Oshawa Generals 2023-24 Season Thread (Part One)

[HUSH10]

Noah Bender gets the call tonight in the middle of the 3 in 3.

 

[Donnie740]

Aside from Ritchie getting pummelled in an ill-advised fight, this has been another very good start for Oshawa.

The game has been as lopsided as the shots indicate - - 21 to 6 in favour of Oshawa. Now they need a more sustained effort than they had last night in the last 40mins

 

[Donnie740]

Comfortable win for the Generals as the score flattered Peterborough in a lopsided game.

This is why it would have been an incredibly dumb idea to trade away picks for a back up goalie. Noah Bender was serviceable in net, and that’s all Oshawa needs against an overmatched team like Peterborough.

The brain trust continued the nonsensical insistence of putting Owen Griffin on a line with Sennecke and Kumpalainen which accompanied absolutely nothing. Once they mercifully replaced him with Ethan Toms, Sennecke immediately sniped a goal. Stubbornly, the brain trust then went back to Griffin again and the line was predictably ineffective. In the 3rd period, the brain trust gave Tyler Graham a shift on the line and Kumpalainen promptly scored.

Very concerning to see Oshawa take several dumb penalties in the 3rd period. They can’t afford to have that undisciplined lack of focus carry over to tomorrow night against Kingston.

 

[TuckerFan1]

As GensUpdates posted on Twitter. The record against the Petes since 2010 is now
80-31-8. That’s going to get even uglier over the next few seasons.

Personally hoping Velliaris stays in the line up for them this year and next. The Petes quota for meat heads has been lacking since Cole Fraser left.

 

[Donnie740]

Huge win for Oshawa to sweep the weekend. An absolute massacre of Kingston from start to finish.

I haven’t seen a team come so triggered and mentally unhinged as Kingston was tonight.

Lockhart was in the head of #76 Schmidt from early on, starting with a big hit in the corner that led directly to a turnover and the Generals second goal. Schmidt had some brutal giveaways and was horrible overall.

It’s one thing to let an opponent get in your head, but you absolutely CANNOT let the fans get in your head.

Which is exactly what happened when a bunch of us in Section 115 were taunting #28 Poole and #9 Heyes. It was so bad that as soon as Heyes would finish his shift in the 2nd period he’d immediately start yapping back at the fans as soon as he got to the bench.

Instead of controlling his player, the incompetent Kingston coach decided to call security to complain. I had to laugh when the trainer actually came out during the second intermission to start yapping with us.

Evidently, he and the head coach whined and cried to security long enough that the ejected two fans in front of me. Which was an absolute embarrassment for the security to do, because there was NOTHING thrown and absolutely ZERO profanity.

It was a fitting end to the game when #9 Heyes took an elbow from Bedkowski and decided he’d try to fight him despite being WAY out of his weight class. Predictably, Bedkowski swung him around like a rag doll in a lopsided scrap.

I’m expecting Bedkowski will likely get suspended for a game or two because of the elbow.

 

[HUSH10]

Oshawa is rolling these days. 12-5 in December and January so far. Every loss was a 1 goal game. This team could be in 1st place within a month if they keep this play style up.

After this weekend, I thinks the added Defence in Punnett and Sandhu as given Oshawa a different kind of confidence knowing they got more experience protecting the back end.

I won't go into too much of last night, I'm sure others on here whose post I can't see went on about it already but I will just say, what a dominating performance.


On to Brantford.

 

[OMG67]

Oshawa is rolling these days. 12-5 in December and January so far. Every loss was a 1 goal game. This team could be in 1st place within a month if they keep this play style up.

After this weekend, I thinks the added Defence in Punnett and Sandhu as given Oshawa a different kind of confidence knowing they got more experience protecting the back end.

I won't go into too much of last night, I'm sure others on here who's post I can't see went on about it already but I will just say, what a dominating performance.


On to Brantford.

It will come down to Ottawa and Oshawa for the division. Crossing fingers that newly acquired Kressler isn’t out long term with a concussion.

