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Post by bobdee on Mar 4, 2018 21:26:53 GMT
Faith is not enough in a professional league. We are not professional.
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CraggyP
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Post by CraggyP on Mar 4, 2018 22:01:31 GMT
Sorry bobdee ...I disagree. We have to accept we will never have the spare money to be as 'professional' until we get more backing and sponsorship to support the costs but it is fun riding the highs and giving the big boys a run on our lower budget , we have a lot of good results this year. We have given a great showing against all teams and we may surprise in the end of season play offs if we get back to full strength...... maybe not favourites but a certain chance at it.
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Post by swarfiga on Mar 5, 2018 6:42:52 GMT
I can be as hard as anybody on the club but you can’t blame this weekend on being unprofessional, if anything this season from the outside it looks like they’ve improved in that department. They’ve got 5 imports sitting in the stands, they have signed 2 extra players as cover in Ramsay and Correale near the end of the window, we maybe could put some blame on Todd over playing guys but on the other hand over playing guys led to us winning the conference for the first time. Heelis, Gauthier and Young’s injuries weren’t down to being over played but were bad hits, add these 3 guys back in and we’d still be looking at a top 3 finish.
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Post by amazepux on Mar 5, 2018 9:26:25 GMT
Although we lost both games at the weekend I would say they are decent results given the injury woes. I didn't expect a win at MK with 5 top imports out and the travel. I thought they competed well on Sat against the Storm who are the 2nd best in the league. Giving Brits more ice time earlier in season is a fair comment but only if doesn't have a negative effect on results. They aren't going to suddenly improve their skill level because theyve been on the ice for an extra 10mins. The only 2 trusted Brits are Muir and Wands. The others can only be used as a shutdown option and to give rest to imports. To win games you need to have your skilled players on the ice which is what we have done. 5 imports out and crucially Isles and Young is devastating to any team. The conference was won comfortably on this premise and the players and coaching team deserve credit for this. Going forward we hope that most if not all imports are available for Play offs and in the meantime we should not rush them back but give Brits more ice time as the rest of the regular season games are now meaningless.
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flyersfaninspain
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Post by flyersfaninspain on Mar 5, 2018 12:45:56 GMT
Thanks for the updates stirling. Flyers did well in the circumstances to keep the score down.
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Post by swarfiga on Mar 5, 2018 13:50:15 GMT
Although we lost both games at the weekend I would say they are decent results given the injury woes. I didn't expect a win at MK with 5 top imports out and the travel. I thought they competed well on Sat against the Storm who are the 2nd best in the league. Giving Brits more ice time earlier in season is a fair comment but only if doesn't have a negative effect on results. They aren't going to suddenly improve their skill level because theyve been on the ice for an extra 10mins. The only 2 trusted Brits are Muir and Wands. The others can only be used as a shutdown option and to give rest to imports. To win games you need to have your skilled players on the ice which is what we have done. 5 imports out and crucially Isles and Young is devastating to any team. The conference was won comfortably on this premise and the players and coaching team deserve credit for this. Going forward we hope that most if not all imports are available for Play offs and in the meantime we should not rush them back but give Brits more ice time as the rest of the regular season games are now meaningless. I think the problem is there has been plenty games that have clearly been won or lost with 10/15 minutes left and still no sign of brits. I disagree with the remaining games being worthless though, we need to find a way to get a decent playoff draw, we will want to avoid Belfast and Sheffield at all costs.
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Post by amazepux on Mar 5, 2018 16:38:46 GMT
Although we lost both games at the weekend I would say they are decent results given the injury woes. I didn't expect a win at MK with 5 top imports out and the travel. I thought they competed well on Sat against the Storm who are the 2nd best in the league. Giving Brits more ice time earlier in season is a fair comment but only if doesn't have a negative effect on results. They aren't going to suddenly improve their skill level because theyve been on the ice for an extra 10mins. The only 2 trusted Brits are Muir and Wands. The others can only be used as a shutdown option and to give rest to imports. To win games you need to have your skilled players on the ice which is what we have done. 5 imports out and crucially Isles and Young is devastating to any team. The conference was won comfortably on this premise and the players and coaching team deserve credit for this. Going forward we hope that most if not all imports are available for Play offs and in the meantime we should not rush them back but give Brits more ice time as the rest of the regular season games are now meaningless. I think the problem is there has been plenty games that have clearly been won or lost with 10/15 minutes left and still no sign of brits. I disagree with the remaining games being worthless though, we need to find a way to get a decent playoff draw, we will want to avoid Belfast and Sheffield at all costs. I don't think there is a way of getting an easier opponent in the PO quarters though. Possibly Braehead maybe Dundee? Too many Ifs and buts and variables. Preferably we'd want to avoid Panthers and Steelers. I wouldn't fancy anyone's chances against Flames either over 2 games. Best to increase Brits ice time now. I don't remember many games that were well won which reasonably would warrant more Brit time. As for games where we are losing heavily I can't say (until recently) that I can recall any. (Possibly v Dundee a couple of months ago). This team is still dangerous even if a few goals behind with 10mins to go. In any case I personally wouldn't send out Brits if we were losing heavily anyway. (What good would that do their confidence) Increasing ice time for Brits is a gradual thing given the skill set they have (excluding Wands and Muir) without being a detriment to results. Would we rather have a tight battle now for the conference if we used more Brits and maybe have lost it or have what we have now..comfortable conference champions.
