were lined up in the correct area for the MOM awards? I’m sorry but DOPS has lost what little credibility it had left. I’m sure everyone connected with the club will be absolutely furious with this and justifiably so, absolutely shocking!
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Post by ranastella on Feb 14, 2019 15:44:33 GMT
More than ever we need a precence on the ice. Not a goon. 6.6`250 lb of meanness. A guy that one glare at there bench and they know not to mess. DOPS useless. Police it with a big SOB.
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ronniemac
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Post by ronniemac on Feb 14, 2019 17:40:32 GMT
Todd broke his own mould with Matt Nickerson and won't go down that route again, he is happy building a team of clones of himself hoping that referees will look after his players ...... that will not happen if the horse has bolted first.
This result is a kick in the gonaads to Fife and whilst Storm have picked up some suspensions they must be mightily relieved, Finnerty escapes without a mention and wasted no time in bringing in replacements meanwhile Fife are down 2 men due to injury (apart from Stoflet) both with no call on the play that was in clear sight of the referee, not even the crowd roars inspired them to do the right thing, one by Byers is referred to DOPS yet is less punished than other blind side hits that have happened ...... you could not make this up ....... a joke.
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Post by boschman76 on Feb 14, 2019 18:12:01 GMT
This does not surprise me in the slightest what does though is the furore about the storm and the refs. Anyone who has watched the eihl since we entered the league cannot be surprised by how a finnerty coached team will play it will be physical and pushed to the limits of what is legal and anyone who has watched hockey for long enough will know how hopeless and inept the refs are. But the point that seems to be getting missed is the fact that not one of our players felt the need to seek retribution during the game for the cheap shots on 2 of there team mates by dropping the gloves against the perpetrators of the said cheap shots I'm sure I can't be alone in thinking that if the storm had done this against any other side in the league swift justice would have been carried out whereas we just seem to accept it
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Post by bobdee on Feb 14, 2019 18:36:55 GMT
I agree that not having an enforcer causes us problems, but that has nothing to do with a governing body for standards being so totally wrong and biased.
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Post by boschman76 on Feb 14, 2019 18:42:34 GMT
But we shouldn't be surprised it's the same every time when it involves fife
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Post by bobdee on Feb 14, 2019 18:56:58 GMT
Did the EIHL not bend over backwards to keep Manchester in the league in the past. If so they are not going to let them down now are they?
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Post by gscoles65 on Feb 14, 2019 19:00:36 GMT
There is no doubt in my mind that Todd and co invite these situations by refusing to sign a player that can protect and deter. When Matt was here there were very little cheap shots resulting in injury, Matt was heavily penalised by DOPS to try and stamp out the situation the Flyers find themselves in obviously didn’t work.
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Post by boschman76 on Feb 14, 2019 19:06:48 GMT
No they probably won't but as I already said why all the furore about how the storm play its not like we haven't seen it all before with them and the clan when finnerty was there so it shouldn't be unexpected finnertys teams put me in mind off the old racers sides of the 80s and 90s they played physical and took the laws of the game to the very edge and sometimes over the edge
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Post by gscoles65 on Feb 14, 2019 19:14:45 GMT
No they probably won't but as I already said why all the furore about how the storm play its not like we haven't seen it all before with them and the clan when finnerty was there so it shouldn't be unexpected finnertys teams put me in mind off the old racers sides of the 80s and 90s they played physical and took the laws of the game to the very edge and sometimes over the edge That’s my point most of the other teams , the ones that are serious about the league and want to win have an element of toughness to combat teams like Manchester.
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Post by boschman76 on Feb 14, 2019 19:43:57 GMT
I'd say every other team has a couple of guys like that
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