I really like the construction of the Gens right now. Still a little young but the elements are there for sure. Decent size that can skate too. They’ll be good down the stretch but will be great next year.

I may have sort of given up on next year too easily. Missy will be extremely strong and will have the picks to make moves. I think Misa ends up there at the deadline. But, that said, I don’t think we can sleep on Oshawa. If the right players return, it will be a great fight between Oshawa and Missy next year. Kingston and Brantford will be around as well.

I think the Conference will be top heavy next year.

 

[HUSH10]

I think the Conference will be top heavy next year.

agreed

 

[Donnie740]

It will come down to Ottawa and Oshawa for the division. Crossing fingers that newly acquired Kressler isn’t out long term with a concussion.

I really like the construction of the Gens right now. Still a little young but the elements are there for sure. Decent size that can skate too. They’ll be good down the stretch but will be great next year.

I may have sort of given up on next year too easily. Missy will be extremely strong and will have the picks to make moves. I think Misa ends up there at the deadline. But, that said, I don’t think we can sleep on Oshawa. If the right players return, it will be a great fight between Oshawa and Missy next year. Kingston and Brantford will be around as well.

I think the Conference will be top heavy next year.

There’s certainly no dominant team in the East this year. Prior to the deadline Sudbury, Ottawa, Mississauga and NB were the upper half of contenders but with the way Oshawa has played over the past six weeks and the additions of Punnett and Sandhu the Generals may be in that upper tier now.

 

[TuckerFan1]

Credit to @GermanSpitfire for the stats. Ritchie has been on a heater since coming back from injury.

 

[OMG67]

There’s certainly no dominant team in the East this year. Prior to the deadline Sudbury, Ottawa, Mississauga and NB were the upper half of contenders but with the way Oshawa has played over the past six weeks and the additions of Punnett and Sandhu the Generals may be in that upper tier now.

Oshawa replaces Missy IMO. I never looked at Missy as a likely top contender post-deadline. I doubted they would add anything of value other than a cheap OA. Sure enough.

 

[TuckerFan1]

Seeing all the hostility towards Poole and Heyes and I can’t help but think of that 19/20 Oshawa Minor Gens team. Carson Christy and Nathan Poole were the stars, getting drafted in rounds 2 and 3. Impressive work by Roger getting Blake Smith in the 7th and then Torrance in the 11th rd. Both of them have carved out solid roles in the OHL. Poole and Christy not so much.

 

[Logosarejusttargets]

Seeing all the hostility towards Poole and Heyes and I can’t help but think of that 19/20 Oshawa Minor Gens team. Carson Christy and Nathan Poole were the stars, getting drafted in rounds 2 and 3. Impressive work by Roger getting Blake Smith in the 7th and then Torrance in the 11th rd. Both of them have carved out solid roles in the OHL. Poole and Christy not so much.

In fairness to Poole. He has carved out himself a nice role - he is a very good f/o guy - maybe not in total statistic % but timely wins on PK in own zone is one thing he is very good. He has also had an unfortunate number of injuries, including concussion issues.

 

[ScoutLife4]

In fairness to Poole. He has carved out himself a nice role - he is a very good f/o guy - maybe not in total statistic % but timely wins on PK in own zone is one thing he is very good. He has also had an unfortunate number of injuries, including concussion issues.

Also was very strange to see Heyes even fight. That's definitely outside of his comfort zone.
I thought Poole would have been right in there instead.

 

[Donnie740]

Also was very strange to see Heyes even fight. That's definitely outside of his comfort zone.
I thought Poole would have been right in there instead.

It’s surprising in the sense that Heyes is hopelessly undersized, but in the context of the game it was totally expected.

His team was getting run out of the building, he was being relentlessly heckled by Section 115 and he’d just taken an elbow from Bedkowski.

You could say that Gage was in a rage.

Poole wanted absolutely no part of fighting in an earlier skirmish - - hence why he was being referred to as a turtle throughout the game.

 

[ScoutLife4]

It’s surprising in the sense that Heyes is hopelessly undersized, but in the context of the game it was totally expected.

His team was getting run out of the building, he was being relentlessly heckled by Section 115 and he’d just taken an elbow from Bedkowski.

