Please appreciate I come in peace and I am fully aware of how fortunate we have it in London. I hope all will agree I NEVER rub it another teams face and I am quick to congratulate others wins. Now this may sound ridiculous but since the Hunters bought the Knights (24 or 25 yrs ago) they have won 5 Robertson Cups as OHL Champions. To me I look and am amazed at that level of consistency but it does mean roughly 3 out every 4 years (75% of the time) someone other then the Knights have won the OHL Championship? I hope this is taken as intended but there are stats to suggest many other teams can and have won this league? Cheers all .....
Sarnia Sting 2024-25 Season Thread, Part III
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Your 08 group is one of the best in the league. Should definitely try to get them playoff experience.
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Fair enough. Like you said. I haven't witnessed the entire program the last few years. Good luck rest of the way.
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Losing 9-0 4 times in a week isn't much experience
haha I love how LDN fans are saying they come in peace... they know were down BIG right now..... I was thinking this awhile back and I was going to post this on the LDN page... asking if they believed LDN should have won more championships... I didn't..... That being said the years LDN doesn't win, they field great teams and still almost win or are loaded with incredible young talent.... LDN never panics and makes irrational trades... you rarely see them make blockbuster deadline deals. They never 'tank' and they never load up. Of course guys playing games to get on LDN helps... Im too lazy to go over all the years where LDN could have offloaded talent during a down year and they never did and when they could have added studs and didn't. Imagine if LDN had blown its wad a few years back and traded Cowan or bonk. LDN has built such a good will with their fan base where they don't need to make desperate plays.
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haha I'd wish you luck too but I don't think you need it. Just hope you don't get bad bounces in the memorial cup finals like last year.
Team models itself after its coach. Letang doesnt have much of a pulse, player experience from jefferies is 1 thing, coaching is another. Sting have zero identity.
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If they play like they did last night and today they will not win another game this season & I think that's for the best.
Not a chance I wanna sit thru a weak of embarrassing losses too Windsor and London of all teams.
It also would be something Legwand can't look past you'd think even though I'm praying he's been paying attention all season & already has a change planned.
I'm also starting to wonder if Seca could be gone too. I'd like to keep him. I think he's drafted pretty well lately & has made some good trades. But b2b playoff misses + all he spent 2 years ago & maybe he'll want a complete restart.
Not a chance I wanna sit thru a weak of embarrassing losses too Windsor and London of all teams.
It also would be something Legwand can't look past you'd think even though I'm praying he's been paying attention all season & already has a change planned.
I'm also starting to wonder if Seca could be gone too. I'd like to keep him. I think he's drafted pretty well lately & has made some good trades. But b2b playoff misses + all he spent 2 years ago & maybe he'll want a complete restart.
Think peices are there, dylan did his job to be a 4-5 team, just don't think what Letang does and what Jefferies has done all year compliments the team DS has started to rebuild. Would be sitting in 5th and we are not having this conversation but opposite has happened staff has this team believing and playing like a total gut rebuild.besement team. That is on DS's trust in letang and jefferies. Michael haley wasn't issue I believe he was a mistake! Should have been given the Team instead of scapegoated.
DS full trust in Letang should get him replaced as well at this point. Again DS is good talker says all right things. This team has no identity and accountability that's main concern at this point in season I haven't seen them play worse when should be playing their best hockey after a year of coaching... looking like there is no care or pride out there is Disheartening to see from Coaches and any team especially a OHL team. Been calling for Letangs dismissal all last year and here we are anyone agree yet? I also blame an absent owner, has to keep eye on his product before it is in position it is. Now ready to affect support that has been massive growth.
DS full trust in Letang should get him replaced as well at this point. Again DS is good talker says all right things. This team has no identity and accountability that's main concern at this point in season I haven't seen them play worse when should be playing their best hockey after a year of coaching... looking like there is no care or pride out there is Disheartening to see from Coaches and any team especially a OHL team. Been calling for Letangs dismissal all last year and here we are anyone agree yet? I also blame an absent owner, has to keep eye on his product before it is in position it is. Now ready to affect support that has been massive growth.
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I've never felt this apathetic about a Sting team before. Yesterday, they barely had any offensive zone time. Guys like Van Bommel and Spencer walked around our defence like it was nothing. There needs to be a player that gets up in the room before the game or after the first period and says alright our effort lately hasn't been acceptable, let's fix that.
On one hand I agree with you but on the other I wonder whether this team needs to get beaten by a great team in the playoffs. They could learn a lot from a series like that and see how far away they are from winning. It may give them more offseason motivation than missing the last playoffs for a second year in a rowLosing 9-0 4 times in a week isn't much experience
This all if again make players not want to come back, there are options for guys and coming back for another year of same Stale coaching that didn't improve them, same blender lineups, same in game incompetence, same terrible PK and PP and Same D without a Real D coach to Develop players and lastly the same lack of emotion and identity from Letang and Staff with no help coming or relief.