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Post by domi28 on Mar 5, 2018 17:29:20 GMT
I think the problem is there has been plenty games that have clearly been won or lost with 10/15 minutes left and still no sign of brits. I disagree with the remaining games being worthless though, we need to find a way to get a decent playoff draw, we will want to avoid Belfast and Sheffield at all costs. I don't think there is a way of getting an easier opponent in the PO quarters though. Possibly Braehead maybe Dundee? Too many Ifs and buts and variables. Preferably we'd want to avoid Panthers and Steelers. I wouldn't fancy anyone's chances against Flames either over 2 games. Best to increase Brits ice time now. I don't remember many games that were well won which reasonably would warrant more Brit time. As for games where we are losing heavily I can't say (until recently) that I can recall any. (Possibly v Dundee a couple of months ago). This team is still dangerous even if a few goals behind with 10mins to go. In any case I personally wouldn't send out Brits if we were losing heavily anyway. (What good would that do their confidence) Increasing ice time for Brits is a gradual thing given the skill set they have (excluding Wands and Muir) without being a detriment to results. Would we rather have a tight battle now for the conference if we used more Brits and maybe have lost it or have what we have now..comfortable conference champions. How can you say increasing brits ice time is a gradual thing. We are now into march with 10 games to go. They have sat on there backside the rest. Or is that a learning curve. We let Caly Robertson go to edinburgh, he is doing well gettimg played most games. Scored 2 last night also.
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Post by amazepux on Mar 5, 2018 18:43:54 GMT
I don't think there is a way of getting an easier opponent in the PO quarters though. Possibly Braehead maybe Dundee? Too many Ifs and buts and variables. Preferably we'd want to avoid Panthers and Steelers. I wouldn't fancy anyone's chances against Flames either over 2 games. Best to increase Brits ice time now. I don't remember many games that were well won which reasonably would warrant more Brit time. As for games where we are losing heavily I can't say (until recently) that I can recall any. (Possibly v Dundee a couple of months ago). This team is still dangerous even if a few goals behind with 10mins to go. In any case I personally wouldn't send out Brits if we were losing heavily anyway. (What good would that do their confidence) Increasing ice time for Brits is a gradual thing given the skill set they have (excluding Wands and Muir) without being a detriment to results. Would we rather have a tight battle now for the conference if we used more Brits and maybe have lost it or have what we have now..comfortable conference champions. How can you say increasing brits ice time is a gradual thing. We are now into march with 10 games to go. They have sat on there backside the rest. Or is that a learning curve. We let Caly Robertson go to edinburgh, he is doing well gettimg played most games. Scored 2 last night also. I don't know if Caly Robertson is doing well as I don't see enough of him to make an informed opinion. Caps have had to use Brits more. They are bottom of the league by some distance. My opinion is that ideally you would have a few top end Brits on the roster. Muir and Wands perform well enough. It's all about budget and location. We have the level of Brits we have. Any development that might be achievable for them should be gradual. Of course even getting ice time doesn't guarantee development of skill. Most development will happen in training sessions with imports. Given the situation we're in at the moment injury-wise though I think we should utilise them all and focus upon giving imports full recovery time as the only focus should be having the fittest possible roster available for the PO's.
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grm
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Post by grm on Mar 5, 2018 19:36:27 GMT
All I would say is two weeks ago we won the conference That weekend we beat braehead away and on the Saturday beat Dundee 7-0 with in pacha post game interview the most complete performance he had seen from any team Since then we have lost Ian young Liam heelis Dannick Gauthier Andy isles
In addition Evan bloodoff May be out for season Russ Moyer is carrying an injury Charlie mosey is carrying an injury Carlo Finucci is carrying an injury Dan Correale is carrying an injury
So let’s get behind the team
We have won the conference And even if we lose the next 11 games we are in the playoffs
If we get our top team in p,ace for the playoffs nobody will want to play us
So let’s get behind them
COYf
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Post by joestoyanovich on Mar 5, 2018 20:46:36 GMT
What he said!
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