You guys are in a rebuild year, and your conference has 7 teams all going for it. You are in tough every night. I dont think the London Knights 3 win record is in jeapardy though. Your team is the youngest team in the league when you look at age on the roster, 17.4yr. I think KW is next at 17.9. Issue is right now, you have a 16 yr leading your team in scoring. 3 20yr olds and 2 19yr old forwards with total of 4 goals total. 1 16 yr old and 2 17 yr olds with 6 goals total. Older guys need to step up and start contributing. I guess question is was the championship worth the year of rebuild? Found this on the threads (credit to someone else for posting)
| 1995-96 London Knights 3-60-3 |
| 1996-97 London Knights 13-51-2 |
| 1997-98 tie North Bay Centenniels 15-41-6-4 |
| Toronto St. Michaels 15-41-9-1 |
| 1998-99 Mississauga Ice Dogs 4-56-3-5 |
| 1999-00 Mississauga Ice Dogs 9-56-1-2 |
| 2000-01 Mississauga Ice Dogs 3-56-7-2 |
| 2001-02 Mississauga Ice Dogs 11-47-6-4 |
| 2002-03 Saginaw Spirit 11-45-5-7 |
| 2003-04 Belleville Bulls 15-44-8-1 |
| 2004-05 Oshawa Generals 15-48-3-2 |
| 2005-06 Sarnia Sting 17-46-2-3 |
| 2006-07 Erie Otters 15-50-1-2 |
| 2007-08 Sudbury Wolves 17-46-2-3 |
| 2008-09 Kingston Frontenacs 18-40-6-4 |
| 2009-10 Sarnia Sting 17-46-3-2 |
| 2010-11 Barrie Colts 15-49-2-2 |
| 2011-12 Erie Otters 10-52-3-3 |
| 2012-13 Ottawa 67's 16-46-0-6 |
| 2013-14 Sarnia Sting 17-44-2-5 |
| 2014-15 Sudbury Wolves 12-54-1-1 |
| 2015-16 Guelph Storm 13-49-4-2 |
| 2016-17 Barrie Colts 17-44-6-1 |
| 2017-18 Sudbury Wolves 17-42-9-0 |
I don't think they'll approach the Knights record. We all knew it would be a rough season, especially the first half. I expected they'd end up in 8th (maybe 7th because the standings tend to get bunched up) and we'd get 2 home playoff games.
I think the issue I'm having right now is not so much the losses but the perplexing play. There isn't much development of the young core happening yet (minus Fitzgerald who will be the best player on the team very soon...if he isn't already). The coaching is an issue. They just repeat the same mistakes over and over and it's tough to have any confidence whatsoever in the coaching staff. But we're stuck with them for a long time.
I'm hoping they can get 5 wins before the Christmas break. Ideally one or two at home because the attendance was down significantly on Thursday and I'd expect it to continue like that because there's no real reason to go a game unless you're a diehard.
I also thought that, despite all the losses in the second half last year, they worked hard and I was optimistic that would continue. There just seems to be a lot of problems with this group (from management decisions on down) that go beyond just losing games, which was expected.
I'm getting a bit of deja vu to the awful years around 2010-2015 where everything was a disaster. I'd just like to see some development and better coaching/management decisions.
