Sarnia Sting 2024 - 25 Season Thread, Part I

[JAMER]

Lines are different today.

Brown-Wainwright-Karimov
Filak-Di Iorio-Johnston
Kostuch-Edwards-Doucette
Moses-Luecke

Hopefully this gets Brown and Di Iorio going. They've definitely been fighting it. Doucette seemed to have a little something with Edwards yesterday too.

Also Maillet starts but I think we all knew that lol.

 

[StingUpdates]

Edit: Barr is out due to illness. Let's hope it hasn't spread around the team..last thing u want in a 3in3. Let's also hope it's a small thing for Barr after last yr lol.

 

[stinger94]

Edit: Barr is out due to illness. Let's hope it hasn't spread around the team..last thing u want in a 3in3. Let's also hope it's a small thing for Barr after last yr lol.

I am pretty sure I saw Mangone mouth at Di Orio “this guy has Covid” on Friday so it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s going around.

Few random thoughts through the first few games.

PP is a legitimate liability, need to change up who the QB is as many have said.


Letang not sticking up for his guys and staying silent while they are falling victim to lack of calls. I guess it’s just his style but frustrating to see.

Really liked Edwards on both ends of the puck, great backchecker.

Di Orio defensively has looked really strong to me but idk if things are clicking for him offensively yet.

Karimov strong forechecker and on the rush but east west game could use some refining.

 

[stingwagoner]

Confused Barr scratched?
That isnt going to improve our pp.
Pp is designed by Jeffrey think pk and haley are doing alright its jeffery and pp terrible. Just bad guys in bad spots for success.
Hope we get 2 points today make weekend respectful.
Good for Letang finally moving lines around to get some chemistry going.
Wainwright and Doucette will be next I hope. Like speed and minded players will be dynamite, I'm sure of it. Give them franchesschetti even I'd be good with that even lol

Anderson and bridgewater in lineup together?? Very interesting actually.

 

[frontsfan67]

Confused Barr scratched?

They said above he may have an illness

 

[stingwagoner]

Now we have our best centerman off pp? Hahaha
This staff too much!

 

[StingUpdates]

Didn't give up much of anything but that goal was a baddddd one for Maillet.

PP is an absolute atrocity.

 

[stingwagoner]

Pp play is just the worst I've seen by us in past 10 years, pp2 is young shoot from top on pp2 wow that's not going to work at this level.
Pp1 play is Fischer top pass to doucette for shot so predictable. We need to move puck to bumper and get them chasing and find open guy. Wtf are we doing play the overload then! If can't do anything 1-3-1, then Change or switch to overload PP simplify it for crying out loud.

Weak goal forsure soo's 1st one.

 

[SarniaStingFan]

Tired and disconnected is how I would describe that period. The PP still looks awful and they won't change anything. Fischer takes way too long to make decisions at the top. Despite all that the game should still be 0-0 but Maillet gives up a terrible goal. This game is there for the taking but they have to actually go out and take it

 

[SarniaStingFan]

Didn't give up much of anything but that goal was a baddddd one for Maillet.

PP is an absolute atrocity.

They need to try something on the PP. With Barr out today maybe give Bridgewater a shot one of the PP units. He's one of their better puck movers

 

[StingUpdates]

Sludge of a game which I expected in 3rd of 3in3. Not giving them much. Maillet some big saves. Just need someone to step up & pocket one.

 

[SarniaStingFan]

Sludge of a game which I expected in 3rd of 3in3. Not giving them much. Maillet some big saves. Just need someone to step up & pocket one.

Yeah this hasn't been a great game. The Kostuch-Edwards-Doucette line looked good in that period. Maillet has given them a chance with those two big stops on DeZoete and Hayes. I think Karimov gets a goal in the third. He's had a few good looks including getting robbed on the breakaway

 

[Texcanuck]

Bodin off my bad list… his best game to date. Loved the big hit - Hatcher/Dillingham caliber.
Fischer trying to do too much.
Lines learning to play together but a ways to go yet. Except for Doucette, we don’t have a whole lot of quick release finishers.
As was mentioned on previous page, 4 points of 6 is a pretty decent tally for the weekend.

 

[stingwagoner]

We'll take the 3rd in 3 Win. 4 pts of possible 6
If our PP gets us 1 goal a game in all games this season we would be 4-1
That should be a focus. Put a pp1 together and run them... pp 2 can be young guys learning developing. Until then we will be last in pp which should be embarrassing for Letang and Company!
It's either system or Personelle on ice. Start with vets and earn pp1 selfish players like young and Brown should be pp1 period til change.

Some up coming tests with Bulldogs and Generals this coming week.
We need a pp that gives us a chance or just decline the pps and play 5 on 5.lol

Sim scratched again wonder what happens with that it's not good to scratch him again this year. Chamberlain needs to play too.
Thought Anderson was solid today. Limited ice

 

[StingUpdates]

That was officially one of the weirdest weekends of Sting hockey I've seen lmao. What a bizarre group of games. That final minute was utter chaos & those linesman were just a disaster.

How about the PK?!? 15/16 this year and an OHL best 93.8%! With multiple rookies on it. Kill off 3:31 at the end. Maillet was awesome in his 2nd start. Bad 1st goal & didn't let it bother him. Couple monster saves in the 2nd & 3rd. That should give Letang great trust in him.

Omeri gets a flukey one but he earned that. I've been too critical of him just because I prefer Barr/Bridgewater. He & Hurt were amazing this weekend as the 2nd pair. Thought Young had a great game today too. Gotta love that Bodin hit!! My god that was so much like Dillingham & hatcher. Utter BS the guy who instigated has a cage on. Should be kicked out for that IMO. He has some things to work on but I like him. Moves it well. Monster along the boards..just needs to move his feet more.

I'll say the PP looked semi competent today which is a step... But it's costing this team badly. It HAS to improve. Especially with Brantford and Oshawa upcoming....

All in all very happy. Should've been a 2-0-1 weekend. Still get 4 of 6. Battled hard all 3 games. I thought their defensive play was excellent today & yesterday. These lines seem to mesh better up front. I loved how the vets played 2nd half yesterday and today. Filak/Wainwright/Moses/Doucette skated & battled very hard. All were great on PK.

If they play like this all yr we'll be more than happy as fans & they'll give themselves a shot in most games.

 

[SarniaStingFan]

Well it wasn't pretty but two points is two points. 4/6 points in most of these guys first ever 3-in-3 isn't too shabby at all. Stupid penalty by Karimov in the final few minutes but another great PK to close out the game. We've been very loud in our criticism of the PP (rightfully so) but we should probably be just as loud in our praise of the PK. They've killed off 15 straight penalties since giving up a goal on their first PK of the year. I liked the physicality that we played with in the third. Good hits from Bodin and Doucette. Nice to see Maillet get his first career win. Didn't have to do much but did make those two big saves on DeZoete and Hayes when they were tied in the second. I like Hurt-Omeri as our second D pairing. They were really solid this weekend especially the last two days. Hurt 2A and a +2 this weekend and Omeri with the game winner today and a +1 on the weekend. They'll need to figure out their issues with the forwards and on the PP if they want to have a successful weekend next week. Bulldogs/Generals/Firebirds will a really tough test for this young team