Oshawa Generals 2024-25 Season Thread, Part 1

[Fischhaber]

Who’s buying the remaining top OAs? How high could prices get in a bidding war between Brampton and Kingston for Allard, Misajelic, and Swick?

We saw Peer go for 2,3,3,4,11 last year. That could be a solid comp for Misaljevic.

We saw Morrison go for 2,2,3,3,4,4 in the year before that. It's probably the best recent comp for Allard. Different styles of players, but Allard's WJHC selection is an indication of his more well rounded game.

Of course, early season trades require a premium like we saw with Wakely, so we'll have to see. Sometimes teams wait too long and get very little like we saw with the Generals great trade for Punnett last year.

 

[Jackintheshwa]

Unless Gens wake up in the third, Pete’s will get their 1st. win of the year.

 

[frontsfan67]

Gonna be a hell of a third

 

[frontsfan67]

Gonna be a hell of a third

Wow

 

[OMG67]

JEZUS. This is like kicking granny in the face now!

 

[Generalsupdates]

Impressive 3rd period and OT to pick up another big 2 points for 5 in a row and 8 of their last 9 now. With their 2 best players back in the lineup, that's no longer a bad Petes team and they looked to have the game in hand before the Gens dominated them 16-5 in shots in the 3rd and then outchanced them like 5-0 in OT. That must be as good a PP that went 0/6 has looked, as 5 of the 6 PPs the Gens had 2/3 great chances. Barlow was beside himself a couple times with open nets on on timers and Bowen either robbed him or he missed the net. That PP is fun to watch the way they can swing the puck around.

The Ritchie assist on the Buckley goal was disgusting.

Also hilarious how bad the Gens were in the shootout last year and now suddenly they're 4/4 shooting and Gravelle has stopped 4/5 for a 2-0 record in their 2 shootouts. He was very solid tonight and looked like the 2nd round goalie they expected him to be when they drafted him there

 

[Leviathan899]

Anyone who would still rather have Delisle and Bedkowski over Barlow on this roster is insane to me.

Losing Bedkowski sucks but you gotta give up young talent to get established talent, art of the deal.

Delisle was in the role that Griffin is in now after the deal and I would take Griffin over Delisle most days.

Barlow had a slow start but that is more than fine. If he stays at a point per game going forward, that's more than either player would've produced year long, probably combined.

Despite no points tonight in Ptbo, I think I lost count of how many grade A scoring chances he had tonight, and just couldn’t finish. He’s getting a lot of opportunities and they’re going to start going in in bunches imo. Can tell he’s forcing it a bit right now but doing some good things away from the puck and still generating lots of chances. Great play by Ritchie on the tying goal, what a play to beat the D and then send it back to Buckley. Ptbo is not as bad as their record indicates, they play hard and Bowen has been a thorn in oshawa’s side so far this season, keeping games close when they probably shouldn’t be.