Devils Vs Giants - 23/24 Nov 19 - League
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Not for me. A “real“ league table doesn’t mask what I see on the ice from this Devils team. I don’t mind losing (never have) if we give everything. It’s the lack of passion and fight that bothers me more and this team going down with a whimper. And we’re seeing it all too often, interspersed with the odd good win after the team has had a bollocking. It’s not good enough.
People pay good money to watch entertaining hockey, win or lose, their views are concluded by what they have seen with their own eyes, not stats that can be read one way or the other. Now if you see a lack of passion and fight then that is obviously a bummer, now we should not be expected to know everything that a club is going through, some things are none of our business, but if your team is playing pretty lousy , and sometimes look like a rabbit in full headlights, then that’s a real cause for concern. Giants are a good team, but still not a great team, they played well against us, but how much did we contribute to their success, plenty I reckon.
This doesn't change anything for me at all, it just tries to mask it!
What that statistic doesn't show is the fact that we haven't been to Sheffield or Belfast once yet, but Belfast have taken 4 pts IN Cardiff., and Clan have also split the series in Cardiff, and won the game IN Glasgow
Also does't show that we've played one more game at home than away, whereas Clan have played 2 more games on the ROAD than at home (Their first 7 were away, 6 wins!) and Belfast 3 more on the road than at home. Put these things into the perspective, and we'd be somewhere between Nottingham's 53% and Steelers 60%)
As August04 said, it also doesn't mask what we are seeing on the ice - a team that seems to be somehow lacking tactically, is more often than not being out-hustled, and at times, look slightly disinterested and just don't appear to be clicking
What I don't get, is that this is the same team that looked immense in CHL, and had Linglet, Riley and other top players scoring a point per game, against harder opposition with better defences. Where is that team now? There is no way that releasing Sointu (Who was brought in as cover) can explain that drastic drop in form and production.
So happy to see Joey Haddad back to full fitness, and playing the way we know he can, great to see Pope appear to go a good way in answering his critics by playing the body a good bit, and chipping in with regular points
By the way, Sointu still doesn't have a club ...........
What that statistic doesn't show is the fact that we haven't been to Sheffield or Belfast once yet, but Belfast have taken 4 pts IN Cardiff., and Clan have also split the series in Cardiff, and won the game IN Glasgow
Also does't show that we've played one more game at home than away, whereas Clan have played 2 more games on the ROAD than at home (Their first 7 were away, 6 wins!) and Belfast 3 more on the road than at home. Put these things into the perspective, and we'd be somewhere between Nottingham's 53% and Steelers 60%)
As August04 said, it also doesn't mask what we are seeing on the ice - a team that seems to be somehow lacking tactically, is more often than not being out-hustled, and at times, look slightly disinterested and just don't appear to be clicking
What I don't get, is that this is the same team that looked immense in CHL, and had Linglet, Riley and other top players scoring a point per game, against harder opposition with better defences. Where is that team now? There is no way that releasing Sointu (Who was brought in as cover) can explain that drastic drop in form and production.
So happy to see Joey Haddad back to full fitness, and playing the way we know he can, great to see Pope appear to go a good way in answering his critics by playing the body a good bit, and chipping in with regular points
By the way, Sointu still doesn't have a club ...........
I haven’t seen the full interview with Lord yet but I hope he addresses just whose idea it was to leave Mark Louis out of the line up against the most physical team in the league, who had just done a number on us the night before. That needs explaining because if that has come from Lord himself, then what the hell was he thinking? Is that really the way we want this team to go? Not for me, thank you very much.
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Well done giants on the way they approached the 2 games this weekend, proper in your face hockey from the word go, standout for me was Raine what a player over the 2 days, cant wait to go to belfast to see a cracker v steelers on the 6th as i know i will be entertained by 2 teams giving 100% for 60 mins or more, as for the devils i know it sounds daft but i really believe some are playing that bad they are waiting to be gassed b4 xmas so they can be home for xmas , thats how bad it has come..and i couldnt care a toss if they read this as i pay their wages...rant over