Kingston Frontenacs 2024-25 Season Thread, Part I

[OMG67]

I am so goddamn sick and tired of losing by one goal. It's absolutely ridiculous.

Lalonde played well, I didn't like how out of position he got on the OT goal but before Kitchener tied it up I was already thinkink about posting something along the lines of how he obviously read my posts and took them as motivation lol

I don't know how the refs missed that hook on Uens right before Pridham tied it - stick parallel to the ice, right around Uens stomach 10 feet away from the ref, yet no call.

Dervin looks good - the fact Mann threw him out in OT over McNamara tells you what they think of him.

Other than a couple name miscues I've gotta say the Kitchener broadcast is one of the better ones I've watched this year, sometimes the play-by-play guy tried a little too hard to throw some slang in there but overall it was good, a fair home-leaning bias that's to be expected but nothing over the top like other broadcasts.

I was watching and i thought the same thing. How do you lose your net so badly in OT? He gave up half the net. It looked like there was more than enough time to get back into position. Sucks.

 

[beastintheeast]

I was watching and i thought the same thing. How do you lose your net so badly in OT? He gave up half the net. It looked like there was more than enough time to get back into position. Sucks.

Please let me know if I am wrong, but I thought Lalaonde was brought in to back up Vaccari. If that is the case, then you have to wonder what happened to Vaccari. Also, the fact that Lalonde was on an M Cup-winning team but never played says something about his abilities, and Cooper knew that going into the deal.

You can not blame Lalaonde; he is who he is. He was never a game-breaker. Consider that this year is his best year stats-wise in the OHL, with the lowest GAA and the highest shot. So, really, instead of getting down on the player, look at the front office that got him and consider that there were others who were avail.

 

[PuckLucker]

I was watching and i thought the same thing. How do you lose your net so badly in OT? He gave up half the net. It looked like there was more than enough time to get back into position. Sucks.

Miscommunication from the Fronts #8 who wanted to to switch man to man coverage which then allowed the Ranger to skate in basically untouched right near the blue paint and drag #79 way out of his crease area.
The entire net (not half the net) was open when the shot was released.

 

[PuckLucker]

Please let me know if I am wrong, but I thought Lalaonde was brought in to back up Vaccari. If that is the case, then you have to wonder what happened to Vaccari. Also, the fact that Lalonde was on an M Cup-winning team but never played says something about his abilities, and Cooper knew that going into the deal.

You can not blame Lalaonde; he is who he is. He was never a game-breaker. Consider that this year is his best year stats-wise in the OHL, with the lowest GAA and the highest shot. So, really, instead of getting down on the player, look at the front office that got him and consider that there were others who were avail.

100%
Anyone on here or the Front office of the Frontenacs who expected more needs to give their head a shake.
Cooper told fans and the entire OHL: " Pairing Nolan with Mason will give us one of the best goaltending tandems in the OHL"

Frontenacs acquire Kingston's Very Own, Nolan Lalonde from Saginaw - Kingston Frontenacs

 

[leafs4life94]

Miscommunication from the Fronts #8 who wanted to to switch man to man coverage which then allowed the Ranger to skate in basically untouched right near the blue paint and drag #79 way out of his crease area.
The entire net (not half the net) was open when the shot was released.

Uronen definitely got beat but I still don't think there's any reason for Lalonde to be that far out of crease. McGowan also probably should've been closer to Andonovski to get in the way of the shot.

100%
Anyone on here or the Front office of the Frontenacs who expected more needs to give their head a shake.
Cooper told fans and the entire OHL: " Pairing Nolan with Mason will give us one of the best goaltending tandems in the OHL"

Frontenacs acquire Kingston's Very Own, Nolan Lalonde from Saginaw - Kingston Frontenacs

Expectations maybe were too high, but using an OA slot on a tandem goalie is just awful asset management, especially for the results we've gotten.

I don't state it as fact but I have an extremely hard time believing that Lalonde is a Frontenac if he's not a local. There are OA goalies with much better numbers out of the league. What other contending team has an OA goalie that isn't playing the majority of the games? London is the only one but a) Medvedev is much better than Vaccari and b) I'd be surprised if Elliott isn't the daily starter in the playoffs

 

[leafs4life94]

Kelly in for Dervin, Velliaris in for Moore and Vaccari with the start. I kinda hoped they'd play Dervin in all 3 games this weekend vut the fact they played him against the stronger team bodes well for where they see him.

 

[frontsfan67]

Confused as to why Dervin would not be playing today. Looked pretty good yesterday from what I saw.

 

[frontsfan67]

What a beautiful goal by Kelly. First in the league too.

 

[leafs4life94]

Am I losing my mind or did McGowan get scratched last minute? I haven't seen him at all and I know I saw Lukas Moore out there, but McGowan is listed on the app and on the socials lineup

Edit - one of the Guelph commentators tweeted he got hurt in warmup, hopefully it's minor or just a tweak knowing they have another game tomorrow

 

[frontsfan67]

Unreal. That is a team we cannot be losing to if we want to do big things this year. Need the win tomorrow. Cannot go 0/3.

Also any idea for the amount of time burns played today? I would assume it’s well over 30 mins

 

[leafs4life94]

Unbelievable. At point do they not realize maybe don't keep going gloveside on a kid that clearly has a good glove hand...

It's tough to rip on the refs too much when they were consistent but damn there were so many missed calls both ways.

The shootout showed why Vaccari struggles - both goals right over his shoulder.

I'll need to watch a replay to be sure but it looked Velliaris was skating into the corner to leave Katzin wide open on the second Guelph goal - I didn't notice him much after that so I'm guessing that's why Burns played so much.

Losing Pieniniemi for the Jrs is going to hurt, especially if McGowan misses time, they're going to be forced to play one of Velliaris or Moore a hell of a lot more than they have, and who knows how that'll work out.

 

[GoFronts]

There's no excuse for losing that game. I hate that we're going to push all of our chips in on this team. This isn't it unless some major pieces are brought in. That's just how it is.

 

[frontsfan67]

There's no excuse for losing that game. I hate that we're going to push all of our chips in on this team. This isn't it unless some major pieces are brought in. That's just how it is.

Some major pieces will be brought in I imagine but even still not sure it will be enough to push them above barrie Oshawa or London (if they hypothetically made it that far lmao)