You could say that Gage was in a rage.

Poole wanted absolutely no part of fighting in an earlier skirmish - - hence why he was being referred to as a turtle throughout the game.

Also should be mentioned Poole was looking at suspension if he got involved. as he is at his max for the season.
Most people would be raged that get a dirty elbow to the face.

 

[Donnie740]

Speaking of the elbow, I’m surprised to see that Bedkowski didn’t get suspended for it. Was fully expecting him to be gone for at least a game or two.

 

[Naz]

Speaking of the elbow, I’m surprised to see that Bedkowski didn’t get suspended for it. Was fully expecting him to be gone for at least a game or two.

I'm not saying Bedkowski should or shouldn't get suspended for the elbow but there is a size deference. Bedkowski is 6'4" and Heyes 5'11" so any hit is going to be a hit to the head, just saying

 

[Handcuffhockey]

Unfortunately I missed the game but after reading all these threads I went back and watched it tonight. Besides Kingston letting in some pretty bad goals, definitely the first four. I have no idea what some of you are talking about, maybe the emotion of the game took hold. The game was two days ago and you can’t stop talking about Poole and Heyes. I’ve read what Donnie740 said about how Poole turtled and he spent the game heckling him and Heyes. What a hero.

First, I’ve seen most if not all of Kingstons fights in the last three years and as for Poole, out of the 10 or so fights he’s had I think I’ve only seen about one tie, most of the guys he’s fought he’s knocked down and I’ve never seen him back down against older players. He’s also only fought once this year, so whoever said he was at his limit was wrong. I assume he hasn’t wanted to get to his limit early and face a potential suspension. As for Heyes, I think he’s had around the same amount of fights and I don’t ever recall him losing clearly, both of those guys mainly fight sticking up for their team mates.

Considering Oshawa scored 8, and both players walked away as a plus I would say they played their role really well in a building that was against them and in a game where their was no coming back to with the score. They broke the goalies shut-out and they were hard to play against.

 

[HUSH10]

Oshawa looked down right awful for the first 14 minutes of the opening frame. Considering Brantford is missing 3 of their top 4 forwards, you would think Oshawa would take advantage of this.

Nope, Oshawa got off the buss 14 minutes late it seems. They need to smarten up this intermission or it's gonna be a long night.

 

[HUSH10]

Well I don't know who phoned in the wake up call but Oshawa answered it in the 2nd period to make it 2-2 going into the 3rd.

Really needed to take advantage of the full 2 mins of 5-3 though to end the period. Big boost of confidence for Brantford going into the 3rd.

 

[Donnie740]

Generals have really turned it up in the 2nd period and Brantford’s lack of depth is beginning to show.

Hopefully the brain trust will move Owen Griffin off the Sennecke/Kumpalainen pairing in the 3rd period so that those two can get going.

 

[HUSH10]

Well I don't know who phoned in the wake up call but Oshawa answered it in the 2nd period to make it 2-2 going into the 3rd.

Really needed to take advantage of the full 2 mins of 5-3 though to end the period. Big boost of confidence for Brantford going into the 3rd.

And that was about all Oshawa played. 6 minutes in the 1st, 20 in the 2nd and 5 mins to end the 3rd.

Too many breakaways and 2 on 1s for a very shall Brantford bench. Oshawa played their worst game since November given the significant skill and bench advantage they had over Brantford.

Brantford shouldve won 5-2 but Oster does what he does and keeps Oshawa in it.

 

[Donnie740]

Missed opportunity for Oshawa to pull even with Brantford and NB for second place in the conference.

Turning point was when Oshawa couldn’t capitalize on a full 2min 5 on 3 power play - - which was really a 5 on 2 after Sobolev blocked a shot and was crumpled on the ice then hopping on one leg for the better part of a minute.

Generals need to sweep both weekend games against two bottom feeders of the league.

 

[Donnie740]

Full house tonight for the rivalry game. Lockhart and Griffin are scratched - - expect Sennecke and Kumpalainen to have a big game with someone else on their line tonight.