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Wonder how many teams are announcing signings real time? And how many have players signed but deciding to just drip feed announcements? With couple of good GB players who were rumoured to be in discussion with us now confirmed as staying with Panthers I wonder if this changes likelihood of us...

Looks like Printz and Tedesco may be out at Belfast to make way for Piccinic and Conway. Printz plays physical hockey and only 25, Tedesco lit up league in Guildford and just under a point per game in Belfast. Wonder if any other team in league likely to pick them up? Or if we would look at them?

Curran like Mosey doesn’t qualify as a Brit for the quota as need to have youth hockey over here. Betteridge like Tetlow would be hard to get away from Nottingham as Panthers budget would be equivalent and they are established Panthers.

I agree about Ully, there were several games before he got injured where I felt he was our best player and seemed to be hitting his stride. He’s been a point a game player for years and I would give him another season. Arniel’s compete level has been great and have enjoyed watching him it’s a...

Binning Cox and Sanford would be a major gamble as although we haven’t won much with them here that’s been largely because of lack of line cohesion/regular production on other lines & heavy scoring burden. You would need to at least replace them with equivalent players which cannot be...

Shout out to Justin Crandall. Played a hard game, made some key blocks and harrying Stars all over the rink. Alderson, especially early playing the kind of physical hockey we were hoping he would bring. Great to have options with Busch and Ully back, and congrats to that line for producing...

Re: Harewood, have been slightly surprised we haven’t tried him on a midweek game. The Dundee one recently would have been perfect. Low stakes and not going to clash with Pitbulls. Put him on 3rd line and see what he can do?

I think pool of viable non import home grown players is pretty small. The few in the NIHL wrecking shop like Kieran Brown seem happy to be a big fish in a small pond. There has also been a trend in recent years for players who can perform in EIHL to drop to NIHL for lifestyle/second job...

Looks like they’re now focusing on resting some of their guys with knocks and giving Greenfield a break which suggests their sights are now firmly set on playoffs. Great about Martin being back. Need to nail down second just incase we need it for conti cup qualification.

2nd rather than 3rd probably going to be crucial if we want to do conti cup again assuming Sheffield don’t get stopped in playoffs. Opponent in qualification is going to depend how the cards fall. I think of the potential opponents Fife and Glasgow are the ones to avoid as Fife have shown able...

Fair play Ions playing a blinder for Steelers so far.

Took two friends who had never seen hockey before to this game. Was trying to explain the rules to them but the officials made my job almost completely impossible. "Why did they give a penalty that time but not when something similar happened earlier?" :rolleyes:

Busch injury - It looked to me like an elbow hyper extension from where I was sitting. Lucky inferno isn’t running an A&E department as that’s at least 3 different joint injuries we’ve diagnosed from 3 different posts! He looked like knew was properly hurt as went straight down to changing...

Enjoying this so far. Good effort and look hungry. (This inevitably with jinx the rest of the game.)

Ariel on the stream listed as "The one to watch", they are wrong, tonight will be Brandon Alderson unleashed.

Cov’s mentality since early season slump is something else. Almost unbeatable if goes into OT. Curran coming back has been inspired. Already has more points for Cov than Giants this season in league. The 8-0 game seems so bizarre. We didn’t really kick on afterwards and they did.

Great volume from fans again tonight, pleased for the lads to get the win. Hope Cox and Sanford not badly injured, gave chance for Davies, Brandt and Duggan to see a bit more ice time. Happy for CD to get the winner after being out for extended period, another positive performance tomorrow...

Has King gone? Elite prospects page has him as a goalkeeping consultant for a junior American team?

Silver lining is we’re hosting. We’d have been tempted to go overseas to see this, would have been major downer for fans to be in Astana out of contention after first game. Hopefully can use the last two games to try out some new ideas or lines and get confidence up before next weekend.