Sarnia Sting 2024 - 25 Season Thread, Part I

[StingUpdates]

Bodin hurt now. It's unbelievable how every fricken November this team seems to get hammered by guys leaving the lineup. Now in the midst of an 8 game gauntlet all on the road they don't have Fischer (best D/player), Bodin (top pair, PK), Di Iorio (2C, PP1, PK), Edwards (3C, PP1, PK)..

Credit to them for not rolling over at 3-0 and battling back. I honestly though they'd lose 8-1 after the first 10 minutes. Uncharacteristically undisciplined all night & it cost them 3PPGs & the game. Karimov is consistently one of this teams most dangerous Fs. Even more so than Brown & Kostuch. Letang has gotta be the worst coach in history with pulling the goalie. don't gotta reinvent the wheel here, Alan its pretty straight forward. Christ.

Another good showing from Chamberlain I thought. He's been looking better & better as of late. Doesn't look overwhelmed at all playing 3C. He could learn a lot from Wainwright. Similar size, skating ability & 2way play (at 16).

Placing Martone's over/under at 3.5 points tomorrow. Im guessing he gets it by the end of the 2nd.

 

[stingwagoner]

Just hard to watch the 1st period of this team. Very hard. 9 pps we gave the Gens? We had 4. Think letang has lost his mind Johnston 1st pp and gaughan second pp just nuts who makes these calls.
Good games by Karimov, wainwright and thought bridgewater was solid.
Need more guys on board.

 

[SarniaStingFan]

Far too undisciplined. You're never going to beat a top team like Oshawa when you give them 9 PPs. Annoying part was almost all the penalties were avoidable. Karimov's slash was the only "good" penalty that they took. Despite my recent criticism of the PK, you can't really blame them much when two of the goals were 5v3.

We held our own at 5v5. Outscored them 2-1 and the shots were 16-13 Oshawa. Wainwright played a good game. 1G/1A/+2. Great shot on his goal, nice play along the boards to setup Moses, and then flattened Sandhu in the third. Karimov had another solid game. His physical presence is increasing as his confidence grows.

Losing Bodin would be a massive blow to the d-core and force Hurt/Young to play 30 minutes a night like Fischer did last year. Tomorrow's game against Brampton could be rough. Martone is either getting held off the scoresheet or will have 5 points. I'm going to say he gets 5 points lol.