Oshawa Generals 2022-23 Season Thread (Part 2)

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Got a chance to see RR tonight @Generalsupdates. Skates better then his brother.
 
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Gens got taken to school but a much more veteran team tonight.

-Ritchie hits career point #100, 2nd player from his OHL draft class to do it (Barlow)

-Liked the young Gens not backing down against a much older Barrie team. They have a lot of savvy vets but the Gens didn't back down physically
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Got a chance to see RR tonight @Generalsupdates. Skates better then his brother.
than*. Don't get your hopes up Niagara fans! Lol
 
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Call it blind loyalty compounded with zero logic.....

Gens win 8-7 GwG Butler
 
I think it might be long night. 67's 6 - Gens 2, Morrison
Yep lol. Gens only 19 year old D-men are out. So the D tonight will be 2 16 year olds, 2 17 year olds and an 18 year old call-up lol, in front of the backup goalie. OTT going with their starter for the 2nd night in a row


7-2 OTT, Pinelli
 
That was the worst job of reffing we have seen all season. Wimmetts and Ferreira are either incompetent or blind, maybe both.
 
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Update after stunning the No1 overall 67s

Reminder there are still 12 games left!

Starting to look like we had underestimated this young crop

Chipmunk (12 Wins) =11

ELIMINATED:
HUSH10 (10 Wins) =11
Naz (10 Wins) =11
Whatanathol (9 Wins) =11
Ohloutsider (9 Wins) =11
Yessir29292 (8 Wins) =11
GeneralsUpdates (8 Wins) =11
SarniaUpdates (7 Wins) = 11
TommyV27 (7 Wins) =11
 
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Wow what a win tonight, with 4 rookie D and the "veteran" being 2005 born Luca Marrelli.

-Carter Bickle was outstanding stopping 41/45 including several huge saves using his athleticism going post to post

-Cal Ritchie 1G/2A and what an assist for the OT winner beating Rohrer/Pinelli up the ice, dangling Matier and putting it on a tee for Roobreock for the GWG. Sounds like Ritchie is going to go middle of the 1st round and some team is going to get a really good one.

-Basically everything IceDog fans didn't like about Roobroeck last year, he's been the complete opposite with the Gens.
-They said he was soft, well he's now one of the more physical players on one of the most physical teams in the league, and had another huge fight win tonight (he's a definitive 3-0 this season in fights) and Horner did not return after Roobroeck sent him to the 67s room bleeding late in the 2nd.​
-They said he couldn't skate, well before the OT winner, he was chasing Vinzenz Rohrer who looked to have a step on him and Roobroeck not only caught up to him but also hammered him into the boards, which allowed Ritchie to grab the puck and start this clip for the GWG (oh and the Niagara IceDogs were officially eliminated from the playoffs with the Gens win tonight lol)


-The reffing was badddddddd in this gam both ways. Missed a clear head check from Butler on Mews, about 5 slash/crosschecks from Boucher/Stonehouse throughout the game. But I can't get over how they bundled the Ritchie penalty late and allowed Ottawa to tie it. Didn't end up mattering but Costantini tripping penalty then 15 seconds later Ritchie 4 minutes high stick. Those penalties were not at the same time so it's 2 minutes of 4-on-4 then OTT gets a 2 minute PP (but only would've been 48 seconds left in the game). But instead somehow they deem 2 of Ritchie's 4 and Costantini wipe each other out so OTT just gets a 2 minute powerplay and it's OTT 6-on-4 with the goalie out instead of the 5-on-4 that it should've been. That was all-time bad, but at least it didn't matter.

-4 rookie defensemen against the best team in the OHL and they certainly held their own. Marrelli, Danford, D'Amato and Bedkowski played a ton and those 4 were all great. Gens PK goes 5/7 (one of them was with the goalie out so was 6-on-4) and got 2 shortys so in Ottawa's 7 powerplays, they tied 2-2. Pretty impressive with the 2 best PK D-men out (Stewart and Parfenyuk). Danford and Bedkowski were playing major minutes (along with Marrelli) on the PK tonight.

-Might not be the most glamorous comp but I see a ton of Aidan Wallace in Matt Buckley. Can be a super value
4th line centre and really good PK guy and shutdown role forward, which is exactly what Wallace was on the Gens 2015 Mem Cup winning team.

-Gens are now 4-5-1 this year against teams currently in the CHL Top 10 when they played the Gens. Pretty impressive how disciplined Laxdal has this young team playing against teams with a lot more talent than them.


In NHL news, John Tavares passed #GensAlumni Jason Arnott for the 92nd most goals in NHL history and 3rd most from a Gens Alumni
 
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-Basically everything IceDog fans didn't like about Roobroeck last year, he's been the complete opposite with the Gens.
-They said he was soft, well he's now one of the more physical players on one of the most physical teams in the league, and had another huge fight win tonight (he's a definitive 3-0 this season in fights) and Horner did not return after Roobroeck sent him to the 67s room bleeding late in the 2nd.​
-They said he couldn't skate, well before the OT winner, he was chasing Vinzenz Rohrer who looked to have a step on him and Roobroeck not only caught up to him but also hammered him into the boards, which allowed Ritchie to grab the puck and start this clip for the GWG (oh and the Niagara IceDogs were officially eliminated from the playoffs with the Gens win tonight lol)



 
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Agree with the Gens rewarding Bickle for his great against against OTT with an another start. Also his other great game this year was against KIT. But Stewart/Parfenyuk still out so 4 rookie D again tonight.


5-2 KIT, Pinelli
 
Another pretty even game against a team who’s much older and should be much better, but both teams scored against the other goalie 5 times.

-Gens top 4 D, which includes a 2005 and 2 2006s, all played a ton tonight and looked really good for large stretches. Exciting group they have back there and another 2 years of D’Amato, 2/3 more years of Marrelli, 3 more years of Danford and likely 4 more years of Bedkowski. Hopefully they can add 1 more impact Dman in the import draft and I’d love the Dcore going forward.

-Bickle was better than the numbers suggest and had a really good 3rd period stopping 12/12 and giving them a chance

-that certainly didn’t look like a team who went all-in against one that sold their best F, best D and best G, but what Kitchener does have, which most older teams do, that the Gens don’t is quick offence. A couple times they have nothing going and fire a quick pass to Arcuri/Pinelli and they go bar down for a goal. Meanwhile the Gens need to work extremely hard for almost all their offence. Which is a very good thing long term, but will cost you some wins this year

-be a big weekend for the playoffs/draft pick odds this weekend if they win both or lose both @ SBY and @ SSM. If they win either game I think they have a really good chance of making the playoffs as I don’t see KGN winning many games the rest of the way. They’d probably have to sweep the Gens in their 2 games left head to head
 
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Gagnier takes a slapshot to the head. Did not return.

Ritchie hooked and goes down hard and looks to have separated his shoulder. Did not return.
 
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