tam
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Post by tam on May 11, 2016 5:04:57 GMT
paquet just announced , wasnt too impressed with him last year myself i hope the next d man is a big guy
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mavor1987
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EIHL Team: Fife Flyers
NHL Team: New Jersey Devil
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Post by mavor1987 on May 11, 2016 5:36:34 GMT
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Post by zamboni on May 11, 2016 6:11:44 GMT
Agreed good signing Thought he did very well in the two QF games against Braehead, would be happy to see Haines Delahey Rioux and a big tough guy of AHL quality to make up our 5 import d. The Club deserve a bit of recognition 11 May 3 good signings declared and no doubt a few surprises to come, I think Cullen will be back also as 1 of the 3 dual nationals
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Post by Dirty Lyle on May 11, 2016 6:30:46 GMT
A good resigning, steady and a little bit of nastiness and sneakiness which is required, would drop the gloves as well if forced even though he knew he would not match up against the league's tough guys. A total team player, who gave his all on the impressive flyers penalty killing unit. People should realise that second half of the season we were one of the top teams in the league, and guys like Paquet were part of the reason.
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Post by redtussell44 on May 11, 2016 7:19:19 GMT
Not too excited about this. He would've been my 4th choice back behind Haines, Delahey and Rioux.
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Post by gscoles65 on May 11, 2016 7:30:07 GMT
Paquet had to drop the gloves to many times last year disrupting his natural game being a none fighter, hopefully he won't have to fill that roll this year allowing him to concentrate more.
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Post by harlan on May 11, 2016 9:39:35 GMT
Well didn't see this coming. Of our 4 import D men he would have been 4th on my list to be invited back.
As gscoles says though he was doing a role he wasn't entirely comfortable with so hopefully that will be addressed. Does have really good skill, if prone to big mistakes but maybe that was because he was thinking of other aspects of the game that he shouldn't have been. He was excellent against Clan in the two play off games and now we have seen that, that should be the level of his game that we should see more often than not
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Post by waterboy on May 11, 2016 10:13:20 GMT
Paquet had to drop the gloves to many times last year disrupting his natural game being a none fighter, hopefully he won't have to fill that roll this year allowing him to concentrate more. He fought 4 times hardly enough to stop his natural game. My first reaction was one of really we brought him back?? He did have a slightly better second half of the season, I do think we could have done better though. He was used on the 3rd pairing with either Kyle or Wando which did give us a balanced defence I suppose. He obviously isn't a fighter or very physical but his PIMS were way to high. He will hopefully be much better this season and stop the silly penalties. Another signing that could be good but it will depend on who we bring in around him. Out of our imports defencemen he was last on my list. Not one I would have brought back, but he is so I hope he plays better in his second season.
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Post by waterboy on May 11, 2016 10:21:40 GMT
Immense! Really??
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Post by xroads90 on May 11, 2016 12:01:02 GMT
The thing about Paquet is that before coming to fife he had only had 3 fights in his entire career, he ended up fighting 4 times whilst here and Hotham, Flemmington and Harper aint't exactly easy fights either, so because of fife's lack of a tough guy one of our fairly good players had to do the fighting against players who are no strangers to a scrap. Paquet is a great skater and matched up with the right line mate could be very dangerous in my opinion.
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Post by johndabomb on May 11, 2016 13:23:13 GMT
I'm glad he's back I think he showed he could be a classy d-man for us and I've got a lot of respect for a non fighter who stood up for the team several times when nobody else wanted to. It's not just the times he did drop the gloves either there were other smaller scuffles too.
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Post by joestoyanovich on May 11, 2016 14:06:06 GMT
The play off win against Braehead gets brought up a lot, sure it was a great win but at the end of the day when the really big game against Panthers came along we got hammered, we hardly had a sniff all game, this really showed how far off the pace we were. Paquet is a decent resigning but we're gonna need some exceptional new signings if we are going to take the next step.
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bbmitch
Rookie
Another shot from the point
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EIHL Team: Fife Flyers
NHL Team: Toronto Maple Leafs
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Post by bbmitch on May 11, 2016 15:13:58 GMT
Watch the two videos of Todd talking about Stockton and Paquet, it certainly looks like that was all done in one shoot. So the signing per week is obviously staged, rather than announcing all the returnees in one big press release. Just saying.
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Post by waterboy on May 11, 2016 15:36:05 GMT
Watch the two videos of Todd talking about Stockton and Paquet, it certainly looks like that was all done in one shoot. So the signing per week is obviously staged, rather than announcing all the returnees in one big press release. Just saying. The same thing happened with the videos of Todd returning and the Ryan Dingle resigning. Videos were released a few days apart.
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Post by redtussell44 on May 11, 2016 16:01:04 GMT
I hope Pacquet cuts out the diving nonsense he started doing in the last month of the season. Aye fine, try to draw a penalty but don't go down like you got shot. Hopefully the kit man sows his gloves to his jersey also.
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