Devils Vs Panthers - League - 4th Nov 22 - 19:30 FO
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Not sure a netminder ever needs the toe of his stick at head height. Only saw it live, be interesting to see it again. Cox clearly wasn’t happy about it.
The high stick was in play the Sanford leaving is stuck happened after.
I guess you can’t really compare the two - high stick to the head against a stick to the pads.
The high stick was in play the Sanford leaving is stuck happened after.
I guess you can’t really compare the two - high stick to the head against a stick to the pads.
That’s fair enough about comparison, but I don’t believe that Dubeau has deliberately slashed a player in the head. Cox didn’t look annoyed, he looked like he was trying to get under Dubeaus skin and there was no remonstration with the ref from any Devils player.
I’d need to see it again also though.
I’d need to see it again also though.
Key to winning games is possession. The offensive zone time seems to have increased dramatically. Shooting chances were created and the Panther were just running out of gas. Defensively strong as well again but I guess we have a better chance of being stronger defensively when we aren’t doing that for the majority of the game.
Every line worked tirelessly to keep the puck in the Panthers zone. A good game for Crandall , he’s slowly getting in to it again. Sanford and Cox were superb and another great game for Penny.
Small improvement areas for me. Face off dot wasn’t great but I guess when you’re up against Myers may be that’s to be expected, Crawfords distribution is still a problem - so many times when he’s behind our net he ices one unnecessarily or he passes to Crandall who then has his head down a foot from the boards with the opposition bearing down on him, he’s got no chance and the puck just comes straight back in our zone. He needs to watch Richie’s composure and timing. Just a bit more patience required.
Some superb saves from Bownsy. Dare I say it… if you ignore the hype around Brittain being a big body and hitting big and see him as a big body who can retain the puck…. He did well last night. That goal meant a lot to him.
How on Earth did we lose to these last week?! NIC curse???
Every line worked tirelessly to keep the puck in the Panthers zone. A good game for Crandall , he’s slowly getting in to it again. Sanford and Cox were superb and another great game for Penny.
Small improvement areas for me. Face off dot wasn’t great but I guess when you’re up against Myers may be that’s to be expected, Crawfords distribution is still a problem - so many times when he’s behind our net he ices one unnecessarily or he passes to Crandall who then has his head down a foot from the boards with the opposition bearing down on him, he’s got no chance and the puck just comes straight back in our zone. He needs to watch Richie’s composure and timing. Just a bit more patience required.
Some superb saves from Bownsy. Dare I say it… if you ignore the hype around Brittain being a big body and hitting big and see him as a big body who can retain the puck…. He did well last night. That goal meant a lot to him.
How on Earth did we lose to these last week?! NIC curse???
Some character building penalty killing as well. That 5 on 3 could have swung the game. Brandt is just a game changer. Davies and Duggan worked so hard - always love to see a goal from that line, They have such a thankless task sometimes doing the dirty and unnoticed work. Louis has his stick in everything, Batch blocked everything and Thompson is just so assured. He’s even joining the rush. Really like him and what he brings.
Great shut out for Kozun!
Great shut out for Kozun!
Rightly so, the Devils have a history of winning & when we don’t win we’ve a long history of trying to win, with passion & grit. Belfast, Sheffield are the teams traditionally always similar to us, naturally we measure our quality by competing with these competitors. Used to be Panthers also, unfortunately their quality is poor, others Guilford, Fife to some extent are becoming very competitive. Whilst a win is a win, against a poor side you can’t write many pages as it’s deemed expected. If on Sunday Belfast play well & we dominate & beat them convincingly, we still may not get much debate, what we will get is better praise. If we loose whilst playing as best as we can, we’ll that’s just sport and it happens. If we play poorly, as we have been, then obviously there will be critics and pages upon pages of debate. It’s the same in life, my company has just won an industry award, we got one email from the Directors thanking our hard work, yet when a department isn’t performing, it'll get many many meetings & emails. I maybe mansplaining but l feel you’ve not experienced much of this in life yet.
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Our biggest problem is shipping goals, we are scoring at a pretty good rate at just over 4 goals per game, but on the down side we are conceeding at just under 3 which is harming us bigtime. Steelers are scoring at close to 4 per game, but conceeding at less than 2, and Giants are scoring at close to 4 per game, and conceeding at 2 per game. Flames are at just over 4 goals per game, and conceeding at just under 3. Tighten up the D and that will be a big plus.