Ottawa 67s 2024-25 Season Thread, Part I

[OMG67]

I think in a typical, cyclical junior hockey world, year 1 rebuild, year 2 retool, year 3 compete for home ice playoff, year 4 compete for winning it all. or some version of that. Years 1 and 2 sell off big, year three small sell off/buy, year 4 all in.

Well, not typical in Ottawa, I guess.

Seeing the roster that we have now, I can't see Ottawa competing for home play off in a couple of years, nor competing for winning it all in 3-4 years.

Bad drafting, bad asset management, suspect coaching decisions.

I said back when it was rumoured we would be in on Mintukov and Morrison, that we had the team to go for it, and if they didn't buy big, I would be disappointed. They didn't do enough, in my mind. I could have livid with the rebuild the next year.

I think you are relatively accurate. But, I don’t think they need to sell big.

The big key is drafting. Obviously you need to draft well otherwise you never have a foundation to build on. The ideal situation is to have a go for it year where you do make some significant trades to augment an already really good team. When you do decide to do that, do it with purpose. DO NOT DO IT PETERBOROUGH STYLE. There is no reason to trade away all your draft picks and two complete draft classes. That is just silly. If you have to do that then you shouldn’t do it at all, regardless of the result.

I wouldn’t define it as a four year cycle either. Do a good job, build and develop players and when the time is right to strike, then strike. You aren’t always going to draft perfectly. You could go 7 years without making a big push. So be it. Be disciplined. Sell off the really big ticket graduating players in years that you are really poor and push the assets forward when it makes sense.

To me, that is a better approach. It doesn’t create unrealistic expectations either.

 

[Hinterland]

No Eshkawkogan or Yanni tonight. With Sirman now gone, Horner goes back to defense. Since Körbler is still out as well, 67's can only dress 10 forwards.

 

[Vector Calculus]

Fun first period. Nelson looked good. Lots of chances both ways. Amidovski got more ice than usual, which isn’t surprising with 10 forwards.

 

[mianjo]

67's lead 1-0 early 2nd

Goal
#11 Henry Mews (1) scores. Assists: #20 Luca Pinelli, #34 Filip Ekberg POWER PLAY 2nd 3:39

 

[mianjo]

2-0

Goal #9 Chris Barlas (2) scores 2nd 8:14

2-1

 

[mianjo]

3-1

Goal
#23 Will Gerrior (6) scores. Assists: #10 Nic Whitehead, #8 Frankie Marrelli POWER PLAY 2nd 14:03

 

[Vector Calculus]

The action continues - nice goals by Barlas and Gerrior followed by a Houben fight. Guelph doing their best 67s impression by taking a couple dumb penalties they can’t kill off. Pinelli makes it 4-1 shortly after the bout.

 

[mianjo]

4-1

Goal
#20 Luca Pinelli (11) scores. Assists: #29 Cooper Foster 2nd 14:59

 

[mianjo]

67's lead 4-1 after 2

 

[mianjo]

4-2

 

[mianjo]

4-3

 

[mianjo]

4-4

OT

 

[mianjo]

67's WIN

Goal
#11 Henry Mews (2) scores. Assists: #20 Luca Pinelli, #10 Nic Whitehead GAME WINNING 4th 4:45

 

[LostRangers]

What a terrible call against Guelph. The D man cross checks the Guelph forward 3 times. Storm retaliates, and the refs with a terrible call. Hope the refs are invited into the dressing room for the post game cellys.
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[44 95 plus tax]

What a terrible call against Guelph. The D man cross checks the Guelph forward 3 times. Storm retaliates, and the refs with a terrible call. Hope the refs are invited into the dressing room for the post game cellys.
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Dude, c'mon.

 

[LostRangers]

That’s your answer. At least tell me I can’t count.

 

[gadder]

A battle of not-so-good teams. Ottawa had the game up 2 goals with 2 minutes to go then 2 goals against. Can't see how that wasn't a goaltender interference on the tying goal. Good play points:
- Houben is stepping up and being really physical (for a rookie). Someone (who?) will have to show him some fighting skills but he's on the right path.
- Dietsch was pretty solid for pretty much a rookie. Just put him on the ice in good spots and let him grow.
- Horner was really good tonight. Aggressive, battling, and on for the toughest moments.
- Nelson seems fine. He's settling down and the only goals he gave up were goalmouth scrambles.

