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Post by thebluewellies on Aug 7, 2019 11:27:48 GMT
I rest my case. The D didn't work last season therefore we'll re-sign it! Easy, lazy scouting
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Post by swarfiga on Aug 7, 2019 11:50:01 GMT
With Aarsen and Isaacs back the remaining 3 import D better be very high level or we’ll be stuck with the same as last season, scrambling around in our zone clueless and struggling to play our way out
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Post by bobdee on Aug 7, 2019 13:34:04 GMT
With Aarsen and Isaacs back the remaining 3 import D better be very high level or we’ll be stuck with the same as last season, scrambling around in our zone clueless and struggling to play our way out The defence couldn't pass around a paper bag last year, Embarrassing
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Post by joestoyanovich on Aug 7, 2019 15:07:06 GMT
I don't think much work was needed for Tim Crowders signature, the real test still remains the D and the goalie. Everybody is on about the forwards, when the defence was c*** last year and couldn't pass it's way out of anything. Is it not about time good defenders were signed. We need a couple of top notch defencemen sharpish, our D last year was poor I think everyone thought that from very early on. Oh and we need to pull another top notch goalie out of the woodwork.
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Post by chasingthepuck on Aug 7, 2019 15:49:33 GMT
Dan bakala has left villarcher sv
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Post by sjam1987 on Aug 7, 2019 16:01:14 GMT
Dan bakala has left villarcher sv Would love him in a flyers Jersey
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Post by chasingthepuck on Aug 7, 2019 16:49:46 GMT
Dan bakala has left villarcher sv Would love him in a flyers Jersey Totally
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Post by teamshaky on Aug 7, 2019 16:59:25 GMT
With Aarsen and Isaacs back the remaining 3 import D better be very high level or we’ll be stuck with the same as last season, scrambling around in our zone clueless and struggling to play our way out The defence couldn't pass around a paper bag last year, Embarrassing If the rumours are true on this forum about Livingston and Lundvald signing, that means the 1 remaining returnee will be Stoflet. Unless Andy Iles can be classed as a returnee.
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Post by zamboni on Aug 7, 2019 16:59:55 GMT
Would love him in a flyers Jersey Totally A Jeff Hutchins signing few seasons back
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Post by fifeflyer11 on Aug 7, 2019 17:09:59 GMT
Well Livingston pretty much confirmed , if we added Lundvald to that (rather Bulmer) but if so we’d have strong forward lines and would be quite gritty/psychical as well! If Stoflet is the returning Dman and with Aarssen returning along with Issaacs and the new addition being Gutwald , that D is no improvement on last season! Don’t mind Gutwald just please not Stoflet please no one of the worst D men we have had
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Post by swarfiga on Aug 7, 2019 22:55:22 GMT
Ivan Sijan and Gutwald coming our way possibly
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Post by stewartgibson on Aug 7, 2019 23:02:55 GMT
Ivan Sijan and Gutwald coming our way possibly i genuinely believe if these 2 are true we’re a tenth place team and have learned absolutely nothing from last season. Not to mention the absolutely horrific lazy recruitment
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Post by swarfiga on Aug 8, 2019 6:00:03 GMT
Ivan Sijan and Gutwald coming our way possibly i genuinely believe if these 2 are true we’re a tenth place team and have learned absolutely nothing from last season. Not to mention the absolutely horrific lazy recruitment That’s 1/2 then
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Post by flyer007 on Aug 8, 2019 7:55:07 GMT
It is a bit worrying. I don’t understand what has happened to our contacts out in the states currently no new signings from outwith the league. Can we just not be bothered picking up the phone at all hours of the day to speak to agents and players. In the past we have picked up some gems like Younger, Matt Delahey, Keller who all were new to these shores.
The forwards I can accept. Not overly pleased with Lundvald as he’s selfish with the puck and I personally think he’s a bit of a pre Madonna who thinks he’s better than he is. Tim Crowder is a nice addition and James Livingston is difficult to comment on. Losing Bulmer to a team in the league is very disappointing. We have always been able to keep our best players when teams within the league come searching. Well not this year Bull to Nottingham, Bloodz to Coventry, Owen to Belfast.
The defence I just can’t understand at the minute. We had two uni places last year what has happened to them. You’d think they could use them to bring in some stars. Surely then we wouldn’t be cramping the barrel trying to bring back Stoflet and a D man from Milton Keynes who had the worst defensive record.
Currently our D should be as follows:
D D Aarssen Jones D Gutwald Isaacs
Even then I worry about pace on the back end. I haven’t seen Jones so difficult to comment on but Isaacs needs someone who can skate well next to him. Gutwald is ok but I think against some of the top teams in this league we will be struggling.
Our top line needs two standout guys like a Matt Delahey to play solid defensively and soak up the minutes complemented by a Keller to run the power play. Stoflet is like an Isaacs V2 he works hard but makes mistakes and is positionally very poor. He was a bomb scare virtually every night. And Sijan well whilst he might be a decent player he’d have to be as good as Scott Niedermayer in his prime to make our D anything better than it was.
Todd and Hutch are knowledgable hockey men so I just don’t get it. Maybe we need a GM to come in and start working on deals etc because this years recruitment at the minute anyway is simply embarrassing. We are a knowledgeable fan base and I think it speaks volumes when none of us would want stoflet back in a flyers jersey. I just don’t know what the coaches see in him.
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Post by Dirty Lyle on Aug 8, 2019 7:57:15 GMT
Is lundvalt a definite...I never actually seen that anywhere, if we only have one forward to sign it won't be him.
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