Sarnia Sting 2024 - 25 Season Thread, Part I

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Simpson makes his Sting/OHL debut tonight. Also George is not starting for Owen Sound tonight.

 

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Simpson makes his Sting/OHL debut tonight. Also George is not starting for Owen Sound tonight.

Gotta take advantage of that!

I doubt that 4th line sees much ice. 2 rooks & Sim. Letang ain't playing that more than 5 shifts lol.

 

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Absolutely no way that is a 5 minute major. What a horrific call. Thats 2 guy battling for a puck & Wainwright was stronger & Leonard goes down awkwardly. now we are without our 1C the rest of night. Obviously hope Leonard is alright, but that's bad. Cant call penalties because of the outcome. If his wrist didn't get jammed they wouldn't of called it let alone a 5.

So now our 4 usual Cs & top pair are all out lol. Absurd. Gotta minimize the damage on this joke of a major.

 

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Absolutely no way that is a 5 minute major. What a horrific call. Thats 2 guy battling for a puck & Wainwright was stronger & Leonard goes down awkwardly. now we are without our 1C the rest of night. Obviously hope Leonard is alright, but that's bad. Cant call penalties because of the outcome. If his wrist didn't get jammed they wouldn't of called it let alone a 5.

So now our 4 usual Cs & top pair are all out lol. Absurd. Gotta minimize the damage on this joke of a major.

A 5 and a game because Leonard lost an edge. And now we're with out are top 3Cs not good. Hopefully Leonard is OK and Wainwright doesn't get suspended.

 

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Absolutely no way that is a 5 minute major. What a horrific call. Thats 2 guy battling for a puck & Wainwright was stronger & Leonard goes down awkwardly. now we are without our 1C the rest of night. Obviously hope Leonard is alright, but that's bad. Cant call penalties because of the outcome. If his wrist didn't get jammed they wouldn't of called it let alone a 5.

So now our 4 usual Cs & top pair are all out lol. Absurd. Gotta minimize the damage on this joke of a major.

I hope Leonard is alright but yeah there's no way that's anything. They're battling for the puck and Wainwright hits him from the side creating an awkward fall for Leonard.

Team needs to wake up though. Don't really care what the score was. They shouldn't be leading the game. Played a horrible period against one of the worst teams in the league. Starting on time has been a massive problem this year

 

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A 5 and a game because Leonard lost an edge. And now we're with out are top 3Cs not good. Hopefully Leonard is OK and Wainwright doesn't get suspended.

Actually down our top 5Cs lol

Wainwright
Di Iorio
Edwards
Hall
Chamberlain

Just insanity.

I hope Leonard is alright but yeah there's no way that's anything. They're battling for the puck and Wainwright hits him from the side creating an awkward fall for Leonard.

Team needs to wake up though. Don't really care what the score was. They shouldn't be leading the game. Played a horrible period against one of the worst teams in the league. Starting on time has been a massive problem this year

Issues now is they played L4 1 shift. U can't run 8Fs all night. Gonna have to play those guys more & the 1 shift they got they didn't touch the puck.

Gonna have 1 guy who actually has played C left in Filak.

But I agree. Their 1sts recently have been horrendous.

 

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Jeez where the heck was Omeri going on that goal. Young/Filak already in the battle don't need to leave the front of the net to join in. Completely leaves McCue who scores.

 

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4 straight games where we've given up a 5 on 3. Also 4 straight games of giving up a delay of game penalty. Gotta stay the hell outta the box.

 

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That's a pathetic call on Franceshcetti. After OS has had 4 straight PPs.

 

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Nah this is fricken brutal. Kostuch hit from behind again. No call. But Sarnia cant do ANYTHING without being called. Clear cut icing on OS PP not called leads to a near goal. Puck is loose so Franceschetti stabs at it & he gets slashing.

An absolute circus.

 

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Annnnd Karimov giveth & taketh away. Scores a nice goal then a brutal, brutal turnover with under 15 seconds left & they tie it. A horrible goal to give up & is the exact reason why Letang has been hesitant to give him T6 minutes.

Omeri again also for no reason dashed for the middle completely leaving his side where the goal was scored. Been his worst game of the year.

 

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How does Barr get a penalty there.

 

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How does Barr get a penalty there.

It was probably a penalty, but when the other team can seemingly do no wrong it's absolutely maddening.

3 guys jump on Simpson. It's offsetting minors lmfao.

I hate to complain like this, but seriously one of the most one sided reffed games I've seen recently. 17 PP mins to 2 tonight. In a close checking, tight game.

 

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First & foremost, they did not play a good game tonight. Did not generate anywhere near enough vs a rookie goalie who's struggled. Defensively way to many great looks. But that game was an absolute joke. Even the linesman were fricken horrible. draw on 4-2 goal Moses wasn't even set yet when they dropped it. kicked out someone every draw it felt like

Lose our 1C in the 1st on a garbage call. Never got any momentum because every 2 minutes we got sent to the box while OS could do 0 wrong all night. A completely maddening, awful game to watch on so many levels. Had never seen either of those guys ref a game before & I hope it's the last time I ever do.

Also a game that showcases the leadership out of the lineup because Fischer, Wainwright, Bodin maybe calm things down a bit. Even Di Iorio/Edwards are very calm players. They clearly got frustrated by the reffing & stopped playing their game.

That was probably our last shot at a win on this road trip from hell where what can go wrong, probably will. Let's just hope they don't lose even more guys by the end of the stupid trip.

 

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Don't have much to say about tonight's game. Easily the worst game of the year. The box score will fool people but Surzycia was excellent. Could have been a 10-2 game with all the chances OS had.

Defence and discipline have to be the focus for Letang this weekend. Played great team defence on Saturday and won. Then played terrible team defence today and lost. Officiating wasn't great tonight but discipline has gone from being a strength to a weakness since the road trip started. 21 PP's for our opponents in the last three games is nowhere near acceptable. Puts more unnecessary stress on a PK that's missing five key pieces.

It will be tough to win anymore games on the trip but hopefully they put in some good efforts in the final four games

 

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Don't have much to say about tonight's game. Easily the worst game of the year. The box score will fool people but Surzycia was excellent. Could have been a 10-2 game with all the chances OS had.

Defence and discipline have to be the focus for Letang this weekend. Played great team defence on Saturday and won. Then played terrible team defence today and lost. Officiating wasn't great tonight but discipline has gone from being a strength to a weakness since the road trip started. 21 PP's for our opponents in the last three games is nowhere near acceptable. Puts more unnecessary stress on a PK that's missing five key pieces.

It will be tough to win anymore games on the trip but hopefully they put in some good efforts in the final four games

I'll say I think alot of it has been guys being thrown into spots they aren't ready for. These delay of game penalties are because of panic plays. Fischer, Bodin, Di Iorio, Edwards, Wainwright (tonight) probably don't make those errors.

Same with some D getting caught then having to take penalties, or getting stuck out for to long then taking a tired penalty.

All things that stem from missing your top 2D & 2 of your best Fs.

But they've also taken some really dumb penalties that hasnt helped & those need to be cleaned up.

Surzycia was outstanding tonight. Been a great first 15 starts for him.