No one seems to be mentioning everything started way before this. If you watch the highlight video (I'll drop a link here), you can see Zayne was already gesturing to the Ice Dogs bench during his goal.
Oh yeah. Was watching the game and the two teams were going at it from the get go and I have no idea why.
Totally saw that...I've been the first to admit on the Spirit board and here that Zayne is going to lose some teeth this year because he's cocky and isn't afraid of giving cheap shots. If he wasn't on our team, I'd absolutely hate him as a player...all the skills in the world but he certainly attracts attention from the other team and seems to embrace the villain role on the team.
Greater than zero or there would have been no reason for Saginaw to trade for his rights. Remember earlier in the season Saginaw traded for fellow Columbus prospect Lalonde to get him out of a less than desirable situation so maybe there is some inside baseball between Saginaw management and Columbus brass. Not sure how contracts work but I’m sure Luca is going to get his 9 games in the AHL before any decision is made. Going to come down to if Columbus wants him scratched every couple of games in the A playing <15 minutes in a bottom 6 role, or as a top line guy playing 20+ a night in the memorial cup with players like Misa who the way Columbus is headed couples be inline for 1.01 in 2025
Okay good to know! It would be interesting if he were to come back.
Good to see Christopolus get his first with the Spirit. Had a couple great chances earlier in the game but Sarnia’s goalie was playing great despite what the score says. Now he can have that pressure off and keep putting them in net.
And Lalonde is just as serviceable for a backup when needed - it never was his fault when we had the short losing streak.
I think Oke's play has been very solid but the play in front of him has been much better...blocking shots, tying up the guy in front and winning those 50/50 pucks all make a goalie that much better. That said, our system still gives up way more odd-man chances (there was a 2 on 0 last night in 5on5 situation) than I'm comfortable with but Oke has seemed up to the task on those for the most part. There's been a few goals where it's like "man, seems like he should have had that" but then he sprawls out 2 or 3 times and saves our bacon and you can live with those other little ones. I'm sure he'll get more and more confident now that he's back from injury and out of Lennox's shadow so I doubt you'll see any movement for our goalies...Oke and Lalonde will be the 2 for us the rest of the year (barring injuries).
I think Saginaw has only had 26 players play a game for them this season. Of those 26, Jacob Cloutier might end up on a B card as it looks like he is playing with the Chatham Maroons. So 25 or 26 cards is what I count.
