London Knights 2024-25 Season Thread, Part I

[Fastpace]

Well that was a shit game! Sometimes we are going to lay an egg, kids need to gel an hit the practice pad.

Some upsides: Medvedev was solid in relief, Bidgood showed why he is on the roster and Arrowsmith full marks.

Brzustewicz also was solid.

Dickinson, O’Rielly, Julien dude…. Shake your heads and don’t do that again.

We all see the mistakes out there, we can pretty much all determine what is needing to be done, there is no need to shame individual team players on social media of our favorite team. Criticize the whole team on social media is fine, if we want to be critical of one individual player, let's take it up to privately massaging pages. I'm confident that the entire team would be grateful.

This is a team, all players are members of this team, they come with talents, and also they come with faults. They win, and they lose as a team, including the very least talented one on the team as is the most talented one. It's a team playing a team game with a team system, good or bad, not just one player or just a few, all of them makes mistakes regardless how many and all of them executes the team plays. Dale work with the players presented to him, and Mark will adjust and replace the players that are not cut out for the team. Cheers!

 

[LondonLocal]

On a positive note, former Knight Paul Cotter is leading the NHL in goals and points

 

[Knights Watcher]

It's frustrating to watch right now but, yes, as we all know and expect, this team under the Hunter tutelage should and will turn it around.
The last two games have been total team losses...can't blame just one guy. Very slow starts added to discipline issues, special teams, and team defense that have all been below average.
Some of the players we expected to be leaders have not stepped up... yet.
The youngsters are finding their way and learning on the job.
Overall the team is just flat. Blame it on not being able to practice together as a compete team because of NHL camp atendees and having to field a young team of call-ups to hold the fort for the first few games. It is what it is and they will work through it.
Can Willmore be better? Sure.
Can Julien be better? Absolutely.
But the whole team needs to step up, shake off the rust and play for each other.
This is Junior Hockey.

 

[LDN]

1-3 is an atrocious start. Need a winning streak to start now