 

[Vector Calculus]

What a terrible call against Guelph. The D man cross checks the Guelph forward 3 times. Storm retaliates, and the refs with a terrible call. Hope the refs are invited into the dressing room for the post game cellys.
S

Terrible take - Mayich could have been called, but the retaliation by #72 well after the whistle in open ice was such a stupid penalty to take. The refs had a rough night overall, but that call ain’t the reason why. The review that completely whiffed on the goaltender interference on Guelph’s 3rd goal and Pinelli’s phantom hold were far worse.

 

[LostRangers]

Terrible take - Mayich could have been called, but the retaliation by #72 well after the whistle in open ice was such a stupid penalty to take. The refs had a rough night overall, but that call ain’t the reason why. The review that completely whiffed on the goaltender interference on Guelph’s 3rd goal and Pinelli’s phantom hold were far worse.

Only saw from that play forward as I jumped over from rangers game. My point is, there are 6 skaters on the ice. Both refs had to have seen the initial cross checks. You can’t ignore that and then call the one retaliation. It’s not like he took one and then gave it right back. He took multiple, probably decided that meant the whistle was in the pocket, and exacted his own revenge.
Not ripping on the players. Just awful game management from the officials.
Don’t want to look like a troll so will quietly sneak off to our thread.

 

[Vector Calculus]

A battle of not-so-good teams. Ottawa had the game up 2 goals with 2 minutes to go then 2 goals against. Can't see how that wasn't a goaltender interference on the tying goal. Good play points:
- Houben is stepping up and being really physical (for a rookie). Someone (who?) will have to show him some fighting skills but he's on the right path.
- Dietsch was pretty solid for pretty much a rookie. Just put him on the ice in good spots and let him grow.
- Horner was really good tonight. Aggressive, battling, and on for the toughest moments.
- Nelson seems fine. He's settling down and the only goals he gave up were goalmouth scrambles.

Agree with all of this. Tonight was Houben’s best game even ignoring the fight completely. He was also being rewarded with those most ice time he has seen all year - and a regular shift with Pinelli and Foster in the third. Things are coming together for him. The whole defensive corps also had a pretty good game and the deployment seemed a little more balanced than I would have guessed when I saw Mews and Mayich paired in the warmup…I thought they were going to play 30 minutes+ tonight.

You can’t ignore that and then call the one retaliation. It’s not like he took one and then gave it right back. He took multiple, probably decided that meant the whistle was in the pocket, and exacted his own revenge.

Strong disagree - Mayich could have been called but that battle was happening during the play. To “exact his own revenge” well after the whistle when everything else had settled down was dumb, dumb, dumb and absolutely deserved to be called. Be the bigger man and don’t put the refs in a position to put your team short in OT with a selfish play like that, 72.

 

[beastintheeast]

The bottom line that all players are told is if you retaliate expect it to be what the refs see. Unless the other guy is really offending then only the retaliator gets it.

 

[OMG67]

What a terrible call against Guelph. The D man cross checks the Guelph forward 3 times. Storm retaliates, and the refs with a terrible call. Hope the refs are invited into the dressing room for the post game cellys.
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Well, I have zero issues with the no call on Mayich when he checked MacKenzie to the ice. He was clearing his crease. HOWEVER, when Mayich leaned over and cross checked him again when he was on the ice and broke his stick into two pieces, that was 100% a penalty and should be a called every time and in every situation. Mayich got away with one there.

But, when MacKenzie got back up and planted a blind side heavy cross check across the ribs of Mayich in retaliation, that was pretty brutal. I’m not sure that is a major penalty but pretty close. That was an intent to injure IMO.

The net result with Ottawa getting the PP was the right result but I wouldn’t be surprised if the MacKenzie cross check is reviewed and supplementary discipline were handed out. This league usually leans in the side of caution with discipline. You could see MacKenzie was super mad and that was clear intent to cause damage. He could care less about the penalty.