2024-25 San Diego Gulls/Tulsa Oilers

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Does anyone know where Rodwin Dionicio is at the moment? Bienna-Biel's season in Switzerland has already ended. Is Dionicio in North America or still in Europe?
 
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Does anyone know where Rodwin Dionicio is at the moment? Bienna-Biel's season in Switzerland has already ended. Is Dionicio in North America or still in Europe?

That's a good question. The AHL club could use his talents again, but he still needs to serve a 3-game suspension. A lot of games left in San Diego. Hopefully, we'll get some info on Hot Rod soon enough.
 
Does anyone know where Rodwin Dionicio is at the moment? Bienna-Biel's season in Switzerland has already ended. Is Dionicio in North America or still in Europe?

I just found out that Dionicio got loaned out to Biel's J20 squad. They're in the playoffs right now, down 0-2 to Geneve. There are three more games scheduled. I am guessing it's a best of 3 series. (Source: EP)

In 2 playoff games for the J20 squad, Dionicio has 1 goal. You're looking at the 2nd set of TP (total points) on the right side as the playoffs stats.
 
What caused the turn around in form these last few weeks?

According to Gulls' coach McIlvane, he said stopped trying to win and started to focus on developing players.

I think it's a combination of McIlvane switching gears of playing defense to playing more offensive and the addition of more NHL fringe vets like F Bailey and G Husso as well as G Dansk getting into a good groove. The switch to playing more offensive can be seen through many prospects scoring more recently in Luneau, Nester, and Mysak along with the vets like Bailey and Carpenter, but also including the usual scorers in Pastujov and Sidorov. It feels like an Oprah show now with, "You get a goal! And you get a goal! You get a second goal!"

Glad McIlvane is willing to alter his game plan as the results have changed for the better. I suppose seeing Helleson look far more competent at the NHL level than AHL level could have had McIlvane rethink what he was doing in San Diego wasn't ideal. He now probably emplyoys letting the defensive players play defensive, let the offensive players lean into their offensive talents, and then let the two-way players continue to play their game rather than trying to make them into something they're not. One way of playing better defense is to be playing more on the offensive side.
 
According to Gulls' coach McIlvane, he said stopped trying to win and started to focus on developing players.

I think it's a combination of McIlvane switching gears of playing defense to playing more offensive and the addition of more NHL fringe vets like F Bailey and G Husso as well as G Dansk getting into a good groove. The switch to playing more offensive can be seen through many prospects scoring more recently in Luneau, Nester, and Mysak along with the vets like Bailey and Carpenter, but also including the usual scorers in Pastujov and Sidorov. It feels like an Oprah show now with, "You get a goal! And you get a goal! You get a second goal!"

Glad McIlvane is willing to alter his game plan as the results have changed for the better. I suppose seeing Helleson look far more competent at the NHL level than AHL level could have had McIlvane rethink what he was doing in San Diego wasn't ideal. He now probably emplyoys letting the defensive players play defensive, let the offensive players lean into their offensive talents, and then let the two-way players continue to play their game rather than trying to make them into something they're not. One way of playing better defense is to be playing more on the offensive side.
McIlvane made the "stopped trying to win/focus on developing players" comments in reference to what he had to do differently when he first came to SD last year - like the difference between coaching in Austria and coaching in SD was that he had top stop coaching to win.

These past few weeks is something completely different.
 
McIlvane made the "stopped trying to win/focus on developing players" comments in reference to what he had to do differently when he first came to SD last year - like the difference between coaching in Austria and coaching in SD was that he had top stop coaching to win.

These past few weeks is something completely different.

Well, if we extrapolate your numbers out from last week to this week, the Gulls have now scored 53 goals in their last 12 games. Comparison of apples to oranges aside, how long would it take a Greg Cronin-coached team to score 53 goals lmao
 

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