Sarnia Sting 2024 - 25 Season Thread, Part I

[StingUpdates]

Brown-Beamish-Filak
Edwards-Wainwright-Karimov
Kostuch-Di Iorio-Doucette
Franceschetti-Moses

Fischer-Bodin
Hurt-Barr
Bridgewater-Omeri
Andersen

Maillet

Beamish already to line 1 lol. Would not of taken Karimov off that line where he just had 2G but whatever. No Johnston.

Shocked to see Maillet start. I know Surzycia been playing a lot but he was great vs BRMP last time & they have the best line in the league. Day off tomorrow too.

Better see a better effort tonight.

 

[stingwagoner]

Now beamish to 1st line tonight lol just saw some spit in Wainwright's and
Di iorio's face. That is what they call coaching and building confidence and keeping it in his players that have battled for him. Beamish Come on in get all the ice we will play you 1st line if you come. lol karimov on second line after had his best game. This coach plays mental games with his players. As it seems he is grasping at straws I'm sure he feels the heat, and rightly he should.
Not sure how can expect much when 3rd line only line the same but let's just see if beamish is on pp1 too. Hope it's worth the drive tonight. Keep eye on letang if he is checked out leaning on back wall all game or has energy as team takes identity of coach and we are what he is.

 

[StingUpdates]

Best period in a month. Great stuff. Top line has some real chemistry already. Maillet very sharp. Gotta keep it up!

 

[StingUpdates]

So.
Unbelievably.
Maddening.

Brown is putting together one of the unluckiest years in awhile. Dude had multiple grade A looks & set up a few and has nothing. Very loud F bomb going off his final shift.

This game is very similar to Ottawa. Great 1st. Bad but not awful 2nd. Then the 3rd was an atrocity. See if they follow that same path in the 3rd.

 

[StingUpdates]

Not even sure what to say. Probably their best loss in awhile. Played fairly well vs a good team. Ivankovic made some amazing saves.

But once again they finish the game on the PP this time with a chance to tie it and they don't. Letang doesn't use his timeout AGAIN. Waits until just under 2 minutes to pull the goalie.

Maillet was really strong. I liked the F lines tonight. I'm sure they'll be changed for Sunday. Defensively pretty strong.

Honestly wasn't blown away by Martone like I was expecting, but still an incredible talent.

Had they won WED like they should've I wouldn't be too upset. But they didn't & now blow a 2-0 lead to lose.

Team is sinking. Fast.

 

[stingwagoner]

Didn't like the letang call putting beamish out take faceoff 20 seconds left in own end. Just not the time for that. Result goal, not on beamish just bad call by letang. Was great 1st period then slowly downhill left poor fischer on for last 2 mins could barely skate to retrieve puck.
We didnt get entirely outplayed but still something didn't seem right. Pp well what more can we say poorly coached.pk was pretty solid though but I think that's on the boys for wanting it.

 

[stingwagoner]

Mailett was solid tonight, brown was flying and working hard just no pick luck pretty wild how fast letang lost interest in Edward's just pushing him down. Was playing alot better as a centerman, now seems like doubting himself or something.

 

[JAMER]

Not even sure what to say. Probably their best loss in awhile. Played fairly well vs a good team. Ivankovic made some amazing saves.

But once again they finish the game on the PP this time with a chance to tie it and they don't. Letang doesn't use his timeout AGAIN. Waits until just under 2 minutes to pull the goalie.

Maillet was really strong. I liked the F lines tonight. I'm sure they'll be changed for Sunday. Defensively pretty strong.

Honestly wasn't blown away by Martone like I was expecting, but still an incredible talent.

Had they won WED like they should've I wouldn't be too upset. But they didn't & now blow a 2-0 lead to lose.

Team is sinking. Fast.

This team has to be leading the league. In goals allowed in the 1st min of a period and the last min of a period.

 

[stingwagoner]

We have most games played and in last in our division yet 3rd last in conference.and 4rh last in league. Alarm bells yet? We are not making playoffs at this rate and fans will fall off slowly. Legwand I'm sure is keeping an eye

 

[StingUpdates]

9 games until Christmas.

We get to see what kind of owner Legwand is. If they go 2-7 there has to be changed. Assistants. Letang. Whatever. Has to be.

They are 2 points out of a playoff spot and OS has 3 games in hand. This is inexcusable even with that 8 game trip from hell.

They've gotten great goaltending. Their rookies have been sensational. Their vets have been pretty strong.

This falls on the coaches & I'm not sure how it's arguable. Awful PP. Awful PK. Awful 4on4. Awful 3on3. Awful late game. Awful to start games. Regression among 17 yr olds. Every red flag you can have.

 

[Stingfan91]

I vote for stingupdates, JAMER and stingwagoner to take over the coaching duties because they seem to know the most about hockey and how to turn this team around.

 

[StingUpdates]

I vote for stingupdates, JAMER and stingwagoner to take over the coaching duties because they seem to know the most about hockey and how to turn this team around.

I shot PP coach.

