Ottawa 67s 2024-25 Season Thread, Part II

[OMG67]

You forget one thing the goals were scored by players that know how to find the corners of the net. London just doesnot shoot at the net like most teams they aim their shots and are pretty accurate.

LOL. OK. We get it. The Knights are invincible. Unstoppable. Nothing the goalies could do facing their Superhero skills.

 

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I can only hope that after this weekend Boyd has to know that this is not a buyers year. Squeaking by a Peterborough team that has won twice this year and getting totally dominated by London can only show that we are not able to play with the big boys. There is no way we will be able to compete with anyone in the top half of the conference.

And speaking of big boys, I am really getting tired of teams coming into our barn, 6 inches taller and 30 pounds heavier, pushing us around. Mayich, who is one of our bigger players, would be average size on the London team. We lost the OHL championship to Guelph because of that. We lost in the second round to the Petes, because of that. We lost last year to Oshawa, because of that. We end up taking stupid penalties trying to play big and tough. And when your PK is 67%, that is not good.

People on here talk of good drafting. I disagree. Marco Rossi is the only 67 in the past 10 years to play regularly in the NHL. I really can't see anyone in the future playing NHL regularly. Perhaps Mews, but personally I think he will be AHL at best. Maybe that is more on development, but you need the players to develop.

Whitehead had his best game that I have seen yesterday. He's the only one that showed up to play. Time to move him up between Pinelli and Stonehouse.

And don't confuse the three goals we scored in the third as good 5v5 play. London mailed it in for the third period. Also two bad goals on the London goalie. That was a terrible game from the 67's.

 

[OMG67]

I can only hope that after this weekend Boyd has to know that this is not a buyers year. Squeaking by a Peterborough team that has won twice this year and getting totally dominated by London can only show that we are not able to play with the big boys. There is no way we will be able to compete with anyone in the top half of the conference.

And speaking of big boys, I am really getting tired of teams coming into our barn, 6 inches taller and 30 pounds heavier, pushing us around. Mayich, who is one of our bigger players, would be average size on the London team. We lost the OHL championship to Guelph because of that. We lost in the second round to the Petes, because of that. We lost last year to Oshawa, because of that. We end up taking stupid penalties trying to play big and tough. And when your PK is 67%, that is not good.

People on here talk of good drafting. I disagree. Marco Rossi is the only 67 in the past 10 years to play regularly in the NHL. I really can't see anyone in the future playing NHL regularly. Perhaps Mews, but personally I think he will be AHL at best. Maybe that is more on development, but you need the players to develop.

Whitehead had his best game that I have seen yesterday. He's the only one that showed up to play. Time to move him up between Pinelli and Stonehouse.

And don't confuse the three goals we scored in the third as good 5v5 play. London mailed it in for the third period. Also two bad goals on the London goalie. That was a terrible game from the 67's.

Don’t confuse NHL players with OHL players. If it is about winning at the OHL level, developing NHL prospects isn’t the be-all/end-all.

With respect to the drafting approach in rounds one and two, I agree. Those two rounds we should be drafting size where possible. But, as has been mentioned a few times by others, sometimes that can be difficult when the 67’s are drafting on the back end of the first round. That said, I am still (again) bewildered Boyd passed on Beaudoin and selected Mews. We were so short on size and centres, he passes up on a big Ottawa centre and selects the converted forward offensive D-Man.

He did draft Brzustewicz and Amidovski in each of the last two 1st rounds. Both have size. I’d like to think he is adapting a bit. Houben has received a good amount of ice in hopes of him developing. I think they are slowly moving in the right direction with respect to size. the reality is if you don’t pick it early, you won’t get skilled ones later. They need to work harder on accessing it earlier.

We should draft early in the 1st round each of the next two drafts. The Saginaw 2nd in 2026 should be an early pick. They will 100% rebuild next year. Look for them to recoup draft picks next year moving Misa (if he is returned) and Parekh.

We will have some size for the next cycle I think. Dietsch is a good size. Bonomo is a good size. Two bigger kids on the back end. It would be great if we could sign the two Barnett kids. Two more decent sized kids on the back end. USNTDP kids so they will be a tough sign but you never know.

We will see how things go over the next two drafts. They will obviously be important. If we can snag some size in each of the next two 1st rounds and then manage to still kill it in the middle rounds getting those Gerrior types, we will be ok. But, as you mention, if we draft small skill in the fist two rounds constantly, we will need to trade for size and that doesn’t come cheap!