Aside from 08s to look forward too I don't see much else maybe Karimov getting stronger and faster would be explosive and exciting if he came back that it, Maybe A strong OA group for once and really good 08 will help but any core leace and this group might be in same boat next season, still predict some players jump and not return right now nothing there to be excited about.
Aside from 08s to look forward too I don't see much else maybe Karimov getting stronger and faster would be explosive and exciting if he came back that it, Maybe A strong OA group for once and really good 08 will help but any core leace and this group might be in same boat next season, still predict some players jump and not return right now nothing there to be excited about.
-81 Goal differential thus far. No excuses, that is absolute trash. Also, Dont push those blow out games on here either saying well if they wouldn't of gotten blown out five times this year they'd actually be decent, No they are trash. period. Wasn't letang quoted as a "defense first" type of coach when he was hired. They have no identity other than being trash. How many more years of this do us sting supporters have to suffer through? lol
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Obviously part of the reason I want them to miss is selfish. Don't wanna lose to London or Windsor who are rivals (if u can even call them rivalries, esp LDN) especially with how lopsided both series would be.
But above that I genuinely don't know what they can take from a 4 game series vs London. The puck possession in that series would be 70-30//80-20. The shots on average would be 45-15. The games would be over at the end of the 1st, or at best midway thru the 2nd.
How much can u learn when half the game is LDN going thru the motions just killing time to get onto the next.
Add in if we complain now Letang plays the vets to much can you imagine how overboard he'd go in a series vs LDN.... Filak Doucette Wainwright Fischer Young would legitimately never come off the ice.
Throw in we'd get a 25% chance at picking 1st if we miss & idk how I could not choose the 2nd option.
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we are in damn near the worst spot you can be in as a fan.
Don't want them to win.
Don't even watch them after their last 6 periods.
If they win we'll be annoyed.
If they keep looking this bad it's miserable to watch.
almost a lose-lose situation.
The team has looked so lifeless & dreadful I wonder how the crowd will be on a random Wednesday night vs Erie. if I didn't have STH not sure you could convince me to spend $ to go see them play right now.
hopefully only 6 games left.
Don't want them to win.
Don't even watch them after their last 6 periods.
If they win we'll be annoyed.
If they keep looking this bad it's miserable to watch.
almost a lose-lose situation.
The team has looked so lifeless & dreadful I wonder how the crowd will be on a random Wednesday night vs Erie. if I didn't have STH not sure you could convince me to spend $ to go see them play right now.
hopefully only 6 games left.
Yes hopefully 6 and pack it in and they announce overhaul the Day after clean house. Cant have this type of rebuild be so far behind the likes of windsor. That's just drafted and pipeline. Imports aside from Vilmanis have been dreadful those scouts need to be changed too those are big opportunities to become better right away. I'm sorry Bodin was aweful pick.
Lucky they found Obrien to eat up some 2nd pairing minutes or imagine how bad we would be with Bodin top 4 as brought in to be. Ouch.
But I'm in Board Lose every game the way out this year and go for lottery pick or top 4 pick. Maybe even with New GM and turn this thing around with real leadership, a coach that has an identity isn't all talk., and GM that is willing to hire and fire as per coaching performance period. FFS let's hire the Best Defensive coach to develop these D for once. And a PP pk that is respectable for once.
But if winning happens I'm still hoping for windsor match up atleast the Younger guys will have some puck time to feel the playoff rush and intensity to learn anything as London would be total waste of anything of learning experience.
God dammit put Brown with Wainwright for 5 games this year let's see what could have been this year? Something for fans. Let's get some speed energy and excitement with 2 players pushing speed to create together.. totally miss that from last year.
Lucky they found Obrien to eat up some 2nd pairing minutes or imagine how bad we would be with Bodin top 4 as brought in to be. Ouch.
But I'm in Board Lose every game the way out this year and go for lottery pick or top 4 pick. Maybe even with New GM and turn this thing around with real leadership, a coach that has an identity isn't all talk., and GM that is willing to hire and fire as per coaching performance period. FFS let's hire the Best Defensive coach to develop these D for once. And a PP pk that is respectable for once.
But if winning happens I'm still hoping for windsor match up atleast the Younger guys will have some puck time to feel the playoff rush and intensity to learn anything as London would be total waste of anything of learning experience.
God dammit put Brown with Wainwright for 5 games this year let's see what could have been this year? Something for fans. Let's get some speed energy and excitement with 2 players pushing speed to create together.. totally miss that from last year.
I will keep it short as this is a Sarnia thread but 2012 to Shawinigan, last year in Saginaw we had superior teams that should have won but single game winner take all doesn't always get the best team winning. Up 3-0 on Guelph to loose in 7 was another BUT Guelph you will recall had a very good team that waited to gel literally at the last moment. Other then that however when we got beat it was by superior teams imo. Cheers .....