 

[stingwagoner]

Stingfan91 you clearly don't see the bug picture your actually sticking up for this crew when the direction should be trending up and we are trending down bigtime.
Coaching change is probably not happening DS seems to be on the limb with Letang ans co. But anyone that sees the game and knows the game sees this staff taking team down wrong path. Which could hurt next years team as well. That's all. Big picture

 

[StingUpdates]

Sarnia Sting continue talks with potential NCAA prospects

Talks between the Sarnia Sting and prospects eyeing U.S. colleges have picked up now that players don’t have to decide between the CHL and NCAA.

www.theobserver.ca

Interesting article/interview with Seca. Openly says multiple guys they've drafted that are going NCAA wanna play for them.

Definitely tho seems he doesn't want guys who'd only be here for this season & he also doesn't wanna just bring in 3-4-5 guys for the hell of it.

Most likely to me.

RW - Nick Kosiba. Be here this yr & next.
D - Jonathan Kapageridis. Be here this yr & next.
D - Nicholas Bogas. Be here for sure this yr & next & possibly yr after since he's 16.

F - Chase Jette. Be here this yr & next.

Maybe Easton Walos who's 16.

My guess guys like Quinlan, David Green & Cole Cooksey may be showing interest, but for them to only be here for 35 games probably isn't worth it.

This is great to hear. Sucks that none are really of super high quality outside maybe Bogas. Of the group Id want Jette the most followed by Bogas.

Also mentions some free agents showing interest too.

See if they sign another anytime soon or if they just let the yr play out. They have so many Fs I'm not sure how they'd make it work bringing another. Also have so many D, but for Bogas or Kapageridis u move guys out (Omeri, Andersen)

 

[SarniaStingFan]

Better game tonight. I wasn't able to watch the 1st (maybe I should have stayed away and they would have won lol) but I did watch the final two periods. Glad to see Hurt finally get that elusive first goal. Loved seeing his teammates mob him in the corner afterwards. I liked the Brown-Beamish-Filak line. They created some good chances and drew the penalty in the final three minutes. Brown feels like he's very close to breaking out. Impressive recovery from Maillet after the tough game in Saginaw

Defence had breakdowns on the last two goals but I thought they did well overall. They were much less hectic in their own zone. Nice stretch feed by Bridgewater on the Doucette goal. In his last 7 games, he has 2A and is a +6. That's impressive considering how badly the team has been outplayed in that stretch. He's been one of the biggest positives of this season for me. He's gained more confidence and more responsibility from the coaches throughout the season. Crazy to think he was battling with Andersen for the final defence spot at the beginning of the year and now he's playing consistent minutes and even getting a bit of time in the top four

 

[StingUpdates]

Brown hasn't been great, but he's also been unbelievably unlucky. He's had at least 4 chances I can remember that have hit the post on an open net or went along the line. Not even mentioning been robbed a few times.

Feel like he's also had some rotten luck with setting up linemates who've been unable to finish. Tonight was encouraging but he's gotta break thru. How awesome would it be for him if he got the teddy bear toss goal?

Loved his line. Beamish is a good player. Nothing flashy. Won't be a big point producer, but he immediately looks like a very strong 200FT C, who's great on draws & makes smart plays. He made a number of small subtle passes to spring Brown/Filak.

L3 continues to be solid. Wainwright & Edwards unfortunately can not get it going together. Just not a good fit but with the other 2 lines going well sorta gotta stick it out.. Karimov I thought was solid. Didn't mind JJ/Moses either.

D instantly looks drastically more in sync/structured with Fischer in. Bodin looks better. Hurt does too. Hopefully Young is back soon. Miss his skating/puck handling ability. Always been a believer in Bridgewater and it's nice to see him really progressing.

 

[StingUpdates]

This team does have a bit of a "dilemma" at centre. Obviously it's a great problem to have, but now they have Wainwright, Di Iorio, Edwards & Beamish as natural Cs.

Wainwright is the obvious 1C this yr & next.

Beamish looks like he's a very strong 200FT C who's strong on draws.

Di Iorio is a pure C & the one you want staying at C with his effort at both ends + better speed than 81.

Edwards as we've discussed looks considerably better at C than wing, but I'm not sure how you put him at C with the current clog at it.

Think he might have to just adjust to being a winger because hard to see him playing C for more than in spot duty. Hopefully him & Wainwright can find some sort of chemistry because I really like the Beamish & Di Iorio lines currently

 

[stingwagoner]

26 games in we should have a decent pp by now. Get doucette off the shooting spot just himself is less than 5% lol keep him on pp just is a different role.
Wainwright wasted where he is, just a passer in his spot everything goes through D and that's not our ideal spot.
We need overhaul, everyone in league knows except Letang lmao
Costing us too much this year already.
Swap di iorio to Wainwrights spot where he is not a 1 timer threat from that side he is a rH guy and needs to be that option for optics. Put doucette down in bumper or front down low guy and passer spot, rebound. Wainwright where doucette is. Better at taking and making a pass and has just as quick release.
Watched 6 games over last few days and lots gets sent to Doucette who just either cant handle pass or take it quick. And we dont have a 1 timer threat on opposite side.
That's just few things I've noticed. Set up isn't horrible just the options they must be practicing are peewee.

 

[stingwagoner]

But we have ro do something as pp costing us points and games. We should get 1 pp goal a game.