Peterborough Petes 2024-25 Season Thread, Part II

[OHLFAN16]

Well, another one that got away due to shitty coaching. I don’t know if pinning is something he learned in Europe but it sure does not work on this team. Ample opportunities this season to get pucks out but instead try to pin it which then leads to goals. PP at its finest has now dropped to 19th in the league and holding on by a slim point 2 not to finish worst. Leadership has to be better all around, penalties for sticking up for good hits costing us, diving cost us, being on for 6 of the last 8 goals against needs to be fixed and finally cutting ties and accepting loses with coaching.

 

[WillardJFredricks]

Well, another one that got away due to shitty coaching. I don’t know if pinning is something he learned in Europe but it sure does not work on this team. Ample opportunities this season to get pucks out but instead try to pin it which then leads to goals. PP at its finest has now dropped to 19th in the league and holding on by a slim point 2 not to finish worst. Leadership has to be better all around, penalties for sticking up for good hits costing us, diving cost us, being on for 6 of the last 8 goals against needs to be fixed and finally cutting ties and accepting loses with coaching.

They've lost a lot of games because of this style. They have a lead in the 3rd and instead of trying to continue attempting to score, they just shut it down. Grind on the boards and ice the puck constantly. Seems like 9 out of 10 times it comes back to bite them and it's so frustrating to watch. It must be frustrating for the players to have to essentially give up if they have a lead in the 3rd.

 

[User13452]

Realistically the Petes should be adding Novotny, top 4 pick in the ohl draft and a top 10 pick in the import draft. Should be 3 high impact players plus I would expect at least 2 different OA’s as well

 

[NorthernVoice]

They've lost a lot of games because of this style. They have a lead in the 3rd and instead of trying to continue attempting to score, they just shut it down. Grind on the boards and ice the puck constantly. Seems like 9 out of 10 times it comes back to bite them and it's so frustrating to watch. It must be frustrating for the players to have to essentially give up if they have a lead in the 3rd.

Playing not to lose over and over again. Just like refusing to pull the goalie early. He's "old school" in so many ways and some still work but man he feels like a relic from another era sometimes.

 

[Section5Petes]

Realistically the Petes should be adding Novotny, top 4 pick in the ohl draft and a top 10 pick in the import draft. Should be 3 high impact players plus I would expect at least 2 different OA’s as well

Plus maybe we get some extra luck and Alex Hage finds himself in Peterborough too...

 

[OMEGARAZER]

I am not usually a critic but Barrie really came on in the 3rd period and the puck was in the Petes end 90% of the time and the only thing that was keeping the Petes in the game was Rye. My beef is the Petes centers I swear lost 99% of the faceoffs in their own end, Bryant was brutal. Is there no one else that can take a faceoff, how about Melee. One more comment Stonehouse is a real bonus to this team but Iam afraid that we will be watching the playoffs from the sidelines.

I was referring to the two penalties in quick succession in the second but yeah, the team fell apart in the third, not gonna bother going through and figuring out the faceoff stats for just the third but Melee was the only one that was good last night. Usually, McCallum is good but was terrible last night.

Your team deserved a bettter fate last night

They've lost a lot of games because of this style. They have a lead in the 3rd and instead of trying to continue attempting to score, they just shut it down. Grind on the boards and ice the puck constantly. Seems like 9 out of 10 times it comes back to bite them and it's so frustrating to watch. It must be frustrating for the players to have to essentially give up if they have a lead in the 3rd.

Losing by one when half the goals are on the PP and your goalie is running a 909 save percentage isn't a great look. Barrie did have them in their end for most of the third but at this level, you would think they should be able to at least clear the zone and get line changes without forcing a whistle or just dumping it down for a possible icing, they just don't ever seem to want to. Playing the pin and kill time game only works when you're able to reliably get ahead and are defensively sound. Neither of those things is a strong point of the team this season.

Realistically the Petes should be adding Novotny, top 4 pick in the ohl draft and a top 10 pick in the import draft. Should be 3 high impact players plus I would expect at least 2 different OA’s as well

Plus maybe we get some extra luck and Alex Hage finds himself in Peterborough too...

Hosting the prospects game should hopefully be a good draw point for Novotny, Hage and possibly the other import if they're not already signed. I'd like to be hopeful that the league will allow the franchise the first overall pick for the first time but at this point, they may as well take it as a point of pride being the longest continuous franchise in the league and never having had first pick. Only had a second pick once as well. The OA situation is IMO going to be the biggest thing to figure out for next season.

Playing not to lose over and over again. Just like refusing to pull the goalie early. He's "old school" in so many ways and some still work but man he feels like a relic from another era sometimes.

Last night wasn't a pull goalie game, but they do generally wait too long. Play an extremely defence oriented game, this season has hopefully taught them that they need to work some offence into the game too though.

 

[NorthernVoice]

Last night wasn't a pull goalie game, but they do generally wait too long. Play an extremely defence oriented game, this season has hopefully taught them that they need to work some offence into the game too though.

Thursday night they were down one and Brampton took a penalty with 2:32 left in the third. Absolute textbook time to take him out. Didn't happen til there was close to one minute left.

Playing not to lose.