Panthers Vs Devils - League - 25th Feb 23 - 19:00 FO
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Did you watch tonight’s game dude, if you did did you have one eye closed, if you didn’t then what you talking about, Bowns had nothing to do with tonight’s loss, we lost purely because we are shit, and have sod all leadership from the bench as usual. A very poor Panthers team 7th in the league won tonight because they played a far shittier team than they are, and that us, end of.
This is mainly Kelman’s roster. Before Dupont was given the job permanently I think Kelman already decided which players he wanted to re-sign, plus Martin, Jardine, Bowns were his calls. Also Brittain was rumoured for years so I doubt he was DuPont’s decision. Personally I think the only players that were DuPont’s calls were Penny, Thompson, Crawford. So DuPonts 3 recruits haven’t been a great success but still 3 players out of 20 isn’t exactly your roster…
I always try to see some positives in the most negative of situations so I rarely come on here and moan about a bad performance from our boys out there on the ice, but if I'm honest with myself I've found the entertainment value pretty poor this season,. I've followed this team since season one so have witnessed plenty of wonderful highs and some depressing lows but have generally found the hockey entertaining, this season for some reason I've not enjoyed the hockey win or lose, we seem to lack ideas on how to break down other teams even ones we should be taking to the cleaners, tonight being another example of losing without what would seem any fight from us (other than the Lou fight). Last week for the first time ever I left at the second period break, tomorrow once again I will be there but mainly because we're playing Guildford and in hope we can show that we are a match for them , washing the car actually seemed like a good alternative tbh. I don't expect us to win every week but I should be able to expect some effort, a game plan and fight, sadly these qualities are regularly missing.
Problem was Martin was done and dusted as a devil as the playoff finals were on...that prob was a big wage, then reid Cox and Sandford were brought back and we all know reid is a big earner as with the latter 2 who deserve to be back . So the biggest part of budget prob went on forwards and the rest of budget on mediocre defence. Next season we gotta start from defence then build from there..just saying
This loss was definitely not down to Bowns but that said when you have a leaky defence you need some heroics from your goalie. Carruth saved a lot of breakaway goals. Bowns has saved a few but not nearly enough this season.
The last Panthers goal was probably goal of the season though and would have beat any goalie..
The last Panthers goal was probably goal of the season though and would have beat any goalie..
Just to put this latest poor performance against the Panthers into perspective.
Nothingham have only managed 11 league regulation wins this season.
27% of Nothingham’s regulation league wins have come courtesy of us!!
They have also managed 5 OT wins and 1 of those was also against us!
In their 41 league games to date 18% of all of their goals have been scored against, yes you’ve guessed it… us!
That’s how poor they are and that how poor our performances against them have been!
Nothingham have only managed 11 league regulation wins this season.
27% of Nothingham’s regulation league wins have come courtesy of us!!
They have also managed 5 OT wins and 1 of those was also against us!
In their 41 league games to date 18% of all of their goals have been scored against, yes you’ve guessed it… us!
That’s how poor they are and that how poor our performances against them have been!