Sarnia Sting 2024 - 25 Season Thread, Part II

[robp1219]

This staff is joke, Letang is a joke,
Young -4
Fischer-3
Pretty sure D coach isn't helping as Fischer back to his previous 6 game weak play bad body language.
Can someone tell me how a Seasoned coach comes in for the D and then the team plays solid D with pressure in neutral zone for 8 games then things go back to way they were, where we are seeing the regression in D play and again with their iCare meters gone. This is far from playoff hockey I keep hearing from letang.
Pp is absolutely the same set up and same entry and same everything that made us the laughing stock in north America.
I have a feeling that matsos is like Sullivan came in with experience and ideas to improve aspects yet Letang's arrogance has quieted his voice with the team. Won't allow change. That seems to me makes the most sense.
Get rid of Letang can't do worse

I think they need to clean house Nd get rid of the coaching staff and just bring the leamington flyers coaching staff in, no OHL experience but they have coached in junior B league and tier two junior a league and have had success in both. Bring the whole staff in since they work well together. Dale Mitchel had success with Windsor as player in this league. Younger guys who can most likely develope young players better.

 

[stingwagoner]

Well that wouldnr help what the issue is now. Letang will totally embarrass the fans that pay DS and Letangs salaries. Its total disrespect to those loyal fans to keep letang the rest if year at this point. Will not be worse from what I've seen of late to have ni head coach or just Matsos... saw Staubitz ar game yesterday that could be interesting as he is good developer and pp and pk were good with him

 

[davewheeler]

Last place in the conference is absolutely in play for the Buzz ... If im a gambling man I say at least they don't make the playoffs. SSM has a few winnable games coming up and they play us twice. GUE also plays us twice and they play flint, OS and ERIE twice each so there is for sure some wins in there. OS may be the team that is least likely to jump us but If O.S beats Niagara they have ERIE on a b2b so who knows.... The deciding factor for me is I feel like Sarnia has packed it in while the other teams haven't just yet.

 

[Knownothing]

NB has been down here since Thursday. Buzz simply have to win this game or what was the point in playing so good vs WSR. Buzz have an opportunity to bang off a few wins in a row here...

Sarnia didn’t play so good. Windsor stopped playing with a 5-2 lead and got horrid goaltending.

 

[StingUpdates]

It's very frustrating & disappointing how this season is gonna end. Whether they hold on to 7th or 8th or if they miss they underperformed pretty badly for at least half the season. The 2-18 stretch at least they had some excuses with the long road trip because of U17s, losing Fischer Di Iorio, Edwards, Young, Kostuch etc. There is 0 excuses for these last 2.5-3 weeks.

They set themselves up at the end of JAN to have a real chance at getting 5th. They even put it on Erie to start FEB which got us all buzzing (no pun intended lol) about how they were playing. I never once this yr thought this team would win a playoff series, but getting to 5th gave us a real shot of having a tight, competitive series.

Even if they came 6th playing the way they were playing over that stretch I thought hey maybe they push a series with KIT to 6 or a somewhat tight 5 which will be great experience for all our U17s. Skip ahead to the end of the month & this is the worst team in the OHL right now.

I honestly never even entertained the idea of this team not being a playoff team with how far back OS&GUE were most of the year until recently. Sarnia has been a joke of a franchise, but usually they make the playoffs the years they should. They usually don't outright underperform an entire season & miss.

I frankly don't even want them to make it anymore. London will embarrass them. Windsor will score 30 goals in 4 games. Both will be sweeps or a gentleman's sweep in 5. The young guys wont learn anything from complete drubbings. Rather roll the dice in the lottery & hope for another top 2 pick & start building a stacked U17 group led by Di Iorio, Edwards & whoever they'd pick.

 

[robp1219]

I’m sooo done with these coaches, I sent the sting a few messages on Instagram, and commented on both the Instagram and Twitter posts on the loss to north bay. Voicing my frustration with the coaching staff and that there needs to be a coaching change soon. I hope others follow suit in hopes they listen. They need to see a lot of people complain apparently.

 

[robp1219]

It's very frustrating & disappointing how this season is gonna end. Whether they hold on to 7th or 8th or if they miss they underperformed pretty badly for at least half the season. The 2-18 stretch at least they had some excuses with the long road trip because of U17s, losing Fischer Di Iorio, Edwards, Young, Kostuch etc. There is 0 excuses for these last 2.5-3 weeks.

They set themselves up at the end of JAN to have a real chance at getting 5th. They even put it on Erie to start FEB which got us all buzzing (no pun intended lol) about how they were playing. I never once this yr thought this team would win a playoff series, but getting to 5th gave us a real shot of having a tight, competitive series.

Even if they came 6th playing the way they were playing over that stretch I thought hey maybe they push a series with KIT to 6 or a somewhat tight 5 which will be great experience for all our U17s. Skip ahead to the end of the month & this is the worst team in the OHL right now.

I honestly never even entertained the idea of this team not being a playoff team with how far back OS&GUE were most of the year until recently. Sarnia has been a joke of a franchise, but usually they make the playoffs the years they should. They usually don't outright underperform an entire season & miss.

I frankly don't even want them to make it anymore. London will embarrass them. Windsor will score 30 goals in 4 games. Both will be sweeps or a gentleman's sweep in 5. The young guys wont learn anything from complete drubbings. Rather roll the dice in the lottery & hope for another top 2 pick & start building a stacked U17 group led by Di Iorio, Edwards & whoever they'd pick.

If Letang is still the coach you will see big set backs in edwards and di Iorio just like we seen with Barr and brown. Vicious cycle of bad development in players and terrible coaching.

 

[stingwagoner]

If Letang is still the coach you will see big set backs in edwards and di Iorio just like we seen with Barr and brown. Vicious cycle of bad development in players and terrible coaching.

Totally agree, regression for example In Hurt, Brown, Barr, early this year and now going forward after the minor hockey coaches touches on Di iorio and Edward's there will be regressions ne t season as well players always come into Letang with alot of promise only to have Him erase everything ans change the player for the worse
Look how Bodins development has been and Bridgewater from start of season til now differenece that's forsure.
Just a travesty this organization has owner / GM that just doesn't care feel bad for all us fans. Nothing positive in sight
Have to eat Letangs contract and get new bench boss. Jefferies might be better without Letang. Hopefully that's why Staubitz was at game sunday to take over rest of year as interim. Just can't wait past this coming weekend.

 

[davewheeler]

Totally agree, regression for example In Hurt, Brown, Barr, early this year and now going forward after the minor hockey coaches touches on Di iorio and Edward's there will be regressions ne t season as well players always come into Letang with alot of promise only to have Him erase everything ans change the player for the worse
Look how Bodins development has been and Bridgewater from start of season til now differenece that's forsure.
Just a travesty this organization has owner / GM that just doesn't care feel bad for all us fans. Nothing positive in sight
Have to eat Letangs contract and get new bench boss. Jefferies might be better without Letang. Hopefully that's why Staubitz was at game sunday to take over rest of year as interim. Just can't wait past this coming weekend.

I think Staubitz was just there for support when he was visiting family... Would be bizarre for him to step down and then a year later become the head coach lol but who knows crazier things have happened.... Out of the old staff Staubitz was my favourite guy and it was a big loss for him to step down. I know the players liked/respected him.... Staubitz, last I heard he was in Maine either coaching or gm of an ECHL team. The reason why he left was to live with his family in the USA... I don't think he's coming back.