I think Simpson will be cheering hard for Drummondville tomorrow.
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The 4th line will see very little ice time the rest of the way unless the next game against Saginaw gets out of hand. Dale will be shortening his bench to get directly to the final. After that it's all elimination games.
Misa woke up for Saginaw last game.
Nothing to do with Simpson and his record or one or two errors on his part, it's the Moose Jaw type of team that this whole Knights team have problems playing against. Like the Soo's team, London have difficulties against speed, London have speed of their own, but as soon as they meet a team matching them, speed wise, they are no longer the same team. Sitting down the faster skaters Nicholl and Van Gorp, didn't help either. Imagine the effect it has on players playing the game at full speed, and all of sodden one or two players from your opposition passes you to the puck, how demoralizing it must be. I don't mean giving the 4th line a regular shift, but fit them in on other lines for 2 or 3 short shifts per period, meanwhile giving your regulars on the line extra rest at different time of the game
Nicholl, Woolley, Brzustewicz and Van Gorp all played one shift in mid first period, right after that shift London started to pick up their game and scoring goals, I do believe Nicholl came back on the ice one more time in the third around the 7-8 minute mark, I don't know for how long thought.
. That was when the game started getting chippy in the 2nd
Furthermore, what is up with the WHL? I guess they had a decent showing at last year’s Cup but they still got blasted in the final. That’s with half the tourney being WHL teams as well.
They definitely played one against Drummondville at the end of the game. Boulton threw (or attempted) a large check with a couple seconds left.
If I'm not mistaken a team from the WHL hasn't won the Memorial Cup since 2014
Up until last year they hadn't even won a game except against the other WHL teams where obviously one of them had to win and that's with having 2 teams in the tournament twice!
I would think Dale and Mark would be inducted. Not so sure about Basil though.
Absolutely not, Until 10:30 tonight (possibly later) I don't think there is a team in the tournament that couldn't still end up winning the whole thing. Moose Jaw lost 2 games 5-4, Drummondville has been right in both games they played, the 4-0 loss to London was not indicative of the play on the ice.
