London Knights 2023-24 Season Thread (Part 5)

[rve24]

Fiesty game. Good for London to get into these early on in the POs.
Flint took adv of a couple good bounces early but London stayed the course. I like the response physically. Flint will back down first IMO when push comes to shove. London smart so far n not crossing the line as is Flint.
Regs letting em play a bit.

 

[Fastpace]

Oh wow! Just watched Barrie scoring a tying goal taken away by the refs. It was 100% a goal long before any whistleblowing by the ref. What is worse is while the review, refs never had a tablet to look at, just a headset communication, replays do show clearly a goal about one full second before hearing a whistle, no penalty infraction no offside plays, it was a good goal.

 

[Knownothing]

I believe the rule is intent to blow the whistle and hand in motion, not when the whistle actually blows. Sucks for sure.

 

[Fastpace]

6-4 win -Playoff hockey game #2

It was a very good hockey game, Flint got 4 in, but not without London help and luck

 

[crowncarrier]

By the hair of their chinny chin chin. Many bad bounces, bad decisions , and bad penalties.

 

[Knightsfan90]

Erie just best the Rangers 7-4 these playoffs are going to be tight this year!!!!

 

[bearfan]

Trying the fancy pass instead of shot and rebound. When you have a 8 year old sitting behind you yelling stop the dippsy doodle. You know it’s bad. Haven’t heard that saying for a looong time. Keep it simple quick pass shot and rebound if any. The attempted pass by Dickinson in his own zone that lead to a goal was terrible and will be addressed. Stay out of the box is a must going forward n the next few rounds.

 

[rve24]

This team hasn't stayed out of the box all year lol. Yes they need discipline but I was ok with today's game. Flint got some great bounces but LK controlled the game .minus a few stretches.
Dickinson seems off a bit right now, not just the bad decision and back pass that led to a Flint goal but skating doesn't seem as smooth and fast esp. while working back thru the nuetral zone.
All good after 2 games.

 

[LDN]

Need to bring it I the next two for sure! Both massive games. Flint proved they can hang with us today!

 

[rve24]

Need to bring it I the next two for sure! Both massive games. Flint proved they can hang with us today!

Flint won't get the same bounces every game. I don't think Flint proved they are in this series. Not an insult just a tough match up for them as they don't have an advantage in any part of the game.
Lk controlled the play for the most part.
I'll agree thou, gotta bring it every game.

 

[Buttsy]

Flint won't get the same bounces every game. I don't think Flint proved they are in this series.

Agreed kinda reminds me of our last Memorial Cup winning year when Owen Sound won 2 games in the first round. Some folks still say “Owen Sound” threw one hell of a scare into us ……. Not even close. Sorry LDN but Flint still has a lot of work to do to say they can hang with us IMO? For sure though proved you can’t sleep on them or they are capable of biting back. Thought it was not one of Simpsons better games but Game 2 of the first round at home is the time to struggle for a game if he needs to.

 

[PhlyerPhanatic31]

London played about 60% of their potential and didn't really need much more. Poor effort but still a W. Flint blew their load today and really have nothing. Sarnia finishing 8th would have at least had some comic relief

Done in 4

 

[dmead]

Agreed kinda reminds me of our last Memorial Cup winning year when Owen Sound won 2 games in the first round. Some folks still say “Owen Sound” threw one hell of a scare into us ……. Not even close. Sorry LDN but Flint still has a lot of work to do to say they can hang with us IMO? For sure though proved you can’t sleep on them or they are capable of biting back. Thought it was not one of Simpsons better games but Game 2 of the first round at home is the time to struggle for a game if he needs to.

Owen Sound won those two games due to off ice issues that wore heavy on the Knights. Not diminishing OS in that series but there were extenuating circumstances.

 

[Fergus31]

Not sure if folks believe in the “clutch” factor here but Simpson always seems better when there are high leverage situations.

 

[purple pharrt]

Not sure if folks believe in the “clutch” factor here but Simpson always seems better when there are high leverage situations.

Personally I shudder whenever he opposition shoots the puck off the glass or backboards behind the Knights net. Playing the puck in those situations is NOT Simpson's strength, and usually results in chaos in the crease area, or a scoring chance for the opposition. Maybe I've been spoiled but this wasn't an area of concern with previous tenders. they played those rebounds with authority, and usually smothered the puck, or cleared it to one of their d-men.
Sooner or later, an opposing coach will pick up on this tendency, and exploit it to their advantage. I'm actually surprised that the goaltending coach hasn't addressed this issue and worked to correct it in practice. Maybe if the Bud had squarer corners ???

 

[tjziel]

Like I’ve been saying, tips from the point or even traffic in front is a weakness for Simpson. It will come to haunt us at some point in these playoffs unless we get better blocking from the people covering the point or Simpson can read those point shot and rebounds off the boards better

 

[Ken Yates]

Personally I shudder whenever he opposition shoots the puck off the glass or backboards behind the Knights net. Playing the puck in those situations is NOT Simpson's strength, and usually results in chaos in the crease area, or a scoring chance for the opposition. Maybe I've been spoiled but this wasn't an area of concern with previous tenders. they played those rebounds with authority, and usually smothered the puck, or cleared it to one of their d-men.
Sooner or later, an opposing coach will pick up on this tendency, and exploit it to their advantage. I'm actually surprised that the goaltending coach hasn't addressed this issue and worked to correct it in practice. Maybe if the Bud had squarer corners ???

Are you joking Simpson is 10 times better than Bowen was last year. Brett was the best at puck handling.

 

[BobHockey]

Like I’ve been saying, tips from the point or even traffic in front is a weakness for Simpson. It will come to haunt us at some point in these playoffs unless we get better blocking from the people covering the point or Simpson can read those point shot and rebounds off the boards better

The first two went off Knight players skates. Don't think any goalie stops those. Third off a terrible give away by Knights D man and a nice finish by Peer. Fourth was maybe a weak goal but again may have been tipped by Knight's D man before deflected by Flint. Knights PK was not its best yesterday - front of the net needs to be cleared out and forwards need to get serious about blocking shots.

 

[tjziel]

Does Goyette or Romani automatically get MOP?

 

[Matt93]

Heard on Stubbsy’s podcast that the Firebirds bus was broken into…not once but twice during the weekend.

I am embarrassed of this city.

 

[Otto]

Heard on Stubbsy’s podcast that the Firebirds bus was broken into…not once but twice during the weekend.

I am embarrassed of this city.

Is there a city that doesn't have crime?

 

[Knights Watcher]

Wow. Storm got robbed by the refs tonight. Tie game with 15s left and a horrible call to send them to the PK in OT where SSM scores to win it. This league should be ashamed for putting out such incompetence.

 

[Holden Caufield]

https://x.com/londonknightspr/status/1774909123160576406?s=46&t=EORasAr0xPy-g_5RTAlc0w

GOJHL pipeline continues to look strong .

 

[Knightsfan90]

Gazizov has now been ruled out for rest of the round.
Being very cautious with this. The thought is he might be ready at some point in round 2 or start of conf finals should we make it.

 

[tjziel]

Like I said before, I don’t think they need Gazizov this round anyways, but we will need more depth scoring in the next rounds if we get there.

Gosh I looove the McCue - Lawrence - Sim line. I’ve wanted that line all year and they finally got put together. They will run right through the opposing team and finish every check and they will also score. So nasty to play against!